User:Peel

Mandala

Early PACT subsidised augmentation colony. Uncovered dust, then active machinery. Eschatonic taliban were about during breakdown which led to some bad things (sometimes involving said active machinery) not seen since the Crazy Times. PACT came back in force once contact was reestablished, but there remains no stable government. However despite the enormous expense they will not withdraw, as Mandala remains their only stable source of the precious theta dust.

History Path

A1) Resource base (+PIP)
A2) Dominantly transgene (++transgene)
A3) Resource Rich World
A6) Relic Dust (+dust)
B1) Artifacts(+dust)
B4) Active Machinery (+theta, -dust)
C1) Artifacts(+dust)
C2) Active Machinery (+theta, -dust)
D1) Isolated (+stockpiles)
D2) Go Wierd (++transgene)
X) Immoral Breakthrough (+tech, -pop, -morale)
E1) Sign the PACT (+aerospace tech, +ECM tech, +pulse tech, +carrier tech, -theta)
H1) American-led Peacekeeping (++dust, +SP, +logistics, -morale, -pop)
H2) Blood for Dust (+theta, ++logistics, -morale)
H3) Send in the Marines (+ground tech, +military, ++ground doctrines)
Total: +PIP, ++++transgene, +++dust, ++theta, +stockpiles, +++++specific tech, +SP, +++logistics, ---morale, --pop, +military, ++ground doctrines, +tech

Marinetti

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.

European media have up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the desperate sprint, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.

We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring rocket which seems to run on atomic fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.

We want to sing the man at the wheel, the ideal axis of which crosses the planet, itself hurled along its orbit.
The poet must spend himself with warmth, glamour and prodigality to increase the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.

Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.

We are on the extreme promontory of the centuries! What is the use of looking behind at the moment when we must open the mysterious shutters of the impossible? Time and Space died yesterday with the posthuman dust. We are already living in the absolute, since we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed.

We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for the passive.

We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, pacifism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.

We will sing of the great crowds agitated by work, pleasure and revolt; the multi-colored and polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern capitals: the nocturnal vibration of the arsenals and the workshops beneath their violent electric moons: the gluttonous spaceports s devouring smoking serpents; factories rooted in the city by the thread of their power lines; bridges with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery of sunny rivers: adventurous spacecraft sniffing the horizon; great-breasted locomotives, hovering over the track like enormous steel hawks hungry for prey, and the gliding flight of helicopters whose rotor sounds like the flapping of a flag and the applause of enthusiastic crowds.

History Path

A1) Longshot Mission (+fabbers)
A2) Mixed (+transgene, +SP)
A3) Garden World
A8) Xenomorphs (+military)
B1) Military Action (+military)
B3) Narco-(civil)warfare (+military, +doctrines, -pop)
C1) Crisis Situation (+stockpiles) - we're killing each other too much
C2) Sudden Change of Government (+morale) - let's calm down a bit
D1) Isolated (+stockpiles)
D2) Juche! (+PIP, +helium)
E1) Independence! (++++tech, -shipbuilding)
F1) Fie on the Homeland (+PIP, ++logistics, -non Rim relations)
F2) The Tensor Building (+dust, +CIP, +RP, +weapon tech)
F3) Zoom and Boom (+military, +air doctrines, ++aircraft tech)
X) Reaganomics (+wealth, -debt)
Total: +fabbers, +transgene, +SP, ++++military, +doctrines, -pop, ++stockpiles, +morale, ++PIP, +helium, ++++tech, -shipbuilding, ++logistics, -non Rim relations, +dust, +CIP, +RP, +++ specific tech, +air doctrines, +wealth, -debt

Union

Multinational think tank/high-tech utopia/model society, now at the forefront of the EU's drone combatant development.

History Path

A1) Early National (+CIP)
A2) Dominantly baseline (+pop, +logistics)
A3) Garden World
A6) Cash Crop (+wealth)
B1) Crisis Situation (economic depression)
B2) Innovate Madly (+CIP)
C1) Quiet(+wealth, +pop)
X) Economic Progression (+CIP, -PIP)
D1) Catapulted (+wealth)
D4) Hyperdrive Repair Research (+CIP, +tech)
E1) The EU Includes Us (+naval tech, +ground tech, +railgun tech, +defensive tech, -theta)
H1) Credits to Society (+pop, +wealth, +morale, -military)
H2) Centre for Research (++RP, +tech, +CIP, -PIP)
H3) Tin Soldiers (++AI tech, +ground doctrines, +air doctrines)
Total: +++++CIP, +++pop, +logistics, ++++wealth, +stockpiles, --PIP, ++tech, ++++++specific tech, +morale, ++RP, ++specific doctrines