Lord_Herobrine
Back in the Saddle
I already claimed Mexico guys, let's not crowd me here.
Stick south of the border, and you are good
Flying Blind - A world-building exercise
- Thread starter CivOasis
- Start date
Stick south of the border, and you are good
Once I get 10 complete sign-ups (7 so far), I'll start off the world-building. Everyone else will get included in the RNG (and sign-ups are by no means closed), but any orders will be rejected until you complete both your stats and your history.
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
Claiming Bavaria. Capital: Stuttgart. Government type: Kratocracy.
More later. What's the time period?
More later. What's the time period?
Lord_Herobrine
Back in the Saddle
Time period is fuzzy, but we have established that we have modern technology and is a few hundred years after the "Collapse."
I have an idea: a war between the East(East, Southeast, and Central Asia) and the West (the Americas, Europe, Oceania) over the East's takeover of foreign owned factories turned into WWIII. Horrors of the future era were used, such as nuclear devices, chemicals, lasers, robots, biological weapons, spacecraft, and others. 80% of humanity died. Humanity fell apart and turn to the tribal society of the ancient era. but time has passed and people are beginning to the societys of pre-war times.
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
I prefer the 'the world ends with a whimper' scenario myself.
Aight, here's where I'm stepping in with an explanation.
I do have a generic overview of what happened, and part of the plan is to allow players to spitball, and use some of your ideas (with amendments) to build an "official" version of events.
That being said, a couple things:
By this point, I'm going to say that there were no nuclear weapons. The "Collapse" was, at least in part, rooted in major climate changes, resource depopulation and conflict, and major pandemics (bioterrorism a possibility). This collapse caused a general retreat into city-state type structures, and we're now seeing the first re-emergence of major nations. While we're at it, the Collapse isn't a sudden event, it's more of a long downwards spiral.
Fly with that how you wish, feel free to add and elaborate, but there's a baseline. It's called "Flying Blind" for a reason...
I do have a generic overview of what happened, and part of the plan is to allow players to spitball, and use some of your ideas (with amendments) to build an "official" version of events.
That being said, a couple things:
By this point, I'm going to say that there were no nuclear weapons. The "Collapse" was, at least in part, rooted in major climate changes, resource depopulation and conflict, and major pandemics (bioterrorism a possibility). This collapse caused a general retreat into city-state type structures, and we're now seeing the first re-emergence of major nations. While we're at it, the Collapse isn't a sudden event, it's more of a long downwards spiral.
Fly with that how you wish, feel free to add and elaborate, but there's a baseline. It's called "Flying Blind" for a reason...
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
Full sign-up will be done tomorrow before 12:00 CST.
THE SHANGHAI COMMUNE
Name: The Shanghai CommuneCapital Shanghai
Color: Lime Green
GOVERNMENT
StratocracySocialism
Nationalism
Isolationism
Authoritarianism
History/Bio
After the collapse, Shanghai, as with the rest of the PRC lost it's great riches of the past. Great skyscrapers lay abandoned. The city which once was the largest city with over 19 million people in it, was like dust in the wind.
100 A.C. (After Collapse):tribalpeople began to repopulate the city, wonder what the tall skyscrapers are, just like a group of people in a cargo cult and a plane. however the population of the new people of Shanghai began to expand. it's great placement at the head of one of the longest rivers in the world. The city population grew from 500 to 10,000 in 50 years. trade flourished and the city hadn't seen such great riches in years.
200 A.C.: Technology in Shanghai had reached the medieval era. Shining armor and Feudalism was all the craze. New farming techniques let the peasants of Shanghai produce more crops. also better ships allowed greater movement up and down the river. huge markets filled the city as merchants bartered for goods. A kingdom was found and reign for a century and a half
350 A.C. A new industrial era began with huge steel mills being set up. but a group of people were angry with the effects of the industrial era on their life. the leader of this group General Zhauo Auoang. they organized a coup d'etat against the king and succeded due to public support and made
a Stratocracy.
Modern times: The commune is surely a reborn pheonix. the times of the past have surely been reborn.
Terran Empress
Hornet
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
Nation Name: Order of the Belltower.
Starting City: Stuttgart.
Color: Grey.
Government Type: Will detail later.
Economic: Socialism
Social: Militarism
Foreign: Interventionism. Multinationalism.
Domestic: Authoritarianism.
What befell Germany? Once it was one of the greatest nations in the European Union, if not the world. Now, only a select few people even know what those two words actually mean. For the vast majority of the people that walks upon this earth now, the idea of a united Europe is an idea as ludicrous as suggesting that the moon is made out of cheese and the world for them is simply the city, the village, or the tribe that they are born in. People with even the tiniest idea of the civilization that once was look out upon the waste, settling their gaze firmly on the ruins of old and the skeletons of the people who once lived in them. Often, they wave their arms at the desolation and claim that the greatest of human civilization was nothing but an illusion. It shone for such a brief moment in time, compared to the vast timelessness of earth that it could very well have never existed.
Civilization, however, is a beautiful thing. It may have been brief in the timelessness of the world, but an empty world that glowed for the briefest moment in time is far superior to an empty world that never did. Whenever it becomes threatened, there will come those who will do all that they can to stop the light of civilization from being put out. 400 years ago, a group of intellectuals, the wealthy, and the influential gathered in Stuttgart. They were there to stop the fall of civilization, to hold back the darkness that was about to overcome the world. If they had met a hundred years, perhaps even fifty before, they may have been successful, but they did not. They were too late. Quickly, they understood that they could not save the world.
They could save Stuttgart, however. With the world, the nations, and entire cultures collapsing all around them, the group retreated to the city, barricading themselves in the most secure locations available. They fortified the city with mercenaries and soldiers of the failing nation to restore order and to keep the population down by stopping immigration and seized control of numerous renewable power plants around the area. Stuttgart became a bastion of civilization that would outlast the nation that birthed it. For hundreds of years, order was maintained on the street by legions of soldiers armed to the teeth with carefully-maintained pre-collapse era weapons. Advanced salvaged artillery pieces defended the city from those foolish enough to think that they could seize it. Factories kept operational through the electricity from local wind and solar plants, along with state-run entertainment programs keep the populace occupied and happy. The truly rebellious were quickly identified and disappeared.
Generations passed, but the emergency measures that were put in place by the original group remained. Rather, they became institutionalized by the new order that ruled the city: The Order of the Belltower. When the city reopened itself to the outside world exactly 100 years after the last meeting of the Germanic government, it was ruled by a thoroughly authoritarian government ruled by a council of 7 men and women, with a single Grand Architect at the lead.
For many years afterward, Stuttgart was kept afloat by intricately designed systems of trade with other communes nearby. They would provide the city with much needed food, scrap metal, rubber, and assorted pre-collapse relics and Stuttgart would provide them with much needed essentials of the modern post collapse era such as, ammunitions, and canned goods, along with few luxury items such as wine and beer from its brewaries.
Eventually, the tales of the city’s grandeur spread to the outside realms and many began to visit the city. Some even struck a deal with the city authorities to settle in one of the city’s abandoned suburbs, where they may enjoy the city’s military protection and entertainment broadcast from publicly owned TVs in exchange for farming and raising livestocks for the city.
Stuttgart became a beacon of civilization, as controlling and brutal as it was, in Germany. The ring of towns surrounding the great city, left abandoned after the collapse, was slowly repopulated by the immigrants and those from the city who finally had enough of the controlling presence of the Belltower Soldiers.
Government Structure:
Hierarchical rule based on Clearance Levels with strong meritocratic elements. Everybody working for the government of Stuttgart is given rankings and levels based upon their abilities and accomplishments. Particularly intelligent or useful individuals are promoted while others who commit serious failures are demoted or even removed from the organization entirely. At the top of the hierarchy is the Belltower’s State Council who possesses all legal, judicial, and executive powers of the city state.
The members of the state council, known as the Architects, do not belong to a specific creed or a faction within Stuttgart. Rather, they are selected evenly from the various political groups that comprise Stuttgart. Generals, professors, engineers, bureaucrats, chiefs of police, and judges alike can be found here. Any important decisions that affect Stuttgart and her holdings as a whole is made here by the simple process of a majority vote, as overseen by the Grand Architect.
At the top of the pyramid is the Grand Architect, who leads any discussions held by the State Council. Even though he or she does not possess any autocratic powers, the Grand Architect has the full rights to make any decisions that he or she may deem necessary in case that the State Council is unable to determine a course of action in time.
Starting City: Stuttgart.
Color: Grey.
Government Type: Will detail later.
Economic: Socialism
Social: Militarism
Foreign: Interventionism. Multinationalism.
Domestic: Authoritarianism.
What befell Germany? Once it was one of the greatest nations in the European Union, if not the world. Now, only a select few people even know what those two words actually mean. For the vast majority of the people that walks upon this earth now, the idea of a united Europe is an idea as ludicrous as suggesting that the moon is made out of cheese and the world for them is simply the city, the village, or the tribe that they are born in. People with even the tiniest idea of the civilization that once was look out upon the waste, settling their gaze firmly on the ruins of old and the skeletons of the people who once lived in them. Often, they wave their arms at the desolation and claim that the greatest of human civilization was nothing but an illusion. It shone for such a brief moment in time, compared to the vast timelessness of earth that it could very well have never existed.
Civilization, however, is a beautiful thing. It may have been brief in the timelessness of the world, but an empty world that glowed for the briefest moment in time is far superior to an empty world that never did. Whenever it becomes threatened, there will come those who will do all that they can to stop the light of civilization from being put out. 400 years ago, a group of intellectuals, the wealthy, and the influential gathered in Stuttgart. They were there to stop the fall of civilization, to hold back the darkness that was about to overcome the world. If they had met a hundred years, perhaps even fifty before, they may have been successful, but they did not. They were too late. Quickly, they understood that they could not save the world.
They could save Stuttgart, however. With the world, the nations, and entire cultures collapsing all around them, the group retreated to the city, barricading themselves in the most secure locations available. They fortified the city with mercenaries and soldiers of the failing nation to restore order and to keep the population down by stopping immigration and seized control of numerous renewable power plants around the area. Stuttgart became a bastion of civilization that would outlast the nation that birthed it. For hundreds of years, order was maintained on the street by legions of soldiers armed to the teeth with carefully-maintained pre-collapse era weapons. Advanced salvaged artillery pieces defended the city from those foolish enough to think that they could seize it. Factories kept operational through the electricity from local wind and solar plants, along with state-run entertainment programs keep the populace occupied and happy. The truly rebellious were quickly identified and disappeared.
Generations passed, but the emergency measures that were put in place by the original group remained. Rather, they became institutionalized by the new order that ruled the city: The Order of the Belltower. When the city reopened itself to the outside world exactly 100 years after the last meeting of the Germanic government, it was ruled by a thoroughly authoritarian government ruled by a council of 7 men and women, with a single Grand Architect at the lead.
For many years afterward, Stuttgart was kept afloat by intricately designed systems of trade with other communes nearby. They would provide the city with much needed food, scrap metal, rubber, and assorted pre-collapse relics and Stuttgart would provide them with much needed essentials of the modern post collapse era such as, ammunitions, and canned goods, along with few luxury items such as wine and beer from its brewaries.
Eventually, the tales of the city’s grandeur spread to the outside realms and many began to visit the city. Some even struck a deal with the city authorities to settle in one of the city’s abandoned suburbs, where they may enjoy the city’s military protection and entertainment broadcast from publicly owned TVs in exchange for farming and raising livestocks for the city.
Stuttgart became a beacon of civilization, as controlling and brutal as it was, in Germany. The ring of towns surrounding the great city, left abandoned after the collapse, was slowly repopulated by the immigrants and those from the city who finally had enough of the controlling presence of the Belltower Soldiers.
Government Structure:
Hierarchical rule based on Clearance Levels with strong meritocratic elements. Everybody working for the government of Stuttgart is given rankings and levels based upon their abilities and accomplishments. Particularly intelligent or useful individuals are promoted while others who commit serious failures are demoted or even removed from the organization entirely. At the top of the hierarchy is the Belltower’s State Council who possesses all legal, judicial, and executive powers of the city state.
The members of the state council, known as the Architects, do not belong to a specific creed or a faction within Stuttgart. Rather, they are selected evenly from the various political groups that comprise Stuttgart. Generals, professors, engineers, bureaucrats, chiefs of police, and judges alike can be found here. Any important decisions that affect Stuttgart and her holdings as a whole is made here by the simple process of a majority vote, as overseen by the Grand Architect.
At the top of the pyramid is the Grand Architect, who leads any discussions held by the State Council. Even though he or she does not possess any autocratic powers, the Grand Architect has the full rights to make any decisions that he or she may deem necessary in case that the State Council is unable to determine a course of action in time.
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
History/disorganized description done
Update 1
Spoiler Map :
Alright, if you've told me your capital, you're on the map. Keep in mind that if I don't have your history (and, in RS's case, your stats), your orders won't be accepted until it's been put up.
So, how this works: You all have one city. Below, all of you who have given me your policies have a certain number of expansion points (EP), which has been influenced by your various policies. Each EP point can be spent on a city (does not have to be in your territory, nor outside, but please be somewhat rational and/or explain), on your navy/army/airforce, or saved for later.
Spoiler Expansion Points :
A list of players (and what they're missing, if they haven't completed sign-ups yet) will be placed into the OP shortly, and I'll (eventually) create a streamlined version of the collective backstories. In the meantime, RP/place points/etc.
Mathalamus
Emperor of Mathalia
the King of Cyprus would want to spend the first couple years improving the lifestyle of its own 900.000 citizens. we did just brutally conquer the island, and now we have to fix the damages, and improve the standard of living.
all 14 EPs will be spent doing just that.
Also, we ask Sparta and Egypt if they are willing to trade with Cyprus.
all 14 EPs will be spent doing just that.
Also, we ask Sparta and Egypt if they are willing to trade with Cyprus.
mrrandomplayer
Hopeless Situation Warrior
EP Spending:
2 for the Army
4 for the Navy (where does civilian trade fall under?)
2 for the Air Force
8 will be spent for the improvement of Venice
The last three will be kept in reserve for a rainy day.
Many merchant families start exploring and looking for trade and other civilizations. They ask any other PCs they encounter to trade.
2 for the Army
4 for the Navy (where does civilian trade fall under?)
2 for the Air Force
8 will be spent for the improvement of Venice
The last three will be kept in reserve for a rainy day.
Many merchant families start exploring and looking for trade and other civilizations. They ask any other PCs they encounter to trade.
Deusselkerr
Warlord
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2012
- Messages
- 170
OOC: Sorry for the late sign up, lots of crap going on IRL. Not able to make any maps right now, either.
Capital: Santarém
Nation Name: Amazônia
Color: A light green
Government: Stratocracy
Economic: Capitalism
Social: Nationalism
Foreign: Expansionism, Imperialism
Domestic: Survivalism
[OOC: I'm not exactly sure on our time frame right now, so I'm going to roll with late-21st century] As the 21st century entered its golden years, the Amazon basin found itself virtually entirely deforested, against all attempts of preservation. Decades of political unrest benefited illegal loggers, many of whom made fortunes clearing land, selling not only its lumber but also its "property rights" to poor farmers. Poor decision after poor decision led to the greatest environmental catastrophe in human history, which was only exacerbated by global warming. The Amazon basin, barren of trees and stripped of its topsoil, eroded in only a matter of decades into a vastly different environment. Rivers spilled over as their banks lost height, and thousands of lakes sprouted all over the barren landscape. At the same time, new-growth forests began to gain a foothold on the small islands among those lakes, as the destructive path of humanity continued on to other regions, having used up the resources of the Amazon. Seemingly competing with the new saplings were vast swathes of desert islands in the truest sense of the word, eroded of all topsoil and therefore all life.
It is a radically different region, and only higher altitudes were largely unaffected geographically; many died despite the steady changes that were observed over the decades, and many relocated farther south or north or west. The largest surviving city is that of Santarém, which has adapted to the new Amazon basin by forming Amazônia. Intent on gaining control of the entire river-lake basin and fixing its issues, the Amazonians shall use whatever means necessary to achieve their goals, and tap the untold wealth they believe to be stored in the seemingly barren riverlands and lakelands of the Amazon.
OOC: This was all A-OK'ed by CivOasis. Sorry for missing the first deadline. But as I said, it was my birthday, and the celebrations took a while
Capital: Santarém
Nation Name: Amazônia
Color: A light green
Government: Stratocracy
Economic: Capitalism
Social: Nationalism
Foreign: Expansionism, Imperialism
Domestic: Survivalism
[OOC: I'm not exactly sure on our time frame right now, so I'm going to roll with late-21st century] As the 21st century entered its golden years, the Amazon basin found itself virtually entirely deforested, against all attempts of preservation. Decades of political unrest benefited illegal loggers, many of whom made fortunes clearing land, selling not only its lumber but also its "property rights" to poor farmers. Poor decision after poor decision led to the greatest environmental catastrophe in human history, which was only exacerbated by global warming. The Amazon basin, barren of trees and stripped of its topsoil, eroded in only a matter of decades into a vastly different environment. Rivers spilled over as their banks lost height, and thousands of lakes sprouted all over the barren landscape. At the same time, new-growth forests began to gain a foothold on the small islands among those lakes, as the destructive path of humanity continued on to other regions, having used up the resources of the Amazon. Seemingly competing with the new saplings were vast swathes of desert islands in the truest sense of the word, eroded of all topsoil and therefore all life.
It is a radically different region, and only higher altitudes were largely unaffected geographically; many died despite the steady changes that were observed over the decades, and many relocated farther south or north or west. The largest surviving city is that of Santarém, which has adapted to the new Amazon basin by forming Amazônia. Intent on gaining control of the entire river-lake basin and fixing its issues, the Amazonians shall use whatever means necessary to achieve their goals, and tap the untold wealth they believe to be stored in the seemingly barren riverlands and lakelands of the Amazon.
OOC: This was all A-OK'ed by CivOasis. Sorry for missing the first deadline. But as I said, it was my birthday, and the celebrations took a while
talonschild
Drive-By NESer
Two notes - 1) we have three socialist stratocracies. Huh.
2) Stats dislike socialist stratocracies. Drat.
Orders:
Army: 4
Navy: 2
Air Force: 1
Pondicherry: 5
Chennai: 5
Viz. Chennai - this is to represent time spent restoring order and setting up public services, as well as places of work, tax agencies, and what have you. Making it into Pondicherry's younger sister.
2) Stats dislike socialist stratocracies. Drat.
Orders:
Army: 4
Navy: 2
Air Force: 1
Pondicherry: 5
Chennai: 5
Viz. Chennai - this is to represent time spent restoring order and setting up public services, as well as places of work, tax agencies, and what have you. Making it into Pondicherry's younger sister.
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