Mass Effect: Embers [Complete]

[The Orson Empire]

G-Tech, are there any lingering traces of the biological weapon used on Amaterasu? Meant to ask this after you posted about it.

[Kinistian]

Hah, that's definitely generous of you to lay it out like that, Kinistian
I have been thinking of overtly stating that things are not nearly "stable" on Heshtok, and not all the Vorcha are so easily """capitulated""" to the Duumvirate. That there's still trouble afoot, and there'll be trouble afoot for a long time still.
I could certainly take inspiration from what you've put down, but I certainly wouldn't copy it

You are free to copy it or use it to your content. If you want to play Shariz and his opposition forces(with Gs approval) I don’t mind playing Vorcha insurgents,

[G-Tech Corporation]

G-Tech, are there any lingering traces of the biological weapon used on Amaterasu? Meant to ask this after you posted about it.

Nothing that your ground parties have noticed, nope.

[The Epic Notepad of GrangerAirstrike]

You are free to copy it or use it to your content. If you want to play Shariz and his opposition forces(with Gs approval) I don’t mind playing Vorcha insurgents,

We'll see :P

I think I could handle potential Heshtok conflict RP by my lonesome, with perhaps the occasional "update" from G-tec's own authority though. Thanks for the offer nonetheless!

[The Orson Empire]

G-Tech, are there any lingering traces of the biological weapon used on Amaterasu? Meant to ask this after you posted about it.

Nothing that your ground parties have noticed, nope.

Is it now a near-garden world?

[G-Tech Corporation]

Nothing that your ground parties have noticed, nope.

Is it now a near-garden world?

It is, unfortunately - though I'm sure a bit of biosphere reconstruction could turn that around.

[Kinistian]

You are free to copy it or use it to your content. If you want to play Shariz and his opposition forces(with Gs approval) I don’t mind playing Vorcha insurgents,

We'll see :P

I think I could handle potential Heshtok conflict RP by my lonesome, with perhaps the occasional "update" from G-tec's own authority though. Thanks for the offer nonetheless!

“VORCHA MANY! VORCHA STRONG! VORCHA KILL ALIENS DIE DIE”

After typing that I realize Skaven and Vorcha speech is strangely similar.

[The National Dominion of Hungary]

Pardon the bare-bones post, pretty busy week at work

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Oof, The Human Systems Alliance agreeing to that all that to 'reincorporate' the Shanix Directorate is quite damning. Number 6 is quite sad, specifically. The same clause that 'prevents' ethnic cleansing also carries out ethnic cleansing.

I think I'll be going for some Space Bonpartism out of the Eagle Nebula honestly.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Pardon the bare-bones post, pretty busy week at work

No worries, happens.

Oof, The Human Systems Alliance agreeing to that all that to 'reincorporate' the Shanix Directorate is quite damning. Number 6 is quite sad, specifically. The same clause that 'prevents' ethnic cleansing also carries out ethnic cleansing.

I think I'll be going for some Space Bonpartism out of the Eagle Nebula honestly.

Truly the darkest timeline for the multicultural galactic zeitgeist. Only the rational egalitarianism of the Consensus can save the organics from themselves, it seems.

[Elerian]

Kinda lookin like Noveria's about to get hot!

[The Orson Empire]

Oof, The Human Systems Alliance agreeing to that all that to 'reincorporate' the Shanix Directorate is quite damning. Number 6 is quite sad, specifically. The same clause that 'prevents' ethnic cleansing also carries out ethnic cleansing.

I think I'll be going for some Space Bonpartism out of the Eagle Nebula honestly.

It is grim, but also quite a good deal from Shanxi's perspective. The Alliance basically folded and gave the Directorate everything they wanted.

Are you planning to join as a human faction?

[North America Inc]

It's nice to see this up and running again.

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And so, the Quarian Migrant Fleet became the Quarian State, vast sections of the station were cleared and meticulously disinfected before being open to Quarian settlement. Hydroponic gardens were set up and for the first time in centuries, the strict population control measures were lifted and natalist incentives provided, finally, the Quarian population could grow again, at least for a time as many ships of the Civilian Fleet were emptied, clan after clan moving to the station. After centuries, the Quarian race finally found safe harbor and Omega was no more, the station began to be called Tash'Var'Ishaghn by it's new masters, or simply, Journey's End. Still, while the Quarians had more living space and infrastructure to support themselve now than they had since the collapse of the old Quarian nation and their near-extinction at the hands of the Geth, the new Quarian State faces an uphill struggle. The Galaxy is still broken and battered by the Reaper War, and riddled with danger and instability in it's wake. A bit more than 17 million Quarian now live side by side with almost 2 million individuals of other species, the remnants of Omega's pre-war population and the threat that some pathogen can infect the station's Quarian population and jump to the Liveships, leaving the native Omegans to be placed under a harsh and increasingly unpopular quarantine regimen. Still, with their control over one of the most strategic place in the Terminus and a strong fleet, the Quarian State can do much to secure a new future for the Quarian species... should they play their cards well and pick their fights and friends with great care. Or... time will tell if they bit off more than they could chew...

Infrastructure and Claimed Worlds: Officialy, the Quarian State claims sovereign dominion over the Omega Nebula.

Omega Nebula - Sahabarik System.
*: Omega Station (Major Space Station) - 2 Urban Areas / 3 Industrial Complexes / 5 Mining Complexes

Lol of course, Aria can never hold Omega.

[G-Tech Corporation]

It's nice to see this up and running again.

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And so, the Quarian Migrant Fleet became the Quarian State, vast sections of the station were cleared and meticulously disinfected before being open to Quarian settlement. Hydroponic gardens were set up and for the first time in centuries, the strict population control measures were lifted and natalist incentives provided, finally, the Quarian population could grow again, at least for a time as many ships of the Civilian Fleet were emptied, clan after clan moving to the station. After centuries, the Quarian race finally found safe harbor and Omega was no more, the station began to be called Tash'Var'Ishaghn by it's new masters, or simply, Journey's End. Still, while the Quarians had more living space and infrastructure to support themselve now than they had since the collapse of the old Quarian nation and their near-extinction at the hands of the Geth, the new Quarian State faces an uphill struggle. The Galaxy is still broken and battered by the Reaper War, and riddled with danger and instability in it's wake. A bit more than 17 million Quarian now live side by side with almost 2 million individuals of other species, the remnants of Omega's pre-war population and the threat that some pathogen can infect the station's Quarian population and jump to the Liveships, leaving the native Omegans to be placed under a harsh and increasingly unpopular quarantine regimen. Still, with their control over one of the most strategic place in the Terminus and a strong fleet, the Quarian State can do much to secure a new future for the Quarian species... should they play their cards well and pick their fights and friends with great care. Or... time will tell if they bit off more than they could chew...

Infrastructure and Claimed Worlds: Officialy, the Quarian State claims sovereign dominion over the Omega Nebula.

Omega Nebula - Sahabarik System.
*: Omega Station (Major Space Station) - 2 Urban Areas / 3 Industrial Complexes / 5 Mining Complexes

Lol of course, Aria can never hold Omega.

As is tradition!

I don’t suppose I can interest you in a faction, North?

[Ovstylap]

SNIP

Many thanks for all of your answers they were most helpful and mostly confirmed what I believed.

Cheers,
Ovsti

[The Orson Empire]

The Batarians in Exodus Cluster are lucky they encountered Alliance ships first. If it was the Directorate, war would have broken out immediately.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Oof, The Human Systems Alliance agreeing to that all that to 'reincorporate' the Shanix Directorate is quite damning. Number 6 is quite sad, specifically. The same clause that 'prevents' ethnic cleansing also carries out ethnic cleansing.

I think I'll be going for some Space Bonpartism out of the Eagle Nebula honestly.

It is grim, but also quite a good deal from Shanxi's perspective. The Alliance basically folded and gave the Directorate everything they wanted.

Are you planning to join as a human faction?

Yes.

and yeah its a great deal from for the shanxi, which is why said human faction is going to consider the HSA as categorically ilegitmate and seek its overthrow.

[Kinistian]

I’m getting vibes from every corner I’m playing the allaince just wrong apparently-_-

[Kinistian]

Should the alliance be imperialists that don’t tolerate deviations of human ideology from its own?

Just say so I can easily switch gears , won’t be that hard, big election coming up in Local.

Or should I continue the “Alliance” aspect of the HSA, so there is a more dynamic aspect to human civilization than some boring monotone form of government where your either apart of sol or considered separatists that need to brought back under the warm embrace of Sol.

[The Orson Empire]

It is grim, but also quite a good deal from Shanxi's perspective. The Alliance basically folded and gave the Directorate everything they wanted.

Are you planning to join as a human faction?

Yes.

and yeah its a great deal from for the shanxi, which is why said human faction is going to consider the HSA as categorically ilegitmate and seek its overthrow.

Looks like a war is going to break out. This is shaping up to be really eventful.

[The Orson Empire]

Should the alliance be imperialists that don’t tolerate deviations of human ideology from its own?

Just say so I can easily switch gears , won’t be that hard, big election coming up in Local.

Or should I continue the “Alliance” aspect of the HSA, so there is a more dynamic aspect to human civilization than some boring monotone form of government where your either apart of sol or considered separatists that need to brought back under the warm embrace of Sol.

Well seeing as the Alliance has already agreed to Shanxi's concessions, I'd say it's the latter. Though, Shanxi will be pushing the Alliance towards being imperials via the Terra Firma party, which will be participating in these elections.

[Kinistian]

Hmmm you know we never discuss your taxes.

[The Orson Empire]

Hmmm you know we never discuss your taxes.

Can Shanxi start paying that after the relay is fixed?

[Kinistian]

Sure backed taxes are thing

Let’s see first
22% credit and material sounds fair get all that autonomy and space to yourself .

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Faction: The Commonwealth of Eagle Nebula, or, The Commonwealth

Leader: Secretary-General Antinea Boaventura

Diplomatic Relations Summary: The Commonwealth seeks peaceful development and interaction with its neighbours for the most part, however is opposed strongly opposed to the Hanar presence in the Eagle Nebula and demands their withdrawl.

Military Summary: As a society birthed in conflict, both on Anhur during its revolutionary war against their enslaves and on Korlus with its troubled past as a den of criminal activity, along with the mercanries attrached as a consequence of both circumstances, it is no coincidence that Commonwealth's Military is both large, capable and balanced. Infact, it lay claims to having one of the few militaries in the galaxy to have a credible ability to in offensive warfare, up to and including planetary assaults. The military has also served as an outlet for the highly ambitious coldly calculating, an outlet where they're forced to put their lives on the line rather than simply manipulate other human beings from the rear. This has so far proven to be healthy for both the military and civillian sectors of the commonwealth. However, given that the commonwealth isn't at war, its taken to saving costs by arming its ground forces with substandard weaponry, prefer field a state-of-the-art fleet.

History: The Commonwealth's origins lay in the establishment of a mixed colony of Humans and Batarians in 2165 on Anhur. The batarian aristocracy, making use of the excuse of 'cultural differences' used of slavery on the planet, making it exceedingly difficult for human businesses and workers to compete. The human corporate aristocracy, lacking in heroic vigor, rather than face down the evil of slavery on the planet, sought instead to race to the bottom in an abuse of sentient rights. They would effectively illegalize unemployment, by pressing those that could not provide proof of an employer or sufficent asset ownership into prison labor under stringent anti-vagrancy laws. To make matters worse, theu would move to abolish minimum wages. The combined effect was to functionally expand the conditions of slavery to all non-batarian populations.

The Human professional employed middle classes of the planet would develop an immense discomfort with the situation. When they looked 'up' the class hierachy, they saw a Corporate Aristocracy that was weak when it came to opposing the practice slavery excercised by batarian the and tyrannical when it came to imposing it on the rest of the population. When they looked down the class ladder they despised the ease at which the lower classes often accepted life underenslavement over death in a fight for liberty. Yet they also felt a tremendous pain when seeing their suffering. When the looked to themselves, they developed an immense fear of falling into the lower classes and an anger at the upper classes for dooming them to these circumstances

So it wasn't long before sections of the middle classes started networking with and organizing the lower classes against their abuse. At least in regards to those not in prison forced labor, there still existed enough civil and political rights to organize workers, engage in labor action and build mutual aid organizations. Even as the legal system continued to change to supress these actions, they would still be organized, peacefully and deliberately. By 2176, the repression grew great enough that these cadres of peaceful would, having arm themselves, turn instead to revolutionary violence. Over the next couple years, these revolutionaries would fight a brutal struggle against their opressors, who, despite their greater resources, they would succeed at overthrowing in 2178.

The resulting political order was a curious one. The assets of the corporations of old, such that they still existed through all the destruction of damage, would be expropriated. They would be turned over to the control over those who worked inside of them. Furthermore, the old mutual aid groups created during the pre-rebellion days would continue in operation, linking and organzing how these workplaces interacted with eachother and distributed the products they delivered. While there was no singular united indeological drive to this end, what had in effect been created was a society that was functionally anarchist in form.

This order, such that it could be called an 'order' would exist through the reaper wars and the destruction of the mass relays. But it would be the last event in particular that would see it changed. While the relative poverty of the colony as a result of its destruction civil war had kept away external forces, the planet its self was still quite rich. So when the recycling world of Korlus found its self with markedly less business, to say the least as a result of the destruction of the Mass Relays, their eyes turned greedily to Anhur. Notably, the planet had already been deeply divided and had a horrible murder rate, meaning that in this time of chaos, criminal gangs organized themselves into political factions competing for power.

As a consequence, they did not go to Anhur as a unified body, but as competing factions, a fact that saved Anhur from domination and allowed instead for it to act almost as an equal, if not advantaged, actor in the political struggles within and between the planets. Eventually, the hold forms of power and organization would collapse in Korlus and gradually it would end up looking more as it did in Anhur, with albeit a more violent edge. For there part, The people of Anhur, had been slowly but surely developing pockets of martial culture, some mercaneries that would have otherwise left the planet after the Anhur Revolution and before the collapse of the mass relay system had established familial ties. They often would find themselves running the security organizations on the planets, and as ties with Korlus strengthened, their relative importance only went up.

Starting in the mid 2190s, something particularly notable happened. A young biotic gifted daughter of such a mercenary background, Antinea Boaventura, was developing a following and renown within the popular of Anhur, some of it leaking to Korlus as well. A highly capable administator and military leader, she had a way of bending the 'horizontal' features of Anhur and Korlus organization around her, that lead to her maintaining a considerable amount of 'vertical' capacity for command. It wasn't too long before some people Anhur recognized this as threat to their form of governance and saught to 'encourage' her, to head over to Korlus and use her martial talents to deal with some more violent and troublesome groups. On Korlus, Atinea would find herself treated with a surprising degree of acceptance from someone from Anhur, as she met and exceed expectations they had for her and her units of fighters.

So much so, that in the following years after it became clear that the mass relay system was getting back up and running, the populars of Anhur and Korlus alike were rather concerend that as the galaxy reconnected, it was inevitable that outside groups would seek to step into the region and muscle them out of their existing positions, if not annex the planets outright. Yet they had little hope of maintaining any of their independence without some sort of formal unification. Antinea, oppoertunistic and power craving if nothing else, sensed an opportunity here, she would serve, in an offical capacity as the 'Secretary-General'' of a formal body that included Anhur and Korlus, along with their holdings throughout the Eagle Nebula. This Secretary-General would be, in theory, responsible purely for the security of the commonwealth and those economic function sassociated with maintaining its security.

In practice, it made Antinea Boaventura the only individual with any formal, sovereign political power. While she could not, at least not yet, govern as an absolute leader, the informal nature of the commonwealth combined with her very real monopoly of force mean't that something approaching a capacity for absolute leadership was a matter of instituions and people aligend with her slowly but surely perculating through the commonwealth. That plus the fact that increasing her power was, remains and contineus to be a primary concern of Atinea. This is not to say that the Secetary-General is without beliefs outside of the perpetuation of her own power, if she didn't, she'd have difficulty riding general 'competance' to her position in the first place. She reflects much of the humanitarian and universalist impulse that gave birth to the revolution on Anhur in the first place. She believes in those values so strongly, she things that they must to be protected and advanced, even at the expense of 'democracy' or 'peace.'

Infrastructure and Claimed Worlds:

Amun System
Sekhmet - Gas Giant
Sobek - Gas Giant
Anhur - Garden World
Industrial Complexes [4] (80)
Major Industrial Complex (50)
Neith - Non-Hostile Terrestrial
Industrial Complexes [2] (40)
Major Industrial Complex (50)
Bast - Gas Giant
Orbital Mining Station (100)

(320)

Imir System
Osalri - Barren World
Outpost (30)
Korlus - Garden World
Industrial Complexes [4] (80)
Major Industrial Complex (50)
Asteroid Belt
Quodis - Gas Giant
Gregas - Barren World
Outpost (30)

(190)

Malgus System
Uzin - Gas Giant
Wrill - Barren World
Outpost (30)
Flett - Hostile Terrestrial
Mining Complexes [5] (75)
Major Mining Complex (50)

(155)

Strabo System
Antigar - Gas Giant
Orbital Mining Station (100)

(100)


Military:
a) Terrestrial Forces:

1st Commonwealth Field Army [Anhur]
3 Infantry Divisions, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (24)
1 YMIR Mech Division, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (16)
2 Amoured Divisions, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (40)
3 Artillery Battalions, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (24)
1 Combat Engineer Battalion, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (6)

2nd Commonwealth Field Army [Korlus]
3 Infantry Divisions, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (24)
1 YMIR Mech Division, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (16)
2 Amoured Divisions, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (40)
3 Artillery Battalions, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (24)
1 Combat Engineer Battalion, Low Quality Weapons - -20% (6)


b) Space Fleets:

1st Fleet of the Commonwealth [In Amun]

Heavy
2 Dreadnaught (243)
Enhanced GARDIAN Lasers - +15%
High Velocity Mass Driver - +20%

Medium
4 Light Cruisers (135)
High Velocity Mass Driver - +20%
Enhanced GARDIAN Lasers - +15%

8 Frigates (96)
Enhanced GARDIAN Lasers - +15%
Boarding Troops - +5%

Light
8 Corvettes (43.2)
High Velocity Mass Driver - +20%
Disruptor Torpedo Banks - +15%

4 Interceptors (42)
Redundant Kinetic Barriers - +25%
Ablative Armor - +25%

4 Mining Ships (200)

2 Transports (50)

1 Assault Landers (3)

Reserve:

3 Industry Points

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