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Post by CELS on Feb 4, 2004 5:20:42 GMT -5
LoL! We agreed on the swap before-hand. Don't worry, if I decide to abuse my authority, I will do so more discreetly Good point about the Imperial Guard. Of six or seven worlds in the Proteus subsector, two will not be raising Imperial Guard regiments. Actually, four, if you count Proteus and Olm... For all the worlds that are being worked on at the moment though, it seems likely that the Imperium would demand some IG regiments (high population, high technology, abundant resources, etc)
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Post by Kage2020 on Feb 4, 2004 19:28:41 GMT -5
A fair and reasonable comment... But when you're talking about it in reference to 'primitive islanders' I got kind of twitchy... Best to keep this fact out in the open! Kage
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Post by CELS on Feb 8, 2004 11:35:44 GMT -5
Neshenda 50,23,41 - M-V - D79A788-8 Ag Wa 604 Im 251 Neshenda’s Imperial Governor is the Overlord of the planet’s single sizable land-mass. Other nations exist on the nomadic city-ships, which ply the vast oceans with more concern for survival politics, existing in a constant state of war with each other for whatever they can seize. Their only contact with the Imperium or the government being every tenth Imperial year, when for one hundred standard days a peace is imposed by the Overlord’s aerial armada. During this time the locals will receive off world goods and various governmental favours in exchange for whatever they have for trade. This is also the traditional time for the seafarers to contribute men to the Neshenda PDF, the young men and women competing for the chance to enjoy the more cultured life in exchange for military service.My thoughts; The atmosphere is tainted, which means those huge city-ships will have to be sealed-off, pretty much like a starship. This implies that any recruits from the sea would be very adept Navy men (as in Imperial Navy and star ships), but not especially great candidates for the Imperial Guard. I imagine there would be two ways of getting off-world and joining the Navy. 1) As a rating. Shouldn't be too hard. You need to know how to heave 2) As a Navy Guard. This should be pretty difficult, as it is more respectable and lucrative than being a rating. I recommend that festivities are increased to being held every 4 or 5 years, but maybe made a bit shorter. During this period, I see lots and lots of parades, lots of drinking, colliseum-like games where sea people fight to win a place in the Navy Guard, many ceremonies in honour of the Emperor, etc The tech-level of the planet is set as 8, which means that it has the same level of technology as earth 1990, roughly. There will of course be exceptions... there will be some higher technology around the space port for instanse, and the technology level on the lawless seas will vary greatly. I imagine that the tech-level of the sea people will vary from harpoons, ballistas, catapults on the lowest level on the "food chain" and fully automatic ballistic weapons (such as autorifles and autocannons), rocket launchers and even torpedoes for the wealthiest and biggest city-ships. I suppose they would trade fish for the local currency on Neshenda. Mostly, the pay would be used buying fuel, whatever equipment needed to maintain the city-ships, clothes, some food, etc, but also to "secretly" buy smuggled weapons. Of course, the government would be well aware that the sea people bought weapons, but would see no need to prevent it, since the sea people are dependent on the "land people" for resources, and because the Overlord's navy and aerial armade would make short work of any invaders. The Overlord might even have an orbital defence platform capable of bringing its lance weapons to bear on the city ships! I haven't quite decided on the level of religion on this planet. The festivities might be frowned upon by the sterner members of the Ecclessiarchy, since the people might neglect their duty to the Emperor and spend time drinking and partying instead of worshipping the Emperor. I'm undecided on this point though, so any thoughts are welcome. The government is a civil service bureaucracy... I'm kinda getting the feeling that this world is very cynical and that it's not so concerned with tradition. Kind of like the western world in the 1990's The world pays it tithes in form of industry (it's not a factory world though), foodstuff (fish and other seafood) and Navymen. Thoughts? Comments?
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Post by Minister on Feb 8, 2004 18:01:05 GMT -5
Seems reasonable. However, I would think that the Navy would make arangments with the government to have provided a number of technical staff chosen in a less brutal way as well.
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Post by CELS on Feb 8, 2004 18:22:34 GMT -5
Yeah, obviously the crew that needs education is recruited from whatever university on Neshenda, as with any other worlds I imagine that an education in such a university would be quite expensive too, so only the middleclass and above could afford to send their children.
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Post by Minister on Feb 8, 2004 18:33:08 GMT -5
Seems... I was about to say "Fair", but "Apropriate" would be better. ;D
Favoured sons of the nobilitycould, of courtse, apply to the Naval Academy.
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Post by CELS on Feb 21, 2004 17:39:01 GMT -5
Oi! Started mapping out Neshenda using the guide, and it seems this planet is going to be cold as hell ( ). Well, at least pretty chilly. The surface base temperature is -4 degrees celsius. Since this is a waterworld, I was wondering if this would pose a problem. After all, much of the world would be covered by ice, I imagine. I'm not allowed to just go and change the star class without the blessing of the Subsector leader, nor am I sure it is entirely necessary, so... what do you think? EDIT- I've done the temperature worksheet, and I've figured that the temperature on hex 2 will be 23 degrees celsius at summer and -16 degrees at winter, whilst hex 8 will be -3 degrees celsius at summer and -67 degrees at winter. Remembering that the hexes go from 1 on the equator to 11 on each pole.
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Post by Minister on Feb 22, 2004 8:38:48 GMT -5
Herm...
Do we know how long the rotational period is? If the water does not manage to freeze along the equatorial regions (where the city could be placed) then it could make for an interesting time of confilct as everyone is driven towards there to escape the encroaching ice...
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Post by CELS on Feb 22, 2004 8:43:46 GMT -5
Rotational period 32 hours... Orbital period 46 days
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Post by Minister on Feb 22, 2004 9:03:06 GMT -5
That's a blighter, if it were a fairly long year then it could have worked...
Do what you deem necicary.
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Post by CELS on Feb 23, 2004 7:21:00 GMT -5
Discussion of this world has been moved to the Nagoma thread. This is because the name change would mess things up otherwise (i.e. people wouldn't know where to find Nagoma) and for the sake of simplicity. As a result, this thread has been locked, so if you have anything to say about this planet (Neshenda/Nagoma), please proceed to the Nagoma thread.
Thank you.
--- CELS, your friendly Inquis(itor)
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