Posted by: smoelf
« on: May 06, 2020, 05:10:25 AM »It's even easier to find on the wiki: http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Government
You can achieve this with SM, just modify your raceial statistics to reflect the governemtn attributes you wish to portray. If you worked out a table of various government types then you can apply these quickly to any new races you brought into your empire, this would help to represent a variety of society types under one banner.
It would be nice to have the old Government Type selection from VB6 race setup back, even as a purely cosmetic thing. Sure, it's just RP fluff, but a lot of what makes Aurora interesting to play is leaning into your own story.
Has there been any thought toward modeling forms or types of government? This could have a significant impact on the way a game plays out.
For instance, if the empire was run by a despotic or tyrannical emperor, all industry might be state controlled.
This would have obvious pros and cons on the economy, military, research, etc.
Similarly, there could be monarchies with feudal systems, which I think would really enhance role play. You could appoint officers as colony governors, grant them territories and titles and at some point, they could evolve into NPRs. There could even be a dynastic element with family relations, children, political marriage, etc. Something along the lines of Crusader Kings.
Not that Aurora needs any more complexity, but there would seem to be so many intriguing possibilities...mega capitalist societies, oligarchies, democracies, theocracies, etc.
That kind of things is left to the player to write his own fluff and story.