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I sugest that you make some rift lines. Not very large ones, just barly noticable.
Whats a rift line?
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PS: by the way, did you get the pictures i sent you?
Yeah, they lacked some detail, but perfectly all right for a 200x100 brief pic or a 64x64 sprite i guess.
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CF1- Syn'iena Faction- SF
For many years the people who came from earth on Colony Ship#1, were at peace with the Global Republic of Earth and its policy's. The large and industrial system of Sirus provided the people a prosperous living. However, the people of Sirus were growing more and more upset at the way the GRE restricted the mining of the resources of the sirus system. A small band of militants, revolted, in a suicide attack, using small shuttles crammed with explosives, rammed into the GRE embassy vessel docked to the orbital station. The people of sirus took up arms to throw off their GRE oppressors, the GRE, tired of war, granted the people of sirus their freedom.
How exactly was the GRE supposed to govern a system lightyears away without FTL travel or communications? Dont forget that only the GRE has FTL travel and only the pirates have FTL comm systems. Also, the GRE doesnt get FTL until maybe 1-2 years before the plug starts.
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B- Hodrim's Freedom Fighters- HFF
Names by some of his colleges in honor of Hodrim T. Yiquson, the wealthy billionaire that bought and funded the Freedom Fighters group. Seeking to bring back the government to the uncorrupted state that it use to be.
Well this seems a lot too clean for the barbarians that Mag and I sketched out. If they were real freedom fighters, why bother raiding and destroying random stations on the edge of CF2s system?
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P- National Fighters for Free Trade- NFT
Angered by the high tariffs and taxes imposed on the colonies by the GRE, a group of bandits raid GRE ships with high regularity. They call themselves the National Fighters for Free Trade because they fight for trade without taxes. Or so they say... Sometimes they raid other ships just for the booty.
Well #1 this would limit them to being in Sol, when they are supposed to be in Sol, Sirus, Centauri, and CF2s system.
My versions of the histories, feel free to criticize:
EF- Global Republic of Earth- GRE
After a rather out-of-hand conflict, an accidentally launched ICBM triggered a nuclear war which left much of the developed world a radioactive wasteland. The enormous economic recession caused even more damage, resulting in a global depression lasting almost a decade. The remaining nations formed a loose economic confederacy to fight the recession- the GRE. The leaders of the GRE were of course not satisfied with their weak economic power, and the sovereignty of the nations has slowly eroded over the past four centuries. The Republics ministries of Economy and Defense now control most of the power in their respective sectors and the GRE military have taken care of any holdouts to absolute GRE power. Several recent amendments to the Republic charter have had the disturbing effect of concentrating power into the hands of a privileged few...
The GRE discovers the secret of a workable FTL drive two years before the plug begins. As the Sol system has begun to suffer from overpopulation and a lack of easily accessable natural resources as well as the eroding tax base, the military leaders of the GRE hatched a plan to solve all three:
Use the ever-expanding GRE military to search down the colony ships launched over 450 years ago, the GRE will conquer the colonies, which will provide:
1. A new and larger tax base formed of the citizens of the colonies.
2. Pre-setup mining operations which were already in place in the system.
3. A place to dump the surplus citizens of the lower classes which are slowly but surely dragging the Republic down with welfare payments to the masses of people who cant find work or are unqualified to work.
CF3- Centaurian Peoples Republic- CPR
The colony ship carring the CPR colonists to Centauri had an uneventful voyage and managed to survive with its human cargo intact. The resource-rich Centauri system was a godsend to the colonists.
However, there was something in their way: an alien race
Inhabiting the richest planet in the system, the Mycenians were in the CPRs way. Fourty years after the colonists arrived in the system, the Mycenians turned down a treaty that would have made them slaves to all intents and purposes. Two weeks later, CPR troops attacked Mycenia. The campaign was brutal and swift. The technology of the Mycenians was roughly eqivalent to 2001 AD Earths, far less advanced than the 22nd century technology of the CPR. The standing Mycenian forces were quickly destroyed, and the resource-rich equator of the planet was rapidly fortified against any assaults on the strip-mining operations there.
However, the Mycenians had cunning to match that of the humans, and only a decade later they, using stolen CPR technology, overran the last CPR fortification at the aptly named town of New Alamo.
The Mycenians retain a bitter hatred of the humans due to the sufferings they faced at the hands of the CPR, and a bitter and neverending war has raged across Centauri ever since.
too lazy to write any more, heh.
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