Saving this Space! This looks very fun. Also, I guess I'm claiming the moons of Saturn? Nation Name: United States of Saturn Population: The population of The USS is about 10 million, spread out across all the moons. The population capital is currently Titan, where there is a large government-funded refugee camp for the individuals. Predecessor/Origin: The USS was originally the Clean Fuel Initiative, started by the collective Old-Sol governments to collect Helium-3 for usage as a clean source of energy. As people flocked to Saturn's moons, and Saturn itself, they discovered the abundance of the element there, and it quickly became a power of its own, giving out Helium-3 to all the other systems. When the alien fleet came, Saturn got hit hard, with over 700M people dying. Thankfully, the planet and moons themselves are in good enough shape. Government: The government is a business. There's no doubt about that. The whole thing was meant to be. The USS now considers itself a meritocracy, where everyone is considered an employee, and everyone must try their best for everyone to succeed. Those who don't try, and simply laze away are forced into manual labor, building more ships for the effort. Ethnic Groups: Ethnic groups in percentage of population 10% British, 20% French, 30% American, 20% First Gen. Satons, 20% Second Gen. Satons. (Like you call someone a Briton?) Civilian Fleet: 1x Harvester-Class Mining Ship "Hi Ho, Hi Ho" 5x Light Repair Ships, AI Controlled "Repair Drones #1, #2, #3" 3x Scythe-Class Mining Ships "To The Moon" "Pipeline" "Got the Funk" 1x Station-Class Helium-3 and Fuel Refinery "Pump it Up" 1x Station-Class Vehicle Dry-Dock "Taris" 9x Civilian Fuel Tankers 5x Civilian Cargo Vessels 12x Civilian Mining Ships 2x Mobile Refineries The Civilian fleet is mostly fine, since nobody tried converting any of the civvie ships into more fighters for the cause. They were stockpiled in a few moons, and are now being recovered. There are multitudes of tankers for carrying Helium-3, along with a few mobile refineries, and quite a number of mining ships. The USS has reclaimed all these vehicles for use to getting it back on its feet. The Harvester-Class Mining ship huddles in a close orbit around Saturn, close to the rings, and uses what amounts to pipes to extract Helium-3, along with whatever else they pick up. Once it has extracted enough, it seperates the Helium-3 from the other gases, and sends to to ‘Pump it Up’ for refining and preparation. Other gases are put to use, such as Oxygen (The Harvester gets all it’s oxygen from the surface) The Stations are larger structures that are sitting within the rings, where they are safe from asteroids and are kept in a stable orbit. ‘Pump it Up’ performs most refining of Helium-3 within the Saturn system, mostly from government ships, though that may change. Taris is also government run, but would repair anything, provided it had the money. Military Fleet: 2x Battleship “Destructo” “Varios” 2x AI driven Destoyers 1x Carrier “Hatchback” -3x Cruisers -1x Destroyer -1x Scout Ships The AI driven destroyers were purchased from Defense and Security Solutions, Co, in an effort to get humans out of the military and back to mining. They worked for the most part, but started disobeying orders and did the equivalent of running for safety when the main alien fleet approached. Some effort is being put into recovering them. The battleships Destructo and Varis are strange in that they were efforts to increase the efficiency of energy weapons by putting them into practice and seeing what the crew would do to improve it. Since they are based around a huge energy exporter, it isn’t a problem for them. Currently, the efficiency achieved is about .22, a little better, but not much. Railguns are installed as backups. Military Details: About 10,000 active and serving military members, with 15,000 unfit to serve. Privateers and mercenaries number at about 5,000. Most of the military was absolutely destroyed when the aliens came along, with the exception of a few ships that hid away, including the AI ships that aren’t responding to orders. We’re not sure on the stability of the systems within. All military units, including freelancers, are under the payroll of the USS and will be so until it’s deemed that there isn’t any chance that there is going to be another attack, from anyone. Noteworthy Assets: Thanks to the original purpose of the Saturn colonies, the USS has fuel. Lots of it. Mining is resuming, and the refineries are getting turned back on. It’s only a matter of time till it resumes exporting a majority supply of Helium-3 within the system. Also, with the variety of moons, there is a solid delivery system established (Fedex Space essentially) that essentially catapults packages back and forth. Supplies (approx.): Water: 1 month liquid, probably a couple million years worth of water vapour in Saturn. The Harvester ship is working on stronger and deeper extraction methods to retrieve it. Food: 2 months. Slightly slowed down by some farms, but it’s decreasing. Wants to re-establish trading with a farm planet. Air: Infinite, as far as we’re concerned. Oxygen is easy to extract from Saturn. Fuel: 213 lightyears of fuel left over from the stockpile. The USS has yet to resume full mining efforts. ((I understand that this may be unbalanced, but I’m trading it off with a pretty small military and an imported food source. I can change if necessary.))