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Ryan Thunder wrote:I'll take a chunk of North America if nobody minds. Will update shortly with details.
Czernobog has already staked out Canada, the United States, and Mexico for his Phoenix Empire, and while I was toying with the map earlier, I was considering giving Alaska and Hawaii to Fin.
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Lelouch vi Britannia wrote:
Ryan Thunder wrote:I'll take a chunk of North America if nobody minds. Will update shortly with details.
Czernobog has already staked out Canada, the United States, and Mexico for his Phoenix Empire, and while I was toying with the map earlier, I was considering giving Alaska and Hawaii to Fin.
The entire thing? Well, my bad. Northwestern Africa it is, then.
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It can be NPC times for everyone?

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Ryan Thunder wrote:
Lelouch vi Britannia wrote:
Ryan Thunder wrote:I'll take a chunk of North America if nobody minds. Will update shortly with details.
Czernobog has already staked out Canada, the United States, and Mexico for his Phoenix Empire, and while I was toying with the map earlier, I was considering giving Alaska and Hawaii to Fin.
The entire thing? Well, my bad. Northwestern Africa it is, then.
You can have the area around Alaska and western Canada if you want.
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and frick sudden we have a technicolour map and way too much to keep track of/
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fuck it, i'll take what's left of central asia

that inlined bit up to the caspian

or possibly up to the black sea
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Booted Vulture wrote:and frick sudden we have a technicolour map and way too much to keep track of/
Hang on, I'll whip up a map WITH LABELS.
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Some of the colors are NPCs and not actual nations. If you want the land area occupied by the NPC, say so and take them.
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My nation will be Central Asian cowboy militias tied together by wealthy land owner spice plantation barons, mineral prospectors, and Baikonur Kosmodrome foremen launching asteroid miners.

Backstory will be that a huge ass asteroid was about to crash on Earth, except that a band of Kazakhstani oil rig miners were sent up to space to blow it up. Most of the asteroid is now scattered in Earth orbit, except for a few that hit Earth and resulted in how fucked up the world is right now.

The nation is very libertarian, central government is non-existant, total badlands, with population centers and militias and private militaries run by wealthy families and mining companies who have nuclear missiles, a central grid of railguns (Stonehenge), and a bunch of obscene land battleship mobile mining rigs, and combat locomotives.

But mostly, the story emphasis will be Central Asian cowboys.

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Here we go.

Shroom, Ryan, Czernobog, I'll leave you to stake out your territories. Red Commissar, I've refrained from labeling the Caribbean Federation because I don't know which islands they control.
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Here are my thoughts.
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Regarding the Carribbean Confederation, I was just going to throw in the small islands with it, plus Jamaica and Hispaniola. I just need to see what's going on with NA before then though, since I'm just using this state to fill up space on the map.
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Czernobog wrote:You can have the area around Alaska and western Canada if you want.
Works for me.
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Arkitek wrote:
Czernobog wrote:You can have the area around Alaska and western Canada if you want.
Works for me.
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This alright with you, Czerno?
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I've been thinking, and I believe we need some sort of event where our nations can interact that isn't World War Six. I've been pushing an Olympic-type event for the past few games now, but other ideas are welcome. But what I've seen over the past couple RPs are a couple different plotlines that don't converge and sort of whither on the vine. If we had something to work to and something to converge at we might have more success.

tl;dr: I want to get everyone in the same place so I can nuke them

But in all seriousness, what sort of plots would you guys like to do?
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Mobius 1 wrote:I've been thinking, and I believe we need some sort of event where our nations can interact that isn't World War Six. I've been pushing an Olympic-type event for the past few games now, but other ideas are welcome. But what I've seen over the past couple RPs are a couple different plotlines that don't converge and sort of whither on the vine. If we had something to work to and something to converge at we might have more success.

tl;dr: I want to get everyone in the same place so I can nuke them

But in all seriousness, what sort of plots would you guys like to do?
AT the moment, I have nothing much in mind though I was thinking of doing some short stories about life in the north and what the Dai Nippon Teikoku is doing there.

I have some ideas about dicking about in the old Russian lands in Siberia but I am still pondering how to do it.
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Moby: I'd like to tie my rogue duderino in with your rogue duderino, if you don't mind.

Beyond that, the Olympics idea is actually very nice. It doesn't require writing of massive SPLOSHUNS, and it allows average people (well compared to deathkill ultra-assassins anyway) to interact with nations they might not otherwise interact with. I like that.
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I wanted to make my own contribution to the ongoing nuke smuggling storyline, but writer's block seems to have gotten the better of me for the time being. The thing I had in mind prior to my writer's block relapse was essentially a Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare reenactment, with Nanyang Federal Navy SEALs storming a wayward Novimaestrazhian freighter in the Bay of Bengal, finding one of the nukes, and then having to hightail it off the boat after coming under attack from Beshaadi privateers. I freely admit my creative bankruptcy, but a Modern Warfare homage can fit, given the circumstances. Of course, things would diverge wildly from that point onwards.

Apart from that, yeah, Olympics sound nice. I also need to cook up a few plots for the other Chinese splinter factions...
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Do we have restrictions to genetically modified humans and such?
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How modified? I'm going full monty with cybernetics, so I don't see why genetic engineering can't compete with cybernetic.
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I have magic, and so does Siege. I don't think gene-mods or cybernetics are going to be an issue.

EDIT: Unless you mean in reference to the Olympics. No idea, in that case.
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If for the Olympics, I actually have a post-draft sitting on worddoc right now about officials discussion not allowing cybernetics into the games - I think gen mods would fall under that as well. The real problem is enforcement, but given the Ascendancy is pretty good at checking for cybernetics, genmods wouldn't be out of their realm of economic development and could be tested for.

I hope.
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Mobius 1 wrote:If for the Olympics, I actually have a post-draft sitting on worddoc right now about officials discussion not allowing cybernetics into the games - I think gen mods would fall under that as well. The real problem is enforcement, but given the Ascendancy is pretty good at checking for cybernetics, genmods wouldn't be out of their realm of economic development and could be tested for.

I hope.
So essentially only weakling humans can compete? How quaint..
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The idea is that multimillion dollar cybernetics will never replace multimillion dollar training. :D
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