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Bloc Themes Thoughts

Results of the discussion:

1. The Core colonies lack agency. Most severely they lack it in terms of conflict with ZOCU. A new conflict is something they feel they have to participate in, but they have no control over. As Rex put it, it's a 'weight'. This is less severe in PACT. Suggestion: Take Earth out of the picture in some concrete way.
2. The Core colonies lack heroism. Our cultural assumptions cast ZOCU as the heroes because we see independence struggles as heroic. The Core needs a plausible heroic narrative. Suggestions: Play on established anti-independence narratives like the US Civil War and European secession, and make ZOCU the aggressor.
3. The Core factions lack a clear unifying theme. Peel ideas below.

The European Union: Trouble in Paradise

For centuries, the European Project has marched on. Man in hand with man across racial, cultural and linguistic borders, the EU is the shining city on the hill. The ideal of what humanity can be as it transcends the divisions that have hobbled it for all of history. In the space age it continues to uphold this ideal as it goes outwards, spreading and uniting humanity as it goes. But come the end of the Breakdown there is trouble in Paradise. With turmoil on Earth and an ideological challenge in the name of self-determination, but in the defence of genetic tyranny and petty greed, the dream is facing a great test that may yet make it a nightmare. It is up to the colonies at the tip of the European Arm to safeguard that dream of peace, unity and progress by defending it in local space and carrying the torch yet outward.

Then add distinctive unifying unit/technological theme and aesthetic. Maybe a little chrome and zeerust?

FBH suggestions: Specialist Battleships, Landdreadnaughts, Anime engineering coolness, Power armour with plumes.

BM suggestions: Super MMI/AI interfaces, Linked battlefleets

Civilisations & Leaders

Traits: Aggressive, Charismatic, Expansive, Financial, Imperialistic, Industrious, Organised, Philosophical, Protective, Spiritual

EU

Unique Unit: Drake (replaces Battleship)
Unique Building:
New Silesia: Imperialistic, ?
New Somerset: ?, ?
Outremonde: Organised, ?

PACT

Unique Unit: Inch (replaces Centimetre)
Unique Building:
Corregidor: Expansive, Financial
Daedalus: ?, ?
Oceania: Financial, Australian
Sao Galvao: Financial, Industrious

China & Friends

Unique Unit: Titan (replaces Superbattleship)
Unique Building: Immigration Bureau (replaces Courthouse)
Some Dudes: Awesome, Owns
Cooler Than: Magnificent, Resplendent
You Losers: Totally, Sweet

Russia & Friends

ZOCU

Unique Unit: Sarissa (replaces Combat Frame)
Unique Building: Theta Factory (replaces Dust Factory)
Hampshire: Financial, ?
Haraway: Aggressive, Charismatic, Expansive, Financial, (Anti-)Imperialistic, Industrious, Organised, Philosophical, Protective, Spiritual
Ithaca: ?, ?
Kanon: Aggressive, Philosophical
New Mercia: Protective, Industrious

League

Unique Unit: Two Battleships (replaces Battleship)
Unique Building: Armoury (replaces Factory)
Minkowski: Organised, Spiritual
Sarreva: Aggressive, Protective
Vimelan: Charismatic, ?

Magnates

Unique Unit: Series VII Bioroid (replaces Supersoldiers)
Unique Building: Mind-Control Tower (replaces Broadcast Tower)
Delten: Industrious, Philosophical
Dogma: Expansive, Organised
Hyperborea: Charismatic, Organised
Rebirth: Aggressive, Spiritual

Solar System Generator

Note: If you roll up a garden or terraformable world, roll again unless you have a particularly good reason why it wasn't colonised.

A conventional solar system has 2d6 bodies (including your planet)
Planets: rocky planets may be asteroid belts

1-3: rocky

4-6: gaseous

Mass: gaseous planets add 4 to the die roll

1: Sublunar (Asteroid belt, 0.0005)

2: 0.01 Earths (the Moon, 0.0123)

3: 0.1 (Mars, 0.107)

4: 1 (Venus, 0.815)

5: 5 (5 Earths)

6: 10 (Uranus, 15)

7: 50

8: 100 (Saturn (Saturn, 94)

9: 500 Earths (Jupiter, 318)

10: Superjovian (HAT-P-2b, >2500)

Composition (gaseous):

1-3: Hydrogen/Helium (Jupiter, Saturn)

4-5: Methane/Ammonia (Uranus, Neptune)

6: Hydrogen/Water

Atmosphere (rocky):

1-3: Carbon Dioxide (Mars, Venus)

4: Nitrogen/Oxygen (Earth)

5: Methane/Ammonia (Titan)

6: Hydrogen/Helium (Mercury)

Atmospheric density (rocky):

1: None/trace

2: Very low

3: Low (Mars)

4: Moderate (Earth)

5: High (Venus)

6: Extreme (Titan)

Temperature: planets with thinner atmospheres have greater temperature variation

2-4: Deep Frozen (Pluto, <100K)

5-6: Frozen (equator dozens of degrees below freezing point)

7: Icebox (Mars)

8: Temperate (Earth)

9: Hothouse (Terranova)

10: Severe (water boils on the equator)

11-12: Extreme (Venus)

Wackiness?

1-5: No

6: Yes

Wackiness!

1: Tidally locked

2: Tidally locked

3: Fossils

4: Xenolife

5: Commercially inviable precursor dust

6: Posthuman structure (or possibly Velan ruin)

Snail (final statblock)

Race: Classic (+1 universal)
Occupation: I-tech (+1 education)
Traits: Obsessed (research) [+3], Dark Past [+5], Obscure Knowledge (AI programming, xenopsychology, esoteric computing, mindstate engineering) [4]
Stats:
Physical 1 [0]
Smarts 11 [55]
Education 6 [10] specialise Systems Theory 4 [10]
Integrity 4 [6]
Perception 2 [1]
Charisma 4 [6]

Skills:
Conditioning [0]
Intrusion 2 [3]
Technology 2 [3] specialise Computers 5 [15]
Cacophony Tech 1

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 *1. The Core colonies lack agency. Most severely they lack it in terms of conflict with ZOCU. A new conflict is something they feel they have to participate in, but they have no control over. As Rex put it, it's a 'weight'. This is less severe in PACT. Suggestion: Take Earth out of the picture in some concrete way.
 *2. The Core colonies lack heroism. Our cultural assumptions cast ZOCU as the heroes because we see independence struggles as heroic. The Core needs a plausible heroic narrative. Suggestions: Play on established ''anti''-independence narratives like the US Civil War and European secession, and make ZOCU the aggressor.
-*3. The Core factions lack a clear unifying theme. Suggestions below.
+*3. The Core factions lack a clear unifying theme. Peel ideas below.
-:'''The European Union:''' Trouble in Paradise
+====The European Union: Trouble in Paradise====
 For centuries, the European Project has marched on. Man in hand with man across racial, cultural and linguistic borders, the EU is the shining city on the hill. The ideal of what humanity can be as it transcends the divisions that have hobbled it for all of history. In the space age it continues to uphold this ideal as it goes outwards, spreading and uniting humanity as it goes. But come the end of the Breakdown there is trouble in Paradise. With turmoil on Earth and an ideological challenge in the name of self-determination, but in the defence of genetic tyranny and petty greed, the dream is facing a great test that may yet make it a nightmare. It is up to the colonies at the tip of the European Arm to safeguard that dream of peace, unity and progress by defending it in local space and carrying the torch yet outward.
 :Then add distinctive unifying unit/technological theme and aesthetic. Maybe a little chrome and zeerust?