Malphaestus
Touched by the Apocalypse
Drop Dead Gorgeous, a Science-Fiction military roleplay following the 715th Armored Recon in their ventures into the first interstellar war in human history. Affiliated with the federal Interstellar Union of Nations, humanity takes to the stars with a thrist for blood after a horrifying incident in one of the capital city of Europaia's districts. You will participate in this story as a member of the Fifteenth Plutoon, 715th Armored Recon as they lead the tip of the spear in a Force Recon operation marking the beginning to the first war for more than three centuries.
| This is my first character-driven roleplay in a while, so bear with me. Any assistance would be highly appreciated, of course, but I won't force it out of you. This is the Encylopedia. Here you will find all relevant information to your character about the world that we inhabit. Keep in mind that ALADIN, the master and bookkeeper of the Encylopedia Database, personalizes the information available to each individual reader, which means that some information is not available to your character in-verse. That being said, all information found in this Encylopedic database here consists of all relevant information to your character, so assume that what is available here is available to your character in-verse. Whether you read everything in here, or not, is up to you. Requirements for participation in the roleplay is to keep your character up-to-speed with how the military works, but you don't need to know everything about every world within the Interstellar Union of Nations. This exists for those who like knowing about the world and how I've gone about creating it, as well as those interested in how technology works and how I've envisioned it in the future. This exists more for myself, as I enjoy the impersonal aspects of worldbuilding as well as the logical aspect in how to connect two, or three, or more, different things in a believable manner. |
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The Interstellar Federal Union of Nations
GENERAL INFORMATION -
The Interstellar Union of Nations is a Federal Parliamentary structure with each state referred to as member-nations, all abiding by the federal rule of law and judicial commité, whilst also operating individualized laws and judicial standards under regulation by the greater-government of the federal insitution. It is headquartered in the International Capital of Europaia, a complex governmental cooperation between the Europaian Union and the Interstellar Union of Nations, leading to the city effectively acting under two seperate governments. The IUN consists of 278 member-nations, and functions under the operation of a gargantuan bureaucratic institution often intermixed with local nations in supervisory and advisory jobs. The IUN itself does not operate under any individual idea of economic or social security policy, instead adopting, more often than not, the beliefs of its core members, the social democratic European Union, renamed as the Europaian Union after Operation Eurasia, the liberal members of the United States of America, and the social-liberals of the Nordic Union, a form of odd junior-state to the Europaian Union.
The Pride of the IUN is its reach, or rather, the reach of humankind, spread across five stars, nine planets, and 278 nations. The planetary domain of the human species reach Earth, Mars, Yumichi, Tienides, Gestirnburg, Amos, Arnos, Augustus, and Bastion. The names of the planets being domain of those who reach it first and underwent the arduous task of colonizing and terraforming its landmasses. Since Mars, each interplanetary colonization project has been an international collaboration between all states and people sof the IUN, each project growing in size with each expansion and each step taken towards the interstellar plane. With the growing prosperity of the IUN and the now 50 year long peace under the Interstellar Prosperity Party of the IUN's federal parliament, population has grown extremely, reaching a total of 183,811,932,031 total human inhabitants across all five stars within the Pegasus Cluster of humanity's domain, growing with an approximate 2500 per day.
The gargantuan population of humanity, and the ever-increasing economic power of a growing supernational entity has lead to massive infrastructural and urban developement projects and an ever-increasing scientific program which due to European influence has become a core-aspect of the IUN's budget, leading to the citizens of the IUN having extraordinary and outright unthinkably excellent living conditions within its core member-states, with lesser-states reaching equivalent standards of living to that of the 21st century. Impressive leaps in health and biological understanding has lead to age-cancelling medication almost capable of doubling the average lifespan of human beings and increasing their peak physical condition almost three-fold.
The Interstellar Union of Nations has additional outposts on the cultural capitals of each planet within its domain, operating within what's known as Embassy Districts which differ in both size and scope of developement based on the strategic necessity of its presence on the people of the planets. The IUN operates under Directive 87 when dealing with member-nations; Supply and Support, Construct and Maintain. If a nation does not output sufficient economic power and humane standards, the most prosperous members of its national community will be used to support and uplift the struggling member-states of its community. This effort is done, more often than not, through immediate intervention at the hands of the IUN, acting as intermediary between economic goliaths of member-nations like the Europaian Union and the less-fortunate like Einstein, one of the least fortunate member-nations of the IUN situated on Gestirnburg. This is often done by contracting corporate entities to expand industry and produce jobs within the targeted area.
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE -
The Interstellar Union of Nations functions thanks to the efforts of socio-economic structures organized and maintained by third-party extranational coalitions across all the planets of the IUN. These organizations operate and maintain under IUN supervision but does not answer to its immediate intervention. In turn its power is severely limited and solely economic. Its purpose is to ensure global stability and affect the average wellbeing, safety, and security of the global populace within its borders. These structures are known as Blocs and are divided between the planets, as well as one super-bloc bearing influence and supervisory obligation over all individual blocs. The Terran Economic Bloc, the Martian Economic Bloc, the Yumichean Economic Bloc, the Tienidean Economic Bloc, the Gestirnburg Economic Security Bloc, the Amosi Economic and Safety Bloc, the Arnosi Economic and Safety Bloc, the Augustian Financial Bloc, the Bastonian Bloc, and the Universal Prosperity Bloc. These political organizations consist largely of key corporate and capitalist enterprises, as well as other economic influencers within each individual bloc, uniting in order to uphold the standardized vision of the Human Project.
PLANETS -
The Interstellar Union of Nations spreads its wings across Nine seperate planets and all the way inbetween, across stellar outposts and asteroid belts. Space, per legal definition belongs to all, but earthly soil belongs to those who claim it; through the efforts of international precision and scrutiny, great efforts were taken to ensure that no planet or colony belonged to someone more than someon else. Whilst that applies for most colonies, the fact remains that colonies were settled before aforementioned became legal stipulation; as such Gestirnburg is far more connected to the European Union than others, Yumichi is a direct subject of Japan-Korean effort, and Bastion is the junior part in a cooperative effort headed by the United States. Each planet has its own divisions and complex socio-political outlooks and cultural connections, more often than not created during the long voyage between stars in the early age of interstellar travel.
The Birthplace of Humanity and the cultural and economic center of its present humane empire spread through the cosmos, a proud beacon to any traveler, and the jewel in the stars for all those who stare up towards the skies at night. Occupied now more by city than forest and nature, the planet is the home to the massive megacity known as Europaia which spreads across much of the former European continent, built after the third world war. This planet is the objective birthplace of the ideals of liberty and freedom, wellbeing and prosperity, and so many other core tenants which now spread themselves across the entirety of the Pegasus star cluster. The planet Earth is home to much of the interstellar commerce and corporate industries across all nine worlds and all nations therein.
The people of Earth are largely atheist, curious, and altruistic. With history unrivaled, the inhabitants of the world have become sick and tired of humans fighting eachother and have begun to take an increasingly aggressive stance towards those who refuse to abide by their beliefs of safety and security for all. The staunchest supporters of the IUN are found here, undoubtedly because the IUN's headquarters are also located herein, and therefore Earth was the most active party when the Incident came to be. With many recruits coming in across all the Union, most of them were undoubtedly from Earth. Most Earthborn have the tendency to assumption; assuming that most feel like they do, and that what they believe is right is the belief of all others.
Earth is where the idealist is found; the explorer, the humanitarian, and the independent. All in all, Earth is the home to most soldiers and governmental workers, but due to the immense responsibility of the supernational entity of the IUN as well as the frankly incompatible attributes of most Earthborn with the IUN's personal guidelines and requirements, leave the Earth to also be home to most of the IUN's flunks; fired due to incompetence or insubordination. Earthborn has as such become somewhat of a slur within the IUN bureacracy, mostly the military branch, with Earthborn soldiers having to undertake greater responsibility and hardships than most others to prove their place. Common slurs are "Shopclerk", "Barista", and "Cashcart".
HISTORY -
The Interstellar Union of Nations, abbreviated to the IUN, or commonly referred simply as the United Nations, is a centuries old idea which became reality thanks to the coordinated efforts of politicians and spirited thinkers after the advents of the horrible Second World War, which saw much of Europaia, formerly known as the European Continent, reduced to cinders in the advent of dictatorship and fanaticism. The only option left to the worlds leaders, after witnessing the gargantuan war leave destruction unparralleled, was to rebuild and unify, to ensure continued prosperity, not for one nation, but for all nations. Thus the United Nations was founded, originally to ensure peace and humane conditions for its members, but with the great goal stretching to all those who consider themselves members of the human species.
Decades after its inception, the United Nations faced itself with the troubles of its position; an international peacekeeping council, but lacking any definitive power of enforcement and peacekeeping ability in the face of uncooperative member-states. Due to the then immediate rise of increased dictatorial and fascist idealism and ideology, the United Nations were forced to act definitively and absolutely. In a complex political game which spanned many years of precious time, the laws and commandments of the United Nations were overhauled to the extent where a cooperative project between the European Union, fractured due to the uprising of nationalist ideals, the United States, polarised due to internal hardships, Japan, pressured by rising unrest within the Asian continent, South Korea, threatened by neighbouring threats of absolute destruction, the Nordic Union, threatened by rising tendencies of war from its eastern neighbours, and Canada, unsettled by the tendencies of war rising all across the globe in the name of ideals unworthy of threatening global stability.
This partnership would come to bring about the Third World War, a horrific and unspeakable atrocity to the human name, brought forth by the efforts of absolutist, self-proclaimed monarchs of countless men and women. After five years of warfare, which once again saw devastation spread from every border, be it in the most distant islands of the caribean and pacific, to the most populous of cities harbored within the core of the European Continent and the megalopolises of Southern Asia. Due to the apparent 'victory' belonging to the proud sisters and brothers of democracy and free-thinking men and women of the free world, what had once been a dream became reality, with the establishment of one true world government over all, which retains both national and personal pride of its citizens and prioritizes fairness and humanity beyond any principle.
With its goals reached, efforts were undertaken to maintain and uplift struggling nations in all corners of the globe, a project which would last for many years. The European Union, a now Federal Union of Nations and effectively one governmental structure, saw to rebuild its once proud industries and commerce projects, ultimately leading to the revitalization of a long lost idea; colonization of the stars. With the United States' space program now all but defunct after the decommision of the proud International Space Station; the perfect testament to human ambition, it had now switched to the European peoples to revive human ambition and dreams whilst the world rebuilt. At the cost of its own reconstruction, the European people managed to do what none had thought possible, construct a settlement on the stellar brother of Earth, Mars. Olympus, once a simple research facility, would soon become the center of research and developement for all nations of the United Nations, and the core for the United Nations' interstellar efforts in the years to come.
As the nations of the world began to adapt to the new truth of the world, one government over all others, people began to resist the idea due to underlying beliefs of national and isolationist thinkers and popular figures. It was no surprise to anyone that insurgencies began to rise worldwide, and such the United Nations' military had to adapt to the growing unrest spread across all of its memberstates. Thankfully the initial foundations had already been made to its peacekeeping military force, and only modernization had become its main issue. Over the decades that would come during the European Space Agency's Mars program and the rebuilding of the world's nations, yet another pressure was put on its members in terms of heavy taxation on whatever riches remain within the world's governments. As the United Nation began to bear its own wings, they were also planting the seeds of its greatest adversary; insurgencies and rebel factions.
As Mars developed, the issues on Earth reached their extremes, and military intervention at the hands of the UNs peacekeepers became an almost daily aspect of modern life in the outskirts and culturally rich parts of the planet. With the middle-east, an infamously difficult adversary of the Free World's ideals and beliefs, much of Asia, the spiteful losers of the last world war, and Eastern Europe, the direct aggressor, turning outright infernal in its civil stability. As a result, the United Nations initiated Operation Eurasia, a combined effort of both military and civil effort to both eliminate opposition to freedom and democracy, but also construct educational and welfare infrastructure across the 'burning world'. Much like any global and international effort, the operation was a long one, and whilst the military aspects remained stale and unmoving due to continued recruitment on the hands of insurgents, over the coming centuries their fuel would dry out and true globalization became possible across the cultural and spiritual home of the human race.
Whilst issues occured at home, issues would come to spark in the growing colonies of the human peoples, as settlements on Mars and coming settlements on the distant stars thanks to combined effort by all member-nations of the United Nations grew increasingly driven for independence and seperation as Earth itself began to feel more and more distant. The Martian Liberation Front, Yumichean Warriors, and the Teutonic Templars being the largest rebel factions spanning the United Nations' entire history, only subjugated in the mid 24th century, fifty years ago.
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