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

Great! How do I sign up?
Hold on there, buddy, you haven't even registered yet! You'll have to scroll up (or just click here) and take care of that first.

After that, take a look at those four forums at the top of the list. The Low Orbit Welcome Wagon is where you can apply for Plebeianship and introduce yourself. You can undergo Patricianship if you're interested in leadership. For everything else, go to Imperial Service.

What if I'm a diplomat?
Go to the Immigration Desk instead, and we'll get you masked.

What's the government situation look like?
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?
Why yes it did! While we allow other RPs, of course, our main RP is the one that sets the standard of our theme and culture. It's kind of complex and involved, but once you get the ball rolling it's about as smooth sailing as any other RP.

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OOC Discussion: Penguins and Cookies
Topic Started: Nov 16 2014, 06:30 PM (10,175 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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Alexander
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Aragonn
Dec 19 2014, 03:25 AM
Well, I just added a scene with Gunnar moving the fleet out towards Frostmark just so I could let you all know what the fleet looks like and is armed with. You're welcome.

I did not look at any ship specifications when creating my ships. I came up with all the configurations.
The RP itself is not the place for a vehicle spec Aragonn.

Miricano
Dec 18 2014, 09:49 PM
It seems whatever these terrorists were trying to do by diving up the country, has made Miricano stronger and one nation in the end.
This is meta as fuck, I'd probably say tone it down a bit. It seems almost like your characters are responding to Laurentus directly with something like this.

Miricano
Dec 18 2014, 09:49 PM
Talbot: I do have a bit of it. About 15% of the Second Battalion Forces are ready and 100% of the Miricano Primary Military is ready. They are all on a three minute notice so they can be shipped out at anytime. As well, our special packages from Rationalist Science came today. We have examined the chemical make up of the liquid armor and metal rubber and it is a success. We can begin fitting the soldiers with it and the exoskeletons immediately.
R: Do it as soon as possible. Anything else come from the Counsel?
T: Yes, the isotopes also came. Don't their half-lives have been preserved. Nobelium-253 has quite a short half life, which is fine for the resonance mortars, resonance missiles, resonance grenades and resonance bombs, but we are just beginning to develop the newest railgun and rifle technology, thanks to Aesir. The rail cannons have been a booming success and these resonance technology weapons can easily take out a soldiers at close enough range, although we do have a limited magazine size. All of the fighters and bombers have been issued new missiles and bombs in order to keep up with Frostmark and the navy will be issued new rail cannons, resonance mortars and resonance missiles. We haven't however, perfected the new resonance technology for our submarines.

Couple of things. Firstly, loads of new technology suddenly being introduced in an RP without a period of design and production would usually be considered a bit off. Secondly, is this a suggestion that "new missiles and bombs" are what's needed to bridge the gap between Miricano's military and the Reichswehr, or are you saying something else?
I was also just wondering why you write your posts in script form, not that it's technically "wrong" or anything, I just personally find it makes it somewhat harder to read and takes some of the heart out of the story when an interaction is almost entirely a dialogue block. Please don't take that personally :P

For the others who are appearing in Frostmark, I'll let it slide this time for the sake of brevity but for future reference the last thing Frostmark would ever do is let any foreigner at all into the nation unchallenged, no matter who you are. This isn't a "war" thing, it's a cultural thing, and those from the old regional RP will recall Frostmarkers as a whole tend to be extremely isolationist and inward-looking, with a large part of their identity being the idea of their homogeneity. Beyond trying to keep peace and stave off war beyond a last resort, interest in outsiders and doubt in the system beyond that is almost nonexistent. I mean hell, even in real life you can't just stroll into a neighbouring country (let alone walk straight into a meeting with the Chancellor of the entire empire) without presenting documents and being validated, and very few places in the real world are as xenophobic as Frostmark.

I've held back on immediately making an RP post tonight as I'm actually not even entirely sure it should be left in the RP that these foreign dignitaries expect to meet with Falkenwalde in person when it technically breaks protocol and a separate prime minister/president level politician exists with seniority over the Reichstag. I mean hell, barring an "emergency powers" situation (and though the law might pretend it isn't the case), the Reichskanzler is functionally more powerful than the Kaiser himself. I don't mean to offend anyone with "refusal" to allow meetings with Falkenwalde, but even in the far less exaggerated real world if Obama's daughter decided to go to, say, the UK and meet with David Cameron, she wouldn't exactly be able to.
Shit seems to be moving fast as hell by RP standards in terms of ideas being thrown around in OOC and actual posts, so it isn't as if we need to blast through the nuances of the story.
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Chancellor Laurentus
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Sarilla is 18, and a bit of a spoiled bitch. But still, I guess there is no way she would even have been allowed into the building, so I take your point.

So how are you going to handle it? Will she be thrown out and then go through all the proper channels?

Also, and I hope I don't sound too much like a whiney bitch, but I know next to nothing of how your government works, as I didn't partake in the previous RP. Perhaps a factbook to clear it up?
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Alexander
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I'm not really sure how she would have even made it that far without being dead, I mean you can't say Frostmark is lacking for security.

Considering I have one, I'm assuming you mean one for this RP specifically. I don't know many factbook writers who'd be detailed enough to include such things as laws regarding "channels to meet the leader", but okay :P
These are the kind of nuances and cultural shizz that can be explored in the RP if people looked at it more as telling an interesting story than just playing a game, and blasting through the whole thing, such as characters immediately travelling and appearing where they were heading within the same post.
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Lord Aragonn
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I'll see about getting Gunnar into Frostmark through the proper channels. If I'm rejected, oh well.
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Chancellor Laurentus
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See, this was originally going to be an extremely silly, short RP, and when it evolved into something else, I don't think people immediately became aware of how much it had changed, and somehow we kept the rushed and silly feeling, without keeping the fun or transitioning into a proper RP. I'm not exactly even sure how this happened.

For myself, since this is pretty much my first RP of this size and length ever, I keep forgetting that this is actually a game, and not a medium for me to write the best story possible, so I rush through it and sometimes leave little room for others to expand and get involved. I'm only now starting to get things sort of, kind of right.

EDIT: Frosty, Sarilla will make you rue the day that you decide to lift a weapon and aim at to her if your country's security tries to keep her out or shoot at her. Believe that. :P

I've also modified my character factbook a bit to contain our history and government structure as well, along with the cultural makeup of the empire. It's nowhere near finished, but it's a start.
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Alexander
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Dec 19 2014, 08:19 PM
See, this was originally going to be an extremely silly, short RP, and when it evolved into something else, I don't think people immediately became aware of how much it had changed, and somehow we kept the rushed and silly feeling, without keeping the fun or transitioning into a proper RP. I'm not exactly even sure how this happened.

For myself, since this is pretty much my first RP of this size and length ever, I keep forgetting that this is actually a game, and not a medium for me to write the best story possible, so I rush through it and sometimes leave little room for others to expand and get involved. I'm only now starting to get things sort of, kind of right.

EDIT: Frosty, Sarilla will make you rue the day that you decide to lift a weapon and aim at to her if your country's security tries to keep her out or shoot at her. Believe that. :P

I've also modified my character factbook a bit to contain our history and government structure as well, along with the cultural makeup of the empire. It's nowhere near finished, but it's a start.
Hard to make anyone rue the day when you're dead isn't it :P

I don't know, to be honest the more humorous RP would seem to have more potential for longevity.
The issue here, if my little hiatus from the RP is anything to go by, people seem to think "fun humorous RP" means to completely abandon RP etiquette and make shit up on the spot. That isn't funny at all, and has been more taken advantage of than anything so far. The way this should be is as I proposed waaaay back for it to be a seemingly "serious" setting with the humour stemming from the ludicrous elements the "serious" characters seem to be taking... seriously. It's kind of like what made early Breaking Bad funny, the incidental and almost out of place humour. Self-referential humour is also something I can appreciate, such as Falkenwalde thinking that the current scene was almost like it was set for plot convenience. The line should be drawn when it comes to characters directly responding to something stemming from an OOC quarrel, because it stops being funny and becomes bitter.

It's possible for things to be funny without it being fart joke humour, with proper RP etiquette kept, and still being semi-realistic (in the sense that I don't read Sarilla suddenly popping up in the Chancellory as funny and more as a wtf moment). You know, tasteful.

What looks to have happened is that people seem to be identifying with their characters and entire nation as a whole far too much, to the point where it's almost like some kind of extension of themselves. Subsequently actions against others are being seen as slights and are being met with suspect manoeuvres that go against RP etiquette in an attempt to get one over on each other. This just seems to be leading to increasingly pissed off players devolving into a wankfest of "oh, well MY character is this, be warned if you do [X], you'll regret [X]".
People need to accept that this should be told like a story, that characters can and should die if it makes for good writing, and most of all the fact that this began as a fun project.

Leave the virtual national pride feelings for when the regional RP is resurrected.
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Well, considering I don't give 2 fucks about Laurentus, Maximus or Sarilla, it's not so much that I like these characters too much to let them die, it's more that I wasn't really aware of how RPs in general even work when we started this, and thus used only Maximus as an POV character. So if he were to die in the beginning, I would simply have been faced with serious problems because I would have no one to actually succeed him as my POV character.

This is actually something I'm trying to fix now.

And I never really would have imagined people getting so pissed when I criticised their characters, or did a literary analysis comparing characters either. I actually suspected at one point that people were confusing me with my characters, which made things a bit personal when my characters actually did something in the RP that they didn't like with their characters.

All in all, this has proven to be quite a bit of a learning experience all around. I think I can stand to learn a bit more about proper RP etiquette as well.

EDIT: Luckily I know there is small chance of you taking things like these personally, Frosty, so I'll just say it. It seems you also didn't immediately take this seriously as an RP with proper etiquette either, going by how Falkenwalde also magically knew about the penguins, and that type of thing. :P
Edited by Laurentus, Dec 19 2014, 09:43 PM.
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Alexander
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Dec 19 2014, 09:40 PM
EDIT: Luckily I know there is small chance of you taking things like these personally, Frosty, so I'll just say it. It seems you also didn't immediately take this seriously as an RP with proper etiquette either, going by how Falkenwalde also magically knew about the penguins, and that type of thing. :P
He doesn't know, he's paranoid. I wanted to make him look surprisingly fearful of "penguins" for a rational dude, if you remember at the start this was supposed to be propelled forward through Ramos and his jealousy rubbing up against Falkenwalde's irrational fear of penguins. For a modern day comparison I'd think of it as a leader finding out the world is on the brink of war and believing that it will probably go nuclear. He doesn't know they had already been deployed and doesn't even know they'd be used against the Kaiserreich, he just doesn't want them used and pushes forward with the project for some kind of counter, like we have (concepts?) of missile defense systems to detect and shoot down nukes "just in case".

This was a long time ago now anyway and the tone has changed so much that the original ideas seem to have been forgotten.
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Chancellor Laurentus
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I think I never really interpreted it in that way to begin with, but that makes sense.
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Alexander
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I take it you don't want to change the Sarilla scene.
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