Towards the Future
- Thread starter Blackstar
- Start date
- Original Sci-Fi
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- Tags
- nuclear war (war)
AzureShogun
Tanks are better than Mechs
- Location
- United Kingdom
No options for Synthetic races?
That could even be an option for Unification: the robot uprising which forced all the biotic nations to unite or die.... Or which allowed the oppressed slave-caste of synthetics to rise up and earn a life of their own by force.
That could even be an option for Unification: the robot uprising which forced all the biotic nations to unite or die.... Or which allowed the oppressed slave-caste of synthetics to rise up and earn a life of their own by force.
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LuxemburgLover69
There are more things between Heaven and Earth...
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan Anarcho-Catgirls v2
I really need the Anarcho-Communism with Catgirl characteristics quest in my life right now.
I really need the Anarcho-Communism with Catgirl characteristics quest in my life right now.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X]Plan Name: War Carcinization!
- Location
- Italy
ok, this sounds very interesting... let's see what are the current plans, because I'm certainly NOT going to bother trying to make my own...
ok, no axolotl because... eh, I don't want space lizards, nor confederation
[X] Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
because catgirls
[X] Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
mostly because of life seeded world (negative
[X] Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
[X] Plan Anarcho-Catgirls v2
[X]Plan Flying High
[X]Plan: Seeded Death World Stratocratic Democracy
..eh, all things considered I'm fine with mostly anything, really.
ok, no axolotl because... eh, I don't want space lizards, nor confederation
[X] Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
because catgirls
[X] Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
mostly because of life seeded world (negative
[X] Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
[X] Plan Anarcho-Catgirls v2
[X]Plan Flying High
[X]Plan: Seeded Death World Stratocratic Democracy
..eh, all things considered I'm fine with mostly anything, really.
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
[X] Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
[X] Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
Because off all the presently-popular plans, I like the idea of the Negative life-seeded world.
Because if so, I really hope whatever are creators are is still around, in some form.
Because I really like the idea of a species travelling to the stars in bold exploration. that we might discover new worlds and one day we might meet our creator, and sue the pants off them.
High political engagement and the avoidance of militarism or the Final War are also plusses.
[X] Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
Because off all the presently-popular plans, I like the idea of the Negative life-seeded world.
Because if so, I really hope whatever are creators are is still around, in some form.
Because I really like the idea of a species travelling to the stars in bold exploration. that we might discover new worlds and one day we might meet our creator, and sue the pants off them.
High political engagement and the avoidance of militarism or the Final War are also plusses.
Expanding on the Civilizations:
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Expanding on the Civilizations:
To give previews to make sure everyone knows that they are getting into with each of the options/decided to have a re-vote with every one of the civ's expanded out a bit.
[]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
Cattus would be starting with a globally unified state that was brought about through the final conquest of all remaining powers outside of the socialist bloc. There is already a history of infrastructure in orbit along with international bodies built around a socialist bloc structure. In terms of governmental affairs, though, the military runs all officers of the government and party, with party positions being indistinguishable from military and internal security ones. Over time this has steadily lead to the promotion of more and more hardliners. While the old leadership was capable, the steadily rising role of the party in all governmental affairs with no international competition has led to a degradation in capability and management, with many strict cultural guidelines forced from above. To make matters worse, the climate and ecosystem are under collapse due to the pressures of both industrialization and the war fought to liberate the workers of the world. This has devastated all nations involved, breaking most industrial infrastructure, leaving a shattered generation on both sides, and ensured that every aspect of the economy was made to serve a high attrition frontal war. This has all been combined and made worse with a unitary state. The losers have now become entirely administered by party secretaries, ensuring that every aspect of their lives is run according to party doctrine.
[]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
Atlaca starts out with a globally unified state that has continued to align with each other through trade and a steady reduction in economic barriers through more efficient oceanic trade. While economic blocks have been the typical nature of the system, recent pushes towards unity have resulted in the connection of two of the largest of these economic arrangements, taking dominant control of the entire global economy. From here, various elites, enterprises, and businesses have managed to secure general control of the established international congress, ensuring that it can make proper policies. While congress still pretends to represent all of the citizens, in practice, the political parties are more of a shell game played by corporate executives than anything democratic. Seeing a total lack of change from anything that has happened, the majority of the population has mostly checked out of the system of government, preferring to just avoid participation. Despite this lack of interest, radicalism is rising on all sides to do something about the current government, even if the massive wealth of the planet has continued to improve living standards at a rapid pace.
[]Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
As Kortirion has been filled with democracies all across the board, which have steadily moved closer and closer in relations and understanding to each other, this has lead to steadily increasing ties. Over time, these ties have steadily blossomed into an actual international government through the conventional system of diplomatic channels. While people do not fully agree with the new government, it was formed as a necessity from utterly lacking resources on the planet. The resource crisis is the center of any option for this series of conditions, power is in a desperate crisis, ferrous metal production is in a crisis, non-ferrous production is under tight rationing, and if projects are not rushed, a collapse away from the industrial age is nearly inevitable. These shortages have also been steadily worsened by the flora and fauna on the planet, as nothing has been well-adapted, zoonotic prion diseases are a fact of life, and everything just seems vaguely wrong. Before the advent of chemical fertilizer production, agriculture was a constant nightmare, and even now, the shortages in phosphates promise a collapse of global food supplies in just decades.
[]Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
This version of Cattus has had a different path than their other contemporaries, instead of forming a world government through a series of small giveaways of power of national governments to a fairer center. This center has grown out of previous international bodies. Still, to make it acceptable to the citizens on the planet, it has done so in an unusual form of direct democracy, rendering all citizens capable of voting on general policy. Of course, due to the loose style of confederation and the prevalence of small island nations, there is a massive degree of sway in the direct democratic system of local and national interests, considerably altering the priorities at any given time on any contentious issues. The economy itself has been run as a series of local planning systems on the nation-state level, ensuring that each can carve out a niche in the overall planned system but also causing each of them to have a massive degree of local proprietary industry and non-standardization. Flora and fauna on the planet have not helped matters, as nothing has been well-adapted, zoonotic prion diseases are a fact of life, and everything just seems vaguely wrong. Before the advent of chemical fertilizer production, agriculture was a constant nightmare, and even now, the shortages in phosphates promise a collapse of global food supplies in just decades. In terms of problems, the civilization's major issues will be a mixture of centralization and reduction of parallel efforts as the economy in its current state has a massive number of enterprises running well below any economy of scale.
[]Plan: Kronos Choked
(You had the points/explained your thing as having a desire for democracy, so I changed the plan a bit)
The most notable thing about the Seelie and the most notable event that has occurred in their history has been the recent global thermonuclear war. Before the war, the state was a series of party oligarchs forming a number of corporate islands, each managing massive armies to ensure that the world has stayed stable. A few of these started a small conflict over influence in a major port city leading to each of them calling in their own massive patronage networks, drawing more and more mercenaries and nation-states into the conflict. During the war, several officers attempted to take charge and stop the slaughter, feeling an upsurge of popular support and hoping to reform whatever came after into something approaching a legitimately representative system to prevent such a war from happening again. Of course, these dreams of a better world burned under the weight of nuclear fire as the exhausted powers launched to ensure that no one could win their war. This conflict has also extended into the orbitals though they were spared the worst costs of the war and now form a critical industrial supply chain for any recovering remnants on the surface. The command chain has mostly survived the conflict along with some remnants of coordination bodies for one of the blocs, forming the best remnant of a government still in existence. While rebuilding should be possible due to the nearly perfect conditions on the planet and massive resource reserves in the ground, the war and exchange have both left their scars. Whatever previously existed to build up an economy has long since been converted into producing material for a total war, which then has gotten hit by nuclear weapons, leaving little but rubble and ash to rebuild from.
[]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
The Stilanites have lived in a state of conflict for almost the entire history of the species as even the very conception of a nation-state has become what supports the military. While communitarian and vegetation, the need to defend their early settlement has lead to an utter focus on the military as a primary force for diplomacy and economics. While this has been dropped down in the modern era due to the formation of similarly minded alliance blocs, such systems have not reduced the tempo of conflict. While these blocks postured for position and fought for a number of minor territorial areas, the common belief in an escalation ladder has minimized the impact of these conflicts on civilian populations in the deep rear. This has all changed through a single computational error indicating a nuclear launch, causing a retaliatory strike to be rapidly fired along with a counter-response, ending much of the above surface life on the planet in days. This has, of course, done nothing to stop the conflict, as those launching the first strike secured a massive advantage and have continued to push forward, creating a global militaristic state. You are taking charge of the remnants of the tertiary command loop and have become the highest-ranking officer in the world, with your only opposition, stuck in deep bunker networks. The orbitals are under your control as the highest-ranking officer remaining on the planet. There is also plenty of fuel on the world, and previously redundant bunker-industrial complexes stand ready to ensure that there is an industrial future for the species. Sure the people remember the fire that burned their homes and families but the army, navy, airforce, and spaceforce stand ready to initiate reconstruction efforts.
No Moratorium
To give previews to make sure everyone knows that they are getting into with each of the options/decided to have a re-vote with every one of the civ's expanded out a bit.
[]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
Cattus would be starting with a globally unified state that was brought about through the final conquest of all remaining powers outside of the socialist bloc. There is already a history of infrastructure in orbit along with international bodies built around a socialist bloc structure. In terms of governmental affairs, though, the military runs all officers of the government and party, with party positions being indistinguishable from military and internal security ones. Over time this has steadily lead to the promotion of more and more hardliners. While the old leadership was capable, the steadily rising role of the party in all governmental affairs with no international competition has led to a degradation in capability and management, with many strict cultural guidelines forced from above. To make matters worse, the climate and ecosystem are under collapse due to the pressures of both industrialization and the war fought to liberate the workers of the world. This has devastated all nations involved, breaking most industrial infrastructure, leaving a shattered generation on both sides, and ensured that every aspect of the economy was made to serve a high attrition frontal war. This has all been combined and made worse with a unitary state. The losers have now become entirely administered by party secretaries, ensuring that every aspect of their lives is run according to party doctrine.
[]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
Atlaca starts out with a globally unified state that has continued to align with each other through trade and a steady reduction in economic barriers through more efficient oceanic trade. While economic blocks have been the typical nature of the system, recent pushes towards unity have resulted in the connection of two of the largest of these economic arrangements, taking dominant control of the entire global economy. From here, various elites, enterprises, and businesses have managed to secure general control of the established international congress, ensuring that it can make proper policies. While congress still pretends to represent all of the citizens, in practice, the political parties are more of a shell game played by corporate executives than anything democratic. Seeing a total lack of change from anything that has happened, the majority of the population has mostly checked out of the system of government, preferring to just avoid participation. Despite this lack of interest, radicalism is rising on all sides to do something about the current government, even if the massive wealth of the planet has continued to improve living standards at a rapid pace.
[]Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
As Kortirion has been filled with democracies all across the board, which have steadily moved closer and closer in relations and understanding to each other, this has lead to steadily increasing ties. Over time, these ties have steadily blossomed into an actual international government through the conventional system of diplomatic channels. While people do not fully agree with the new government, it was formed as a necessity from utterly lacking resources on the planet. The resource crisis is the center of any option for this series of conditions, power is in a desperate crisis, ferrous metal production is in a crisis, non-ferrous production is under tight rationing, and if projects are not rushed, a collapse away from the industrial age is nearly inevitable. These shortages have also been steadily worsened by the flora and fauna on the planet, as nothing has been well-adapted, zoonotic prion diseases are a fact of life, and everything just seems vaguely wrong. Before the advent of chemical fertilizer production, agriculture was a constant nightmare, and even now, the shortages in phosphates promise a collapse of global food supplies in just decades.
[]Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
This version of Cattus has had a different path than their other contemporaries, instead of forming a world government through a series of small giveaways of power of national governments to a fairer center. This center has grown out of previous international bodies. Still, to make it acceptable to the citizens on the planet, it has done so in an unusual form of direct democracy, rendering all citizens capable of voting on general policy. Of course, due to the loose style of confederation and the prevalence of small island nations, there is a massive degree of sway in the direct democratic system of local and national interests, considerably altering the priorities at any given time on any contentious issues. The economy itself has been run as a series of local planning systems on the nation-state level, ensuring that each can carve out a niche in the overall planned system but also causing each of them to have a massive degree of local proprietary industry and non-standardization. Flora and fauna on the planet have not helped matters, as nothing has been well-adapted, zoonotic prion diseases are a fact of life, and everything just seems vaguely wrong. Before the advent of chemical fertilizer production, agriculture was a constant nightmare, and even now, the shortages in phosphates promise a collapse of global food supplies in just decades. In terms of problems, the civilization's major issues will be a mixture of centralization and reduction of parallel efforts as the economy in its current state has a massive number of enterprises running well below any economy of scale.
[]Plan: Kronos Choked
(You had the points/explained your thing as having a desire for democracy, so I changed the plan a bit)
The most notable thing about the Seelie and the most notable event that has occurred in their history has been the recent global thermonuclear war. Before the war, the state was a series of party oligarchs forming a number of corporate islands, each managing massive armies to ensure that the world has stayed stable. A few of these started a small conflict over influence in a major port city leading to each of them calling in their own massive patronage networks, drawing more and more mercenaries and nation-states into the conflict. During the war, several officers attempted to take charge and stop the slaughter, feeling an upsurge of popular support and hoping to reform whatever came after into something approaching a legitimately representative system to prevent such a war from happening again. Of course, these dreams of a better world burned under the weight of nuclear fire as the exhausted powers launched to ensure that no one could win their war. This conflict has also extended into the orbitals though they were spared the worst costs of the war and now form a critical industrial supply chain for any recovering remnants on the surface. The command chain has mostly survived the conflict along with some remnants of coordination bodies for one of the blocs, forming the best remnant of a government still in existence. While rebuilding should be possible due to the nearly perfect conditions on the planet and massive resource reserves in the ground, the war and exchange have both left their scars. Whatever previously existed to build up an economy has long since been converted into producing material for a total war, which then has gotten hit by nuclear weapons, leaving little but rubble and ash to rebuild from.
[]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
The Stilanites have lived in a state of conflict for almost the entire history of the species as even the very conception of a nation-state has become what supports the military. While communitarian and vegetation, the need to defend their early settlement has lead to an utter focus on the military as a primary force for diplomacy and economics. While this has been dropped down in the modern era due to the formation of similarly minded alliance blocs, such systems have not reduced the tempo of conflict. While these blocks postured for position and fought for a number of minor territorial areas, the common belief in an escalation ladder has minimized the impact of these conflicts on civilian populations in the deep rear. This has all changed through a single computational error indicating a nuclear launch, causing a retaliatory strike to be rapidly fired along with a counter-response, ending much of the above surface life on the planet in days. This has, of course, done nothing to stop the conflict, as those launching the first strike secured a massive advantage and have continued to push forward, creating a global militaristic state. You are taking charge of the remnants of the tertiary command loop and have become the highest-ranking officer in the world, with your only opposition, stuck in deep bunker networks. The orbitals are under your control as the highest-ranking officer remaining on the planet. There is also plenty of fuel on the world, and previously redundant bunker-industrial complexes stand ready to ensure that there is an industrial future for the species. Sure the people remember the fire that burned their homes and families but the army, navy, airforce, and spaceforce stand ready to initiate reconstruction efforts.
No Moratorium
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[X]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
[X]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[X]Plan: Kronos Choked
Choice 1 are the Axolotl's but I do not know how ranked voting works in SV
[X]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[X]Plan: Kronos Choked
Choice 1 are the Axolotl's but I do not know how ranked voting works in SV
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The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
[1]Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
[2]Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
[3]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
[4]Plan: Kronos Choked
[5]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
[6]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[2]Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
[3]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
[4]Plan: Kronos Choked
[5]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
[6]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
Astra Myst
Do you want a wish?
- Location
- Milky Way Galaxy
[X]Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
[X]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
[X]Plan Spess Hairy NotElves
[X]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
[X]Plan Spess Hairy NotElves
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[X]Plan: Kronos Choked
[X]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[X]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
Absolutely love the dark horse (or lizard!) candidate, and Axolotl Cyberpunk is still in my top three.
My first choice is still Kronos Choked, which I must clarify: Blackstar adjusted their system to Representative Democracy instead of One Party State to better represent the backstory. The officer clique and survivors on the planet both have goals of transitioning to a democratic system after a decade of total war and nuclear annihilation. Think Mustafa Kemal Ataturk after the 1921 Great Offensive transitioning to a democratic system, however flawed it turned out.
Original plan adjusted for clarity.
[X]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[X]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
Absolutely love the dark horse (or lizard!) candidate, and Axolotl Cyberpunk is still in my top three.
My first choice is still Kronos Choked, which I must clarify: Blackstar adjusted their system to Representative Democracy instead of One Party State to better represent the backstory. The officer clique and survivors on the planet both have goals of transitioning to a democratic system after a decade of total war and nuclear annihilation. Think Mustafa Kemal Ataturk after the 1921 Great Offensive transitioning to a democratic system, however flawed it turned out.
Original plan adjusted for clarity.
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Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
[X] Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[X] Plan: Kronos Choked
[X] Plan: Kronos Choked
[X]Plan: Kronos Choked
[X]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[X]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
[X]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[X]Plan: Axolotl Cyberpunk
[x]Plan Anarcho-Catgirls
[x]Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
[x]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[x]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
[x]Plan Spesss hairy Not!Elves
[x]Militarist Space Lizards (Terran)
[x]Plan Trotskyite Catgirls
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DkArthas
CAPITAL IS TO BLAME
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- They
Vote normally. Blackstar changed her mind.