The Frontier Post FY111

I've always got the timeline on my mind these days and was thinking about extending the setting into the future. But this thread discussion started with a comment by someone about claim jumping and I was thinking about the PGC as the heavy where it had explored and claimed a number of star systems but the idealist, the displaced and the dis-illusioned have all wandered out to this area and been living there. In walks the PGC with little appreciation for what it considers squaters.<br /><br />So I was thinking of situations where PGC would function best as a heavy <br /><br />1. The UPF and the Council of Worlds goes the way of the League of Nations.<br />Under this the PGC which has significant presence on Gran Quivera, Laco, in the Pan Gal System plus a host of systems that it has explored but has not yet begun to exploit emerges at the Pan Galactic Protectorate with something like a dictatorship for government.<br /><br />2. Throw in another major incident like the Free World Rebellion during this time and you could have the formation of a Vrusk Trade League<br /><br />3. Republic of Pale could become expansionist though it has no where to expland. It could take Volturnus but that would easily draw the attention of the Rim Coalitions and the CFM and moving on Laco risks a repeat of the 10 year war with PGC over Laco<br /><br />4. The Clarion would survive but find itself needing an even stronger space presence. My preference here is to see the a confederation of systems banding together for self defence. Madderly's star ends up in the Confederacy which makes it difficult to bring the Vrusk Trade League into an alliance. Likely candidates for this confederacy are Dramune, Cassidine, Devco, Madderly's Star, Clarion and a few others<br /><br />5 The yazirians are a mixed bag. I'd like a strong core of yaz worlds banding together but with at least one going over to the confederacy or to PGC for that matter.<br /><br />6. Rim Coalition holds together <br /><br />7. One or so systems is going it alone <br /><br />In all of this is a shifting web of alliances and deals and occassional shooting, The Frontier develops a much more Firefly like feel, The borders are expanded and there are now small outposts and colonies beyond the Frontier.<br /><br />Best to have just prior to the break up of the Council of Worlds a major extra Frontier campaign against the sathar that seemingly trashes their home world (in reality its only crushed one clan of the sathar)<br /><br />What to do with Space Fleet is a big question; but I'd like to see Fleets and task forces go over to various political powers described above. If you're the commander of the Space Fortress orbiting Clarion and the world as you know it goes to hell you'd likely consider very long and hard about throwing in your lot with the planet you're orbiting especially since logistics have broken down and the crown of clarion could easily absorb you and your men and pick up the tab to support the space station and its assets. The Pan Gal Protectorate would gain a major fleet in port at Prengular. I'd also like to see one fleet admiral go rogue and hang on to Lynchpin system and develop an understanding with the Pan Gal Protectorate or even a trade alliance.