Earth’s Folly: The Socialist Republic of the Moon
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Tabascoheath
Unkempt, Evil-eyed Charlatan, and Pseudo-Mystic
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[X] China
Unfortunate, but necessary, I don't want to lose the damn thing, and I certainly don't want the LU to deal with blackouts, so this might be the bullet we have to bite
Unfortunate, but necessary, I don't want to lose the damn thing, and I certainly don't want the LU to deal with blackouts, so this might be the bullet we have to bite
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- somewhere on this dying planet
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- He/Him
[X] China
[X] China
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I see a bunch of China-stans here, I hope you all can live with Chinese boot on our throats
It's a bullet I'm willing to bite until we find local deposits of uranium. I don't want America or France to gain control over our reactor and electrical grid, and rolling blackouts is frankly unacceptable. It's not stanning China. It's literally the best option we have.
So get that attitude out of here. At least we still control the reactor.
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- Location
- Somewhere in the area
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- He/She/They
[X] China
Spylobster
Centrist-Malenyevist
[X] China
MordredRaal
Agitating
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X] China
Unfortunate but more acceptable than the other options
Unfortunate but more acceptable than the other options
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- Fort Worth, TX
[X] China
Kiridifferent
Take your time to remember me.
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- Empty Sekai
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- They/She
[X] China
Solarstream
It's all in the cards
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- Zombie World
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- He/Him
yeah, i'd rather not lose the reactor
[X] China
[X] China
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Epilogue
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In the end, the Lunar Union would inevitably reach out to the one remaining nominally communist power for its uranium needs. China would ship the fissile materials, and in exchange, the Union would connect their power grids.
Additionally, China was given equal stake in all decisions regarding the reactor, as well as the ability to keep their own people there for inspections.
With the deal completed the lunar colonies were able to avoid blackout and continue their good lifestyle, with electricity use ballooning across the nations. Home computers connected to the internet became common in every home and electrified trains became the most common form of transport.
It also signaled an end to political independence. The very nature of being such a small nation in the shadow of a giant, albeit far away, lead them to end up following China's lead on most matters.
The space race became known as a "new cold war" to those on Earth, with the west half of the moon under China's influence and the east half being American. Both giants would continue heavily funding their programs, sending tens of thousands to claim the celestial body. China viewed it as a potential solution to their overpopulation problem, though the expense of shuttles proved it to hardly make a dent in their total population.
Russia would eventually restart their space program. Attempts at reconciliation with the LSSR failed, so they made a new colony in the Great Island of the Seas.
Japan, too, made a small moon base of their own, and several other European countries joined the space race by joining the EU's Verne project. These would be, as a rule, small vanity projects with little hope of a profit within a few decades.
The New America colony would eventually be reformed by President Bill Clinton, with the colony officially subject to US federal labor laws. Still, it would remain dominated by corporations and have a frightfully low standard of living compared to Horizon.
Horizon became the golden child of space colonies, known as "sci-fi city" back on Earth. With the most advanced technology built into its foundations and billions of dollars of investing, it would become the favorite destination of billionaires's lunar homes.
The Kingdom of Luna stayed a backwards theocracy, simply the largest among dozens of poor independent settler states across the vast emptiness of the moon. They largely portrayed themselves as a constitutional monarchy like the United Kingdom to Earth, playing on reactionary romantic notions for tourists from the western nation's colonies.
In the coming decades, the Socialist Republic of the Moon would prosper. It maintained and grew its industry, staying the only nation on the moon to natively produce oil, rubber, and other advanced industrial materials for years.
President Josephine Steele would step down after serving for 16 years to work directly with the film industry and let others take leadership of the nation.
They would continue to advertise to disadvantaged minorities back on Earth and would serve as a beacon of hope of socialists around the globe, staying stable even as mainstream liberalism declared that it would either stagnate or liberalize as it grew.
AN: So that's it, for now. I'll post more epilogue pieces if inspiration strikes. Feel free to make requests or ask questions. Maybe I'll make a sequel quest (probably on the same thread) after I'm done with my next quest (which I just started), set years later when you actually have enough people to be a nation and actually do stuff.
Additionally, China was given equal stake in all decisions regarding the reactor, as well as the ability to keep their own people there for inspections.
With the deal completed the lunar colonies were able to avoid blackout and continue their good lifestyle, with electricity use ballooning across the nations. Home computers connected to the internet became common in every home and electrified trains became the most common form of transport.
It also signaled an end to political independence. The very nature of being such a small nation in the shadow of a giant, albeit far away, lead them to end up following China's lead on most matters.
The space race became known as a "new cold war" to those on Earth, with the west half of the moon under China's influence and the east half being American. Both giants would continue heavily funding their programs, sending tens of thousands to claim the celestial body. China viewed it as a potential solution to their overpopulation problem, though the expense of shuttles proved it to hardly make a dent in their total population.
Russia would eventually restart their space program. Attempts at reconciliation with the LSSR failed, so they made a new colony in the Great Island of the Seas.
Japan, too, made a small moon base of their own, and several other European countries joined the space race by joining the EU's Verne project. These would be, as a rule, small vanity projects with little hope of a profit within a few decades.
The New America colony would eventually be reformed by President Bill Clinton, with the colony officially subject to US federal labor laws. Still, it would remain dominated by corporations and have a frightfully low standard of living compared to Horizon.
Horizon became the golden child of space colonies, known as "sci-fi city" back on Earth. With the most advanced technology built into its foundations and billions of dollars of investing, it would become the favorite destination of billionaires's lunar homes.
The Kingdom of Luna stayed a backwards theocracy, simply the largest among dozens of poor independent settler states across the vast emptiness of the moon. They largely portrayed themselves as a constitutional monarchy like the United Kingdom to Earth, playing on reactionary romantic notions for tourists from the western nation's colonies.
In the coming decades, the Socialist Republic of the Moon would prosper. It maintained and grew its industry, staying the only nation on the moon to natively produce oil, rubber, and other advanced industrial materials for years.
President Josephine Steele would step down after serving for 16 years to work directly with the film industry and let others take leadership of the nation.
They would continue to advertise to disadvantaged minorities back on Earth and would serve as a beacon of hope of socialists around the globe, staying stable even as mainstream liberalism declared that it would either stagnate or liberalize as it grew.
AN: So that's it, for now. I'll post more epilogue pieces if inspiration strikes. Feel free to make requests or ask questions. Maybe I'll make a sequel quest (probably on the same thread) after I'm done with my next quest (which I just started), set years later when you actually have enough people to be a nation and actually do stuff.
I gotta say I'm pretty proud of how we managed the country and pulled it together at the end there. Communists finally gained power through election and the soft centralization program actually helped a lot in easing a lot of issues with the country. Feels like it gave us the last brick in our foundation to become stable and major power on the Moon. We formed a Lunar Union, which is great, and kept the lights on. While it's a bit of a shame we can't act as independently as before, losing the reactor wasn't an option. Maybe we should have prospected for uranium years ago but too late for that.
I look forward to an eventual continuation of the quest, and hope it does happen.
Also the Lunar Kingdom remains a shitty backwater nobody gives a shit about, get fucked.
I look forward to an eventual continuation of the quest, and hope it does happen.
Also the Lunar Kingdom remains a shitty backwater nobody gives a shit about, get fucked.