::: The Olympic Republic :::
It all
started with the Olympic Republic.
Historically speaking, Ark Olympus was the first to open, and it was the
first to establish a civilization around it.
As a result, Olympus was the first planet to achieve space travel and,
after years of exploration and tracking, was the first to find another Ark and
begin the process of settling the stars.
Olympus’
capitol city, Rhea, is the foundation of civilization. Considering itself something of a cradle, it
was home to the Republic Senate and the state houses from where it was
run. A city of ambassadors and
politicians, it is still quite large and thoroughly settled. The citizenry are baroque but well-educated,
having a firm grasp on not only their history but on their place in the
world. The historically significant and
chronologically recent failure of the Centurion Project is something fresh to
the public mind and shapes much of the discourse and politics within the city. Patriotism within the city is high but
waning, as the secession of the Asgardian Federation is seen both as a blow to
the governing powers that be and a natural consequence of government overreach.
Founded by
the president Ahmad Al Saud, the Republic is made up of many planets. Following the Asgardian succession, the
government has been made smaller and more centralized. The Republic’s parliament exercises control
of these planets, wrapping their autonomy in a bureaucratic nightmare that they
present as a red-taped bow. They mask
this control as the necessity of a functioning civilization, though recent
history has proven this wrong.
With the
far fringes of the Republic removed, however, there has been an improvement in
the quality of life across the planets.
There is, however, a darker undercurrent as the cheap costs of
production exported to other planets are rising on account of such sudden and
dramatic governmental changes. The
current regime paints themselves in Al Saud’s image and use his popularity to
maintain their control. Even then, their
hold and their reach is absolute on the planets that have remained within the
fold.
The
Republic is also known to hold the most Guide ruins. In each secession, the Republic has
negotiated at gunpoint to maintain material control over the Guide ruins,
sharing only what is necessary with the other worlds out of necessity of the
Three-Party Accord. Much is publicly
acknowledged as being kept back, and there is a deep public distrust for the
government and the military when it comes to the Guides and to the technology
that is shared.
To maintain
their image, the Republic outsources much of their work to private scientific
and military organizations. The result
is that each of these private companies, while ostensibly Republic employees in
practice are technically contracted.
Because of this, the government bodies leading the Republic can harvest
the results of the work done by these private companies without being penalized
for their dubious methods.
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