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Mohns
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Postby Mohns » Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:58 am

Is anyone interested in a diplomatic/espionage RP? It would be character driven. With different characters from different countries with competing interests interacting with each other to advance said interests.

It would consist of mostly the behind the scenes activity that goes into government and international actions, with a focus on how the individual actors influence the outcomes.

For example, my country is a parliamentary monarchy where the monarch plays a key role in government, so by influencing the Grand Ducal family, one influences the state.

There of course could be also attempts to influence the people and covert action similar to the role the CIA played in helping the Shah of Iran.

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The Greater Aryan Race
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Postby The Greater Aryan Race » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:13 am

Mohns wrote:Is anyone interested in a diplomatic/espionage RP? It would be character driven. With different characters from different countries with competing interests interacting with each other to advance said interests.

It would consist of mostly the behind the scenes activity that goes into government and international actions, with a focus on how the individual actors influence the outcomes.

For example, my country is a parliamentary monarchy where the monarch plays a key role in government, so by influencing the Grand Ducal family, one influences the state.

There of course could be also attempts to influence the people and covert action similar to the role the CIA played in helping the Shah of Iran.

Sounds interesting, I wouldn't mind having a go.
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Because if it is, I'm probably going to say something mean and contrary just to contradict the majority.

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Postby Nations United for Conquest » Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:12 pm

The Greater Aryan Race wrote:
Mohns wrote:Is anyone interested in a diplomatic/espionage RP? It would be character driven. With different characters from different countries with competing interests interacting with each other to advance said interests.

It would consist of mostly the behind the scenes activity that goes into government and international actions, with a focus on how the individual actors influence the outcomes.

For example, my country is a parliamentary monarchy where the monarch plays a key role in government, so by influencing the Grand Ducal family, one influences the state.

There of course could be also attempts to influence the people and covert action similar to the role the CIA played in helping the Shah of Iran.

Sounds interesting, I wouldn't mind having a go.


I too think this sounds like an interesting idea. So, if it gets off the ground I'll poke around
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Postby Vymar » Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:36 pm

Good evening fellow socialists and communists alike! Do you want an alliance that will tighten the bonds of all socialist nations, whether extremist or lenient? Well the USNTO is right for such a strong willed nation such as yourself!

We will have democratic elections allowing every socialist nation to get a chance to shape the leftist world in their magnificent image! In fact, one does not even have to be in power to be able to shape the alliance in their image as well. The USNTO will have its own military, provided by everyone chipping in, even just through aid, to act out our interests and demands.

Members are welcomed! viewtopic.php?f=4&t=418030&p=32108303#p32108303


(Just to let you know, this is fairly new. When I looked through nation states, there didn't seem to be many alliances, if at all, strictly for socialist nations. I thought it would be a good idea for rp reasons to try and make this force to make some rp's more interesting).
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Novyy Soyuz
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Postby Novyy Soyuz » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:21 pm

Hello! Let me preface this by saying that I'm new to this game and have never posted anywhere in the forums. I'm not even sure this is the right place to do it. I don't mean to disrupt anything, but please tell me if I am. I'd love to learn how to do this right!

Greetings! I'm trying to introduce my nation, the United Socialist States Of Novyy Soyuz, or the Astral Soviet, to the world of NS, but am not sure exactly how to go about it. My nation's backstory (so far, things will probably change) is that it is the descendant of a Soviet Generation Ship launched in the 60's, made planet-fall (Christening their new home Gagarin), and have since then settled the planet. It's been a long time since they first opened their modified Soyuz hatches, but the USSNS has since made great strides for the glory of Stalin (Who never saw them launch, a shame, that) and have finally managed to get rig up a communication system to contact the outside galaxy, whatever that may be.

Basically, I imagine the USSNS to be a nation that expanded rapidly, then nearly immediately stagnated because they filled up the planet and didn't have any way to contact anybody or really do anything but build, and build big. Imagine gargantuan feats of Stalinist architecture and propaganda dwarfing anything on Earth getting slowly buried by industrial buildings and Kowloon-type urban sprawls, a half-remembered Stalinist political system that runs off of near religious devotion to whatever communist tenets remain in living memory, a technology level that never got out of the 50's and 60's aesthetically, but has taken the Soviet mantra of 'crude, but effective' and attained a futuristic functionality with it, and an efficient but oppressive government that has somehow managed to gain almost total control over it's people and yet seem to have none at all.

I figured their introduction would be them contacting either Earth or some other planetary civilization, having gained interplanetary communication and travel capabilities. Depending on what the state of Earth or whatever entity picks up their hails is, they could react poorly or positively, but whatever it is, it probably won't be what the Novsoy expect.

Thoughts?

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Postby Atkemri » Wed Jul 12, 2017 6:59 pm

Novyy Soyuz wrote:Hello! Let me preface this by saying that I'm new to this game and have never posted anywhere in the forums. I'm not even sure this is the right place to do it. I don't mean to disrupt anything, but please tell me if I am. I'd love to learn how to do this right!

Greetings! I'm trying to introduce my nation, the United Socialist States Of Novyy Soyuz, or the Astral Soviet, to the world of NS, but am not sure exactly how to go about it. My nation's backstory (so far, things will probably change) is that it is the descendant of a Soviet Generation Ship launched in the 60's, made planet-fall (Christening their new home Gagarin), and have since then settled the planet. It's been a long time since they first opened their modified Soyuz hatches, but the USSNS has since made great strides for the glory of Stalin (Who never saw them launch, a shame, that) and have finally managed to get rig up a communication system to contact the outside galaxy, whatever that may be.

Basically, I imagine the USSNS to be a nation that expanded rapidly, then nearly immediately stagnated because they filled up the planet and didn't have any way to contact anybody or really do anything but build, and build big. Imagine gargantuan feats of Stalinist architecture and propaganda dwarfing anything on Earth getting slowly buried by industrial buildings and Kowloon-type urban sprawls, a half-remembered Stalinist political system that runs off of near religious devotion to whatever communist tenets remain in living memory, a technology level that never got out of the 50's and 60's aesthetically, but has taken the Soviet mantra of 'crude, but effective' and attained a futuristic functionality with it, and an efficient but oppressive government that has somehow managed to gain almost total control over it's people and yet seem to have none at all.

I figured their introduction would be them contacting either Earth or some other planetary civilization, having gained interplanetary communication and travel capabilities. Depending on what the state of Earth or whatever entity picks up their hails is, they could react poorly or positively, but whatever it is, it probably won't be what the Novsoy expect.

Thoughts?

Sounds good I'm interested.
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Postby The Manticoran Empire » Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:03 pm

Novyy Soyuz wrote:Hello! Let me preface this by saying that I'm new to this game and have never posted anywhere in the forums. I'm not even sure this is the right place to do it. I don't mean to disrupt anything, but please tell me if I am. I'd love to learn how to do this right!

Greetings! I'm trying to introduce my nation, the United Socialist States Of Novyy Soyuz, or the Astral Soviet, to the world of NS, but am not sure exactly how to go about it. My nation's backstory (so far, things will probably change) is that it is the descendant of a Soviet Generation Ship launched in the 60's, made planet-fall (Christening their new home Gagarin), and have since then settled the planet. It's been a long time since they first opened their modified Soyuz hatches, but the USSNS has since made great strides for the glory of Stalin (Who never saw them launch, a shame, that) and have finally managed to get rig up a communication system to contact the outside galaxy, whatever that may be.

Basically, I imagine the USSNS to be a nation that expanded rapidly, then nearly immediately stagnated because they filled up the planet and didn't have any way to contact anybody or really do anything but build, and build big. Imagine gargantuan feats of Stalinist architecture and propaganda dwarfing anything on Earth getting slowly buried by industrial buildings and Kowloon-type urban sprawls, a half-remembered Stalinist political system that runs off of near religious devotion to whatever communist tenets remain in living memory, a technology level that never got out of the 50's and 60's aesthetically, but has taken the Soviet mantra of 'crude, but effective' and attained a futuristic functionality with it, and an efficient but oppressive government that has somehow managed to gain almost total control over it's people and yet seem to have none at all.

I figured their introduction would be them contacting either Earth or some other planetary civilization, having gained interplanetary communication and travel capabilities. Depending on what the state of Earth or whatever entity picks up their hails is, they could react poorly or positively, but whatever it is, it probably won't be what the Novsoy expect.

Thoughts?

Sounds interesting. More details, please.
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Postby Seebahn » Thu Jul 13, 2017 4:52 am

Mohns wrote:Is anyone interested in a diplomatic/espionage RP? It would be character driven. With different characters from different countries with competing interests interacting with each other to advance said interests.

It would consist of mostly the behind the scenes activity that goes into government and international actions, with a focus on how the individual actors influence the outcomes.

For example, my country is a parliamentary monarchy where the monarch plays a key role in government, so by influencing the Grand Ducal family, one influences the state.

There of course could be also attempts to influence the people and covert action similar to the role the CIA played in helping the Shah of Iran.


Mohns and I are doing this, if anyone is interested.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=418210

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Postby Aleckandor » Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:15 pm

I've had an epic idea swimming in my head for a while, but I am interested in what people think would think of it and if there's anything about that I need to flesh out.

You see, in my country Aleckandor's historical canon, a late 17th Century colonial power known as the Enetorikan Imperium invaded Nord Yervhenn — the northernmost region of the rich and mystical Yervhennian continent, inhabited by a race of gray-skinned humans known as Maphlovuhroids. By the start of the 1700s, much of the indigenous Nord Yervhennian realms had collapsed due to the overwhelming odds and more advanced gunpowder technology of the Enetorikans. They reduced the local population by nearly 60% and ended up enslaving the rest; they would come to call their new slave haven, "Lintinya" — named after the leading imperial general who spearheaded the eight-year campaign. However, somewhat to the Enetorikans' dismay, several million Nord Yervhennians - since their brother kingdoms to the south either didn't give them asylum or were themselves being attacked by other colonial powers - were able to escape the home continent; these bands of displaced populations, rightfully fearing enslavement and extermination, formed exodus fleets and desperately made for the open ocean just mere relative moments before the total conquest of their nations was complete. These fleets then fanned out in hundreds of different directions, spreading out across the world to land on any shore that they discovered or any shore that would willingly take them in.

The descendants of these oceanic refugees would come to be collectively known as the 'Exiles', and they would form communities within other nations or nations of their own over the course of the next few centuries. Given the extreme distances between several clusters of the Exile communities, it goes without saying that their culture began to morph into wildly varying forms as the generations in hiding went by. Some of these changes began as a result of continued contact with the people of a host realm, other changes happened naturally from within.

Meanwhile, when the Enetorikan Imperium experienced dramatic liberalizations in both politics and culture at large during the late 1840s, the Lintinyan slavers began fearing that their way of life was going to be ended if the order came down from the homeland that racial chattel slavery would be abolished. The Lintinyans decided to take matters into their hands preemptively by declaring their independence from the Imperium, forming the Ethnocratic Hierocentrum in 1851. Every attempt by the main Imperium - which eventually did free all of its slaves and made slavery an illegal practice - to reconquer their rebellious colony in Nord Yervhenn failed, and they soon gave up after a decade of fighting or so. Now free to pursue their own destiny as a power in their own right, the LEH reorganized from a mainly agrarian economy to a much more diversified one with sectors in mining, industry, and industrial manufacturing. Of course, the billions of Maphlovuhroid Thralls with their masters' whip behind them would form the backbone of this mechanization. Things were made worse when, in the 1870s, the directors of the Hierocentrum created the market for gray-skinned slaves; through mass forced breeding in early crude eugenics programs, whole batches of human beings were sired and then sold to foreign buyers — specifically, to the governments and large private business entities of other slaver nations across the world. Millions upon millions of Nord Yervhennians were loaded onto the giant steam-arks and trafficking armadas that flung them to countless parts unknown. Some Thralls aboard these vessels, either with internal sabotage and/or outside help, were able to get away by themselves or commandeer whole ships with their compatriots; like the 'Exiles', many of these 'Escapees' ended up landing wherever they could to stake out new homes for their people, often integrating into larger nations or forming new nations of their own.

After the passage of nearly a century, both Exile and Escapee communities - even though it was generations after their fathers and forebears that came from elsewhere to establish them - felt lost and alone without a more cohesive identity beyond the small names they carved for themselves. Eventually, Pan-Yervhennic intellectual movements in the late 1930s through the early 1950s started cropping up one by one in these communities, movements that all seemed to speak of an Ínzhêvêssrövh — the long-awaited "Great Return". Soon, Exile and Escapee governments across the world began talking to one another about this topic with a seemingly singular mind between them, forming multilateral relations and rediscovering one anothers' presence in the world. Many major political differences and cultural divergences were beginning to be put aside en masse in order to focus on one goal. That goal was the ultimate and final emancipation of the one place they had all came from: Nord Yervhenn, their home. And at the peak of the transnational irredentist "Homeward Bloc" that was forming, a young gray man named Älêcktsêndúr Yíyûshqênówr hailing from the Exile state of Ohrzuhphin would rise.

Alecktsendur, or "Aleck", would go on to create a critical paramilitary organization on a scale unprecedented before in modern history. From just a few hundred old guard followers from his native Ohrzuhphin and the surrounding Yervhennic countries in 1979, the Order would expand to nearly 3 million members by 1984 from almost every Exile and Escapee community on the planet and even some idealistic foreign helpers as well. Entire Exile and Escapee governments were compelled to pour huge amounts of treasure and materiel to supply this vast new army of redemption that was assembling. A non-gray nation known as Vavatchy, whose population was highly sympathetic to the Homeward cause held up by the gray slaves' descendants, ended up gifting an entire remote desert archipelago they discovered to the far northwest of the Yervhennian home continent to Aleck and his GOL. From these "Helot Isles", the Order would build up its forces, consolidate its arsenal, and train for the day they would retake Nord Yervhenn from the Lintinyans. The Super Yatiran Federation - a powerful Suth Yervhennian realm and one of the last remaining independent native powers left on the home continent at the time - though at first reluctant to pledge their support for a cause that didn't immediately benefit their national interests, eventually changed their minds and joined in spirit by launching coordinated offensive campaigns to the north and east in an effort to both free colonized territories as well as distract the rest of the continent's other colonial governments from the situation regarding the GOL's impending assault. As this happened, the call went around the world for more willing volunteers to join the cause; so many more came to rally behind the Order's banner, both grays and non-grays. Some of the non-grays, like mentioned before, were idealists or political advocates. However, there were many that also came because they were mercenaries looking for personal profit and glory or veterans seeking the thrilling sting of battle. Finally, in 1987, after years of growth and preparation, the GOL declared open war against the Hierocentrum. The first three years of the war would be fought at an arm's length, usually in the form of interdiction operations against Lintinyan slave-trading armadas and devastating raids against Lintinyan island bases or outer defense installations. An all-out attempt at a decisive counterattack against the Helot Isles by a gigantic LEH offshore strike force was repulsed and annihilated in late 1990, leaving the door to Nord Yervhenn wide open for invasion at long last. As the GOL geared up for its spectacular landfall upon the shores of the continent at long last, the weakened but still determined LEH has itself sent out a screech for its own legions of outlander auxiliaries to help repel their enemy and protect their system of racial chattel slavery. Thousands of pro-slavery volunteers from the darkest corners of the Cosmonexus sailed and flew in to aid Lintinya's Security Operations Group, "SecOps", in the defense of their turf from the oncoming Order.

And it is at this point which the RP I am proposing will start. Though it will be massive in scale, it will be character-based; all players other than myself will control up to two foreigners who have pledged to fight for the GOL - and like I mentioned before, they could be fighting for any number of motivations, some tangible and others through a more moral basis. I will be controlling everybody else, including the benevolent leaders of the GOL and the vile directors of the LEH as well as the vast number of non-playable characters they will have at their command. The wholly mortal characters you create could join the ranks of either the Order or the Hierocentrum, depending on who you feel like supporting for the purposes of the storyline — but bear in mind that, no matter what happens, the GOL will ultimately emerge victorious in May of 1992 and the Aleckandorean Confederacy will be created (if this wasn't the absolute case, then my account would be 'Lintinya' rather than 'Aleckandor'). I've found that this would be a rather fun way to delineate upon the history of how Nord Yervhenn was freed and Aleckandor was founded, and there is a high chance that people who would be participating in this will have their characters remembered in my historical canon for their glorious deeds in the Revolution. I will also probably have to split this up into multiple episodic threads to make this easier on everybody from both factions. The general vibe I want everybody to feel from this project would be something akin to the 1962 film about D-Day, The Longest Day - a story told from both sides, where even though everybody knows who wins in the end, we discover who was there in the battle and how hard they fought.

So, thoughts???

BTW, I've already designed a flag for the GOL. Lookie:
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Postby Nations United for Conquest » Thu Jul 13, 2017 2:27 pm

Aleckandor wrote:I've had an epic idea swimming in my head for a while, but I am interested in what people think would think of it and if there's anything about that I need to flesh out.


Only took a brief skimming through this, but it looks like a pretty solid idea over all. I'll definetly take a look over if it gets up and running
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Postby Novyy Soyuz » Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:58 pm

More details it is! I'm glad this has generated some interest. (Again, most of this may subject to change over time)

The Astral Soviet of Novyy Soyuz would introduce itself with a radio transmission, depending on the tech level of civilizations that join (I figured it would be somewhat futuristic) the technology they're using to make contact would probably be extremely primitive, so it might be difficult for nations to even realize there is a transmission in the first place. The broadcast would be varied in nature, pinging off of whatever receivers the USSNS (ASNS) thought would be in use: Radio, television, satellite, etc. They don't care what it interrupts so their message would likely be visible by anyone with a device capable of picking it up. The Novsoy language is a mixture of Russian dialects and just about every language heard in the Eastern Bloc at the time, changed by the passage of time to something unique. It could be translated by a nation with a knowledge of Slavic languages but it would be difficult and require a dedicated team of some sort either way. If a nation replies to the message, full of questions on the current political state of Earth and the state of the Soviet Union, they will very likely give an unsatisfactory answer, unless they are a socialist entity. This bring their motives into play, but I should probably explain what their home is like first.

The planet of Gagarin is massive compared to Earth, a little larger than Jupiter. It was moon-like, airless ball of dust and metals when the Colonists of the Novyy Soyuz landed on their ship there, and it isn't much better now. The USSNS has managed to "terraform" the planet by setting up oxygen production centers, little more than tangles of pipes, fans, filters, people, and plants that spread vein-like throughout the area. No natural biosphere exists, the only real life other than humans being the modified descendants of animals brought over from Earth,such as the Laika: Dogs becoming the hardy, monstrous creatures that can survive in a hard vacuum, originally used for both companionship and exploration that now menace the forgotten areas of 'the city' in packs. The city of Gagarin has no name, because Gagarin is one gigantic city. Mined flat, the Novsoy stripped their beloved planet miles deep to gather a gargantuan amount of resources, dotting areas stripped of surface material with boreholes and mine-shafts that near the core. All this has resulted in a massive urban sprawl overtaking the planet. Originally, the city was built this a series of massive structures, from housing blocks to skyscrapers, built in the Stalinist style. These buildings were hundreds of stories tall, some many miles high, each equipped with their own support systems and defenses. This left the Novsoy with a series of self-contained areas, with districts laid out for living, working, and recreation. The government got their own buildings, which were the largest and best-defended. A network of rails and footpaths connected these buildings, heavily monitored and guarded by the Party, which had complete control over their subjects. That was life for decades, until the USSNS began to work on making the outside livable. Through their efforts and soviet super-science, they manged to give their planet an atmosphere, which let them build out rather than up.

The Novsoy were a people who lived in giant Soviet arcologies, edifices of alien steel and concrete that created very little incentive for people to leave it, outside of mandated labor and conscription. Over the centuries, these districts got their own names, cultures, even dialects of the forming "Novsoy" language tree. ASNS was slowly becoming the USSNS, as the districts became states unto themselves and the uniform government of the Party began to split and warp. Different facets of the socialist ideal began to spring up, the foundations of new governments formed, and whispers of strange faiths began to circulate. After about 200 years since the formation of the ASNS, the Astral Soviet collapsed. After the series of separatist clashes and attempted revolutions that would be known as the 'War of Brothers', some of which exploded into full-on military conflicts, the Party, fearing for their future, enacted the Great Purge, an autogenocide that killed nearly a tenth of the population of the ASNS (roughly 40-50 billion, and growing quickly) and pushed their scientists to the brink as they were forced to induce a technological revolution that would become the backbone of Novsoy society. Cowing their populace under a tide of genetically-modified soldiers, pathogens and chemical weapons, mechs, and swarms of drones, the Party unified their populace and relocated huge chunks of them outside of their arcologies. People who hadn't left their buildings in generations were forced to develop the gray rock outside and mingle with other cultures in an attempt to fix the isolationist mindset the Party had created. The resulting conflicts stemming from culture shock and other social issues were brutally suppressed by the Commissariat and the Union Police. Eventually, the new urban sprawl spread out between the massive district structures, which became nodes of the Party and monuments to the planet's past.

This bring us to the present day. The massive District buildings has since been overgrown with a massive Kowloon-style city, some buildings being buried under miles of rooms, tunnels, pipes, and stairways. Giant canyons of hazy open air are strung with wires thicker than pillars and lights that burn as bright as suns. Diesel-powered mechanical behemoths lurch about, blaring messages and propaganda over a constant loop, as modified birds clean it and process fuel in their scaly guts. Massive factories spew clouds of pollution that are visible from space, nebulae of smog escaping the pitiful atmosphere to drift among the stars. Most people have never seen the ground, outside of mine-shafts and geothermal pits, and likely never will. Whatever rain that falls is black and thick, sizzling as it oozes down walls and gathers in the little broken crevices of the world. Outside of the red and gold of the Party, the world is one of steel and gray stone. Life for a Novsoy would seem to any outsider to be hell.

However, as horrific as their existence may seem to be, most Novsoy are not struggling to survive. Most are, in fact, thriving. Utilities such as water and power are supplied by the state in great quantities, distributed by the automated servant or in the ubiquitous tangle of piping and wires that blanket the city. Air is breathable, endlessly produced and recycled, and breath masks are supplied to workers in the most hazardous areas. Food is everywhere, either from poached urban wildlife artificially introduced by the Party to food-pastes and nutrient powders churned out by the ton. Though constant and invasive, the monitoring drones and mechs do keep crime down, and unemployment is almost unknown, as the massive city always needs someone doing something. Culturally, Gagarin is oddly rich in diverse dialects, fashions, and foods. Though not as isolationist as they once were, the uniformity sought by the Party did work, but only just enough to keep the peace. People brought their cultures with them and over time they blended into distinct variations, lessened somewhat by the mandated central education of Novsoy children and re-education of all others. Some are common, born directly from the cultures aboard the Novyy Soyuz, others are rarer and newer, or appear to be some form of illness or mutation gained from their toxic surroundings: The Tuulajme, with their odd affinity for mechanical engineering and love of all things sweet, with a dialect heavy in Finnish and Czech influences. The Gyschvai, a blend of Germanic and Far Eastern peoples with who are known for their love of flight and blue tones. The Ubor, a people with unusually long lifespans but genetically predisposed to having multiple canines and nut allergies, whose obscure language is an almost entirely unaltered version of Albanian. These are just some of thousands. Though their surroundings are gray and lifeless, these cultures have made their homes an impressive array of colors, smells, and sounds.

However, what most outsiders would be surprised with is what happened to the Novsoy themselves. Genetic engineering was simply a fact of life since the inception of their world, and the Novsoy bear the marks of that belief. The entire population has been altered through generations of deliberate chemical exposure and genetic tampering to better survive on their toxic and lifeless world. Lifespans have been greatly increased, almost tripled, and most diseases and genetic issues have been eradicated completely. Toxin filtration, healing, and immune systems have been turbocharged, a necessity on a world where the very air has become slightly corrosive. Bone and muscle density were boosted to deal with gravitational concerns, and most Novsoy can survive with much lower levels of both air and nutrients, for a lower-maintenance laborer. In addition, most Novsoy can see in the dark, and require less sleep, to facilitate working long shifts in lightness places. Fertility was increased to better supplement the workforce. The Novsoy are conformists by design, trained to blindly follow Party ideology and react with extreme violence to those who would refuse it. For most, dissention is literally unthinkable. All of this is has had a marked effect on the Novsoy: They breathe more slowly and quietly than a regular human, display eyeshine not unlike an animal and rarely blink, and eat very little very quickly. In addition, the bodily fluids of most Novsoy are toxic and all Novsoy are slightly radioactive.



For as strong as their history of genetic modification has made them, however, it has come at a cost. Unable to stop the massive birth rate and possessing little in the way of natural deaths, Gagarin is buckling under a population in the trillions. Soon, even it’s massive capacity will be depleted. Something must change. More land must be taken, more cities built. It is time for the Astral Soviet to truly stake its claim among the stars. For the People! For Communism! For Stalin!

Okay, there’s a bit more about my nation. I figured it would be mostly character driven, through diplomats, security advisers, or even USSNS civilians and colonists meeting with government and military figures, and go to a nation-based RP is something like war broke out. Anyone capable of deciphering and replying to the message would have a vanguard team shot to their planet to communicate better (characters meeting face to face), and it would start from there, with the ‘ambassadors’, a mix of soldiers and civilians attempting to gain a bit of land for colonization . I’m writing Novyy Soyuz as ‘sleeping giant’ type of scenario. They’re massive and a significant threat, but not considering open hostility for the time being.

Is this what you meant? If you need anything else or have any questions, please let me know!

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Postby Ruskland-Preuben » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:00 pm

Anybody interested in a suicide bomber from my nation, who is a Cthulhist, bombs a major church somewhere? This is to flesh out some lore for my religion, Cthulhism. I wanna see the condemnations, and the wars that might come out of it.
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Postby Crysuko » Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:22 pm

Ruskland-Preuben wrote:Anybody interested in a suicide bomber from my nation, who is a Cthulhist, bombs a major church somewhere? This is to flesh out some lore for my religion, Cthulhism. I wanna see the condemnations, and the wars that might come out of it.

I'd be happy to partake in this, but seeing as how my country is atheist, swap church for any other building of significance.
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Xilonite wrote: cookies are heresy.

Kelinfort wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

"No one is safe, not even your most vulnerable and insecure!"

Cesopium wrote:Welp let's hope armies of 10 million don't just roam around and Soviet their way through everything.

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Postby Ella2 6 » Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:46 pm

Crysuko wrote:I'd be happy to partake in this, but seeing as how my country is atheist, swap church for any other building of significance.

Try the National Science Museum.

Works every time. ;)
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Postby Crysuko » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:14 pm

i'd like to do a civil war based roleplay. my nation is in the middle of it, and you can choose to back a certain faction or the government, and it plays out from there.
Quotes:
Xilonite wrote: cookies are heresy.

Kelinfort wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

"No one is safe, not even your most vulnerable and insecure!"

Cesopium wrote:Welp let's hope armies of 10 million don't just roam around and Soviet their way through everything.

Yugoslav Memes wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Ur mom has value

one week ban for flaming xd

Dumb Ideologies wrote:Much better than the kulak smoothies. Their texture was suspiciously grainy.

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Postby Mohns » Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:22 am

Crysuko wrote:i'd like to do a civil war based roleplay. my nation is in the middle of it, and you can choose to back a certain faction or the government, and it plays out from there.

I am interested, but want to know more about your nation.

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Postby Crysuko » Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:57 am

Mohns wrote:
Crysuko wrote:i'd like to do a civil war based roleplay. my nation is in the middle of it, and you can choose to back a certain faction or the government, and it plays out from there.

I am interested, but want to know more about your nation.

Basically a communist dictatorship that tries to be benevolent, has lost its way in favour of military and economic expansion, leaving people to be treated as a resource rather than something to be truly cared for
Quotes:
Xilonite wrote: cookies are heresy.

Kelinfort wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

"No one is safe, not even your most vulnerable and insecure!"

Cesopium wrote:Welp let's hope armies of 10 million don't just roam around and Soviet their way through everything.

Yugoslav Memes wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Ur mom has value

one week ban for flaming xd

Dumb Ideologies wrote:Much better than the kulak smoothies. Their texture was suspiciously grainy.

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Postby Mohns » Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:10 pm

Crysuko wrote:
Mohns wrote:I am interested, but want to know more about your nation.

Basically a communist dictatorship that tries to be benevolent, has lost its way in favour of military and economic expansion, leaving people to be treated as a resource rather than something to be truly cared for

How big is it? and what are the civil war factions?

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Postby Crysuko » Wed Aug 02, 2017 6:05 pm

Population is just over a billion people, and th factions are listed in the factbook
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=cry ... /id=857280
Quotes:
Xilonite wrote: cookies are heresy.

Kelinfort wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

"No one is safe, not even your most vulnerable and insecure!"

Cesopium wrote:Welp let's hope armies of 10 million don't just roam around and Soviet their way through everything.

Yugoslav Memes wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Ur mom has value

one week ban for flaming xd

Dumb Ideologies wrote:Much better than the kulak smoothies. Their texture was suspiciously grainy.

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Postby The Manticoran Empire » Wed Aug 02, 2017 6:26 pm

Crysuko wrote:i'd like to do a civil war based roleplay. my nation is in the middle of it, and you can choose to back a certain faction or the government, and it plays out from there.

Sounds interesting. Proxy warfare, eh?
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Postby Crysuko » Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:34 pm

The Manticoran Empire wrote:
Crysuko wrote:i'd like to do a civil war based roleplay. my nation is in the middle of it, and you can choose to back a certain faction or the government, and it plays out from there.

Sounds interesting. Proxy warfare, eh?

That's the idea, yes
Quotes:
Xilonite wrote: cookies are heresy.

Kelinfort wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

"No one is safe, not even your most vulnerable and insecure!"

Cesopium wrote:Welp let's hope armies of 10 million don't just roam around and Soviet their way through everything.

Yugoslav Memes wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Ur mom has value

one week ban for flaming xd

Dumb Ideologies wrote:Much better than the kulak smoothies. Their texture was suspiciously grainy.

Official thread euthanologist
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Postby Mohns » Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:01 am

Crysuko wrote:Population is just over a billion people, and th factions are listed in the factbook
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=cry ... /id=857280

ok, the it is too big for me to be involved in.

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Postby Crysuko » Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:28 am

shall I make a thread?
Quotes:
Xilonite wrote: cookies are heresy.

Kelinfort wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

"No one is safe, not even your most vulnerable and insecure!"

Cesopium wrote:Welp let's hope armies of 10 million don't just roam around and Soviet their way through everything.

Yugoslav Memes wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Ur mom has value

one week ban for flaming xd

Dumb Ideologies wrote:Much better than the kulak smoothies. Their texture was suspiciously grainy.

Official thread euthanologist
I USE Qs INSTEAD OF Qs

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Postby Hochzoll » Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:07 am

Crysuko wrote:shall I make a thread?


Make the thread, I'll join :)

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Crysuko
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Postby Crysuko » Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:21 pm

Quotes:
Xilonite wrote: cookies are heresy.

Kelinfort wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A terrorist attack on a disabled center doesn't make a lot of sense, unless to show no one is safe.

This will take some time to figure out, i am afraid.

"No one is safe, not even your most vulnerable and insecure!"

Cesopium wrote:Welp let's hope armies of 10 million don't just roam around and Soviet their way through everything.

Yugoslav Memes wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Ur mom has value

one week ban for flaming xd

Dumb Ideologies wrote:Much better than the kulak smoothies. Their texture was suspiciously grainy.

Official thread euthanologist
I USE Qs INSTEAD OF Qs

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