Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-5080468-20170724083802/@comment-5080468-20170727094258

Another question: what do you think of a 1984-like setup of constant medium-intensity war between Medwedia and the Talven Empire that serves as a "resource dump" and propaganda source on both sides? This is the message I sent to Treebeard:

''"As I'm currently working on the Medwedian Democratic Federation, which borders you in the Lower Sagittarius Arm, I'm interested in writing about several wars. Medwedia is a totalitarian, hyperexpansive militaristic dictatorship while your empire is, according to my understanding, a trade-based society that is quite federalized and decentralized but protects its homeland.

I imagine that Medwedia and the Talven Empire could clash for resource-rich planets, using superweapons in short conflicts that are followed by periods of cold war. Alternatively, we could have a constant state of war and territorial changes like in Orwell's 1984. I imagine that 100-200 planets could lie within a "contested zone", being populated by a mix of Medwedian and Talva colonists constantly fighting eachother in guerilla wars while our space fleets battle for the planets in orbit. Every 10 to 20 years, a planet is conquered by the enemy, only to be reconquered several years later. As Medwedia is constantly enlarging its army and producing military supplies in astronomic amounts, I imagine that the constant war could serve as a "dump" for those resources and for propaganda purposes while it would play a similar purpose in the Talven Empire."''