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Earth’s Folly: The Socialist Republic of the Moon

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  • Realistic (with the obvious necessary exceptions)

    Votes: 28 19.9%

  • Hard Sci Fi (stuff that can exist, but far ahead of its time)

    Votes: 76 53.9%

  • Soft Sci Fi (lunar exotic materials do weird stuff)

    Votes: 59 41.8%
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In 1964, the American spacecraft Ranger 7 took the first close up picture of the moon and proved for the first time what many suspected: there was native life there. Within a decade, people from all across the world–mostly political dissidents and others whose governments would be glad to see gone–would go on a one way trip to the moon using amazing new technology invested in by the billions by the prospect of extraterrestrial life. These people set up the first colonies, making use of the scant resources and working through the thin air to survive and perhaps thrive.

You are one such colony. Made up of mostly left wing agitators, you have set up a parliamentary republic, where you can lead your dream of a society free of capitalist interference.
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    Edit AN: While you don't have to be socialist to participate in this quest, I think it's fair to mention that a central conceit of this quest is that socialism can work. A major part of this quest is solving the problems that arise, not transitioning away from socialism.


    In 1964, the American spacecraft Ranger 7 took the first close up picture of the moon and proved for the first time what many suspected: there was native life there. Within a decade, people from all across the world–mostly political dissidents and others whose governments would be glad to see gone–would go on a one way trip to the moon using amazing new technology invested in by the billions by the prospect of extraterrestrial life. These people set up the first colonies, making use of the scant resources and working through the thin air to survive and perhaps thrive.

    You are one such colony. Made up of mostly left wing agitators, you have set up a parliamentary republic, where you can lead your dream of a society free of capitalist interference. Of course, you're not the only society on the moon, and others have powerful backers in the US and Soviet Union. Neither of which are happy with your non-authoritarian socialist society. Still, there are those among you who wish for backing from one for the promise of being against the other.

    What's the dominant group in your society? These groups will be roughly proportional to your votes.

    [] Stalinists
    [] Libertarian Marxists
    [] Socialists
    [] Anarchists
    [] Social Democrats
    [] Liberals
    [] Write-in

    What nation initially backed your colony?

    [] The United States
    [] The Soviet Union



    So this will be a parliamentary republic type quest, like in Springtime of Nations. Each turn you will vote for an ideology, your priorities for that turn, and who you would like to coalition with. Thus every vote counts for something, like in a riot quest.
     
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    • [X] Libertarian Marxists
    [X] Soviet Union

    Presumably they saw it as a convenient way to get us out of the way and annoy the forces of private capital.
     
    [X] Trotskyites
    [X] The Soviet Union

    Operation "Ice Pick" is happening. You throw a bunch of weird microsects together, sponsor a colony and get rid of political rivals on earth.
     
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    [X] Liberals
    [X] The United States

    I want to see these supposedly left wing liberals. Are they MarSocs ?
     
    hghwolf said:
    I want to see these supposedly left wing liberals. Are they MarSocs ?
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    Partly. There's capitalist ones but regardless of this vote they'll be a minority (which is to say if liberals get the most votes here liberal socialism will be the actual dominating ideology). They're basically all socially liberal/progressive.
     
    Okay, I am going for a MEME BUILD. Namely:

    [X] Stalinists
    [X] The United States

    Yes, the United States helped found a lunar colony of communists that even the Soviet Union think are problematic. Needless to say, there's probably a lot of screaming in both governments upper elements once just what had happened is discovered. Maybe the CIA screwed up again? Something something, getting closer to the Chinese to direct them against the Soviets?
     
    [X] Libertarian Marxists
    [X] The Soviet Union
     
    How open ended would you like this to be? I can do just write-ins like in SoN, give you a long list of options that each party chooses from, or something in between. Either way I'll specifically mention big issues your nation is having.
     
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    • Adhoc vote count started by Physici on Jan 21, 2022 at 2:16 PM, finished with 20 posts and 17 votes.
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    How open ended would you like this to be? I can do just write-ins like in SoN, give you a long list of options that each party chooses from, or something in between. Either way I'll specifically mention big issues your nation is having.
     
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    • I like write ins because it gives the QM a lot of creative input and it gives the players freedom to do politicking.
     
    KarmaA said:
    @Physici is this for customizing a faction or a faction runoff or in general?
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    Like in general. The political parties will be given to you (though fully customizable in the sense that you have a ton of immigration so it's realistic for drastic ideology changes). The two extremes I'm talking about are like I give you 30 platforms in a few categories and you choose 5, or I give you none and you have to make stuff up yourself.
     
    Physici said:
    Like in general. The political parties will be given to you (though fully customizable in the sense that you have a ton of immigration so it's realistic for drastic ideology changes). The two extremes I'm talking about are like I give you 30 platforms in a few categories and you choose 5, or I give you none and you have to make stuff up yourself.
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    Gotcha, for the record I'm cool with anything.
    But I do like you giving us some structure/options.

    So for Libertarian Marxists faction they're locked into 2-3 "platforms" and can select for more from a list you make and then people write in how they'd like to customize the faction. Limit the number we can take and add +/- modifiers to the build and it should give plenty of room for creativity while letting you setup some plot points or conflicts you might have been thinking about for the quest.

    edit: Though just writing it sounds like a PITA for you so won't be sore if you completely ignore it :D

    (Analogy is you're giving us what a basic rogue looks like then people offer variations on the rogue idea like dual wielding, archery or trap)
     
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