User:Treebeard1010102/Notes and Plans

General
The current year is about 2813

Character fiction
There is a possibility of role playing with DrodoEmpire and/or Yuggy.

Splintering the X6
The Xonexi claster is administered by the, and the DCP. With influence (through economic and diplomatic connections, strategic considerations, colonies, population, infrastructure, internal political strength, etc) the could join this board. To splinter it, the Empire could encourage other members of the X6 to feel that the system doesn't work for them.

The "meta" of Sporewiki works by recognition. i.e., if you can get a major player to recognize you as powerful, or as equally powerful as them, others are more likely to accept you as such. The more connected the player, the more widely accepted your power will be. In Xonexi, power is defined as the ability to influence outcomes.

The Talven Empire needs to deal with France. The PAE is a good ally, though you can selectively align yourself with the Divinarium if you want to sow anti-French, anti-DI mischief there. The TIAF is also good, though slightly inactive. There's a war going on in Bunsen which the X6 is trying desperately to keep from escalating. The Eldarisians are a good choice if you want to know more about that, and throw some curveballs in that direction. Farengeto, the Drodo Empire, and the APR share sovereignty over the Norma Arm; They're a good group of allies to have, though solidly in the French camp at the moment

There's also the Greater Hal'Sk Empire, who are teetering on the brink of ruin and their only lifeline is UGA help. If they were to be propped up, they'd be a major revanchist power a little opposed to the whole "no war" thing which freezes their empire in a fragmented and stagnating state. It's a very, very precarious position for France because Alexandre is -married- to the Hal'Sk heiress.

The major conflicts within the GHE are due to the fact that the crown is weak and unable to regain control, so reformist and traditionalist factions are taking shots at each other and causing the whole boat to rock dangerously. Meanwhile, their subjugated populations are rising up and straining the entire empire.

The Talven Empire could ask France for help: If they accept, they have turned away from their role as a pioneer of the X6. If they refuse, they will be refusing to help the Hal'Sk Empire which they have undeniable ties to, while the Talven Empire was the one who actually assisted the Hal'Sk Empire. Any supporters of the Hal'Sk heiress in France will be alienated. The Talven would ask for great reformations to the X6, which would be the equivalent of destroying it.

There could be some potential there to turn Hal'Sk nobility against the French, especially if his wife inherits the throne and the heir is now Alexandre-Bonaparte, Alexandre's son. A lot of people wouldn't be thrilled to consider a French heir to the Hal'Sk throne

On the subject of French aid, France has actually intervened multiple times in the GHE. It flooded the Empire with troops at the end of the GXS, and helped to restore the Emperor Riahk I to the throne and maintain stability until the Empire could get its act together. But as casualties mounted and the Empire didn't seem to be owning up to its own security, public pressure finally forced Alexandre to pull out French troops. However, it wasn't a retreat or a disaster, because he used his considerable influence. France was president of the organization that year, and subsequent presidents haven't pulled the troops out yet. The issue is that the foreign troops are there to maintain the untenable status quo while a better arrangement is reached, but the Hal'Sk keep stalling.

A fundamental change is needed, which for the UGA means statehood for the GHE's colonized peoples, and for the GHE, it means a harsh military campaign to put their populations back in their places. But the GHE lacks the ability to do that right now - It's too disorganized, too unstable. The Greater Hal'Sk Empire is a caste-based feudal system which was founded on the conquest and subjugation of its neighboring populations. Several species were conquered and assimilated into the empire as the equivalent of serfs, ruled over by a noble elite. When the Empire was strong, this system was pretty much unquestioned, stable, and the only orderly manner in which society could be organized. Now that the Empire is weak due to the Great Xonexian Schism, due to the last Emperor's well-meaning, French-inspired reforms, and to the current material weakness of the crown and factionalism within the nobility, the GHE's conquered territories are to varying degrees in a state of caste war with their populations.

The Talven Empire could come in, ally with the GHE, kick out the UGA, and help the GHE regain control of its colonies and the crown through military force. This is something which the French and the UGA refused to do, they were only there to prevent further violence, not to win a civil war. At the end of that war, they'd have a -strong-, capable, anti-status quo ally in the GHE. If France and the UGA tried to stop the Talven Empire, they could be accused of encouraging the civil war, so it could probably get away with it. France is aligned with the imperial family of the GHE, while the most the UGA can do is issue condemnations. The Grand Commonwealth of Sovereign States can't do anything either because the GHE is acting within its own borders, not attacking another sovereign state.

Other potential allies include the, which include (sort of) the. France currently has the advantage there, the Covenant is working and governing Mirus (Described on the Covenant's page).

The reason the GHE is a good first target is because you can get them to fight on your side for their own reasons, not for yours. The Drodo Empire was lost during the GXS because halfway through, they realized they had no reason to fight someone else's war. I should generally be exploiting rivalries and grudges that already exist. The whole thing is stable right now because those rivalries aren't at the fore; They're suppressed, distracted from, or overtaken by other things. But tweak the right things, and they'll resurface

The NCR is not likely to join in any offensive wars against other legitimate state actors.

To do:
 * Research a bit how France accomplished what I'm attempting now.
 * Research the characters you're like to encounter and how they relate to each other.
 * Research the nations you're going to be dealing with and what their core interests and alignments are).
 * Check my assumptions against the users who wrote those fictions(eg. what they're like to do, not do, and how they think about things).