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Turn Omega Gundam
- Thread starter ArvisPresley
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mothematics
How wide is the concept of "you"?
- Location
- the bottom of a coffee cup
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What kind of time commitment would be required to play?
1. The Arctic Pact
I have a deep fondness for aquatic mobile suits, and I really like the description of them, especially the aspects where they're coming up against the limits of their environment.
2. The Intermarium
The internal division of it seems like it'd be fun to play as!
3. Brittania
Mostly a third choice to register interest in advance in case the first two fall through. (I will try to indulge my taste for Arthuriana. I make no apologies for this.)
I have a deep fondness for aquatic mobile suits, and I really like the description of them, especially the aspects where they're coming up against the limits of their environment.
2. The Intermarium
The internal division of it seems like it'd be fun to play as!
3. Brittania
Mostly a third choice to register interest in advance in case the first two fall through. (I will try to indulge my taste for Arthuriana. I make no apologies for this.)
NonSequtur
a body
1. Arond-LIGHT
Yes, please, the AI babysitter to an entire population sounds amazing to write.
2. Imperyo Perlas Pasifiko
I've never played an aggro Great Power - but I'd like to try.
Yes, please, the AI babysitter to an entire population sounds amazing to write.
2. Imperyo Perlas Pasifiko
I've never played an aggro Great Power - but I'd like to try.
SirLagginton
Shadow Cabal Caerbannog Bun-Bun
- Location
- Arrrghhh
1. Eleutheria
2. Armstrong Autonomy
3. East Pacific Federation
2. Armstrong Autonomy
3. East Pacific Federation
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1. Arctic Pact.
2. Arond-LIGHT
3. Ounna Confederation
2. Arond-LIGHT
3. Ounna Confederation
Solarion
For Light and Life
1. Arond Light
2. Bengal
2. Bengal
Long has Bengal been plundered and abused by its neighbours, treated as a nothing more than a vassal.
No longer. Under the reign of Maharaja Chandrashekhar, the White Tiger, Bengal will claim its rightful destiny as one of the great powers of the world. No matter what it takes.
No longer. Under the reign of Maharaja Chandrashekhar, the White Tiger, Bengal will claim its rightful destiny as one of the great powers of the world. No matter what it takes.
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If you're a Great Power or a Spacian it is expected that you'll be active whenever I or the other players poke you, though it is okay if you don't respond immediately . The Secondaries (barring the Temple) and the Minor Powers need less of a time commitment though.
- Location
- Derna
1. United People's Republics of the Balkans (with a bit of customization)
"Hope is a traitor. Hope lies that you will return, that you are not robbing your family, your home, your nation by marching away. It is only when you have buried the traitor that you can embrace what must be done. Freedom, courage, every thing that is good and right - these are the fruits of hopelessness."
(Seditious handbill circulating amongst Grenz troops immediately before the Bucharest Mutiny.)
"Carpathia: the devourer of lives. The Intermarium: the death of honor. The Ounna: the denial of liberty. We stand alone."
(Words of an intemperate demagogue.)
"Like lying with a hedgehog."
(A diplomat's description of assignment to the UPRB.)
"Hope is a traitor. Hope lies that you will return, that you are not robbing your family, your home, your nation by marching away. It is only when you have buried the traitor that you can embrace what must be done. Freedom, courage, every thing that is good and right - these are the fruits of hopelessness."
(Seditious handbill circulating amongst Grenz troops immediately before the Bucharest Mutiny.)
"Carpathia: the devourer of lives. The Intermarium: the death of honor. The Ounna: the denial of liberty. We stand alone."
(Words of an intemperate demagogue.)
"Like lying with a hedgehog."
(A diplomat's description of assignment to the UPRB.)
Here continents converge. Empires rise and empires fall, but the military frontier seems as certain as sunrise. The material of Balkan history is the buffer state and the counter-counter-expedition and the armed band gathered around their cookfires. Thus will it be in the end of the world.
Or so it seemed. When Carpathia established hegemony over the many princes, tribes and sisterhoods, something like peace came to the peninsula. The powers of Africa and the Near East were too preoccupied with their own conquests and internal struggles, and the Magyars faced threats of their own to the west, north and east. A novel arrangement would emerge, with the Balkans becoming a net exporter of troops. Their nations, though underdeveloped, would become a key cog of the great Carpathian Empire. Their Grenz troops would serve admirably in its conquests and in the dirty work of suppressing the conquered. But it was the Black Forest that would break them.
As Magyarization tore the Empire apart and its other constituents fell into anarchy, more and more Grenzers were sent to hold back a surge of demons from the Dead Zone. Reports filtered back with the survivors: unyielding machines, nonexistent supply and support, hateful and malicious officers killing for sport. It was at the peak of the ensuing panic that the next wave received their marching orders. Mutineers would seize Bucharest and the region would be plunged back into war.
The struggle would be long but victory would be theirs. The Balkan territories were largely liberated and integrated into the patchwork of republics. But it rang hollow. The other revolutionary fires that had burned in Carpathia's ruins had been snuffed out. The Union stood alone, surrounded by hostile powers. And the UPRB seemed poorly equipped to change that fact. Her citizens harbored a great deal of resentments. The Carpathians were the great enemy, obviously. The Intermarium, traitors. Ounna might seem like an obvious ally against the other two, but they too had strangled revolutions in their cradle. Even the West Europians were not entirely free of suspicion - there were doctrinal mutterings.
But it did not matter. The Union would struggle on. They would fight, even if they were the only free peoples in the world. They knew no other way to live.
Or so it seemed. When Carpathia established hegemony over the many princes, tribes and sisterhoods, something like peace came to the peninsula. The powers of Africa and the Near East were too preoccupied with their own conquests and internal struggles, and the Magyars faced threats of their own to the west, north and east. A novel arrangement would emerge, with the Balkans becoming a net exporter of troops. Their nations, though underdeveloped, would become a key cog of the great Carpathian Empire. Their Grenz troops would serve admirably in its conquests and in the dirty work of suppressing the conquered. But it was the Black Forest that would break them.
As Magyarization tore the Empire apart and its other constituents fell into anarchy, more and more Grenzers were sent to hold back a surge of demons from the Dead Zone. Reports filtered back with the survivors: unyielding machines, nonexistent supply and support, hateful and malicious officers killing for sport. It was at the peak of the ensuing panic that the next wave received their marching orders. Mutineers would seize Bucharest and the region would be plunged back into war.
The struggle would be long but victory would be theirs. The Balkan territories were largely liberated and integrated into the patchwork of republics. But it rang hollow. The other revolutionary fires that had burned in Carpathia's ruins had been snuffed out. The Union stood alone, surrounded by hostile powers. And the UPRB seemed poorly equipped to change that fact. Her citizens harbored a great deal of resentments. The Carpathians were the great enemy, obviously. The Intermarium, traitors. Ounna might seem like an obvious ally against the other two, but they too had strangled revolutions in their cradle. Even the West Europians were not entirely free of suspicion - there were doctrinal mutterings.
But it did not matter. The Union would struggle on. They would fight, even if they were the only free peoples in the world. They knew no other way to live.
I don't have super firm thoughts, but I figure things like-
Advantage: Army strength/revolutionary fervor
Disadvantage: Political/bureaucratic hell (government cobbled together out of a massive gaggle of Soviets and communes and republics), devastation, diplomatic isolation?
would make sense
Advantage: Army strength/revolutionary fervor
Disadvantage: Political/bureaucratic hell (government cobbled together out of a massive gaggle of Soviets and communes and republics), devastation, diplomatic isolation?
would make sense
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Really happy at the interest from everyone. We're gonna decide and announce the Players for the Great Powers and Spacians in 12 Hours. This is so people who didn't get their chosen among them can swap to either a Secondary or a Minor Power. After that Apps will remain open for another 2 Days. We're looking to accept 5 Minor/Custom Powers for a total player count of 22.
Remember to join the Discord if you're interested either as a player or just as an observer!
Remember to join the Discord if you're interested either as a player or just as an observer!
- Location
- Minnesota
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1. Brazilian Empire - The Tyrant Throne
The Empire of Brazil seemed content to sit out the wave of turmoil of the last seventy years, crown and populace both more concerned with maintaining the tenuous buffer zone of clear cut scorched earth between the shattered arcologies of the highlands and the Amazon basin. That was until the cordon failed in spectacular fashion twenty five years ago, a group of autoweapons led by a massive mechanical Tyrannosaur cutting a swath of destruction through the entirety of Rio de Janeiro.
The tyrant was finally stopped by a single mobile suit piloted by a member of the emperor's guard, Cibele Hipólita, after the emperor left the city to its fate and fled. Disgusted by the emperor's personal cowardice and riding a wave of popular support, Cibele slew the man in single combat before the palace gates. She claimed the throne for herself, carving a new one from the corpse of the colossus she slew. Laying the blame for the destruction at the feet of the empire's calcified and inept leadership, and the lack of fighting spirit in command positions, Cibele demanded that to keep their positions the aristocracy must prove their worth against the beasts of the Amazon as she did.
2. Holy Andean Empire - Fervent Imitation
Bonifacia Santana was born far too late to do more than hear stories about the glories of the Solar Empress. Now, newly crowned, she will take up that mantle and ensure that Amaterasu-Ishtar's light shines across all of the earth like dear Sakura never got to! She totally will, ignore her cousin rolling their eyes in the background.
3. Carpathian Empire - The Shrike
The empire's reduction and humiliation has crystallized the barbarity of the queen to an unsettling degree. Tales of her bathing in virgins blood are probably made up. Having dissidents impaled on stakes... less so.
The Empire of Brazil seemed content to sit out the wave of turmoil of the last seventy years, crown and populace both more concerned with maintaining the tenuous buffer zone of clear cut scorched earth between the shattered arcologies of the highlands and the Amazon basin. That was until the cordon failed in spectacular fashion twenty five years ago, a group of autoweapons led by a massive mechanical Tyrannosaur cutting a swath of destruction through the entirety of Rio de Janeiro.
The tyrant was finally stopped by a single mobile suit piloted by a member of the emperor's guard, Cibele Hipólita, after the emperor left the city to its fate and fled. Disgusted by the emperor's personal cowardice and riding a wave of popular support, Cibele slew the man in single combat before the palace gates. She claimed the throne for herself, carving a new one from the corpse of the colossus she slew. Laying the blame for the destruction at the feet of the empire's calcified and inept leadership, and the lack of fighting spirit in command positions, Cibele demanded that to keep their positions the aristocracy must prove their worth against the beasts of the Amazon as she did.
2. Holy Andean Empire - Fervent Imitation
Bonifacia Santana was born far too late to do more than hear stories about the glories of the Solar Empress. Now, newly crowned, she will take up that mantle and ensure that Amaterasu-Ishtar's light shines across all of the earth like dear Sakura never got to! She totally will, ignore her cousin rolling their eyes in the background.
3. Carpathian Empire - The Shrike
The empire's reduction and humiliation has crystallized the barbarity of the queen to an unsettling degree. Tales of her bathing in virgins blood are probably made up. Having dissidents impaled on stakes... less so.
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Great Powers & Spacian Picks
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Announcing Players for the Great Powers and the Spacians
Imperyo Perlas Pasifiko - @Larasati
Terra Babylonian Empire - @Deadly Snark
Zhong Dynasty - @Haruhi is Waifu
Sacral Kingdom of the Maghreb - @Princess_Hex
East Pacific Federation - @Red Robyn
Ounna Confederation - @Laplace
Central African Union - @Simpli
United Peoples Republics of Europia Occidentale - @Lazer Raptor
Lunarian Crown - @Aedan777
Astraean Host - @BiopunkOtrera
Eleutheria - @Etranger
Armstrong Autonomy - @VoidZero
Arond-LIGHT - @NonSequtur
Congratulations to everyone that was chosen and thanks to everyone that applied for the Majors and the Spacians. All of the Secondary Powers are still open, with some not happing 1st Pick Apps. Aside from them we will also be choosing 5 Minor Earthian Powers whether they join as is or are made into Custom Minors.
Imperyo Perlas Pasifiko - @Larasati
Terra Babylonian Empire - @Deadly Snark
Zhong Dynasty - @Haruhi is Waifu
Sacral Kingdom of the Maghreb - @Princess_Hex
East Pacific Federation - @Red Robyn
Ounna Confederation - @Laplace
Central African Union - @Simpli
United Peoples Republics of Europia Occidentale - @Lazer Raptor
Lunarian Crown - @Aedan777
Astraean Host - @BiopunkOtrera
Eleutheria - @Etranger
Armstrong Autonomy - @VoidZero
Arond-LIGHT - @NonSequtur
Congratulations to everyone that was chosen and thanks to everyone that applied for the Majors and the Spacians. All of the Secondary Powers are still open, with some not happing 1st Pick Apps. Aside from them we will also be choosing 5 Minor Earthian Powers whether they join as is or are made into Custom Minors.
- Location
- Canada
New claims:
1. The Intermarium
2. Scotland
"The Highlands, free of the grasp of tyrants and would be conquerors, it has stood the test of time and should the people of Scotland will it so, bring a freedom to their neighbors and bring the people to a better age."
3. Palhae Revolutionary Command
1. The Intermarium
2. Scotland
"The Highlands, free of the grasp of tyrants and would be conquerors, it has stood the test of time and should the people of Scotland will it so, bring a freedom to their neighbors and bring the people to a better age."
3. Palhae Revolutionary Command
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New claims :
1. Britannia
" And lo the Lady appeared before Artoria , and She beheld her soul and found her strong and just , worthy of a sword with which to drive away bandits and monsters , worthy of Her grace and of a Crown , and a Crown she did earn through piloting Excalibur through lands foreign and familiar , fantastical and mundane , slaying the most terrific dragons and common murderers alike "
2. Europian Raj
" Once , we were indolent , lax and slow in sending orders , hesitant and incoherent in our decisions.
Hispania was our name once , before Sakura stepped over our spirits and submitted our souls to Her.
Now , we have a purity of purpose , and live in a blessed pacifico-filipino civilisation "
3. Patagonia anarchist federation
1. Britannia
" And lo the Lady appeared before Artoria , and She beheld her soul and found her strong and just , worthy of a sword with which to drive away bandits and monsters , worthy of Her grace and of a Crown , and a Crown she did earn through piloting Excalibur through lands foreign and familiar , fantastical and mundane , slaying the most terrific dragons and common murderers alike "
2. Europian Raj
" Once , we were indolent , lax and slow in sending orders , hesitant and incoherent in our decisions.
Hispania was our name once , before Sakura stepped over our spirits and submitted our souls to Her.
Now , we have a purity of purpose , and live in a blessed pacifico-filipino civilisation "
3. Patagonia anarchist federation
KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
1.) Eleutheria
2.) The Intermarium
3.) Scotland
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Probably worth noting that Eleutheria was selected in the first round which was Great Powers and Spacian Powers. Everything listed under secondary powers (such as Intermarium) and minor/write-in (like Scotland) is still available though.
KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
Just saw that, yeah. Here's my revised list.
Picks in order of preference:
1.) The Intermarium
2.) Scotland
3.) Kingdom of the Coast
Outside the Earth Sphere
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Outside the Earth Sphere
Nations can launch expeditions to the outer systems for either loot, technology or resources, though the farther the destination is from the Earth Sphere the longer it'll take.Mercury - The Angels fell from the sky, and did not rise again.
Venus - The silent tomb of those who fought in the last battle, clouds subsuming their broken hulks. Dare not disturb their rest.
Mars - Shielded from interruption by a veil of debris, the war never ended, and will never end. Half grown grass is ground beneath the tread of steel legions, faithfully marching to die against their identical, bitter enemies.
Asteroid Belt - Whispers, phantom signals, and trace heat signatures. If anything lives here, it is determined to hide.
Jupiter - Hateful eyes set within a stone face. Machine men with machine hearts, the weakness of their kin will be their gain. Jupiter wakes to the crash of hammers and the beat of drums.
Saturn - Warships in ancient docks, liveries of Federations, Zodo, Jupiter, and Angel; all bearing the black flag crossed by two blades. The plunder of the Old and New World's fills ancient and storied halls.
Neptune - In the dark heart of Neptune, a swan slumbered.
Uranus - Old faded flags hang in dilapidated stations, anthems to bygone cultures and nations blare as laborers and soldiers work and train. The Národní Reduta prepares for homecoming.
Pluto - A shattered world, joined with its murderers in death. Their ships still formed in splendid array, fail-safes outlasting their masters. A prize waiting to be claimed, or a trap for the unwary.
Kuiper Belt - At the ends of the worlds, none were left alive.
mothematics
How wide is the concept of "you"?
- Location
- the bottom of a coffee cup
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The Concordance of Martyrs
Weep not for yourself, but for the House of Martyrs! I ask you: what suffering might your toils bring that they have not born a thousand times over? What is your hunger to those who left forsook peaceful Jannah? What is a twelve-hour shift to the mortifications of the Nephilim, who lowered themselves to harrowed flesh? What is damnation and an early death – what is your cancer, what is your industrial accident – to those who were born deathless?
I say to you: nothing at all. Weep for our blessed Martyrs.
The Concordance of Martyrs is the polity that governs the island of Cyprus. Most of the island is a megalopolis, glittering towers with intricate vast edifices depicting scenes of religious important in neo-classical Islamic styles. Edifices depict religious imagery in eggshell white, powder blue and surreal violet, washing streets far below in neon. Their glow is oppressive even outside of richer urban areas, staining the night in Cyprus' sprawling urban slums.
Its rulers are the royal House of Martyrs, a dynasty of Nephilim that claims to have sacrificed much of their angelic nature and technology in their descent to Cyprus to serve as enlightened shepherds to its people. They espouse adherence to Concordism and claim to be beyond the corruptions of the material, lesser world, with Martyrs being expected to model enlightened behavior and serve to selflessly facilitate harmony between all classes. In practice, consequences for misbehavior are notional at best in most cases, and their control of the government manifests as being somewhere between political party and a class of rentiers and capitalists. Their good works and charity, paraded ostentatiously and broadcast on state media or memorialized in architecture, are more often than not for show than the benefit of the majority of the Concordance's citizens, who struggle to earn living wages where most have to pick from shipping, mining, underpaid maintenance on electronics and Nephilim-tech engines, and extensive criminal enterprises.
The single and greatest exception to this is the Concordance's Janissary Corps. Beloved by the people, this elite and small group of Mobile Suit pilots is primarily from the common folk, each one compensated so lavishly that to be selected guarantees class mobility for a pilot's entire neighborhood. They report to Nephilim handlers and live in luxury, elevated by their proximity to the Martyrs as quasi-divine slave-soldiers. There's just one catch: the M-Particle engines built with leftover Nephilim technology, while easier to produce, are built by sacrificing protections for the pilots. To join the Janissary Corps is to die an early and painful death, and the island's greatest heroes - the pilots of storied Mobile Suits like Ifrit, Achilles, Hamsa - are all lesser martyrs. With their vast celebrity and the patronage of their handlers, a given Janissary Corps team can find themselves with moderate amounts of political power. Thus far, none have yet to challenge the system despite widespread resentment among the Janissaries. But in these changing times, young idealists have begun to dream and stoke the flames of their anger - and those consigned to death might yet decide to die a little sooner.
Weep not for yourself, but for the House of Martyrs! I ask you: what suffering might your toils bring that they have not born a thousand times over? What is your hunger to those who left forsook peaceful Jannah? What is a twelve-hour shift to the mortifications of the Nephilim, who lowered themselves to harrowed flesh? What is damnation and an early death – what is your cancer, what is your industrial accident – to those who were born deathless?
I say to you: nothing at all. Weep for our blessed Martyrs.
The Concordance of Martyrs is the polity that governs the island of Cyprus. Most of the island is a megalopolis, glittering towers with intricate vast edifices depicting scenes of religious important in neo-classical Islamic styles. Edifices depict religious imagery in eggshell white, powder blue and surreal violet, washing streets far below in neon. Their glow is oppressive even outside of richer urban areas, staining the night in Cyprus' sprawling urban slums.
Its rulers are the royal House of Martyrs, a dynasty of Nephilim that claims to have sacrificed much of their angelic nature and technology in their descent to Cyprus to serve as enlightened shepherds to its people. They espouse adherence to Concordism and claim to be beyond the corruptions of the material, lesser world, with Martyrs being expected to model enlightened behavior and serve to selflessly facilitate harmony between all classes. In practice, consequences for misbehavior are notional at best in most cases, and their control of the government manifests as being somewhere between political party and a class of rentiers and capitalists. Their good works and charity, paraded ostentatiously and broadcast on state media or memorialized in architecture, are more often than not for show than the benefit of the majority of the Concordance's citizens, who struggle to earn living wages where most have to pick from shipping, mining, underpaid maintenance on electronics and Nephilim-tech engines, and extensive criminal enterprises.
The single and greatest exception to this is the Concordance's Janissary Corps. Beloved by the people, this elite and small group of Mobile Suit pilots is primarily from the common folk, each one compensated so lavishly that to be selected guarantees class mobility for a pilot's entire neighborhood. They report to Nephilim handlers and live in luxury, elevated by their proximity to the Martyrs as quasi-divine slave-soldiers. There's just one catch: the M-Particle engines built with leftover Nephilim technology, while easier to produce, are built by sacrificing protections for the pilots. To join the Janissary Corps is to die an early and painful death, and the island's greatest heroes - the pilots of storied Mobile Suits like Ifrit, Achilles, Hamsa - are all lesser martyrs. With their vast celebrity and the patronage of their handlers, a given Janissary Corps team can find themselves with moderate amounts of political power. Thus far, none have yet to challenge the system despite widespread resentment among the Janissaries. But in these changing times, young idealists have begun to dream and stoke the flames of their anger - and those consigned to death might yet decide to die a little sooner.
Secondaries & Minor Power Picks
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Announcing Players for the Secondaries and the Minor Powers
Temple of Amaterasu-Ishtar - @Nerdorama
Palhae Revolutionary Command - @Crosswire
Arctic Pact - @Havocfett
Intermarium - @SteelWriter77
Bengal - @Solarion
Britannia - @Rincewind
United People's Republics of the Balkans - @natruska
Brazilian Empire - @BigBacon
Carpathian Empire - @Eater
Cyprus Concordance of Martyrs - @mothematics
Saharan Host - @triumph8w
Congratulations to everyone that was chosen and thanks to everyone that applied for the game! IC Thread will be posted in a few days alongside stats. Again big thanks for everyone who applied!
Temple of Amaterasu-Ishtar - @Nerdorama
Palhae Revolutionary Command - @Crosswire
Arctic Pact - @Havocfett
Intermarium - @SteelWriter77
Bengal - @Solarion
Britannia - @Rincewind
United People's Republics of the Balkans - @natruska
Brazilian Empire - @BigBacon
Carpathian Empire - @Eater
Cyprus Concordance of Martyrs - @mothematics
Saharan Host - @triumph8w
Congratulations to everyone that was chosen and thanks to everyone that applied for the game! IC Thread will be posted in a few days alongside stats. Again big thanks for everyone who applied!