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Kartr_Kana wrote:KhorneFlakes you sent me your idea this morning. I haven't had computer access till now and have not been able to give you any feedback on our mutual back story. Yet you go ahead and post a back history that is not only at odds with what we discussed in AIM, but is wildly against it and against the very nature of how the Clan structure works.

The idea we talked about was the "Taiidani" were the group who favored a more autocratic and vertical rule. Right now each clan governs itself in the manner they deem best. The S'jet, science clan prefers a pseudo communist government modeled similar to Umeria's. The Sobani are governed by a psuedo military tribunal and every citizen has a "rank" and a place in the structure. Maanaani, well they're somewhere between pure capitalists and complete anarchists depending on which trading vessel or enclave you visit. Each clan has its own style of governance, but all accept the authority of the Diamiid to make policy concerning things that lie outside the borders of the Hiigaran Control Zone.

As such the Sobani are most likely to have been supportive of the Taiidani and their desire for a monolithic, authoritarian government. The split between the Taiidani and the Hiigarans as we discussed was going to be over governmental structure. This at a time when several different groups were vieing to have their vision be the government for the new worlds. The current system was established by Karan S'jet (not Huur S'jet who is a current High Councilor in the Diamiid) as a compromise allowing all parties to have their form of government and yet bring about unity and therefore strength to face threats like the Karlack.

The idea that we discussed, was that during this time the Taiidani were not willing to make the compromises Karan and the other Clans asked for. We had jokingly said that this was because they were the officers and people of importance on the colony ships who were butthurt about the prank. Now roughly a century after the prank and when this conflict was taking place that title would probably have been dusted off to be an insult to the most pro-authoritarian party.

All this being said, there was no "monopoly", there was no "incident" and no one - Sobani or otherwise - declared an embargo/blockade on any moons. This was a series of civil wars and demonstrations that polarized the populations of the new worlds into a series of camps based on ideology. Up until this point, the "Clans" were ships and their populations and the Taiidani were the "suits", the "po-po" and the humorless authority figures. After this point Clans became synonymous with governmental ideologies and this is when your Taiidani would have emerged, same as the rest of the Clans.

Now my suggestion would to have your Taiidani be "Sobani" that felt the compromise was too much and they couldn't stand to live with all the "hippies," "communists," "anarchists," and "weaklings". However, I don't really care if you use that particular scenario. You could have them believe that one of the original ship captains was Joseph of Nazereth re-incarnated and that your leader is the second coming of Christ and when they wanted everyone to worship him as part of a theology that's when the split happened.

Now I do not like limiting your creativity when you create your nation. However you want to use my nation and my nations history as part of your own. Graciously I agreed, however it is my nation's back story you are trying to fit yourself into and because of that I reserve the right to ensure that you do not trash the history I have, both written and un-written. Next time please wait till I have had a chance to look over and respond to your PMs before you post something that drastically affects my back story.

Simon_Jester wrote:If you're up and about six to ten hours from now, please be on AIM so we can talk about this. I want to get all this backstory and order of battle material sorted out so we can get on with the storyline stuff.

Steve wrote:Poor Zara's in trouble... But at least she succeeded with Shroomka!

I figure in a couple of posts we'll be starting the Big Damn Rescue.

Force Lord wrote:I hope Redav's motivations don't throw a wrench in your plans, Steve, but I wanted him to act in character.