A game by Silence.

High space opera age of imperialism simulator. Some conceits are players are space nobility or a new revolutionary state formed in revolt against them. A binding treaty preventing direct assaults on other PC's homeworlds. Another key factor is dominance of two weapon system, large expensive tough battleships in space, and Mortarheads large giant robot combat systems that are the kings of the battlefield on the ground. On a broader level its a game where I want to test bed some ideas for SDs. Also unlike Nexus, it will when it launches will have a clearly define geographic area of npcs to cleanly interact with.

Historical Background

Chapter 35: The Rise of Star Patrol in the Late Republic.

After the successful resolution of the Sirian crisis, the Republic as it entered into the 28th century, came upon the problem of borders and security. The mass exodus from the dying Sol system in 22nd century had saw humanity spread out across the entire spiral arm, while the Republic was the largest human polity, it was not the only one. Treaty limitations on member states national military forces saw that in theory the Republic had plenty of ships and troops, in practice was hamstrung by ineffective control system. The solution was the Congress of Mars, where it was decided new organization would be created; The Star Patrol.....

Chapter 39: The decline of Imperial Star Patrol Authority

As calendar year ticked over to start the 34th Century, the Director Strauss Hemldyne donned the Starburst gravicloak, and became the last Director of Star Patrol at Meridian, upon his predecessors unfortunate demise fighting the forces of the Pleadian Empire. Promising to marshal up the full force of the Republic, he gathered up the vast majority of the ships within his domain and launched the first stage of the cataclysmic war with the Republic's only peer state.

Chapter 43: The Fall's exaggerated effects

By itself the destruction of Star Patrol as imperial power should of not send mankind spiraling into a third dark age. However, it was by the means of control of Star Patrol over the myriad worlds of mankind, that saw the effects of the Last War amplified. The typical Star Patrol pattern over a cluster of worlds was to pick one as the Star Patrol base, there the world would be allowed to thrive from the taxes of the other worlds and be a full self sufficient planet. The tributary worlds were deliberately crippled in myriad of ways to remain dependent on the so call core worlds, by have parts their teraforming system be only manufactured in the core. Even more insidious was the late Imperial era policy of social engineering to kill off rational discourse and ideas as the scientific method as well innovation to maintain a cultural stasis. There was no single way this memetic warfare was imposed on the population, but it often took forms of radical religion that tended to worship the Star Patrol leadership as living gods.

Furthermore all FTL ships were owned by the Star Patrol. STL ships using the Hyperspace Gate network were stranded as the destruction of Merdian and its Core Nexus occured early in the war.

Chapter 50: The rebirth of hope

The Taranis cluster suffered greatly during the Last War, the core world Taranis itself was slagged into radioactive ash strewn world. The saving grace had been the Star Patrol Chief Patrol Officer of the region had designs on Meridian and decided to take advantage of the relative backwater nature of his posting to start very quietly turning all his worlds into core worlds (he was not the first to try it to varying degrees of success, but the last due the Cataclysm), which helped various worlds of Taranis to maintain technic civilization at the interplanetary stage. A hundred years ago, near simultaneous breakthroughs across the Cluster saw the rise of short-jump FTL drive. Fifty years ago was the Great War upon which one of the developments was the long jump during the middle of the great conflagration. Now with the Treaty of Taran signed last year, all war in the Cluster has been banned, instead attention is being given to the other star clusters.