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Title: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 08, 2017, 10:54:24 AM: It's time to get this party started!

As a first step the SWSF will be taking proposals for Sim Factions.

At the moment, the only tech represented is Rebel, Imperial, and Neutral. If anyone wants something that's not in here yet (Hapans and Corporate Sector Authority come to mind), put the proposal here and we'll consider adding the tech.

Background:

1. For now we will be assuming one-player factions, commanding 10-15 worlds as a starting point. Fleets would not have any limits, if you an afford it and build it you can use it. Given the scope, that shouldn't be TOO big (unless you pull all your ships assigned to PDF into one massive fleet anyway). With the rule set and the grid helper, commanding several ships shouldn't be too bad.

2. This is 1-2 years after the Battle of Endor. As such, it would be good if two people stepped forward to command the Galactic Empire (Coruscant-seated) and the Rebel Alliance/New Republic.

Current Faction Roster

Defense Management Group (Independent) - DMG Hale
True Galactic Empire (Imperial) - TGE Eidolon
Galactic Empire (Imperial) - GallPIzi ~awaiting confirmation~
Republic Alliance (Rebel) - RA Hoppus
Smuggler's Alliance (Independent) - RanesDanes
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: gallpizi on July 08, 2017, 12:46:41 PM: Galactic Empire

Proposed Planet List (I don't know how many, 10-15 so here is what I am thinking).

1.) Coruscant
2.) Brentaal
3.) Chandrila
4.) Kuat
5.) Balmorra
6.) Corulag
7.) Rendili
8.) Corellia
9.) Eriadu
10.) Mustafar
11.) Bakura
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: Syren on July 08, 2017, 07:15:57 PM: Everyone in every faction watches, casually or obsessively, the fictional holodrama Crimson Covenant. The character drama and actors attractiveness is widely discussed. It's a thing, an amusing common thread, always playing somewhere.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 08, 2017, 07:50:53 PM: Are you struggling to convince your military commanders to invest in a modernized defense force?
Are you worried about the market and regulatory constraints the Galactic Empire is forcing on other systems?
Is your core desire to preserve the freedom of your people?

If so, consider what the Defense Management Group can do for you. We provide Intelligence, Executive Consultation, Military-Industrial Planning, and Security Operations. We take our work very seriously. After all, our employees are literally putting their lives on the line. They are committed to our goal of ensuring a peaceful status quo throughout the galaxy - and that includes your system!

Schedule a HOLONET meeting today if you'd like to know more.

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Defense Management Group
...a publicly owned subsidiary of the Cinque Solas Corporation

Intergalactic Stock Market Designation: DEMGRU
Street Name: "DMG"

Background: To put it blunty, DMG is one of the galaxy's largest Private Security Firms. The Cinque Solas Corporation itself, or as many know it simply as "the Corporation" has taken a vested interest in the preservation of the galactic status quo. Law and Order is good for business, but so are entirely independent systems who can contribute to an open and free market that is not subject to Imperial regulations. Because of this, DMG does not get along with the Empire, but they are by no means bed-fellows with the Rebels either. Each system which joins DMG becomes a shareholder in the enterprise, which helps balance costs and provides stability. However, these systems are semi-blind partners, because they are unaffiliated with each other. When DMG is "hired" - they come in and completely take over the Planetary Defense Forces and Military-Industrial Complex, so that the rest of the population can go back to their daily lives.

Cinque Solas Corporate HQ: Bestine
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 08, 2017, 08:29:58 PM: Name: Republic Alliance

I shall take the mantel of the Rebellion/New Republic. I'll probably focus mostly on the Mon Calamari. I'll have something more intriguing soon to read, don't worry :P

These are probably 10 worlds that make sense

   1.   Mon Calamari
   2.   Kashyyyk
   3.   Kothlis
   4.   Mandalore
   5.   Ryloth
   6.   Elom
   7.   Naboo
   8.   Sullust
   9.   Sluis Van
   10.   Bothawui
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Eidolon on July 08, 2017, 09:43:52 PM: True Galactic Empire

"The Sith are Eternal. Long live the Emperor." - Inner Circle Precept

Power Centers: Byss (Deep Core), Bastion (Braxant), Rothana (Wild Space)

Secondary Systems: Roon (Wild Space), Kamino (Wild Space), Muunilist (Braxant), Dathomir (Braxant), Carida (Coruscant), Druckenwell (Expansion), Korriban (Hydian)

The new challenges facing the Empire brought about by the events at Endor have been exploited by the weak-willed and wavering in an attempt to assume power for themselves. But their strength is not earned nor inherited, rather it was bestowed as a gift in expected return for loyalty and service. Where is their loyalty now?

While the True Harbingers of The New Order remain loyal to the True Empire, the Imposters rise up and discredit themselves through their embrace of fallacious notions of the Fall of Palpatine. The shades of truth they attempt to color whole are no closer to enlightened perspective than the vanquished Jedi whose singular vision and arrogance blinded them along their self-imposed march to ruin...
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 10, 2017, 09:46:33 AM: If we want to keep things balanced, maybe a Rebel Faction of some variety. Hop is going traditional, so maybe there's room for a non-traditional NR faction. "Galactic Liberation Front" or some such.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 10, 2017, 10:29:46 AM: Quote from: DMG Hale on July 10, 2017, 09:46:33 AM
If we want to keep things balanced, maybe a Rebel Faction of some variety. Hop is going traditional, so maybe there's room for a non-traditional NR faction. "Galactic Liberation Front" or some such.

I'd be happy to give you the traditional New Republic reigns and take the fringe Alliance military angle myself, as well.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: RanesDsane on July 11, 2017, 03:51:39 AM: (Me, late, never?! I was just waiting for everyone else to be done.... It will eventually become habit for me to check here more often, and I'll put some more topic subscriptions in to make sure it reminds me to, too!)

I'll return to my old love and what kept me playing for so long... The Smuggler's Alliance (SA).

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When the Empire fell, so did much law and order. Imperial fleets had long restricted or eliminated potential rivals' access to combat ships. Many systems were left with just basic planetary defenses and customs, and many of those had long depended on Imperial support for actual control. When the Empire fell, there were some waiting already. Those who already operated in the shadows. Those who didn't really care who was in power, since they ignored their dictates and laws anyway. Those who were already in business, had side deals, and organization. Those who were, quietly, know as the Smuggler's Alliance.

The Smuggler's Alliance (SA for short) is a loose conglomeration of corporations and "independent contractors" who had long worked together, but formally joined forces after the Empire fell to ensure that they could maximally benefit in the current "market conditions." They're a highly secretive group with a multi-tiered cellular organization. Their existence is spoke of as legend by some, though many have seen the direct results of their work. Many even work for them, though they don't know it.

Those who figure out how to contact them will rarely speak to any of the leadership, but the messages will reach it. Those who have met the leadership often have no idea that they have. Their services are widespread and often come under the guise of legitimate business transactions and dealings via front companies. Have some product you need to acquire? Not a problem. Need it delivered to a certain place at a certain time? Sure thing. Don't want any questions? That's our specialty. Need some extra security assistance? We have those specialists, too, for ground, air, and space. Exploration and mineral extraction? We do that. If you can think of it, we can get it done for you. For a price, of course.

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OOC: The group is headed by Ranes Dsane, the CEO and Founder of Firestar Enterprises. On the surface, as you might expect, FSE is a legitimate business that does a variety of ship maintenance and construction contracts, logistics, and contract security work. Ranes is an engineer and ship mechanic with a fair bit of experience and skill, and a lot of natural talent. FSE started out doing ship repairs on a back-world planet, quickly moving into modifications after his customers figured out that he didn't really care why they wanted it, or if that really was their name, so long as their credits were good. Eventually needing a way to explain the extra money, Ranes formed FSE and formalized much of his work. He still does the illegal stuff, but it's all done under the guise of perfectly legitimate contracts...

As far as tech, some CSA tech would be nice to pull from. After things get going a bit, I'd like to take a look at rules for doing mods to civilian tech since that'd make a lot of story sense for me.

Planets (proposed):
1. Myrkr
2. Roche Asteroids
3. Yavin
4. Taanab
5. Zeltros
6. Mandalore
7. Cadomai
8. Bonadan
9. Ammuud
10. Onderon
11. Hapes
12. Ammuud
13. Etti IV
14. Trandosha
15. Kamar

Planets are listed in a basic priority order, so if there's competing claims that I 'lose' just move it all up one and the cut the list off wherever the limit ends up. :) I purposefully avoided the Hutt Systems on my list in case someone wanted to take up their syndicate in particular. If my list ends up short and nobody takes up the Hutts as a faction, I may look in that direction.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: Lordmaligan on July 13, 2017, 11:52:58 AM: Salient Strategic Command

The Salient Strategic Command includes Salient Militia Rebels/political leaders, Rebellion sympathizers from the corporate sector, and remnants of Saw Gerrera's Partisans. This group commanded a powerful fleet pre Endor and contributed to several rebellion successes. Following the battle of Endor the group seeks a larger influence to ensure the Empire does not regain its power. They have extended into several war ravaged planets to establish unlikely bases and scrap. The group is impacted by the strong political movement of the Partisans and protectionist concerns of salient sector originators. However, all involved agree the group must extend themselves beyond current systems to protect their own interests.

(below not on proposed list)
Salient !
Salient II
Epiphany

(below on proposed list)
Onderon
Ossus
Genosis
Endor
Hoth
Ruusan
Ryloth (if RA willing to split with it, it fits the story line if under my control but I can figure something else out if needed)
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 13, 2017, 12:12:25 PM: Just so we're all on the same page, refer to the current Planet List (http://swsfonline.com/index.php?topic=1001.0) when picking planets. Thanks!

(https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1UBkEgaDiF8GSjd6oHjyQ-CnTglpOCPbS34RX_X7UM3E/pub?w=897&h=527)
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: Lordmaligan on July 13, 2017, 12:18:15 PM: Does that apply to me as well ?

it might be hard to take my group name if that planet system is not available.

Sorry to be a pain ... I am just trying to create a somewhat canon based storyline for a rebel faction
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 13, 2017, 12:23:29 PM: Yes, that applies to you.

We can probably wiggle in Salient since it's from the new series of novels, but we're trying to keep our planet list fairly tight.

I would still need alternates for your remaining systems.

Also what color would you like? I've added you as Red Highlight/White Text, lemme know if you want something different.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: Lordmaligan on July 13, 2017, 12:36:37 PM: Genosis
Vergressor Asteroids
Ossus
Onderon
Tatooine
Ruusan
Trandosha
Pollis Massa
Utapu
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 13, 2017, 12:38:55 PM: RE: Ryloth, go ahead and take that LordMaligan.

Hale can you just give me some other reasonable RA system to replace it?
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 13, 2017, 12:43:02 PM: Thanks! Updated.

Maligan -- I dropped Ruusan and added Ryloth.

Hoppus -- I dropped Ryloth and added Hapes.

Let me know if that works.

(https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1UBkEgaDiF8GSjd6oHjyQ-CnTglpOCPbS34RX_X7UM3E/pub?w=897&h=527)
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 13, 2017, 01:23:05 PM: All good here.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: Lordmaligan on July 13, 2017, 01:41:53 PM: I never thought of Hapes as a rebel planet. I could be mistaken. Maybe leave this open if another players to be the the HSC ? Also, if someone were to attack Hapes it might lead to some interesting unique rules given their military strength.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 13, 2017, 01:51:20 PM: Quote from: Lordmaligan on July 13, 2017, 01:41:53 PM
I never thought of Hapes as a rebel planet. I could be mistaken. Maybe leave this open if another players to be the the HSC ? Also, if someone were to attack Hapes it might lead to some interesting unique rules given their military strength.

I could see the Hapes for a Hapan angle.

There will be no 'special rules' for any scenarios with any planets. We're keeping things simple and straightforward.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 13, 2017, 04:41:29 PM: I thought the Courtship of Princess Leia story pretty much dealt with uniting the HSC with the NR.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 13, 2017, 04:49:02 PM: Quote from: DMG Hale on July 13, 2017, 04:41:29 PM
I thought the Courtship of Princess Leia story pretty much dealt with uniting the HSC with the NR.

I thought that was your reference. It's spot on. Just if we wanted to take advantage that Hapans have tech and they had sims in the old universes, it'd be good to leave it open.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 13, 2017, 04:52:50 PM: Quote from: RA Hoppus on July 13, 2017, 04:49:02 PM
I thought that was your reference. It's spot on. Just if we wanted to take advantage that Hapans have tech and they had sims in the old universes, it'd be good to leave it open.

Let's cross that bridge when we get there!
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: RanesDsane on July 13, 2017, 05:31:52 PM: You could always take Dantooine instead. There's some room to do that if you're really uncomfortable with Hapes. I don't think it's an issue, though.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 14, 2017, 07:27:30 PM: Would anyone object to me becoming an Imperial at the last minute? lol. I have a new faction idea that I like just a smidge better than DMG, that I'm debating with myself at the moment. However, additional Imperial forces might upset the balance of power (despite presenting a more realistic scenario for Republic forces), so that's a concern worth mentioning. What do y'all think? Essentially I would take up the mantle of Oversector Outer / Scourge Squadron.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 14, 2017, 07:31:30 PM: Quote from: DMG Hale on July 14, 2017, 07:27:30 PM
Would anyone object to me becoming an Imperial at the last minute? lol. I have a new faction idea that I like just a smidge better than DMG, that I'm debating with myself at the moment. However, additional Imperial forces might upset the balance of power (despite presenting a more realistic scenario for Republic forces), so that's a concern worth mentioning. What do y'all think? Essentially I would take up the mantle of Oversector Outer / Scourge Squadron.

I welcome it!
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: Lordmaligan on July 14, 2017, 07:37:58 PM: Sounds good
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 14, 2017, 07:47:35 PM: OKAY -- It's official... Imperial Remnant it is (again, as always)... but this won't be your grandfather's IR. Nope. ;-)
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Eidolon on July 14, 2017, 09:11:22 PM: Sounds better to me honestly, 3 Imperial factions feels even more like a nice fractured Empire.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 14, 2017, 09:43:30 PM: Reports of Darth Vader's death have been greatly exaggerated......

;-)

Don't believe the New Republic's Fake News. #alternativefacts #VaderLives
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 14, 2017, 10:00:59 PM: Quote from: IR Hale on July 14, 2017, 09:43:30 PM
Reports of Darth Vader's death have been greatly exaggerated......

;-)

Don't believe the New Republic's Fake News. #alternativefacts #VaderLives

LoLz
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: gallpizi on July 14, 2017, 10:05:27 PM: Oh man..... the IR with Trump style nonsense.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: Lordmaligan on July 14, 2017, 10:55:39 PM: May I have a thread so I can post planets
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 15, 2017, 07:50:20 AM: Oh yes, I will be trolling other factions. Even created a social media feed just for that purpose, lol.

#MEGA
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: RanesDsane on July 15, 2017, 08:35:04 AM: Quote from: IR Hale on July 14, 2017, 07:47:35 PM
OKAY -- It's official... Imperial Remnant it is (again, as always)... but this won't be your grandfather's IR. Nope. ;-)

Vote rigging! If all those damn illegal alien species weren't voting, you'd never have been able....
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: gallpizi on July 15, 2017, 01:39:03 PM: What is the social media feed!?!? lol
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 15, 2017, 03:14:55 PM: It's under my faction's boards. (http://swsfonline.com/index.php?topic=1043.0)

Quote from: IR Hale on July 14, 2017, 08:42:21 PM
@ I M P E R A T I V E

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Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: gallpizi on July 15, 2017, 03:44:26 PM: Very nice.

Whoa, my planets are spread really thin. This should be interesting lol
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: gallpizi on July 15, 2017, 05:05:41 PM: And the IR is taking just one SSD to start. Interesting. I had toyed with that but that would be the whole amount of funds for ships to start with lol
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hale on July 15, 2017, 05:09:24 PM: One of us Imperial types has to do it!

Not waiting X months to save up and 4 months to build it from scratch, that's for sure!

Don't worry, the SSD Archangel is going to be more of a Friendly Neighborhood Super Star Destroyer.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: gallpizi on July 15, 2017, 05:23:01 PM: I mean I was considering it.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on July 15, 2017, 05:26:47 PM: Quote from: IG GallPizi on July 15, 2017, 05:23:01 PM
I mean I was considering it.

I think Eidolon wanted to do that as well.

Bring it on, 3 SSDs? No problem.
Title: Re: Submit your Sim Faction Proposal!
Post by: RanesDsane on July 15, 2017, 06:55:19 PM: I figured at least one of you would go for a single SSD and build support later. It's really only a small gamble.

I'll try to have my stuff up Monday. Was waiting for the final unit updates to see what the starting SFs are so I can decide what to upgrade. :) Tonight was about 7 hours of Commandeer (MTG) games. Tomorrow is out to a local beach with a bunch of abandoned ships to look at.

- Ranes