@Songtress said:
We need this so much. Just do it. I read a kinda click bait article as to why the future likes to subjugate white people (or something like that).
So this fits with that them, let's draw from Dune and make psychic stuff cool, powerful, and religious!
In a way, you have inaugurated what might well be the storyline, or at least the first major plot, of this game. I was thinking about what to do, and then your post made me think that I should begin the game with the Lion Empire (full title: The Lion of Judah's Most Serene Imperium, with the Lion throne being this alternate universe's Afrocentric, majority black population equivalent of FS's Phoenix Empire and Phoenix Throne) oppressing the two smaller nations - the Orion Reich (majority white population) and the Eastern Union (majority Asian population), by occupying a few of their worlds in a bid to expand the domain of the Empire.
The Empire enters the worlds under the pretext of protecting the Reich and the Union from "cells of dangerous terrorists" (Ah, you say you've heard this story before somewhere?) and sets up military dictatorships on each world, with a Lion Empire governor-general keeping the citizens in the iron grip of totalitarian control.
I would prefer that the nations not be at war, but instead an uneasy, Cold War-like peace, in which proxy wars are fought between small groups, with the Empire, the Reich, and the Union funding + supplying the smaller groups. That way, we can have hilarious scenes where the heads of the Great Houses of each nation make nice with each other and regularly see each other at diplomatic meetings, while, in fact, their respective peoples distrust and fear each other.
The Castle Federation (majority Hispanic population) is a neutral actor in this drama, although I will not rule out the possibility of their allying with one of the major belligerents in this conflict.
Meanwhile, all three nations pretend to be outwardly friendly. If people would prefer that it be more like Galactic World War 2 with the Reich and the Union openly attacking the outer edges of the Empire, that is fine with me too.
The Lion of Judah Empire should be a pastiche of the established Fading Suns Phoenix Empire, with elements of African culture.
The name of the empire and their flag is derivative of the Ethiopian Empire's "Lion of Judah" flag.
The upper class, the nobles, and the Emperor wear extraordinary amounts of gold, the bows of their space-ships have designs similar to African war masks...
The knights and the Battle Brothers wear armor partly similar to European medieval armor, with elements from the Kingdom of Benin's warriors.
Basically, what I'm aiming for in the end-result is something like the following image, but in spaaaaace.
While I would like to have this game span an entire set of worlds, and enter space, we will probably just start out on one of the Contested Worlds under the dominion of the Empire.
I will launch this game first since everyone is excited for it.
You will be able to roll a character from all of the nations, so you can be an antagonist who is a Nordic, blonde, blue-eyed, milky-white skinned Reich noble, or a refined Asian Eastern Prosperity Union scholar.
