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\n\u201cSave the masses, accept the individual.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Now that we\u2019ve introduced all the members of our team, it\u2019s about time we tell you a little bit about what it is that we are working on. Blue Falcon is a company focused on creating a massive science fiction universe to build all our products off of, and that universe is called \u2018The Coalition\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n
It is important to us that \u2018The Coalition\u2019 explores subjects, such as the balance between being your own unique and authentic self, and participating within a \u2014 at times overwhelming \u2014 greater whole that is society. We are building these strong norms and values into the foundation of \u2018The Coalition\u2019. This is achieved by working with professionals that have a lot of experience and expertise with these kinds of social political issues, in the same way that we check our science with real scientists. This interdisciplinary work is essential to Blue Falcon. Working and creating artistically in a vacuum leads to strange things such as space magic, whereas we are aiming to create something fantastical, but grounded.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\u2018The Coalition\u2019 is, at its core, a vast universe of potential, the potential to go anywhere, do anything and be anyone. The rules of the upcoming pen and paper game and the scientifically\u00a0researched lore provide a framework to help you become a part of an uncountable number of stories. But all of them have this universe as its foundation.
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\u2018The Coalition\u2019 is the overarching government in a galaxy-sized society of aliens. This galaxy is an alternate universe to our own; the galaxies of Andromeda and the Milky Way have crashed several eras before our own, creating a hotbed for life due to all the geological activity on all the planets in the galaxy. In this new galaxy, a group of different intelligent alien species all decided to work together and share resources rather than violently take them from each other. This turned out to work so well for them that they advanced their ideas and moved out into the rest of the Galaxy.<\/p>\n
Species were quick to join\u00a0up and \u2018The Coalition\u2019 became a growing machine. Over the centuries of expansion, the ideals and hopes of \u2018The Coalition\u2019 started fading; they took species and planets by force if said species and planets turned out to be unwilling to join. So what started as a benevolent cooperation slowly morphed into a dictatorial regime, making demands of entire systems and quadrants. While the ideology of doing everything together had faded, the method of ruling had not. Ultimately a socialist system, \u2018The Coalition\u2019 provides as much as it can for its citizens in the form of a base income, daily food intake and medical welfare. On top of that, \u2018The Coalition\u2019 maintains strict rules about harvesting resources and maintaining functional ecosystems on planets. To that effect, they\u2019ve created something called a \u2018Unicity\u2019: A mass produced city base of twenty levels tall, each level being the height of a minor skyscraper. These so-called Unicities hold, on average, three billion people; the entire population of a habitable planet in some cases. It is here that most stories will play out.<\/span><\/p>\n
Underlying this governmental welfare society is a capitalist free-market economy that is, besides its taxes, entirely separate from the government itself. These economies are what are ultimately the cause of most problems in \u2018The Coalition\u2019. Due to the capitalist system, inequality and classism reign supreme in this world. The divide between the rich and the poor, the buying of governmental institutions\u00a0or employees to push legislation through, all contribute to that inequality. These corporations ultimately are what rule cities, sometimes entire systems, and as long as the money is flowing and nobody is revolting, \u2018The Coalition\u2019 will stand by and do nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n
Where does all the science fiction come in? With all the bonkers aliens and crazy technologies, of course. There are about 9000+ intelligent forms of life that inhabit \u2018The Coalition\u2019 and we don\u2019t expect to design and work out all of them \u2014 although that would be nice at some point. And the technological advancement is about 6000 years from now with near unimpeded progress. This is because the species that originally made up \u2018The Coalition\u2019 started expanding at about 2000BC and as such needed to be around humanity\u2019s current technological level to start doing so. It is useful to remember in all this that humans are not at the center of this universe; they are just another species amongst the many.<\/span><\/p>\n
In closing, \u2018The Coalition\u2019 is a universe about individualism alongside collectivism, about socialism alongside capitalism. A world of irreconcilable differences attempting to be reconciled. A world where the masses can be saved, if the individual is accepted. <\/span><\/p>\n
But mostly? It\u2019s about cool aliens and cyberpunk.<\/span>
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