Thetis Append
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
- Adam Smith
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Background
Thetis Today
Genre: Transhuman Democracy
Principles and Interests
Freedom of Thought, Expression and Bodily Integrity
Thetis holds that as a matter of principal, sentients have various fundamental freedoms as autonomous individuals.
Fair Governance and Democracy
The nations of Thetis is some of the few democracies in the known galaxy and are proponents of the concept that all sentients are equal under the law and that government should represent those governed, not simply exist for the benefit of the elites.
Free Exchange of Trade and Ideas
As an exporter of both goods and culture, Thetis looks dimly upon nations that seek to impose substantial restrictions or, worse yet, outright barriers to physical and intellectual exchange.
Open Skies/Freedom of Navigation
While recognizing the rights of nations to territorial skies to govern as they see fit, the Federation does not recognize the right of nations or other groups to arbitrarily declare large areas of space 'off-limits' to innocent passage; nor does it recognize ADIZs.
Interstellar System
One of the key foreign policies of the Thetan Federation is that, in the same way that the weak should not be intrinsically subservient to the strong in a nation, that small nations with limited power should not be the toys of larger, powerful states and all should have a say in the interstellar system.
Technology and Magic
Engineering: 500
Chemistry: 500
Physics: 500
Biology: 500
Psychology: 525
Creation: 0
Destruction: 60
Matter: 59
Mental: 100
Movement: 148
Infrastructure
Industry: 183+18
Wealth: 188
Research: 28
Ether: 100
Stockpiles
WU: 359
IUU: 170.1
Ether: 2014
Geodes: 324
Advantages
Elite Armed Forces
The Federation's armed forces have long maintained a pragmatic tradition of a hefty educational investment in its staff; moreover, care has been paid to both recruiting and retaining talent by a combination of competitive wages and a focus on skills and performance instead of tradition. Untested for more than a generation at the turn of the millenia, conflicts from Murklim to Montpelier have given a veteran edge to an already highly-skilled force.
Space Cadets
Ever since the arrival two centuries ago the Federation has maintained control of orbital space above the watery globe of Thetis.
Ancient World
A quirk of etherway currents has seen the Zetaret system be a natural eddy in the great sprawling web and hundreds - perhaps thousands - of ancient husks dating from millenia of space travel remain to be found among the thick comet belt orbiting in the mid-system.
Minor Modifications
Nationwide Mods
Green Fields
The inhabitants of Thetis are the inheritors of pre-Godswar germline modifications that heavily modified the standard human genome. Anti-aging modifications are natively part of the package, but this is only the start. Capable of effortlessly interfacing with neural transducers and processing bulk information, the brains of Thetans are marvels of self-propagating wet nanotech. Social cognition has been tweaked as well, and when coupled with a highly attractive - if somewhat ubiquitous - appearance, Thetans are simply the best at making first impressions. Or seconds.
To the Stars!
Seeing itself as one of the few genuinely functioning democracies in the galaxy and coupled to a profit-seeking entrepreneurial spirit, the Federation has not been shy about spreading its influence to nearby star systems.
Disadvantages
Factious World
The refugee-colonists who arrived on Thetis immediately split into several groups; various loosely-associated space and surface dwellers who would eventually federalize, the inhabitants of the five Arkships (floating city-ships) that recently unified into the Dorian Confederacy and the most collectively traumatized subgroup that settled the bottom of the warm, shallow Nereus Sea. Relations have waxed and waned over the years, with the Menkent War being a particularly low ebb. In addition to these, those Menkents who did not flee the system at the end of the war - or were abandoned - inhabit a number of colonies around Zetaret Beta.
Climate
Thetis is a pleasant if often soggy world, with rain expected in most seasons. The many low-lying swamps, mangroves and island chains have resulted in the replacement of conventional ground vehicles with antigrav hover variants outside of the several major cities.
Geography
Characters
12/12 (including 2 free Adventurers)
- 3 Officials
- 3 Officers
- 3 Adventurers
- 2 Agents
- 1 Savants
Ven Illanov the Unflappable
- Social 3
- Conviction 2
- Official
- Politics
- Diplomat [2]
- Tags: Doesn't Look His Age, Finer Things in Life, Neoconservative, Fast-Talker
- One of the distinguished 'elder statesmen' of the Thetan diplomatic corps. Surprisingly resourceful for a stuffed shirt.
The Galactic Fairy Mariam Genevive Yallen
- Social 3
- Conviction 2
- Official
- Politics
- Entertainer
- Galactic Love
- Tags: Pop Star, Pacifist, Omnisexual Carnivore, Haute Couture
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Tellan the Merchant
- Mental 3
- Social 2
- Official
- Politics
- Merchant [2]
- Tags: We Built That, Tight Schedule, Late Nights, More Money Than Sense
Janice Sieanna-Reilly the Nexus
- Mental 3
- Combat 1
- Social 1
- Officer
- Leadership
- Cosmo Sea Command [2]
- Tags: Spinster, Embedded Reporters, Self-Controlled
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Kadin Yali-Ordway the Benislayer
- Combat 3
- Conviction 1
- Social 1
- Officer
- Leadership
- Air Command
- Air Dominance
- Tags: Rivalry (XAVI), Survivor (Paratov), Laid-Back
- Ace pilot
The Phoenix of Murklim Sara Hayward-Wilde
- Mental 3
- Combat 1
- Social 1
- Officer
- Leadership
- Land Command
- Rolling Thunder
- Tags: Haunted, No-Nonsense, Shotgun, Younger Sister (Kym Hayward-Wilde)
- Tank commander on the fast track, veteran of pretty much every conflict the Federation's been involved in during the past decade.
The Irrepressible Kym Hayward-Wilde
- Combat 3
- Mysticism 1
- Social 1
- Adventurer
- Heroic
- Explorer
- Party Radar
- Tags: Nekomimi, Yuri, Older Sister (Sara Hayward-Wilde), Rival (Natasha Tatlin)
- Magic student at the Nekomi Compus of the University of Lost Ground. Last seen running from ghost Vikings on Lost Ground.
The Angel Serafina Somi-Tepus aka Jibril Navagrammaton
- Combat 3
- Conviction 2
- Adventurer
- Hero
- Champion
- War Machine
- Tags: Compressed Inorganic Angel, Glowing Lines, Split Personality, Voices
- A Thetan postulant that merged with and became the primary controlling intelligence and civilian storage template for an ancient Godswar weapon.
Laura Veran
- Mental 3
- Combat 1
- Social 1
- Adventurer
- Heroic
- Explorer [2]
- Tags:
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Illan Niviam-Vittamar the White
- Social 3
- Combat 2
- Agent
- Covert Operations
- Spy [2]
- Tags: Nose for Trouble, Great Cook, Loves a Challenge, Fucking a Sevnaiyan (Alekzandra Kolkova)
- Federation military attache-at-large. Finds trouble in all sorts of exciting places. Last seen evading Gnolls on Rma after seducing a Xannis officer.
'Westin'
- Combat 3
- Social 1
- Mental 1
- Agent
- Covert Operations
- Spy
- Saboteur
- Tags:
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Albers Kozlov-Ille
- Mental 3
- Social 1
- Conviction 1
- Savant
- Etherics
- Tech
- Magic
- Tags:
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Changelog
Infrastructure
- Thetis
- 15 RP -> 15 Ether
- 3 RP -> 3 Industry
- Capella:
- 5 RP -> 5 Ether
- Sata Corvi:
- 5 RP -> 5 Ether
Advantages
- Cyberbrain crew modification now required; Standardized at TL5, 107.38 batches of active units (536.9pp)
- Under construction; 92.62 batches (463.1pp)
- Minor Modifications + Nationwide Mods -> 500pp of upgrades
- 500pp put towards Cyberbrain crews; 100 batches.
- 92.12rp of mages -> 921pp for magic-type units, upgrades and mage caps.
- 500pp sent to Cyberbrain upgrades. All units in service and in production cyberbrained! Yay!
- 6 + 30 + 30 + 3.6; 69.6pp used for Mage cap upgrades
- 351.4pp remains
- 88,000 'Bee' unskilled sensor bots disassembled for 17.6pp
- 10 Smith-model HIT Marks disassembled for 6pp
- 90 Skullboys disassembled for 10.8pp
- 80 Wolverine disassembled for 16pp
- 40 Black Scarab disassembled for 16pp
- 1 Death's Head Strike Frigate disassembled for 2.4pp
- 1 Io Sensor Frigates disassembled for 3.2pp
423.4pp available
Final points spent on
600 Scarab Combat Suit (TL5 Super Infantry)
- 20 pp/100
- Upkeep: 1E, 1W
- +1 Railguns
- +1 Armor
- +1 Mobility
Teslan Jaegers
Doctor Sanger Eucemaust III found little enthusiasm for twenty story 'Pacifism robots' on Tesla - at least once his grant request hit the OverDean's desk and the sheer price became apparent. He found far more enthusiasm for them on Thetis, where they've been completed with the latest digital technology and shipped to Sata Corvi to fight the local wildlife.
1 Jaeger BRAWLER TESLA (TL5 Land Dreadnought)
- 30+10 pp/each
- Upkeep: 3E, 1W
- +1 Arms
- +1 Legs
- +2 Armor Plating
- +1 Shields
- x2 Knuckle Bursters
1 Jaeger CALIBER WILD (TL5 Land Dreadnought)
- 30+10 pp/each
- Upkeep: 4E, 1W
- +1 Arms
- +1 Legs
- +1 Chest MLRS
- +1 Shields
- +1 Extended Range
- x2 Gatling Cannon Firing Car-Sized Shells (ranged)
1 Jaeger DANGER GYPSUM (TL5 Land Dreadnought)
- 30+10 pp/each
- Upkeep: 3E, 1W
- +1 Arms
- +1 Legs
- +1 Armor Plating
- +1 Shields
- +1 Mobility
- +0 Swagger
- x1 Thermal Sword
- x1 Plasma Caster
1 Jaeger ROSE BLUE (TL5 Land Dreadnought)
- 30+10 pp/each
- Upkeep: 4E, 1W
- +1 Arms
- +1 Legs
- +1 Grav Boosters
- +1 Non-Directional Beams
- +1 ECM
- x1 Adamantium Megablade
- x1 Enhanced Grav Lift
Plus the following units were full-batched to simplify things
- 3.2 to buy 2,000 FORCE Heavy Infantry
- 0.8 to buy 50 Jump Marines
- 0.8 spent to buy 2 FORCE Commandos
- 30 spent to buy 30 FORCE STRIFE Commandos
- 9.2 spent to buy 575 HRL-79 Valkyrie Recon Skimmers
- 1.6 spent to buy 40 HEV-72 Cyclops Hoverscouts
- 10.4 spent to buy 260 HPC-72 Siren High Mobility IFVs
- 18 spent to buy 20 HT-48 Salamander Heavy Hovertanks
- 0.5 spent to buy 22 Fondre X Towed Artillery Tubes
- 12.5 spent to buy 125 HRT-34 Firestorm High Mobility Hoverartillery
- 4.8 spent to buy 600 HLC-1 Hovertrucks
- 7.5 spent to buy 1 TAAF-13 Syreen Dominance Stratofighter
- 13.2 spent to buy 33 UM-22 Light Transports
- 6 spent to buy 2 TAMB-6 Bandersnatch Bombers
- 9 spent to buy 9 AV-37 Thresher Gunships
- 5 spent to buy 5 A/UV-10 Crag Dropships
- 3.2 spent to buy 1 Invisible Benders
- 7.2 spent to buy 2 TL4 freighters and upgrade the entire batch to Hi-Cubes because I have too many redundant designs
Total: 138.9pp
0.5pp spent on a Rman party.