Earadan Factions

[Zuko Darkborn]

Capital: Where the faction is governed from.
Stronghold: Places where the faction have a sizeable following.
Majority: Places where the faction is the majority.

Aligned: 6,8 billion / 48%
Unaligned: 7,4 billion / 52% (In doubt or not interested in politics)

Complete Loyalists
The greatest artists shall protect our art, since they have the greatest expertise with our culture.
Individualist, Pacifist, Xenophile
Total Support: 4,7 billion / 33,1%


Purist's Guild
We, our culture, and our art, are superior to all else, and shall thus be adopted by all else.
Individualist, Pacifist, Xenophobe
Total Support: 900 million / 6,3%

Capital Stronghold: 6% Islands of Earad (Ca 435 million)
Strongholds: 10% Floating Cities of Earad (Ca 465 million)
                 6% Ghaaron (Ca 2,5 million)

Status: Peaceful revolts, fasting and strikes. Creating various sorts of art promoting Eogon culture and warning of potential terrors in space.
Growth: High - The Swarms provided hostile, and is the current contact with aliens.


Followers of the Artistic Truth
Art is in the eyes of the beholder, and the government shall thus collapse/be replaced.
Fanatic Individualist, Xenophile
Total Support: 540 million / 3,8%

Capital Stronghold: 11% Floating Cities of Earad (Ca 440 Million)

Status: Peaceful revolts and breaking of the law. Creating unique sorts of art, blatantly avoiding tradition and norms.
Growth: Medium Spike - A spike in popularity due to the coming elections.


Nature's Conclave
Nature itself is the greatest work of art, and shall be protect at all costs.
Fanatic Pacifist, Spiritualist
Total Support: 418 million / 2,9%

Capital Stronghold: 3,9% Islands of Earad (Ca 270 million)
Strongholds: 5% Underwater Earad (Ca 125 million)
Occupied Strongholds: 35% Asaener (Ca 23 million)

Status: Peaceful revolts, strikes, patrolling park-islands and other uninhabited islands. Creating art, music and literature regarding natural beauty. In control of the Asaener, which they have designated 90% of as nature reserves.
Growth: Very Low - Their rise in power has empowered their situation, but also alienated many, as critics describe them as enemies of progress.


Artisans of War
Society has develop the foolish belief that war cannot be practiced by a society of artists, but isn't war an art in itself?
Individualist, Militarist, Xenophile
Total Support: 120 million / 0,8%

Capital: 4,4% Underwater Earad (Ca 110 million)

Status: Preparing for armed revolts, and dealing with the black weapon market. Creating various sorts of art promoting militarism.
Growth: High - Hostile alien contact.


Bastion of Neutrality
Art has been tainted by ideology, philosophy and opinion. We need to return to a point of neutrality, and turn away from propoganda.
No ethos
Total Support: 61 million / 0,4%

Capital: 0,6% Islands of Earad (Ca 40 million)

Builders of the Grand Monument
We shall not last forever, yet, we can make a mark on the ages. We must stand together to create the great monument the galaxy shall ever see!
Collectivist, Pacifist, Xenophile
Total Support: 56 million / 0,4%

Capital: 17% Asaener (Ca 11 million)
Stronghold: 15% Ghaaron (Ca 6,2 million)

Status: Spreading of propaganda taking form in different kinds of art. Criticizing the government for being unable to deal with other factions.
Growth: Medium - Forcing the unaligned to take their sides.


Swarmking's Avengers
Our martyr and savior, Swarmking, the best of all authors, have been killed by his own creation. We shall avenge him!
Militarist, Xenophobe, Spiritualist
Total Support: 40 million / 0,3%

Capital: 0,8 % Floating Cities of Earad (Ca 36 million)

Status: Starting religious systems regarding worship of Swarmking. Creating fan works putting he himself inside his stories.
Growth: Small Drop - Even fans of Swarmking's books agree that making a religion based around him is stupid.

[Caspoi]

Will the support of the Purist's Guild increase what with recent events?

[Zuko Darkborn]

Both them and the Artisans of War shall increase in support as this goes public.

[Zuko Darkborn]

Also, a new faction has risen!

[Caspoi]

Now I hereby declare this to be the best faction ever. A bunch of nerds of an author have banded together to create a semi-faschist faction.

[Zuko Darkborn]

Have updated this somewhat.

[Vagrant Hero]

The Swarmking's Avengers are adorable. I'd recommend an alliance with the Artisans of War, since they are both Militarist. Can't have those bloody Pacifists running things, not with hostile alien contact.

[Zuko Darkborn]

War brings destruction, not art. Who better than proper pacifists can know this (according the pacifists)

[Vagrant Hero]

And what if war was the only way to protect your art, from those who care not for your principles, your values? What if war was the only way to preserve your way of life from aliens who would rather see everything you stood for wiped from the face of the galaxy? What if war, in self-defense, was right and just if that was its only aim? Would you stand against self-preservation, if this was the only way? And what if I'm wrong, and you don't have to go to war to defend yourself? Nothing. And if I'm right? Nothing good.

-Ron "the Eogan" Paul

[Zuko Darkborn]

If art must be defended, we should just make a greater piece of art, one that can never be destroyed. One that holds all our tales, culture and history, even when all else has fallen. If all of Eogonkind work together to reach this goal, to together be the artists, we could succeed. Instead of worrying about petty goals, hear me, nature shall perish, our art shall perish, our culture shall perish, our people shall perish, and military force can only delay our destruction. Yet, the greatest memory the galaxy has and shall ever see, could outlast us all.

- "Chainlicker", "The Wielder of the Sword that has cut through the ages, and the Wielder of the Shield that shall protect the Agerift". Leader and philosopher of the Builders of the Grand Monument

[Vagrant Hero]

"When the swarm sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're not sending you, they're sending swarmlings that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing acid, they're bringing war. They're vandalizers and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to scientists and they're telling us what we're getting. I will build a great, great wall, and I'll have the Swarm pay for it, you mark my words. "

- "The Trumpinator", "He Who Speaks Bluntly, and the one who will make the Earad Guilds great again."

[Zuko Darkborn]

"Will it at least be a beautiful wall?"

- "Hardsword", "He who writes reviews on the best movies". Part of the unaligned.

(By the way, planning to create a new very neutral faction, who have no ethos, because they believe art shall not be tainted by ideology and philosophy).

[Vagrant Hero]

Despicable neutrals. What makes a species turn neutral... lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with hearts full of neutrality?

- Zapp Brannigan, Galactic Political Commentator

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