[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?)
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I second this. An event involving all, or at least most, factions could be an excellent starting catalyst for plot development - I would say the third option is the one which strikes me as most promising in this regard, as well as being that which I would find personally most entertaining (disrupting negotiations is such fun, as [@Sigma] may well remember...). Either way, I am open to collaborating with whomever wishes to, seeing as I am struggling to think of a stand-alone opening post and would not object to establishing relations with other nations in-character from the beginning.