Political Alignment (Broken Space)

A player may elect to further develop their character by establishing the character's political alignment with in Broken Space;
== Centralist vs Decentralist ==
In Broken Space people have different ideas regarding how Humanity should be organized among the stars. This selection expresses weather your character is for a Centralist government or a Decentralized government.
* (Centralist 4) Unitarians - Unitarians believe in a single government holding centralized authority over the star systems in it's jurisdiction.
* (Centralist 3) Federalists - Federalistis believe in centralized governments consisting of semi-autonomous star systems who share power.
* (Centralist 2) Confederates - Confederates believe in decentralized governments consisting of semi-autonomous star systems with power largely resting with the Star Systems rather then the central government.
* (Centralist 1) System Sovereignist - System Sovereignist believe that Humanity should be organized into self government solar systems consisting of a star and it's orbital bodies.
* (Decentralist 1) Free Worlders - Free Worlders reject the idea of a system wide government, and governments of a larger scale and believe that each world has the right to be a self governing entity free of foreign interference. Regionalist refer to them as Globalists.
* (Decentralist 2) Regionalist - Common on the more backwater worlds of Broken Space the Regionalists reject global government in favor fragmented worlds. Some believe that the competition created by this generates greater technological advancement as opposed to stagnation with the Space Race of Earth's 20th Century Cold War being used as an example.
* (Decentralist 3) Polites - Polites support city states, disliking regional governments and the lack of government.
* (Decentralist 4) Anarchist - They don't support any government at all, but their numbers do include persons who favor laws even if there is no authority to enforce those laws except the individuals who comprise society. Anarchist are limited to 'Anarcho' Socio-Economic positions.
== Socio-Economic Position ==
* Corporatist - Corporatists support a society where upon political power is invested in corporate entities.
** Corporate Monopolist - Corporate Monopolist see the Corporation as the ideal social order and favor organization under a single corporate entity.
** Corporate Socialist - Proponents of government whose authority derives from corporate entities practicing employee welfare where upon employees receive medical, retirement, and other benefits through the corporations they work for.
** Anarcho-Corporatist - Anarcho-Corporatists support a socio-economic system organized under corporate entities free to dictate policy as they so please with consumerism, competition, employee discretion, and investor powers holding the corporations in check in absence of a government.
* Classic Liberal - Liberals believe in extensive social and economic freedoms. Classic Liberals favor democratic government forms.
** Social Liberal - Social Liberals believe in extensive social freedoms but repression of economic liberties in order to protect laborers.
** Economic Liberal - Economic liberals believe in extensive economic freedoms but repressed social liberties for social stability.
* Neo-Feudalists - They support 'Conditional Aristocracy' and 'Contractual Servitude'. Neo-Feudalism having a blend of ancient customs and modern legality with titles being sellable, purchasable, and dissolvable. This socio-economic system operates under contractual obligations between individuals. Factories for example would be headed by a Master who has contracts with the workers and an obligation to a Lord who purchases the factories product.
== Humanist vs Trans-Humanist ==
* Humanist - Humanists believe in maintaining a Human purity lacking of genetic nor technological tampering. Preferring that environmental exposure mold the Human condition through natural evolution by way of mutation and genetic drift.
* Bio-Directionists - They support genetic engineering of Humans.
** Liberal Bio-Directionists - Liberal Bio-Directionists reject forced engineering of the Human genome and embrace an approach of guidance and choice. Generally through education and medical services.
** Authoritative Bio-Directionists - Authoritative Bio-Directionists do not trust the general population to engineer the species' and favor instead dictation from authoritative sources. They support a demanding rather than guiding approach such as forced sterilization, licence to breed, and more.
** Trans-Specist - These Bio-Directionists seek to transition from Human to non-Human- a new biological species.
* Sleevers - Sleevers seek to utilize cloning to throw off the shackles of mortality by transferring their consciousness from one body into an empty shell- a Sleeve. This could be accomplished through digitization of consciousness or a biological process that temporarily melds the nervous systems of both bodies.
** Trans-Species Sleevers - An intersectionalist faction that bridges Sleever and Trans-Specist thought.
* Cyberneticist - They support enhancing Humanity through Human-Computer symbiosis.
** Syntheticist - They believe in foregoing the weakness of flesh- illness, mortality, etc through transfer into mechanical hulls.
** Hivers - Hivers support the creation of a Human Hivemind through wireless computer uplink.
** Syntheticist Hivers - The intersection of Hiver and Syntheticist seeks to turn Humans into mechanical beings operating under a hivemind consciousness.
* Ascendant - Ascendants believe that the Human will and energy can be directed and harnessed in order to leave the mortal coils as beings of pure energy.
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