Budgets are done yearly, though the game is processed by quarters. Threads of plot of the Aristocracy dark secrets and machinations, the human revival, and the legacy of the xeno wars will have some prominence.Д®ach world produces a GDP value for the year to spend on military and other projects.Empire building in space gothic horror setting.Not all Aristocrats seek power and slaves, some seek adventurer for their own sake. Longstanding tradition has even the most aggrieved party refuses to engage their motherships, lest they run the risk of vengeful Cossacks using their remaining ones to Hyperstrike their worlds. Used by mercenaries by all sides, ranging from xeno, to Aristocratic to rebel. Humans that never bent the knee that lived in fleet of traveling motherships. Human Star Nations get the following for their start.Д«onus Relations to Human States and Slave Rebellions and ease of colonizing new human worlds.ДЄ ruler of one of the worlds and its dependencies no longer under Imperial control, you have 9 Aristocrats and now are finding yourself in a increasing hostile universe.ДЎ Major (Artifical Moon Fortress over the Core) Your nation is either one of thievery newly freed human worlds that threw off their yoke, or was one of those that had through either secrecy, bribes, tributes or through ritual combat maintained their freedom in the Periphery. For the last several centuries the Electoral-Admirals have been feuding and fight with each other over who gets to sit on the Ebony Throne.Д®lectoral-Admirals get the following for their start. Ruler of a the equivalent to a duchy in the old Empire. Regent calls upon the warring Electoral Admirals to come to Nova Babylonia to vote for a new Imperator.ДЄll: Everybody gets 5 years equivalent to their GDP for military spending to represent their buildup. Rise of non-Aristocracy major powers in the Periphery.ДҐ000 AD. Newer generation is not up to challenge of keeping the crumbling Empire and the borders receded.Д¤6th Century: Civil War between the Admiral-Electors when it realized Imperator Charles had diablerized Katrina.Д¤9th Century: Civil War ends in the fight over Sirius, last vestige of the old Empire has fallen, a weakened Regent sits on the Ebony Throne in Nova Babylon ruling over a decayed garden of nearby worlds. Katrina's flagship goes missing from official records.Д¤4th Century: Stagnation and recession, old Aristocrats who were the backbone of the Empire no longer have interest in governing and have retreated to fiefdoms for their own arcane interests. Imperator Ea-Nasir rules for three centuries before his assassination.ДЈ4th Century: Imperatrix Katrina the Great reign sees the highest levels of High Science and Mysticism and first public appearance of Trismegustus Organization.Д¤1st Century, Visitor resurgent sees the Empire embroiled in bloody civil war against cloaking warships and sucide bioroids. Mars loses its capital status to Nova Babylon after a Gardener Hyperstrike takes out the capital, its defense fleet and sending the King of Night into healing torpor in his hidden and lost fortress.ДЈ0th Century: The Eternal Empire is formed, the Imperator of the Empire is elected by the 13 Elector Admirals of the old Hegemony Fleet.

Consolidation of the Ex-Sol Colonies nearby underneath the Martian Hegemony.Дў4th-29th Centuries: the Draconis Wars against the Intruders, the Visitors, the Guests and the Gardeners. Late 23rd Century: King of Night establishes the Aristocracy whose origins are unknown and rumored to be either antediluvian or recent genome manipulation. Defeated nationalities use the Sonora Drive to escape Sol and establish thousands of colonies across the stars. Mid 22nd Century: Pan solar system WMD war, sees the Earth nearly destroyed and the center of civilization moved to Mars, under the legendary King of Night.

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