Attn FT Players. (RP Rallying Thread)

[Hiachijan]

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What an interesting and thoroughly well designed species.

Hey, thanks! It's been my brainchild for a couple of years now. They've been sittin' around for a while, so I've been looking to do some more RP's with them.

[Scinan]

Nation Name: The Incorporated Colonial Tribes of Scinan
RP Category: Any
Prosposed RP Idea (Not Required): Any kind of first contact scenario is a real blast, but the meat and gristle of a good Scinan story really revolves around trying to capture and contrast their essential alienness against more conventional nations and cultures, especially to the point that other cultures conflict with them despite their good intentions. One particular hook is that Scinan, in adopting corporate personhood, also extended the right of personal incorporation, which leads to a situation in which the overwhelming majority of companies and their employees are owned by one another to varying degrees...effectively a bizarre, complex form of mutualistic slavery that might seem ethically abhorrent to any outsider from a more conventional culture, including those of other slavers.

A well-intentioned nation might try liberating some of Scinan's personnel, only to find themselves embroiled in a far more politically and economically complicated situation than they anticipated.

Kardashev Type: V

FTL?: Scinan employs a variety of transportation technologies depending on the distances and timescales involved. All vessels are equipped with chronospacial folding drives which are used both as a backup FTL unit and multifunction weapon suite.

Short Nation description:
More than a nation, Scinan sees itself as an ideal. And this is more than a matter of poetry...the Department of Government Services is essentially run by a vast system of administrative automation systems with an emergent synthetic intellect informed by the aggregate of it's constituency. People vote with their thoughts, actions and social media posts, shaping the mind of the state to the will of it's employees...and visa versa in a frighteningly efficient feedback loop.

To prevent stagnation, they constantly seek contact with new cultures and life-forms, seeking inspiration and new paradigm-shattering thought patterns to uplift and incorporate.

A bit like the Borg, if the Borg really valued your individual input to the point of being able to assign a dollar value to your opinion.

Other Notes:
Scinan really can work well in any venue at any tech level, being more concerned about cultural and developmental matters than the raw power of their technology per se. They are comprised of a wide variety of subsidiary/client cultures at various levels of development, and of the few laws they have most govern their interactions and uplift processes with new nations they encounter. Not all subsidiaries are as cooperative within Scinan as others, and GS itself normally only intervenes if something threatens infrastructure or public works, leaving local matters to be settled locally.

[Luxcentra]

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[Great Aletia]

I'd also be up for first contact and trade RPs at some point. The infrastructure at the Delta-Aletia wormhole has to get built somehow.