(07-23-2023, 05:19 PM)Farmers International Wrote: Re: Gaians
I left them out due to insufficient information I got on this. I figured someone would bring this up if its important. I do not know of any connection between LWB, original FA and the Gaians beyond the fact that Gaians are/were friends of Hogosha. While they are nature and ecology themed, they are also so far beyond our ZoI we would practically never meet. I would appreciate any links as well as rundown of how FA and Gaian relationship should look and work like, as well as where would they fit into the diplomacy sheet. Are they our ideologically inspired arms supplier given there are 100% techcells? I am more than happy to try working in ancient treaties/agreements if possible.
There are no links that I can personally provide as, for pretty much as long as I've been around, there was no real Farmers' Alliance presence in Discovery. The relationship dates all the way back to the Tau War, where the Hogosha/Alliance/Gaians trifecta worked as mercenaries for the KNF (hence the good relations between Gaians and Imperial Kusari in general), but that is from well before my time. The alliance between FA and Gaians is one of those things that kind of just was there because one of the sides simply did not exist. What few times we did come into contact, the old Tau War alliances were still being honoured, and we would work as close knit allies, based on prior work together, shared allies in Hogosha and Corsairs, and ideological similarities. The techcells reflect that close alliance as well.
As for the LWB, the relationship was more cordial than allied, given LWB's anti-Corsair and pro-Hessian diplomacy, and ours being the opposite. However, when the LWB disintegrated, the Gaians did provide supplies and refuge to the Greifswald flotilla more or less free of charge until the LWB was able to reform itself a few years later. I'd like to think that counts for something.
(07-23-2023, 05:19 PM)Farmers International Wrote:
(07-22-2023, 10:55 PM)TheSauron Wrote: I applaud your attempt at making sense of the faction merger, it's actually pretty decent...
Sir, I am afraid I do not want to settle down on just 'decent'. If you have critique or a tip, I will do my best to address it if its within my scope. I never had LWB or FA character before, so I will gladly take advice from those who did.
The biggest critique I can give you is that you are working off an inherently nonsensical foundation, that being the FA/LWB merger. The writeup is good given what it has to work with, but it is also being brought down by what it has to work with. I don't think one can make a proper good Alliance writeup without the canon lore being fixed, or without simply limiting themselves to playing just Farmers Alliance or just LWB.
But besides that, one nitpick I do have is that Kusari was not forced to allow Synth because of their Hokkaido operations. It was simply a mixture of government lobbying and Samura's uncompetitively high food prices once trade lanes and jump gates made Synth products easily accessible. It is why Farmers Alliance has a heavy dislike of Liberty and its influence, not just Synth itself.
