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The Free Drone Republic - In Their Own Words (continued)

"Now, suppose you were to offer me the choice between a thousand Morganic dollars and a tractor. A lot of people would take the money, right? That, of course, is the wrong choice. Once the money is gone, you've just exchanged it for possessions which you probably don't know how to use, and you really have the same amount of knowledge and wealth as before.

"What if you took the tractor? You could use it to plow your fields. Then you would plant crops there. Once the crops grew you would sell them. Once you sold them you would use the money to buy a better tractor, or seedlings for higher-priced crops, or more sophisticated farm equipment. You repeat the process, each time diversifying and expanding your operations, until one day you own the darn tractor company.

"If you understand this, you understand the most fundamental principle of the free market. That is why capitalism is great: because any man with enough sense to take the tractor can, and probably will, make it."

-- David Younger, public lecture

Domai: "I can't believe what I'm hearing. This Younger character stirs up trouble and foments insurrection against the government."

Santos: "The way you do?"

-- Part of an Interim Council debate between Foreman Domai and General Charlie Santos

"Dictatorship is a relative term. When male lions inherit a pride, they kill the offspring of their predecessor. From the lion's point of view, he is protecting his livelihood. From yours, he is an evil dictator and deserves to be isolated and destroyed."

-- Brian Deschamps, second leader of the New Republic Party, in response to a Peacekeeper NGO report that ranked the Drone Republic "extremely low" in matters of personal freedoms

"For a nation that includes the words 'free' and 'republic' in its name, shocking abuses are found in frightening proportions. Reports persist of a prison camp in the northern reaches of Ophelia where inmates are subjected to neurochemical therapy and mind control experiments. Officials of the former Domai government allege that the New Republic Party was responsible for the deaths of up to 10,000 of its supporters over a period of two years - after the war ended."

-- From the Crystal Dove Organization's archives. Records show that this passage and others caused consternation in the Republic and prompted Brian Deschamps' controversial response.

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Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantile(CHOAM)

CHOAM. The huge super corporation that oversees intersteller trade between the worlds of the Protectorate and Dosi Federation. Pungi Rice from Tosev. Soostones from Nova Albion. Blue Obsidion from Barraka. These are just a few of the goods and resources that are sent out across the great void.

CHOAM has ten "executive directors", 200 "directors" and several billion shareholders (mostly Dosi). Five of the Ex-Directs are Human, Lord Protector Ian, Trade Minster Zavitar, Alchemax, Stark-Fujikawa, and MI CEO Morgan. The other five Ex-Directs are Dosi, with the Emperor and several Dosi companies holding the positions.

CHOAMs assets dwarf event hat of Morgan Intersteller, and should CEO Morgan decide to bring MI into the CHOAM free trade zone, the CHOAM block would encompass fully 45% of the Orion Arms wealth.

CHOAM was created to facilate trade between the Dosi Federation and the Protectorate of Man. After five years, the Dosi Intersteller Commerce Commssion was folded into CHOAM, and it's size and wealth exploded.

" By removing barriers to trade, we create wealth. By creating wealth, we have the means to defeat our enemies before we begin fighting. Without the need to fight, more resources can be poured into our respective economies, driving us every farther ahead of the other nation-states in this part of the Galaxy"
--- CHOAM Chairman Straha Du'go

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The Greater Galaxy
Concentrated on the Orion arm of the Milky Way Galaxy are a mere handful of species. Humans. Bree. Gorn. Dosi. Farther out, the Proginators,Hferhin, and Fraal lurk on the edges of space.

But they were not the only Extra Terrestrials that have wandered through the "Human Sector" of the Galaxy. In the Protectorate's travel, they have discovered a few wandering nomads....


The Zahurians
Carnivorous plants that bear a stunning resemblance to the Terren Flowering Plum Tree. They prefer to arrive on animal-riche planets to feast. However, taking in the radiation of G-type stars for over a terren year reduces the Zahurians to a docile state. Protectorate scientists suppose that the Flowering Plum Tree is descending from Zahurians who didn't leave earth in time.

The Zahurians control over 250 systems, far on the edge of the Galaxy, rarely seem excpt on "Safaris", which, of course, suits humanity just fine.

The Grazers
Or "Golgothas", widely considered the scum of the universe. Even below humans, in most circles. They are wandering nomads who prefer to eat chlorophyll rich plants. In addition, they appear to have no real limit to what they can eat, and just grow bigger. Most Grazers are killed on sight.

Grazers spend almost their entire lives in starships, widely considered the stupidest race to travel FTL. They breed like rabbits, and are insanely messy. When family members on board die, the survivors simply use the decomposing carcasses as mattresses.

The Sashanians
Another race on the far edge of the galaxy. Considered equal to the Dosi in technology and power. Blood enimies with the Zahurians, although that seems to be a common phenomenom on that part of the galaxy.

Protectorate Ranging ship BlueStar discovered a direlect Sashanian ship in 2687. Comparing examples to the so-called "graveyard" on BH3, there are indications the Sashanians may have populated the Human Sector in the distant past.

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Lord Protector's Palace, 600 hundred years old.

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The Lord Protector's Palace....months October-April.

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The Old Senate Building in Nuevo San Antonio. Now used as a Senate commitee building. Most Senatewide votes take place electronically.

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-Mellian

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Ships of the Fleet

Goliath Class Battleship


Aragorn class Ranging Destroyer


Acclamator Trans-Galactic Assualt craft.
Length:752 m
width: 460 m
depth: 200 m
Passengers: 40,000 Star Marines and support equipment/personnell.
Hull Type(Block I): Ceramic/high density Smart Materials
Hull Type(BlockII): Nanolath
Number in fleet: 300

The Occupied Spaceport of Eoforwic.

Harbringer Dreadnaught
This Monster is well over 5 km long, and is still in prototype stages. The first Protectorate Capital ship designed from the Keel up with Dosi Technology in Mind,(Goliath was a year into construction when Dosi tech was added), it dominates the Human Battlespace. Only UCS Commandships match it in size, strength, and Technology.

There is currently only one other Harbringer under construction, the Thunderer, although the Protectorate government has ordered that production be sped up as hostilities between the Bree explode.

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Prometheus Class Battlecrusier.
Length: 967 m

Crew: 980
Propulsion: Dosi Regency Drive Mk 23 Matter/Antimatter drive.
Weapons: one Particle Cannon, 6 Fusion Lasers, 8 Plasma Shard Buckshot, 30 Gatling Laser CIWS.

The Only Capital ship smaller than a Battleship under construction by the Protectorate. It uses Dosi technology extensively. The classes performance in the Eoforwic and Sluis Van campaigns have so far been very satisfactory.

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Beta Hydri 4

BH4 has over 5 billion inhabitants on it...and over 60% of it's landmass is considered "wilderness" area, making the Protectorate the most green Human nation outside of the Gaians.

Brought from Earth on the Endeavor, Redwoods cover much of the cool, foggy coastlines. An astonishing 321 million surface acres of old growth redwood forest cover the Continent of Mendecino.

Royaneh National Preserve

The areas that aren't forested on BH4 are either Tundra (with imported Polar Bears competeing with the local fauna) or great grasslands. The climate of BH4 best resembles that of North America during the last Ice Age, with huge herd animals moving across the prairies.

Hydrins love their wild areas, and in the cities live in large, airy arcos, excepting in older buildinsg dating to the early period.


Old and new...an old Military base is in the foreground, while the city of San Angelo is in the background.