We talked a little bit in chat about the Daqin Empire and its political structure and the take aways are:
1) It is a fudal system
2) The Empress is the head of the military (Not originally Cadet's idea, but Ray and I thought it made more sense)
3) The military is made up of the great houses, but there is some difference between the houses personal military and 'the military'
4) The position of Empress isn't a lifetime appointment and is often swapped out.
5) The Empress has some kind of 'needs her generals to all like her' going on.
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What we want is a way to add major character and organizations to the Daqin in a way that makes sense.
I think in addition to corporations, major houses led by the Generals would be the way to go. This would come with a decent 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' styling to it too. Some things I think could include are:
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Here is my first stab at a Daqin general: https://noblesofnull.com/wiki/liu_fan
I imagine that each general would have a lot of authority as to how their 'domain' is structured. There might not be a whole lot of standardization between forces but then again there may just be one General in charge of shipbuilding for everyone, one in charge of infantry weapons, one in charge of vehicles, etc.
1) It is a fudal system
2) The Empress is the head of the military (Not originally Cadet's idea, but Ray and I thought it made more sense)
3) The military is made up of the great houses, but there is some difference between the houses personal military and 'the military'
4) The position of Empress isn't a lifetime appointment and is often swapped out.
5) The Empress has some kind of 'needs her generals to all like her' going on.
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What we want is a way to add major character and organizations to the Daqin in a way that makes sense.
I think in addition to corporations, major houses led by the Generals would be the way to go. This would come with a decent 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' styling to it too. Some things I think could include are:
- All Female Units: https://dynasty-warriors.fandom.com/wiki/Vietnam
- Absolutely fantastic names/titles for generals: https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Liu_Bei#Appointments_and_titles_held
See Liu Bei's titles:
- Commandant of Anxi (安喜尉)
- Senior Major (別部司馬) under Gongsun Zan
- Commandant of Gaotang (高唐尉)
- Prefect of Gaotang (高唐令)
- Chancellor of Pingyuan (平原相)
- Inspector of Yu Province (豫州刺史)
- Governor of Xu Province (徐州牧)
- General Who Guards the East (鎮東將軍)
- Marquis of Yicheng (宜城亭侯)
- General of the Left (左將軍)
- Governor of Jing Province (荊州牧)
- Grand Marshal (大司馬)
- Director of Retainers (司隸校尉)
- King of Hanzhong (漢中王)
- Emperor Zhaolie of Shu Han (蜀漢昭烈皇帝) - Liu Bei's posthumous title
- Some amount of Shogi piece names working their way into stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi ? I know Cadet didn't seem to be a fan of this.
- Taking consorts / multiple spouses being common?
- buqu (部曲) being the private armies of each house / the family held armies that are personally responsible to the generals. The Imperial Guard would likely be the Empress' own Buqu. : http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Terms/buqu.html
- Conscripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Three_Kingdoms For this one I'm still struggling to find actual military titles for the time period that could be used but I am also thinking that Conscription should be something the Daqin use extensively. While the generals are in charge of their own domains, it should be expected that the average Daqin could be brought into the military to fill its ranks quickly. Of course since this is the space-future this is probably looks more like each citizen having some kind of reserve forces training where in the event of conflict they can be activated to help the war effort in some way. 99% of the time they work whatever regular job they have (with corporations and such probably also overseen by the Generals/ lords / etc) and 1% of the time they practice military logistics or work on some other 'more directly military' task.
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Here is my first stab at a Daqin general: https://noblesofnull.com/wiki/liu_fan
I imagine that each general would have a lot of authority as to how their 'domain' is structured. There might not be a whole lot of standardization between forces but then again there may just be one General in charge of shipbuilding for everyone, one in charge of infantry weapons, one in charge of vehicles, etc.
