Evil Woody Thoughts
20-04-2005, 06:46
OOC: Background info (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=401528)
This post is basically a factbook about the last ten years within Evil Woody Thoughts. I would RP it, but I've spent more than a month RPing the first NS year of this project, and I want to get to FT already, dammit! :D The following has been (broadly) agreed to by the Gaian Ascendancy, the nation from which I receive most of my IC technological assistance.
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After Prime Minister Jacob Whitfield's term expired, he elected not to run for re-election, but instead to vanish into the vastness of the galaxy. While he initially started Evil Woody Thoughts' program to colonize the uninhabited but hospitable planets of the White Diamond star system, he left it up to successors to continue it. Rumors abound as to what has happened to Whitfield, but the most prominent rumor is that he has left to train to become a Jedi.
With great fanfare, his successor, Prime Minister Benjamin Brock, expanded the program and authorized disclosure of several reverse-engineering programs begun under Whitfield, the most significant of which was the design of Immortal (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=413532)-class Star Destroyers. However, White Diamond Drive Yards, the shipyard where these vessels will be built, was only completed a year ago; the prototype Immortal was completed within the last month. White Diamond Drive Yards is also expected to produce starfighters and civilian transports within three NS years. It is currently undergoing various tests and trials. However, several large shipyards existed, but the Woodians did not yet know how to use the alien technology. They would soon enough, though...
As for ground-based military development, the Ministry of Defense had acquired from the Gaians several BattleMech chassis (list) (http://faqs.ign.com/articles/455/455163p1.html). A 'Mechworks is under construction on White Diamond II. Evil Woody Thoughts expects to produce its own 'Mech designs within fifteen NS years.
As for the circumstances that drove Evil Woody Thoughts to space colonization...they are still around, in milder form. While the raging polar cyclones (example, scroll down (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=401528&page=9&pp=15)) threatened to send Evil Woody Thoughts into an Ice Age have been brought to an end by Gaian terraformers seeking to restore equillibrium to the climate, Evil Woody Thoughts will not soon regain its former subtropical climate. The fundamental reason for space expansion, overpopulation, still exists. Approximately 950 million Woodians still live on Earth; about 310 million have been relocated to White Diamond (another ten million were born there). Evil Woody Thoughts is rapidly industrializing the White Diamond system, with help from pre-existing Ascendant infrastructure, the Gaian Ascendancy, and Evil Woody Thoughts' own economic and earthly industrial capabilities. However, in doing so, Evil Woody Thoughts remains careful not to damage another ecosystem, for it was the ecological recklessness of all Earth nations that drove Woodians to call elsewhere home.
Some segments of the population, mostly those who have already been resettled on White Diamond, advocate eventually abandoning Earth altogether. While this idea is still currently supported only by a small minority, it has been growing somewhat in popularity lately.
This is not a complete factbook entry, for I only have so much time tonight before I need to address RL responsibilities. I will add later.
This post is basically a factbook about the last ten years within Evil Woody Thoughts. I would RP it, but I've spent more than a month RPing the first NS year of this project, and I want to get to FT already, dammit! :D The following has been (broadly) agreed to by the Gaian Ascendancy, the nation from which I receive most of my IC technological assistance.
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After Prime Minister Jacob Whitfield's term expired, he elected not to run for re-election, but instead to vanish into the vastness of the galaxy. While he initially started Evil Woody Thoughts' program to colonize the uninhabited but hospitable planets of the White Diamond star system, he left it up to successors to continue it. Rumors abound as to what has happened to Whitfield, but the most prominent rumor is that he has left to train to become a Jedi.
With great fanfare, his successor, Prime Minister Benjamin Brock, expanded the program and authorized disclosure of several reverse-engineering programs begun under Whitfield, the most significant of which was the design of Immortal (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=413532)-class Star Destroyers. However, White Diamond Drive Yards, the shipyard where these vessels will be built, was only completed a year ago; the prototype Immortal was completed within the last month. White Diamond Drive Yards is also expected to produce starfighters and civilian transports within three NS years. It is currently undergoing various tests and trials. However, several large shipyards existed, but the Woodians did not yet know how to use the alien technology. They would soon enough, though...
As for ground-based military development, the Ministry of Defense had acquired from the Gaians several BattleMech chassis (list) (http://faqs.ign.com/articles/455/455163p1.html). A 'Mechworks is under construction on White Diamond II. Evil Woody Thoughts expects to produce its own 'Mech designs within fifteen NS years.
As for the circumstances that drove Evil Woody Thoughts to space colonization...they are still around, in milder form. While the raging polar cyclones (example, scroll down (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=401528&page=9&pp=15)) threatened to send Evil Woody Thoughts into an Ice Age have been brought to an end by Gaian terraformers seeking to restore equillibrium to the climate, Evil Woody Thoughts will not soon regain its former subtropical climate. The fundamental reason for space expansion, overpopulation, still exists. Approximately 950 million Woodians still live on Earth; about 310 million have been relocated to White Diamond (another ten million were born there). Evil Woody Thoughts is rapidly industrializing the White Diamond system, with help from pre-existing Ascendant infrastructure, the Gaian Ascendancy, and Evil Woody Thoughts' own economic and earthly industrial capabilities. However, in doing so, Evil Woody Thoughts remains careful not to damage another ecosystem, for it was the ecological recklessness of all Earth nations that drove Woodians to call elsewhere home.
Some segments of the population, mostly those who have already been resettled on White Diamond, advocate eventually abandoning Earth altogether. While this idea is still currently supported only by a small minority, it has been growing somewhat in popularity lately.
This is not a complete factbook entry, for I only have so much time tonight before I need to address RL responsibilities. I will add later.