Ruins of Alien Suns: Stability and Morale - Revision history

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Fervor

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	'''Hire Radical Minister:''' 10 Fervor, Choose One		'''Hire Radical Minister:''' 10 Fervor, Choose One
	*Lets you fake traits for a year, but you also suffer the downsides like Stability Loss criterion. Costs more if you pick a contradicting trait (i.e. Peaceniks and Warmachine are opposed.)		*Lets you fake traits for a year, but you also suffer the downsides like Stability Loss criterion. Costs more if you pick a contradicting trait (i.e. Peaceniks and Warmachine are opposed.)
	*Get an Operative with 3 pre-filled upgrade slots.		*Get an Operative with 3 pre-filled upgrade slots and 3 open ones.
	'''Conduct Radical Reforms:''' 5 Fervor, Choose One		'''Conduct Radical Reforms:''' 5 Fervor, Choose One
	*Change the government in order to appease NPCs by deflecting the blame of your actions on the old guard. Less effective if your behavior repeats the initial offense.		*Change the government in order to appease NPCs by deflecting the blame of your actions on the old guard. Less effective if your behavior repeats the initial offense.

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Universal Conditions

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	GAIN (+1): Responding to an exceptional threat in your home Sector and aiding a fellow state, regardless of politics.		GAIN (+1): Responding to an exceptional threat in your home Sector and aiding a fellow state, regardless of politics.
	GAIN (+1): Making an enduring peace at the end of a serious war.		GAIN (+1): Making an enduring peace at the end of a serious war.
			*GAIN (+1): Not calling up Fervor that year.
	LOSS (-1): Suffering a terrorist attack without directing the resulting political animus towards some threat.		LOSS (-1): Suffering a terrorist attack without directing the resulting political animus towards some threat.
	LOSS (-1): Trading proprietary or controversial technologies. Stacks with other potential losses from trading technologies.		LOSS (-1): Trading proprietary or controversial technologies. Stacks with other potential losses from trading technologies.

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	'''Conduct Radical Research:''' 1d6+10 Fervor		'''Conduct Radical Research:''' 1d6+10 Fervor
	*Allows you to implement techs without investing the political capital or material aid, by paperclipping Praetorian and Artan scientists, kidnapping university students, hiring rogue weapons cartels, etc. These technologies are always [Controversial], causing continuous domestic and foreign unrest which manifests as lost Stability upon trading and generally unfavorable opinions among NPCs.		*Allows you to implement techs without investing the political capital or material aid, by paperclipping Praetorian and Artan scientists, kidnapping university students, hiring rogue weapons cartels, etc. These technologies are always [Controversial], causing continuous domestic and foreign unrest which manifests as lost Stability upon trading and generally unfavorable opinions among NPCs.
	'''Conduct Mass ~~mobilization~~:''' 15 Fervor		'''Conduct Mass Mobilization:''' 15 Fervor
	*Reduce build time on all ground units to 3 months, at the cost of a minor decrease in quality for those units and terrible morale if deployed in offensive wars. All units made in this way must be labelled [Conscript] and must be demobilized to stop stability loss. In defensive wars, People’s Champions gain this automatically, and units are labelled “volunteers”. Volunteers are built at half cost and gain significant moral bonuses.		*Reduce build time on all ground units to 3 months, at the cost of a minor decrease in quality for those units and terrible morale if deployed in offensive wars. All units made in this way must be labelled [Conscript] and must be demobilized to stop stability loss. In defensive wars, People’s Champions gain this automatically, and units are labelled “volunteers”. Volunteers are built at half cost and gain significant moral bonuses.
	'''Rally Around the Flag:''' 10 Fervor per Year<br>		'''Rally Around the Flag:''' 10 Fervor per Year<br>

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	=== Fervor ===		=== Fervor ===
	Fervor can be spent as currency, once called up. The options are detailed in this section, with costs ~~attacked~~. Some options may cost additional points the longer they are used.		Fervor can be spent as currency, once called up. The options are detailed in this section, with costs attached. Some options may cost additional points the longer they are used.

	'''Hire Radical Minister:''' 10 Fervor, Choose One		'''Hire Radical Minister:''' 10 Fervor, Choose One

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Using Stability

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	*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet:</u> Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.		*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet:</u> Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.
	*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.		*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.
	'''Deficit Spending''' 6 Fervor, 3 at Low Tier, Doubles per Additional Year		'''Deficit Spending''' 6 Fervor, 3 at Low Tier, Doubles per Additional Consecutive Year
	*<u>Unsecured:</u> Can go up to 2x your total GDP into debt, with no caveats.		*<u>Unsecured:</u> Can go up to 2x your total GDP into debt, with no caveats.
	*<u>Secured:</u> Ask a Great Power, IMF or one of the pan-Verge financial institutions to secure your loan. This allows for unlimited spending, but every $5000 or so into debt the institution will add some new obsequious restriction to how you can spend it. The restrictions can be backtracked by adjusting budgets, but will not change until the next year.		*<u>Secured:</u> Ask a Great Power, IMF or one of the pan-Verge financial institutions to secure your loan. This allows for unlimited spending, but every $5000 or so into debt the institution will add some new obsequious restriction to how you can spend it. The restrictions can be backtracked by adjusting budgets, but will not change until the next year.

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	=== Fervor ===		=== Fervor ===
			Fervor can be spent as currency, once called up. The options are detailed in this section, with costs attacked. Some options may cost additional points the longer they are used.

	'''Hire Radical Minister:''' 10 Fervor, Choose One		'''Hire Radical Minister:''' 10 Fervor, Choose One
	*Lets you fake traits for a year, but you also suffer the downsides like Stability Loss criterion. Costs more if you pick a contradicting trait (i.e. Peaceniks and Warmachine are opposed.)		*Lets you fake traits for a year, but you also suffer the downsides like Stability Loss criterion. Costs more if you pick a contradicting trait (i.e. Peaceniks and Warmachine are opposed.)
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	*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet:</u> Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.		*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet:</u> Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.
	*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.		*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.
	'''Deficit Spending''' 3 ~~Fervor~~, Doubles per Year		'''Deficit Spending''' 6 Fervor, 3 at Low Tier, Doubles per Additional Year
	*<u>Unsecured:</u> Can go up to 2x your total GDP into debt, with no caveats.		*<u>Unsecured:</u> Can go up to 2x your total GDP into debt, with no caveats.
	*<u>Secured:</u> Ask a Great Power, IMF or one of the pan-Verge financial institutions to secure your loan. This allows for unlimited spending, but every $5000 or so into debt the institution will add some new obsequious restriction to how you can spend it. The restrictions can be backtracked by adjusting budgets, but will not change until the next year.		*<u>Secured:</u> Ask a Great Power, IMF or one of the pan-Verge financial institutions to secure your loan. This allows for unlimited spending, but every $5000 or so into debt the institution will add some new obsequious restriction to how you can spend it. The restrictions can be backtracked by adjusting budgets, but will not change until the next year.

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	'''Conduct Mass mobilization:''' 15 Fervor		'''Conduct Mass mobilization:''' 15 Fervor
	*Reduce build time on all ground units to 3 months, at the cost of a minor decrease in quality for those units and terrible morale if deployed in offensive wars. All units made in this way must be labelled [Conscript] and must be demobilized to stop stability loss. In defensive wars, People’s Champions gain this automatically, and units are labelled “volunteers”. Volunteers are built at half cost and gain significant moral bonuses.		*Reduce build time on all ground units to 3 months, at the cost of a minor decrease in quality for those units and terrible morale if deployed in offensive wars. All units made in this way must be labelled [Conscript] and must be demobilized to stop stability loss. In defensive wars, People’s Champions gain this automatically, and units are labelled “volunteers”. Volunteers are built at half cost and gain significant moral bonuses.
	'''Rally Around the Flag:''' 15 Fervor<br>		'''Rally Around the Flag:''' 10 Fervor per Year<br>
	Use once war with a hostile power seems inevitable. Choose two of the traits below. Every odd year, take another trait.		Use once war with a hostile power seems inevitable. Choose two of the traits below. Every odd year, take another trait.
	*<u>President-General Batman:</u> Use your head of state as a propaganda unit, attached to any ground, aerospace or starship. Grants perfect morale to units in the battlespace. For powers without a discrete head of state, this can instead be a fighter squadron of the executive committee or a great people’s elective battleship, etc.		*<u>President-General Batman:</u> Use your head of state as a propaganda unit, attached to any ground, aerospace or starship. Grants perfect morale to units in the battlespace. For powers without a discrete head of state, this can instead be a fighter squadron of the executive committee or a great people’s elective battleship, etc.
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	*<u>Tin Can Hurricanes:</u> Gain [Industrial + Standard of Living Development Value] in free aerospace or ground units in the event of a direct attack on your homeland. This stacks with other effects that spawn ground units.		*<u>Tin Can Hurricanes:</u> Gain [Industrial + Standard of Living Development Value] in free aerospace or ground units in the event of a direct attack on your homeland. This stacks with other effects that spawn ground units.
	*<u>Sten Guns:</u> You may use your own Monkey/Export Model equipment without penalties.		*<u>Sten Guns:</u> You may use your own Monkey/Export Model equipment without penalties.
	*<u>Buy War Bonds:</u> Deficit automatically reduces by ~~[Stability x200]~~ every year.		*<u>Buy War Bonds:</u> Deficit automatically reduces by $1000 every year, $2000 at High tier.
	*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet:</u> Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.		*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet:</u> Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.
	*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.		*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.

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The Stability Track

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	'''Revolt''' - The country is slowly creaking towards civil war. State factories and civil service are plagued by strikes, riots are a regular occurrence from the streets of the capitol to the most far flung provinces and large sections of the government are corrupt or outright treasonous. There is no consent or consensus among the classes of the land to legitimize rule. Disaster looms.		'''Revolt''' - The country is slowly creaking towards civil war. State factories and civil service are plagued by strikes, riots are a regular occurrence from the streets of the capitol to the most far flung provinces and large sections of the government are corrupt or outright treasonous. There is no consent or consensus among the classes of the land to legitimize rule. Disaster looms.
	:[Revolt 1] <-> [Revolt 2] <-> [Revolt 3] <-> [Revolt 4] <-> [Revolt 4] <-> [Low 1]		:[Revolt 1] <-> [Revolt 2] <-> [Revolt 3] <-> [Revolt 4] <-> [Revolt 5] <-> [Low 1]
	:<u>Raise Cost:</u> x1		:<u>Raise Cost:</u> x1
	:<u>No Fervor</u>		:<u>No Fervor</u>

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Fervor

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	*<u>Sten Guns:</u> You may use your own Monkey/Export Model equipment without penalties.		*<u>Sten Guns:</u> You may use your own Monkey/Export Model equipment without penalties.
	*<u>Buy War Bonds:</u> Deficit automatically reduces by [Stability x200] every year.		*<u>Buy War Bonds:</u> Deficit automatically reduces by [Stability x200] every year.
	*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet: Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.		*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet:</u> Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.
	*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.		*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.
	'''Deficit Spending''' 3 Fervor, Doubles per Year		'''Deficit Spending''' 3 Fervor, Doubles per Year

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Using Stability

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	== Using Stability ==		== Using Stability ==
			Stability provides passive intelligence defense and a higher chance of positive random events in addition to the benefits listed in the descriptions for each tier. Additionally, simply having a functional government provides states with significant tools to deal with antisocial forces that dogmatic institutions like UN Taskforces and the highly personal forces of Transtellars.

			The following actions can be undertaken at given Stability levels. They cost nothing, but require at least one Operative assigned and must be declared in budgets and the IC thread:
			*<u>Adopt:</u> (Any Tier) States can bring hostile groups like factions of the Sons of the Verge, pirate cabals into the fold and make them part of the government. This is not inconsequential and may cause the state to develop temporary negative traits as the new ruling coalition suffers growing pains.
			*<u>Suppress:</u> (Low+) Political repression is always an option, but it only really works when people prefer the government to whatever forces challenge it. Suppressing a faction forces it underground where it has fewer resources, grows more slowly and suffers various setbacks. However such actions make the group hostile, and may see them take over vast tracts of the black market and other criminal enterprise if they have not already.
			*<u>Control:</u> (Standard+) Counterculture movements can only act where they exert de-facto political hegemony. As long as the state is more locally powerful than the group (i.e.: Stability remains at a Tier that can affect the SoV cell), they will refrain from illegal actions against a Controlling nation and generally behave themselves.

			=== Fervor ===
			'''Hire Radical Minister:''' 10 Fervor, Choose One
			*Lets you fake traits for a year, but you also suffer the downsides like Stability Loss criterion. Costs more if you pick a contradicting trait (i.e. Peaceniks and Warmachine are opposed.)
			*Get an Operative with 3 pre-filled upgrade slots.
			'''Conduct Radical Reforms:''' 5 Fervor, Choose One
			*Change the government in order to appease NPCs by deflecting the blame of your actions on the old guard. Less effective if your behavior repeats the initial offense.
			*Change your social openness.
			*Instantly raise a 200-point Agency.
			'''Conduct Purges:''' 5 Fervor, Choose One, +5 per Extra Use that Year
			*Expel counterculture elements (SoV, Demimonde) or foreign influences (TF Titan). Reduces a single tracker value by 2.
			*Expel spies or counter the result of a single intelligence project. PCs can Purge their Client States but Dominions cannot Purge on behalf of their masters.
			*Restore the morale of armed forces at the cost of significant loss of effectiveness.
			'''Conduct Radical Research:''' 1d6+10 Fervor
			*Allows you to implement techs without investing the political capital or material aid, by paperclipping Praetorian and Artan scientists, kidnapping university students, hiring rogue weapons cartels, etc. These technologies are always [Controversial], causing continuous domestic and foreign unrest which manifests as lost Stability upon trading and generally unfavorable opinions among NPCs.
			'''Conduct Mass mobilization:''' 15 Fervor
			*Reduce build time on all ground units to 3 months, at the cost of a minor decrease in quality for those units and terrible morale if deployed in offensive wars. All units made in this way must be labelled [Conscript] and must be demobilized to stop stability loss. In defensive wars, People’s Champions gain this automatically, and units are labelled “volunteers”. Volunteers are built at half cost and gain significant moral bonuses.
			'''Rally Around the Flag:''' 15 Fervor<br>
			Use once war with a hostile power seems inevitable. Choose two of the traits below. Every odd year, take another trait.
			*<u>President-General Batman:</u> Use your head of state as a propaganda unit, attached to any ground, aerospace or starship. Grants perfect morale to units in the battlespace. For powers without a discrete head of state, this can instead be a fighter squadron of the executive committee or a great people’s elective battleship, etc.
			*<u>Together for the Empire!:</u> As the Prestige benefits.
			*<u>War Rationing:</u> Halve upkeep, double Development costs.
			*<u>Manufacturing Consent:</u> Gain 4 buffer Stability for defeats or war crimes.
			*<u>Plowshares to Swords:</u> Convert Developments directly into military value. This also affects Developments you capture from the enemy.
			*<u>Victory Gardens:</u> Your people do not need Standards of Living Developments and are moderately provisioned for sieges and other supply disruptions.
			*<u>Staybehind Units:</u> Your conquered areas will spawn massive contingents of professional partisans, typically 25% of whatever was holding the territory when it was taken.
			*<u>Tin Can Hurricanes:</u> Gain [Industrial + Standard of Living Development Value] in free aerospace or ground units in the event of a direct attack on your homeland. This stacks with other effects that spawn ground units.
			*<u>Sten Guns:</u> You may use your own Monkey/Export Model equipment without penalties.
			*<u>Buy War Bonds:</u> Deficit automatically reduces by [Stability x200] every year.
			*<u>Super Patriotic Space Internet: Give a passive diplomacy bonus with all friendly NPCs and a passive diplomacy penalty with all who are hostile. Open source intelligence on your state is completely unreliable.
			*<u>Observer Corps:</u> Gain a bonus to detecting surprise attacks and espionage operations aimed at you.
			'''Deficit Spending''' 3 Fervor, Doubles per Year
			*<u>Unsecured:</u> Can go up to 2x your total GDP into debt, with no caveats.
			*<u>Secured:</u> Ask a Great Power, IMF or one of the pan-Verge financial institutions to secure your loan. This allows for unlimited spending, but every $5000 or so into debt the institution will add some new obsequious restriction to how you can spend it. The restrictions can be backtracked by adjusting budgets, but will not change until the next year.

	= Morale (UN Taskforces and Transtellars) =		= Morale (UN Taskforces and Transtellars) =

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	GAIN (+1): Responding to an exceptional threat in your home Sector and aiding a fellow state, regardless of politics.		GAIN (+1): Responding to an exceptional threat in your home Sector and aiding a fellow state, regardless of politics.
	GAIN (+1): Making an enduring peace at the end of a serious war.		GAIN (+1): Making an enduring peace at the end of a serious war.
			*GAIN (+1): Not calling up Fervor that year.
	LOSS (-1): Suffering a terrorist attack without directing the resulting political animus towards some threat.		LOSS (-1): Suffering a terrorist attack without directing the resulting political animus towards some threat.
	LOSS (-1): Trading proprietary or controversial technologies. Stacks with other potential losses from trading technologies.		LOSS (-1): Trading proprietary or controversial technologies. Stacks with other potential losses from trading technologies.