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StarSword
Since: Sep, 2011
29th Jun, 2022 11:23:06 PM
I suggest you take this to the Is this an example? thread.
MarqFJA
(Before Recorded History)
30th Jun, 2022 04:27:24 AM
I forgot that thread even existed! Thanks.
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Would Space-Filling Empire apply to a world whose political geography is dominated by supranational unions and superstates that lack the monolithicity that is typical to said trope? I will use the Front Mission setting as an example to illustrate.
One source book also adds the "Non-Aligned Territories", which includes the entirety of the Middle East and India. That being said, these supranational polities are not quite monolithic like your typical Space-Filling Empire; the OCU in particular features several of its member states' governments being shown as having their own, sometimes clashing interests, and the EC's own members are treated by the narrative as distinct political entities with their own military forces, though both are ultimately subordinate to the EC's central government and military command (with the exception of certain paramilitary groups that are formally not part of the national militaries, such as Britain's Durandal and Germany's Blauer Nebel).
They also suffer from considerable nationalistic unrest; the USN has to fight rebellions in South America that are driven by the North-South wealth inequality (the one in Venezuela is a major plot driver in the USN side of the story mode in Front Mission 4), the DHZ has to contend with pro-Taiwanese independence militants, the OCU struggles to suppress multiple independence movements among its members, and Zaftra eventually falls into a messy civil war.
So with that in mind, does the setting of Front Mission and others like it qualify for Space-Filling Empire, even if only as a subversion or deconstruction?
Edited by MarqFJA