[quote=@Skippy O Africa]
Rather than just write an IC that's focused on my own nation and defeating the purpose of the RP, I'm happy to collaborate with anyone to get the ball rolling.

Alternatively, I think there needs to be a common event or goal linking all of the nations in the RP, at least initially.
Here's some brief ideas:

-A terran based goal, perhaps focused on becoming the legitimate Empire successor by securing the capital planet, imperial family or some meaningful Macguffin (crown, throne, imperial seal, etc) 

-Anti-terran goal, harder to land on something with so many disparate nations but possibly a meeting of alien nations to unify and define their goals against the terrans.

-A peace conference organised by neutral nations to cease the conflict between terran and non-terran nations (and of course something goes horribly wrong). Possibly the best idea as all nations can take part and it gives us an opportunity to establish the relationships between multiple nations at once.


Failing this, we at least need to establish canonical relationships between the accepted nations (i.e. of the accepted nations, who do we hate, why? who do we like, why?)
[/quote]

These all sound like pretty good ideas. What you said about establishing relations between the nations I think we should do first. I was looking at yours, the trade entente, and I think that the Awu Chiefdom would have pretty good relations with them, since we need foreign investment, and Awu is full of natural recources, as well as being a good area for tourism.