Important to note that Belka was flinging around cross-regional lasers in the mid 1990s and fully automated aircraft make their first appearance in 1998. Estovakia launches a flying aircraft carrier around 2012 while it's in the middle of a civil war with a devastated national economy. The World Super Power Osea not only has an orbital railcannon but an orbital space craft capable of firing pinpoint accurate lasers from orbit.
What all this means is that whatever RnD happens it's gonna be part nonsense and part "Belkan Witchcraft" we will be cursing to the end of our days. It's gonna be glorious.
Fall is a miserable season in Antarctica. The eternal sunlight of the summer slowly seeps away as the long, hard, cold, and oh so very dark days of winter begin to descend. Ulysses will fall after the months long night has begun, but those who endure such have decided to try and defy it as well. Any settlement built into the frozen continent is uniquely vulnerable to the after-effects of the asteroid, projected to fragment with the bulk of its shards making landfall upon Usea, there are those who think that such a distant location would be relatively safe.
They would be wrong.
Those fragments which do not strike Usea will, by and large, impact the sea. The tsunamis generated by those strikes present an existential threat to the coastal and island cities, down here at the bottom of the world.
But, just who lives here, and where?
Aesthetics
Write-in as many details here as you'd like, but at a minimum we need a name for Froze Zealand that's not Froze Zealand. A flag would be neat too.
Territory
Claim as much territory as you want from Antarctica and the islands off of its continental shelf, save for those marked off by the black line which belong to Aurelia.
Territory at the green line is approximately at the latitude of Oslo, Norway, and is broadly comfortable for human life, albeit very cold most of the year. Territory below the red line is utterly inimical to human life without extreme intervention, one of the largest centers of human activity at a similar latitude are the New Siberian Islands in Russia, which are home to approximately 250 souls.
More land broadly means more resources, but also means more area that you're responsible to defend. The further south you go the more any claim will be considered nominal, and the more transient and dispersed the population. The broad peninsula south of Usea is the most habitable area by far, but also the one most at risk from Ulysses.
Origin
Decide from where your people first claimed this frigid land, be it a colonial mission which later declared independence from its mother country, or an aboriginal group that has survived into the modern day.
[] South Osea
-[] Country of origin
[] Osea
-[] Country of origin
[] Verusa
-[] Country of origin
[] Usea
-[] Country of origin
[] Anea
-[] Country of origin
[] Wellow
-[] Wellow
[] Aboriginal
Separately, decide when approximately the settlers arrived. If you pick aboriginal this can be at basically any time, otherwise use common sense. The history of Strangereal is... roughly analogous to our own.
Considering the free-form nature of this I'll open voting after some plans are proposed. I realize this is pretty open-ended, so if it gets too much I'll add more structure to the first two sections.
Feels like there's two places to put ourselves realistically: Island Chain + maybe the Peninsula in the center of the map, or starting in that section of Antarctica in the right portion that has a place above the green line (the place that's most habitable but also most at risk from Ulysses.)
I'd personally like to play as an Aboriginal origin, but I don't really have the time to write things out.
Feels like there's two places to put ourselves realistically: Island Chain + maybe the Peninsula in the center of the map, or starting in that section of Antarctica in the right portion that has a place above the green line (the place that's most habitable but also most at risk from Ulysses.)
I'd personally like to play as an Aboriginal origin, but I don't really have the time to write things out.
The islands are better defended from the tsunamis than they might look as well, because that center bit of the map is about as far as you can get from Usea while also being somewhere people can reasonably live.
So we will defiantly need to build something with Exo-atmospheric capabilities. A railgun that fires nuclear shells perhaps? That means resources. A LOT of resources.
Importantly, we are building a giant super weapon that will eventually be used in a war but more importantly needs to also protect our territory from a giant asteroid. Once we get to the war part it will be dismantled by a singularly godlike pilot or a handful of supernaturally gifted pilots and quite frankly there's no way around that. This is Ace Combat after all.
Importantly, we are building a giant super weapon that will eventually be used in a war but more importantly needs to also protect our territory from a giant asteroid. Once we get to the war part it will be dismantled by a singularly godlike pilot or a handful of supernaturally gifted pilots and quite frankly there's no way around that. This is Ace Combat after all.
Unfortunately it will then be flown off into a sunset by a pilot muttering about the beauty of a world without borders, before being shot down by a nameless ace six years later in a conflict called something like the Forgotten War while a downtempo version of a pop song heard in the first act is sung by every member of the squadron.
Unfortunately it will then be flown off into a sunset by a pilot muttering about the beauty of a world without borders, before being shot down by a nameless ace six years later in a conflict called something like the Forgotten War while a downtempo version of a pop song heard in the first act is sung by every member of the squadron.
