New Horizon Factions
Each of the eight major city-state is an independent nation, with a different sort of way of doing things from its distant neighbors. The city-states often quarrel with one another, with the seven city-states being arbitrated by the most powerful and influential city-state of Elysium. Elysium houses the Septumvirate Council where elected councilmen from all seven other city states negotiate inter-faction disputes, trade agreements and any other political intercourse.
Members of each faction are drastically distinct from the members of other factions in many important ways, such as how they were reared during childhood. They often have many biased and bigoted views against one another. This is further complicated by the distinct 'Visual Kei' that each group has. For example, a New Chanian woman dresses in a manner that would be considered offensively skimpy to a member of the Xanadu faction.
Those without factions are often out in the cold, existing in the cracks between society in smaller groups that are formed of a dozen to one hundred people. They're often called 'Guilds,' or 'Guild Rats.' Just as often they're simply called Outsiders. Many such so called 'Guilds' prey on city-states to provide their livelihood. Often they will perform illegal services to various factions in exchange for goods necessary to their survival. They are often hunted and persecuted by one or more Factions.
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The faction responsible for arbitrating disputes with between the other seven factions. The Law Givers of New Horizon.
Elysium represents the central government, which presides over other governments, the other governments are all part of the working process of Elysium.
While one of the smallest planetary factions in numbers, the citizens of Aquilons Reach not only survive, but thrive in circumstance which no other faction would even think of living. Harvesting the frozen north's bounty of pure Energen Deuterium crystals sparingly, and harnessing the boundless geothermal energy of the deep sea vents deep beneath the Perpetua Glacier.
Aquilonian citizens pride themselves on their ability to provide surplus energy, as well as sophisticated and efficient new technologies, which, while seeming a bit odd by most standards, are of startling efficiency.
The capital city of the largest tropical jungle on the planet. It is fiercely protected not only by its zealot environmentalist, heavily enforced laws but also extremely dangerous wildlife. The trees are gigantic, the tallest rising to the height of a kilometer above sea level. It is home not only to several medicinal properties but also one of the most prominent army in the world, the Narehl Rangers.
New Chania is a faction of robotics engineers, AI technicians and medical scientists as well as New Horizons foremost supplier of hydroponic foodstuffs.
The Missive Union is different from the other factions with Union Hold at its center. Union Hold isn't actually a city, it's an industrial complex located in the Chain of Tears.
A faction whose tireless diligence to exploration and homesteading, coupled with their preference for little governmental interaction has created a group of hardy individuals with a deep respect for the law, but with the wisdom and moral flexibility to know when to bend the rules.
There are those who have no factions, the lawless ones that live on the fringes of society, that often rise up to challenge the current society. Warhead exists to trample barbarians where they spring up, and take down rogue elements of other factions. New Horizons main armed forces.
This faction represents the planets leading specialists in mass production of textiles. Most planetary staples come from Xanadu. Clothing, packaged foods, almost all the vehicles except submarines and space craft. Xanadu is the planets industrial center.
The anti-faction, a group of renegade factionists and anarchists bent on overthrowing Elysium and any other faction who stand in their way. Mavericks are reploids and terrans (humans) who have turned their way to the evil side and who oppose all the other factions. Mavericks are the enemies of New Horizon and they all belong to the Immaculate Order.
art by Grenzenlos
The New Chanian Conclave
New Chania is a faction of robotics engineers, AI technicians and medical scientists as well as New Horizons foremost supplier of hydroponic foodstuffs.
New Chania Septumvir: Chiron.
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