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kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

So did you include any of those crises in your conhistories? Why did they get there? How did they solve their problems and get rid of their (social, etc.) differences? Or did they never solve them at all? Who do the conpeople blame for them? Do they face recurring or non recurring problems due to their (current) coneconomies health / instability / structure?
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:36 am Post subject:

Ecological - not really, yet.
Political/Social - hoo boy.
There are a lot of political and social crises in Emitaru's history. Originally the Emitare were nomads that ended up taking over a settled civilisation (a bit like the Arabs OTL, without Islam and a bit less forcefully) with all of the conflicts that that implies; there are several during its history as an empire, and the transition off of empire is a mix of the rise of OTL's Ming dynasty (i.e., struggling against a foreign ruling class) and the OTL American Revolution. Then there's all the problems that trying to keep a republic running for 1200 years involves.
And that's just Emitaru! I haven't gotten to anything else yet.

eldin raigmore · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:37 am Post subject:

Aside from surviving the crisis of the first landing, Adpihi has only one crisis that I've currently planned for it (logically, of course, it should have a lot more, otherwise why do my cities all have plans based as much on military defensibility as on access to the necessities of life?).
That concerns freedom of religion.
You probably remember that from the author's and readers' point-of-view "everyone" on Adpihi has their own religion; from the characters' point-of-view they "all" have the same religion (or, at least, they "all" think so).
As a general rule and for most of history Adpihi tolerate one anothers' religion very well. (What they don't realize is how hard they make it for people without a religion; they don't do it on purpose, nor even knowingly. It's "more by omission than by commission".)
At a certain time in history a large and powerful sub-continental group comes to believe that everyone whose religion differs from their own should be either forcibly converted or (forcibly) discriminated against or even killed; their leading party also believes that even those who otherwise agree with them, but who are willing to treat people with variant beliefs as equals and partners and friends, should also be disciplined, with violence if necessary.
This leads to a global war.

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There are a couple of different crises I have planned after Adpihi transitions to Reptigan.
They're both over the equality of "new citizens", which is to say non-humans.
There are the AIs, then there are the "aliens" (species of non-terrestrial origin).
The latter one I have been calling the "are we an Empire or a Union?" conflict.
I make it social and political rather than martial; and in both cases I make it the egalitarian/liberals who win. That doesn't mean there won't be violence, much less that there won't be bitter disagreements; it just means there won't be an actual war (or, at least, at the moment I'm not planning one).

Lastly I plan for Reptigan to have a crisis when they recontact Earth and those of Earth's colonies that never lost contact with the mother planet. I have not decided much about that; I haven't even decided whether it might involve violence, even military action. But I do plan for it to be scary, not "all sweetness and light".
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Aeetlrcreejl · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 839 Location: Over yonder

There was the Allustilaha Nerimsajar, the Years of Burning, a huge conflict between the Sibiliam and the Horu empires, never resolved that ended up killing 20% of the population of the whole planet. Loads and loads of peoples are only known from the libraries. Since then, international war has been almost entirely given up as a bad idea. Civil wars, though, still happen, although not in Ẽẽsta.
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eldin raigmore · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 10:38 pm Post subject: