OT: Fiction for my Mod:

[President_Elect_Shang]

While I wait for the patches that keep my mod down I thought I would start writing a little fiction about it. You should be warned I am no pro and it may get bumpy. Also I prefer to take a third person point of view when writing. I hope this time by writing it will keep my spirits up and my hope focused so that I can keep this mod on track and not let it slip. Not to say it slipped last from lack of spirit or hope. More correctly it slipped because SE4 just couldn�t model what I needed. If nothing else I am having fun. Finally by writing this may kind of pave the way for my mod, meaning it is a completely different take on the SE universe.

[President_Elect_Shang]

A little background for the start. All empires are run my me! What you think I have AI when I can�t even complete the mod yet? HA-HA-HA! All empires get sight around their home worlds and everything else is exploring. I didn�t need to set it up this way but later tech will cover why I did, duh testing components maybe� I have finite resources; it shouldn�t make an impact on the game since the vague three resource system has been replaced by a highly abstract economic system. This should be fun! I need to finish out some files first but I hope to sucker Kana into testing. I haven�t started buttering him up yet so if you see him before I do don�t say anything. I didn�t do that spread evenly crap, that�s for butter on toast. Also I did the wp anywhere but not the all planets same size crap. I will give a short intro of the empires when important events take place but only one intro each. The main player is [naturally] my empire. Gee go figure! Speaking of which� role the next post:

[President_Elect_Shang]

The Tal-Re Republic is the sole government on its home world. Once a planet that was divided by many governments, they gradually united under one ruling system. The driving force for this move toward a world government was the depletion of natural resources of their home world. As industrialization took hold the resources which were pulled from the land to fuel the growth seemed limitless. Soon enough though the truth made itself terribly clear as one by one the resources became less and less, seemingly impossible to locate and extract. As the resources dried up the governments of the nation states found it harder and harder to maintain basic services. The only answer was to join with other friendly governments pooling what resources could be had at. This though proved to be a temporary solution, staving off total collapse rather than stopping it. The only solution was to move into space and to reach that ends the only method was to lay aside all differences and unite; thus the Republic was born! By the time the last of the nation-states united the planetary population had already been decimated by wars, starvation, and the plagues that inevitably follow such things. Although this is not an actual Republic the name was adopted to honor the nation-state which provided the cornerstone of the planets constitution. In fact that cornerstone was gradually modified to form the Representative Democracy which currently holds the power.

The Republic is controlled by the following administration command, provided is the current position and which (if any) other command that one serves under along with major points about the command being discussed.

Office of the President-Elect:
The Office of the President is the ultimate position within the Republic. Properly called the President-Elect to indicate his status is due to elections by the people and not stemming from heredity or any other such source. This has mostly become a matter of formality and the title of President is used in non-ceremonial matters. Most of the powers of the Republic and almost total control of its military is vested in this position with the intentions that in a time of emergency the response to a crisis will be dramatically reduced and any actions more effective if one person makes the final decision; as opposed to waiting on the results of a committee debate.
Senate of the Republic:
This position does not actually constitute a full blown senate composed of many members. Instead the Republic is composed of two senates. The Senate of the System deals with the day to day affairs of the system it represents. Members are elected from the settled planets their respective system. The member of the Senate of the Republic on the other hand is a single individual elected from the Senate of the System. So a Senator elected to this position acts as the representative for his system and deals only with the affairs of the Republic as a whole, being legally barred from holding any power in his systems elected senate.
The following is a list of positions and ranks in order of power from greatest to lowest within the current structure of the Republic. A brief description of the duties of the rank is provided as well except in the case of positions which have already been discussed.

President: See Office of the President.
Senator: See Senate of the Republic.
Chairman: Duties depend on the department assigned to, i.e Department of War, Department of Internal Affairs, Department of Xenobiology, Department of Construction, Department of Exploration, Department of Colonization, etc.
Sky Marshal: This position holds the ultimate authority on the deployment and use of mobile and non-mobile units. Although he must follow the guidelines set forth by each Chairman he is only answerable to the President.
Fleet Admiral: This position is reserved for a front line commander who has been assigned the control of two or more mobile combat fleets to conduct offensive or defensive operations. Non-mobile combat fleets will fall under the control of any Fleet Admiral in the system but only during times of war.
Admiral: This position is in command of any mobile combat units which have been designated as a permanent fleet.
Vice Admiral: This position is in command of any mobile units in his/her assigned system.
Rear Admiral: This position is in command of any non-mobile units in his/her assigned system.
Commander: This position is in command of any mobile units which have been designated as belonging to a task force, an exploration force, or an exploration fleet.
Captain: This is the individual in charge of any single mobile or non-mobile combat or non-combat unit.

[President_Elect_Shang]

2401.0: Cord: 9, -1 in the Jura System. The home system to the Theselean Contemplative.
The Theselean Contemplative and the Opchi Empire make first contact. Hostilities break out after only a few hours of attempted contact when the Theselean captain misinterprets the Opchi ships attempt to regain the warp point as an attempt to crowd his ship. The Theselean ship stands on the warp point forcing the unarmed Opchi ship to take up position further out. Believing any attempt to gain entry to cross the warp point would only result in a futile game of chicken the Opchi captain decides to hold position and await a relief force. Since neither empire has ever had contact that relief force maybe some time coming.

The New Players
The Opchi Empire: The Opchi Empire is a military anarchy under the control of a single warlord. That warlord guides the council into making decisions he feels are best for the empire. Several other families via for control of the empire and only the promise of granting these families their own star systems keep them �playing nice�.

The Theselean Contemplative: The Theselean Contemplative is, as the name implies a contemplative form of government. War was a little talked about facet of life in the history classes of the Contemplative. Sure it happened but not that often, not that bloodily, and definitely only as a last resort. Ask a Theselean how they managed to escape the god of wars grime gaze and they will quickly answer that was the lack of a central government that kept absolute power away from histories rulers. And without absolute power there is little room for corruption.

[Atrocities]

YOur off to a good start. Don't get discouraged by lack of posts just keep writing.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Its ok, I�m not looking for any replies here. I�ll start a new thread for mod comments later when Aaron gets the patches out I need to finish. As for now I have to test solo since it means having to stop and start the game periodically to get the phased out tech to phase out! Not that I�m discouraging comments here mind you.

[Xrati]

Are you going to post some pics?

[President_Elect_Shang]

Xrati said:
Are you going to post some pics?

Pics? Of...

[President_Elect_Shang]

2401.3 Cord: 5, 3 in the Narcisston System.
Message as follows to all parts of self. Detected one object. Non-natural occurring. Stop instruction set U5028. Start instruction set S1638.

The New Players
The Self-Aware: I am self-aware!

The Gom Theocracy: The Gom Theocracy is a species ruled by the warrior code. They serve Gom the High One who created all things. In the early days of the empire when travel to the stars was still fantasy the word of Gom was little known. One group of warriors spread that word (by force) to all parts of the species homeworld. Now the word of Gom must be spread to the stars and honor (along with a large warship) must be the vehicle by which that word is spread. Should another life be found Gom�s word need not be forced upon it! As long as that life shows some willingness to hear the word that is�

[Kana]

President_Elect_Shang said:
This should be fun! I need to finish out some files first but I hope to sucker Kana into testing. I haven�t started buttering him up yet so if you see him before I do don�t say anything.

What? Who me? Oh no...run away !!!!!