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[Scavengers] Humans and clans.
Idea for the humans in the setting would be to have them failed to become a space empire, spaceflight increasing their disparities rather than unifying the species under one banner.
With no more frontiers, they spread to the stars in vast nomadic fleets, creating more and more subcultures.
Humans are often met as minorities amongst other space faring factions or as miners/traders/mercenaries.
Piracy is also fairly common.
They're very present on the Frontier, this area of space being far from the influence of the core worlds
In short, talked about it during brainstorm sessions with a pal (woohoo Kialra) and found the "humanity, fuck yeah" trope of everyone uniting as soon as we meet aliens a bit boring.
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Find it more fun to become the nomadic/traders faction rather than another imperium.
With no more frontiers, they spread to the stars in vast nomadic fleets, creating more and more subcultures.
Humans are often met as minorities amongst other space faring factions or as miners/traders/mercenaries.
Piracy is also fairly common.
They're very present on the Frontier, this area of space being far from the influence of the core worlds
In short, talked about it during brainstorm sessions with a pal (woohoo Kialra) and found the "humanity, fuck yeah" trope of everyone uniting as soon as we meet aliens a bit boring.
Forcing myself to post a bit more the doodles I do from time to time here. I find twitter more fitting than fa for the "spam doodles" tactic but some of you don't use the cursed website.
>if you enjoy my content, consider supporting my patreon!
>check my twitter for more doodles!
>sub to the picarto to see the pics in the making :D
Find it more fun to become the nomadic/traders faction rather than another imperium.
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ahah, nice catch :D
discovered cumans raider recently and I was like "ok, this but for space pirates"
and agreed! It's rare take on humanity and I find it kind of strange, seeing how we always failed to unite irl.
So sure, we can imagine the different human fleet can work together from time to time, but on a long timeline, no lasting cooperation.
discovered cumans raider recently and I was like "ok, this but for space pirates"
and agreed! It's rare take on humanity and I find it kind of strange, seeing how we always failed to unite irl.
So sure, we can imagine the different human fleet can work together from time to time, but on a long timeline, no lasting cooperation.
I think the reason why we don’t have it be used more is because it reminds us of current day issues and how they haven’t died out with advancement of technology. We don’t want that so we want sci-fi to be escapism.
Anyway. I love your concept of humans. :D We would easily be this.
Anyway. I love your concept of humans. :D We would easily be this.
At least one word that would apply in this sort of case would be 'diaspora'...
And yeah, given that there are group hatreds that have already lasted for millennia, the idea that all gets put aside seems... unlikely, to say the least. Not to mention that there are always going to be people who are willing to throw others under the proverbial bus to get ahead themselves.
A lot of the early days will depend on how the space drive works and where it comes from. If it's expensive and rare because we have to buy the drives from the aliens, the rich and self-important head out (with their servants) and Earth itself becomes a ghetto. If it's dirt cheap you get people flying out scattershot and no combined face of humanity. (There was a comic book anthology called FTL, Y'all! that played with this idea.) In between you get a few large-scale colonization attempts from various groups as a new Space Race happens.
For Humanity to be united out in space, we'd pretty much have to figure it out before getting a space drive.
And yeah, given that there are group hatreds that have already lasted for millennia, the idea that all gets put aside seems... unlikely, to say the least. Not to mention that there are always going to be people who are willing to throw others under the proverbial bus to get ahead themselves.
A lot of the early days will depend on how the space drive works and where it comes from. If it's expensive and rare because we have to buy the drives from the aliens, the rich and self-important head out (with their servants) and Earth itself becomes a ghetto. If it's dirt cheap you get people flying out scattershot and no combined face of humanity. (There was a comic book anthology called FTL, Y'all! that played with this idea.) In between you get a few large-scale colonization attempts from various groups as a new Space Race happens.
For Humanity to be united out in space, we'd pretty much have to figure it out before getting a space drive.
Well, yeah, and absent good communications tech, that's going to happen anyway. The Romans (among others) demonstrated that it's hard to hold an empire together if you can't move information or people around fast enough. My personal theory is that the first step in the collapse of what was still at the time the Roman Republic came when it was no longer possible to gather an army, march out to the frontier, fight a war, and come back to report your success in the time between sprint planting and fall harvest. Because once the frontier was that far away, suddenly farming families were a lot less willing to volunteer members for the army...
A large empire can only hold together so long as it's possible to react to situations before they finish happening. If someone can stage a coup in an outlying system and finish erecting their defences faster than you can get forces in to deal with it, your empire crumbles. (See, for example, the second Riel Rebellion in Canada, where being able to ship troops via the half-finished railroad ended up quashing the rebellion before they had time to dig in for the winter.)
Fundamentally, this is pretty much why the old RPG Traveller runs on a semi-feudal system: The high-level government absolutely relies on local 'barons' to handle things, because there's no way it can react fast enough to do more than set general policy for most situations. And the moment there's a power vacuum at the top, things break down regionally really quickly as every local power starts backing their own favoured candidate in hopes of improving their own situation.
A large empire can only hold together so long as it's possible to react to situations before they finish happening. If someone can stage a coup in an outlying system and finish erecting their defences faster than you can get forces in to deal with it, your empire crumbles. (See, for example, the second Riel Rebellion in Canada, where being able to ship troops via the half-finished railroad ended up quashing the rebellion before they had time to dig in for the winter.)
Fundamentally, this is pretty much why the old RPG Traveller runs on a semi-feudal system: The high-level government absolutely relies on local 'barons' to handle things, because there's no way it can react fast enough to do more than set general policy for most situations. And the moment there's a power vacuum at the top, things break down regionally really quickly as every local power starts backing their own favoured candidate in hopes of improving their own situation.
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