Szorosistan
12-10-2006, 23:58
[ I realise my forum name is different, but as the system won't let me sign on as Dyesyatyzstan at the moment. . . . I'll also be playing as a fairly well-populated nation, instead of what the game says.
No gigantic zomgnaughts. Don't make me hit you with a stick for being an idiot. That's all for the rules, and don't make me add more. ]
488.24 LY from Terra
92.65° E, 12.03° N [from Terra]
Novichkov System
Orbit of Ela
VKFK Glavnyj
Mid-spring 4126 1709 UT -6 (St. Petersburg Kremlin, Ela)
+++The atmosphere aboard the battleship-weight orbital defence station Glavnyj was, as always, cool and refreshing; perfectly regulated by the automatic environmental controls and paranoically watched over by the "Greens." There were no monumentous decisions taking place on the surface or in space: the only things that broke the day's progression was the ocassional tramp freighter arriving, which the bridge crew jostled to ogle with the station's external cameras (not that there was that much to see of them, however--but one made do), and the sporadic jokes that everyone fired off at each other in good humour.
+++For just over two centuries now the ex-colony (now independent governing body) had sat, unattended by and large by the rest of the galaxy, save for a few cartels that ran their route through the system to resupply and get some planetside time, and it rather looked to remain that way for the foreseeable future. It's total system population, at just under one and a half billion persons, put it above younger colonies, and its economic status was fairly decent, yet there were far bigger fish to fry, for most corporations and bureaucracies.
+++In an attempt to boost trade and improve the economy, freighter captains were often sent advertisements for deals, which may or may not have made it back to their cartel's Board. Still, short of sending out courier boats (which would be altogether too expensive, time-consuming, and annoying for others), it was all that could be done. The deals included vacations--Ela was a very appealing world, even by the most painfully critical opinions--and it didn't hurt that three-fourths of the planet was covered in water, nor that the temperature was pleasantly warm (one might expect with this weather a host of bikini babes waving to shuttlecraft: this was true in most spaceports [not at all sponsored by the government, of course], although perhaps not to the extent that many freighter crewmembers might have wished)--as well as offers to various corporations to set up permament stops in orbit and mining stations in the system's two asteroid belts, alongside the already-existing private extraction industry.
+++With any luck, Dyesyatyzstan would soon be making its way toward interstellar politics, in which its government felt it was obligated to involve itself, being a modern nation.
No gigantic zomgnaughts. Don't make me hit you with a stick for being an idiot. That's all for the rules, and don't make me add more. ]
488.24 LY from Terra
92.65° E, 12.03° N [from Terra]
Novichkov System
Orbit of Ela
VKFK Glavnyj
Mid-spring 4126 1709 UT -6 (St. Petersburg Kremlin, Ela)
+++The atmosphere aboard the battleship-weight orbital defence station Glavnyj was, as always, cool and refreshing; perfectly regulated by the automatic environmental controls and paranoically watched over by the "Greens." There were no monumentous decisions taking place on the surface or in space: the only things that broke the day's progression was the ocassional tramp freighter arriving, which the bridge crew jostled to ogle with the station's external cameras (not that there was that much to see of them, however--but one made do), and the sporadic jokes that everyone fired off at each other in good humour.
+++For just over two centuries now the ex-colony (now independent governing body) had sat, unattended by and large by the rest of the galaxy, save for a few cartels that ran their route through the system to resupply and get some planetside time, and it rather looked to remain that way for the foreseeable future. It's total system population, at just under one and a half billion persons, put it above younger colonies, and its economic status was fairly decent, yet there were far bigger fish to fry, for most corporations and bureaucracies.
+++In an attempt to boost trade and improve the economy, freighter captains were often sent advertisements for deals, which may or may not have made it back to their cartel's Board. Still, short of sending out courier boats (which would be altogether too expensive, time-consuming, and annoying for others), it was all that could be done. The deals included vacations--Ela was a very appealing world, even by the most painfully critical opinions--and it didn't hurt that three-fourths of the planet was covered in water, nor that the temperature was pleasantly warm (one might expect with this weather a host of bikini babes waving to shuttlecraft: this was true in most spaceports [not at all sponsored by the government, of course], although perhaps not to the extent that many freighter crewmembers might have wished)--as well as offers to various corporations to set up permament stops in orbit and mining stations in the system's two asteroid belts, alongside the already-existing private extraction industry.
+++With any luck, Dyesyatyzstan would soon be making its way toward interstellar politics, in which its government felt it was obligated to involve itself, being a modern nation.