common traits

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COMMON TRAITS SYSTEM

STELLAR EMPIRES 2


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C O M M O N T R A I T S

The traits system, as most of you know, is the consistent core of my Engines whether they be for single

individuals, war parties or entire nations. Like most however this is a Nation based RP and so the traits will

reflect this. Due to the variety of nation types the traits will, more or less, be more or less more generic than

ever before!

At least not too much like those available only to specific nation types. When there are ones that are similar to

those found in specific nation types one can consider the nation types to be 4 times as good as the common

version found here.

NATIONAL TRAITS

Implausibly Efficient Government: Through trial and error the red tape has not only been cut but hasbeen found to be redundant and counterproductive. When it comes to cutting the red tape your nationhas none to cut!

Fair Dinkum: Your nation is seen as a relatively straight player, and you are, you honour your dealsand deal fairly with other nations.

Who Cares about Uzbekistan: Your polity is simply not on the galactic radar and thus avoids a lot ofthe Bad Shit that can go down. . . (Can only be taken by Pacifist, Hunter, Environmentalist, Isolationist

and Spymaster nations. And only Small Nations.)

Party Please: Your diplomats are just so good-natured or know so many skeleton-filled closets thatthey can get into strategically useful alliances much easier than others. Of course, then you need to live

up to what you signed . . .

Manipulative: Political scheming is in the blood. Once you can deal with other nations you can beginplaying with their politics, assuming youre cunning enough and theyre receptive enough. Colonial Spirit: Your people are restless for the great beyond and are excellent at colonisation, you

expand nearly half again as quickly as anyone else.

Mechanics at Heart: Your nation doesnt tolerate anything in less than perfect condition.Conversations can often be along the lines of 'time for the monthly check... looks good... looks good... hey

what's this brown ticking package?'

Passive Aggressive: Only a fool shows his hand instantly. But not us, we conceal our vicious powerplaying behind a submissive peaceful attitude diplomatically. Let our enemies make the first move. Let

our allies move to protect what they perceive as a peaceful people. In the end well show them all.

For the People: Every action taken is for the people, for good or ill, as such the people tend to largelysupport the nation without reservation. After all, is it not working for them on all levels? However mostsuch nations are tied in bureaucratic bullshit.

I-GUN:Inter-Galactic United Nations your empire is a conglomerate of your species nations pre-spaceflight that never unified into a single world government. But this gives you more diplomatic credibility

and trustworthiness amongst the galactic community.

Rule of All: The rule of all is a political foundation where all the people get a say in the running of thenation. The forums are abuzz and artificial intelligences (or equivalent) draw together most common

ideas into a unified collection.

Pyramid Rule: The nation is run like a pyramid scheme, at the top is a single body who commands anumber of people who in turn command a number of people below them and so on down the chain.


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POPULATION TRAITS

Loyalty: A populace that through some reason or another is loyal to its government, through fear or"cookie day" it doesn't matter, these people are loyal.

HeroicAge: Your people see themselves as Spartan Heroes, not Persian Generals. Shame the Spartansmade poor civilians . . .

Flag-Wavers: It doesn't matter what you do, you'll always win the elections. You must choosesomething particularly dear to your population that they wave flags about.

StupidlyBrave: Nobody would think of calling your people cowards. Not One Step Back!: You hold your ground no matter what, militarily OR politically. Clannish/Family Groups: Your people are divided into clans or other forms of familial groupings.

While this can lead to genetic degradation if there is no breeding out of the Clan it lends towards more

tightly bound units of people who work together with flawless efficiency.

Crimeless: Your nation has abolished crime in its entirety, whether by simply making everything legal,some form of mental conditioning or other reasons. There is no crime, as such should there be any it

would be noticed immediately as suspicious goings-on.

"Ultra-hygienic":Your people don't suffer from natural diseases as they have refrained from contactwith one another for whatever reasons. Whether they breed by using science clinics to 'do the deed' orits just a remote-controlled sperm-cell implant. The downside, your people aren't very social and

exposure can lead to disease.

Population Controls: Your population is controlled both in number and even in purpose. Yourgovernment conducts a practice known as social engineering to control the population. As such

undesired elements are greatly reduced.

Organised Chaos: Your society is so bizarre that most cannot comprehend what they are seeing whenexposed to it. This makes any attempt to infiltrate it or target it much more difficult if there is anything

other than the intent to simply kill them all.

Manifest Destiny: The people have a future and it is glorious. Of course there is the little issues likeother species who think that they have a right to their own destinies, but a little killing never hurt

anybody that mattered anyway. We Act as One: The people are not simply loyal. They are YOURS when a threat to the nation is felt on

the outside the people unite as rarely seen before to act with a singular will and purpose against that

thread.


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STAR NAVY TRAITS

Capital Warship Obsession: Your nation has a fascination with large warships. Your ratio of largecapital ships are significantly higher than any nations who does not possess this trait.

Relativity is a Bitch: Your nation prefers fast ships over heavily armed, and yet lumbering, warships.As such 10% of their weapons capacity is sacrificed for a significant increase in engine power. Hit and

Fade strikes are your favourite. (Cannot take with Ironclad)

Isaac Newton Hates You: You think energy weapons are fine, missiles are all well and good, gravitonweapons are ok. But none of them compare to the deadliest son of a bitch in space. Isaac motherfucking

Newton. After all, your antimatter bomb may go up big. But so does two tons of tungsten going at .5

lightspeed. (Projectile Weapons cost half. Cannot take with Who Needs to Reload, Use the Force or

Macross Missile Massacre)

Who needs to reload?: Projectile weapons, missiles they are nice enough I suppose. But what do theyall have in common? Thats right. Ammo requirements. Energy weapons, while often not as powerful

pound for pound just dont need bulky amounts of ammunition to enter combat with. All you need is

your reactors and a decent sensor suite. (Energy Weapons cost half. Cannot take with Isaac Newton

Hates You, Use the Force or Macross Missile Massacre)

Macross Missile Massacre:On the count of three fuck them up Mr Nyder. Guns are ok, energyweapons are fine. But who gives a shit how many guns they have if they cant survive to get close

enough to use them. Of course, the frequent need to reload is a good opportunity to get in some shore

leave! (Missile and Torpedo weapons cost half. Cannot take with Who Needs to Reload, Isaac Newton

Hates You or Use the Force!)

Use the Force:What? Expose our ships to enemy fire? Fuck that shit, launch all fighters, maybe theyhave an exhaust port we can fuck up or something. Your nation has a hardon for strike craft and would

rather never leave home without them.(Strike Craft and Carriers cost half. Cannot take with Macross

Missile Massacre, Who Needs to Reloador Isaac Newton Hates You.)

Hangar Queens: Your fighters are incredibly advanced. They possess the best technologies you couldpossibly pack into a beast their size making them 4x as good as any other nations fighters (if they dont

have this trait) with one problem. They spend at least twice as much time in their hangars being

serviced due to their complexity.

Ironclad: You favour armour over speed. You sacrifice 10% of your weapons spaces in favour ofconsiderably thicker armour than is the norm. This is cumulative with any nation traits regarding

armour. (Cannot take with Relativity is a Bitch)

A gift from the Stars:Nothing says we hate you and hope your cat dies more than an OrbitalBombardment. And you guys LOVE Orbital Bombardment. To the point you have rebuilt your medium

weapon batteries to deliver firepower from orbit on top of Heavies!

When in doubt FIRE EVERYTHING!: You dont just rock up and fire off a few broadsides. Your shipshave been built in such a way that when you arrive you can comfortably, and literally fire EVERYTHING

at anyone who decides to be in front of you. This gives you unparalleled first strike capabilities.

Fleet Unity Protocols: The fleet is a unified whole in combat with skilled and powerful fleet co-ordination there are few things that can work as well together as a whole compared to your fleets. RAMMING SPEED: There are few plans as expected as simply RAMMING the enemy when things lookgrim. Its not easy to score hits, but when you do, fuck it that will hurt.


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GROUND-WAR TRAITS

Note: You may only select a single Elite trait.

Elite Infantry Formations: Your Infantry has little if any equals. At least from other infantry. They areextremely well trained, and while no special forces they can definitely hold their own.

Elite Armoured Divisions: Your tank regiments and divisions are extremely well trained. Other tankregiments are horribly exposed against your tank-hunters.

Elite Artillery Regiments: Your Artillery are masters of the trade and can hit anything they have theinclination to do so, at least as well as their weapons will allow.

Elite Mobile Infantry: Your Mobile Infantry are an extremely skilled high mobility force. They can getwhere theyre needed in record time and fight like hell itself.

Elite Special Forces: Your Spec-ops are disturbingly skilled. Few if any can match them on their terms.More importantly they can often be out of the engagement area before you can turn the fight to your

own terms of engagement.

Elite Air Forces: Your atmospheric pilots are skilled and are likely all aces. Theyll do what you needthem to and when.

Combined Arms is key: Your forces are at their best when working with one another on every level.Provided you have some troops of all categories present at a battle your chances of success get a

significant bonus. If the opponent has this as well they negate each other.

(Cannot take with Guerilla Tactics)

Strategic Response: You HATE losing. To the point that if you think you are youre quite likely to callorbital fire support or maybe a nuclear missile or ten in order to level the playing field (Not to mention

the engagement area.)

Guerilla Tactics: Your people dont fight as a combined arms force. It makes you too easy to locate,whether in a Jungle, an Urban Jungle or a tunnel network diverse far-spread lines of skill troops is your

key to victory. When the enemy commits against what they thought was a stronghold, that, that is when

you strike. (Cannot take with Combined Arms)

Occupationists: Your nation has a history of invading and successful occupations of its neighbours.Thus they are hard to draw out of somewhere they have chosen to emplace themselves.

Sweep-Scorch: The tactic is simple. When an enemy is suspected to be dug in deep, you blast it... deep.This is very poor for keeping an area though.

Orbital Support: The ground forces are trained to work with orbital support when it is available callingin weaker strikes from the weaker guns of their orbiting allies. Of course if the enemy intercepts the

transmission they can just support with a not so weak strike on the transmission source.


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TECHNICAL TRAITS

On The Run!: Most people don't strap engines to factories and cram them into carriers. Most people. Flash: Your stuff just has that extra polish that makes it look cooler than everyone else's inferior-

looking, blockily-functional equipment.

Ghost in the Machine: People are a hindrance, so you use machinery as much as possible.

Nazi Superscience: A role for every machine and a machine for every role. Better Than Your {Keyword}: Don't apply this too broadly or I'll smack you, otherwise it's exactlywhat it implies.

Hangerize!: Fighters are cool (or just an overly important part of your doctrines) so you stick them ineverything you can. This provides strike/superiority ability in addition to the usual utility-craft hangars.

(EVERY Ship Class gains 2 Light Carrier Spaces and 1 Medium Carrier Space)

AcceleratedRepairs: Whether by massive modularity or simple natural awareness things arerepaired far faster than might be expected of the technicians and engineers.

Redundancy: Your nation has been working on making everything with multiple redundancy. When itis broken it is possible that it isnt really broken and can be brought online by other means.

Synchronicity: Co-ordination is key, and very few understand it better than you. When push comes toshove you can really get the shoving working for you. And all timed perfectly too. Mechs Ahoy!: Your nation likes Mechs. They have supplanted tanks and many starfighters are Mechs aswell.

Slaved Ships: The nation can get ships smaller than Cruisers to be slaved to a master-ship that willenable those craft to run without crew whatsoever. However they obviously cannot be rearmed or

repaired without returning to fleet bases.

Stellar Fuel: These ships have a limited ability to regain some power in emergencies sufficient to runtheir engines and FTL drives as well as all life support systems for a limited time.


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PSYCHIC TRAITS

Empathic Mind: Your psychics can sense the moods of others and even feel them in turn unwillingly.This can give you an edge in negotiations as your psychics can sense the moods of the other party.

Tele-Empath: Your psychics can project emotions and feelings into the minds of others this can be apowerful weapon if used correctly.

Projective Mind: One-way telepathy. When discovered is often used to create telepathic commanderswho command their troops with the uninterceptable power of psychic control. Its a pity that any

stronger Psychics can just take that control away from you.

Predictive Omniscience: Its not as powerful as it sounds. These individuals do not actually see into thefuture but can interpret a set of most likely events based upon what their occipital cortex is receiving

psychically. The effectively allows them to avoid bullets. Provided the persons aim was good and

weapon accurate. And Shotguns are a Predictive Omniscients bane.

Mind Tracker: Where many people hunt the trail left behind by someone the mind-tracker follows themental imprints on the environment left behind by a sentients interaction with it. However doing so IS

time consuming.

Telecommunications: No, not phones. Networked telepaths communicating over incredible distances.They can provide nearly real-time instantaneous communication across an entire nation.

Mental Shock: The psychic is trained for combat, but not well, at best all they can do is stun an enemy. Rapture: These psychics can send an individual into a psychically induced comatose state during which

their mind will be quite thoroughly occupied. However it only lasts as long as the psychic is

concentrating. This is a useful tool for capturing individuals.

Chains of the Mind: The psychic entangles a person in mental bindings of their own creations, fearsmade manifest. However people of strong will can easily fight past the effects and kill the poor bastard

responsible.

Telekinesis: A technique for levitating and moving physical objects mentally. Though this is not thestrongest it can allow a single skilled Telekine to control a ship on his own if forced to. (By manipulating

the bridge controls telekinetically.)

Masking Minds: The psychic has a limited ability to conceal himself from the inattentive as somethingnot worth noticing. It doesnt work if the Psychic does anything overt however.

Subtle Touch: The Psychics are more subtle with their powers than other psychics might be leavingthem to be more likely to go unnoticed by people when using their gifts.


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ECONOMIC TRAITS

Trade Cartels: Trade within your nation is controlled by the Cartels. There is little to no independenttrade, though there is probably a thriving black market.

Abundant Trade Goods: You may choose one extra primary economic product. You do not have toselect a Deficit for this item as is otherwise normal.

Abundant Trade Ships: You believe in keeping a safe number of trade ships available at all times. Currency Exchange: You have decided to ensure the compatibility of your markets with alien markets

you forged a Currency exchange for the easy conducting of business.

Interstellar Stock Market: Every Solar System of your Empire has its own microcosm of a StockMarket, controlling one

Point Defender Gun: All your transports are fitted with a light gun with which to defend themselvesagainst pirate attacks. Its not perfect and wont help against any considerable pirate efforts. But its

better than nothing.

The Pirate Lanes: Your traders have big balls. They realise that they can get small and profitablecargoes through the Pirate Lanes very quickly and generally tax free if the Pirates dont get them.

Sprint Traders: (Cannot be taken with Bulk Traders) These traders sacrifice some of their cargocapacity for greater engines to get them faster.

Bulk Traders: (Cannot be taken with Sprint Traders) These traders sacrifice their engines for largercargo bays. There is little they cannot carry. Of course they couldnt outrun an Insectoid with six broken

legs, but thats hardly the point.

Lax Restrictions: How does one solve a problem with illicit goods? Simply. They simply decide tochange what is classified as illicit.

Bargaining Chip: The traders are good at getting the best deals possible. Of course they can annoythose who have fixed market prices with their persistent haggling.

Borrowed Money: You need a little money to make money, but that doesnt mean that money needs tobe yours to start with! Just... be careful, loan sharks arent nice people.


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RESOURCE TRAITS

Metals

Tritanium II: Tritanium III Duranium: Quintanium: Neutrinium: Adamantium: Unrefined Ores: Refined Lesser Metals: Precious Metals: Conductive Metals: Deuterium: Plutonium:

Foodstuffs

Grain:

Fruits: Vegetables: Domesticated Meat: Game Meat: Spices: Seafoods: Exotic Foods: Low Grade Alcohol: Medium Grade Alcohol: High Grade Alcohol: Other Drinks: Caffeinated Drinks:

Equipment:

Farming Machinery: Mining Vehicles: Industrial Machinery: Automated Robotics: Asteroid Mining Tools: Medical Equipment: Civil Engineering Machinery: Fusion Reactors: Electronics: Refining Equipment: Chemical Processors: Particle Accelerators: Recycling Equipment:

Other Items:

Antimatter: Shimmersheer: Rare Alcohols: Exotic Transports: Personal Ships: Exotic Pets: Alien Entertainment: Cybernetics: Advanced Polymers: Carbon Nanotubes: Chemicals: Civilian Vehicles: Precious Stones: Focussing Lens: Hardwoods: Starship Hulls: Commercial Satellites: Industrial Gasses: Plastics: High Grade Plastics: Combustibles: Artificial Fibres:

Contraband Items:

Dreamy White: Glitterstim: Party-Mix: Performance Enhancers: Spice: Small Arms: Slaves: Military Vehicles: Dangerous Chemicals: Illicit Alcohols: Biologicals: Dangerous Animals: Illegal Psychics: Starship Grade Weapons: C.I.T Chambers: Bioweapons: Pleasure Slaves: Illegal Test Subjects:


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RESOURCE DEFICITS

Metals

Tritanium II: Tritanium III Duranium: Quintanium: Neutrinium: Adamantium: Unrefined Ores: Refined Lesser Metals: Precious Metals: Conductive Metals: Deuterium: Plutonium:

Foodstuffs

Grain:

Fruits: Vegetables: Domesticated Meat: Game Meat: Spices: Seafoods: Exotic Foods: Low Grade Alcohol: Medium Grade Alcohol: High Grade Alcohol: Other Drinks: Caffeinated Drinks:

Equipment:

Farming Machinery: Mining Vehicles: Industrial Machinery: Automated Robotics: Asteroid Mining Tools: Medical Equipment: Civil Engineering Machinery: Fusion Reactors: Electronics: Refining Equipment: Chemical Processors: Particle Accelerators: Recycling Equipment:

Other Items:

Antimatter: Shimmersheer: Rare Alcohols: Exotic Transports: Personal Ships: Exotic Pets: Alien Entertainment:

Cybernetics: Advanced Polymers: Carbon Nanotubes: Chemicals: Civilian Vehicles: Precious Stones: Focussing Lens: Hardwoods: Starship Hulls: Commercial Satellites: Industrial Gasses: Plastics: High Grade Plastics: Combustibles: Artificial Fibres:

Contraband Items:

Dreamy White: Glitterstim: Party-Mix: Performance Enhancers: Spice: Small Arms: Slaves: Military Vehicles: Dangerous Chemicals: Illicit Alcohols: Biologicals: Dangerous Animals: Illegal Psychics: Starship Grade Weapons: C.I.T Chambers: Bioweapons: Pleasure Slaves: Illegal Test Subjects:

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