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Sollus Supremus (Dune-like Space Opera)

So, anyone else making an IC post?

Sollus Supremus (Dune-like Space Opera)

Union

The inner sphere Union

Though most abbreviate it to "Union"

Species Description

The dominant species in the union is the Obera, a race of shorter humanoids, averaging four to five feet tall. They have large, compound eyes that give them remarkable sight and their average intelligence is rather high due to their larger brains.

The smaller creatures have a high metabolism compared to average humans due to the increased energy needed for their large brains. That said, most of the time one can see Obera eating or drinking some sort of foodstuff. They are also usually seen in a air tight suit from the neck down to conserve heat that their frail bodies put off but fail to retain due to their thin builds.

Obera have an overly calm demeanor and handle stress rather well. Their personal religion is a science based god that sparked creation. Obera believe that upon death they are reincarnated so their fear of loss of life isn't quite as strong as many others.

The second most prolific race is the Trilari. They are strange four armed bear like creatures. They can walk on using just legs but prefer to walk on four, using the other two limbs for labor and tasks. Trilari stand on average, six to eight feet tall standing upright.

Trilari aren't naturally as bright as the Obera and did not achieve warp capabilities on their own but rather by the Obera needing a military unit that was highly capable, learns fast and naturally tough.

There are a multitude of other races that are member species and for those seeking a new home, any person from any nation are welcomed into their borders and most likely, many of the largest races in the galaxy have some population demographic living within.

Location

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Thanks goes to MetalLover, I'm that purple blob in the center

Technological Description

Union technologies are very much in line with most other nations though one area they are particularly adept in is detection and sensory.


Long range planetary based sensor array, planet Geilobi in the Shcilo star system.

They make use of stealth ships and for specific endeavors, true cloaking devices. This proficiency has demanded technologies to not only detect these types of camouflage but also at great distances. This by no means is full proof but their sensors are pretty damn good.

Another area they excel is propulsion, particularly gravity acceleration. This is in part due to the "hyperspace lanes" that branch from one end of the nation to the other. These lanes are quite literally space highways that are pre plotted and likely some of the heaviest patrolled and defended regions of space.


One of the hundreds of thousands hyperspace relay gateways.

The patrols are led by massive carrier ships that lurk the lanes. They make heavy use of accurate and high powered energy beams and disabling gravity projectors. This is done not only by the Unions capitol ships but their corvette "cruisers" as well.

Missile technology is quite advanced as well as methods to jam them. Direct kinetic weaponry exists but having a shell miss and head into a densely populated area is frowned upon and avoided whenever necessary.

Drones are a very common sight in the nation. From floor sweeping disks to massive drone carrier craft, they are all purpose and are a high end export.

Energy shields exist in the form of gravity repulsers, capable of destabilizing energy by deflecting it away akin to a mirror reflecting light. This, coupled with strong armor plates gives the nations military and lane patrols an edge against would be pirates and other nations seeking to disrupt the steady flow of commerce through one of the most heavily populated regions of space.

History

Liberty class battleships on patrol

The union was formed when fourteen races joined together for self defense. This union grew rapidly as technologies and cultures were exchanged. It didn't take them long to rise to a super power status. One established, they created the hyperspace lanes to further unite their internal races. When other nations were found and relations were peaceful, lanes were created on their borders to allow rapid transit to wherever they choose to do their business.

At present, the Union doesn't hold a monopoly on trade or travel in the galaxy but it does provide some of the safest and direct travel routes from one side of the galaxy to the other, and not at very much expense.

Government

The government is a federal republic with each individual member race having sovereignty in the nation. This republic has a structure with a lead president, a nations senate and the "laws and affairs" which encompasses all courts and military assets.

The president has an overriding authority in many cases with the exception of being able to declare war or make changes to the constitution. Most people view the president merely as a figurehead and symbol seeing as any one who was born in the nation is eligible to become the president.

The senate is made up of three representatives of each region that member races hail from, regardless of regional size. The representatives are selected from each region by general elections.

The law and affairs oversees the military and courts. The nations military is dual purpose, defending the borders and upholding law and safety. The military in comparison to their nation size is rather small. Its very much modern and capable of fighting a war if need be but to put existing forces on the front line in enough numbers to really make a difference, it'd rapidly drain their lands of defenders. This is the reason the Union employs large ships like the Liberty battleship, which is part front line warship and part carrier. These ships hold massive amounts of corvettes and fighters giving them the ability to operate far from home, and for long periods of time yet still be able to field a smaller navy.

Be it pirates, mercenaries or in the worst case a nation seeking violence... The military does everything in its ability to defend freedom and liberty in its charge.


A standard patrol ship. These are pursuit vessels designed by corporations that make racing vessels, giving the law enforcement a true edge against would be criminals.

Culture

The culture of the Union is economy, trade and wealth. Diplomacy to solve issues is paramount as they've known from experience that violence only leads to reparations and that's earned money just given away.

Beneath the glamour of a very prosperous trade nation is a mildly corrupt system. Many are legitimate patriots and should a war break out, likely pick up a gun in defense of their nation but between conflicts you have everything from back alley drug dealers to mega corporations pretty much controlling a region through their representatives.

There are so many things wrong in a nation that has no real demand for morals, save the base ones of taking care of children and defense of the nations borders. Even a powerful education can't prevent scum so they just sort of brush it under the rug, only going after the ones that cause the most issues.

Mega corporations hold a lot of sway in certain regions. An prime example is 'Ghrrafgtoofoku grakhioof'ipook coppoab.' Or in human, Rogers solar group, which is a star harvesting company that uses massive solar sails to collect particles that are used to make high end batteries. This company alone employs over 5.1 million people so its voice in its region is very large. It won an exemption in taxes due to what they called charitable profits, saying that its investments in healthcare for its workers was technically a medical charity. This was highly controversial in its time as many private healthcare corporations and organizations still had to pay certain taxes but the overwhelming checkbook and voice of the solar group snuffed them out.

Other

The galaxy's U.N. has a major presence in the Union due to its very central location. It is likely where they have the largest of any peacekeeping forces and logistics, should they need them.

I may or may not make a dedicated military section. hopefully whats mixed in with the respective fields gives enough of an idea.

And... should the Union be accepted, anyone who wants to have a PMC or Corp within my ns's borders is more than welcome so long as it ain't completely retarded.

@Monkeypants

Accepted

Sol Fugit

Interested

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With the exception of the massive population loss from unrestricted nuclear warfare and Russia's massive tank army breaking down in droves (see ww2 to Geogrian conflict)

Maybe in this alternate timeline, they stayed in ww1 and won it entirely!!! Annexing huge swaths of land including Germany..

Or or or, Germans in ww2 fail super hard and Russia takes them out by 1940, then invades Japan and France (using the guise of Vichy France being nazi controlled even after the war ends) omg, I really really like alternate possibilities :)

@Monkeypants

In all of my IC posts I'll reveal a bit more of lore of the Kingdom.

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That sir, is amazing. Let me start writing up an ns so I can get son plot on!

@Monkeypants

Cool.

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Kingdom of Sol
Council Meeting is 3 Days Away
Earth, New Sol
Slavius Castle

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Dimitry sat alone quietly in his room, simply reading about the recent news throughout the galaxy. Headlines like "Possible Embargoes on Kurtiye" and "Galactic Wide Spice Shortage" flash through the papers but they are simply ignored. Dimitry knows they are simply just superstitions by a population itching for something to do. Why, you might think they'd wish an end to the 200 generations of Pax Sollus and its great peace. The people where just wanting a movement to rally behind, no matter how ridiculous it would be. Dimitry knew that their hopes where most likely futile, most likely nothing would come of this council meeting. The Kurtiye will most likely stay in their state of madness and the so called "Spice Shortage" would be addressed and proven wrong, and besides, even if it was right, the great Kingdom had a colony dedicated to the production of it in its purest form.

Spice itself was nothing but an addictive substance loved by the rich across the galaxy. Similar to the great Opium Wars during the Age of British on Earth this substance was yearned for enough to start conflicts that could kill thousands, but the Kingdom quickly just swooped in when it was in high demand and grabbed up a colony for it, creating one of the largest sources of income for the nation.

A knock on the door causes Dimitry to jump out of his chair.

"Come in." Dimitry states.

The door slides open and in walks his wife. Sasha Alekseyevna was her original name before the marriage. She was the daughter of the governor of Christ's Light during his father's reign as king. She was wearing a long flowing blue dress and her tiara was on her head. Her blue eyes seemed to glow as she looked at him. Her blonde hair went down to the middle of her back.

"Oh, hello dear, I thought you'd be out meeting the guests." Sasha says.

"I'd rather not do that right now." Dimitry tells Sasha

"Why not, its not like you need to make some peace treaty, this is just a formal meeting, and not even that. The actual even is three days from."

"Really Sasha, there is no need to press the issue."

"Do you just want me to do it?"

"If you'd like Sasha."

"Well okay than you downer, I hope you'll at least be at the ball later tonight at the square." Sasha says, annoyed, as she walks out the door.

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Sorry about low activity. Is the green outline on the map where the Abyssal Domain is?

Anyways, here's the complete app with much more detail in regards to technology and history:

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Name of Nation: The Abyssal Domain.
Species Description:
The Calzonit

The Calzonit are a ancient, powerful species whose origins lie on a world where the seas dried up millions of years ago. Their kind for centuries have traveled the stars as merchants and conquerors all the same.
They are nearly eight feet tall on average, with bristled bodies and a distinctive head which seems to have no mouth- only thousands of tiny, square eyes. They do have a mouth, but it is a small mouth under their eyes right above their small, triangular chin. Their head has elaborate hair patterns which come in numerous fashions and arrays, often sprouting from the top of their lenses and to the sides. Their brain you see, is not in their "head", it is in their body. The Calzonit breathe through their back instead of their head, you see.
Calzonit as a species are hermaphroditic, with a patterns of intercourse that far more resembles that of a worm than a human (through the back is what they prefer since than they can work while they seed). After intercourse, one or even both of the breeding Calzonit may grow a tumor-like external fetus that grows on them until it is six inches in size. After which, the fetus becomes a baby and simply falls off the parent to be nurtured by its parent to working age.
The Calzonit as a species are extremely proud of their nature- and look down upon humans as a degenerative form of themselves. They mock the humans who see them as anything other than the ideal form. Yet, humans are widespread and so as a reality of life openly deal with them and other species. Even hive minds the Calzonit begrudgingly tolerate.

Area in the Galaxy (Use map posted below):
Unsure, but somewhere between the 3-Kiloparsec Arm and Sagittarius Arm is ideal. They aren't huge, only moderate in size.

Technological Description;
The FTL drives the Domains have as their standard are noticeably faster by a factor of 1.4x to the average society, for the Domains need such drives in order to get around. These drives however have a bad habit of consuming more [insert exotic matter type here] than your typical drive. Appearance wise, imagine your typical warp drive but bigger, more robust, metallic and with an insultingly simplistic appearance.
The strength of the Domains comes in their kinetic kill weaponry and particle based technologies. Their metallurgy has reached a point from millennia of forging that they have found alloys that are capable of absorbing and redirecting energy blows to their exhaust (reducing the damage from energy based weaponry) and being hard to punch through with kinetic force in general due to the plating structure allowing for intensive shock absorption from all sides. Get out the mass drivers if dealing with an Abyssal Domain ship. Or have lots of evasive traits and a good energy weapon and you may whittle down their defenses in time.
Their kinetic kill weapons are literally what you may be imagining them as, spinal mount small drivers which kill the enemy with sheer kinetic force. The Calzonit for all their supposed Unitarian-ness still have engineers who insisted on chiseling with their plasma torches giant fist at the tip of each and every slug by hand (in a highly stylized form to not tax too much on the impact, of course).
The Calzonit also make liberal use of power armor when concerning classes in their society that involve work impossible to carry out nude, as is how they prefer to conduct their activities.

History:
The Abyssal Domain is the product of disillusionment with the laziest despots to ever beseech their kind. For on their home world an empire spanned the whole world and the decadence that went on in this planetary empire led to the laziest society in the galaxy. The elite did no work while everyone else did all the work. This society one day imploded in on itself and the priests took over by force, so disgusted by the immoral ways of their leaders that their caste spoke of the purpose of life itself, as the purpose of life can’t possibly be happiness. If it were, happiness wouldn’t cause chaos. After a decade of arguing, one school of thought among these monks took over and from the bottom of society it was head- the meaning of existence is perpetual toil.
Endless working, not as a means to happiness, but as a perpetual effort to ensure order in the universe. And that those with power should work the hardest. And the monks took to this mindset dearly- they worked day and night speaking, building and servicing the whole of society without so much a second thought. They set the example and the rest followed. The “metrics of work” was developed in this time period, and would be used to define work effectiveness to this day.
The Abyssal Domain’s foundations, now set begun toiling on new crafts and inventions, iterating and iterating to new technologies in a technological revolution that made the Calzonit a space faring species who now spans numerous worlds within the Domain and outside the Domain.

Government Description:
Technocratic Theocracy
The Abyssal Domain is not completely centralized, instead it consists of multiple world states that have their own variations on the Metrics of Work, an encoded set of standards that are the closest thing the Abyssal Domain has to actual law. For the morality of the Domains is rigged such that hard workers are rarely, if ever punished if they fall into a psychotic state and murder lower level workers- yet talking shit to a hard worker is punished by death. The Abyssal domain for enforcing the metrics rely on something akin to a neighborhood watch; various members in the Abyssal Domain have monk-work as part of their duties in society and enforce the metrics with draconian precision.
The second a baby calzonit can work, it is set to labor. Calzonits who have noticeable talents in fields such as warfare, artwork and so forth get moved to said positions by monks who also work in the fields of war, artwork and diplomatic duties.
The most loathsome job is that of diplomat. The aliens keep making them froth about doing nothing, it is horrible. But it is a sacrifice some make to secure rights to work in other societies where there is a deficiency in work being done, as defined by a galactic metric of work which essentially evaluates other societies to see if their productivity is optimal and if it is not the Abyssal Domain will send workers to these other societies to optimize production if given the clearance to do so, if not it is assumed said society will likely collapse.

Cultural/Religious Description:

The Abyssal belief system is one based on the ideal worker; the worker is above all in their society. Those who work hardest and most diligent are who lead, the lazy are euthanized. Their society, despite its unitary pretenses values aesthetics with massive temples and statues painstakingly built as monuments to the labor, of which is not a means as with human society, but an end of itself. Or, the Abyssals do not work towards anything but greater profession. There is no real sense of leadership among the Abyssals, which means they are not terribly centralized. Instead it is a lose network of watchmen and planetary fiefdoms ruled by oligarchies of professionals that holds the Abyssal Domain together. Each planet ruled by the Abyssal Domain has a militia fleet for defense, with the domain as a whole having a military fleet ran by a co-culture within the Domains that act as guardians, unwavering in their endless duty to keep the workers free from disruption by slavers and other such banditry.
The faith of the Domain is based in the ideal of reincarnation; for after one dies, they are born once more to continue their work. The perpetual labor has been instilled into the minds of those in the Domain by how in their long history every time they had a leader, they grew decadent and society collapsed. Every time. The faith of the Domain has no true origin; rather it is convergence of hundreds of wise individuals who fundamentally re-ordered civilization in a grand revolution that consumed their whole home world. The old ways were purged, systemically wiped out and in its place the instilled purpose of life being to wage war against entropy and chaos, to forever toil is perfection. There is no utopia, for utopia is a state of non-working, of non-living. And is doomed to disaster. There is no end to the grandest task, and no leader can be trusted to achieve these ends- it must be held true from the lowest echelons to the highest echelons of society that the meaning of existence is endless, fulfilling toil and to labor forever and ever more.

Other;
The Calzonit aren't suppossed to be a monoculture even if the unitary society of the Domain seems to indicate such- if someone else wants to make a calzonit culture seperate from the Domains feel free, my species is public domain.
I am assuming this RP to be stylized and not the 'tryhard sci-fi opera' genre that always ends in disaster so I will not fret about scale here. I'll just assume 99.9% of all stars in the galaxy to be totally void of any resources beyond rock, iron, gas and ice.
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Yes they would.

Just don't in the way of their endless toil with your ideological bullshit.

And never ever deny the logical infallibility that is reincarnation. That would be insanity, to die and never live to work again. Only materialistic hedonists think that way. Don't be like them, okay?

...Especially the ones who keep getting in the way of the workers.

@Arawak

Accepted

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@Monkeypants
Also, hows this for territory?

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Ok, I know its a huge expanse but it'll be justified, id like to reserve the core with my borders touching everyone that is currently around where I want to be.

I write from a tablet and phone so doing edits with paint is quite difficult if near impossible.

And actually, looking at the map.. If I get what I'm wanting, ill be roughly as large as red on that map so its not too far fetched/extreme.

Edit; from my pretty extensive experience, chats kill ooc's.. When ooc dies, RP dies.

Can't carry those ideas to ooc and dont even bother saying "oh ooc wont die" I've heard that so many times.

@Monkeypants

Well you are certainly more experienced than me on this matter (and you where a pretty active member of my first RP) so I'll sleep on it.
Worst comes to worst I'll just make a big chat on the guild that has us all sending the messages in character.
It will be slower, but hopefully it won't kill it.

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So where I live (Dubai) 5 PM on Friday would be
8 Am in New York City
5 Am in Los Angeles
1 Pm in London
And 2 Pm in Constantinople.
I'd be willing to move it to probably any time between 5 PM on Friday (Dubai Time) to 2 AM on Saturday (Dubai Time) so just do the conversions around those times and we can agree on something.