Specialist290: That's probably a good analysis. Aside from my perennial desire for more internal politics in Stellaris, it would be interesting to see how a shift like that might change things in Mishar society. I'll have to look again at my notes and see what happens after the Mishar encounter another "star nation".
stnylan: That is true! I'm reminded of facing Fanatical Purifiers in various Stellaris games.
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Expanding Operations
2210.1-2216.12
Mishar industry was not idle while the politicians on Mitra lobbied for votes. During the first few months of 2210, a mining station was built at Shy’lyee VI and the Avotrax-class corvette Doplar was completed. As previously mentioned, the first Mishar colony ship
Ekaplar also landed on Veriban (Yndythn III) before the 2210 elections.
A few months later, the 1st Expeditionary Fleet arrived in the Wypumsue system, and Fellowship vessels were detected in orbit of the third planet of the Lythorius system. The 1st Expeditionary Fleet was ordered to engage the cultists. Meanwhile, President na-Ilper approved the Habitable Worlds Survey, a program that had been proposed and endorsed by leading members of the Mishar scientific community.
A few days before 2210 ended, the first shots were fired by Admiral na-Febor’s ships against the Fellowship vessels commanded by Vash na-Ibban, formerly a junior Union Space Force officer. After the battle in Lythorius, efforts to recover and analyze Fellowship debris began. Intelligence analysts had noticed that the Fellowship cultists had deployed many more ships than they could have clandestinely produced on Mitra, and the presence of a large ship of alien design raised further unsettling questions.
Were the cultists receiving alien aid? Had they found a cache of similar ships?
Coincidentally, after announcing the defeat of the cultists in the Lythorius system, the two leading factions in the Union Congress announced the formation of two new political parties.
President Vash na-Ilper declared the formation of the Democratic Rights Network, which would support equal rights for all Mishar, while Governor Sash na-Ledir declared the formation of the Mishar Supremacy Vanguard, which sought to ensure the superiority of the Mishar species.
Elsewhere, construction began on an outpost in the Inthasten system and, after population growth on Mitra, construction began on an alloy foundry. A new science ship was ordered, and upon its completion it was named
Iritrex and Daka na-Ilper was given command of the vessel and ordered to survey the Lythorius system.
After several months of analysing cultist debris, the unsettling questions appeared to be answered.
Fragments from a recovered log file mentioned that the Fellowship fleet fleeing Mitra had discovered a long-abandoned alien shipyard and used the automated facility to reinforce their numbers and produce new ships from designs stored in the shipyard’s memory banks. Clearly it would be necessary to destroy the alien shipyard.
Pova na-Febor, the successor of Sash na-Ibban as commanding officer of the science ship
Oratrex, continued exploration “east” of Mitra space in the Nakila and Med Karash systems. A couple of the more noteworthy discoveries included recording the magnetic pole reversal of a moon in the Nakila system and discovering mushroom forests on the third planet of the Med Karash system.
A massive crater in the Aegeus system was determined to have been formed by a starship colliding with the moon roughly ten thousand years ago. An
Avotrex-class corvette also began construction in the last days of 2212. It would be named the
Oratrex after its completion at the Mituhar shipyard. The
Iritrex-class corvette
Replar was also laid down and completed during 2213. Work began on an outpost in the Wypumsee station and a derelict structure was found on asteroid 2L-1-59-C in the Plov system, which na-Febor was authorized to investigate. It was determined that the derelict asteroid base was powered by some kind of miniature singularity.
Also in early 2214, the Wypumsee outpost was completed and Veriban was established. According to preliminary polling, the approximately fifty thousand people that lived on the planet were split between Democratic Rights Network members and sympathizers and, oddly, materialists who believed that scientific research deserved a more prominent place in Mishar society. Perhaps it was the influence of all the scientists studying their new home.
Unidentified signals in the Plov system, upon further investigation, turned out to be an flight recorder from some kind of alien military cruiser.
After the Lythorius system was surveyed by Daka na-Ilper, she was ordered to investigate Yuht remnants in the Aegeus system. Studying the Yuht singularity drive there would ultimately yield some insights into energy transmission efficiency and applied superconductivity.
After studying the Yuht remnants in Aegeus, Daka na-Ilper was ordered to explore “south” of the Wypumsee system, which had only been “officially” part of Union space for around a year, since the second month of 2214.
Mituhar system: Mishar home system
Yndynth system: location of Veriban, first Union extra-Mitran colony
The 2215 mid-term elections marked the first with proper political parties since the formation of the Union. There were no drastic surprises- as expected, the Democratic Rights Network retained control of both the Senate and the Chamber. They did lose 2 Chamber seats to the Mishar Supremacy Vanguard, however. The pacifists lost a Senate seat to the DRN but held strong and avoided losses in the Chamber.
Before the election there had been much debate about representation of the new colony of Veriban. Some favored immediately adding Senate and Chamber seats to represent the Veriban colonists, while others felt that the population of Veriban should be higher before they gained a disproportionate amount of representation. Ultimately, a compromise was struck that Veriban would gain representation in the Union Senate at a later date, but not before the population reached 4 million people. At that time Veriban would also gain full representation in the Congress, but at least until the next census in 2220, Veriban would continue to be represented by a representative elected by the colonists who lacked any real power. The egalitarian representative from Veriban faced a close race, but was narrowly re-elected by the colonists.
Union Senate
- DRN (Egalitarian): 55 seats (+1 seat)
- MSV (Xenophobe): 50
- Pacifist: 3 seats (-1 seat)
Union Chamber of Representatives
- DRN (Egalitarian): 1031 seats (lost 2 seats)
- MSV (Xenophobe): 960 (gained 2 seats)
- Pacifist: 74
(This time I actually used the 2210 population rather than the 2215 population. As of 2215.4.4, the Mishar Union contains 32 pops (30 on Mitra, 2 on Veriban), of which 17 are Egalitarian, 13 are Xenophobe, 1 is Pacifist, and 1 is Materialist.)
Shortly after the 2215 mid-term elections, rare crystals were discovered on Estithra VI.
Later that year, monoliths were found on Plov V, which Pova na-Febor was authorized to investigate, and after that she was authorized to investigate a strange alien object found on Plov Va.
Investigation revealed that the device seemed to be some kind of scent-based storage device used to store short stories of an either surprising or comedic nature.
While the
Iritrex commanded by Daka na-Ilper continued its survey “south” of Mishar space, Orsh na-Karan reported finding an icy planet that contained a massive cave system.