Nation Building Viral: Reforging Life (Lore)

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Elysium
WARNING: Stellar Treaty Quarantine in effect. Any vessel attempting to approach or leave Elysium will be shot down. This is a recorded message. Your termination will be logged and reported to Stellar Treaty Central Indexing.
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Population:
-Three Trillion (Pre-Proteus Outbreak)
-Uninfected (Unknown)
-One Trillion or More (Stellar Treaty Estimates)

Government:
-Elysian Senate (Pre-Proteus)
-Anarchy (Current)

Ruler:
-Chancellor Zheng Bismarck (Status Unknown)
-Various Survivor Warlords (Current)

Military:
-Elysian Navy (Dispersed/Defunct)
-Elysian Auxiliaries (Most Independent Now)

Economy
-Trade Hubs and Corporate Enclaves (Pre-Proteus)
-Scavenging (Current)

Quarantine
-Ongoing for Ten Years
-Fifty Vessels Terminated for attempting escape or entry at this time.

Wards (15 Total)
-Senate Ward
-Corporate Wards (4)
-City Wards (10)

Background

Elysium has been the beating heart of Human culture for over three millennia. It is all that has humanity has known outside of historians who recall the early period of their species when they abandoned a home world ages back. Earth is a memory, its cultures having mixed, mingled and divided into new ones. Elysium though has sat as the great boiling pot of all cultures new and old of humanity. Countless worlds have been founded by colonial missions fleeing the bustling city world to create new societies. Megacorporations and Merchant Guilds funded their own corporate enclaves and projects off-world to exploit resources and profit from the eternal hunger of Elysium for food and resources.

Elysium is a world of immense wealth, mostly in the hands of the politicians, merchants and corporate agents. Poverty in the lower city is notorious and controlled mainly by a large, well-funded police force called Civil Security (CivSec). Crime runs rampant in some areas with impressively sized syndicates that are so powerful they extend beyond to the colonies and outlying worlds. CivSec fought the syndicates as often as it could but was far more focused simply on preventing riots and civil unrest. The Undercity almost never sees CivSec and thus is the true domain of the syndicates and gangs who battle over territory. CivSec presence on the surface is absolute save within the Corporate Wards where megacorp security forces hold authority as if the were nations.

The Senate had absolute authority over the planet and the Elysian Trade Union which encompassed all worlds under the influence of Elysium's powerful economy. The Elysian Trade Union has collapsed with the outbreak, chaos rippling out from the home world. No one is sure and more so with the collapse as seen the rise in power of the Stellar Treaty as the reigning regional power. The Stellar Treaty has kept Elysium quarantined aggressively after a ruthless campaign to exterminate Proteus Virus outbreaks. The world is too vast to effectively sterilize it and instead an impressive array of kill-sats have been put in place. The Stellar Treaty does broadcast news to the surface, but takes no messages from the planet to avoid any development of attachment to potential Proteus carriers.

 

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Data Index
Elysium
-Surface: WIP

-Lower City: WIP

-Undercity: WIP

Corporations
-Lotus Eater
"Making Life More Bearable"
Lotus Eater was a major power in consumer goods often designed to create satisfaction and to dull aggression or rebellious behavior. Their vending machines are scattered across all the planet, targeting the lower city and undercity. Their products are affordable and filled with variety to ensure maximum dispersal of their calming goods. Few realize Lotus Eater holds the largest civil contract with the Senate to ensure they continue their services and development of new methods to feed and control the population.

-Heavy Industrial Solutions (HIS)
"Forging Ahead!"
HIS is the main industrial powerhouse on Elysium. They control most construction and heavy manufacturing through various subsidiaries. Their factories are responsible for the eternal flow of parts for various heavy machinery, vehicles, starships or buildings. Every structure has at least some part made in an HIS facility or mobile fabrication plant. HIS built the Elysian Navy and the array of orbital facilities that encircled the planet before the quarantine went into effect. Most of those stations were driven to the surface, destroying whose surface areas, often already overflowing with CVP monsters.

Organizations
-Civil Security (CivSec): WIP

-Elysian Senate: WIP