Warlord Question

[Rawlston Quinn]

I have a question.

Have warlords been on the site and, if so, how successful (rp wise) have they been?

[T'yeellaa Meorrrei]

One man's warlord is another man's leader of a small nation. Are you inquiring about small indepentent factions or?

[Rawlston Quinn]

I guess both. I've been on some sites where the small factions grew so fast that they overwhelmed the Empire and the Republic and on other sites as soon as they were created, the other factions ganged up on them and destroyed them. I know that in the Pre-Reset that the Empire had splintered. I was just wondering how all that went.

[T'yeellaa Meorrrei]

Well, the main factions here are the Rebel Alliance (with the Jedi Enclave loosely affiliated), and the Galactic Empire. There's a burgeoning third faction made up of secessionist Imperials and other factions like the Cizerack Pride.

There are also a few other small factions like Onderon and Hapes. I think Onderon works within the Empire, but I think Hapes does their own thing, and has mainly been involved with the escape of Princess Alastor.

I may be missing a lot here, but I think that sums up the geopolitics.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Onderon-Hapes is a single faction with somewhat complex goals.

[Travis North]

Answers: Yes, and Successful.


Would you like to know more?

Some of the pre-reset dotnet comics illustrate the Empire's splintered factions, and the Fans' wiki has a few articles regarding the old Empire.

Even more?

Most of the current Imperial hard-liners are former members of the Imperial Sovereignty, the largest of the splinter groups. Their main rival -aside from the usual enemy- was the Imperial Federacy, manned for the most part by Khendon Sevon who turned Imperial tech up to 11. In our current setting only the Inquisitors possess a fraction of what the Federacy had in their arsenal, and they're slowly but surely working towards fielding more gear on par with Fed-tech. If you want to know more about that then get a hold of Karl Valten or Tear. For references to Federacy tech try the classic archives if they're still kickin' around.

As for how the Warlord scheme played out it really boiled down to player activity, and where the IC rank of a member came into play - and still does.

How it all works.

What a player can write as a force commander is, in most cases, limited to the units they may direct at their current rank. To give PCs more options when they first join they are assigned a command level officer's rank from which they can garner the writing experience necessary to move further up the chain of command to do more things. With that in mind the more active players a faction has allows for a greater scope of operations that faction can conduct at any given time.

Figure in that a Warlord faction leader is granted the ultimate authority in their faction's chain of command and has access to all resources within their realm to use as they please - that player is pretty much god-like! (On Fans? No way.) To counter that issue most activities conducted by any high ranking officer have to be planned and conform to the board rules and/or approved within the community - basically a go ahead from other faction leaders and board staff so no one is left out on the toe stepping.

Most GCW conflicts on Fans now, and even back pre-reset, can be broken down as follows.

An idea is posted by a member and it is discussed, usually behind closed doors in the hidden boards. The idea is modified and a plan of action is established where all the participants are given a rough outline of what their character or force is to do to move the plot forward. You have to write to expand it or get stuck in thread death and pray for necromancy or some such post to get the thread back on track. (That rarely happens though.... Poor Bestine, both battles never concluded.)

Warlording of olde.

Anyway, pre-reset there wasn't a lot of open hostility between the Imperial factions as most of it was pretty well staking out turf and putting up No Trespassing signs. We each worked independently to crush the Alliance scum while simultaneously one-upping the other guy for bragging rights. On occasion a battle would occur between our Imperial groups and the outcome was usually predetermined OOC. We never really stomped each other out though, just sent each other back home licking our wounds.

Just for kicks.

Fed vs. Sov 'Who Won?'

While the Feds had the tech and a leader who commanded hordes of elite NPCs the Sov had more active members to control and operate within a larger portion of space. Really a matter of Quality vs. Quantity being the deciding factor, although which faction would have actually come out on top over the course of a war shall forever remain an unknown....

Though I'd say it's the Sov all over your Galaxy, for sure. We could spam a helluva lot in just a single thread.

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Now, that just covers the basic break down of how two of the four(3) major Imperial groups operated. I can't say I'm familiar with the Balmorran Empire located on Meras.org and the Imperial Remnant was but a redirect to an archive when I joined Fans.
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[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

There was no real military development going on in the Balmorran Empire over at Meras. Everything there was character building between myself, Taylor, Sasha Kovalev, MMU, Morg's crazy chick, and a few others. We had been working on that whole Balmorran civil war thing, but that was very isolationist stuff that didn't affect Balmorra's standing with the other factions to any large degree.

Also Hell. Man I miss that little lump of nastiness and depravity.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I was just reading some of the Hell stuff yesterday. Still funny.

[Aura Kolar]

Props to Travis North for combining a Starship Troopers style of posting with a reference to the amp in Spinal Tap.