After a bit of thinking I had an idea.Instead of the usual cliches of a corrupt central government,horrific regimes excused and justified with halfhearted lies and authoritarianism looking efficient, I would have a story that was different.A world where democracy was strong while tyranny is the path to failure while those freedom loving rebels are shoen to be the libertarian hypocitical power fantasies they are.
Important facts
- Psionics,death lasers and various ancient techological bullshit exists and is somewhat uncommon.
- Starfall Coalition originally came into being whe the HSU fell into a dynastic civil war and a bunch of socdems,revolutionaries,a very confused knightly order and some other groups formed a alliance to fight off noble incursions and fight for freedom in the civil war.merchants and coservative independence fghters left and formed the E-REZ and CCI respectively causing a bunch of damage and causing the remaining members to form ranks and strengthen the old constituition.
- troop qualities and numbers are a bit tricky with the HSU having better tech in some ways and having more bodies to throw but the SC has developed better practical/theoretical tech and has way better automation allowing them to build huge drone-swarms,reduce crew sizes and build automted mechs.In additin their human operators are on average equipped better than HSU across the board when it comes to rank and file.
- There is a bunch of subfactions inside both the HSU and SC with said subdfactions having their own doctrines and special units while being inside each factions umbrella.
Setting
locations and war theatres
locations and war theatres
- Is within 500-100 planets divided into 5 regions.
- The Core contains earth and the first few worlds colonized by humanity.Inside the Core the war between the Starfall Coalition and the Holy Star Union is a brutal defense of Earth and the surrounding colonies against the HSU with the Coalition fighting against the imperator's wrath with tenacity and skill while the corpses keep pilng up.whoever wins here will aid in winning the war.If the imperator wins this will shatter the Coalition's main army but of the coalition can break the siege and kill the imperator then the HSU will fall into chaos and disorder.
- The Crown region contains some of the farthest pre FTL colonies and guards the paths to the Core.Currently the HSU is attempting to break the SC supply lines connecting the Core and Colonies region.
- Colonies are the first planets set up by FTL travel and are the heartlands of the HSU.Currently SC task forces based of some fortress world enclaves are rallying the rebellions within the colonies while the Crimson Spears led by the imperator's daughter is trying to rally the few forces that are left in the Colonies and crush the rebellion before it goes out of hand.If the HSU wins then more resources can be allocated to different areas of the war but if they lose then at the very least their forces will have to be recalled and most of their industry will be lost.
- The Expansion region is the sight of numerous proxy wars and political plays between the SC and HSU trying to involve the Comitee for Colonial Independence/CCI and the Expansion Region Economic Zone/E-REZ to join the war.Whoever wins this war of knives and words will bring new allies into the war.
- The Frontier is at the Very edge of known space and is filled to the brim with SC forces trying to break out.The HSU doesn't have the resources or manpower to defeat them,only contain them or slow them down long enough for the other fronts to be resolved.If the Federation can break through they can rampage through the Colonies and break the siege around Sol.
Factions
- The Starfall Coalition is a diverse federation of various states from the Monarcho-syndicalist underhold kingdom to the totally-not-a-market-socialist state of Libertalia devoted to fighting the HSU.It has both the Combined Feet and the Member Fleets of each polity.It's main problem is the fact that the Coalition is smaller both in size and economic productivity compared to the HSU and that it is currently split in half.It's states tend to be somewhere between social democrat or anarchist commune economically or politically speaking and they share a common currency(in some of the more communal areas the currency is just used to represent out of state rations),common cause in revolution and all are part of the dual house Coalition legislature split between Coalition Parliament and Coalition senate(senate represents popultion and Parliment is x number of seats per state) with everyone electing a Coalition President-genera to lead the federal and military aspects.The SC is in-universe transhumanist(I don't know all the variations of transhumanism so I'm most likely making a mistake) with the belief that humanity should be improved in mind and body through cybernetics and/or genetic enhancement but they have a dislike of psionics with some countries like Libertalia considering psionic capabilities to be a sign of minor monarchist sympathies.
- The Holy Star Union is a HRE-esque monarchial confederation of kingdoms and duchies loosely united by the power of the ruling imperator. They are all monarchies practicing feudalism with an emphasis on mech combat being a sign of honor.Their main weakness is the fact that they haven't fought a foe like the SC that could even compare to them militarily, economically or industrially.They also tend to have lots of inter house/kingdom/family rivalries.They are posthumanists beliving that humanity must be abandoned in order fr the select few to ascend from the weakness of the mortal form and "guide" the masses into prosperity.
- The Comitee for Colonial Independence or CCI is a loose alliance of breakaway states ans independence movements that came from both the SC and HSU.THey are conservative on the social,economic and political ends of the spectrum with the one uniting factor being a dislike of central government.The SC has a ongoing grudge with the CCI due t the whole sucession thing and the fact that they seem more focused on isolation then fighting the HSU.The E-REZ is a collection of merchant republics and corporate states focused on making a profit.They aren't sure which side they should join because both sides offer opportunity bur\t both sides hate them
To-Do/to worldbuild
- HSU subfactions.
- HSU civil war lore
- SC member states and special units
- battles and events