Thread:CaptainTybusen/@comment-25890179-20171124154932

Hello. I was planning on creating a new fiction empire whose origins would be in the Great Lakes region, and I was told to ask you about it since your empire controls that area. Here is the basic outline of my idea:

So in Sporeverse, the Great Lakes on Earth are different than in real life. The coasts are wracked by extremely harsh storms, and any ships that brave them come under attack by vicious pirates. The constant freezing rain and giant waves have battered deep caverns into the rocky coastline, and these are inhabited by demon-worshiping cannibals. Highwaymen, mob lords, and petty tribes rule the southern areas, and in the north, tundramen war with wildfolk. This being a much, much harsher area than in real life, the human empire that runs North America never bothered to pacify it, and the whole thing is sort of quarantined.

Now, on the islands, traders, merchants, exiled warriors, and former soldiers have formed private lordships of their own, building wooden ships, trading with the mainlands, and occasionally making war on one another. On one island lives a gloomy fellow who hates the North American empire. He longs to escape and live away from their influence, or better yet, destroy them. Through a process which I won't describe here, he unites the entire area into the Great Lakes Kingdom and fights a bloody battle to seize spaceships, which he does. He and his empire flee from Earth, knowing they can't return without sufficient force to back them up.

I mostly just require your permission to use this as an origin story, since I plan for this character and his empire to be involved in the Mirus galaxy. 