All cultural endeavours, personas and opportunities available to you will appear below. Anything marked as 'unconfirmed' may have a variable output, otherwise these should be considered well-known issues

Snapshot - 48 NS (Turn 18):

• Language - Business is conducted primarily in Rim-Swahili, though Finnic, Bantu, Anglic and Sino-Urdu are spoken in various regions. Almost all Exodus records are in Rim-Swahili, Finnic or Anglic
• The Arts - Literature and theatre comprise the dominant 'high' art forms, with music and cinema more popular but considered a lesser form. Drums, percussion and woodwind remain the predominant instruments, with various vocal and choral forms.
• Religion and Faith - Where practised it tends to follow Saganite, Stoic or Rationalist belief systems with a much greater majority of Atheist or Agnostic practitioners. Actors and celebrities, including the comedy bromance star Todd Kruz, have in recent years flocked to the New Stoics
  • Saganites - Based very loosely on the thinking of Carl Sagan, that is "simultaneously emphasising the value and worthiness of the human race, and the relative insignificance of [humanity] in comparison to the Universe"
  • Rationalists - Closest to Humanists, believing in a higher power but that is is focused on humanity as a whole rather than a specific sub-group or humans or an individual. Drifted to incorporate the Brin Hypothesis of humanity being steered or uplifted by now absent progenitors
  • Stoics - Believe in a variety of spiritual self-care methods, and seek "a god worth worshipping."
• Focht Epidemic - Defining two generations and still within living memory, the epidemic has left it's scars on the Federation. Cynicism, wariness and a broad hatred of losing control of situations are among them
• Sport - Until recently this has typically been athletics, martial or hunting biased. With the reintroduction of 'football' and motorsports by the Jacinto League this has shifted and a variety of road, rally and gravionic styles have been established. Daredevils in Usiku have constructed a subterranean blackwater rafting experience that utilises gravionics

Opportunities:

• Cultural Datavaults - Broad range of topics retrieved from the recovered starships of the Exodus Fleet
• Gharistan - With private investment in the NSBC media conglomerate and a slew of successful productions for Red Moon, JNC and HBN the otherwise sleepy township on the Nezem side of the Anderbacks has established itself as a centre for the nascent film production and distribution industry, significantly so since the launch of GSEN

OOC: Players may find this resource useful for non-Anglic names, http://www.behindthename.com/random/
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People:

• Martha Duin, a Rafiki Cultural-Anthropologist
• Selmar Reshty, a Novelist

Blueprints:

• Stoic Clinic - Available from 200m, provides + to Morale together with +1 to related research per turn and +10m income
• Stoic Monastery

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Programmes:

• Limited cultural exchange programme between national politics is in place.  Grants from the Federation fund the establishment of a handful of small Baradari Centres in the towns of the Northern District, easing some of the tension between poorly integrated communities of frontiersmen and skilled migrant workers and scientists from the Rafiki.

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Programmes:

• Federal Service - Civic Branch - Brought into law in 40 NS (Turn 12) this manages Public Works projects including neighbourhood restoration, beautification, and cultural enrichment together with Emergency Response, the Veteran's After-Service Programme and related Vocational Training - which includes training grants and colleges, especially where the curriculum includes a wide body of material from the Exodus engineering primers. You receive a +8 to up to three civic or cultural construction projects each turn. From time to time the Civic Branch may suggest specific projects or provide input on declining standards or neighbourhoods. Volunteers may NOT be used for post-war cleanup or reconstruction until the battlefield has been declared safe
• Federal Service - Sister Cities - Efforts to expand the Civil Branch with a 'Sister City' programme show mixed success, with some clear benefits such as the Rhee pairing with Port Cartegena as well as some unexpected gulfs such as the roadtrains of the Balcones. You receive a +4 to one internal Diplomacy related project each turn
• Federal Service - Youth Recreation Centres - Founded in 48 NS (Turn 19), the Y-Rec programme was established by Civic volunteers pulling together local business and faith sponsors, teachers and mentors from veterans and retirees, and drawing on the Stoics long association with the film industry to ensure a wide range of celebrity endorsements and appearances. Groups and centres sprung up within a few months in most suburbs and almost every town and city. Provides a + to Morale and Unity each turn, together with reinforcing educational reforms and other youth programmes (i.e. hidden bonus)
• Federal Service - Ethical Branch - Expansion to the Stoic Clinics now cater for the faithful or faithless, regardless of their inclination
• Federal Service - Technical Branch - Research internships reaches sufficient critical mass to open up more theoretical avenues of exploration, including a mass of analysis of the barely touched cultural datavaults from the RCV Mbal Msafiri. You receive a +12 to one theoretical E&T or R&D projects each turn
• Comorian World Cup - Extension of the Jacinto League; the first world cup was hosted by the ATC an will rotate thereafer. Provides a one-off injection of funding, together with a permanent bonus to the polity team's prowess, for a cost of > 300m Cr
• Pervasive strongly militant culture with the Blackwatch
• White Cross - Headquartered in Tōsandō

Facilities:

• Acero Convention Centre - Diplomatic and economic hub
• Better Horizons - Central temple of the Stoic faith, sited in the Nezem Badlands in the secondary spaceport site, Site A. Facilities include Lang Textiles, the Kailish Monastery and extensive Grey Water Systems
• Cobra University in Boca Ridge - Dominating the town, the university celebrates the tragic failure of Operation Unexpected Cobra and the subsequent (and equally tragic) recovery of the RCV Mbal Msafiri by the first cosmonauts of the Federation. It is operated by the New Stoics
• Several Stoic Clinics in the Nezem States, Buna and Alluvian Highlands, together with Thanh Hóa City and Usiku
• Dimensions Resort and Casino - on the northern shore of Kicheleko Island, home from home for the mega-wealthy
• Ny'ekundu Wetlands - a protected nature reserve

Franchises:

• Jacinto League - pre-Exodus inspired corporate football league, operated by the Jacinto Combine
• Jacinto News Conglomerate - pre-Exodus inspired media outlet, operated by the Jacinto Combine
• One World Racetrack - State of the art car and grav racing on Kichenko Island, together with satellite tracks in Dorado, Rhee, Port Cartegena, Usiku, Tlamacazqui and Kyoto Sands
• Red Moon, Inc - Extensive media outlet operated by the New Stoics, known for producing comedy bromances, easily-consumable television documentaries and historic Exodus drama shows. Radically expanded to include the Global Satellite Entertainment Network and several blockbuster films, including:
  • Garrick

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Early Stellar History
2040 AD - Establishment of first Lunar colony by the United American States
2046 AD - Establishment of colonies on Mars by the African Union, shortly followed by Callisto by the Sino-Indus Protectorate
2047 AD - Colonisation of Venus and reclamation of Luna by the Ruso-European Free State
2049 AD - Colonisation of Ganymede by the Indo-Brazilian Bloc
2060 AD - Launch of the first Arkships, swiftly followed by eighty-six further vessels over twenty years; beginning of the First Diaspora
2112 AD - Formation of the Terran Alliance
2119 AD - First spike from Earth to Alpha Centauri by Dr Nyerere; beginning of the Second Diaspora
2120 AD - Emergence of the Lys from the Indo-Brazilian Bloc
2121 AD - Fracture of Sino-Indus Protectorate with the Cathay-Indus separating from the Hong Hai and aligning themselves with the Lys.

Of Songspun Worlds
2122 AD - Establishment of the Songline programme by the Cathay-Indus and Lys
2127 AD - Launch of the first Songline vessel from New Eridani; over the following two decades three vessels were sent trailing and three spinward
2128 AD - Foundation of New Osaka colony
2152 AD - Formation of the Omayyad Caliphate trailing, shortly followed by the Benjamin League spinward.
2155 AD - Formation of the Naxos-Elk Republic and the Lysian Fiefs
2158 AD - Foundation of Kormantin colony
2160 AD - Collapse of the Terran Alliance and formation of the Terran Holdfast, a stellar alliance covering all systems within sixty light years of Earth
2239 AD - Exile of factions of the Cathay-Indus from the Terran Holdfast who went on to form the Kujaki-Mayura
2246 AD - Formation of the Kujaku-Mayura, claiming New Osaka, Mangalore and Kadiri
2252 AD - First seating of the Satyata Grand Council on New Osaka
2281 AD - Foundation of Raksha colony and establishment of Raksha Koan
2390 AD - Burning of Centauri Beta  and formation of the Nezem States
2444 AD - Satyata Grand Council tasked a fleet led by Commodore Diane Watanabee, Captain of the Harlequin, to first survey the Mwali-Bantu Expanse
2476 AD - Discovery of the wreck of one of the trailing Songline vessels by the Kujaku-Mayura
2499 AD - First generation of the Seihai created
2572 AD - First encounter with the Na'tak, close to the borders between Ruthenia and the Naxos-Elk

Stars Like Sand
2573 AD - Formation of the Rim Confederature in the face of Na'tak and Naxos-Elk imperialism; first recorded appearance of the Blackwatch
2575 AD - Return of a courier from their fleet informs the Satyata Grand Council of the likely presence of a Keeper in the Sabaki system and Songspun worlds
2591 AD - Birth of Efraim Nejem
2592 AD - First encounter with the regressive Chatatu
2615 AD - First encounter with the Kitō and, shortly thereafter, the Almiah
2617 AD - Start of the Washburn War between the Nezem and Ruthenia
2619 AD - Formation of Athena Conglomerate under Chiasa Akiyama on the Ilmarian borders
2644 AD - First raids by the Kaul Sslevrr of the Vher, preying on the rimward shipping of the Chaeblis, Ilmarinen and the Kujaku-Mayura; first records of the Stellarii in void combat.
2658 AD - Start of the Omayyad Incursion by the Kesh Sslevrr of the Vher
2662 AD - Culmination of the Omayyad Incursion at the Battle of Three Stars, following which the Caliphate petitioned to join the Rim Confederature
2674 AD - Beginning of the First Revolutionary War between the Nejem and the Solomindi
2688 AD - Exploration of the Mwali-Bantu Expanse by the RCN Mlinzi, including survey scans of the Sabaki system
2691 AD - Satyata Grand Council tasked a fleet led by Commodore Diane Watanabee, Captain of the Harlequin, to re-survey Sabaki
2692 AD - Survey of Sabaki by the NEV Cetan, resulting in her loss with all hands
2694 AD - Discovery of a Keeper in cryo-sleep by a Satyata expedition to the edge of LV-386; Satyata Grand Council informed
2705 AD - Return of the RCN Mlinzi to the naval base at Farigh
2709 AD - Beginning of the Second Revolutionary War between the Nejem and the Solomindi; scans of Sabaki 'lost'
2734 AD - Emergence of the Truthseekers in Mercia and swiftly through the Rim Confederature
2761 AD - Satyata Grand Council tasked the NEV Khipus Kamayuq to survey Sabaki; there is no sign of a satellite there when the Exodus Fleet arrived

Long Falls the Shadow of Kormantin, see Exodus Road
2765 AD - Satyata Grand Council tasked the Captain Kyou Watanabee, the Warmaker, with the cleansing of the Shemaal-Pireus system; he encounters the Watchers
2772 AD - Start of the Elofian Rebellion, which saw action from the Blackwatch, Nezem Jeshi Kigeni and Saenoori
2775 AD - Capture of the contract killer Valentine Dandris and transport to a Rim Confederature Naval prison
2777 AD - Abigail's Exodus Fleet left orbit of Kormantin, formed of colonial sleepers and supporting vessels financed by her and Reine Mbum
2778 AD - Battle of Elof Prime, causing Aiko Akiyama, commanding the UTF Sotavasara, and many of Athena Technologies to flee with the Exodus Fleet. Loss of the RCV Annobón prior to spike from the Elof Halt
2778 AD - Abigail's Exodus Fleet split at Chaeblis, with the RCV Ngome spiking to Vailheu Bank and the bulk of the fleet hiding within the Tarn's Shadow
2779 AD - Commodore Hitoshi and Captain Mbwera join forces at Vailheu Bank, returning to the Exodus Fleet. Loss of the RCN Tufani in the Tarn's Shadow
2781 AD - Abigail's Exodus Fleet bypass Kajaku-Mayura and sneak through the Outermost Rim, finally launching themselves beyond the known colonies toward LV-386. Loss of the RCV Mwanariadha, UTF Sotavasara, UTF Pertuska, RCV Kuo and RCV Utupu Mwamba in the Ion Storm

Planetfall
2785 AD - Abigail's Exodus Fleet spiked into the Sabaki system, prompting the collision between the NEV Axolotl and the Stranger occurred over Udal. Loss of Commodore Hitoshi and the RCN Mbwa Mwitu at the outer limits of the system
2785 AD - Settlements established at Mkombe, Buna, Gbete, Gelke, Gbaya, Darbuik, Matumbawe, Port Cartegena, Montijo, Tupuri, Haven, Kandar, Tōsandō and Sukūnā. Loss of the ISS Lyömämiekka, RCV Verhuis, UTF Keihäs, UTF Järkkymätön
2788 AD - Seizure of Gbete and Gbaya by the Mbum-Buna, renaming Gbaya to Wuuwa
2810 AD - Four-Day War, between the Nezem and Havenite Amalgam; rumours of Blackwatch and Saenoori shock troops in the employ of the Nezem
2816 AD - Seizure of Gelke by the Mbum-Buna, repurposing it and Gbete to the Eastern and Southern Pandayans
2828 AD - Siege of Tupuri, with much of the settlement razed. It is close to present-day Kader Beach
2831 AD - Burning of the Matumbawe on the shores of Lake Mujib, by the Nejem Jeshi Kigeni and Sukūnā
2832 AD - Establishment of Port Barbary
2834 AD - Razing of Sukūnā following the War of Brothers; the Sukūnā split to form the Rafiki and the nomadic Hishu
2843 AD - Formation of the Kavachian Hegemony by the Raksha Koan emerging in Raajad Haane
2852 AD - Ransacking of Cadiz by the Nezem, and subsequent settlement of Zanzibar
2856 AD - Attempts by the Hishu to settle in in the southern reaches of the Darbuiks Alliance are driven off
2867 AD - Admist the ashes of the Matumbawe a figure calling himself the Duke of Velacruz emerges
2880 AD - Formation of Napthali Securities in Ndanga, primarily from ex-Mbum soldiers
2998 AD - At the Outermost Rim
2901 AD - Transmission from Udal began; the Satyata Council on Comorian intervened
2910 AD - Emergence of the Silver Republics, with the settlements of Dorado, Cortega, La Venta and Hanan banding together. Each of the five Duke is promised equal power, but the Duke of Hanan vanished within a month
3064 AD - Absorption of the Hishu into the Tōsandō Union

The Unification Wars
3119 AD - Start of the Acero Conflict between the Buna Federation, Tōsandō Union and Nezem
3134 AD - Formal ceasefire ends the Acero Conflict; refugees flee through the Sai Kung Hoi to form the shanty towns of Rovaniemi and Ranica
3162 AD - Absorption of the Chikalda and Gorski into the Nezem States as protectorates and formation of the Mercantile Alliance with the Saenoori providing security in exchange for territory
3175 AD - Start of the Unification War with the Montijo Union and the Darbuik Alliance
3178 AD - Collapse of the Darbuik Alliance with the flooding of Port Chrysalis
3182 AD - Ceasefire with the Montijo Union and surrender of the Stellarii; emergence of the Progress Made Manifest Coalition in Rhee
3183 AD - Raids between the Nezem States and Buna Federation intensify, with the Buna annexing the Sai Kung Hoi and the threat of the Fall of Tōsandō
3187 AD - Discovery of the 'Fisabee' datavault by the Mercantile Alliance
3188 AD - Establishment of the Federation of Comorian, with the Buna Federation and Nezem States signing a formal treaty

Of Councillors And Men
3189 AD - Assassination of President Esmail Nejem and formation of the Council under his son, Abdul Nejem
3198 AD - Accidental creation of Focht
3207 AD - Early signs of the decaying orbit of the RCV Mbal Msafiri are detected; Focht is declared an epidemic; and the reach of Tāṭa Corporation is uncovered
3214 AD - Gharistan Blues
3215 AD - Following the death of Jenny Sto, a religion springs up centred on Comorian crystals - the New Stoics
3218 AD - Athena Technologies unveil the ATLAS network
3219 AD - Attempts by the New Stoics to reclaim the stars succeed, but briefly, before the first manned crew to leave Comoria in 250 years suffocate
3220 AD - Captain Eshe Okomo and her crew reach orbit and then perform re-entry successfully
3222 AD - Albion Republic invites the Blackwatch to provide security in exchange for territory; it falls Beneath the Fulcrum
3223 AD - Captain Eshe Okomo and her crew finally stabilise the orbit of the RCV Mbal Msafiri; in the same year Dr Aris Yutani uncovers signs of a transmission from Udal
3224 AD - Balcones invited into the Federation; the Afternoon of the Thirteen Ronin
3224 AD - Western Farmer's Alliance invites the Wraithguard to provide security in exchange for territory
3226 AD - Collapse of the Progress Made Manifest Coalition
3227 AD - Enactment of the Huitzilopochtli Programme for Federal Service
3228 AD - Recovery of the UTF Keihäs under the guise of the Skaði Festival by Athena Technologies, triggering invasion by the Seihai and the start of the Long War
3229 AD - Capture of the Sigurðsson-Zhou comet into Lagrangian orbit
3234 AD - Construction of the FNS Tuleva
3237 AD - End of the Long War between the Federation and the Satyata
3239 AD - Construction of the Nejem Elevator in the Anderbacks
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