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Verdant Haven wrote:

What's your lore?

I'm presently a Federated Bailiwicks because it fits how my society is currently developed. In the shattered remains of a post civil war monarchy arose a number of small authorities with governance based largely on the administration of local justice. This developed towards a shire system which ended up retaining the vocabulary of its origins at higher and higher levels, until eventually the various Bailiwicks within the old monarchy united together in a largely devolved federation under the leadership of their most critical general from the civil war.

Take a look at your own backstory, and the answer may present itself!

I'm a roleplaying game that went off the rails a long time ago.

Verdant Haven wrote:

What's your lore?

My nation was founded by radical environmentalists who have now replaced as many biological systems as possible in an attempt to limit the environmental footprint of the population. The end goal is to upload every citizen's consciousness into a computer system that will run at ultra-low power and take its electricity from the oceanic current that runs to the north off the eastern shore (assuming that we are still in Forest by then). At present, the capital city is home to almost the entire population and reaches very high up and has a very deep underground space that lines up perfectly with the above-ground structure. it is completely sealed and equipped with rockets so the entire population can be moved just about anywhere if there is an attack, an environmental catastrophe, or if it is simply deemed necessary. If anyone was into SimCity 2000, my capital (Nacelle) is basically a cross between a forest arcology and a launch arcology. It came to develop this way when my capital was built underground for defensive purposes. Citizens embarked on projects to add the above-ground component, the air-tightening, the radiation shielding, and the rocket engines. Thank you for the computers, The Cypher Nine! Nacelle would still just be an underground fortress without them!

Mount Seymour wrote:

Is this going to be the new flag dilemma? :P

Haha, no. The current flag will only remain for the remainder of Pride Month. I'll return using the original at the start of July. Believe it or not Seymour, but I have no 'flag-changing' desire at the moment. I'm fairly content with the flag I've been using.

Raccoon Creek wrote:

I've actually not put much thought into it. What I've imagined Raccoon Creek being is a small village situated along a creek. Simple.

On another note, Happy Pride Month. ^-^

"The Riparian Procyonid Villages of Raccoon Creek," or something to that effect...? :-)

Ruinenlust wrote:

"The Riparian Procyonid Villages of Raccoon Creek," or something to that effect...? :-)

I love it! The Riparian Procyonid Republic of Raccoon Creek

Verdant Haven wrote:

What's your lore?

Right on, Mozzy 2.0! This is close enough to the "post an account..." thing.

In terms of my pretitle, "rewilding" a conservation effort to take large swathes of land and to return them to some natural state. The easy way to think of it is with "3 C's," namely: cores, corridors, and carnivores. Core areas of large wilderness, like some flagship national parks; corridors to connect and link up these core areas, usually along mountaintops or in deep valleys; and carnivores, which usually have to be reintroduced if they still survive at all, since a lack of top-level carnivores ends up with the destruction and degradation of plant communities, since the herbivores overpopulate and overgraze their landscape.

In terms of Ruinenlust, I have been moving towards a vision that says something about what I think for the future of the globalized civilization we find ourselves in, which is that after a hitherto-unseen demise of industrial civilization, as resources are depleted, landscaped are ruined, and energy becomes prohibitively expensive, there will then be a resurgent, new natural landscape that will come to grow over the ruins of our worldwide multi-century binge drinking party.

So, in Ruinenlust, I imagine there having once been a massive, unparalleled society, which built massive earthworks, buildings, and infrastructure projects. After the society's collapse (still working out why, but mass infertility is the top candidate), many of the ruins would go on to endure for centuries and, in the case of changes to the landscape for roads and things of that sort, for millennia. After many centuries, the comparatively tiny human population lives in small areas of the country, while the rest has been either passively or purposefully allowed to return to the wild.

Ruinenlust wrote:

Right on, Mozzy 2.0! This is close enough to the "post an account..." thing.

In terms of my pretitle, "rewilding" a conservation effort to take large swathes of land and to return them to some natural state. The easy way to think of it is with "3 C's," namely: cores, corridors, and carnivores. Core areas of large wilderness, like some flagship national parks; corridors to connect and link up these core areas, usually along mountaintops or in deep valleys; and carnivores, which usually have to be reintroduced if they still survive at all, since a lack of top-level carnivores ends up with the destruction and degradation of plant communities, since the herbivores overpopulate and overgraze their landscape.

In terms of Ruinenlust, I have been moving towards a vision that says something about what I think for the future of the globalized civilization we find ourselves in, which is that after a hitherto-unseen demise of industrial civilization, as resources are depleted, landscaped are ruined, and energy becomes prohibitively expensive, there will then be a resurgent, new natural landscape that will come to grow over the ruins of our worldwide multi-century binge drinking party.

So, in Ruinenlust, I imagine there having once been a massive, unparalleled society, which built massive earthworks, buildings, and infrastructure projects. After the society's collapse (still working out why, but mass infertility is the top candidate), many of the ruins would go on to endure for centuries and, in the case of changes to the landscape for roads and things of that sort, for millennia. After many centuries, the comparatively tiny human population lives in small areas of the country, while the rest has been either passively or purposefully allowed to return to the wild.

if you need a pattern as to why, such an all powerful 'civilization' might collapse, there's the real ultimate threat from the climate thing.

what we're seeing now, with more severe weather and mutation and spread from the equator to more temperate climates of once thought over with tropical diseases, is just not even stage one getting started.

stage two is sea level rise, which doesn't sound total and by itself it isn't. populations can and will move further inland. cities are just buildings and infrastructure. but where their food comes from is the problem.

salt water invasion of croplands and aquafiers. leading to food shortages, leading to malnutrition leading to vulnerability to disease. same thing that happens in nature from that point, when a species over populates its environment. which we have.

well not only do disease mutations accellerate at that point, this is phase three if you will, but the vectors, carriers, flying insects mostly but rodants and other small life forms too, these warm salt water swamplike conditions proliferate their breeding too. so in the end, everybody is sick of illnesses too new to even have names, let alone treatments.

in 20 years medical science could find cures for all of them. but at this point there isn't 20 years when the mutations are hundreds and thousands a year or even shorter spans of time.

so what happens is, you're left with too few healthy births, children that live more then a few months, to keep all the complex infrastructure a large and complex civilization depends upon.

so population diminishes over the span of a decade or two at most, to a level of tiny scattered villages. and the kids that do live, might not still look very much like humans. more like furrys. the meek thus inheriting the earth so to speak.

but all is not forgotten. there just isn't the population to mine coal or pump oil. but there are all the riches of the ruins. adventure lurks there, along with lingering but fading danger of disease, radiation and structural failure.

most people are in survival mode, and many don't trust complex technology, blaming it for the fall, which is half true of course,

but kids will always be curious, and secret enclaves of schollars collecting books and surviving tech.

and of course, with deminished population and no mass production or consumptions of combustables, the natural environment rebounds.

so you have lots of wonderful ruins to explore, lush edin jungle everywhere, and small furry populations eeking out a sustainable agricultural and hunting and gathering existence,

with dreams of rememberd glory from pictures in old books. and there are after all, the knowledge in books, along with solar panels and windmills and so on, to be recovered from the ruins, along with their being an abundant source of building materials.

little or no central government beyond the village level, and no building codes or anyone to enforce them, or enforce anything beyond the local village level, each its own unique culture, and nothing to stop the adventurous from leaving one place and migrating to another.

and just maybe, a kind of infrastructure does begin to re-emerge, not dependent on the no longer available oil, coal or power grid.

well that's the model for my other world setting, which nolo-gap over in furry land represents.

cameroi is in another kind of far future where all of this was avoided by their never having been a middle ages for reasons that are a whole nother story to get into.

Mount Seymour wrote:

Even if you have watched I Am Mother, you're not supposed to double-post!

Seymour, this post makes me so happy. :)

The leader of Ruinenlust, Rex Silvae (me, as it were), along with the People of Ruinenlust, would like to formally thank and recognize Raccoon Creek for gifting an LGBT variant of the national flag for Gay Pride Month!

It is always such a pleasure to be able to visually express myself, something that largely escapes me, since my computer skills are lacking, to say the least. My iPhone is actually made out of wood, it's so old. Chestnut.

I'm so lucky to have been alive now, in this brief temporal and spatial window in which I can be, in my own way, absolutely fabulous. :-)

Edited: To make Raccoon Creek actually cite the nation in question, lol.

Cela wrote:

I fully support LGBTQ+, but I'm really getting tired of this "corporate wokeness" with every soulless corporation changing their logos to the rainbow. It's so obviously pandering, it hurts. Might even be worse than corporate twitter accounts pretending to be cool with the kids. I guess there's worse things corporations are doing, but this is still getting really annoying. On the other hand, I can see the positive change being made by normalizing LGBT, even if it's not done for the reasons we'd like.

I think the obvious question to as corporations flying the rainbow flag would be where the hell they were a few decades back when LGBT+ rights were being fought for, back when being gay wasn't something that was broadly accepted in our society.

On mobile at the mo, so cant find the details but there's one particular telecomms company over here that was busy making social media algorythms that'd be used to identify political dissidents and gay people - can't remember the country and as I said on mobile. I'll have a look when I get home and I bet if I were to look up that company's website they'd have a little rainbow flag and blurb.