07-31-2015, 08:08 AM
Amit Dutta - Thanks. No image finished for today but I can answer question on political system and currency.
The spaceship sent from Earth was a project funded and developed by few corporations. There were promises of starting democracy after finding new home but unusual circumstances on oceanarium planet led to forming a government that was corporate oligarchy. Beacause of completely alien and hostile environment people became dependend on the technology provided by the funders of the project. Corporate Hegemony (let's call it like this for now) owns all tunnel cities and those form a tight network throughout the whole Nest. The government consists of company's managerial elite and the citizens are basically the emploees. The higher the citizen is on the corporate ladder, the richer he is and the more priviliges he has. On the lowest level of the social classes there are people who either turned out to be the least useful or those that refused to work for the corporation. They might start a small businesses or trade goods but on very small scope. The currency is virtual. There are special cards with a chip that hold personal information together with the amount of money.
Corporate Hegemony doesn't reach everywhere though. The lower levels and lots of areas outside of the Nest are places of complete anarchy where you can find tribal societies. There is no organization, leadership or law. If the neighbouring tribe runs out of resources it just comes and steals from other tribe. No one will come and aid in restoring order. On anarchist areas the currency is belongings. You can trade with weapons, ammunition, equipment e.t.c.
What exactly are the corporations and how are they named is something for the next posts. Coming up with believable economy will be pretty difficult thing for me and I'll have to think about it for a while. The planet has drastically different resources available to Earth so not everything can be produced. That leads to outcomes that would be hard to predict. It's not going to be hard sci-fi though so I might treat this with very loosely.
I still haven't decided how long has humanity stayed on the oceanarium planet till now. The closer we are to the future the faster the time goes so 100 years feels like eternity. However people started stagnating or even regressing in a lot of areas of life so maybe 200-250 years would be safe bet. The memories of Earth should feel like it's some ancient times :).
The spaceship sent from Earth was a project funded and developed by few corporations. There were promises of starting democracy after finding new home but unusual circumstances on oceanarium planet led to forming a government that was corporate oligarchy. Beacause of completely alien and hostile environment people became dependend on the technology provided by the funders of the project. Corporate Hegemony (let's call it like this for now) owns all tunnel cities and those form a tight network throughout the whole Nest. The government consists of company's managerial elite and the citizens are basically the emploees. The higher the citizen is on the corporate ladder, the richer he is and the more priviliges he has. On the lowest level of the social classes there are people who either turned out to be the least useful or those that refused to work for the corporation. They might start a small businesses or trade goods but on very small scope. The currency is virtual. There are special cards with a chip that hold personal information together with the amount of money.
Corporate Hegemony doesn't reach everywhere though. The lower levels and lots of areas outside of the Nest are places of complete anarchy where you can find tribal societies. There is no organization, leadership or law. If the neighbouring tribe runs out of resources it just comes and steals from other tribe. No one will come and aid in restoring order. On anarchist areas the currency is belongings. You can trade with weapons, ammunition, equipment e.t.c.
What exactly are the corporations and how are they named is something for the next posts. Coming up with believable economy will be pretty difficult thing for me and I'll have to think about it for a while. The planet has drastically different resources available to Earth so not everything can be produced. That leads to outcomes that would be hard to predict. It's not going to be hard sci-fi though so I might treat this with very loosely.
I still haven't decided how long has humanity stayed on the oceanarium planet till now. The closer we are to the future the faster the time goes so 100 years feels like eternity. However people started stagnating or even regressing in a lot of areas of life so maybe 200-250 years would be safe bet. The memories of Earth should feel like it's some ancient times :).