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| * Every Faction Contains Diverse Multitudes | * Every Faction Contains Diverse Multitudes | ||
| - | A key system might have ships that show up every couple of days, the occasional Faction Naval patrol ship every week or two - a less important system might only have a trading vessel show up a handful of times a year, and an "official vessel" once every couple of decades. With this time, isolation and distance - policies change, culture shifts, even language diverges fairly rapidly. Each Faction has its own "rulers", but they are all different in what they consider to be the "right" way to govern or direct their Faction, and are often contradictory. The Ascendancy has the [[Noble Houses]], who coordinate to protect and exploit their citizens, but compete viciously for prominence, power and status. The Free Union has their bureaucracy, the Bureaus and Divisions, who desperately try to hold their disparate worlds together and retain legitimacy. The Commonality has the Judges, who hold incredible psionic power but cleave more to rarefied ideals and concepts than practical conditions on the many worlds they guide, and they rarely, if ever, coordinate with each other. The Dominion has their priesthood, who interpret the guidance of the Immortal Spirits, directing individuals and whole worlds using their interpretation of the Path and their revelations. There is no one "Ascendancy" just as there is no single, monolithic representation of any Faction, power or institution - the distances and the communication delay is just to much to hold such a thing together. | + | A key system might have ships that show up every couple of days, the occasional Faction Naval patrol ship every week or two - a less important system might only have a trading vessel show up a handful of times a year, and an "official vessel" once every couple of decades. With this time, isolation and distance - policies change, culture shifts, even language diverges fairly rapidly. Each Faction has its own "rulers", but they are all different in what they consider to be the "right" way to govern or direct their Faction, and are often contradictory. The Ascendancy has the [[Noble Houses]], who coordinate to protect and exploit their citizens, but compete viciously for prominence, power and status. The Free Union has their bureaucracy, the Bureaus and Divisions, who desperately try to hold their disparate worlds together and retain legitimacy. The Commonality has the Judges, who hold incredible psionic power but cleave more to rarefied ideals and concepts than practical conditions on the many worlds they guide, and they rarely, if ever, coordinate with each other. The Dominion has their priesthood, who interpret the guidance of the Immortal Spirits, directing individuals and whole worlds using their interpretation of the Path and their revelations. There is no one "Ascendancy" just as there is no single, monolithic representation of any Faction, power or institution - the distances and the communication delay is just to much to hold such a thing together. |
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| + | ===== Time is Deep ===== | ||
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| + | In the game setting, human civilisation (as in agriculture and buildings, etc), has been around for about 10,000 years. The Milky Way Galaxy settled into its relatively stable modern phase with larger elements and stuff about 11 billion years ago. You probably got the earliest spacefaring civilisations starting at around 10 billion years ago. So you could fit the entire space of human civilisation to our real world today, plus the 4000 years in the future spacefaring Factions of the OSVerse in that time a million times over. You could even fit the entire lifespan of Earth in there more than twice. So there have been countless Precursor civilisations rising and falling before the the game setting even starts. The amount of time they lasted, the strange technologies they built, and the legacy they left, echoes down and down into the present OSVerse, waiting to be uncovered and investigated. With stasis fields, lost rogue planets flying between solar systems, and evolution over time, there are endless threads of history weaving through the present setting. Characters with a mind towards archaeology can uncover and learn more about these alien civilisations, unlock the secrets of their technology, and maybe even discover the source of their downfall. | ||
| ===== The Tip of the Iceberg ===== | ===== The Tip of the Iceberg ===== | ||
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