[Forum Game] Shattered Earth

[alexander23]

Welcome to Shattered Earth​

Spots for nations:
One Open spots for Northern Europe/Eastern Europe

Spots for Single players:
Yes, SP sign up is never full

IRC CHANNEL

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IRC: #MGaSO
Instructions:
1-Go to coldfront.net
2-Choose if you're using the flash ap or the java app.
3-Create a screenname
4-The page auto adds you to the #coldfront channel, which is displayed at the list on the left side of the screen. Close that
5-In the command box down below type /join #MGaSO
6-You're in and ready to chat

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First i like to give my never ending thanks to Frymonmon,, storm, blackbishop and many other GMs here in the forum. Their tireless work on their games gave me ideas, and ways to establish a forum game involving nations.

Now that is out the way. What is Shattered earth? Shattered earth shall be a game which will mix a heavy dose of sci-fi, crazy science, nation states, and eldritch horror. Its a new format i am experimenting with and i can promise it will be a lot of fun.

In the world of shattered earth we are currently in the year 2500 AC, one hundred years after the death of the one and only emperor of humanity. The great floods of the 2075, 2410 and 2450 have come and took away the great pride of men. The Empire for all its technology and advance could not survive without its immortal emperor. The great moon colonies, the mining operations of the asteroid belt, the golden fleet, pride of humanity all have been lost to the void and now humans struggle on earth to survive.


The civil war ended near forty years ago yet the scars still remain, and the great population of earth is now just a shadow of what once was. Between all the chaos and death new states have risen to try to impose order and become something for history to remember. However much of the world still remains, in disorganized chaos, in small kingdoms, under greedy tribes and bloodthirsty conquerors.

Worst of all cults have been in the rising since the death of the emperor, worshiping evil creatures and becoming more daunting, carrying their strange acts and rituals with the blood of their fellow men. Many attribute to them the un-ending sights of strange creatures, monsters out of horror tales and inexplicable events that are being reported across the world, which become worse and worse every month. Yet any sensible man or woman will know it's just superstition from the fall and that all can be done and explain by science...right?


With resources almost gone from earth and war looming in the horizon between the nations, all it's not lost. Mars and Europa are finally ready for colonization, and the people look at it as a way to get out of the fracturing world, it shall be up to their leaders to decided their future however.

How to join?​

first decide what you want to be!. Do you want to be a nation struggling in this earth? a private character surviving on earth or a cultist leading a terrible cabal and worshiping evil gods from the beyond? whatever you choose i can assure you you will have great fun as earth surely becomes more hellish than the season before.

Nation sign up

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Name:
Land Claim:
Character or characters:
Government Style:
History:

Character or cult sign up

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Name:
Cult name (if a cultist).
Location:
Background:

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General rules​

I. Every turn, you the player will submit 3 orders to me the GM, and 2 orders if a single character player or cultist. I will then proceed and write the main updates and Minis.

II. Every turn shall cover the span of six months. Covering from january to june and june to august. In the world of shattered earth weather have been changed and basically its divided as Summer with short spring and Winter with a short fall.

III. Every season events that have nothing to do with player orders shall happen across the world, the number of them varies: they can encompass basically anything from an invasion of neighboring tribes, to supernatural occurrence of different degrees of danger. Shattered earth will be a very deathly game so things will categorized by dangers from simply weird murdered to big destruction.

IV. You can correct me if you think something is wrong on your stats, etc. I will check and verify if the complaint is valid or not. But results of your orders are determined by rolls, bonuses, etc. so do not complain because it will not change much even if the complaint is accepted.

VI. Some things are simply only for GM eyes and will be not share with the players, please understand that is for the good of the game.

VII.Your Orders must include in the title the name of your nation and the turn. DO SO or i will ignore them.

General Orders rules​

-Every Nation gets to send 3 orders every turn, they can encompass anything. You can use them to expand your military, move armies for a secret attack, expand mining and so on. orders can be done nation wise or with the objective or a part of your nation . Treaties with PC and NPC alike, or the invasion of an NPC or PC territory.During a war you will gain 2 more orders that relate only to the war effort and cannot be spent domestically. To obtain the two war orders you must declare war 36 hrs before deadline.

-In order for me to remain sane and produce quality updates, every order should be no longer than 3-4 lines and cover no more than one action. If you hand in an order that is two paragraphs long I will likely disregard it. (Picture links do not count toward this unless you spam me with them)

-Every character and cult have two orders to do what they desire to do that season.

Military Related Orders Rules​

As you may suspect you cannot just order attack x place without some sort of structure and guidance for me to write about. As such all orders related to military activities (war or not) need to follow the following guidelines:

1) You only obtain the two extra war orders when at war with an pc or npc nation which is on the map.

2)War must be declared 36 hrs before deadline to obtain the war orders or you will have to be content using your normal orders for a surprise attack.

3)When attacking set an objective to reach if all goes well and do detail your attack.

4)You cannot just say attack with my army. You must specify the amount of unit involved in the war plan for the order. If you fail to do this i shall determine randomly the amount sent...you will not like it. Write at least a 2-4 lines of description of your plan.

Example: Attack Vienna with the Army of the north: It shall be composed of 3 Infantry units, 1 vehicle and 1 aerial unit support. Descriptions of the plan.

5)There is no “Transport ship” unit in the stats as it can be understood you can build quick disposable ships for it, and such no need for an unit. When crossing small bodies of water like english channel it's easy to transport a lot to the other side in quick time. The bigger the distance is the more it can take and the harder.

6)Units Reach. Recognize turns are six month and as such plan for that. You can cover some good ground in sixth months of campaign if all goes swell...but when does ever anything goes well? you are likely to find resistance, towns that don't surrender and combat and as such you may not be able to reach your objective as far as you though. Its normal. Each movement is done by me in case to case so if someone moved farther than you, it doesn't matter and is not “unfair or cheating” just luckier than you or simply a different situation.

How does the game works​

-Every nation will have five main resources: gold (aka money), Food, Energy, Elerium and neo-metals. Your existence itself will cost those resources as well the orders and things you carry on shall cost resources, manage them carefully as they are not many left on earth.

-Money is used to pay for everything you do, food to feed your population, energy to keep your nation working, elerium to make energy and keep your vehicles, and army with power, and neo metals to build anything.

-For cultist your main currency is sacrifices and membership to be able to do rituals and carry out your nefarious plans.

The Military​

Land forces​

I. Infantry divisions: the infantry divisions are five thousand men. Armed mainly with energy swords and weaponry and some firearms as long range support. the infantry division comes with trucks to carry main supplies and transport some of them.

II. vehicle division: the vehicles division is home to fast attack vehicles, be it armored cars, support vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles and so on. A Vehicle division will hold some fifty vehicles on it.

III. Mechanized Unit: Composed of the valuable and powerful robotic units, by that i mean mechas, which had become the tanks of this world as well the artillery. They are slow and extremely vulnerable to close combat but their posses great firepower and long range capabilities do not use alone. The division will likely be composed of 10 units. The mechs division are expensive to produce and very valuable.

Naval Forces​

I.Lightships: Light ships are lightly armed naval crafts for war, usually armed with machine guns and low caliber weaponry. Used by the nations as cheap ways to fight wars and control the seas, they include fast attack boats, corvettes, frigates and cruiser size ships.


II. Heavy ships: heavy ships contain higher weight ships, like battle cruiser, battleships and so on, Possessing heavy ordinance as bombardment cannons, rail weapons, missiles of short range. The are very expensive and usually head of a fleet. A heavy ships can carry 1 air squadron.

Air Forces​

Nations possess the highly valuable and low in number air squadrons. Each squadron is composed of five aerial units. the type doesn't matter, though mainly fighter/bombers of some sort of attack helicopter. They are expensive to produce but can deliver bombing runs. be careful though Anti-aerial weaponry do exist and it's deployed in some measure by nations.

Space Forces​

-there is no such thing as a specialized fighter carrying ship and as such light ships carrying one fighter squadron. A battle-cruiser carries three fighter squadron and a battleship carries seven fighter squadron.

Once people begin going to space, it's likely it will be militarized fast:

I.Light ships: lightly armed ships to fight in the vacuum of space. Mainly with laser cannons and low level missiles, with low resistance hull. they are fast however.

II. Battle-cruisers: mid size ships with more hull resistance and lower speed. Armed with more weaponry and of bigger size.

III.Battleships: Bigger ships and espousing much more weaponry and size. Slower than the other two. Rail weaponry, plasma cannons and many other weapons on it.

The Great Temples​

The great temples are the main temple of adoration of one of the great gods of the imperial religion. The temples have been sealed up by their priest as soon as the emperor ascended to the paradise of the gods and been guarded by a loyal Knight order.

Meanwhile many knight orders still remain in someway or another roaming around the world or in castle and states dispersed, the Knights orders defending the sealed temples are formidable in the arts of war and fighting and still own to.notch equipment and tactics. Recruiting from local population to keep their numbers they are a force on their own to defend the temples to the death.

The temples itself are build from a rare material rarely used except in the construction of the temples themselves. they are very resistant to damage by weapons and the time which is why, they have remained safe during the turbulent times. That is not to say impossible to force entrance to them

It is believed and rumored great treasures are inside the temples, relics of the past and forgotten technologies, though no one knows for sure. The temples themselves are humongous and able to hold close to one hundred thousand people inside. What is inside is likely related to the god they are dedicated to.

The Black Spots​

The black spots are a recent phenomena as many would tell you, though stories from tribal people says they some have existed for a very long time, this is unconfirmed up to this day. They however resemble like a huge completely dark dome covering huge amounts of land and water in the world. They suddenly appears few years ago and expanded at a rapid pace consuming many towns and villages.

Nation have tested and no type of energy can go in the black spots, likely being absorbed somehow. However people have come out of it when trapped during a sudden growth and tell tales of complete darkness except some flashlight or something they carry so its possible to go in. No one that wasn't trapped in less than a few meters have reported coming out, but impossible to verify this as no real watch upon them have been done. What is inside is anyone's guess.

Space​

Returning to space is the greatest dream of mankind and now with the finishing of the mars terraforming some ten years ago the most developed nations are all abuzz on how to get there for the enormous resources depots.

Its not on mars however, the asteroid mining still remain a great way to extract resources the cheapest way possible and the whole solar system is up there for the grapes, including the moon called Europe which should have finished its terraforming some twenty years ago, awaiting for mankind to come and reclaim it.

So HOW are you going to do this? well of course starting your own space program!

the first steps to a space program will be the same for everyone, creating a space program with a launch pad and the rockets/ships to get man to the space ones more!.

Once you achieve this you can move to the next phases depending what you wish to accomplish with your program. you can begin establishing space stations, launching satellites (gotta obviously design them etc). An important step it's to make a space elevator, meanwhile costly they are very useful. You could too decide you don't want that and prefer your ships to come and go from earth directly, meanwhile cheaper in the short run may become problematic later on. Build a spaceport and so on.

Once you have launch capabilities, and presence in space (i do recommend the building of an space elevator) you can begin designing your colonization program, go to the moon, the asteroid bells, designing the engines and so on. to the end objective to colonize, design ships for war and bring resources home.

 

[alexander23]

History
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For three hundred years the United Empire stood monolithic and unchallenged by anything like his one and only emperor.

His right hand forged the empire by blood and steel after the first great flood hit the world. He saved humanity from itself during the collapse of the old order. His path was one of blood and destruction yet it had to be done for the greater good.

His left hand uplifted humanity from their undeveloped state and brought technology beyond the wildest dreams of man. Men stood afraid of nothing during the golden age. Diseases were under control, genetics was fully understood and used for the benefit of all. Body parts replacements were as natural as the original. Men was served by an army of mechanical helpers. Man stood in the frozen plains of pluto. All was his, the dreams of mankind were fulfilled.

Like any dream, it must end. The emperor died meanwhile billions cried to sleep, for the man that represented humanity and all good was gone. However like any empire on history it had many good people in charge...maybe the world wasn't going to end after all. A delusion the billions who inhabited earth shared and was shattered when the second flood came with no explanation to this day.

The great cities of earth in the coast sank and dragged with them billions, shattering the imperial economy and killing many of its great leaders. More important of all the great city the emperor build as capital of humanity sank with it.

A power vacuum was left and humanity in shock for untold numbers had simply disappeared with the waves. Imperial administrators struggled across the empire and the motions a new emperor was needed arises....but who ? Many of the ones that could have been now were being fed upon fish in the oceans. This is where things began to unravel. Noble families started to plot. Young officers saw a chance for power and all descended to chaos slowly yet frightening fast across earth and its colonies.

By year 15 since the dead of the emperor the one last man that could have been crowned emperor and keep things united was assassinated the one and only son of the previous emperor finally coming to age. Who did it? It has been lost to history or maybe no one ever knew but accusations flew around and blood was shed.

By the year. 18 since the great emperor death the first shoot of the long civil war started. Five factions have formed around the realm of men and chaos unfolded.

As the civil war raged, laws, order and control broke down across humanity. New discoveries stopped and science was repurposed for new uses. With no governmental supervision new scientist and mad men created things which would have never be allowed. Humans were modified to something else, sentient ais spread as androids were use in battle and slavery. Production fell and fell and the armies dusted the old weapon of yore which conquered earth and unleashed them upon themselves. The noble art of swordfighting was tainted as millions were given swords to fight for their masters.

By the 26th anniversary of the death of the emperor his empire was not what once have been. Smouldering cities, hunger not seen in its golden days whole colonies lost to the void of space. By the 30th anniversary. Only two factions remained. That year the last four space elevators standing were systematically brought down by a strange group calling itself the followers of Voithax, the great worm from beyond.

This was just however just the last remnants of once a great and proud system to colonize space. The fleets of humanity were lost long ago as each ship became irreplaceable, colonies had gone dark one by one until all communication ceased at some point. Now the costly space elevators were gone and all hope of once more to rebuild the great space soaring fleets was gone.

The year 35 after the death of the emperor the last of the claimants stood upon victory, his insatiable wish for the crown obtained. As he looked to earth he realized he was emperor of the ruins and dust, a humanity gone out of control. His First action was to call for the purging of the so called Neo-humans: sentient androids used extensively to war and as slave workers.. Millions of androids were purged as the fled across the earth for safe heaven.

A small war erupted against them as they attempted to defend themselves. Yet they could not stand alone, but set precedence for how things would be during the short reign of the fake emperor, cursed be his name.

Then he attempted to regain control of the many areas where lawless stood and whole regions declared himself autonomous. Starting several rebellions across the world. Another purge was declared this time aimed at the humans that had been created during the civil war, by immoral men and woman of the world. The new emperor himself hated genetic engineering and what had been done by the others was repulsive to him. Furthermore it was a necessity, many of the “new” humans were born and raised only to fight in the wars with powerful psykinetic abilities. They now found themselves in something they had never knew, peace and did not like it at all.

The post-humans rebellion started in strength with major focus in the asian continent where they had been used extensively, weakening furthermore the empire. With the freehold of Neo humanity appearing out of nowhere in defiance of the empire, revolts and wars ravaged it once more.

The dreams of emperor ship only lasted five years, by year 40th since the death of the emperor the third flood came without warning and devastating much more many lives, the “fake” emperor himself as his enemies named him survived the flood while campaigning in the Myanmar region against psykinetic users, however his army did not. The enemy forces captured, paraded and executed him, for being an inferior human. This is the same army that would later invade japan and establish and empire in the area.

With this what remained of the empire simple ceased as generals, nobles and the greedy men rose to fill the vacuum with their own states and petty nations or warbands. The Warring states period started all over the world, whatever remained of heavy production and trade in the world ended. Much of the factories and scientific facility around the world were destroyed. With much of the earth resources long since gone and with no more shipments from outer space they turned to the reserves that still existed dwindling them little by little to our current times.

By the year 100 after the death of the emperor we can say humanity is once more stabilizing, Population have returned to be 1/10 of what once it was, and cities and so on have been established in many areas where city states, kingdoms, and military states have been formed. It is true many areas remain savage, full of tribes or warlords. Mars is finally ready for colonization just the same as europa, The dream of hundreds of years back finally realizable. The imperial culture still is felt strongly across the world, yet many look towards a possible future where a new golden age can be reached.

In this new century for the world, not all new developments can be say are good. States fight and sometimes embrace the raising mad cults worshipping unpronounceable gods and creatures. Events have started beyond the comprehension of science, for example the appearance of the dark spots across the world. Reports of strange creatures, bizarre murders, things not possible, happening are occurring more and more. However most is simple chalked as superstition or insanity after all, science can explain everything and if it doesn't then it must not be true.

Society of the Empire​

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By the time of the Emperor´s death and the start of the civil war the Empire had a very defined social structure. This structure have been groomed by the emperor himself and by 2250 was completely embedded into society in the whole realm of humanity.

The Nobility​

The High Nobles

The High nobles were created from, industrialist, military men, religious followers and the first converters to the imperial cause back in the unification wars. The descendant of these men and woman would become the noble families of the empire, with immense wealth and power. They hold and still do a superiority view upon the rest of mankind including their rest of the nobles. Many are likely to be inside the ruling classes of the emerging states or commanding those states themselves.

The High nobles were usually in commanding positions in the military and civilian government structure, possessing immense wealth and political power, the most important of these families even possessed family secrets as locations of secret storages, or knowledge forbidden by the empire. Many owned enterprises around the world and especially the moon and vast tracts of land on earth.

All the priests were immediately recognized as part of the high nobility, no matter where he came from.


The lower Nobility

The lower nobility were the descendant of men and women that became rich and important enough to be ascended to nobles (officially wise, there was no such division and noble was a noble). The descendant accumulated riches and power for themselves and became part of the noble ruling class. They resented the High nobility view on them as new blood and strived to become one of the, by marriage or lower accumulation. You could in fact go from lower to high nobility but never the other way around.

They usually were gaudy, showed off their money and were very touchy with the lesser classes, dueling was often done. Usually a lesser noble family would sent a son to the officers corps of the golden fleets,Usually in the officers corps, especially in the golden fleet. They usually were heavily invested on the colonies and many in fact make their riches there or obtained nobility for their service in the fleets. On earth they owned factories and industrial areas which they fed with resources from the asteroid belt.

The Middle class​

The middle class of the empire was divided in two different spheres. The middle class dreaded to be part of the lower class and as such, marriage between the two were almost unheard off by the time of the death of the empire and they went pushed their kids to work to never be part of them.

The Akademiens:

The Akademiens class was the class involved in civil service, working for the state in diverse forms, as a cashier, a teacher, a doctor in the universal health system, researchers engineers all people associated with state services were considered part of this class. This class however did not include military or security services members. The Akademiens usually received lower pay than the rest of the middle class but much more governmental benefits and services were given to them for their services to humanity. Of course inside it different sub-classes existed, but are not of importance.

The Admin-Scholar Class:

In these class were grouped all that did not worked for the state, BUT had higher education, were in higher paying jobs, had some speciality or owned their own small business. This included doctors with private practices, all workers of companies in administratives or specialised roles. The members of the army and security services. They usually got pay better than the Akademiens but had less government benefits

The lower Classes​

The lower class was a used term for all that did not fit in the other classes, usually much poorer than them, this not mean they were less educated or dying in the streets of diseases, just usually had jobs and live attributes to those of the bottom of society.

The Colonists:

The colonist were all men and woman that had left earth for the stars, in hopes of better lives, sometimes it happened some times it didn't. Many ended working as miners in the asteroid belts or in the budding moon colonies as technicians, administratives, or simply normal workers. They weren't necessarily poorer than middle classes but their lives were much tougher in space than could have been on earth. However many accumulated much more money than their earthly counterparts, and usually send some back to earth. Many of them ascended to nobility, something that middle class hardly did. These men and women were often much more though than the earth counterpart, and much more freer as less government control in the colonies, where regulations were a bit lax. This created a view of degenerated between the middle classes about the colonists.


The Working class

The men and women that make humanity work. The farmers, the industrial workers, the services people, the low level technicians, maids. Those who held low level jobs, including technicians and researchers, many of the computer people were of this class. Their pays were low and always threatened by robot workers. Many social programs and benefits given by the government to them and taxation was much lower than middles class to keep them content. In the end however their job was much harder and for less money. The Service industries workers usually believed themselves about the rest and were in fact the biggest group of them.

They were usually the more religious of society and loved their gods and the emperor with no end after all they were told of horrible lives they could have if it wasn't for his benevolent unity of humanity. The colonists usually came from this class looking for a better or different live on space.

The Knights​

The knights were a special class on their own. With the creating of knighthood ideas by the emperor, many such orders re-appeared upon the world and the colonies. Knights were exempt from taxation of all kinds. The knightly orders themselves sustained their people with their own companies, donations and some government subsides if needed. By the end of the empire they were used to end any rebellions of groups that were causing troubles. Destroying pirate on earth and space, patrolling the lands where cultist always arises from and ending gangs and criminal organizations. They were a extrajudicial paramilitary force. Outside any laws except the emperor himself and carried their duty as they thought best.

The knights themselves were formidable warriors, training their lives to fight with energy weapons and win. Men and woman of the order served and married with each other. new recruits were always welcome and trained until middle ranks on the order. Their kids would then be allow to reach ny rank.

Many such orders fought in the civil war for a side or against all sides. And many remained even after the collapse of the empire, forming small states or joining raising nations to bring order to the world. Some even remain roaming around in their castles and bases, continue their paramilitary operations.

Most of the knights orders followed a specific god or goddess. In some cases none at all but were rare.

Religion of the Empire​

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During the Imperial Times the Great emperor of mankind, forbade all religions apart from the newly introduced Imperial Religion. Christians, muslims, sikhs, hindus, animalism, buddhists, shinto and many more were all forbidden and hunted down. The churches were demolished, abandoned and closed and only in the most beautiful and important ones, which the emperor decided were worth of remaining were reconverted to be used for the imperial religion or other facilities.

Its important to notice that by 2050 when the first flood hit, many in the world believed in no god or gods and Atheism was the norm in many countries. However after the damage and death caused by the Flood many returned to their religions looking for a saviour or answer.

Another important thing to notice that even if the empire tried to end all other religions, communities across the world remained with their beliefs, especially in far away towns and villages. And in many cases the imperial religion took thing from the main religions and annexed them as their own. After the fall of the empire, some resurgence of the old religions are noted, however its more likely mixtures of old and imperial religion appear across the world as well many still follow the traditional imperial religion or one of the many derivatives created since the imperial collapse.

The imperial religion Introduced from the emperor of man and his followers from the start of the conquest, returns to the times of polytheism, eliminating the notion of the monotheist religions of the world. the pantheon of the Imperial religion contained many lesser gods and beings that served in the end the main and powerful pantheon of gods. This pantheon were 10 different gods who ruled different aspects of life and death. It is to note the imperial religion had no major evil god, the worst being the gods of lies and deceit which wasn't inherently evil.

The imperial religion itself was not centralized like some of the old religions had been. The priests were the leaders of their own temple and all would then assist to a regional council to talk of matter of faith and the gods.The temples themselves were always dedicated to one main god with a small section for the rest of the gods.

The most prestigious of all priests were the ones heading and part of the 10 great temples. Whom were the first 10 temples to be built and as time passed were expanded to a great size and magnificent. By the end of the empire their size rivaled small towns and were built of extremely strong material which was only ever used in their construction and now had been lost to time. Each of the great temples contain a small section for the other gods and the rest for one of the 10 main gods.

The Main Gods​

Fymis​

The Goddess of good fortune, luck and money. This goddess was worship by merchants, and people when they wanted good things to happen economically. Like a deal working out, blessing a new business. When you simply needed luck for something she was the one to go for.

Illyasviel​

The goddess of children, fertility, love, family and lust. Said to be the most beautiful of the gods and goddess.This was the goddess to pray, your child would born healthy. To ask for abilities or brains for your child. To bless your family and help you in a difficult situation. If you were in love Illyasviel was the one to go for a wish.

Pyarae​

The Goddess of nature, animals, the environment and farming. Pyarae was especially worship and followed, so no more floods would hit the world. It was said the flood hit the world as mankind had lost its way and destroyed the world and its nature. Pyarae then came and flood the world as punishment. Respected by farmers, and everyone who cared for animals and environment. Many of the people against genetic modifications and bio-mechanical ones were followers of this goddess, Including the fake emperor.

Nysrena​

The goddess of wisdom, intelligence, inventions, sciences and technology. It was said from this goddess came all the technology and inventions of mankind. If you were hoping for an Eureka moment, or needed and idea you prayed to her. Many of the greatest invention done by man were done by devout followers. Especially adored by people involved in mechanics, computers and robotics.

U'ephihoth​

The goddess of health, medicine, diseases and biological sciences. This goddess was followed by many of the people involved in with making drugs, being a doctor and biological scientist. Many thought her to be the goddess who decided whom was alive and death, though never supported by the priesthood itself. The great understanding of the Human genome was carried under her name. Her followers supported human modification as a way to please the goddess with our understanding.

Apepkuk​

The god of space faring, the god of the void of space and the moon. The good of the night. Apepkuk was the god who ruled the night itself, the one you prayed when launching to space and in the darkness of it for success. Especially popular during the great age of space travel. Most of the space technologies and related activities were put under his divine jurisdiction and many of the great first colonist and designers of the technologies bringing man to space were priest of this god or followers.

Nothual​

The god of deceit, cleverness, subterfuge. This was the main god to be prayed, when trying to back stab someone, or lying so it was believed. If you were secretly planning the downfall of a rival or plot this was the god to support you in your plans. Followed by intelligence agencies, and secretive organization alike. Not very well liked publicly for what it implied but still a major god on his own right,

R'ysilot​

The god who ruled the sun and the light. R'ysilot controlled the seasons, and weather changes as well the duration of the days and the temperature. Was worship as the god of energy too, providing light for humankind. R'ysilot spurred by Pyarae flooded the world with her to teach mankind a lesson, yet he stopped the flood to give mankind a chance, even though Pyarae wanted to flood all. R'ysilot was beloved in desertic areas where his rays touched men, and by farmers in conjunction with Pyarae. Said to be the one who gave mankind energy weapons as requested by Kysarus so mankind could return to honor in war.

Kysarus​

The god of war, fighting, Violence, Warriors and martial Skills. Kysarus was the main god followed by the armed forces, Knight orders, security apparatus and so on. A god that was said valued martial skills and fighting abilities over anything else. Most of the Knights and nobles prayed to him for luck in duels and combat. For martial skill and so on. If you were going into combat you prayed to him, to give you strength to defeat the enemy and bring him to divine justice. After the great unification war ended. He was followed mainly by knight orders as knighthood expanded and then by many as dueling and so on became common practices.

U'zoth​

The god of natural resources, mining, industry, order and efficiency. Called the forge god, for him created many things for the rest of the gods and gave mankind the ability to make many things. U'zoth protected the miners in the deep of the mines, in the dark asteroids. It helped workers to be efficient, and safe at work. It helped in the development of new factories and with his blessing all would would be efficient. Many involved in production and manufacturing worshiped him.

Military​

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The armies of humanity have evolved with the technology developed as the centuries passed. When the great Unification wars began in 2075. The standard military equipment of the great nations included self piloting drones, invisible planes, weapons of mass destruction be it nuclear, biological or chemical.A standard soldier was equipped with enhanced combat armor. Semi guided aiming and a myriad of personal weaponry.

At this point of time mankind had put a man in marsa d some of their moon and possessed several space stations orbiting earth including one in mars. Most of the weaponry in space where satellite based mass drivers or missile launchers. Including the first prototype of a beam spatial weapon. Anti satellites and other land based weapons existed too.

By around 2070 the first combat mechs were introduced as a replacement to artillery and possibly tanks by united states and china.

Its agreed that the damage caused by the first flood precipitated the 4th world war. As nation blamed each other and coalition clashed in bloody warfare.

By the year 2075 all sides were exhausted and millions had died across the world, especially by the use of weapons of mass destruction by some nations in desperation to stave off inevitable defeat.

It was on this time the imperial first army surged from the shadows and began the first unification war. But we are not here to talk about history after all.

In these times of troubles many different and great weapons were created to be use by the imperial armies against their enemy (the world) like the superheated slugs rapid fire assault rifle that worked as a small railgun and was able to penetrate any enemy armor, or the reinforced battle armor capable of resisting several round of armor penetration ballistics and so on.

At the end of the Unification wars the great emperor of man, who had not shaded on using whatever necessary to win, decreed mankind had no use for weapons of mass destruction anymore, and banned them across his world. Most if not all were destroyed except for a few saved in secret installations by direct order of the emperor to preserve the knowledge and maintain them just in case. All direct studies of this weapons were forbidden and the knowledge about them or how make them erased from all except some secret databases of the imperial government. They were eventually forgotten by humanity as a whole.

The unification wars which ended by 2087 was not the last conflict the Empire would face. After uniting the world the emperor imposed the imperial religion over all his subjects and banned every other religion. Several religious wars were fought over the next thirteen years as people fought back against it. The imperial armies would eventually triumph but this experience pushed the emperor to ban weapons across the world. No longer would anyone be permitted to own or possess any firearm of any type and hundreds of million off guns were destroyed and dismantled.

By 2115 the goal of finding most guns and destroying them was achieved. Of course as the world was being rebuilt and order established everywhere so were security agencies run by civilians as the military slowly withdrawn from the world. Most agencies were authorized a small non-lethal stun weapon capable of disabling a person by one low intensity electric shot and a stun baton. By 2150 the first of the Energy weapons were introduced. By this we of course mean energy swords and their kind as a self defense weapon anyone could acquired with a owner permission. In fact energy weapons had began been introduced to the army as early s 2135 as knives or other small edge weaponry. The production of other kind of the type however would change the face of human warfare.

Even though as time passed they would be refines and all kinds of forms and ways would appear the concept remained the same. The energy weapon would cut across any material and armor with no possibilities of stopping it unless by another energy weapon. As they began to be made more and more, they eventually became cheaper to produce than other types of weapons which fit nicely with the elimination of weaponry from the armed forces to. After all...there was no enemy to fight anymore and as time passed, rebellions etc began to disappear and no one even remembered a time without the empire. By 2200 The military was reduced in size to what would from there on be maintained, most heavy weaponry had be phased out as unneeded and destroyed, with production ended (of course they would store many that would later be used in the civil war). Fire weapons were seen as barbaric and from a time of chaos, by this time the government officially ended any funding for weapons development that was left (even though really no program had been funded since 2150) and any weapon company left simply relocated to build swords and the like.

In the now budding and established nobility of the empire the dueling tradition set root once more as the emperor revived the ideas of knighthood, honor and so on. Dueling was regulated by law and allowed to anyone that complied with the conditions of the law. A way to legally kill your enemies or those who affronted you.

From the introduction of the law in the noble classes everyone took up the sword training for young. As technology advanced, warfare changed direction and new fighting designs and theorems took place using energy weapon instead of firearms, especially as laws were put in place to eliminate any knowledge about them gradually and end the possibilities to build more. Like every time knowledge was erased, it was conserved in secret databases and storages across the world.

Vehicles of war like tanks, armored cars, artillery and so on disappeared too and were unneeded and expensive to build as resources dwindled. Of course the civilian industry began to be free by resources brought from the new mining colonies of the asteroid belt and other space colonies across the solar system.

With their disappearance military doctrine shifted to use of infantry mainly and warfare similar to that of the medieval times, except with high tech version of their weaponry. Nor that there was any war to fight. Still though an army was maintained.

The use of Mechs for war ended too, however the knowledge how to build them etc continued as they were used for construction and other things. Simple how to arm them and their weaponry was eliminated from all knowledge and database.

Naval ships however became an interesting topic, even though much of their weaponry was lost as time passed specially with the bans and purges of their existence they remain alive to combat pirates, for even if humanity as a whole was better than ever, there is always poor people, and there is always some that aren't doing as great as the rest. Of course the fleet was just a shadow of their former self and only keep low caliber weapons, like superheated slugs low impact guns, serving in the navy was the less prestigious of the branches of government and usually packed by people that had no other choice.

The air forces were gutted as well as was used as time passed, eventually retired fully from the armed forces only the drones keep to be use for scouting. as the empire expanded in space this is where the weapons of man when to Beautiful ships equipped with weaponry not saw on earth since the great wars (of course however inside everyone simply was equipped with a standard combat energy sword). Their main task to fight pirates in space (which was an actual trouble) and keep peace and the colonies in line. Many though the emperor and his top brass in fact knew there was alien life out there which is why they created the great golden fleets. However most of the time the fleets were in stationed beyond human settlements in the Kuiper belt.

The fall of the empire during the civil war however ended the great fleets and most of the knowledge was lost, with connection cut off from the space colonies, which are long thought lost.

During the great civil war, much of the weapons hidden in the storages and some of the knowledge of how to build them was unearthed, and applied. By this time of course, industry was not ready to build those weapon and the knowledge hold by a few. The process how to build them remain expensive and inefficient, exacerbated by the lack of resources on earth, and the general public view such weapon are still not the most honorable or correct especially if banned by the emperor.

With the ways things are most armies continue to be equipped with energy weaponry, even though some nations have the possibilities to issue long range equipment. Warfare is done in two phases long range then close combat and will likely remain like that for many years to come as nation struggle to build the old weapons of yore and their costly use.

A typical army it's composed mainly by infantry, equipped with a energy weapon of some kind, a battle armor (which can resist a good amount of pummeling by firearms, reducing their efficacy) and likely a energy shield which is useful to resist firearms fire by the enemy and in close combat. (think of it like a shield from medieval times)

Nations have begun establishing their air forces, very useful indeed but must be useful carefully as anti-air weaponry was rediscovery during the civil war, which is much cheaper than the vaunted planes. New ships have begun to be deployed, the very expensive ones equipped with missile launchers, rail weaponry and so on. As of now the fleets of the world rebuild as a sunken world means the control of the seas is more important than ever. They are expensive however and many simply use tone down version of them.

In the vehicles department, tanks and their likes have returned, most of what the raising nations poses are remnants of the civil war as they produce few, expensive to do so, the nations hold them in high value for their mobility compared with Mechs. Rumors says savages across the world hold them in high esteem and use the to do fast attacks, even some rumors talk about mechanical horses, used as the days of yore.

The armed Mechs returned with bang during the civil war, unparalleled firepower and destruction abilities, few survived to the end of it as they became prime targets. What remain are hold as precious little treasures by the nations to be deployed carefully in the battlefield. Most emerging nations have become capable of make them themselves but their cost are high and one most be sure what are they doing.

 

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The Great Temples of the Never Ending Gods​

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The Great Temple of Nysrena: Peary Land-Greenland
-Protected by : The Knight order of the White Orchild

The Great Temple of Apepkuk: Casper town-Wyoming.USA
-Protected by : Grand Order of the Void

The Great Temple of Illyasviel: Manicore Islands-Amazon Sea
-Protected by : The Purple Heart Knight Order

The Great Temple of Fymis: Kemp Lowland-Antartica
-Protected by : Order of the Emerald Sword

The Great Temple of Pyarae: Mbala-Zambia
-Protected by : Holy Knights of Pyarae

The Great Temple of Nothual: Mu-Egypt
-Protected by : The Shadow Knights

The Great Temple of Kysarus: Brno-Czech Republic
-Protected by : The Knight Order of Hirja

The Great Temple of U'zoth: Erzurum-Turkey
-Protected by : The Templars of Azure

The Great Temple of U'ephihoth: Kathmandu-Nepal
-Protected by : Grand Order of Sigmar

The Great Temple of R'ysilot: Barrow Creek-Australia
-Protected by : The Holy Order of the Green Sun

NPCs Nation in the World​

The Kingdom of Heaven
Capital: Salt Lake City, USA​

The nicknamed Mormon kingdom. Even after the great purge and destruction of Utah, part of the Mormon literature and beliefs were preserved in one of the many hidden depots of knowledge. AT the death of the One and true emperor a young man found on of the Depots and as all collapse began reading, changing the literature and converting people to his now mix of imperial and Mormon religion.

As things got worse and more converted he managed to convert many important nobles whom became the religious leaders. Jump a few decades and they have forcefully converted their growing territories. The Mormons lack resources but force most of their population to train with the sword to serve "Jesus Christ" and spread the one religion. Lead by the Arch-Prophet from his Golden Palace in Salt lake city.

Neo-Humanity Freehold
Capital: Quebec City, Canada​

A small state inhabited by sentient androids of all types and class. Many escaping human persecution and using the chaos after the flooding set up a nation for their kind. Their motto is we are humans but better. The freehold is a direct democracy republic like the ancient Athens. The Neo-Humanity Freehold has by the year 2500 of the game taken over parts of what once was the state of Quebec.

The Freehold itself though small in size, its composed by many fearsome units as a combat android can easily outmatch a human being in combat and posses highly technical abilities.

The Kingdom of Mexico
Capital: Leon City, mexico
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The growing Kingdom of Mexican was formed by the nobility left behind in the formal territory of Mexico. After the death of the emperor the Mexican nobility was divided on the civil war on whom to support, yet the supporters of the fake emperor prevailed and eradicated their rivals. After the death of the emperor and still in possession of many troops they carved small states of their own. Thirty years ago the leader of the small state of leon, suddenly began an unstoppable war of conquest of his neighbors and by sheer brilliance forged the Kingdom of mexico. With the death of the conqueror his nephew has ascended to the fresh throne and is ever ready to try to surpass his uncle.

The Andean Empire
Capital: Huanuco City, Peru
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Another of the many Nations formed after the death of the Emperor. In this case a common man led a revolution against local nobility and waged a guerrilla warfare. He chanted death to the oppressor and inspired the people. However once they were death in the civil war..well someone have to lead after all and he crowned himself and emperor. With the untimely death of the fake emperor no one put him down and he still rule to this day with an iron hand and a new nobility following him, many descendant of his commanders.

The Dominion of Novo-Brasilia
Capital: Brasilia, Brazil​

The city of Brasilia was the head of development and research in South America in the imperial times, even the civil war many great returns of technology and twisting of science came from here. Regretful fro what they have done the scientific council of the city used their own inventions and Android allies to take control of the city and establish a sate lead by the ones with knowledge. A place where sentient androids, post humans and normal humans live together, a beacon of acceptance if one must. Its currently in a cold war with the neighboring state, which have forced the expansion of the armed forces to defend their population.

The Duchy of Vittoria
Capital: Vittoria da Conquista city, Brazil
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The Duchy of Vittoria in fact have only one noble family whom ruled from the city of Victoria de conquista. The Vittoria Family forced all nobles and influential families to join in one big family and executed everyone who opposed during the short rein of the fake emperor. With this keeping power after collapse was easy and have been keeping in expansion since then. The rulers of the family claim to be descendant of the emperor...no proof shown yet. its currently at odd against the Dominion of Novo Brasilia​

The Kingdom of Hirja
Capital: Prague City, Czech Republic
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The kingdom of Hirja is really, The knight order of Hirja whom based their operations in northern Europe during the Imperial times. Once the emperor died they refused fealty to any faction on the civil war and moved to take defense of the Great Temple of Brno. The order of Hirja was an interested order as it only accepted females in their ranks and many called them Valjyres for it. Very craft at war and battle the ladies of it are truly fearsome opponent in a fight.

Once the Empire began to crumble the Great Order Master struck a deal with local nobility and helped them create a realm and defend it. In the end the order assumed all military command and control meanwhile the nobles remained on the administration etc control, which suited the Knight order as they were in charge truly from the shadows of the King. Everyone in the army is basically in the Order and absolute loyalty to it is enforced and drilled into them.

The Red Sword United Clans
Capital: Tamaie Town, Burkina Faso​

The United Clans is one o the youngest nations with little of twenty years since its creation by the fearsome Warlord Mabute "The Wise" . Taking leadership of his tribe by murdering the chief and his extended family, close to 100 people, in just one night. After it he began a war of conquest of neighboring tribe in brutal ways, join or die to the last.

Many weaker tribes flock to him and joined his banners to defeat the bigger ones. In this way his allied forces grew and grew until he declared themselves and alliance with him at the head. After conquering and pacifying all those who opposed in the area he moved east and still is doing so, with a never ending hunger for more lands and people to join his forces. A fearsome and barbaric man, with ruthless ways of warfare.

The Khezaria Union
Capital: Tehran City, Iran
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The Union is what some would call a parliamentary Monarchy, where the Lord Protector of the Union leads the army, and have control of the diplomacy with foreign powers meanwhile the Senate rules internally the nation. Currently the Union posses a big army to fight the threats of their barbaric neighbors to the east and the power hungry of the south. The senate itself is composed of all nobles in the Union and the Lord protector is elected for life from it. Only way to remove it is death or 70% of the senate asking for it.

The Holy kingdom
Capital: Bandar e Abbas, Iran
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The HK it's a state ruled by an undying king. Undying as the leader of the state is a supercomputer from the golden age. The "people" of the holy kingdom think it was left behind by the most holy emperor to lead them after his departure to the great pantheon of gods. The people that inhabit the holy kingdom are addicted one may say to bionics.

They exchange their biological parts for bio-mechanical augmentations without actual need for it. Most of the population have exchange close to 50% of their body with them. Even in the collapsing world they are famous for their wandering priest which are a sight everywhere, they go preaching the word of their king MARK IV.

Iqavaya Tribal Alliance
Capital: Kabul City, Afghanistan
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The Iqavaya Tribal Alliance is an alliance of tribes from the former region of Afghanistan whom launched raids upon their enemies and slowly integrated them into the alliance of tribes. The alliance itself is decentralized with no leader at the head of it. Each tribe remain autonomous in all affairs including war and raids which cause troubles for everyone around them. In time of an invasion the tribes meet in the tribe-moot and create a war council to lead a joint effort.

The Heavenly Republic of the Yellow Lotus
Capital: Fuzhou City, Southern-China​

The Republic claims the gods themselves told them this was the way to govern the world and gave them the holy mission to bring the light to the whole world, the light of the republic ways. They have been expanding but have been rebuffed by their most hated enemies the Cherry blossom empire. Any observed would see the moment one shows weakness the other will attack and invade their lands.

The Republic is ruled by a semi-democratic system where Maximum leaders are elected by the population every twenty years or when they die. The ML rules in conjunction with a senate elected from the population, nobility and priestly class: 50% of the seats for the population, 25% for nobles, 25% for priests.

Cherry Blossom Empire
Capital: Kyoto City, Japan​

A slave empire lead by human with powerful psykinetic abilities, it is said some half a million of them ruled upon millions in their empire. A emperor reigns as supreme as cruel. They have united the japanese islands and added south korea to their cruel empire not 20 years ago. It is said the current emperor Mia Xa the "beloved" killed 5% of the Imperial population in his Coronation some 15 years ago.

All the post-humans in the empire are extremely xenophobic and believe they are above the mere humans, close to demi-gods of the planet with the emperor himself believing his is a god upon this earth. They are currently preparing to initiate a war with their northern neighbors to submit them to the glory of the God-Emperor.

The Commonwealth of Northern China
Capital: Harbin City, Manchuria-China​

The commonwealth of Manchuria surged from an alliance between the nobles of northern china after the fall of the fake emperor. Deciding that they needed protection and to carve their own state elected to create a monarchy, However they did not want to lose power and as such created a weak monarchy where a council of nobles would decide everything including armed forces, and each noble would in fact keep their private armies only banding together for war or defense. The king is elected from the nobility once one dies or is removed but have few powers except being able to favor some group in certain topic.

The Australasian Coalition of Free Cities
Capital: None, Western Australia
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In the Chaos of civil war and the crumbling empire the cities of the regions banded together in an alliance of cities and towns to defend themselves against riders and warlords. Slowly they pushed the anarchy away and integrated more cities and states in the coalition. Each city is responsible for raising troops for the common defense, yet autonomous on taxation and policing of their own. The coalition have no leader yet a council of 5 is elected between the cities every 5 years to do coalition wide policies.

 

[alexander23]

Base map of the world Circa 2500​

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Nations of the World

(all Apply to PC nation only)
Line of dot= forts
Line-Dot-Line = Fortresses
Line = Wall
Hexagon= Capital city
Circle Around a town (noticeable one) = Fortified/wall

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Resources map

Green Gear = Elerioum Deposit
Yellow Star= Neo-Metal Deposit

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Map of Great Temples and Black Spots

White Diamond: Great Temple
Black Circle : Black Spot

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Map of the Solar System-2500

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Map of the Moon

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[alexander23]

Nations of the World
STATS
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Asociación Parana Golfo​

The Australasian Confederacy - Capital: Sydney​

The Bastion of Alexandria - Capital: New Alexandria (Antavaribo)​

The All-Cossack Union of the Hosts of the Don, the Ukraine, and Russia - Capital: Donetsk​

Confederate States of America - Capital: Montgomery​

The California Republic - Capital: San Francisco​

The Democratic State of the Northeast ​

Empire of Ethiopia - Capital: Addis Adaba​

The Empire of the Pure - Capital: Bangalore

Free Imperial Republic of the Southern Hemisphere - Capital: Terra humaniere

The Holy League - Capital: Jerusalem

Holy Empire of Mankind

Khmer Empire - Capital: Chiang Mai

Khan Empire - Capital: Novosibirsk

Mediterranean Emergency Coalition

Neo-Cascadia

New Equatoria

Pan-Mediterranean Federation - Capital: Florence

Rahmani Arabia

Second Republic of Texas - Capital: New Houston

The Union of Africa - Capital: Nchi (21st century Kinshasa & Brazzaville)

The United States of America - Capital: Chicago



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TREATIES



CHARACTERS AND CULTS

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Sydney Cutter: Very old man (BlackBishop)

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Classified Information

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Last known Location: Near the town of Ghardia in former Algerian territory.
Companion: Athena: Android
Items:
Small energy Combat Knife
Small Arc-Gun (Like a Taser but stronger so work on armored people)

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The Prophet: The Brotherhood of Allah Cult (Arrowfiend)

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Classified Information

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Last known Location: Outside the black spot and the City of Mecca in Rhameni Arabia
Cult Size: Somewhere between 3000 to 4500 Followers
Items of Power: The "Box"
Sacrifices: 400
Known Events: Conversion of Rahmani family, The great summoning of the hunters and defeat of the northern arabia tribes

Desmond Stone: The Followers of the Eternal Light Cult (Mythix)

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Classified Information
Last known Location: Somewhere in California
Cult Size: Somewhere between 400 to 500 Followers
Items of Power: None
Sacrifices: None
Known Events: None

Marius: The First Order (Corman50)

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Classified Information
Last known Location: Near Shalqar city in former region Known as Kazakhstan.
Cult Size: Somewhere between 700 to 900 Followers
Items of Power: Orb of Arkar (+Bonus to obtaining Sacrifices)
Sacrifices: 1200
Known Events:None

Other Important Information

Unit Cost
Space Programs Cost​

 

[alexander23]

MAIN UPDATES

Year 2500-Summer
Rumors-2500​

Year 2500-Winter (Part 1, Part 2)​

MINI UPDATES

Fall-2500 ​

 

[alexander23]

you can post yoru nation/person/group now

 

[Dadarian]

Name: Asociación Parana Golfo
Land Claim: Remnants of Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul e Norte, Paraguay, North Eastern Argentina
Character or characters: Secretary Jimenez de Santa Florence y Ganollo, Under-Secretary Martinez Hernandez, Vice-Secretary Fernando del Popollo, Lower Secretary Dustin Juan Locca y Fines
Government Style: Bureaucracy
History: WIP

 

[aedan777]

Name: Pan-Mediterranean Federation
Land Claim: Italian peninsula, Sicily, Adriatic coast, mainland Greece south of Macedonia, Crete, Libyan coast around Tripoli, and the island at the Libyan-Egyptian border
Character or characters: Premier Almerad Vespuci
Government Style: Confederacy of city states
Capital: Florence
History: Following the first flood, the Italian peninsula was left devastated like the rest of the world. In the aftermath, they were quick to support the Emperor, and readily adopted the cultural reforms he pressed. Venice was rebuilt over its old flooded ruins, and Naples, Florence, and Milan became thriving new centers of culture. With the rise of the empire, it also meant the death of nationalism, causing the cities of Italy to think of each other as rivals, with loyalty to the hometown trumping everything but loyalty to the empire. The resurgence of sword culture and the devolution to city states was noted by many as a regression in culture, harking back to the middle ages, but whereas some areas of the world would reluctantly accept regression, the Italian city states embraced it. The resurgence of nobility led to a new height of culture and
decadence in the cities, with honor duels being a common occurrence to resolve feuds.

The death of the Emperor brought an end to the days of decadence. Without any central authority to control them, the city states quickly turned on each other, and fought vicious wars for dominance of the peninsula. Following the third flood, there were only 4 city states left, dividing the land between them, Naples, Milan, Florence, and Neo-Venice. All others had been destroyed or subjugated. The Treaty of Bologna was signed in 2456 to set the borders between the states, and included clauses to create a temporary peace, which had been non-existent for the previous half century. While the treaty ended fighting on the peninsula, the city states did not rest on their laurels, and instead turned to outward expansion, seeing the Balkans and Mediterranean as easy prey. Naples subjugated Sicily, and got into a minor conflict with the city state of Neo-Carthage. Neo-Venice had the least territory in Italy, so it rolled down the Adriatic coast with extreme aggressiveness to compensate. Florence tried to send an expedition to conquer Corsica, but fierce resistance caused them to decide against committing to a long term guerilla war for an island lacking anything of value. Milan's expansion westward would be the most significant of the Post-Treaty advances.

While the early expansion over the Alps went well enough, they soon discovered that the Mediterranean Emergency Coalition was not a force to be taken lightly. Milan soon found itself under heavy pressure, and MEC soldiers streamed over the Alps. Neo-Venice and Florence feared the power of the MEC, and didn't want them to upset the balance of power in Italy, so they joined Milan to fight off the invaders. A titanic clash occurred outside the walls of Milan, where the combined armies managed to hold the line against the MEC forces, with both sides suffering heavy casualties. Combined with guerilla actions against the MEC supply lines, both sides decided it was best to end the war, and rebuild for another round. A white peace was signed, and for the first time, the city states of Milan, Florence, and Neo-Venice signed a permanent alliance treaty against the threat of the MEC.

The threat of the MEC was not yet appreciated by Naples and its bitter enemy Neo-Carthage. Both ignored the warnings given by the northern city states, and fought for nearly a decade over Sicily, until the MEC launched its offensive across Northern Africa, steamrolling the unprepared Neo-Carthage almost to its capital. Desperate, it turned to its old enemy Naples for help, which reluctantly joined to prevent the MEC from getting in striking distance of Sicily. The combined Neapolitan-Carthaginian navy tried to break the MEC fleet in a battle off the coast of Sardinia, however a crushing defeat was inflicted upon them, and without naval support, Neo Carthage soon fell, with its ruling council fleeing for the safety of Florence. The MEC then turned its attention to Naples. While the Northern cities had stayed out of the fighting for Neo-Carthage due to Neapolitan reluctance to surrender its hegemony over southern Italy, the northern cities would not stand by and let the MEC fight Naples one on one.

The combined Italian navies fought the MEC fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea, and won a major victory, halting the attempted invasion of Naples. However the ground war in Northern Italy swiftly turned against them. MEC forces tore through Milanese defenses before Neo-Venetian and Florentine troops could arrive to support them. The second battle of Milan quickly followed, and saw the Italian forces fall apart after miscommunication between the Florentine troops and the others caused a gap in their lines to appear, which was quickly exploited by the MEC. The milanese and Neo-Venetians were driven back behind the city's energy walls, while the Florentines barely escaped destruction as they retreated. Confident of success, the MEC forces prepared for a siege to bring an end to the Italian resistance. However, they were unaware that the Neapolitan army had marched north with great speed, and joined with the Florentine forces. The third battle of Milan was a near slaughter as the Florentine and Neapolitan forces attacked without warning and were soon joined by the forces within the city. The MEC army managed to recover, and skillfully held back the Italians as they performed a fighting withdrawal over the Alps. Both sides were left in no position to continue the war however, and the Treaty of Turin was signed, where the Italian states recognized the borders of the MEC, and vice versa.

Knowing that the treaty was only a means to buy time, the Italian states decided they could no longer resist through informal alliances, as that had nearly brought destruction at the Second battle of Milan. Integrated command was needed. Thus the Pan-Mediterranean Federation was formed, incorporating Naples, Florence, Neo-Venice, Milan, and the government in exile of Neo-Carthage, the inclusion of which technically violated the Treaty of Turin. Offers were then sent to the city states of Tripoli, Corinth, Thebes, and New Tobruk to join the PMF, which agreed, fearing that refusal would mean being conquered by either the Federation or the MEC in the long term. The capital of the Federation is in Florence, decided for its location away from threats, and the general weakness of the city compared to Neo-Venice or Naples. The federation is led by a Premier and his self-appointed cabinet, which has powers to tax the city states, and controls their armies. The Premier is chosen for 10 year terms by majority vote from the constituent cities, with each city having one vote. In theory the Premier has limited powers outside of war, however the reigning, and only, Premier, Almerad Vespuci from Florence, has managed to use political clout, and vague wording in the constitution to make a more centralized state, which would be opposed, if the threat of the MEC didn't make such opposition tantamount to suicide.

Each city retains its own form of government, with Milan ruled by an absolutist Duke who once styled himself as a successor to the Emperor, Florence ruled by an elected figurehead while the real power is wielded by three major noble families, Venice is ruled by cooperation between the 5 noble families and the religious leaders, and Naples is ruled by an oligarchy of lower nobles who previously killed the upper nobility for power. The primary religion of the Federation in Italy is a mix of Christianity and the Imperial religion. They hold that the Emperor was the latest incarnation of Christ and that the current world is a purgatory of sorts for the human race, with final salvation awaiting the third coming of Christ. The 10 gods of the Imperial religion are held to be servants of the true God, labeled High Angels. Great cathedrals are built in the cities, some as extensions of old Catholic churches, others as entirely new buildings. The Imperial Christian Church, as it is officially called, has no central leadership, and most priests are under the authority of secular leadership, with Neo-Venice holding an exception as the High Priest of Venice has significant power in the floating city, and rivals the major families in terms of influence, though various outside threats have kept the rivalry relatively civil.

 

[Dexander]

Name: Khan Empire

Capital: Novosibirsk

Land Claim: parts of Siberia and Kazakhstan.

Character: Tselmeg Khan, the Great Khan

Government Style: Authoritarian democracy

History: Tselmeg Khan claims that he is related to the Great Khan himself, Genghis Khan. No one can prove this, but he has military behind his back so no-one is willing question him. Tselmeg rose to power after successful coup in the military, he is great tactician and rely on pure power, he hates politics. After the coup he changed nation name to Khan Empire and himself only and rightly ruler, the Great Khan. State of the nation is not so bad as you might think of it, Great Khan has united the nation and made it productive. Laws made by him is to protect nation resources and they are strickly under his control, still he takes care of his people (who support him).​

 

[Ranger900]

Name: Neo-Cascadia
Land Claim: British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, Southwestern Alaska, Northern Washington, and Northern Idaho
Character or characters: Prime Minister Strickland (More to come)
Government Style: Presidential Dictatorship
History: Mostly untouched by the great floods, thanks to much of its population living within the safety provided by the Cascadian and Rocky Mountain ranges, along with the general height of much of the area outside there. Not to say they were totally undamaged though, with Vancouver, Victoria, and many other towns along the coast dissapearing beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Still, safe behind their mountains and with their relatively remote location, Cascadia managed to maintain much of the trappings of civilization, or atleast some approximation of such. With the great resources deposits of the Elerioum sands and the Northern lands, the major cities of Edmonton, Calgary, and Kelowna-Kamloops were able to maintain relative strength, and even managed to have enough left over to rebuild Vancouver and Victoria. The two cities are almost 90% built on water, and are still very much in their fledgling stages, but stand as a testimate to how well much of Cascadia weathered the fall.

 

[Ironhide G1]

I'm fairly new to the forum(this is my first game on this forum), so I'm going to try my best:

Nation: The Holy League
Land Claim: Multiple countries. The main and center, the Kingdom of Jerusalem:all of Israel, Palestine, and West Bank. Capital is Jerusalem.
Tributary Countries: the Kingdom of Sinai- Sinai Peninsula: Capital Hasna
Kingdom of Damascus- Jordan and Southwest Syria: Capital Damascus
Kingdom of Aleppo- Lebanon and Northwest Syria: Capital Aleppo
Characters: King Simon II, "The Defender"- Catholic, Location: In Jerusalem, Background: Wise son of the first King of the Holy League. Other Kings: King Caleb: Sinai, King Raymond: Allepo and King Desmond, Damascus.
Government: 3 Kingdoms ruled by King of Jerusalem. Council of advisers advise the Kings.

History: A Catholic high noble named Simon I had managed to keep his true Faith secret from the Empire, and was helping to save thousands of underground Catholics, including the Pope and some Cardinals, from the persecution throughout Europe. He managed to gather them all in his city, Rome, by hiding them in the Catacombs as the old Church had hid from the Roman Empire in the years of the Early Church(fist major persecution of the Church) used too. Warned about the great floods in a dream, he managed to save most of the remnant by keeping them in safe areas of the flood. After the third flood and the fall of the Fake Emperor, the old Simon, longing for a true Catholic nation state to take the persecuted Catholics out of persecution, raised an army of the underground Catholics he had saved and took over the sparsely populated land.

The Pan Mediterranean Federation took over Rome. The great floods damaged the infighting fledgling Middle East even more, much of of the Arabs and Jews had gone away from the rising Mediterranean waters. Without much resistance, he was able to establish a solid government, establishing a thriving small state with a powerful army. He founded 3 autonomous states with his 3 closest and most faithful supporters, Raymond, Caleb and Desmond. He also helped preserving the ancient parts of Jerusalem and other cities such as Damascus, saved from the flood because of its height and distance from the sea. Abandoned during the flood, Simon I built the now famous wall to protect his new capital. In a now semi comfortable situation after Simon I's death, these small states are not looking for outside conquest, and wants to remain at peace with all their neighbors- but not hesitating to defend what they has accomplished.

Current State:The Holy League is one of the few countries without a hybrid religion- the Faith was kept during the years of persecution, as was during the Roman times. With the wars and loss of the Faith around the World, the hidden Pope and the surviving Cardinals are in the Holy League. Now Pope Sebastian I currently reigns in exile, trying to save a world with faith that is declining. Most of the world's Priests and Bishops have died or converted to the Imperial Religion. The future seems very bleak. As long as the Walls of Jerusalem will hold, the Church will remain still a public force. If the walls fall, the Church will go into hiding once more, as during the old Roman times, as much of the Church around the world already has been. The few remaining true Catholics still spread around the world seek to come to the Holy League, to practice their Faith without any persecution. During the second major persecution, much of the Novus Ordo Rite was lost, for those who survived celebrated the pre-1962 Latin rite. Because of the mix of cultures, Latin became the official language, and thus the new ethnic group created by the intermarrying of cultures were called "Latins". But besides Catholics, other Christians, such as Coptics, Orthodox, and members of the Syrian Church come too. Protestants mostly stayed in Europe and America.

Less barbaric than some of the other states, its technology is somewhat behind the rest of the world- but still enough to keep enemies away. A metal wall surrounds the border of the Kingdom of Jerusalem( and another around Jerusalem), with guard towers regularly posted. However, the country is not backward. The uninhabitable waterlogged ruins of Gaza were rebuilt into a city of history, theology, philosophy, science and mathematics, called Sapientia. The science and mathematics programs are good, though not the best in the world. However, this city by far has the best theologians, and historians in the world. History is a major part of the society. Much wealth of history was lost in the floods and the Empire itself, deemed "too radical". Simon I had a large collection of books, bought with his own money from throughout the world. He brought this collection with him, and founded the Great Library of Jerusalem, currently the largest library in the entire world. Many historical sites were saved and preserved, while sadly others did not. Great debates between debaters of different religions, viewpoints and cultures can be heard daily in the grand Sapientia debate house. The Holy League is the closest link to the past the world has currently.

This country acts sort of as a "Switzerland", a peaceful neutral country that can act as a haven for refugees, and is well sought out by those in distress- especially those of all religions who were religiously persecuted. Freedom of religion is allowed, though Catholicism is the State Religion and 95% of the people practice it in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In the three other kingdoms, about 75% are Catholic, the rest are Jewish, Muslim, Christian or Neo- Impreial religion. The current King of Jerusalem is benign, so the population is happy with his rule- and those seeking refuge are happy for the assistance. Though it acts as a sanctuary to help, many missionaries still go out into the very dangerous world to bring the Light of Christ to the nations, to heal the sick, tend the poor, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, shelter the homeless and bury the dead. The Holy League also has a high steady growth rate, as abortion and contraception are illegal, and large families are the norm, besides the appeal of immigration to this county.

The tributary Kingdoms of Sinai, Aleppo and Damascus are autonomous, but in cases of extreme gravity the King of Jerusalem can step in and take control. While these kingdoms lack a wall, they have steady defenses all along the border. They act more as a province rather than a separate kingdoms. Though they lack most of the protection of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, they are important and are designed to be evacuated extremely quickly to protect the citizens and take the necessary resources. These current kings are noble and just, but will their sons be? For the Holy League to thrive, they must retain the 'glue' of Catholicism to keep them together. For the sake of this game, they will just act like states.

Motto: Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
Anthem: Lift High the Cross

The Flag of the Holy League:

Of the Kingdom of Jerusalem:

The Kingdom of Damascus:

Kingdom of Aleppo:

Kingdom of Sinai:

Wow I've made so many edits to this.

 

[BlackBishop]

Sydney Cutter
Low Orbit over Northern Africa​

Sydney worked for a major colonial mining company, commanding a mining vessel and large crew of android labourers during the peak of the Empire. During a mining operation in the outer asteroid belt past Mars, a malfunction cost him control of his vessel, and he was unable to dodge a shower of debris. His ship badly damaged, Sydney barely escaped aboard a life pod with one lone android; Athena. Comms and controls non functional, Sydney was forced to drift aimlessly.

Using the pod's cryo chamber, Sydney was able to prolong his life as he drifted through space, frozen in a cryo pod for these past decades. His pod, caught up in the gravity pull of a large asteroid, was catapulted toward Earth. Now, his pod has emerged into Earth's atmosphere over North Africa, and a frozen Sydney Cutter is unaware of the peril he now faces.

Athena
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The lone android survivor of the C.C.M.S The Kublai, the mining vessel commanded by Sydney Cutter. Athena defied all odds and managed to secure Sydney's escape, as well as herself. Commandeering the escape pod, Athena overlooked the pod's systems for the century long journey back to Earth.

She is cold and sarcastic, yet represents a link to Sydney's past. Because of that, Athena and Sydney are close, contrary to what they may verbalize

Table of Contents
Adrift​

 

[alexander23]

I'm fairly new to the forum(this is my first game on this forum), so I'm going to try my best:

Nation: The Holy League
Land Claim: All of Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and parts Jordan. Capital is Jerusalem
Characters: King Simon II, "The Defender"- Catholic, Location: In Jerusalem, Background: Wise son of a multi-billionaire who is defense oriented.
Government: Kingdom with council of advisors
History:After the Pan Mediterranean Federation took over Rome, and the great flood damaged the infighting fledgling Middle East even more, much of of the Arabs and Jews went away from the rising Mediterranean waters. A Catholic man named Simon I, longing for a Catholic nation state, raised an army and a massive amount of Catholic pilgrims and took over the sparsely populated land. Without much resistance, he was able to establish a solid government, establishing a thriving small state with a powerful army, and preserving much of the ancient sites ruins that had become abandoned. In a now comfortable situation, This small state is not looking for outside conquest, and wants to remain at peace with all its neighbors- but not hesitating to defend what it has accomplished.

Less barbaric than some of the other states, its technology is somewhat behind the rest of the world- but still enough to keep enemies away. A giant metal wall surrounds the border of the country( and another around Jerusalem), with guard towers regularly posted. Since King Simon I was a multi-billionaire in America before it collapsed, his fortune may last the Kingdom several generations if used wisely. This country acts sort of as a "Switzerland", a peaceful neutral country that can act as a haven for refugees, and is well sought out by those in distress. The current King is benign, so the population is happy with his rule- and those seeking refuge are happy for the assistance.

Military(Don't know if I'm allowed to do this yet?):
5 Infantry Divisions( non sentinel)
2 Vehicle Divisions
Navy: 5 Light Ships
1 Heavy Ship
1 Arial Squadron
Plenty of land and anti- aircraft defenses, 3 Divisions of 'sentinels'- land border guards.

Oh no i make the military not you. second on the fortune thing...uh yeah not here is background: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Z_-8HK3FfF7IT8V5r4EmfKkGWqz0EPi2olkyT0yqSw/edit?usp=drive_web

 

[simcull]

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Name: Empire of Ethiopia

Capital: Addis Ababa

Land Claim: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti Somalia, Northern Kenya, and a small amount of Yemen

Character or characters: Emperor Solomon, Empress Eudokia, Heir Apparent Teodoros, Prince Merkourios, Prince Isaac

Government Style: Absolute Monarchy with tribal influences

History: Ethiopia was mainly spared from the floods and other environmental factors. But the Ethiopians had resisted extremely hard against the Emperor's expansion, mainly due to the deeply ingrained Christian values in Ethiopia. However, Ethiopia recovered after the initial devastation and grew to become a powerhouse within Imperial Africa. but with the fall of the Empire and the recent flood, millions of Ethiopians were killed by once easily-preventable diseases and food shortages. To make matters worse, Ethiopia was once again devastated by the ensuing civil war and subsequent chaos. But once again, Ethiopia is resurgent and has begun re-embraced Christianity, but her wounds haven't truly healed, and the presence of a Communist state to the Southwest with imperial ambitions are not doing the population's mindset any good.

 

[Noco19]

Rahmani Arabia​

Land Claim: The Arabian Peninsula
Character or characters: Khalid bin Rahman the Sheikh of Al Rahman; Iman Salman of the Mosques; Mustafa bin Khalid bin Rahman the Amir of Al Rahman
Government Style: Kleptocratic Dictatorship
History:

Try as the world might, the lands of the Arabian Peninsula clung to life, surviving both the disastrous floods and the fall of the Emperor who sought to impose his order upon the Arab tribes. Facing all sorts of persecution, from the anti-Islamic purges, to the general oppression of aspiring warlords, the various identities of Arabia, once strong despite the odds, shifted into a singular one, if only for cooperation. Working as one, the tribes and peoples that once quarreled banded together to adapt to this changing world.

And adapt they did, carving their place in the global scale. Though the nomadic Bedouin lifestyle had long been destroyed, and the old raiding and slaving ways of the old Islamic powers had been long dead, the Arabian people in fact readopted these with a modern twist. Rather than life through camels, ships and vehicles became the life source of the new Arabia, transport which would facilitate their raids on whoever was unfortunate enough to be captured and then sold. Androids and humans alike were targets, and from this lucrative lifestyle arose in a sense, new tribal identities, not centered around the old ways, but around the new resurgent Arab leaders, the chief slavers who made fortunes and established their personal holds.

These men would form loose societies of slavers and their families, but could not quarrel with one another and hope to survive. Thus, the need for some semblance of order arose, and was promptly filled by the wealthiest slavers, the upper crust of society, the one-percent top bosses who pulled the strings. And chief among them was a man known simply as Rahman, who had earned his status with the blood of many rivals and the transfer of countless slaves. When he rose to assume de-facto primacy, no one questioned it, because the alternative was grim. During this time, the title of Sheikh was granted to Rahman, at first as a joke, but then legitimized by Rahman and his supporters to truly establish his dominance. Sheikh Rahman reigned until his death, by natural causes, after which a great crisis arose in the upper echelons of this blooming Arabian state; who would succeed?

Following a tense period, the son of Rahman, Khalid, would emerge the victor of the internal bickering, much to the dismay of the other families. They feared what appeared to be blatant monarchy, the hereditary nature of leadership, but in the end, Khalid commanded similar respect that Rahman maintained, having inherited both wealth and skill. After a few announcements, and a select few men losing their heads, Khalid became the second Sheikh. While this state did not bear an official name, by now it was commonly refered to as Rahmani Arabia, for lack of a better name.

Now entering the modern year, Khalid has ruled for a long time, now a man of graying heir and aging body, and has groomed his son, Mustafa, in his image, again bringing fear of a potential monarchy. And news of a strange rebirth of Islam, with a stranger Prophet, sound from the Holy Cities, technically under the eye of Khalid's brother, "Imam" Salman, bring worry to the Rahmani state.

Will Khalid measure up to his father and keep the state together? Will Mustafa be strong enough to succeed his own father and truly establish hereditary control? Does this Prophet bring omens of disaster or opportunity to Al Rahman? Find out next time on...Shattered Earth!

 

[Ironhide G1]

Ok so I fixed some of the things, is it all right now?

 

[Mikkel Glahder]

Name: Free Imperial Republic of the Southern Hemisphere((Pre-2501 coup))
The Free Southern Empire ((Post-2501 coup))​

Land Claim: Southern Argentina and Chile(The Northern border is: A straight line from Mar del Plata to Los Angelens in Chile)+South Georgia + Palmer Land (and the small islands beside it), Ellsworth Land and Rhodes Pennilsula.

Character or characters: President-Elect and Imperial Vicar John Max (Social Liberal Party), Prime Minister Miguel Raminez (Social Democratic Faction) ((De jure leaders)). Zeratul ((De facto leader)). Commander Vulcan Empirator, Field Marshall of the Armed Forces of FIRSH. ((Pre-2501 coup))
His Imperial Majesty Felipe I ((De-jure head of state))
Zeratul ((De-facto leader)). ((Post-2501 coup))

Government Style: Imperial Republic controlled and supervised in the shadows by the Brotherhood of Flames. ((Pre-2501 coup))
Benevolent Constitutional Monarchy ((De-jure))
Despotist Totalitarian Empire under the control of Zeratul ((De-facto))

Capital: Terra Humaniere, lies in the middle of the tounge of land where Mar del Plata is.

History: The "Free" Imperial Republic of the Southern Hemisphere emerged long time after the empire fell. A thriving republic with its own military, free elections and free speech. It quickly expanded to the southern parts of the globe where they took part of Antarctica and took South Georgia. A group of scientist, took, with government permission, a group of humans to Antarctica to make different, "test" on them. This was mostly genetic engineering. The medicine and other operations conducted on these were far to powerful for their bodies. Only one of the original ten survived. This man, who almost resembled a human was called Zeratul. The origin and the meaning of the name is long gone. Deemed to powerful by the scientist, they froze him down and left the facility. 15 years later a big group of scientist once again took down to the facility and conducted human experiments without succeeding. They did however discovered a hidden sealed of wing in the facility. In here, they found a capsule, containing an alien looking thing. The label said: "Post-Human, Dangerous". They, naive as they were, let him out and gave him weapons. Zeratul. The scientist also found another sealed of wing, where thousands of super soldiers where laying in cryo-sleep. They released them. What the scientist didn't expect was, that the super soldiers lead by Zeratul, would take over the facility, just when the civil war in the FIRSH began. Zeratul rallied the thousands of Super Soldiers, know as the Brotherhood of Flames, to fight these rebels. They took to the mainland and started slaughtering the rebels. To thank them for this, the government gave Zeratul and his order the power of the country, if they could keep it hidden. They agreed. The state of the republic is stable. The state controls the civilians while the Brotherhood of Flames control the army and supervises the government and control it. All members of the Brotherhood has a stronger body structure and psychic abilities. They are not known by many, but they are considered the ruling class.

Al people of the Free Imperial Republic of the Southern Hemisphere believes that there are no restrictions to genetic engineering and therefore the lot of humans in FIRSH are post-humans one way or another.

Holy Archives of the Imperial Republic:
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More History:

Part I
Part II
Part III​

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Other ICs:
Military of the FIRSH
Meeting #1
Early development of Genetic Engineering and Forced Mutation to be used in war
An Introduction to Terra Humaniere
Moon Landing of 2500
Political System of the FIRSH
Coup d'État 2501​

 

[Arrowfiend]

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Name: "The Prophet" (Real name unknown)

Cult name: The Brotherhood of Allah

Location: Mecca, Arabia

Background: The Prophet's early life and his real name is unknown, as he claims that knowledge of his past is "unnecessary to spread the truth to the people of the world." However, after adopting the guise of The Prophet in the 70's (25th century), he has quickly become a notable figure in the region. Although most of the religions of the old world had been stamped out in favor of the Imperial Religion, the Middle East and Arabia in particular remained a holdout for the nearly two thousand year old Islamic faith. As such, The Prophet claimed that he is the reincarnation of the original Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Like his alleged predecessor, he refuses to have any images taken of his actual face, making it hard to locate him; His fame (or infamy, depending on the person) is what identifies rather than his appearance. While on the exterior his cult is simply seen as reviving Islam, there is a much darker interior that only he and higher officials and the cult are aware of. Rumors have floated around that he worships a more powerful god than the Islamic Allah. However, any claims of the Prophet's insidious intent have yet to be proven at this time.

 

[Galren]

Name: The Bastion (Formal Name: The Bastion of Alexandria)
Capital: New Alexandria (AKA Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar)
Land Claim: Madagascar and Mozambique
Character: Chief Victor Wallis (Often referred to simply as the Chief)
Government Style: Elected Council

History:

In the old days of the Empire, Madagascar and Mozambique were rich in natural resources. Mozambique had metals and natural gas. Madagascar had metals, sapphires, and vanilla. These resources drew in migrant workers from around the world, looking for jobs due to the floods. Vanilla plantations popped up across Madagascar while boomtowns in Mozambique to provide housing to the workers extracting natural gas were a common sight.

The nobility had the lion’s share of the profits from the exportation of valuable resources and the middle classes were treated well and had good pay, as they were the ones who helped maintain and expand the output of their plantations or their wells. The knights were paid and treated well, as they had the important job of protecting the valuable assets.

It was the common worker or farmer that had scraped by day to day, often living in hastily made housing scathingly called Bananavilles by the people living in them. Their resentment of the nobility that ran the plantations and the gas wells grew, although it never got to a point where open conflict occurred before the empire fell apart.

When the Empire fell apart and the third set of floods began, the nobles, with no threat from the Emperor to stamp them out if they fight one another, began to compete with one another for the precious resources left in the area. Gangs of roaming knights began to roam around, seizing plantations or wells, herding rival noble’s workers to their employer, and even sabotaging competitors. At a certain point, the knights started robbing their employer’s rivals and even went rogue and started robbing their own employers.

When the knights went rogue, the educated middle class realized that things had gone too far and assisted the lower class, using their position to get weapons, armor, and supplies to arm people to fight back. While most nobles feared a takeover from the working class and backed the knights to keep them in check, a few of them supported the lower class.

The workers and the bandit knights finally began to clash. A few miles outside the city of Antananarivo, the workers were able to score a victory against one of the largest gangs inside Madagascar and drive them out of their headquarters. Although the knights were able to win in revenge against the workers, the sheer number of workers won in the end. It would be a few years before Madagascar would be rid of the bandits.

The nobles that had supported the workers were visionaries and wanted to take this fresh start on Madagascar and turn it into a giant fortress, capable of standing on its own and being one of the last bastions of civilization if necessary. One noble in particular was interested in the history of the world and wanted to preserve it in this fortress the other nobles were proposing.

Thus, the Bastion was born, and a council was formed in order to govern it properly. Each councillor was tasked with a different department. There are nine different positions a councillor can have: Defense, Research, Civil Engineering, Interior (Mining), Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Health, Energy, and Education. Each position would be elected for life, and a new councillor would be voted for when the previous one either dies or resigns.

When a councillor was voted in, only people in professions related to that position are allowed to and required to vote. For example, if the Civil Engineering Councillor was to be voted for, only jobs like architects or construction workers would be allowed to vote on that councillor.

The Chief is selected from among the councillors and everyone is allowed to vote for the new Chief, as he or she is the leader of the Bastion. The Chief sets objectives for all of the councillors and their departments to achieve, often influenced by suggestions from the councillors. He or she also takes suggestions from the councillors on what is the highest priority to achieve.

With the Bastion established, the Bastion looked for allies it can turn to. Most of the other nations that have emerged from the collapse were relatively distant, so it looked a little closer to home. Mozambique, a close neighbor to the Bastion, was also having trouble with bandits. The Bastion offered the scattered groups resisting the bandits in Mozambique protection from the bandits in exchange for becoming a part of the Bastion. The groups accepted this offer, and the Bastion, together with their newfound allies, drove out the bandits from Mozambique, securing it as territory for the Bastion.

Now, the Bastion has to face the interior of Africa, filled with untold dangers, along with the distant nations across the other continents, prone to fighting each other. These are the threats that the Bastion faces today.