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Aura Hyperia was originally created from the merging of the regions Bloemfontein and A Second Try, and then arose from The United States of Europe. Its former residents have rebranded themselves as the Hyperion Order, and currently reside within New Hyperion.

Founded: 29th October 2014

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New Hyperion (NH) is a region of NationStates. It is an empire built on the principles of Hyperionism, our guiding philosophy.

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Our region has three main levels of command: the Imperial Council, the Inquisition, and the Hyperion Senate.

The Imperial Council (IC) consists of the Autarch, Chancellor, Lord Inquisitor, High Lords, and military command. It assembles when sensitive or secret decisions need to be made. Its members otherwise act separately as department heads and administrators.

The Inquisition is the law enforcement of the region. Inquisitors ensure that all members are complying with any requirements currently set in place, and, along with the Lord of Development, also controls admission into the Patrician caste. The Judiciary, our courts system, also exists as part of the Inquisition.

The Hyperion Senate consists of all our Patricians, and is the primary body of law and policy. The Senate operates somewhere between a democracy and a mob, and doesn't necessarily need hard votes to get things done. While the IC is technically superior to the Senate, it is more common for the Councillors to participate as Senators. As such, the Hyperion Senate tends to be the most important part of the entire government.

Is that it?
Of course not, that would be dry and boring. Granted, the Hyperion Senate is about as boring as a discussion on abortion, but you probably don't want to deal with its squabbles and silliness 24/7. That's why we have the Imperial Service and the military.

The Imperial Service consists of the various departments, such as Foreign Affairs and Recruitment. All departments are volunteer-only, though enlistment and training in the Hyperian Guard is highly recommended for all members. In general, however, you will be encouraged to join under-staffed departments.

Oh yeah, didn't your recruitment telegram mention an RP?
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OOC Discussion: Penguins and Cookies
Topic Started: Nov 16 2014, 06:30 PM (10,178 Views)
Chancellor Laurentus
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Okay, so there's a new RP. My first question is... how the fuck does this actually work?
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Just thought I'd give some input on a few things.

Aragonn
Dec 16 2014, 09:42 PM
To be perfectly honest, my master plan for myself just got blown to bits, so I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
I'm interested in what that may have been, if it's no longer relevant can you share?

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Any other comments? In my mind Law Enforcement would be considered important, as the type of covert work and investigation being done are more in line with regular old law enforcement, and not the military.
I'm not sure about that really, police don't really translate over to "spies" while military veterans are common among spy organisations.
And also, obviously you could have the best espionage team in the world, but if they were working with severely outdated tech in comparison to the opponent then they probably couldn't do jack shit.

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I wonder how Safety is determined. Does it purely estimate safety from invasion by an armed force or what?
I'd imagine that would be defense forces :P
Safety strikes me as the likelihood of accidental death or injury occurring, and probably isn't overly relevant to the RP.

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Actually, since Colbentielle and Laurentus States are teaming up, we pretty much will walk out of Miricano, since our stats together give us quite a bit of a lead against you.
I don't know why the entire added numbers of the nations involved would affect a couple of spies within Miricano. I mean if Miricano as an entire country intended to single-mindedly search for the small teams of spies in its borders, the foreigners aren't exactly receiving direct aid from the power of their homeland bar the tech and equipment they walked in with.
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Alexander
Dec 18 2014, 05:45 PM
Just thought I'd give some input on a few things.

Aragonn
Dec 16 2014, 09:42 PM
To be perfectly honest, my master plan for myself just got blown to bits, so I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
I'm interested in what that may have been, if it's no longer relevant can you share?

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Any other comments? In my mind Law Enforcement would be considered important, as the type of covert work and investigation being done are more in line with regular old law enforcement, and not the military.
I'm not sure about that really, police don't really translate over to "spies" while military veterans are common among spy organisations.
And also, obviously you could have the best espionage team in the world, but if they were working with severely outdated tech in comparison to the opponent then they probably couldn't do jack shit.

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I wonder how Safety is determined. Does it purely estimate safety from invasion by an armed force or what?
I'd imagine that would be defense forces :P
Safety strikes me as the likelihood of accidental death or injury occurring, and probably isn't overly relevant to the RP.

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Actually, since Colbentielle and Laurentus States are teaming up, we pretty much will walk out of Miricano, since our stats together give us quite a bit of a lead against you.
I don't know why the entire added numbers of the nations involved would affect a couple of spies within Miricano. I mean if Miricano as an entire country intended to single-mindedly search for the small teams of spies in its borders, the foreigners aren't exactly receiving direct aid from the power of their homeland bar the tech and equipment they walked in with.
Hence Emperor Laurentus's batshit-crazy move to draw attention off Maximus now.
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But you agree it's difficult to come up with an NS stat that could adequately represent spies?

And soldiers' combat skills could very likely give them a place in covert ops that need to be carried out, but I'm pretty sure they need people who know a bit about investigations to actually give them the intel. So I'm fairly convinced that spies will consist out of ex-policemen and ex-soldiers.
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Dec 18 2014, 06:01 PM
But you agree it's difficult to come up with an NS stat that could adequately represent spies?

And soldiers' combat skills could very likely give them a place in covert ops that need to be carried out, but I'm pretty sure they need people who know a bit about investigations to actually give them the intel. So I'm fairly convinced that spies will consist out of ex-policemen and ex-soldiers.
I don't know, because the average Joe policeman who walks the beat isn't exactly involved in a lot of "investigating".
I'd be fairly interested in finding some information about career histories in espionage organisations anyway.
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Chancellor Laurentus
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I should specify that I mean detectives.

But according to this, it seems we're both a bit off. A pity this doesn't give any indication of what's required to work in the field.
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Here is another one: http://www.forbes.com/sites/maseenaziegler/2014/10/23/cia-hiring-chief-demystifies-agencys-recruitment-and-reveals-cias-top-interview-questions/
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Alexander
Dec 18 2014, 05:45 PM
Aragonn
Dec 16 2014, 09:42 PM
To be perfectly honest, my master plan for myself just got blown to bits, so I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
I'm interested in what that may have been, if it's no longer relevant can you share?
I was gonna be the Entente military force, mercenaries with the price of cookies. But now there's no chance of that.
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Chancellor Laurentus
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Okay, I have a few things to say regarding your latest post, Miri.

Let me first comment on the good things. Yeah, it's definitely likely that these so-called terrorists have united the country. Well done. No sarcasm. Luckily that's not what Maximus tried to avoid. He just wants to get attention off of himself.

Another good thing is that you realise our virus will work because of our better tech.

Also congrats on pointing out that the hurricane won't be sped up too much, as we can't very well fly into your airspace.

Now come the problems I have with it. These are all to do with assumptions, and some of them, like the mistaken belief that you have arrived in Laurentus States, are partly my fault for not working on the maps and geography. I'll get to that later, but you should be aware that you have arrived in New Hatfield, not Laurentus States.

Then there are the names you chose for your "children." Bret and Jasimine? That would definitely have raised an eyebrow or two, since people in the capital city are mainly Afrikaans. Pieter and Mariƫt would have been the type of names you could expect. Now I'm not going to worry too much about accents here, but your spy should be aware that the Afrikaans accent is extremely rough and guttural. Since he is a spy, I'm willing to let this pass, as he would likely have a passing imitation of it handy. If he wishes to pass as a South African Englishman, he should also be aware that despite very similar vocabulary and rules to textbook British English, it sounds completely different because the Englishmen here have also acquired many of the sounds of the native African languages, along with Afrikaans. Foreigners particularly have trouble with the R sound.

Another thing that should be troubling that old man is that you're willing to go through the trouble of traversing New Hatfield, Kuncache and Hatoria to eventually find yourself in Laurentus States. Any man, no matter how desperate, would rather stick it out in Aragonn than to go through this much trouble.

The scene on the boat irritates me somewhat, as my officers are every bit as intelligent as yours, but I'm willing to let this slide. I can't fault you for the old man's actions. That was a passable plan.

The one thing that definitely did not happen was a public broadcast of Laurentus's wish to permanently ally with Colbentielle and Frostmark. That will need to be edited out.

Now the biggest flaw here, and this is again partly my doing for not specifying, is that Roen is nowhere near Laurentus States. What evidence would he have to suspect that we were involved to begin with? You'll need to change your spy's motives for coming into New Hatfield to something else.

Oh, the maps. I almost forgot. Luminera is located in the Gauteng, Free State, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. Your guy has arrived in New Hatfield. I'll assume you took the most direct route and have arrived in Morroco? So your guy is going to have to trek a fucking long way through urban deserts, dense jungles and just about any other terrain imaginable to eventually reach Luminera. I'll have to check up on this, but if memory serves, Morroco is a pretty harsh desert region. I could be wrong there, so I'll check.

Another thing I have a big problem with is this satellite launch. Our own satellites will almost certainly pick up on you spying on us. Your satellite will have to go around the Earth at quite a pace, to avoid looking suspicious, meaning you'll get very little info through this scheme, as it will get a few hours of footage per day at most of the African continent.

And that is all I can think about now. Oh, your guy really won't remain undetected for long now, as the myriad of cultures he'll be travelling through will identify him as an outsider almost immediately. Right now you're in the Arab world, I think. Again, I'll have to make sure about that.
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Lord Inquisitor Colberius X
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You neglected to mention the larger issue here, at least for me. Besides a lack of a public broadcast, there simply is no alliance. No one with more authority than a midlevel intelligence operative has authorized any sort of treaty with Laurentus. Until a representative of the Regent negotiates said treaty, there is none. To the majority of Colbentielle's government, Laurentians are still the enemy.

In addition, there has been no solid evidence that the operatives in Port Alexandria are from Colbentielle. Nor has policy, official and unofficial alike, changed in any way towards Miricano, with the exception of Blackwatch's recent escapades. Until there is some evidence of Colbentiellian espionage or my government adopts a hostile stance towards you, there are literally zero indicators of any change in Colbentielle's attitude towards Miricano.
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I couldn't very well speak for you. I could only speak for Emperor Laurentus's intentions. This is your own dispute to settle.
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