Civilization Name: Sals / The Most Concrete Republic of Dopi (of Sals) [sic] (See below)
Civilization Age: Fairly New, 600 years ago, if you ask the first colonization of foreign planet.Government Type: Feudal Republics + Wandering Mercenary Orders + Couriers.
Government Information: Long time ago, there was a government. Sealed within the atmosphere of home planet, Amdam IV, people were oppressed to pay tax, served the Great Chieftain, sent to compulsory military service… When the first colonization succeeded in Amdam Prime, then Amdam III, then Eba III, then Eba VII, then Dopi IV, then Dopi Prime, then BLAHBLAHBLAH… Everyone just fled to the outer space! When the tax-collectors visited the orbit of far most Salish settlement, they were welcomed by giant fleets in a formation of giant middle-finger. Obviously, the government has been collapsed since then. Now Sals communities live on a feudal manner: “I serve you because I need your protection.” And the lynchpin among them is The Most Concrete Republic of Dopi of Sals. Where the right to vote is for everyone, but the number of valid ballots are multiplied by one’s wealth.
Government Status: BUSINESS AS USUAL.
Population: One hundred billion.
Home World/Capitol: De jure: Amdam System: Amdam IV: Amdaman Council (No de facto authority) / De facto: Dopi System: Dopi Prime: Dopian Council
Capital Status: LOL WHAT GOVERNMENT? / BUSINESS AS USUAL.
Notable locations and such: Eba Prime, the ONCE-ocean planet, where the nuclear wastes are dumped to reduce the radiating heats, Now it is a just one huge radioactive barren planet. Dopi IV, where Sals can swim in liquefied methane water park! YOU can also swim if you can, Sals are always nice to tourists.
Founding Species: Sals
Other Species: Sal-rice: Sliver-colored mineral flora that is edible to Sals, they can be planted on dry soil with Solar rays, also used on making metallic foils which are used as papers by Sals. (Written by swiping their fingers slowly, leaving the trail of charred Salish alphabet. Darn, they could not invent erasers so far.)
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Society and Cultural information:CAPITALISM HO! Welcome to Sal society where you have sacred right to promote your products and spend money on whichever thing you desire. Good thing is that Sals only need minerals to live, and utilizes all the organic exotic floras and faunas as products or tourist destinations. They do not work in collective unless the errand in question is too hard to be accomplished by oneself. They are extremely jubilant when it comes to profit, not that they are greedy but it looks like they feel the sense of achievement stronger than other species. They disdain the jobless but able person as their lack of enthusiasm disturbs them. Once they amass the enough wealth, they tend to enjoy their vacation, spending their time on cuddling soft creatures like YOU (YES, YOU!), establishing a romantic relationship, writing a poem under a pale moon of the closet solar system. Saddening fact is that, this peace can be only maintained on water-free worlds. And they will kill billions of locals remorselessly if such planet does not welcome them.
Society Status: Salish view on personal relationship: One’s employer (boss)/ One’s employee/ One’s temporal co-worker (friend)/ One’s best friend/ One’s lover (best friend forever)/ One’s lifetime customer/ One’s potential customer / The Rest.
No there is no social class, but some stupid individuals think money makes might. But such populations are frowned upon, just like humans do.
Languages: Salish, which is a Braille-like electronic stimulus generated on their fingertips. They can make books by using folded metallic foils which they write by swiping their fingers slowly as they discharge the signals. Their keyboards for computers are thick conductor tablet without any other decorations (sans the trademark of manufacture(s))
Economy: 5. (Automated merchant stock market, exchange of abundant luxurious goods across the galaxy, vacation-tourism oriented social structure and infrastructures, various cultural products like a souvenir mineral totem to 4D Anime film for movie theaters.) Their economy is quite average since they solely depend on commerce.
Industry:2. “Oh please. Can you just import them instead of making them? I’m busy working as a merchant.” –General Conception, well, it is 2 instead of 0 because they make the best microwaves and hairdryers in the universe (or at least, they claim so.)
Production/Construction:4. Actually, veteran craftsmen are treated as high persons in Salish relationship. However, what makes them horrible on this field is that they lack the conception of copyrights, standardization, after-sales service, and quality assurance!
Soopah Powah: Microwave/Hairdryer weaponry. Not only that they produce the best consumer grade products, but also Sals employ such devastating
WEAPONS on a warfare. The origin started from the very first contact with the substance called ‘water’. It was truly abominable element that was against the law of nature: they exist as a liquid in a temperature where other elements do not, while it is a common sense that the solid elements are always smaller than the liquefied forms and strangely the water does not, it can withstand enormous heat before their compositions are tore apart, even the finniest metals in the galaxy oxidize (rust) upon the contact with them, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY it can dissolve SALS. In a great panic, Sals devoted their technology on eliminating this horrible substance from the space for good. So, at first, they invented powerful air-torch called ‘hairdryer’ yet, started to use it as a close-quart weapon. But how about ranged combat? They could not risk going closer with water… So they invented Microwave and mounted it everywhere, portable firearms, infantry grenades to the planetary defense system and even terraforming tools! They are highly efficient and powerful since they are using it since the birth of their civilization, you must not laugh on that if you don’t want to be crispy.
Specialties/Advanced Sciences: They excel universally on pumping wealth from the aliens, for example they will redesign toilets if your species tend to spend more money on a tourist destination with good toilet infrastructures. They also have centuries of history of mathematically calculating the demand and supply on xeno-luxurious-goods, and earning money from exploiting/manipulating the market.
Strengths: Enthusiastic merchants, PROFIT? CRUSADE!, Competent entrepreneurs
Weaknesses: Oh wait they pay better ATTACK THE CRUSADERS!, Water! AWWWWWW!
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Map Claim Size: 3 (Sparsely located, and none of these sectors are fully discovered and/or exploited)
Grid Coordinates: Alpha Quadrant: PP, NR, RN
Map Claim Color: White or Sky-blue
Holdings/Territory:The Most Concrete Republic of Dopi holds the majority of the holdings, while independent/private factions own about 20% of the holdings. However, statistically 40% of the each holding is wasted since they are unprofitable to settle (See below).
Colonization/expansion:Section 1) Humid (= Water-present) Planets: Where there is a profit, there usually is water, awwwww despicable molecules. *Knock Knock* Hi, are you selling your goods or buying ours? Yes? Okay, pleasure doing a business with you. I need your goods not the whole planet, thanks. / Looks like they would be more profitable if we boil their planet dry, hmmmmm… Tectonic Engineering!!!
Section 2) Water-free Planets: OMG, FREE LAND!!!! HOUSE PRICING IS A GOOD INVESTMENT! IT ALWAYS RISES! AH, RESIDENTIAL! AH, COMMERCIAL! AH, INDUSTRIAL LOTS! Hmm… Looks like there are natives, we must make an offer that cannot be refused. Say hi to my fleets, do you feel lucky punk? Surrender your arms and live on somewhere else… err… somewhere more watery!, or face your extinction. / Oh, wait are you letting us to live together? Okay, we are moving on peacefully thank you. (Muhahaha… Your economy will belong to us!)
Section 3) Ocean Planets: It is an inhospitable toxic planet! Abomination among the planets! Please, remove it from my sight! AGGGGH! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!!!
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Foreign policy: USALLY: ,
Sometimes: , don’t worry. They treat you hard when they are on business, they don’t want to be lonely anyways. They might give you the product you couldn’t buy in private saying “Don’t say thank you, it is a promotional sample.”
Diplomacy: WELCOME STRANGER! BUY MINE! BUY MINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Oh, what are you holding? SELL IT TO ME! SELL TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Unfortunately, diplomats from other species tell, talking to Sals is a very similar experience with going on a Christmas shopping with the whining cousins.
Technological Age: Feudal understanding of politics, no nationalism, and no ideological bond: (“Aye, my liege. ‘Tis humble commoner art not interested on such things. They merely feed your levies.”), decent level of military/applied science technology: (“Okay, so this torpedoes can rupture the core of the planet, leaving no water on its surface? Cool!”)
FTL Capabilities: None, they are trying to develop one but still no dice. They travel in Sub-light-speed. Since they are more resistant (not immune) to radiations, they use nuclear fission engines. Sometimes nuclear fusions are also used, but do you know where Deuterium, the main fuel of nuclear fusion is from? WATER!!!!!!! Lack of FTL technology is one of the reasons that their territories are not spread over the whole galaxy despite of their dispositions.
Inter Planetary Travel: “Please buckle up tight during the entrance of planetary atmosphere or you might be baked lifeless. And please do not stretch your head or arm or both out of the window. Thank you for your cooperation.”, it is just same with the flight on a 21th century airplane.
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Military Information: Which military? The most concrete republic has their own military, many local communities have their own vigilantes. Many Sals are acting-mercenaries or armed-merchants (For self-protection and possible exploitation).
Doctrine: Midrange battle where the Main-gun-microwaves can bake the enemy ships dry and crispy, this doctrine is also applied to individual soldiers.
Army: Salish land armies consist of infantries and some crewed armored microwave-emitters. They even couldn’t develop any body-armors. Since they have weak industrial backings and wandering dispositions, even each soldiers of The most concrete republic do not have shared uniforms, thus they think modifying their own weapon is an obvious right if they want to survive, which usually end up exploding brutally. Don’t worry, Sals are solid and only damage they suffer on such situation is only deep frustration. They shrug off it easily.
Navy: Not very different from the Army, but most Sals prefer to finish their business on their ships because, USUALLY THERE IS WATER IN PLANETS! So, here is their tactics, at long range, they fire Microwave-emitters via their cannons, at midrange they will fire microwave main-gun or super-heater to neutralize you dry. They will not hesitate to send boarding parties because spatial prizes are very profitable business. (If you survived) they do take prisoners and thankfully there is no slavery to Sals, but that does not mean the next market he is heading do not includes slavers. They don’t attack them first if they were not hired to attack you, or maybe… do you ship water visible from the outside?
Strengths:Absurd level of physical constitution of individuals and navy ships, mineral consumption instead of organic floras, Can survive without breathing air (Nitrogen) for a day or two.
Weaknesses:(Literally) Rock-brain, inefficient long-ranged weaponry (Microwave-emitter-shooting cannons which cannot provide their firepower for a long time), severe hydrophobia (Defection and Desertion can be caused), dissolve upon a contact with Water, mineral rich (High profitable corpses), EMP weakness, unstoppable hatred against water.
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NS activity:Daily! But I’m afraid I live on Asia, which means the polar opposite time zone.
Technological Bases:Crusader Kings II / EVE Online (Political Mechanisms) / Endless Space (Trade/Applied Science Mechanisms)
Prior RP links: First time on FT…