Announcements

The board is the home to things like the big changes on-site and things you need to know about. Things like site updates, competition updates and other things will be posted up here, as well as site polls and the likes.

Character Plotting

Looking to join a thread, but have no idea what you want to do? Lost in the void of your own character? Hearing too many voices? Losing your mind and slowly going in-- Okay, I'm getting a little off track here... If you need to join a thread or want to advertise one already posted to get more people to join or so forth this is your place! Also, if you are in need for a character to be made to enhance your plot or want to run an idea by us or other members, post here!

Character Trackers

In this board, you may make a thread for each of your characters. What you put in the thread is up to you, but its main focus is to organize your character's threads and subplots. You may add other things as well: random trivia, quotes, relationships between other characters, etc. Again, it's all up to you!

Competitions

This area is where things like competitions, polls, and the like are kept.

Suggestion Box and Queries

We build this together. Anyone and anything is taken into account 100% so please feel free to ask us any questions and give up any input on plot, Mission idea, how things are run, etc. You can always find us in the chatbox, or our Skype group chat. This is for you guys!

Drachma

Drachma is the largest country on the face of the planet. It takes up two thirds of Terra Major's west coast and the entire north coast. It is boarded by, from the west to east: Creta, Amestris, The Great Desert, and Xing. Drachma is mostly taiga and arctic plains throughout the center sections, getting progressively colder as it moves north. The coasts are incredibly balmy, subtropical almost. In the northern coast are a series of alpine and tundra islands, utilized for intense military training of Drachma's finest. As a dictatorship, the people still prosper due to thriving oil and electrical departments, which supply many jobs towards the industrial north. Agriculture is strong in the South, while fishing and mining take most of the coasts. This distribution of work keeps people employed and Drachma strong. Drachma was founded on a strong military and has remained such, being one of the most successful militaries to recent knowledge, but with new technological developments and the discovery of rare subterranean minerals integral to weapons tech beneath its surface, has become the leading power in military technology.

Language: Drachman

Xing

Xing is a large empire far to the east of Amestris, across the Great Desert and on the opposite side of the ruins of Xerxes. Supposedly, the nation of Xing is made up of fifty hereditary clans all under the rule of a single Emperor, who cements his rule by taking the daughter of each clan's chief to be his concubine and bear him an heir. But that's obviously not the case anymore. In recent times, the Emperor chooses his next heir and appoints them before he dies. The climate is desertlike at the western ridge, reaching out into a more terential area, considered a jungle. The country itself is extremely mountainous with various tunnels carved out for passage. Xing is a staunch military nation, and due to its sheer manpower, possesses the largest military in the world.

Language: Xingese

Creta

Creta is a nation that borders Amestris to the west. Also off its coast lies a neutral nation called Carraig, and to the north is Drachma. While a small country, it has in recent times become very much defiant; Creta is a country that has been forced to be reborn out of the ashes of a war, and in the rebuilding process the country's common man has garnered an attitude of new beginnings. These are a people who see themselves as survivors reborn, hoping to mould an entirely new, better world. The political landscape currently favours the left wing schools of thinking, particularly socialism and positive liberty, though not as nearly to the left as when Rachel I was originally Queen, and in the aftermath of the Deadlight Virus became one of the top economic powerhouses due to its lucrative trading network. It boasts amongst its strengths a vibrant culture of artists, a strong engineering and shipping sector and an open door policy on immigration, with Atlas City becoming the financial capital of the entire world. The landscape of Creta is varied, but much of the population is concentrated on the coasts, with plains and rolling hills make up much of central Creta and northern Creta being mountainous.

Language: Cretan

Carraig

Off the coast of Creta within a few hours sailing distance is a large island made mostly of sharp, jagged cliffs that peak into small mountains. Because of the dangerous coastline and the mountains that surround them, Carraig is able to keep itself rather secluded from the rest of the world as few ships feel like navigating to get to the few safe ports, giving them quite a good advantage to keep themselves safe from invaders. In ancient times, the people of the island were separated into large warring tribes, only coming together slowly over time as they began to find a niche for themselves in working for other countries as mercenaries to pad their armies. The Creig have built up a long and glorious reputation as being fierce warriors and tacticians, known for their tenacity in battle and policies against taking prisoners or leaving survivors. Swearing allegiance to none, Carraig has learned to survive solely on trade as the world moves to more civilized times, the majority of the country's populace working in blacksmithing, engineering and mechanics that contribute to the small nation's exports. With the world growing tense once more due to invasions and issues on the mainland, most of the population is wondering if they will keep their neutrality and carry on with their exports, resume sending battalions of mercenaries to other armies for pay, or if they, too, will be dragged into the struggles. At present, Carraig is at the forefront of most technological advances -- with the exception of weaponry -- having achieved stable space travel in the year 2016, after numerous earlier test flights.

Languages: Creig and Cretan