09-05-2018, 05:31 AM | #581 |
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Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds
It's actually a cool idea. The American Revolution, the Latin American Revolutions, the Irish Troubles 1916-1921, are all examples of fragmentation of the type you're speaking of. One man's traitor is another man's founding father.
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09-05-2018, 10:45 AM | #582 | |
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On the other hand, a typical modern-day democracy changes leadership on the order of 5-10 years, so a star-spanning federation might have a new prime minister before the outer reaches had even heard that the previous one had started.
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09-05-2018, 10:55 AM | #583 |
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I think that the colonial empires had to deal with the longest functional distances between the capital and the far reaches. I think they mostly dealt with this by making the colony's rulers culturally dependent on the ruling country. Spain demanded that the upper level of rulers be born in Spain, not just from Spanish parents. A steady stream of fortune hunters with ideals, culture, and loyalties from europe were sent to rule the colonies. Some other countries accepted being born of proper parentage but were much harsher about making sure your parentage was correct.
If you are certain of loyalty, some autonomy in local rulers can be acceptable.
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09-05-2018, 12:13 PM | #584 | |
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- Colonial governors and personnel are graduates of the Academy of Governorship, trained in memetic technology, psychohistory and mass distraction. They are intimately familiar with all the instruments of government, fair and foul. - The colonial governors are addicted to dependium, a nanodrug that the central government regularly dispatches. - Governors share their skulls with loyalty monitoring AIs. - Governors are replicants.
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09-05-2018, 04:04 PM | #585 | |
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(Accident, piracy, governmental collapse, and other things might be the reason, but along with investigating that, the governor and whomever else is addicted must deal with their supply being cut off.)
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09-05-2018, 04:25 PM | #586 |
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Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds
What happens when a criminal organization/revolutionary group figures out how to grow it or synthesize it? Suddenly, the criminal group/revolutionary group offers freedom to the governors who are very far away from the central government who made them drug addicts...
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09-05-2018, 10:13 PM | #587 | |
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09-05-2018, 10:28 PM | #588 | |
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09-06-2018, 02:11 PM | #589 | |
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The beauty of this messiness is that neither the Colonial governments nor the rebels can rely on the reactions of their neighbors. Your co-conspirator is your rival, your friend, a stern judge, and something of a clown car letting off passengers.
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09-07-2018, 08:58 AM | #590 |
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Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds
Try this idea, a breakthrough in pedagogy vastly increasing the scope of what can be taught. Most mental advantages can now be taught, as can things like Voice or most Talents. This would radically alter the balance of power within and between societies. Nations like Finland or Taiwan that stress educating their people would build great advantages. Nations like Russia that has trashed it Education system or the USA where we retain 17th century funding methods will be relatively weaker.
All kinds of strife can come from changed power relationships. Wars are often fought by fading powers to prevent their fading. Within a state, political revolts up to and including violence might be fought to either get the improved education or to withhold it from the masses.
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