Myosho-Shintar Experiment
Contents
Player Characters
- Rook_UW, Impoverished Military Scoundrel (Soldier of Fortune)
- Case, Advanced Technocratic Consul (Hacker)
- Nasweret, Augmented Occult Fanatic (Shintar Honor Guard)
| Name | Archetype | Mettle | Physique | Influence | Expertise | Interface |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rook | Soldier of Fortune | +2 | +1 | +1 | +0 | -1 |
| Case | Hacker | +0 | -1 | +1 | +1 | +2 |
| Nasweret | Shintar Honor Guard | +2 | +1 | +1 | +0 | -1 |
The Ship
The Sector
Myosho Consortium
The Myosho Consortium is a corrupt corporate meritocracy, distrustful of 'outsiders', and which puts a high standard on the ideal of courage. Twenty-seven (once thirty) technocratic families/clans rule over three hundred lesser families, the latter organized into constantly-shifting groupings of guilds, trade groups, and service associations. An individual can climb through the clan ranks through 'merit', leaving behind one family to enter another, including the twenty-seven families that rule (though movement between the Twenty-Seven, once that social strata is attained, is extremely rare). In addition to the Eda system, the Myosho Consortium has a presence in many other systems, where society is not always as rigidly stratified as it is in the core system. The people of the Consortium are of many ethnicities, but the culture at the root of their society is very loosely Japanese.
Eda System
The capital system of the Consortium, Eda, has three settled celestial bodies: a gas giant and two of its moons.
- Nara, the capital and cultural center of the Myosho Consortium, is a luxury moon of Kumamoto, and is where the twenty-seven families make their home.
- A gas giant, Kumamoto features cities that float in the upper stratosphere of the gas clouds. Once a prison colony and later a key naval base, Kumamoto is important for resource extraction and its shipyard, and the entire settlement functions as a militarized society.
- Aomori is the other settled moon of Kumamoto, and is the ancient seat of the Naru religion. An animistic religion at the roots of Myosho culture and civilization, its priests and most devout adherents experience genetic mutation that causes them to take on the features of various animal clans. Simultaneously revered and shunned by modern society, the Naru find sanctuary and haven on Aomori. In an orbital anomaly, the moon's orbit is constantly within the solar shadow of Kumamoto, making it a society eternally shrouded in night. Aomori is also the seat of the Kurimoto Academy of Psionic Science.
Shintar Republic
The Shintar Republic is a representative theocracy ruled by the God-Empress Neithikret. The Republic is welcoming of outsiders, though citizenship is predicated on conversion to the Shintar religion, which is a worship of the Ancients and their genomic technology. A hedonistic society, they put a high standard on the ideal of loyalty. The Shintar command fewer worlds than their neighbors, but they have advanced technology, stemming from their study of the Ancients. The Shintar Republic has a presence Coreward of the Myosho Consortium. Welcoming of outsiders, the people of the Shintar Republic are of many ethnicities, but the culture at the root of Shintar society is loosely Ancient Egyptian.
Pakhet system
Heset and Satet are both water worlds riddled with ruins of the Ancients, with floating cities. Satet, the smaller of the two, is less hospitable to life, yet serves as the celestial seat of power of the God-Empress.
