Corporate Cosmos [OOC | Open]

[The Empire of Tau]

The cosmos draw near! Apply now!
Glares at taggers who need to get their apps in

Given that we're both American corps - wanna work together?

[The GAmeTopians]

The cosmos draw near! Apply now!
Glares at taggers who need to get their apps in

Given that we're both American corps - wanna work together?

Operation American Exceptionalism is a go!

[George Hill]

Ahoy - this seems like an interesting time, and it looks as if I'm in before the wire, as it were. Since we're in need of some more Earthborn powers;

Power Application
Name:The Ecumen of the Open Heavens
Territorial Holdings:The Ecumen operates out of the mountainous valleys, vast deserts and trackless steppe of the Gobi, or it did, before those, too, were swallowed by the advance of overpopulation.
Leader Name:The Ecumen is, as of 2119, lead by Khuret Lyen Caor, General Architect of the Kurultai of Builders and Riders of the Ecumen.
Brief History: The Ecumen was late-born, as powers go. The lands of the Gobi were, for the most part, so empty as to be ignored, even as wars by corporations and states preyed upon every patch of Earth. The local people lived as they always had into the 20th century, before the advancing tide of progress came looking for metals, labour and space. In the centuries since, the area has received several waves of settlement, and these define much of its character. At the first, the war and disorder of the 1900s brought waves of revolutionary exiles, religious dissidents and othersuch troublemakers. The local nomadic peoples took many of these outsiders in, with now old stories telling of famous encounters between familial forebears and revolutionary icons. The identity of the steppe-land was soon shaped by what these dissidents brought with them - by the alternative future they offered to the encroachment of colonial capital.

What would become the Ecumen was born in the conflux of a beloved heritage of freedom and communal steppe life and of the ideals of revolutionary social-anarchism, by the platform that came to be called Ogedenism after an early proponent of the unity of the two. The Ogedenist dream was of a land of plenty, peace and liberty from all burdens - a chance to travel across the expanse of a beautiful universe, warmed by old tradition and new anarchism. The next wave of migration was the arrival of massive numbers of people fleeing the turmoil and misery of the 21st century. The dying dream of space hung over the former optimism of Old Ogedenism like an albatross about the neck. The Ecumen, in its earliest form as a solid state, rushed to build homes, factories, new cities in the increasingly cramped steppe of the Gobi. Global capitalism was too vast to escape, and industrial modernisation could not be avoided if the Ecumen was to survive, or so the officials of the time claimed, and so the Ecumen changed. A wilderness of people living in the Ogedenist way and great towns full of industrial workers in vast state-run factories and housing blocks. The nation was poor - it refused to sell itself, the Ogedenists said - but successive governments of modernising industrial-Ogedenists strove to keep it intact. In the worst decades, party government grew brutal, repressive and self-obsessed.

Most recently, in 2102, a massive exodus of climate refugees broke upon The Ecumen. Its cities were already awash with dissent against the increasingly entrenced party government, and the countryside that remained was full of Ogedenist-traditionalists enraged by the trials industrialisation had put their land through. The arrival of millions of new souls did little to assuage these tensions. No party government could survive - the cities swelled ever more, the countryside was little more than tracts of desert not worth building new tenements through. In 2120, a government is attempting to reassert itself, to refound the doctrines of Industrial-Ogedenist thought, and to steer a troubled and unstable state back towards the dream of its founding, of an escape from the miseries of exploitation and a remembrance of communal tradition. With the release of Jumpdrive technology, a wave of popular optimism has returned to the chaos of a country long thought unsalvageable. People believe, again, in the promises of Ogedenism, of a new chance. A chance to replace the Ecumen, staring down into factory furnaces, with a new Ecumen - the Ecumen of the Open Heavens. Many are bitter, many remember the failed revolutions of decades past, but many still dream.
Corporate Policies: Corporations are not permitted to host mercenaries of any kind within the bounds of the Ecumen. For every 7 capital spent within the Ecumen, a further one must be paid to the government. A tax of 5 Capital is charged on the sale of Commercial Goods. The Ecumen, a socialist-anarchist anti-colonial enterprise premised on rejection of capital's vices (At least in theory), is not well inclined towards the corporations of the world.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Ahoy - this seems like an interesting time, and it looks as if I'm in before the wire, as it were. Since we're in need of some more Earthborn powers;

Power Application
Name:The Ecumen of the Open Heavens
Territorial Holdings:The Ecumen operates out of the mountainous valleys, vast deserts and trackless steppe of the Gobi, or it did, before those, too, were swallowed by the advance of overpopulation.
Leader Name:The Ecumen is, as of 2119, lead by Khuret Lyen Caor, General Architect of the Kurultai of Builders and Riders of the Ecumen.
Brief History: The Ecumen was late-born, as powers go. The lands of the Gobi were, for the most part, so empty as to be ignored, even as wars by corporations and states preyed upon every patch of Earth. The local people lived as they always had into the 20th century, before the advancing tide of progress came looking for metals, labour and space. In the centuries since, the area has received several waves of settlement, and these define much of its character. At the first, the war and disorder of the 1900s brought waves of revolutionary exiles, religious dissidents and othersuch troublemakers. The local nomadic peoples took many of these outsiders in, with now old stories telling of famous encounters between familial forebears and revolutionary icons. The identity of the steppe-land was soon shaped by what these dissidents brought with them - by the alternative future they offered to the encroachment of colonial capital.

What would become the Ecumen was born in the conflux of a beloved heritage of freedom and communal steppe life and of the ideals of revolutionary social-anarchism, by the platform that came to be called Ogedenism after an early proponent of the unity of the two. The Ogedenist dream was of a land of plenty, peace and liberty from all burdens - a chance to travel across the expanse of a beautiful universe, warmed by old tradition and new anarchism. The next wave of migration was the arrival of massive numbers of people fleeing the turmoil and misery of the 21st century. The dying dream of space hung over the former optimism of Old Ogedenism like an albatross about the neck. The Ecumen, in its earliest form as a solid state, rushed to build homes, factories, new cities in the increasingly cramped steppe of the Gobi. Global capitalism was too vast to escape, and industrial modernisation could not be avoided if the Ecumen was to survive, or so the officials of the time claimed, and so the Ecumen changed. A wilderness of people living in the Ogedenist way and great towns full of industrial workers in vast state-run factories and housing blocks. The nation was poor - it refused to sell itself, the Ogedenists said - but successive governments of modernising industrial-Ogedenists strove to keep it intact. In the worst decades, party government grew brutal, repressive and self-obsessed.

Most recently, in 2102, a massive exodus of climate refugees broke upon The Ecumen. Its cities were already awash with dissent against the increasingly entrenced party government, and the countryside that remained was full of Ogedenist-traditionalists enraged by the trials industrialisation had put their land through. The arrival of millions of new souls did little to assuage these tensions. No party government could survive - the cities swelled ever more, the countryside was little more than tracts of desert not worth building new tenements through. In 2120, a government is attempting to reassert itself, to refound the doctrines of Industrial-Ogedenist thought, and to steer a troubled and unstable state back towards the dream of its founding, of an escape from the miseries of exploitation and a remembrance of communal tradition. With the release of Jumpdrive technology, a wave of popular optimism has returned to the chaos of a country long thought unsalvageable. People believe, again, in the promises of Ogedenism, of a new chance. A chance to replace the Ecumen, staring down into factory furnaces, with a new Ecumen - the Ecumen of the Open Heavens. Many are bitter, many remember the failed revolutions of decades past, but many still dream.
Corporate Policies: Corporations are not permitted to host mercenaries of any kind within the bounds of the Ecumen. For every 7 capital spent within the Ecumen, a further one must be paid to the government. A tax of 5 Capital is charged on the sale of Commercial Goods. The Ecumen, a socialist-anarchist anti-colonial enterprise premised on rejection of capital's vices (At least in theory), is not well inclined towards the corporations of the world.

I love this concept for a state. Seeing as it all seems to be in order, I’m happy to have you. Accepted, and welcome!

[The Empire of Tau]

Prototypes, yep. Nothing commercially viable, but they’re close.

How close?

[G-Tech Corporation]

Prototypes, yep. Nothing commercially viable, but they’re close.

How close?

Totally up to you/your colleagues. Concentrated effort might see success in as little as a year or three. Diffident neglect might stall adoption indefinitely.

[The Empire of Tau]

Totally up to you/your colleagues. Concentrated effort might see success in as little as a year or three. Diffident neglect might stall adoption indefinitely.

I assume this will be massive for the future of humanity?

[G-Tech Corporation]

Totally up to you/your colleagues. Concentrated effort might see success in as little as a year or three. Diffident neglect might stall adoption indefinitely.

I assume this will be massive for the future of humanity?

More energy is certainly important to long term outcomes. Though, perhaps not as important as you might think: radioisotopes aren’t unknown in the universe, after all.

[The Empire of Tau]

More energy is certainly important to long term outcomes. Though, perhaps not as important as you might think: radioisotopes aren’t unknown in the universe, after all.

Can you say it in laymen's terms?

[G-Tech Corporation]

More energy is certainly important to long term outcomes. Though, perhaps not as important as you might think: radioisotopes aren’t unknown in the universe, after all.

Can you say it in laymen's terms?

Ah, I mean the elements for conventional fission are quite common out in the universe. Find a commercially exploitable deposit of thorium or uranium, and you can power all of human civilization for a century.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

Hmm. Technically the regions aren’t set in stone. That said, they are designed to be of roughly equal population/area, so I would be hesitant to change them.

Nice to hear that you still like my old map.

Are you sure that you don't want my much prettier revision? Embrace the CRT + bloom aesthetic, G-Tech. :p

[G-Tech Corporation]

Hmm. Technically the regions aren’t set in stone. That said, they are designed to be of roughly equal population/area, so I would be hesitant to change them.

Nice to hear that you still like my old map.

Are you sure that you don't want my much prettier revision? Embrace the CRT + bloom aesthetic, G-Tech.

lmao. Couldn't even remember that this was your map, heh. That version is much prettier though...

[Lazarian]

Sorry for the delay - been catching up on work. Should have something in by EOD, though.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Sorry for the delay - been catching up on work. Should have something in by EOD, though.

No trouble. We're only just now spooling up, so you shouldn't be behind.

Speaking of which...

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

lmao. Couldn't even remember that this was your map, heh. That version is much prettier though...

The "last edited" date on my file system says I made that revision in March 2021. I'm speculating that I probably played too much DEFCON or something the night before.

I'd throw in an application, except that work isn't leaving me enough spare energy to try and detangle all the little things I can see from those rules. :p

[Ralnis]

What's the rate of major and minor actions going into the first page/first RL day?

[G-Tech Corporation]

What's the rate of major and minor actions going into the first page/first RL day?

Well, you start out with one Major, as this is 'January' ICly. Simultaneously, as this is page one, you start out with one Minor action.

[G-Tech Corporation]

lmao. Couldn't even remember that this was your map, heh. That version is much prettier though...

The "last edited" date on my file system says I made that revision in March 2021. I'm speculating that I probably played too much DEFCON or something the night before.

I'd throw in an application, except that work isn't leaving me enough spare energy to try and detangle all the little things I can see from those rules.

Ah, that's a shame. Europe is basically untouched by any current applications, so you would have had a lot of leeway there.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Sorry, have just been split between doing a major corporation or a power since the location I was planning my major corporation is unfilled and it'd be kinda akward to deal with corporate regulations apped after the fact.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

Ah, that's a shame. Europe is basically untouched by any current applications, so you would have had a lot of leeway there.

...with the understanding that I'm liable to go missing from time to time due to work,

Power Application
Name: North Sea Society
Territorial Holdings: Scandinavia and Britain
Leader Name: Runa Sigridsdatter
Brief History: The North Sea Society, affectionately known as the "Nessies", emerged as a de-facto state governing much of Northern Europe through the congolmeration of post-liberal civil society organisations that emerged with the collapse of internationalism and electoral democracy during the Great Mistake.
Corporate Policies: The North Sea Society bans any action that produces or uses Might within its borders. It collects no corporate taxes, but charges a tariff on resources transferred to a Region that it controls from a Region that it does not (1 Credit per Mineral and 3 Credits per Industry) and a 100% capital controls tax on any Credits transferred from a Region that it controls to a Region that it does not.

Looks very difficult to play an earthside power, what with the steadily rising demands of hunger and public support and the lack of any real economic self-sufficiency. Should be interesting, heh.

...I assume that there will be some kind of penalty to corporations expanding into unclaimed territories, to incentivise them to actually deal with powers and their policies.

[Ralnis]

What's the rate of major and minor actions going into the first page/first RL day?

Well, you start out with one Major, as this is 'January' ICly. Simultaneously, as this is page one, you start out with one Minor action.

Wish one of my minor actions was purging the population. Made have to be sensible and choose taxation and funding public schools.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

Sorry, have just been split between doing a major corporation or a power since the location I was planning my major corporation is unfilled and it'd be kinda akward to deal with corporate regulations apped after the fact.

Why choose? The OP did both. :p

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Sorry, have just been split between doing a major corporation or a power since the location I was planning my major corporation is unfilled and it'd be kinda akward to deal with corporate regulations apped after the fact.

Why choose? The OP did both.

I don't know If only OP can do both and your power's incredibly harsh capital controls is exactly the type of corporate regulations I was afraid of, lol.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Why choose? The OP did both.

I don't know If only OP can do both and your power's incredibly harsh capital controls is exactly the type of corporate regulations I was afraid of, lol.

The lack of mercs to protect investments -is- a slight disincentive to investment!

[G-Tech Corporation]

Ah, that's a shame. Europe is basically untouched by any current applications, so you would have had a lot of leeway there.

...with the understanding that I'm liable to go missing from time to time due to work,

Power Application
Name: North Sea Society
Territorial Holdings: Scandinavia and Britain
Leader Name: Runa Sigridsdatter
Brief History: The North Sea Society, affectionately known as the "Nessies", emerged as a de-facto state governing much of Northern Europe through the congolmeration of post-liberal civil society organisations that emerged with the collapse of internationalism and electoral democracy during the Great Mistake.
Corporate Policies: The North Sea Society collects a 100% tax on any Credits, Industry (valuated at 3 Credits each), and Minerals (valuated at 2 Credits each) transferred from a Region that it controls to a Region that it does not and bans any action that produces or uses Might within its borders.

Looks very difficult to play an earthside power, what with the steadily rising demands of hunger and public support and the lack of any real economic self-sufficiency. Should be interesting, heh.

...I assume that there will be some kind of penalty to corporations expanding into unclaimed territories, to incentivise them to actually deal with powers and their policies.

Ah, the return of the Nessies. Excellent. Happily accepted. Interesting autarkic policies!

Expanding into unclaimed regions is a roll of the dice, vis-a-vis warlordism. Player nations -should- be more predictable and stable grounds for commerce.