I have this idea which has been in my mind for awhile. Hopefully, I'll be able to explain it. The basic story is that after the discovery of the warp point, several Terran nations sent colony ships out, each claiming a star system for its' own (IE, there would be an American System, a British System, a Japanese System, etc). Large numbers of Earth's citizenry move to their repsective nation's colonies, leaving the earth with only about a quarter of its' usual population. The colonists just started out, but there is already tension in the Terran Sector; Some of the systems contain the huge sphereworld planets, previoulsy undetected by Earthly science. Humans could not possibly have built it, as their most powerful stellar weapon at the time is still the Delepted Uranium Cannon. It is undeniable proof of extrasolar intelligences. The UN, governing the Earth, is unsure of what to do, and internal struggles break out. A few months after that discovery, the Earth is engulfed by a mysterious explosion, wiping the planet clean. The now-stellar nations can only suspect one another. Eventually, they would run into a colony of the infamous 'greys' and a few other species. Sphereworlds and other artifical constructs would be scattered about the area, leading to theories of a long-dead alien empire.
While this would be on a huge map, it would only cover about 1/12 of one precent of the galaxy, as it is made up of billions of stars.
For the shipsets, all that would be needed is simple editing; Take existing shipsets, remove the population portrait, and replace it with the respective national flag. The names and diplomatic communication would be a piece of cake.
I have one more idea for this. A few small clusters of systems would be blocked from all the others, with no warp points connecting them to the outside. Inside are some nations that shouldn't, or couldn't be there, such as Soviet Holdouts, a mysterious fragment of the Roman Empire, or even a Fascist colony that was built using odd experiments in warp technology.
Tell me how this sounds, oki?
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[ 18 January 2002: Message edited by: Loknar ]
Scenario Idea: Solar Nationalism
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