Making Colonial Empires in Space

[Hornblower]

I'm trying to create a bunch of human empires based on the colonial empires from the Age of Sail. The ones I have in mind would be based on the British, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Dutch empires from the 16th to 18th century.

How should I go about it? What kinds of governments, ethos and traits should I use for theses?

 

[JodelDiplom]

Dutch: octopus portrait
Weak, thrifty, talented, distinguished admiralty
Megacorp with Criminal heritage

 

[Hornblower]

They're suppose to be human, but great start.

I also though of Trade League for the Not-Dutch.

For Spain, I'm thinking Fanatical Spiritualist Despotic Empire with an Exalted Priesthood who would impose caste systems on subject empires.
For Britain, they could be a Plutocratic Oligarchy or a Representative Democracy with a Parliamentary System, and they would also have a distinguished admiralty.

I'm not sure for France or Portugal, though France could be a Despotic Empire with an Aristocratic Elite.

Would those work?

What other historical colonial empires or thalassocracies should I need to put in space?

 

[Matoro_TBS]

I'd make space Britain xenophobic. After all, they pretty much invented modern race theory. Actually xenophobe-egalitarian democracy would be deliciously interesting. There's of course a lot of different... well, ways to see these things, as probably nearly all early modern societies would be autoritarian, spiritualist and xenophobe to a some degree.

 

[JodelDiplom]

I'd make space Britain xenophobic. After all, they pretty much invented modern race theory. Actually xenophobe-egalitarian democracy would be deliciously interesting. There's of course a lot of different... well, ways to see these things, as probably nearly all early modern societies would be autoritarian, spiritualist and xenophobe to a some degree.

Yeah this

Britain in the age of sail was a plutocratic merchant republic more or less. Fan. Materialist / xenophobe.
I'd give them nomadic, quarrelsome, adaptive, wasteful, distinguished admiralty, fox portraits

 

[JodelDiplom]

France:
Materialist, militarist, xenophile
Sedentary, quick learners, natural sociologists
Efficient bureaucracy, aristocratic elite
Horse portraits

 

[JodelDiplom]

Portuguese
Fanatic spiritualist, xenophobe
Barbaric despoiler, slaver guilds
Traditional, decadent, fleeting, charismatic
Should get a codfish portrait with an eye patch but unfortunately that doesn't exist

 

[JodelDiplom]

There are portrait packs that are a bit off in terms of era but could fit nevertheless

Vive la france
Rule Britannia!

Sadly no French or Spanish themed ones

 

[Hornblower]

Alright, so we got this...

Commonwealth of Logres (Britain)

• Plutocratic Oligarchy
  
• Materialist, Xenophobe
• Nomadic, Quarrelsome, Adaptive, Wasteful
• Distinguished Admiralty

Solar Empire (France)

• Despotic Empire
• Materialist, Militarist, Xenophile
• Sedentary, Quick Learners, Natural Sociologists
• Efficient Bureaucracy, Aristocratic Elite

Empire of Andalus (Spain)

• Despotic Empire
• Fanatic Spiritualist,
• Traditional, ...
• Exalted Priesthood, Barbaric Despoiler

Domains of Hy Brasilia (Portugal)

• Despotic Empire
• Fanatic Spiritualist, Xenophobe
• Traditional, Decadent, Fleeting, Charismatic
  
• Barbaric Despoiler, Slaver Guilds

Republic of Unified Provinces (Dutch Republic)

• Trade League
• Fanatic Materialist
• Weak, Thrifty, Talented
• Distinguished Admiralty

 

[Roland Traveler]

France:
Materialist, militarist, xenophile
Sedentary, quick learners, natural sociologists
Efficient bureaucracy, aristocratic elite
Horse portraits

Why aren’t they frogs?

 

[FlyingPhoenix]

I'd make space Britain xenophobic. After all, they pretty much invented modern race theory.

What are you talking about? Prominent members of modern scientific racism include the inventor, who is French, some French colleagues, some Germans, Dutch, Swedish and an American.

 

[JodelDiplom]

Why aren’t they frogs?

Why should they

 

[JodelDiplom]

Alright, so we got this...

Commonwealth of Logres (Britain)

• Plutocratic Oligarchy
  
• Materialist, Xenophobe
• Nomadic, Quarrelsome, Adaptive, Wasteful
• Distinguished Admiralty

Solar Empire (France)

• Despotic Empire
• Materialist, Militarist, Xenophile
• Sedentary, Quick Learners, Natural Sociologists
• Efficient Bureaucracy, Aristocratic Elite

Empire of Andalus (Spain)

• Despotic Empire
• Fanatic Spiritualist,
• Traditional, ...
• Exalted Priesthood, Barbaric Despoiler

Domains of Hy Brasilia (Portugal)

• Despotic Empire
• Fanatic Spiritualist, Xenophobe
• Traditional, Decadent, Fleeting, Charismatic
  
• Barbaric Despoiler, Slaver Guilds

Republic of Unified Provinces (Dutch Republic)

• Trade League
• Fanatic Materialist
• Weak, Thrifty, Talented
• Distinguished Admiralty

Spain shouldn't be a Barbaric despoiler. They didn't do the pirate /slave raider thing on the scale that the Portuguese and others did.

I'd make Spain militarist, spiritualist, xenophobe, resilient, conformist, decadent, repugnant, efficient bureaucracy, imperial cult. Portraits... Hmm maybe cat portraits

 

[Hornblower]

Why should they

Because they're French.

 

[Hornblower]

Spain shouldn't be a Barbaric despoiler. They didn't do the pirate /slave raider thing on the scale that the Portuguese and others did.

I'd make Spain militarist, spiritualist, xenophobe, resilient, conformist, decadent, repugnant, efficient bureaucracy, imperial cult. Portraits... Hmm maybe cat portraits

I see.

Okay then...

Empire of Andalus (Spain)

• Militarist, Fanatic Spiritualist, Xenophobe
• Resilient, Conformist, Decadent, Repugnant
• Efficient Bureaucracy, Exalted Priesthood

They still have Exalted Priesthood because NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

 

[JodelDiplom]

Because they're French.

If you make the French frogs then make the British into a can of baked beans...

If the Stellaris empires are supposed to capture the (imagined) spirit of those historical empires then their portraits should have them all kind of in the same class, not one being wily animals and the other being a culinary prejudice