Interest Check: Trader Emergency Coalition

[Rahn Haaku]

Hey all, I hope this is the right place to put this. I'm pretty new to the faction but it has been a great time writing with you all and I am certainly not going to stand by and watch our island of sanity, peace and prosperity be threatened by morally ambiguous neighbors. I would love to hear feedback and don't be afraid to make better suggestions or tell me the idea is bonkers.

I'm a big fan of the RTS game Sins of a Solar Empire and one of the game's factions, the Trader Emergency Coalition, is fairly similar in structure/ideology to the CSA so it got me thinking that we could utilize the same war-time industrial practices that are used in the game and its lore.


My pitch: The Trader Emergency Coalition is a government/private sector partnership formed with the express purpose of marshaling the economic power of the CSA and directing it towards defense and military preparedness.
With the Sith at our border, I suggest implementing an IC framework to allow the CSA government to temporarily direct businesses within our borders via royal decree. An oversight board of military, government and business leaders will work to efficiently utilize and direct resources from planet to planet and company to company.


Organizational Scheme/Resource Utilization and Distribution Strategy: Thanks to the Whispering Tyrant's planetary territory list, I have surveyed our planets and identified canon companies/locations that could be utilized for our benefit.
-For example, our planet Surron in the Expansion region is home a hive-mind species that is renowned for its starship designs. These designs could be built by trained starship engineers who graduated from the Institute of Starship Engineers on our Inner Rim world of Perithal VI. The metals and materials could be mined on one of our mining worlds/companies. The actual construction would take place at our shipyards on Gyndine or Damoria.


CSA/TEC Military Industry Overview: The Commenor Systems Alliance's long history of galactic trade, industrialization, and economic stability have provided the solid foundation on which this ambitious restructuring of industrial resources can take place. However the moral compass of the cSA has not shifted and peace/neutrality remains one of their chief foreign policy goals. While other galactic factions rely on overwhelming aggression or superior offensive capabilities, the CSA/TEC focuses on fortifying its territory. The hallmarks of CSA/TEC products are strong alloys, thick hulls, and strong shields. They plan to invest heavily in static defenses such as orbital emplacement, ground emplacements, and area-denial weaponry.


My idea here is to work with other writers to paint a clear, indisputable IC picture that the CSA is an economic juggernaught that can quickly mobilize and organize its industries for war. The Mandalorians have Beskar and a fanatical love of conflict, the sith have sorcery and lightnight and doomsday weapons, I look around and see that many factions have something that they are known for, as the largest neutral power in the galaxy it only makes sense that we have one of the stronger economies. I admit its not as sexy as a superweapon, but it is far more practical and establishing a resilient IC economy/military industry may give us a logistical edge in a future conflict.

 

[Kay-Larr]

I love the idea [member="Rahn Haaku"] . Such a force could also be used in unclaimed territories near us as a bit of a plot point for dominions in the future. We are getting requests from people to dom their worlds, which is probably not common on Chaos. But they see the safety net that we provide.

As for the Sith blockade, it is outside our borders, but not in areas that we can't do anything about. And we do plan on doing something about it...

[member="Caedyn Arenais"] [member="Bradshaw Ku"]

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Rahn Haaku"]

I like your idea as well, as the UTC is based in Commenor and is a close friend with the government, I think ICly we would be willing to assist with the construction, mining and building of what is needed for your foundation. Let me know if you would require any assistance.

 

[Sennion Crestmar]

This is my new character who'll be dedicated to this initiative. He's a General from the militaristic planet of Iseno whose background is in military logistics. My short backstory is he's forward thinking and slightly paranoid. He fears that with the GA on the retreat, the CSA may be an inevitable and eventual target. So his solution is to work with what he knows best and that is supply chains and resource allocation. He believes that there should be a mechanism for quickly reorganizing the CSA's economic might towards total war. So this will be the character that will be writing the affiliated RP so I don't have to dilute or compromise Rahn's character

 

[WolfMortum]

[member="Sennion Crestmar"]

You have quite a way with your planning and organization, I must say this looks like it could be very positive for all involved. I would like to see this happen and would be willing to help however I can (Whether utilizing Veiere or Caedyn). Certainly private funding is well within my means.

 

[Amelia von Sorenn]

With the Sith at our border, I suggest implementing an IC framework to allow the CSA government to temporarily direct businesses within our borders via royal decree. An oversight board of military, government and business leaders will work to efficiently utilize and direct resources from planet to planet and company to company.

As interesting as the idea is - You'll need to get the permission of the individuals that own these companies - as I dont see Kay or the CSA out right enacting a royal decree and taking control of corporations or other such organizations.

With that in mind - as I am focusing on reorganizing my companies and relocating them from outside of the CSA to within, this would actually hurt me in this moment more than it would help.

I wish you good fortune with your idea; however, it is something that I would need to not be involved with at this moment.

 

[Sennion Crestmar]

Thank you all for showing interest in this. I've started a faction thread that will give some background to Sennion's motivations and the early work of his "Future Planning Committee" which will be the precursor to the TEC.

I'll get up another post tomorrow that will have Sennion IC describe the planets he is sending his research teams too and the purposes of each assignment. Feel free to join in, though I accept most of the responsibility for this project and completely understand busy schedules. I can/will be NPCing most of the research teams as they report in their assigned planets and hope to consistently post on this thread to reach an acceptable 20+ posts for this part of the RP

[member="Lady Kay"]
[member="Jaster of Clan Awaud"]
[member="Veiere Arenais"]
[member="Beth Australis-Mantis"]
[member="Darben Skirae"]
[member="Stardust Bloodstone"]

 

[Melvand Zrimmir]

As the writer of Zrimmir, I love this. Gives me ways to implement Zrimmir into the faction more, and develop his character, as well as building some relationships with people within the Commenor 'arena'.

As a character, Zrimmir would abhor this, which just makes it even better. Tag me in anything related, and I'll see what I can do about getting there.

[member="Sennion Crestmar"]

 

[Sennion Crestmar]

[member="Melvand Zrimmir"]

Well this will no doubt be an expensive undertaking and I'm sure that that we'll be courting Banks to secure loans sooner or later and for a fair interest rate, could Melvand really say no?

 

[Macharius Solaire]

You have the full support of Denon and my company Denon Stahl Arms. The security of the Alliance is paramount.

[member="Rahn Haaku"]
[member="Sennion Crestmar"]

 

[Bradshaw Ku]

Sorry for my delayed response to this, had some internet issues. All this sounds very well thought out and interesting. I’m for it all and I’ll try to help you out where I can. Though to be honest, I’m usually so busy IRL that I don’t have a ton of IC posting time. Either way, you deff have Brad’s IC and OOC support

[member="Sennion Crestmar"]

 

[Karacan Rigten]

[member="Rahn Haaku"] | [member="Sennion Crestmar"] | [member="Veiere Arenais"] | [member="Lady Kay"]


Hello Rahn/Sennion, I believe we have already partially met. As President of Kuat Drive Yards, I own and maintain the Research and Development portion of the Gyndine Shipyards, and I maintain the Shipyards of the planet, unless of course there is a player-government located there, which they could take maintenance and the running costs of the shipyards if they wanted.

With that out of the way, Kuat Drive Yards refuses to be combined into any major affiliation with CSA, in that I mean, we won't go under the governments rule. However, as being the friend of Lady Kay, and a friend of the CSA, the R&D labs are allowed and willing to support your endeavors, and if you request support from Kuat Drive Yards in the way of anything physical, you may contract us, or purchase ships from us. Lady Kay knows about my ships and their security systems, and you can be rest assured they won't be used against CSA so long as neither of us give either of us any reasons to go at each others throats.

Bottom Line: We will support, but not be under CSA rule, nor any royal decree. The business locations on Commenor, and the Weapons R&D Labs on the moons are available to assist your endeavors.

Would you extend me permission to join the thread?

 

[Rahn Haaku]

[member="Ferron Troste"] , Understandable. I don't mind facing some practical opposition. When my RP eventually gets around to visiting/surveying Gyndine i'll be sure to tag you so our IC representatives can come to terms.

 

[Karacan Rigten]

[member="Rahn Haaku"]

Did I come off as sounding like an opposition? KDY is directly aligned with CSA against the Sith in general by default. But while KDY is based at Kuat, it has multiple facilities in CSA. So it remains independent from CSA government. We follow the given laws, but are not under any government rule, as done and explained already in a threat with Lady Kay.

Can I not join the thread now? I suppose it's fine to wait until tagged, out of respect for CSA and their territory, and our friendship.

 

[Rahn Haaku]

No no, you didnt come off as sounding like opposition. I know you're close with the CSA and Lady Kay, I guess I should have stated that I welcome IC resistance to the plan or having to make concessions or compromises. What I envisioned is having an IC meeting with your representatives where you'd be clear that you would not accept any "nationalization" of your property in CSA space and then we would work out a strategy of support and maybe preferential contracts in designated times of crises or something like that.

You could totally join the thread now. What we're doing in the thread right now is assigning NPC/PC teams to survey worlds in the CSA to assess their resources. We're only a Think Tank right now, I was going to do my best to RP this as thoroughly as possible. The Trader Emergency Coalition isn't even a solid idea yet IC. But I'd love to have more writers in the thread and you're very welcome to join.

http://starwarsrp.net/topic/131758-the-collected-accounts-of-the-future-planning-committee/

 

[Sennion Crestmar]

Hey all, in the "Collected Accounts of the Future Planning Committee" thread I'm going to be RPing the NPC research teams and for each individual post i'll add a header with the planet and the NPC so I/we can keep track of what is going on where.

If you're interested in writing a dedicated thread for your home planet/favorite CSA planet with me/one of my NPCs I'd be willing to do that as well and we could no doubt make it more interesting than researching demographics and economic output

 

[Kay-Larr]

My favourite planet is Commenor Yup, I'm biased. Hehe.