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[X] Her Imperial Majesty's Guard (United Solar Empire)
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[X] Her Imperial Majesty's Guard (United Solar Empire)
The appeal of playing a character that broke programming and took an amnesty deal is that they will have a fresh perspective on the world and they know it. They'll be actively trying to rebuild the way they view things, because the old ways are broken now. Also, a guard made up of (likely) mercenaries, former fanatics, and other leftovers from other companies sounds like the perfect playground for Byzantine machinations!
And I dig the name "Daystar Helios"
The appeal of playing a character that broke programming and took an amnesty deal is that they will have a fresh perspective on the world and they know it. They'll be actively trying to rebuild the way they view things, because the old ways are broken now. Also, a guard made up of (likely) mercenaries, former fanatics, and other leftovers from other companies sounds like the perfect playground for Byzantine machinations!
And I dig the name "Daystar Helios"
DarkLight140
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[X] Her Imperial Majesty's Guard (United Solar Empire)
The last quest was great, marred only by the presence of mecha. Hopefully if we're far from our support base and thus largely cut off from all resupply, our mecha will be blown up and we'll be unable to replace it, allowing us to escape the piloting plotline that we're no good at anyway and instead do something more engaging with our valuable update time.
The last quest was great, marred only by the presence of mecha. Hopefully if we're far from our support base and thus largely cut off from all resupply, our mecha will be blown up and we'll be unable to replace it, allowing us to escape the piloting plotline that we're no good at anyway and instead do something more engaging with our valuable update time.
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Uh...
"Pilot" is literally in the title of this quest. Don't think we're getting away from the mechs anytime soon.
Kemayo
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I'm pretty ambivalent about the choice. Definitely viewing it through the lens of how it'll impact our buddies from the last quest... so from a reformer's view of the USE, which of these factions lets us best influence the next Empress? AIJ might let us model the benefits of democracy and not-being-asshole-aristocrats, while USE means we're directly there and this time could maybe take some of the "hang out near Daystar" options.
Though assuming that Daystar's expeditionary force is still present in the narrative if we go AIJ, it's not like that'll inherently cut us off from getting involved there. 🤔
Though assuming that Daystar's expeditionary force is still present in the narrative if we go AIJ, it's not like that'll inherently cut us off from getting involved there. 🤔
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I'm just speculating here, but I'd be very surprised if Daystar was actually physically present around Jupiter, at least to start the quest off. The initial Imperial Guard presence is described as "small, agile, covert strike forces" and it probably doesn't make sense to send the presumed Successor to the Throne off on high risk special ops missions?
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While the imperial guard is notionally in the service of the royalty, and Daystar is the head of it, we're likely very very far down from that. I wonder if everyone recruited got a personal visit? I think not. The mixed feelings the royal guard has towards royalty I think would be very interesting to see, some who see her simply as having the actual mandate of heaven, to those that think she's grooming them for suicide missions, to those that just see her as the boss.
Put them all together on a strike team very far from command and see what happens!
And yes, Mosi would be the one you don't badmouth the princess in front of for various reasons, one of which she's an actual ace pilot who you're hoping will save your disposable ass
Put them all together on a strike team very far from command and see what happens!
And yes, Mosi would be the one you don't badmouth the princess in front of for various reasons, one of which she's an actual ace pilot who you're hoping will save your disposable ass
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Part of it for me is the perspectives. Even if we go for a Saturnian character, we'll have still already spent a large part of our life under direct Imperial rule. There's going to be internalized opinions and ideas, which is going to color how the character sees things. It would be a perspective similar to our previous quest, someone working within the institution and choosing to be a part of it, pros and cons and all.
If we're the AIJ, then we get to have an 'out looking in' view on the USE, which we didn't get in the last quest. We are someone whose entire life has been first in the Jupiter as a battleground between the Space Fascists and Space Imperialists, and then joined a multifaceted guerrilla war against oppressors who would really be much happier if the little Jovian peasants stopped having opinion and laid down like good little rightless peons. We wouldn't be fighting just another field in a long, grueling civil-war that is, end of the day, a fight between the Imperial Family that has spilled over to consume the rest of the solar system. We'd be fighting for our home's freedom and right to self rule, for us to stand grown up and independent, from from distant colonizers who see us as little more than resources to use and then forget about.
10ebbor10
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Everyone knows the pilot is just for the first episode.
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Wasn't around for the previous quest... I missed its start, and then it moved a bit too fast for me to catch up, but what I've seen of it was fascinating, and I wanted in on the action.
When I finally thought I might have set aside some time to read enough of the current arc to participate, I opened the latest update and found out it was the epilogue. >_>
But there was a promise of a sequel, so I started camping the quest forum hard. Finally I can get on this train!
[x] Her Imperial Majesty's Guard (United Solar Empire)
From a perspective of someone who didn't read the original work, Imperials interest me more... but I suppose I can understand not wanting to retread the same paths.
Although... could someone fill me in on the participants of the civil war, and the differences between United and Holy Solar Empires? Just the basics.
When I finally thought I might have set aside some time to read enough of the current arc to participate, I opened the latest update and found out it was the epilogue. >_>
But there was a promise of a sequel, so I started camping the quest forum hard. Finally I can get on this train!
[x] Her Imperial Majesty's Guard (United Solar Empire)
From a perspective of someone who didn't read the original work, Imperials interest me more... but I suppose I can understand not wanting to retread the same paths.
Although... could someone fill me in on the participants of the civil war, and the differences between United and Holy Solar Empires? Just the basics.
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The united holy empire is best thought of 'the empire in exile', it is a continuation of the previous government of earth and all the inner colonies. The Holy Solar Empire is basically a fascist dictatorship that really leans into the religious ideation of the 'divine' royal family, at least the parts that seized power over earth and implemented purges.
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You need to get rid of the space in between your brackets, otherwise the tallybot wont count it.
10ebbor10
DON'T PANIC
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This should be United Solar Empire
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This is something that's going to be spelled out as I go along, as a primer and as a courteosy to returning readers because it's been like two years since I started Titanium. Quick rundown here and now, though, is that the United Solar Empire (USE) controlled the solar system at its height, more or less. Over a decade ago, a succession crisis led to a very bloody civil war, the victor being a particular imperial prince who reorganised the polity into the Holy Solar Empire (HSE) based around, essentially, a sun-worshiping cult venerating his family as divinely appointed.
The USE as it exists now is kind of synonymous with the government of Saturn, the only planet they've held onto. The HSE controls the Inner Solar System, the Asteroid Belt, and Jupiter. Jupiter's problems with civil unrest and it's independence movement technically began under the USE pre-civil war, but they really ramped up once the HSE took a turn for the brutally oppressive. The solar system beyond Saturn is not substantially settled enough to be major concerns in their own right.
Both polities are authoritarian aristocracies ruled by an imperial bloodline and hereditary nobles, but one of them is significantly nicer to live in than the other. Setting is kind of an anachronism soup, deliberately -- that was the first vote back in the previous quest.
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