Talk:Polity Creation
Nation Creation
Nation creation in Heaven's Wake involves the spending of nation points in order to flesh out the infrastructure and abilities of your nation.
Each nation has 40 points to spend.
National Infrastructure
Population
Population is the amount of people in your nation.
- Population Unit: 10 million per point
Industry
Industry covers the manufacturing output of your nation.
- Industrial Fabber: 25 production per point
Military
The amount of military your nation has at present.
- Military: 150 military per point
Assember Gate Production
Assembler gates are used for producing apex technology. They can also instantly build any other unit at 2x cost.
- Apex Assembler: 25 Assembler production per point
Apex Datacrystals
Apex Datacrystals contain the blueprints that are required to produce apex technology, without them the assemblers have no instructions. They come either as common datacrystal, uncommon datacrystal
and rare datacrystal, each more powerful than the last. See the Apex Technology for more information.
- Common datacrystal
- Cost: 1 point
- Uncommon datacrystal
- Cost: 2 points
- Rare datacrystal
- Cost: 5 points
National Traits
Hyperlane Network
Your part of the Hyperlane network, the superhighway of interstellar transport
- -10 Points
Dark Road Network
You have access to the Dark Road network.
- -5 Points
Elite Military
Your soldiers are better trained than the normal. You can produce an elite unit every quarter and your starting military may have 5 Elite units at no cost and 2 Specialised Units at no cost. You cannot take 'green' soldiers or produce them.
- -5 points
Elite Organisation
While your soldiers are no better than the norm, the military organisation behind them is. Your officer corps is highly rated, able to execute daring and imaginative plans with precision and your logistics train is a organised machine with little wastage.
- -5 points
High-Tech
Your technological basis is above the norm, while you have the same kit, it's better designed, functions more reliably and has a higher output and maybe just looks more streamlined.
- -10 Points