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Awwww shieeeet. Shit's about to get political!A Character sheet of a small group 4 senators from the confederacy.
Senator Yousef Brahmin of the colony world of Ghassit ( Central Colony, largely populated, former mining colony terraformed in the late 2300's)
-Brahmin is a nationalist. One of the older generation rallied to the call for a bigger nation when the confederacy alligned itself with the Seraph republic in the early 2700's, and believes the Nation should be more active in the free colonies, and that the Confederacy has a destiny far greater than that of it's current state. Largely Anti-Xenos, for their war against the confederacy and Seraph before the first Xeno-Terran war he calls for a pro-Terran military alliance to wipe out the Xenos threat.
Senator Elaine Adaria, representative of the agricultural world of Velenge (an agricultural world in the middle ring, decently populated, same colony that Sergeant Ross Locke is from Confederate Character sheet 1 )
-Elaine is from a growing group of people who view the central government of the confederacy getting far too much power than it should have, and is one of the many calling for a bid to decrease the amount of centralized power, and a return to the confederacy's peaceful roots, wanting to maintain only a defensive army, instead of the large ofgfensive military that the Confederate government has built up. Anti-Xenos, pro-Terran policy.
Senator Eli Barrik representative of the Easwich Consortium ( A political body built from the private sector of 4 main Confederate based corporations )
-Barrik was chosen as the representative for the consortium because he is a very likeable man. Wanting to have someone reflect their image positively, he was the obvious decision. Eii is a member of the Barrik family, a group that is in charge of the BarWorks mining firm, one of the 4 major corporations. He is known to be very generous towards the lower class, often donating a sizeable amount of money to charities. He personally does not care too much for politics, but has to represent his Consortium's policies. The Consortium is for the idea of supporting another war, as it would boost the industry and economy in the confederacy and their own favor. They also push for a more open border policy towards companies wanting to deal outside of the confederacy more. The consortium is largely pro-Xenon, as the Terran federation is known to be harsher on bigger corporations.
Senator Eliph Lidina, representative of Svaragrod (Unterraformed world in a system close to the border of the Confederacy, sporting alien fuana and organisms)
-A former cybernetically advanced soldier for the old Staevik Republic. When it was collapsing, much of the old Staevik Republic army fled to Terran space, where the Terrans promised Refuge. However, her and thousands like her, having felt like the Terrans had abandoned the Staevik and the Cyborgs too much sought refuge in the confederacy instead. Being given their own colony to rename and do what they please on it. the little oxygen on the world was no problem for a large portion of the cyborg soldiers. Most of which no longer had lungs to breathe with anyway (those that still ahd organs had to live in the only city on the planet or on the space station orbiting the planet). Eliph is an isolationist, and believes the confederacy should not involve itself in anymore wars or with any other nation or their policies. She believes the central confederate government has too much power, and that it should shrink. She supports no other nation or their policies, having previous fought against the Xenos, or left to die byt the Terrans and their history of empty promises, nor her old homeland, now rules by a powerhungy dictator.
She wears the robe to hide her hideously deformed body away from the general public of the confederacy. All that can be seen is her face and several uplink cords that hang out from underneath the robes.
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Characters and the Confederacy of Sovereign Colonial Nations are for my setting. I welcome other contributions of colonies or characters to it.
Comments and feedback is always greatly appreciated
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Comments: 30
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I feel sorry for confederacy; but everything ends right ?
Awesome desptrictions
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The confederacy is just a big political mess right now XT
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Indeed; it really seems like that
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Yup, this is where you really find out who's doing what to who and for how much!
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Not exactly. This is just where you guy to figure out where they officially stand politically. If you're looking for all the juicy details of any political intrigue then we must consort the mirror...
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the sleaziest of them all? *ask again later*
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Is it possible for each person to out-sleaze the rest?
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Man you must really hate politicians. We dont even know if any of these people are actually really genuine good people
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Politician and good are mutually exclusive terms.
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Man, ye of little faith! For all we know the old guy could be like... a genetically altered superhuman bent on saving mankind.. or the corporate guy is like... a man actually out for world peace!
Of course these are just examples that aren't true at all, but like...still... we dont KNOW yet!
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LOL. Well, considering the size of the universe, anything is possible, eventually, somewhere.
Here, this is possibly the worst sci-fi movie ever made:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzoxXg…
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Lol Im just sayin' dun rush to conclusions is all......
why would you show me this.
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If I have to suffer, you have to suffer.
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LOL!
It kinda sucks you in.
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Mmmmyeus, politics.
My second favorite after espionage. I love me some politics.
Although the idea of giving mega-corporations political power in the form of senators who openly represent them and their interests is rather absurd to me. It's like the literal definition of a conflict of interest.
Looks good though, glad to see that there's going to be some political intrigue to go along with warfare and espionage. Whole setting's really starting to come alive now.
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Politics are tricky as fuck, m8.
The corporate entity only has a power of 1 vote. nothing more. Like every colony or member state. They received the political member status early on in the confederacy, which was initially against corporate entities having a say. It was this ruling against them which made them come to a deal to all be represented by only one, instead of all having their own representative. This was agreed upon for a variety of reasons, one of which being lowering prices, and agreeing to pay a higher tax if they want to do business outside of the confederacy, etc etc. And no, it's not technically a conflict of interests if there are plenty of people that agree with their views.
Yeah, putting together a confederate intro comic here. Wanted to go in depth of their politics... well politicians..
Anyway, thanks!
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I've had my share of politics. I hate it. I love writing about it, I hate actually having to do it. The amount of backstabbing fuckery involved is just ridiculous.
Looking forward to everything as always.
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Everyone hates politics!
But it's so fun to write about, true.
Yeah, you'll see these guys and maybe a few others in the confederate comic, which is now on the way.
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I can neither confirm nor deny that it is the plan
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The "Loki" looking guy is both the likeable and the least political? Sen. Barrik does sort of exude a corporate sort of sleaze. Of course, he's really just a mouthpiece of corporations that want more power and are allowed to have official power here, as opposed to just lobbyists.
Sen. Brahmin (appropriate name!) as the old guy who wants to push for a greater Confederacy and more centralized authority. Sort of an elder statesman of the 'WWII generation' of the Confederacy?
Sen. Adaria seems to be focused on the idea of small government. Perhaps appropriately enough, given the Ag world she comes from much like some U.S. Midwest states. Proud of country, but wanting small government and States' Rights? On the other hand, she wants a close connection to Terra? Well, they are the lesser evil perhaps, so that is understandable. Having a big military might invite attacks from Terra itself?
Interestingly, Sen. Lidna, the former combat cyborg, wants a small government with a great deal of 'States' Rights'. As an immigrant, this is a switch, but as wildly different, its not surprising that she'd want her own enclave. Also, she's the former warrior that has suffered the most as a result of war and a totalitarian regime. On the other hand, nations that become too decentralized become provincial and weak and therefore prey in the end to more organized and motivated States. Decentralization also limits how much a central government can do, such as accepting refugees, for example.
Sort of a freaky design, the mask-like face, and the uplink cords. Just dragging those about can't be good. Maybe they ought to become 'braids' or something, emerging out of the side of the hood?
War isn't something to look forward too. These guys work on a planetary--and interplanetary--scale. Still, nukes are not something any government would want to see unleashed on them.
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Yes. He's just the mouthpiece. He, by association of his family has everything he already really cares for, so politics dont really matter to him. However, the Consortium wants to spread influence beyond the confederacy without being heavily taxed, and they want to become as powerful as Trident company. At the moment they are really confined to Confederate space.
Senator brahmin was one of those in his youth who was sparked by the movement to become an empire essentially. It's a shared belief with most of the older generation. He still resents Xenon for attacking the confederacy and their Seraph Republic allies before the Xeno-Terran war. He's a man largely stuck in the pas.
Essentially
Lidina is trying to prevent the same things that destroyed the Staevik Republic and caused General Garborick to take control. And yes, she wants the decentralization to occur. As Reagan once said "A governments duty is to protect it's people, not run their lives". That is essentially what the confederacy is beginning to do. And the government doesn't have to be the one to accept refugees, but the member states/systems themselves. The confederacy was originally formed on individual states/system freedom. the only thing they had that they had was a central army, but it was only JUST big enough to stand as a defensive force. It is at the current date a massive offensively positioned army.
And thanks. Many cyborg-soldier converts during the early days of the Staevik Republic became these monsters essentially, only retaining their face in some cases. But what lay beneath those robes is for me to know for now. I may do a picture eventually without the robes but that's later down the line.
Unfortunately war is an inevitability at this point. Between the Terrans and the Xenos it has become a 'cold war' between the two, and most nations are already planning on if and when the war breaks out, who they would support. The first Xeno-Terran war was a smaller war in comparison to the sheer size of the nations now. The confederacy sat out the first war, but they all fear that neutrality is no longer an option, thus people taking sides.
Only a very VERY small percentage of senators push to isolate themselves to avoid ties with any nations, and Eliph is one of them. for a war machine, she knows what's up.
And thermonuclear warheads aren't really used anymore. the fallout and radiation would contaminate worlds you want to settle on. It's kinetic strikes now, or 'rods of god'. same damage. no fallout
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Thanks for the info.
Kinetic weapons? Well, I can only speculate what sort of future technologies exist. If artificial gravity exists, then presumably so does 'gravitic engines' capable of propelling objects.
Railguns are commonly what is meant. My problem with them is that they're commonly just thought of as being super weapons apparently violating physics by being able to produce hit power from very little. But the strike energy has to be at least equaled at the other end that makes the round go. While the technology is perfectly sound and even straightforward, they've long failed to be a practical weapon. The idea has been around for a hundred years, but until maybe recently, no ship was outfitted with one. Ships have never before generated the electrical power to allow them to work. Especially when cranking out rounds almost like 'machine gun' fire.
Now futuristic, monster sized and colossal power generating space ships are a different story--for basic railguns. But then again, making kinetic weapons that act like nukes presents some serious problems regarding power and the structure of the ship. Except for an added bonus for the planet's gravity, the kinetic blast has to be produced by the ship itself. The ship would have to produce power--a spike of power--equal to the simulated nuclear blast that is to be created on the target. The electrical field has to impart force equal to a nuclear blast, and that energy is being generated and funneled inside the ship itself.
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it's actually a concept that exists today. Google "rods of god". the premise is just dropping a large inert projectile from orbit to the planet's surface, to use the velocity an momentum of gravity to launch it into the ground/targeted area. No launching really required or energy from ships carrying the weapons really required.
Railguns are largely used in space combat. My ships at this point run off of an advanced fusion reactor (the engine type actually varies nation to nation) but they provide a nearly limitless source of power, and the velocity of the projectile in space will never slow down making it still an incredibly deadly force. Rail canons are still used on earth, but gravity still plays a large portion on the projectiles fired. regardless, rail guns still make great long range weapons. And this is 700 years in the future. So I've taken the liberties of concepts that exist now, and have in small tests proven to work; and put them in fully functioning order in this era.
Again though, kinetic strike is literally just dropping an inert rod from orbit, and using the planet's gravity to speed the projectile up. No energy required.
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Thanks for the links. This took me back quite a bit. I remember reading that Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven book "Footfall" back in 1985 on a family vacation. Instead of "rods of god", they were smaller 'crowbars' called "Thor's Hammers" by the military analysts, and used to destroy tanks and copters and such.
Although, I question the physics of the platform setup. The rods in orbit are in orbit along with the satellites that they are based on. They can't just be 'released' as if the satellite platform was a bomber, it would take some sort of kinetic shove to take them out of orbit, be it a charge or electromagnetic push, and an orbit high enough to build up the speed, or a VERY hard shove to change the orbit vector into an impact.
Here's my thoughts on the matter:
The existence of a spaceship capable of firing these things changes matters, or course. Gravity gives more of an assist than I might have though, but they have to be big and fast to sub for nukes. Using a Kinetic Energy calculator, a 100kg 'fencepost' of tungsten moving at the top end of "rods of God" speed, about 11,000 m/s will hit like a two ton conventional bomb with about half its mass being explosives. an 8-9 ton 'telephone pole' of tungsten one foot wide and 20 feet long moving at 11,000 m/s will hit with an explosion over 100 tons of TNT. The biggest rod of god category being two feet wide and 40 feet long, weighing almost 70 tons, hitting like a one kiloton TNT explosion.
The easiest way to fire these things from a ship for great speed would be using inbound velocities and releasing them at a precise time while braking the ship when approaching the planet, and probably giving them an electromagnetic push.
A problem with high velocities is if they'll survive to hit the ground. They are made of tungsten which is both ultra dense, hard, and has the highest melting point, and some versions of the idea has the rods coated with some low friction, temperature resistant coating. The idea of the rods is that they'll have ground penetrating capability due to the rod shape (and pointy end). Critics maintain that at those sorts of speeds, the rod will vaporize instantly at impact with no ground penetration possible based on its shape. Also, tungsten is hard and dense, but is rather brittle compared to steel, the rod might explode in the atmosphere without hitting the target due to the stresses of the atmospheric resistance building up, like meteors sometimes do. Maybe the rod (dart) shape is best for reducing the forces, or maybe a spheroid is, I don't know that.
The rods are supposed to be cheap, yet are meant to have some guidance systems, computers, control surfaces (fins) and so on. Which, critics say, bastardizes the whole concept and turns them into missiles or guided bombs, adding complexity to their construction and delivery, with the guiding elements unlikely to work as their survival is in question given the atmospheric forces at work. Although they're pretty simple compared to most missiles, of course. And bricks by future technology. They'd best be used on space based targets. Shooting planets can make for greater number crunching necessities to get them to hit their targets and without disintegrating in transit.
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There's a lot of really valid points you bring up, and I find I must agree with all of them.
Yes a "little push" is probably needed to propel them into orbit. And yes they are probably innacurate as fuck since there's no proper guidance system.
Like I said, you bring up EXTREMELY valid points on this subject.
HOWEVER. I merely take some constructive and artistic liberties on this one and safely assumed that we'd have a fully functioning one 700 years from now.
It's out on a limb, but there's a lot of technology I feel we'd have perfected by that point and era. In the case of materials of what the rods are built of there's indeed a few new metals I introduced to the setting that are that 'sci-fi magic dont exist on earth' thing. None of them are really magic shit, i try to keep the metals as realistic as possible without being some overkill shit, but there are new metals and materials that exist that could keep the rod from disintegrating on impact.
Ships do carry them though, yes. Not all, but ones usually specifically for orbit-to-surface combat. Most times they aren't as big as I make them out to be, something smaller will usually do, but just something big enough to eliminate every target in a specific area.
And again, like I said, you bring up some REALLY good points. But it's all a mere 'guess' that by the era we'd have everything perfected.
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Fair enough. There might be lots of ways of accelerating a kinetic missile using future technology and getting it to the impact point. Maybe the missile is propelled by an artificial gravity drive, or that is how projectiles get launched. Maybe the missile has shields like a ship might, made of some super alloy or coated with something super slick and with a higher vaporization point than the metal of the projectile.
Maybe science will advance to the point of making artificial elements of greater properties. Even with super-materials, Star Trek Next Gen relied on internal force fields, inertial dampeners and such to keep the crews breathing and the ships together in maneuvers.
But fight hard not to resort to some 'super-Unobtainium'. Realistically, the creation of a metal twice the strength of steel with a few hundred degree K increase in melting point beyond Tungsten would be like a quantum leap in materials tech.
Of course, FTL ship travel isn't yet realistic either based on our current understanding of science. Neither are inertial dampeners or artificial gravity which Space Opera type Sci Fi takes pretty much for granted. I understand that.
In a sort of gritty universe, using tech that reads more like 'science future' type stuff, might require some thought. A high mass railgun on a ship might have a barrel that runs from near the engines at the stern and fire from the bow, using the whole length of the ship to fire the projectile, spreading out the acceleration time and reducing the energy spike needed. Of course, the projectile is still shooting out in less than a second with the ship needing to impart that kind of power. A gravity well helps amp up a hit, naturally.
A gun that fires using a reverse gravity? Who knows? That sounds reasonable, given the concepts of artificial gravity and ships that travel via gravity control.
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no, nothing retarded like "unobtanium" But I do resort to metals that can be created by combining metals commonly found on earth and some ores that were newly discovered on other worlds. The metal isn't that "super duper unobtanium magic" its just a variation of a metal that is more durable than most (The metals in question have yet to be properly named or gone into depth in, but know there are a few new ones out there on top of those we already use)
speaking of gravity, yes, by this point we have; in the terms of that movie 'interstellar': solved the question of gravity. WEAPONIZING gravity is a different story. Where we can create gravity wells on our ships, altering the gravity to help weapons has proven difficult for those currently inside the ship. and creating micro gravity wells on canons interferes with that of the ship itself, only increasing the gravity currently on the ship. So in terms of using gravity on ships as a weapon, we don't have that yet.
but yes. there is to some extent artificial gravity control
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