The flags for each conventional faction have been finalised and the links to their flags are here:http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/RussianEmpire.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/NAU.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/KingdomofSaudiArabia.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/GreaterKorea.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/EuropaLeague.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/EAU.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/BhutanDynasty.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/ArabiaSyndicate.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/Afrikaa.jpg
The conventional factions are available on demand here:
The Russian Empire is claimed by VarsiThe NAU is claimed by NoobsauceThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is claimed by the Undying.Greater Korea has kicked itThe Europa League is claimed by Doom BringerThe EAU is claimed by SamuryeThe Bhutan Dynasty is NPC*The Arabia Syndicate is long goneAfrikaa is claimed by Solus Lunes
*NPC factions are controlled by the operator and are not available on demand.
I've just finished the initial map. Here it is:
This is the state of the world in the year 2032. This political state was caused by an exodus of almost all nations from the UN in 2024 which dramatically reduced it's power, leaving many powerful nations free to expand into neighbouring nations and take over. In North America, Mexico and Canada declared war on the USA, leaving the US President no choice but to order an attack on both nations and estabilish the NAU or North American Union. Anarchy takes hold in Central and Southern America as military rebellions become dramatically more frequent, whereby the new NAU takes action and invades. In Europe, the EU attempts to forcefully abolish the identity of it's member states and thus creates the Europa League. The Europa League expands outwards into a new maritime empire, halted eventually by the NAU and the EAU and the crippling invasion of the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In Africa, military coups manage to overthrow all governments and estabilish the Arfikaa nation, now struggling to hold off the Saudi advance. Across the north of Asia, Russia sees it's oppertunity and invades neighbouring nations en mass, forming the mighty Russian Empire. In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia aggresively expands into the rest of the Arabian Peninsula, successfully defeating the Europa League and the Russian Empire. In the Far East, Japan becomes militarised and manages to conquer a large sphere of territories, known as the EAU or Eastern Asian Union. It meets substantial resistance by the Europa League, the Russian Empire and Greater Korea who all manage to push them onto the defensive.
I've noticed that it's impossible to identify the smallest islands due to resolution. Here's the links to each individual island group:
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/3032/Westernisles.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/3032/Southernisles.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/3032/South-easternisles.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/3032/Northernisles.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/3032/North-easternisles.jpghttp://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq270/EmberFive/Shattered%20Earth/3032/Britishisles.jpg
The Undying.
It's not like this at all. You have full sovereignty over the Sanctuaries, and other factions dare not enter without permission, lest they be ambushed. The Flaming Ninjas wield an army of extreme elites, combining the disciplines of unparalleled martial skill and powerful technology. They act as a UN in the modern world, their economy supported fully by all the 'good' factions. The only reason they would be overwhelmed is if the galactic powers were unable to support them, normally as a consequence of war.
The human factions are the UGA and the Vetaron Confederacy. The alien/humanoid factions are the Ilidiran Empire, the Faeros Remnants, the Starguard Palatine, the Shanna Rhei Imperium, the Ashi Sultanate and the Tau'ri Nation. The factions with no mainstream species are the Flaming Ninja Sanctuary and the Dark Ninja Voidsector.
If Mr. Q negotiates with Vanewaite, we may be able to introduce these events as at least a seperate RP, while at most a series of events comprising this RP.
Absolutely your choice, considering you're taking the faction.
ok then, ill start things off.
Vetearon Forces will move 1 parsect every week, thus expanding our borders. This is slow because the recent unearthing of some Data Bank of Unknown origin. Snientists hope to be able to decode the information pretty soon.
The Ildirian Navy finaly conquers the Ki'bra in the Orion Galaxy and grant our allies more territory and have better trade production. With that taken care of, the majority of forces are able to come home to the capital for celebration. After that we expand our selves rapidly to sorround the Shana Rhei Empirium and The FN Sanctuary to protect them and towards the UGA border.
Authratron Tamacus was able to save some of them, but the rest are lost: http://forums.impulsedriven.com/349613
BTW, the 'real world' is Earth-1 Prime, while this RP is based in Earth-5 Shattered Earth. Other notable universes include Earth-2 Inexorable Invasion, Earth-3 Vetaron Assault (unrelated to Earth-5), Earth-4 The True Industrial Revolution and Earth-6 Land of the Flaming Ninjas, where Earth-6 was created exclusively for the Flaming Ninjas of the Darth and Samurye Show. The realms of Fulcrum and Segen are often included among these parallel universes, though themselves are too abstract to be considered parallel universes.
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Edit: I've forgotten to expand the Ildiran south, so I'll do that next time.
Edit 2: I am a moron. I gave the Vetaron Confederacy the same color as the Ashi Sultanate, so for now remember to distinguish between them.
Earth-6
Earth-6, commonly refered to by the title 'Land of the Flaming Ninjas', is one of only six parallel universes that survived the still unexplained chrono catastrophe. Preceding it's creation, it was clear to the Timewights that the astonishingly huge willpower of the Flaming Ninjas was beginning to expand beyond the confines of their host universes, threatening to breach even the celestial barriers of Segen. The creation of Earth-6 was an attempt to contain their willpower before it spiralled out of control. Earth-6 is a manifestation of their dreams and ambitions, where the laws of physics do not apply, only those laws defined by the ego of a Flaming Ninja. Through this, their willpower is contained safely.
Segen
Segen, also known as the Infinity Sky or the Final Lands, is an alternative manifestation of what many mortals regard as Heaven. It is bound by the Infinity White, the celestial equivelant of the laws of physics that govern immanent universes. It is a state of almost absolute bliss, a bliss upheld by the Infinity White, itself formed and controlled by the immensely powerful Eternals. It is also the secret base of operations for the Timewights in the mortal world, sacrosanct from the ambitious 'enlightened' mortals and other enemies of the Timewights. On rare occasions however, a mortal is invited to join the Timewights here, but such exceptions are made only for the most important Illuminati, often during a crisis.
Fulcrum
"The change. The fate. The heart. The Fulcrum. So long as what is right is chosen, the rest does not matter."
- Book of Grand Machinations
The Fulcrum is perhaps the least understood of all realms of mortals. It is often considered a realm of final judgement, where souls travel to be judged by deities. Some sources claim that it's the 'ultimate impasse', but the truth will probably never be known.
ill take over the UGA. we expand at a rate of two parsecs a week due to enhanced knowledge of subspace and omega space. we have discovered many alien artifacts in our territory and have begun translating them. in addition we have begun tracking a signal that seems to be originating from Aldebaran system. upon arrival we have made contact with a species calling themselves homo-aquaticus. it appears that we have discovered the old EL genetic sciences colony Atlantis. if we are correct we can change our genetic coding around to save money on terraforming. in addition in old history books there appears to be mention of a teleporter array and a cloning facility in orbit.
with these ancient technologies we can begin increasing population density of our systems and our scientists have begun work on engineering a strain of the human race that can survive in a vacuum.
What is Earth-4 about? I know about all of the others, but not Earth-4.
Samurye.
if i remember correctly it sort of followed the plot of fallout, where post WW2 science advanced at an incredibly rapid rate and scifi became reality.
This Just In!
Former Leader of The Vetearon Confederacy Codename MrBlunted Has emerged from Fulcrum Space. With Seemingly Godlike Powers he has motioned to search for ANY ancient Ruins. The cause of which is not readily understood, and reports indicate that a Yeoman who refused to Bring Blunt a glass of water was immeadiately turned into a Flower Pot, Dropped from low orbit, and run over with an Antique Chevy Corvette.
In Earth-4, Alessandro Volta is a megalomaniac who uses electric weaponry to take over the world.
Oh yeah....
Just how powerful have you become? The Timewights are already watching closely, and are ready to strike if the slightest move is made towards Segen.
BTW, I'm watched over by Valetronians, ergo untouchable.
not so powerful as an imminent danger to them, but i wont use my powers against higher species. yes, i can see them and they know i do. Just so you know i can now reverse time in a local area for a quick Re Do if i had wanted. Meh, mabey im too lazy.
In other News, Vetearon forces are approaching the border of UGA and Illidrian held Space. Not wanting to immeadiately ignite a conflict, Vetearon Diplomats rush to propose a sort if "Neutral Zone" between the realms
There are a lot of lost Timewight treasures possessing immense power, including the Easy Button (the galaxy-destroying time manipulator). Most of these treasures were lost in the chrono catastrophe, so it's unlikely the button still exists. Being the Centatronian Regent, I know where it is, but I just won't tell you.
Aww, I was hoping to host a war in Heaven. Oh well, I guess I'l just start talking about where I fit in all this.
The Undying
As the war with the Zegar drags on, the Centatron herself is forced to enter the fray. In order to fill the power vacuum left behind, it was decided among the Valetronians that a regency was to be estabilished. A member of the Illuminati (the Illuminati are mortals given time powers by the Timewights) was chosen and given the title of the Undying. The Undying serves as substitute Centatron, wielding all it's powers, for a period of 9 years 9 months and 9 days, bound to the Centatronian throne by a chain attached to an irremovable steel glove. Upon the completion of the Undying's term, the Illuminati will be freed, the glove destroyed and a new Undying chosen. This process will repeat until the true Centatron returns.
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ok just a quick check to make sure those two grey spots to my sout west those are part of the faeros remnants or a hitherto unannounced species? and the faeros inhabit stars correct?
Undying you forgot my expansion to the south
You are right
I would agree to a neutrol zone of decent size.
However, don't even try to enter my borders, I can jump my ships practicly anywhere in my empire at any second, plus if you did, I have every known coordinate of every celestial body in this galaxy. I can jump all my ships right to your capital Mr Blunt3d.
On another note, stations and indutrial zones are built near borders. to promote economy.
Bah, you bluff. The only faction with pinpoint jump drives is Mine! Quasi-Space is Way too much for you all to even attempt to understand. Ive had scouting missions go directly to your capital right under your nose and the only reason we dont want to truely fight is because we have other things to worry about. If i want to, i can jump an armada to Earth and by the time that your forces get to within the system, our flag will be flying over your capital. Neither do you have the celestial coordinates to EVERY planet. and even if you did, our FTL sensors will be watching. oh and we can shut off your FTL drives from a remote distance. Dont you just Love Suberversion Hacking?
ok enough fanboyism, that does get annoying....
With our expansion in the south relatively over, we begin to expand our infastructure which, because of our netrocentric society, takes mere weeks to turn an otherwise uninhabited planet into an Economic power. The formation of an advanced defensive grid along the new Neutral Zone has also begun, using techs that are based on logistics that are usually reserved for the inner worlds.
Upon our expansion, we have accidentally discovered what seems to be a Atlantaian Laboratory. Although it seems to have been deserted long ago, we were able to begin extracting the raw information from the local database which includes the ability to produce a fearsome weapon called the "Stellar Converter", the last time it was used was in a captured Atlantaian Ship that was discovered in the Cygnus sector. Also, the ability to Mass Produce an advanced alloy dubbed PolyNeutronium has been given to advanced design bureaus in the inner colonies.
Dude, you should know.....THEY are about to return. the last thing i want is my celestial meat shields to be fighting against me.
The AS will expand 1 parasects every week mostly expanding towards the center of the galaxy to investigate the center.
Also we will be able to colinize every planet we find faster by building teleportion bunkers on the found planets teleport people and robots(workers) to the planet and protect it with capital ships untill it can protect itself.
Sybertronic.
Hey Sybertronic, wanna Ally? i just curved my forces along the UGA border so now we have official trade routes. I mean, we have special Quasi gates set up so that non Vetearon ships can jump through our confederacy. Not to mention the Military we have.
Sure since were aliens and we dont like humans.
Also what is a Quasi gate exactly?
thanks.
I dont think you quite understand Mr Blunt3d, you don't know you history that well, the Ildiran Empire is the first space going species in this galaxy, we have exploring space for over 50,000 years, the only thing that is far more technologic powerful than us is the Saiv Empire. I was the first to explore and conquer another galacxy. I have explored the milky way completely before anyone developed any spacecraft. We have extensive records of everything here.
My ships travel in alternative dimension that is so complicated that it cannot be interfered with. Once it makes it jump power up, it is at its next location. WE have high tuned frequency modulators that detect an pull out anything that comes through our borders. Your scout has benn captured and sent back to you.
By the way there are no atlantians in this galaxy.
no im thinking he thinks he found an abandoned EL facility near atlantis in the aldebaran system. unfortunately its on the far side of earth from him and i just recolonized it.
but given that he seems to be trying to pull magic tricks again and has allied with the ashi sultanate id like to propose an alliance with the faeros remnants when someone starts playing as them and a NAP to the ildiran empire.
in addition we have made strides towards greating orgainc computing systems for the common populus and organic interstellar shipping. unfortunately with ROGUE being gone for so long our peoples have grown less cautious and didnt go down this path in the 900 years since we last saw them. fortunately the telepathy was hardwired in prior to the formation of the UGA so comms are still FTL and unhackable. with the genetic end of things picking up smoothly with the rerdiscovery of the three lost EL colonies, we now have vacuum ready soldiers.
all crew members of any longterm (2yrs + )interstellar shipping and all members of the crew of any warship now have a clause in their contract stating that they must under-go this particular variant of genetic manipulation.
our monochromum ships being produced on vegas are being reinforced with several new metallic alloys that we have begun synthesizing out of pure monochromium with a hint of polychromium(element 119) and vibratum(element 117, heat resistant, has slight quasi-spatial disruption properties). when we realized the significance of vibratum's properties we began creating massive balls of it and lining the neutral-zone UGA border with them.
in addition running a current through anything made of the alloy mentioned above it enhances the disruption of the vibratum and also generates anti-massdriver magnetic fields and a rudimentary ECM (monochromium super-conducts remember?)
Netocentric, or netocracy.
So who are 'they' then?
A new map will be posted soon.
Sorry about not posting for so long.
I've been working on canonical and non-canonical forms of government for each faction, perceived by their respective style of government.
Tau'ri Nation
Totalitarianist crowned republic with high elements of technocracy.
Explanation: the government of the Tau'ri Nation is designed to represent it's people, though the people lack real political power, and is led by a crowned monarch with absolute power. The high positions within government are often taken by members of the quaternary sector, including scientists and political theorists, and moral opposition to science is oppressed. The freedom of scientific research makes the Tau'ri one of the most technologically advanced races in the galaxy.
Vetaron Confederacy
Presidential stratocratic confederacy with prevelant elements of cyberocracy and exilarchy.
Explanation: the Vetaron Confederacy is dominated by an oppressive military regime. It is also the galaxy's leading information society, with an extremely developed infrastructure and an influential state-controlled media. The human population is composed almost entirely of refugees of the massive war in the 300th century. It is led by a president who, while propagated from the military rule, often runs into power struggles with the same.
Dark Ninja Voidsector
Despotic theomonarchic exilarchy with state elements of kritocracy.
Explanation: the Dark Ninja Voidsector is characterised by a massively centralised power structure. After their exile from the Flaming Ninja Sanctuary, a theomonarch estabilished himself as the sole source of bureaucratic power, however the judicial sector is still outside his scrutiny, led instead by specific members of the social elite. The population is fanatically loyal to the monarch who fancies himself a god, which the King has exploited to create a strong military.
More will be coming soon.
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Seriously guys, this is bullshit. This thread has no point to it and is spam. I can't belive the Mods let you guys get away with this SPAM.
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