The League of Mechanocracies (Open, MT/PMT/FT, OOC, Signups)

[The Vistoran InterStellar Trade Alliance]

Worry not! VISTA loves commies just as much as cappies, so long as an alliance with them is chiefly profitable. It's just commies that don't like VISTA. We hab monies, we hab technologies, we hab resources, and most importantly, we hab the desire to trade.

Luckily, Alexandria is only communist under the reign of the first monarch. After she gets shivved, everything gets really liberal and really efficient. It's almost like the first monarch was incompetent in every field that wasn't military command and just didn't know how to manage other humans.

Oh no, don't get me wrong, the Imperium has a veritable literal Army of R&D people. It's the Intelligence Active Testing and Research Division, and the Aleph Division Combat Unit, which specializes in Technology that nobody fucking understands.
It's just that, well, the Intelligence Division was spending its time hiding Technological Advancements from the Imperium, and plotting to overthrow the Imperium. Both of which worked, see literally the entire Aleph Division, and the current Grand Praetor. And the Aleph Division was, until recently, too busy pretending not to exist to actually understand any of the Technology it acquired.

Sounds like a glorious, beautiful, drama-inducing clusterfuck. Write moar about it sometime.

VISTA also loves socialists and state capitalists (however the fuck you define it), so long as dey gib monies. Our "national" ideology, curiously enough, is not capitalism. It's profit-driven utilitarianism , pure and simple. We don't advocate for a capitalist government to operate under because, well, we are the government, MWAHAHA! Honestly, VISTA lands right in the middle of the empty space in the Horseshoe Theory. Unfortunately, there isn't much historical precedent for a for-profit organization large enough to serve as a government on its own, except for maybe the British and Dutch East India Companies, and those were while Mercantilism was still dominant. So iunno what the hell VISTA is meant to be.

[Tinfect]

Sounds like a glorious, beautiful, drama-inducing clusterfuck. Write moar about it sometime.

Oh it is, and I fully intend to.

[Novum Alexandria]

VISTA also loves socialists and state capitalists (however the fuck you define it), so long as dey gib monies. Our "national" ideology, curiously enough, is not capitalism. It's profit-driven utilitarianism , pure and simple. We don't advocate for a capitalist government to operate under because, well, we are the government, MWAHAHA! Honestly, VISTA lands right in the middle of the empty space in the Horseshoe Theory. Unfortunately, there isn't much historical precedent for a for-profit organization large enough to serve as a government on its own, except for maybe the British and Dutch East India Companies, and those were while Mercantilism was still dominant. So iunno what the hell VISTA is meant to be.

Prior experience with such things entities me to a simple answer, dearest Vistora.

So iunno what the hell VISTA is meant to be.

SHADY BASTARDS WITH SHADY PLANS TO BUY ALL OUR PLANETS. KILL IMMEDIATELY. LOAD UP THE RAILGUNS, THE COILGUNS, AND EVERY OTHER CONCEIVABLY SPACE-WORTHY FIREARM WE OWN.

[Allancia]

I don't give a shit about issues, so no wonder.

Excuses, excuses.

Max Berry intentionally made the issue system like it is so that even if someone meant well, their entire country could be annihilated. I don't care how the country fares because Allancia is not real and the way that issues affect the country is unpredictable. I also have three Easter eggs while you have none kek
On an unrelated note, I was wondering if there was anyone here who used Mentats like they are in Dune. They're pretty much people trained to be as intelligent as machines, and are often used by the government or corporations where computers are impossible to get.

Sounds like a glorious, beautiful, drama-inducing clusterfuck. Write moar about it sometime.

Oh it is, and I fully intend to.

We haven't had much fiction here, have we? A story written by one person and not an RP by two would be fun.

[Vistora]

VISTA also loves socialists and state capitalists (however the fuck you define it), so long as dey gib monies. Our "national" ideology, curiously enough, is not capitalism. It's profit-driven utilitarianism , pure and simple. We don't advocate for a capitalist government to operate under because, well, we are the government, MWAHAHA! Honestly, VISTA lands right in the middle of the empty space in the Horseshoe Theory. Unfortunately, there isn't much historical precedent for a for-profit organization large enough to serve as a government on its own, except for maybe the British and Dutch East India Companies, and those were while Mercantilism was still dominant. So iunno what the hell VISTA is meant to be.

Prior experience with such things entities me to a simple answer, dearest Vistora.

So iunno what the hell VISTA is meant to be.

SHADY BASTARDS WITH SHADY PLANS TO BUY ALL OUR PLANETS. KILL IMMEDIATELY. LOAD UP THE RAILGUNS, THE COILGUNS, AND EVERY OTHER CONCEIVABLY SPACE-WORTHY FIREARM WE OWN.

"Motherfucker, we've been sold out! THEY KNOW OUR SECRETS! DAMMIT, KOZA-NOV, WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE EXTINCTION SUPERVIRALS! KILL THE BASTARDS AND TAKE THEIR MONIES!"

-Director Covas-Nyl, preparing to mug Novum in a space-alleywey with a space-lead pipe and take his space-wallet

[Tinfect]

SHADY BASTARDS WITH SHADY PLANS TO BUY ALL OUR PLANETS. KILL IMMEDIATELY. LOAD UP THE RAILGUNS, THE COILGUNS, AND EVERY OTHER CONCEIVABLY SPACE-WORTHY FIREARM WE OWN.

Imperium Central News Network: 100 Ship ball of Planetcrackers deployed to Vistora. TNS - "NOPE, FUCK ALL OF THIS", and TNS - "GET N0SC0PED SKRUB" Confirmed for Fleet Leaders.

[Vistora]

Excuses, excuses.

Max Berry intentionally made the issue system like it is so that even if someone meant well, their entire country could be annihilated. I don't care how the country fares because Allancia is not real and the way that issues affect the country is unpredictable.

Hehe, yeah, I know. Honestly, the utter lack of control drives me fucking bananas, though I have managed to wrestle Vistora in more or less the right direction thus far (though I have been trying for 100 economy for ages now, and I'm going insane over it).

I also have three Easter eggs while you have none kek

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

On an unrelated note, I was wondering if there was anyone here who used Mentats like they are in Dune. They're pretty much people trained to be as intelligent as machines, and are often used by the government or corporations where computers are impossible to get.

Given how fundamentally different the workings of computers and human intelligence are, that would not be plausible in any realistic setting like mine. The best you could hope for is creating an army of people genetically engineered to possess the traits of savants, though that just entails a bunch of people with calculative abilities far exceeding that of normal people, but still a minuscule fraction of computers. As for training... no. Unless I have completely misunderstood what Mentats are (I've never read Dune).

We haven't had much fiction here, have we? A story written by one person and not an RP by two would be fun.

I have about 300 pages of story written in my canon, which I may or may not share with you guys one of these days.

[Novum Alexandria]

"Motherfucker, we've been sold out! THEY KNOW OUR SECRETS! DAMMIT, KOZA-NOV, WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE EXTINCTION SUPERVIRALS! KILL THE BASTARDS AND TAKE THEIR MONIES!"

-Director Covas-Nyl, preparing to mug Novum in a space-alleywey with a space-lead pipe and take his space-wallet

JOKES ON YOU. WE SPENT ALL OUR MONIES ON BATTLESHIPS, AND I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU MUG ME OF BILLIONS OF TONNES WAYWARD, CONFUSED, FTL-CAPABLE FIREPOWER.

Imperium Central News Network: 100 Ship ball of Planetcrackers deployed to Vistora. TNS - "NOPE, FUCK ALL OF THIS", and TNS - "GET N0SC0PED SKRUB" Confirmed for Fleet Leaders.

Notable Alexandrian starships:
Invincible II
She's One of Ours
Stop Ramming Us
Just a Railgun
Whore's Whip
Not the Enemy
No More Room in Hell

[Allancia]

Max Berry intentionally made the issue system like it is so that even if someone meant well, their entire country could be annihilated. I don't care how the country fares because Allancia is not real and the way that issues affect the country is unpredictable.

Hehe, yeah, I know. Honestly, the utter lack of control drives me fucking bananas, though I have managed to wrestle Vistora in more or less the right direction thus far (though I have been trying for 100 economy for ages now, and I'm going insane over it).

I also have three Easter eggs while you have none kek

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

On an unrelated note, I was wondering if there was anyone here who used Mentats like they are in Dune. They're pretty much people trained to be as intelligent as machines, and are often used by the government or corporations where computers are impossible to get.

Given how fundamentally different the workings of computers and human intelligence are, that would not be plausible in any realistic setting like mine. The best you could hope for is creating an army of people genetically engineered to possess the traits of savants, though that just entails a bunch of people with calculative abilities far exceeding that of normal people, but still a minuscule fraction of computers. As for training... no. Unless I have completely misunderstood what Mentats are (I've never read Dune).

We haven't had much fiction here, have we? A story written by one person and not an RP by two would be fun.

I have about 300 pages of story written in my canon, which I may or may not share with you guys one of these days.

Before it tanked, my economy was almost 100. 98, to be exact. I clawed my balls off in agony at it.
If I remember correctly, computers were banned, so certain individuals with genetic predispositions to having brain patterns or something could be trained to be able to store and process information. Fine takes place in at least 5,000 AD, so humans might have also evolved.
300 pages? Damn! That's impressive. In all of my creative writing, I've maybe only reached 50 or 60. I would gladly read any novel based off of it.

[Vistora]

"Motherfucker, we've been sold out! THEY KNOW OUR SECRETS! DAMMIT, KOZA-NOV, WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE EXTINCTION SUPERVIRALS! KILL THE BASTARDS AND TAKE THEIR MONIES!"

-Director Covas-Nyl, preparing to mug Novum in a space-alleywey with a space-lead pipe and take his space-wallet

JOKES ON YOU. WE SPENT ALL OUR MONIES ON BATTLESHIPS, AND I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU MUG ME OF BILLIONS OF TONNES WAYWARD, CONFUSED, FTL-CAPABLE FIREPOWER.

NOOOOOO! ENSLAVE THEIR PEOPLE AND FORCE THEM TO WORK IN THE ENDLESS OFFICE CUBICLES OF PLANET BORING SALTY LAVA MINES OF DOOMFIRE-HELLPLACE.

Imperium Central News Network: 100 Ship ball of Planetcrackers deployed to Vistora. TNS - "NOPE, FUCK ALL OF THIS", and TNS - "GET N0SC0PED SKRUB" Confirmed for Fleet Leaders.

Notable Alexandrian starships:
Invincible II
She's One of Ours
Stop Ramming Us
Just a Railgun
Whore's Whip
Not the Enemy
No More Room in Hell

Most of our ship names were poached from Hyperion in Borderlands. Other than that, Koza-Nov likes to name his personal starfighters after movie quotes.

Yippi-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker

[Tinfect]

SHADY BASTARDS WITH SHADY PLANS TO BUY ALL OUR PLANETS. KILL IMMEDIATELY. LOAD UP THE RAILGUNS, THE COILGUNS, AND EVERY OTHER CONCEIVABLY SPACE-WORTHY FIREARM WE OWN.

"Motherfucker, we've been sold out! THEY KNOW OUR SECRETS! DAMMIT, KOZA-NOV, WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE EXTINCTION SUPERVIRALS! KILL THE BASTARDS AND TAKE THEIR MONIES!"

-Director Covas-Nyl, preparing to mug Novum in a space-alleywey with a space-lead pipe and take his space-wallet

Now in Polan-Ball Form.

Most of our ship names were poached from Hyperion in Borderlands. Other than that, Koza-Nov likes to name his personal starfighters after movie quotes.

Yippi-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker

Imperial Ships, actually tend to have overly pretentious, or pseudo-philosophical names. See, pretty much any RP I've been in.

[Vistora]

300 pages? Damn! That's impressive. In all of my creative writing, I've maybe only reached 50 or 60. I would gladly read any novel based off of it.

I have no life

Not quite 300, but you get the idea. And I'm only about 1/3 to 1/4 through the whole saga, so there's that.

[Novum Alexandria]

Most of our ship names were poached from Hyperion in Borderlands. Other than that, Koza-Nov likes to name his personal starfighters after movie quotes.

Yippi-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker

Hyperion seems like a highly appropriate thing to use for such a massive, profit-oriented entity. I'm trying to think of other sci-fi super companies, but I'm drawing surprisingly numerous blanks.

In all seriousness, steady trade and decent relations with Alexandria aren't hard to achieve if one pays the bribes quietly executes the omnipresent spies, rather than ruining international standings over them, and doesn't fuck with Arcus or Germinoma.

"Motherfucker, we've been sold out! THEY KNOW OUR SECRETS! DAMMIT, KOZA-NOV, WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE EXTINCTION SUPERVIRALS! KILL THE BASTARDS AND TAKE THEIR MONIES!"

-Director Covas-Nyl, preparing to mug Novum in a space-alleywey with a space-lead pipe and take his space-wallet

Now in Polan-Ball Form.

Most of our ship names were poached from Hyperion in Borderlands. Other than that, Koza-Nov likes to name his personal starfighters after movie quotes.

Yippi-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker

Imperial Ships, actually tend to have overly pretentious, or pseudo-philosophical names. See, pretty much any RP I've been in.

Guys, it's because he's an imperium.

Also, cracked out druggie-looking Alexandriaball is horrifyingly appropriate.

[Vistora]

Hyperion seems like a highly appropriate thing to use for such a massive, profit-oriented entity. I'm trying to think of other sci-fi super companies, but I'm drawing surprisingly numerous blanks.

Well, there is the Trade Federation from the Star Wars prequel trilogy Nope, I really can't think of anything either. I'll trawl TV tropes in the morning to find some examples.

In all seriousness, steady trade and decent relations with Alexandria aren't hard to achieve if one pays the bribes quietly executes the omnipresent spies, rather than ruining international standings over them, and doesn't fuck with Arcus or Germinoma.

Fortunately, VISTA is quite savvy in that manner. For them, conflict is almost always a last resort. War is not very good for business, and every opponent killed is another customer lost.

[Novum Alexandria]

Well, there is the Trade Federation from the Star Wars prequel trilogy Nope, I really can't think of anything either. I'll trawl TV tropes in the morning to find some examples.

Same, except less in the morning and more at 12-5 PM.

Fortunately, VISTA is quite savvy in that manner. For them, conflict is almost always a last resort. War is not very good for business, and every opponent killed is another customer lost.

>not engaging in glorified planet-wide duels
>not challenging rival nations for men/women, drink, and glory
>not relentlessly engaging in terrorist operations to provoke people into wars with yourself
disgusting

that's enough early morning posting
sleeptime

[Excidium Planetis]

Max Berry intentionally made the issue system like it is so that even if someone meant well, their entire country could be annihilated. I don't care how the country fares because Allancia is not real and the way that issues affect the country is unpredictable.

Hehe, yeah, I know. Honestly, the utter lack of control drives me fucking bananas, though I have managed to wrestle Vistora in more or less the right direction thus far (though I have been trying for 100 economy for ages now, and I'm going insane over it).

Being a heartless capitalist who cuts taxes at every opportunity works.

Once you reach that part, avoid the tax code issue like the plague, and start being a bit nicer to poor people, fund education and the environment, etc.

I also have three Easter eggs while you have none kek

How do you only have 3? You get a fourth Easter Egg just for getting three...

Given how fundamentally different the workings of computers and human intelligence are, that would not be plausible in any realistic setting like mine. The best you could hope for is creating an army of people genetically engineered to possess the traits of savants, though that just entails a bunch of people with calculative abilities far exceeding that of normal people, but still a minuscule fraction of computers.

A normal human brain outperforms personal computers in most ways, so a genetically engineered human would probably have modern tech computers beat if you did things right. I mean yeah, you aren't going to be beating supercomputers, but you're working with something smaller than a basketball here, not some large room with nitrogen cooling systems and stuff.

[Nayba Collective]

The Identity Law of NS Puppets - Any NS nation is a puppet of itself.

Then why not put everyone on the list?

Because I was joking both times.

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Mentats? Probably won't see a lot of those, since this is the League of Mechanocracies.

The human brain has some high specs, but I'm not so sure at beating an MT computer at calculation unless you do computer-assisted genetic engineering.

[Nayba Collective]

I think I may have found an idea for another puppet...

What? All-consuming space emperors that are or are not repelled by having lots of really weird creative and contemplative sex? 'cuz I'd totally dig the latter.

Are repelled by being weird. Basically, Imperium of Man clones tend to have purity enforcement based on historical Purity, because evil Chaos requires it. It's pretty arbitrary. This would be an evil "Chaos" that created something different than an Imperium of Man clone. It would be held off by having sex or being alien or weird transhumanists. I'll have to think about why.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=330532
Guys we need some dank memes here ASAP

... I am now tempted to make an MT nation and then have Grand Curator Stahlrim warp there specifically so he can shitpost on that social media network.

Be careful though mate. PLAYER made a normal account and was trollnamed by a Quirinese guy whom has been given weed and memes enough to last his existence, and a normal guy from a PTFS proxy was banned for 'trolling' while in reality all he did was shitposting in intentionally incorrect grammar.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

Because I spend minutes making a NATO military symbol map and no one pays any attention so I'll just plop up the enhanced Spetsnaz group.

For future reference Novak is omnipotent.

[The Crimson Swarm]

...and puppet of singameme reporting.

To be used as potential Chekhov's People's Liberation Army™.

[Blakullar]

...and puppet of singameme reporting.

To be used as potential Chekhov's People's Liberation Army™.

Goddammit, I was going to do the Trotskaya clone civ puppet! If I had known that you'd swipe it... *assortment of mutterings*

Anyway, is this Chekhov the playwright or Chekhov the navigator?

[Singaporean Transhumans]

...and puppet of singameme reporting.

To be used as potential Chekhov's People's Liberation Army™.

Goddammit, I was going to do the Trotskaya clone civ puppet! If I had known that you'd swipe it... *assortment of mutterings*

Anyway, is this Chekhov the playwright or Chekhov the navigator?

both

also, account sharing

[Blakullar]

Goddammit, I was going to do the Trotskaya clone civ puppet! If I had known that you'd swipe it... *assortment of mutterings*

Anyway, is this Chekhov the playwright or Chekhov the navigator?

both

also, account sharing

Wait. If command blocks were used to create the clones in the first instance, then why can't the-

Agh. There I go breaking Trotskaya's first rule of dealing with Singaporeans. Don't question it; just go with it!

[Nayba Collective]

YO SINGY!
What were your plans for Socialist Technate of China? TAC rolled a puppet for it.