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A quaint section of space is about to be set on fire - the Federal Republics of Khaliyya, on the surface level, is the picture of ideal living in the future. The larger nation, sprouting out of the Sabya system having expanded from there, is split into three republics representing their own cultures and holding the autonomy to make their own decisions in many areas beyond the rule of the federal government. Its bustling cities and spaceports enjoy wealth from mining the local resources, and the federal military has grown in strength over the years to fend off threats ranging from pirates and corsairs to a historical terror of the Khaliyyan people, the more primitive xeno race located nearby known as the Djahn. However, despite the spreading prosperity of the democratic system, trouble is brewing behind the scenes and the nation itself is set to be shaken to its core...
The year is 3346 according to the Sabyan Calendar, and the Federal Republics are presented with a crossroads - the big tent but vaguely conservative Solidarity & Progress Party is the largest across the three republics, and looks to maintain the status quo without making drastic moves in any direction. Its candidate, Masur Soltani, appears to be the front runner in the year's elections for Commissioner, the head of state position of the Federal Republics. On the other hand, the nationalist Khaliyyan League aligns far more with the right wing of the SPP and has progressed to the final stages of the Commissioner election with its own candidate Timian Matheo, a fiery speaker who promises to deliver larger gains on the economic front through the plundering of the Djahn and the retaking of what were once contested territories lost to a brutal attacker... Now that Khaliyya is the more advanced between the two civilizations, the subject of the Djahn and what should be done to deal with them has become more of a controversial subject across the various parties.
Soltani and the SPP appear to win the election by a safe margin, but trouble begins to brew when it only takes a week for rumors to start circulating through the party headquarters; rumors that everything isn't as it seems and that the result may have been the outcome of a sophisticated attack which has never been seen before. This is confirmed when agents working for Nadra Konda, the leader of the neoliberal faction of the SPP, break into the party headquarters in the middle of the night and retrieve a copy of an advanced computer virus from the building's servers. The news soon hits the streets, and suddenly, the Federal Republics are faced with one of the biggest scandals in their history.
The scandal will not just pit party against party, but perhaps even republic against republic - the nation, after all, is made of three parts with differing outlooks. The original republic, Sabya, is a revanchist phantom of the past that is now rising again and aiming to assert a strong Sabyan identity once again while dominating its xeno enemy nearby and raising the status of its formerly monarchistic aristocrat class. Oshen, which holds the western flank of the Federal Republic, is a borderline stratocracy which actively courts the federal military and holds a pragmatist outlook on decision making, while the southern Cantian Republic has some of Khaliyya's best examples of glimmering skylines and metropolises that have grown rich off business.
In the distance of the Delta Quadrant, the watchful eye of Khaliyya's historical neighbor, the capitalist and democratic Einotaiyan Star Union - the land of the eternal sun - watches the situation with interest and potentially even with opportunism. Relations between the countries have reached a stable position by now, but in the event of a power vacuum or a regime change in Khaliyya, things could change. All of these interests intersect - but sometimes clash, too. And with the matter of the Djahn added on top of everything else, 3347 and beyond are set to be some of the most turbulent years of the Republics...
This is a semi-closed RP involving the events following the most recent election in the Federal Republics of Khaliyya. The core effort here is divided among multiple players. I myself am playing the Sabyan Republic, Durmatagno is playing the Oshenian Republic, and Lunas Legion is playing the Cantian Republic. The focus, however, is more on character actions and how they impact the nation rather than making national decisions from the top down like a strategy focused RP. In the future, there will also likely be human-xenos conflict and a possible international response to that.
Those who are interested in jumping into this in some way, either trying to influence the internal situation or intervene in the future xenos conflict when the plot moves towards that, can get in touch on Discord and figure out their involvement. However, for the sake of consistency, nations that are exceptionally higher tier won't be considered. That's not to say that any strong nation wouldn't be allowed, but Khaliyya is a relatively grounded nation that doesn't go too far beyond standard sci fi tech and it wouldn't be much of an actual matchup to deal with a nation that's throwing around entire multiverses and such.
Also, keeping with the tone of the thread is important. If the main point of your nation's activities in the galaxy is to jump into conflicts and police other nations for committing wrong actions such as attacking xenos, you should consider your reasoning for wanting to join the thread. Characters are king in this story and we welcome character narratives that oppose our nation - but not giant intervention actions that are barely supported by story and are more for the sake of PvP or the meta belief that the galaxy needs to be policed. Think of following politicians dealing with the situation from their office, journalists that might be covering it in the field, the captain of a vessel that's been dispatched to battle, individual soldiers or the officers handing them orders, and things like that rather than just showing your top generals ordering an invasion.