How shall we rule??

[Mr Companion]

Ideology: We shall create a massive metropolis of glass and steel in place of a city, towering high like a mountain. The people of the world shall gaze upon its glory and be united in admiration. This citadel will be defended on all fronts by devices developed by our science team, who shall be unbound by the most meaningless morality and provided with the earth's most outstanding technology. And once the divided nations of our planet are finally united, our gaze shall ascend to the stars.

We have only one choice to make, encourage the outsiders to squabble among themselves until they command nothing but ashes and rubble? Or to force reason upon them in hope that the human spirit is strong enough to prevent animalistic instinct from tearing us apart.

 

[etherlance]

Tell me....that lightning project we discussed, if it's ready......Strike him down!!!

I do believe I left the remote on your table. May have to change the batteries though.

Oh you mean this thing.....well seems harmless enou...OH SHIT!!!

.....Tell me, have you any expierience in the creation of non-conductive secretaries??

 

[Palademon]

Dibs on naming the New England equivalent of land on the continenet, Pengland.

 

[Danny Ocean]

So, I was thinking, if we were to create this continent. We probably need a map... Anyone with paint/photoshop skills that can hook us up?

Ok you are now hereby promoted to chief geologist, go forth into our kingdom and map it's every corner.

Sweet. Too bad I suck at painting... but I'll give it a shot.

If you do actually make one I'll apply my Geographical knowledge to see if it's legit.

I expect the appropriate variation of rock types if you want any bays!

You'll need to put a lot of thought into the geography of this, actually, both human and physical. You'll need to determine, in great detail, the topography, geology, climate, and biome, including all food chains and especially rock types. I mean, you can't even build in certain rocks, let alone build skyscrapers on them.


You'll also need to determine the location, size, influence, and constitution of all settlements. As well as all roads and other man-made constructs.

Methinks you just accidentally gave yourself the most difficult job here, since, as you make the map, you are pretty much making the continent.

 

[Internet Kraken]

As we speak I have an entire army of scientists genetically augmenting the landscape to support life, the things we have so far are:

* Fresh flowing water.
* Animal lifeforms (cows, sheep etc)
* Plantlife that absorbs CO2 at a rate of 300% faster than current plantlife.
* Insect life (Bee's, ants etc).

So if I'm reading this right, then you are planning to completley terraform a new landscape. You are then going to introduce species to this environment. How exactly do you plan to control this? Are you just going to copy an existing ecosystem and attempt to spread it out over a large area? Are you going to try and replicate an entire continent? Is this going to be a completley unique ecosystem built from the ground up? Is this going to be an enclosed environment, sheltered from the outside world? If not, how do you plan to handle the immigration and emigration of various species, and what about the impact an invasive species could potentially have on our environment?

These are important questions to ask. The laws and regulations put in place by the government will be dependent upon the type of environment we are living in and the resource that are readily available inside of it. If we lack these details, we won't be able to plan ahead for a stable and sustainable food industry. Without something as basic as that, our society will inevitably fall apart. And that's not even taking into account energy sources and the finite quantity of various other resources we will be using.

 

[etherlance]

Ideology: We shall create a massive metropolis of glass and steel in place of a city, towering high like a mountain. The people of the world shall gaze upon its glory and be united in admiration. This citadel will be defended on all fronts by devices developed by our science team, who shall be unbound by the most meaningless morality and provided with the earth's most outstanding technology. And once the divided nations of our planet are finally united, our gaze shall ascend to the stars.

We have only one choice to make, encourage the outsiders to squabble among themselves until they command nothing but ashes and rubble? Or to force reason upon them in hope that the human spirit is strong enough to prevent animalistic instinct from tearing us apart.

I'm sure I have heard this somewhere before.....hmmmm.

Oh well.
I want a ten page discussion of this subject on my desk by friday and we'll bring it before the senate and see where this goes.

 

[Rakkana]

Screw democracy, have a oligarchy of ruling philosophers, or prehaps the system they had in rapture

"a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small!"

sounds like my kind of place.

Yeah I played bioshock and if memory serves me correctly.....that didn't end very well for them.

The end of any country doesn't end well.

 

[Elburzito]

Name: Eternia.

Rule: Complete democracy. Let the people vote about everything.

Having seen what the majority of people vote for and enjoy, you'll end up with a pretty fucked up state on your hands, but I won't judge your intentions.

OT: I would try to turn it into a well run Authoritarian state (probably some kind of Oligarchy), with minimal corruption (It's a perfect land after all, no doubt someone will exploit that harmfully).

 

[etherlance]

As we speak I have an entire army of scientists genetically augmenting the landscape to support life, the things we have so far are:

* Fresh flowing water.
* Animal lifeforms (cows, sheep etc)
* Plantlife that absorbs CO2 at a rate of 300% faster than current plantlife.
* Insect life (Bee's, ants etc).

So if I'm reading this right, then you are planning to completley terraform a new landscape. You are then going to introduce species to this environment. How exactly do you plan to control this? Are you just going to copy an existing ecosystem and attempt to spread it out over a large area? Are you going to try and replicate an entire continent? Is this going to be a completley unique ecosystem built from the ground up? Is this going to be an enclosed environment, sheltered from the outside world? If not, how do you plan to handle the immigration and emigration of various species, and what about the impact an invasive species could potentially have on our environment?

These are important questions to ask. The laws and regulations put in place by the government will be dependent upon the type of environment we are living in and the resource that are readily available inside of it. If we lack these details, we won't be able to plan ahead for a stable and sustainable food industry. Without something as basic as that, our society will inevitably fall apart. And that's not even taking into account energy sources and the finite quantity of various other resources we will be using.

Ok look this is all just phase one of the overall plan and there are obviously gonna be a few holes in the design.
I don't however like this tone your taking with me!!
Behold what happened the last time someone tried to inturrupt my plans while I'm discussing them!!!

 

[Mr. Omega]

I can't really tell what government would be best. But personally, I say we do as the Romans did. We're smart enough to know what they did wrong, and we'll improve on it accordingly.

Still, there might be the occasional... troublemaker. Give me a seat of power and I can take care of things. I'm very thorough with dealing with people. Just give me the justification, and I can solve problems.

 

[etherlance]

So, I was thinking, if we were to create this continent. We probably need a map... Anyone with paint/photoshop skills that can hook us up?

Ok you are now hereby promoted to chief geologist, go forth into our kingdom and map it's every corner.

Sweet. Too bad I suck at painting... but I'll give it a shot.

If you do actually make one I'll apply my Geographical knowledge to see if it's legit.

I expect the appropriate variation of rock types if you want any bays!

You'll need to put a lot of thought into the geography of this, actually, both human and physical. You'll need to determine, in great detail, the topography, geology, climate, and biome, including all food chains and especially rock types. I mean, you can't even build in certain rocks, let alone build skyscrapers on them.


You'll also need to determine the location, size, influence, and constitution of all settlements. As well as all roads and other man-made constructs.

Methinks you just accidentally gave yourself the most difficult job here, since, as you make the map, you are pretty much making the continent.

Hmmm your right about that......That's why you are gonna help him!!!

ENJOY THE PROMOTION!!

 

[etherlance]

I can't really tell what government would be best. But personally, I say we do as the Romans did. We're smart enough to know what they did wrong, and we'll improve on it accordingly.

Still, there might be the occasional... troublemaker. Give me a seat of power and I can take care of things. I'm very thorough with dealing with people. Just give me the justification, and I can solve problems.

Ok you are now the chief of justice for the country.....but I have diplomatic immunity.

 

[Wardnath]

ITT: Closet dictators.

Rule: Complete democracy. Let the people vote about everything.

Assuming that's meant to be taken literally... no. You should understand that there are some things that you just don't vote on. Human rights, for example (also in a pure format democracy can fail just as hard if not worse than fascism and communism. So, yeah).

 

[Hgame]

Based on the assumption that plants are still using photosynthesis to produce sugar, water, and oxygen, I'm fairly certain that if plants are utilizing CO2 3 times faster (or, three times as much CO2 in the same amount of time), oxygen would be produced 3 times faster (or, 3 times as much O2 in the same amount of time). That isn't necessarily bad at first, but we would be living in super-volatile living conditions.

Any biology or chemistry nerds want to double check that for me?

The air is 21% Oxygen and 0.038 Carbon Dioxide. Even if all the CO2 in the air was photsynthesised (unlikely) it would make almost no significant impact to oxygen levels.

Also as for "nerd", I prefer the term intellectual badass.

EDIT: We should be Marxist

 

[etherlance]

Dibs on naming the New England equivalent of land on the continenet, Pengland.

 

[Mr Companion]

Ideology: We shall create a massive metropolis of glass and steel in place of a city, towering high like a mountain. The people of the world shall gaze upon its glory and be united in admiration. This citadel will be defended on all fronts by devices developed by our science team, who shall be unbound by the most meaningless morality and provided with the earth's most outstanding technology. And once the divided nations of our planet are finally united, our gaze shall ascend to the stars.

We have only one choice to make, encourage the outsiders to squabble among themselves until they command nothing but ashes and rubble? Or to force reason upon them in hope that the human spirit is strong enough to prevent animalistic instinct from tearing us apart.

I'm sure I have heard this somewhere before.....hmmmm.

Oh well.
I want a ten page discussion of this subject on my desk by friday and we'll bring it before the senate and see where this goes.

I don't know where you heard this before. I guess its slightly Andrew Ryanish, but also slightly Combineish, I don't know. Maybe also Spore-ish? All I do know is, we need a gladiatorial arena for people to fight Genetically altered animals (developed by our science team to be huge, breath fire ect)and we need the big citidel to be able to stand up on robotic legs and walk about, shooting plasma cannons and trampling buildings. If we can we should also provide it with the means to take off into space, because its gonna be airtight anyway so...

 

[jawg_t-j]

we shall call it lost planet (contenent)and we shall exploit the local wild life and steal there thermal energy or wait for somone who actualy understands them and runs of thermal energy and he shall be are leader. no heres a better plan THE BATMAN will be are leader and we will learn from him the ways of the batman. ooh or we should have as prince can reverse time for a short interval. actualy there all bad ideas (except for batman) your right we should be a democracy with free health care and transvestites and glam rockers......


WAIT WHAT!!!!

 

[FamoFunk]

I'll be boss.

 

[etherlance]

Ideology: We shall create a massive metropolis of glass and steel in place of a city, towering high like a mountain. The people of the world shall gaze upon its glory and be united in admiration. This citadel will be defended on all fronts by devices developed by our science team, who shall be unbound by the most meaningless morality and provided with the earth's most outstanding technology. And once the divided nations of our planet are finally united, our gaze shall ascend to the stars.

We have only one choice to make, encourage the outsiders to squabble among themselves until they command nothing but ashes and rubble? Or to force reason upon them in hope that the human spirit is strong enough to prevent animalistic instinct from tearing us apart.

I'm sure I have heard this somewhere before.....hmmmm.

Oh well.
I want a ten page discussion of this subject on my desk by friday and we'll bring it before the senate and see where this goes.

I don't know where you heard this before. I guess its slightly Andrew Ryanish, but also slightly Combineish, I don't know. Maybe also Spore-ish? All I do know is, we need a gladiatorial arena for people to fight Genetically altered animals (developed by our science team to be huge, breath fire ect)and we need the big citidel to be able to stand up on robotic legs and walk about, shooting plasma cannons and trampling buildings. If we can we should also provide it with the means to take off into space, because its gonna be airtight anyway so...

The island was designed to walk on enormous legs and move itself if the situation ever required it.
also on a few of the outlying islands there is a defence network of rail guns and anti air cannons. these are supported by a compliment of orbital mach cannons.

however you arena idea intrigues me.....continue the research and development!!

 

[etherlance]

I'll be boss.

<spoiler=I seem to be handing a few of these out recently>