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 ►

Governments In The Triangulum Galaxy

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 26 July, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Colonies, Culture, Government, Religion, TechnologyLeave a comment

A few planets or systems are corrupt off the charts, but unless they do something heinous they get away with it. Officially. In reality, the Alliance Troubleshooters exist specifically to deal with threats to the Alliance that official channels have trouble with. More than a few would-be genocidal dictators have… Read More ►

Political Organization of the Alliance

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 19 July, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Alliance, Background, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Law, Starports, Starships, Technology, Thabbo, Transportation, Void PiratesLeave a comment

The Alliance of Independent Worlds is – shockingly – an alliance of largely independent solar systems. It exists mainly to facilitate trade and law enforcement that has a widespread effect. Among other things, they run the Patrol (in theory) to keep it neutral and dedicated to the Alliance as a… Read More ►

Happy Pandemonium Day!

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 14 July, 20242 July, 2024Cat UncategorizedTags HolidayLeave a comment

At Devil Monkey Games, our motto is “Channeling Chaos Into Good Times.” You bet we celebrate Pandemonium Day. Read More ►

Technology in the Alliance

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 12 July, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Behind the Scenes, Biotech, Drugs, Equipment, Medicine, Technology, VehiclesLeave a comment

I've been thinking a lot about what tech level I want for the Alliance. Too low and a lot of things become difficult if not impossible. Too high and there's no room for improvement, whether for the Alliance or higher-tech aliens. Since I try to run more dramatic, exploration and… Read More ►

Alliance Overview

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 5 July, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Culture, Government, Technology, ThemesLeave a comment

Our main area is the Alliance (full working title is The Alliance of Independent Worlds), centered on Tau Ceti II (not the second planet in the Tau Ceti system, but a terraformed world in the Triangulum Galaxy. Long story), a loose alliance of (mostly) human-colonized worlds. Some of these "worlds"… Read More ►

Long Time, No See

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 1 July, 20242 July, 2024Cat Monkey Monday, State of the MonkeysTags Behind the ScenesLeave a comment

It’s been a while, I know. Things got really messed up the summer of 2021 and just kept getting worse. First we all got Covid. My wife and I were out for two weeks, and there were several days for each of us where we simply didn’t get out of… Read More ►

Happy Summer Solstice To All

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 20 June, 202424 May, 2023Cat UncategorizedTags HolidayLeave a comment

And now, as the sun rises on the longest day of the year, we at Devil Monkey games would like to wish you all a happy Summer Solstice. Stay safe, and if you're up in the northlands like we are, stay cool and take advantage of the extra daylight to… Read More ►