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	* <u> Fair Dealers (1):</u>		* <u> Fair Dealers (1):</u>
	** Effect: You are known as fair dealers and straight shooters on the galactic stage and have considerable good will. NPCs will react accordingly. Hypocrisy, treachery or committing international crimes may serve to damage your reputation.		** Effect: You are known as fair dealers and straight shooters on the galactic stage and have considerable good will. NPCs will react accordingly. Hypocrisy, treachery or committing international crimes may serve to damage your reputation.
	*<u> Asari (2):</u>		* <u>Asari (2):</u>
	** Effect: No matter how duplicitous or badly behaved you are, something about your state means it never quite sticks to your reputation. As such, NPCs will not allow your previous conduct to effect their reaction to what you’re doing currently		** Effect: No matter how duplicitous or badly behaved you are, something about your state means it never quite sticks to your reputation. As such, NPCs will not allow your previous conduct to effect their reaction to what you’re doing currently
	* <u>Client State (3): </u>		* <u>Client State (3):</u>
	** Effect: You have a superior relationship with an NPC about one third of your stature, on your homeworld or on another world. You don’t directly control them and their desire for freedom may grow in response to mistreatment or bad behavior, but they’re functionally a ride-or-die ally when it counts, for instance in your defense. (Modern USA and Germany)		** Effect: You have a superior relationship with an NPC about one third of your stature, on your homeworld or on another world. You don’t directly control them and their desire for freedom may grow in response to mistreatment or bad behavior, but they’re functionally a ride-or-die ally when it counts, for instance in your defense. (Modern USA and Germany)
	* <u> Poodle (3):</u>		* <u>Poodle (3):</u>
	** Effect: You have a less powerful (half of Client State) NPC either on your homeworld or on another world who acts as your ally. While significantly less powerful than you, they are stable and will mostly do what you say unless it’s particularly egregious or humiliating. (Modern USA and Britain)		** Effect: You have a less powerful (half of Client State) NPC either on your homeworld or on another world who acts as your ally. While significantly less powerful than you, they are stable and will mostly do what you say unless it’s particularly egregious or humiliating. (Modern USA and Britain)
	* <u> Alley Cat (3):</u>		* <u>Alley Cat (3):</u>
	** Effect: You have a disreputable friend who can provide you with the good stuff. They are less powerful (Half of a Client State), but are well connected to the galactic underworld, smuggling and daring do.		** Effect: You have a disreputable friend who can provide you with the good stuff. They are less powerful (Half of a Client State), but are well connected to the galactic underworld, smuggling and daring do.
	* <u> Superior Cat (3):</u>		* <u> Superior Cat (3):</u>
	** Effect: You have a friendly relationship with an NPC about a third of your stature, but the relationship is somewhat strained and annoying, and they have a tendency to pull you into conflicts over their own interests whenever they can. They however have superior strategic placement and many interests in areas vital to you. (Modern USA and France).		** Effect: You have a friendly relationship with an NPC about a third of your stature, but the relationship is somewhat strained and annoying, and they have a tendency to pull you into conflicts over their own interests whenever they can. They however have superior strategic placement and many interests in areas vital to you. (Modern USA and France).
	* <u> Our Guy in Deneb (10):</u>		* <u>Our Guy in Deneb (10):</u>
	** Effect: For some reason (effective lobbying, historical reasons, some kind of debt of honor) you’re widely loved by one faction or block, to whom you can practically do no wrong. This faction will support you to the best of their ability no matter what you do, and constantly cover for your crimes.		** Effect: For some reason (effective lobbying, historical reasons, some kind of debt of honor) you’re widely loved by one faction or block, to whom you can practically do no wrong. This faction will support you to the best of their ability no matter what you do, and constantly cover for your crimes.
	* <u>Enclaves (2): </u>		* <u>Enclaves (2):</u>
	** Effect: You have Independant Enclaves on your homeworld. These are Client State-size powers who are nominally friendly at game start with introspective foreign policy, who can easily be subjugated or confederated with relatively little effort.		** Effect: You have Independant Enclaves on your homeworld. These are Client State-size powers who are nominally friendly at game start with introspective foreign policy, who can easily be subjugated or confederated with relatively little effort.
	* <u>London Laundry (3): </u>		* <u>London Laundry (3):</u>
	** Effect: You are a huge center of extremely dodgy finances. For every black market deal, trade sanctions break or profit from piracy, you gain X additional wealth. If this is discovered your reputation may suffer.		** Effect: You are a huge center of extremely dodgy finances. For every black market deal, trade sanctions break or profit from piracy, you gain X additional wealth. If this is discovered your reputation may suffer.
	* <u> Vatican Bank (4): </u>		* <u>Vatican Bank (4):</u>
	** Effect: You are a huge center of extremely dodgy finances and nobody can ever call you on it. As above, but you suffer no reputation loss from this.		** Effect: You are a huge center of extremely dodgy finances and nobody can ever call you on it. As above, but you suffer no reputation loss from this.
	* <u> Canadian Politeness (4): </u>		* <u>Canadian Politeness (4):</u>
	** Effect: You’re known as a nice, mild country who doesn’t rock the boat and doesn’t ever do anything strange or evil. People are more likely to ignore your internal crimes, and will politely ignore most of your international actions or treat them in a positive light.		** Effect: You’re known as a nice, mild country who doesn’t rock the boat and doesn’t ever do anything strange or evil. People are more likely to ignore your internal crimes, and will politely ignore most of your international actions or treat them in a positive light.

	'''Neutral Traits'''		'''Neutral Traits'''
	* <u>Treaty Ports (/): </u>		* <u>Treaty Ports (/):</u>
	** Effect: You have a set of colonies of another power on your homeworld, which makes for easy trading opportunities and makes you hard to blockade, but can also result in enemy ground forces having a place to stage.		** Effect: You have a set of colonies of another power on your homeworld, which makes for easy trading opportunities and makes you hard to blockade, but can also result in enemy ground forces having a place to stage.
	* <u>Wildcat Colonists (/): </u>		* <u>Wildcat Colonists (/):</u>
	** Effect: You have a set of Wildcat Colonies on your homeworld (as the Feature). They keep to themselves and can be decent trading partners or recruiting pools for agents, but may gleefully assist the first invader if you mistreat them.		** Effect: You have a set of Wildcat Colonies on your homeworld (as the Feature). They keep to themselves and can be decent trading partners or recruiting pools for agents, but may gleefully assist the first invader if you mistreat them.
	* <u>Factious World (/): </u>		* <u>Factious World (/):</u>
	** Effect: At some point your colony project split into several factions of about equal strength, you share your planet with them. They begin fairly neutral to you but may become friendly or be conquered.		** Effect: At some point your colony project split into several factions of about equal strength, you share your planet with them. They begin fairly neutral to you but may become friendly or be conquered.
	* <u>Who Cares about Tanzania?(/): </u> (Minor Powers Only)		* <u>Who Cares about Tanzania?(/):</u> (Minor Powers Only)
	** Effect: You are a small, distant nation that nobody cares about. Unless you make a major splash, people won’t react to what you’re doing. However they’re unlikely to help you out either.		** Effect: You are a small, distant nation that nobody cares about. Unless you make a major splash, people won’t react to what you’re doing. However they’re unlikely to help you out either.

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	* <u>Black Mark (-1):</u>		* <u>Black Mark (-1):</u>
	**Effect: You recently did something that most of the international community regard as bad, for instant an unprovoked invasion. Your diplomacy will be penalized.		**Effect: You recently did something that most of the international community regard as bad, for instant an unprovoked invasion. Your diplomacy will be penalized.
	*<u>Failson-Industrial Complex (-2):</u>		* <u>Failson-Industrial Complex (-2):</u>
	**Effect: No matter how much money you pour into allies you want to cultivate or international organizations you nurture, around half that value just vanishes into the pockets of elite scions somehow put into related sinecures.		**Effect: No matter how much money you pour into allies you want to cultivate or international organizations you nurture, around half that value just vanishes into the pockets of elite scions somehow put into related sinecures.
	*<u> Big Houses in Virginia (-5):</u>		*<u> Big Houses in Virginia (-5):</u>
	**Effect: Your foreign policy establishment has a way of getting enmeshed in business dealings with the people you’re dealing with. As such, it is functionally impossible for you to break off foreign policy commitments (such as an occupation, guarantee to a smaller power etc.), even if it becomes disadvantageous to you, short of military defeat. You may conduct dealings with powers of equal rank normally.		**Effect: Your foreign policy establishment has a way of getting enmeshed in business dealings with the people you’re dealing with. As such, it is functionally impossible for you to break off foreign policy commitments (such as an occupation, guarantee to a smaller power etc.), even if it becomes disadvantageous to you, short of military defeat. You may conduct dealings with powers of equal rank normally.
	*<u>Swiss Bank Account (-2):</u>		* <u>Swiss Bank Account (-2):</u>
	** Effect: If your nation ever receives any gifts of money, men or materiel, only about half (50%) of it makes its way into the hands of the state.		** Effect: If your nation ever receives any gifts of money, men or materiel, only about half (50%) of it makes its way into the hands of the state.
	*<u>Santa Klaus Schwab (-1):</u>		* <u>Santa Klaus Schwab (-1):</u>
	** Effect: NPCs find your attempts at internationalism to be unsettling and sinister. If a word-salad multilateral project has even a whiff of your involvement in it, nobody will want to be involved other than diehards and vassals.		** Effect: NPCs find your attempts at internationalism to be unsettling and sinister. If a word-salad multilateral project has even a whiff of your involvement in it, nobody will want to be involved other than diehards and vassals.
	*<u>Satanic Empire (-3)</u>		* <u>Satanic Empire (-3)</u>
	** Effect: Your formidable reputation somehow exceeds your crimes, to the degree that no amount of threat can compel people to surrender: they simply assume you’re lying and will fight to the death. NPCs will also readily believe lies about your atrocities. Ironically, normal diplomacy still works.		** Effect: Your formidable reputation somehow exceeds your crimes, to the degree that no amount of threat can compel people to surrender: they simply assume you’re lying and will fight to the death. NPCs will also readily believe lies about your atrocities. Ironically, normal diplomacy still works.
	* <u>Little Green Men (-5):</u>		* <u>Little Green Men (-5):</u>
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	* <u> (Dumb/Sad/Evil) Little Brother (-5):</u>		* <u> (Dumb/Sad/Evil) Little Brother (-5):</u>
	**Effect: You have a smaller (½ Client) state you for some reason need to look after, even though they constantly put you in bad situations. Pick your flavor. Dumb little brothers will constantly make diplomatic gaffes and get themselves into sticky situations. Sad little brothers are angelic, but are in highly threatened locations. Evil little brothers are larger (equal to a Client State) but are constantly committing international crimes which stain your reputations as well, getting into wars, and generally being a headache.		**Effect: You have a smaller (½ Client) state you for some reason need to look after, even though they constantly put you in bad situations. Pick your flavor. Dumb little brothers will constantly make diplomatic gaffes and get themselves into sticky situations. Sad little brothers are angelic, but are in highly threatened locations. Evil little brothers are larger (equal to a Client State) but are constantly committing international crimes which stain your reputations as well, getting into wars, and generally being a headache.
	*<u>Liberation Pact: (-3)</u>		* <u>Liberation Pact: (-3)</u>
	**Effect: Your state has an ideology (communism, cthulhu worship etc,) which elites across the international community regard as a threat. Gain a +X bonus to espionage actions and the automatic friendship of states with similar ideologies, but NPCs will seek to destroy if they can.		**Effect: Your state has an ideology (communism, cthulhu worship etc,) which elites across the international community regard as a threat. Gain a +X bonus to espionage actions and the automatic friendship of states with similar ideologies, but NPCs will seek to destroy if they can.
	*<u>Secondary Power: (-4) </u>		* <u>Secondary Power: (-4) </u>
	**Effect: You are the client state of another, larger empire and they expect you to pay for their patronage in blood and treasure.		**Effect: You are the client state of another, larger empire and they expect you to pay for their patronage in blood and treasure.

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	===Ground Warfare Traits ===		===Ground Warfare Traits ===
	'''Positive Traits'''		'''Positive Traits'''
	*<u>Full-Spectrum War Doctrine (3):</u>		* <u>Full-Spectrum War Doctrine (3):</u>
	** Effect: You may buy units from all three ground warfare lists.		** Effect: You may buy units from all three ground warfare lists.
	*<u>Arms Imports (1):</u>		* <u>Arms Imports (1):</u>
	** Effect: You can pick 2 units from other ground warfare lists, or gain access to the National or Clique lists if you aren't already.		** Effect: You can pick 2 units from other ground warfare lists, or gain access to the National or Clique lists if you aren't already.
	*<u> Martial Tradition (#):</u>		* <u> Martial Tradition (#):</u>
	'''Neutral Traits'''		'''Neutral Traits'''
	* <u>Trait Name (/):</u>		* <u>Trait Name (/):</u>
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	'''Negative Traits'''		'''Negative Traits'''
	<u> The Last Tsars (-3):</u> Your elite rules the state with a noose and an iron fist from a throne of swords. This doesn’t tend to be a stable arrangement.		*<u> The Last Tsars (-3):</u> Your elite rules the state with a noose and an iron fist from a throne of swords. This doesn’t tend to be a stable arrangement.
	** Effect: You may ignore the effects of the loss of the level of popular support, but after that any loss of support immediately sends you into rebellion.		** Effect: You may ignore the effects of the loss of the level of popular support, but after that any loss of support immediately sends you into rebellion.

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	* <u>Inhospitable Planet (-1):</u>		* <u>Inhospitable Planet (-1):</u>
	** Effect: Your planet is enormously hostile to human life and you didn’t adapt to it. Your people live in domes or warrens and damage to infrastructure can cause civilian casualties to tick up into the thousands very quickly.		** Effect: Your planet is enormously hostile to human life and you didn’t adapt to it. Your people live in domes or warrens and damage to infrastructure can cause civilian casualties to tick up into the thousands very quickly.
	*<u>Nightmares (-2): </u> You are not alone on your home planet, and the things you’re not alone with are extremely bad.		*<u>Nightmares (-2):</u> You are not alone on your home planet, and the things you’re not alone with are extremely bad.
	** Effect: You must constantly keep (X) military units on your homeworld to fight off the xenomorphs rampaging in the woods, and may at any time see a more severe outbreak.		** Effect: You must constantly keep (X) military units on your homeworld to fight off the xenomorphs rampaging in the woods, and may at any time see a more severe outbreak.
	*<u>What Lies Beneath (-2) </u> Something ancient and dark lies far beneath your homeworld, not dead but dreaming. Its artifacts may be useful to you, but in the longer term its presence will cost you dear.		*<u>What Lies Beneath (-2)</u> Something ancient and dark lies far beneath your homeworld, not dead but dreaming. Its artifacts may be useful to you, but in the longer term its presence will cost you dear.
	** Effect:		** Effect:

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	===Ground Warfare Traits ===		===Ground Warfare Traits ===
	'''Positive Traits'''		'''Positive Traits'''
	*<u>Full-Spectrum War Doctrine (4):</u>:		*<u>Full-Spectrum War Doctrine (3):</u>
	** Effect:You may buy units from all three ground warfare lists.		** Effect: You may buy units from all three ground warfare lists.
	*<u>Arms Imports (1):</u>		*<u>Arms Imports (1):</u>
	** Effect: You can pick 2 units from other ground warfare lists.		** Effect: You can pick 2 units from other ground warfare lists, or gain access to the National or Clique lists if you aren't already.
	*<u> Martial Tradition (#):</u>		*<u> Martial Tradition (#):</u>
	'''Neutral Traits'''		'''Neutral Traits'''

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	'''Negative Traits'''		'''Negative Traits'''
	* <u>Worse Earth (-1):</u> You settled on the most common, least pleasant kind of habitable planet. Generations rue the day they made planetfall.		* <u>Worse Earth (-1):</u> You settled on the most common, least pleasant kind of habitable planet. Generations rue the day they made planetfall.
	* Effect: Your planet type is the Worse Earth archetype outlined in the planetology document. You cannot support Tourism in any fashion and events that might spawn refugees will disfavor you.		** Effect: Your planet type is the Worse Earth archetype outlined in the planetology document. You cannot support Tourism in any fashion and events that might spawn refugees will disfavor you.
	* <u>Inhospitable Planet (-1):</u>		* <u>Inhospitable Planet (-1):</u>
	* Effect: Your planet is enormously hostile to human life and you didn’t adapt to it. Your people live in domes or warrens and damage to infrastructure can cause civilian casualties to tick up into the thousands very quickly.		** Effect: Your planet is enormously hostile to human life and you didn’t adapt to it. Your people live in domes or warrens and damage to infrastructure can cause civilian casualties to tick up into the thousands very quickly.
	*<u>Nightmares (-2): </u> You are not alone on your home planet, and the things you’re not alone with are extremely bad. You must constantly keep (X) military units on your homeworld to fight off the xenomorphs rampaging in the woods, and may at any time see a more severe outbreak.		*<u>Nightmares (-2): </u> You are not alone on your home planet, and the things you’re not alone with are extremely bad.
			** Effect: You must constantly keep (X) military units on your homeworld to fight off the xenomorphs rampaging in the woods, and may at any time see a more severe outbreak.
	*<u>What Lies Beneath (-2) </u> Something ancient and dark lies far beneath your homeworld, not dead but dreaming. Its artifacts may be useful to you, but in the longer term its presence will cost you dear.		*<u>What Lies Beneath (-2) </u> Something ancient and dark lies far beneath your homeworld, not dead but dreaming. Its artifacts may be useful to you, but in the longer term its presence will cost you dear.
			** Effect:

	=== Economic Traits ===		=== Economic Traits ===

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	* <u>Dreamland (2):</u>		* <u>Dreamland (2):</u>
	** Effect: Planet has one territory with Advanced Alien Ruins or Precursor Alien Ruins, a valuable source for scientific study.		** Effect: Planet has one territory with Advanced Alien Ruins or Precursor Alien Ruins, a valuable source for scientific study.
	*<u>Engineered Population(5):</u>
	** Effect: Your population has been subject to heavy genetic engineering, gain (maybe a reroll) on all rolls, at the cost of increased population upkeep.
	* <u> Defensible World (4) </u>
	** Effect: Your planet is a place of trackless forests and rolling hills, vast mountains and huge wildernesses near major transport routes. A perfect place to defend.

	'''Neutral Traits'''		'''Neutral Traits'''
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	*<u>Primitive Aliens (/):</u>		*<u>Primitive Aliens (/):</u>
	** Effect: Your planet has a set of primitive sapient or pre-sapient life forms on it with a civilization no more advanced than bronze age. These beings may have useful skills and abilities or be useful workers, but are protected by the UN charter and thus block development in some areas.		** Effect: Your planet has a set of primitive sapient or pre-sapient life forms on it with a civilization no more advanced than bronze age. These beings may have useful skills and abilities or be useful workers, but are protected by the UN charter and thus block development in some areas.
	* <u> Ocean World</u>
	** Effect: Your world is mostly ocean. You can move ships anywhere but this has some (negative effect

	'''Negative Traits'''		'''Negative Traits'''

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= Nation Creation Summary =

= Nation Creation =

== Archetype ==

===Great Powers===
The great nations of the post-Collapse universe, capable of exerting geopolitical power on an interstellar scale at the cost of being constrained by obligations, alliances and the contradictions inherent in all large states.

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Playstyle

===Emerging Powers===
Upstart powers, comfortably outgrowing the expectations and limitations imposed on them by Great Powers to come into their own.

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===Hermit States===
Minor pirate states and sheltered enclaves on the fringes of human space, unknown and sometimes unloved, and beneath the notice of Great Powers.

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===United Nations Extrasolar Fleets===
The UN's lawmen, exerting Solarian influence out in the Verge and providing teeth to the letter of international law. The ESFs exist in constant tension between the demands of their patrons in Sol and the working relationships they keep with local Verger states.

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===Free Companies===
A special class of mercenaries, inheriting a tradition from the various Solarian navies who deserted when the Reconquista began and then loaned their power to fledgling Verger powers when the long night of the Disconnect began. Mercenaries who claim descent from those early freelancers are generally viewed as legitimate by most parties and extended broad lassitude in their affairs, even allowed to possess military equipment and warships- though some of those are now well over a hundred years old.

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===Transtellars===
Transtellars are puissant interstellar corporations and other non-governmental organizations, capable of exerting economic power that would even give the greatest of Verger states pause. They are only constrained in power by the demotivational nature of highly atomized, accelerated corporate life: Standard Helium might be worth trillions of spacebux but nobody wants to die a screaming death getting railgunned while taking a mining platform. To make up for it they often make use of mercenaries and sympathetic governments, who often have a lot to gain by working with them.

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== Starting Paths ==

===Origins ===

===Tensions===

===Perils===