Alliance Cyberpunk

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 30 August, 202429 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Cyberpunk, Void Pirates, World DesignLeave a comment

Since we’re doing cyberpunk this month in the General Gaming section, it seems appropriate to touch on cyberpunk and the Alliance. Short version: the Alliance isn’t really a cyberpunk world. Slightly longer version: the Alliance isn’t really a cyberpunk world, but there are places that come close. Within the Alliance… Read More ►

The Great Journey

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 23 August, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Great Journey, History, Pedro Cabral, Tau Ceti IILeave a comment

About four hundred years ago (-227 AY), the three superpowers of Earth embarked on an ambitious project they called “The Great Journey.” They would send humans into space to colonize Tau Ceti, approximately 11.9 light years away. Unmanned probes had found an Earthlike planet in orbit, and it looked like… Read More ►

Void Pirate Overview

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 16 August, 202429 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Villains, Void Pirates, World DesignLeave a comment

About a fifty years after the landing at Tau Ceti II, the first new ship was launched. Others followed in short order. Within ten years, at least three of them had gone missing and became the first Void Pirate ships. At first their activity was limited to occasional raids on… Read More ►

General Overall Themes

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 9 August, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Culture, Government, ThemesLeave a comment

You can tell a lot about a universe by the general themes present. What if Star Wars had taken place largely on some frontier world with nothing of real interest to the Empire or Alliance, and the movies had been about the daily adventures of some random people there? Like,… Read More ►

Religion in the Alliance

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 2 August, 202429 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags ReligionLeave a comment

People have religious views. This is true in the Alliance as well. Overall, the Alliance started out as a pretty cosmopolitan society. The nature of the mission made this unavoidable. People had been drawn from all over Earth, from a wide variety of ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds to be… Read More ►