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| ====== Factions ====== | ====== Factions ====== | ||
| - | The four Factions are designed to be culturally and visually distinctive. At events, each Faction has a separate camp camp, arrayed around a "hub" area (for Games Ops and NPC MegaCorps). Three of the four Factions have strong cultural roleplay elements, and their player members will be expected to participate in cultural gatherings and ceremonies. | + | The four Factions are designed to be culturally and visually distinctive. At events, each Faction has a separate camp, arrayed around a "hub" area (for Games Ops and NPC MegaCorps). Three of the four Factions have strong cultural roleplay elements, and their player members will be expected to participate in cultural gatherings and ceremonies. |
| Each Faction has a dominant species, which the majority of its attendees will be. Your character's species determines a few basic stats and access to some skills and abilities (such as the Elysian's psionic powers). | Each Faction has a dominant species, which the majority of its attendees will be. Your character's species determines a few basic stats and access to some skills and abilities (such as the Elysian's psionic powers). | ||
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| **[[Free Union]]** - A confederacy of fiercely independent human colonies and alien worlds, whose adaptability and diversity are their main strengths. Although the majority of the Free Union's population is human, its alien vassals enjoy equal status in society. The Free Union has less cultural requirements and a lot more freedom for divergent character concepts, but has fewer advantages as a result.\\ | **[[Free Union]]** - A confederacy of fiercely independent human colonies and alien worlds, whose adaptability and diversity are their main strengths. Although the majority of the Free Union's population is human, its alien vassals enjoy equal status in society. The Free Union has less cultural requirements and a lot more freedom for divergent character concepts, but has fewer advantages as a result.\\ | ||
| - | ===== Vassal Species ===== | + | ===== Species ===== |
| - | While each Faction has a dominant species, they also rule over other, less powerful or numerous aliens which are under the Faction's protection. Vassal species can have access to strange powers and abilities based on their alien physiology, but cannot participate in the society of their parent Faction to the same extent as the dominant species, and draw fewer advantages as a result. Each Faction has large number of vassals, which players can choose to play with the agreement of the Game Team. Vassal species have racial abilities assigned by the game team, usually determined by the coolness and unwieldiness of their physreps. If you would like to play a member of a vassal species, please contact us with your ideas – a brief synopsis of the kind of species you have planned would be great, as well as your intended physrep plans. | + | Each Faction has a dominant species, they also rule over other, less powerful or numerous aliens which are under the Faction's protection. Vassal species can have access to strange powers and abilities based on their alien physiology, but cannot participate in the society of their parent Faction to the same extent as the dominant species, and draw fewer advantages as a result. Each Faction has large number of vassals, which players can choose to play with the agreement of the Game Team. Vassal species have racial abilities assigned by the game team, usually determined by the coolness and unwieldiness of their physreps. If you would like to play a member of a vassal species, please contact us with your ideas – a brief synopsis of the kind of species you have planned would be great, as well as your intended physrep plans. |
| See the [[Vassal Species]] page for more details. | See the [[Vassal Species]] page for more details. | ||
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| ===== Missions ===== | ===== Missions ===== | ||
| - | A big part of the game will involve missions to other planets or in space. While all of the factions have access to FTL travel, it is relatively slow, and takes weeks to get from system to system. One of the MegaCorps, the Spacer Collective, has ships that are able to jump across space instantaneously - this Corp hires out these ships to PC groups so that they can go on missions. Player groups can hire a ship for a timed slot to jump to an agreed destination - this gives the organisers time to prep the mission in advance. Some missions will be purely spaceship-based (which will be simulated using a room fitted out to run the Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator game with customised, in-character scenarios) or could involve travel to a planet and transporting down to do a ground-based mission. One of the factions, the Commonality, will have an alternative method of visiting other planets - they have psionically active plants that can be attuned (via a ceremony) to open a portal after a set time (basically the prep time for the thing they want to do). | + | A big part of the game will involve missions to other planets or in space. While all of the factions have access to FTL travel, it is relatively slow, and takes weeks to get from system to system. One of the MegaCorps, the Spacer Collective, has ships that are able to jump across space instantaneously - this Corp hires out these ships to PC groups so that they can go on missions. Player groups can hire a ship for a timed slot to jump to an agreed destination - this gives the organisers time to prep the mission in advance. Some missions will be purely spaceship-based (which will be simulated using a room fitted out to run the [[http://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/|Empty Epsilon]] Spaceship Bridge Simulator game with customised, in-character scenarios) or could involve travel to a planet and transporting down to do a ground-based mission. One of the factions, the Commonality, will have an alternative method of visiting other planets - they have psionically active plants that can be attuned (via a ceremony) to open a portal after a set time (basically the prep time for the thing they want to do). |
| ==== Mission Examples ==== | ==== Mission Examples ==== | ||
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