Political Background Request
Draconis
Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13722Members, Reinforced - Onos
Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13722Members, Reinforced - Onos
<div class="IPBDescription">for NS</div> Allright, to keep it simple, i need extended political relationship background in the NS world to create a political RPG/RTS game from it. I already have some ideas, but i would like to see more of it to flesh it out more.
If you read the Dune novels, you surely know what i want: some balance of powers between factions/race/corporations, each one having his purpose. As i am really new to this present sub-forum, if anyone can point to already fan-made existing background, i would be very glad to have them.
If you want to start out, i can point out some pointers to begin with. Dont get too stickied with the "official" NS history. Do your own story which you feel would be more suitable for a RPG.
o What happened to Earth? Who controls it? How? What s the relationship between Earth and Colonies?
o Human colonies: Are they independant of Earth? How are they governed (free cities, dictatorship, aristocracy,....)? What s the link between Colonies and the TSA?
o TSA: Who governs it? Who funds it? What could be it its long time purpose? Does Earth/colonies see with a bad feeling this arising of a new kind of army?
o Kharaa: How did they come here? (please spare me of the cheesy "a mad scientist created them" <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) What are their purpose? Why did they come here? etc ...
Feel free to flesh out 1 to 3 people for each organization which will be the interface in the game between the player and their organization.
Another point i want to make it clear: dont make paladins, ie totally righteous characters that are at the end of the good-evil spectrum. It is never true and generally produce some bad stories. Every human being has interests that they want to fulfill whatever the cost, and think that the use of power do degenerate humans at whatever level.
Now, let your imagination move on <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->. I thank in advance anyone who will contribute to this thread!
If you read the Dune novels, you surely know what i want: some balance of powers between factions/race/corporations, each one having his purpose. As i am really new to this present sub-forum, if anyone can point to already fan-made existing background, i would be very glad to have them.
If you want to start out, i can point out some pointers to begin with. Dont get too stickied with the "official" NS history. Do your own story which you feel would be more suitable for a RPG.
o What happened to Earth? Who controls it? How? What s the relationship between Earth and Colonies?
o Human colonies: Are they independant of Earth? How are they governed (free cities, dictatorship, aristocracy,....)? What s the link between Colonies and the TSA?
o TSA: Who governs it? Who funds it? What could be it its long time purpose? Does Earth/colonies see with a bad feeling this arising of a new kind of army?
o Kharaa: How did they come here? (please spare me of the cheesy "a mad scientist created them" <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) What are their purpose? Why did they come here? etc ...
Feel free to flesh out 1 to 3 people for each organization which will be the interface in the game between the player and their organization.
Another point i want to make it clear: dont make paladins, ie totally righteous characters that are at the end of the good-evil spectrum. It is never true and generally produce some bad stories. Every human being has interests that they want to fulfill whatever the cost, and think that the use of power do degenerate humans at whatever level.
Now, let your imagination move on <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->. I thank in advance anyone who will contribute to this thread!
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<span style='color:yellow'>easy on the caps, bro! my eyes...
-rob</span>
This means it's pretty much up for grabs, but if you don't want to spend the time making it all up yourself, I do suggest you read Ryo's stuff.
<strike>Gates, Moons, and Stars:
<a href="http://www.synergysanctum.com/ww/view.php?post=5554" target="_blank">http://www.synergysanctum.com/ww/view.php?post=5554</a></strike>
Gates, Moons, and Stars:
<a href="http://www.laconica.net/ww_backup/gms/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.laconica.net/ww_backup/gms/index.html</a>
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ofcourse there is! you have explainations for most of the words in the story! and there are some other extra categorys where you can read more about the background of the TSA and the world situation itself. I used to translate all that into german for my NS novel I'm currently working on so I think there shouldn't be any problem to find out more about the background
actually rob, the manual that came with 1.0x had a substancial amount of background type stuff that was interwoven with the manual. Not to mention the story set as a reporter tagging along with the TSA that was an offical story. I know that story was offical cause it was part of the "world" section of the old website. It talked about the TSA, the corporations, and a grip of stuff.
And yeah, GM&S is the way to go