MAPHINCI : The South-East Asian Planet

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Lore Impact (Small/Medium/Large): Medium

Team Purview: Human

Short Description: A planet to represent most, if not all of Southeast Asia, which may or may not include Vietnam because they're under New Hai Phong maybe.

How will this be reflected on-station?:

Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?:

Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team? Yes

Long Description: Personally, I don't think myself of that good of a writer. I'm more of a broad strokes kind of guy, so I hope the Lore Team is fine with me handing over some field notes of what I want to do and handling the finer details. It's honestly why I've been apprehensive about posting this, but I hope it's good enough as a foundation.

Anyway I'm going to repost it here for the vibes.

 

Primer :

A loose federation of city-states on a humid, inhospitable ocean jungle planet, right in the middle between Sol, Biesel and Coalition space and beside the busiest trade routes between the three.

A regional power, it wants nothing more but to play the powers against each other for their own devices.

 

History :

One of the last planets to be colonized by Sol, before the collapse, populated with colony ships from the last few economically viable states of the Southeast Asian countries, with a smattering of refugees from India and China. Due to the inhospitable landscape and treacherous terrain, they had to congregate into large, walled-off city states to withstand the near constant hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis and deadly wildlife.

 

During the Interstellar War, Sol and the Coalition scrambled from planet-to-planet trying to gain as much control as possible. With an extremely small Solarian garrison present and scrambled Coalition forces racing for the planet, it was swept with independence and revolutionary movements, with each city-state having varying degrees of Solarian, Bieselite and Coalition sympathies. Unfortunately for the quarreling powers, none of them could ultimately gain a foothold as their positions stabilized. They are now under Coalition protection, but they do not have the same utter disdain for Sol, much to the chagrin of the other member planets.

 

Characters :

The natives of South-East Asia, Eurasians.

Chinese (so you can play a non-Solarian/Dominian Chinese character)  : A wide diaspora, those who fled the tumultuous periods of China, to the descendants of those who migrated long ago. Uses Wade-Giles naming convention to differentiate.

Indian (so you can play a non-Gadpathurian Indian) : For those who don't want to play soldier. Leaning Bengal/Pakistani/Sikh to differentiate.

Diplomacy and States :

As close to you can get to non-aligned. Maybe in NBT2 we can actually have non-aligned factionless planets, but under CoC for now.

There are actually many city-states on the planet operating mostly independently with a mutual détente between them to stay out each other's internal affairs and government.

Some may lean Solarian, Plutonian to be exact - the command economies of the Golden Delta States. Some Bieselite, the interventionist Lightside Technocracy, and others are just keen to buy weapons from the Dominians, such the kleptocratic junta of the Pearl Archipelago.

However, they are still united in a bloc to achieve common goals.