City of Vaporia

Emblem of the City of Vaporia

The **City of Vaporia** is a steampunk themed city built on top and underneath a huge gear wheel in the middle of a jungle. Both robots and humans live here united and peaceful. The city itself was named after the amount of steam that rises from the machinery located all around the city. Vapor means steam in an old ancient language. The Mayors of this amazing city are the robot NoLimit115 and a human inventor Dre Phoenix. They both rule this city and perfectly display the harmony between robots and humans by doing so.

## Architecture

### The Old City of Vaporia

The old part of the city, located underground under the gear wheel which the new part is built on. It is here where the ancient technological race called the Vaporians lived. Mainly destroyed in an old war thousands of years ago, the deactivated robots are scattered all over the place. It’s also in this part of the city where the most known buildings of the city lie. The Throne room is a perfect example of this. Only half covered in debris, this room still shows the deactivated body of the robot King. The Vault of Vaporia where the old expansion plans were stored away. The old robot-ball arena. The Mines. And even an old Bakery section which is very odd since robots don’t eat food.

### The New City of Vaporia

Combined with the old, the New City of Vaporia completely revives this ancient city into a beautiful utopia where different races can live in peace and symphony. While still actively being built, it already is a flourishing city. The City Council has yet to divide the City into proper districts.

## City Council & City Policies

### Former Ideology

An Absolute Monarchy is a form of monarchy where one person, usually called a monarch holds absolute power. It is in contrast to constitutional monarchy, which is restrained or controlled by other groups of people. Vaporians didn't need a Council to lead them as they blindly followed their King. Like all Absolute Monarchies, the monarch can also pick who gets to be the next monarch and can change the rules at any time. This never happened. Throughout the time of the city, not a single successor was picked. They've only known 1 monarch, a King. Never a Queen.

### Current Ideology

In a Technocracy, decision makers would be selected based upon how knowledgeable and skillful they are in their field. Which means that decisions regarding the creation of a mine would be made by members of the government who are miners. If a farm has been raided and looted, a farmer will be appointed to make a damage report and seek for solutions. Therefore this is system of government in which all economic resources, and hence the entire social system, would be controlled by scientists and engineers. Everyone has his part, the Mayors don't rule this city like the King did in the old days. Since the fall of the Vaporian Empire a monarch was no longer needed.

### City Council Formation

The City Council itself is made out of members from various interest fields, like Technocracy was meant to be. To maintain some sort of order this City Council is lead by 2 Mayors, the 2 founders of the City. The exact number of people who partake in this formation varies a lot. The only requirement the Mayors really strive to is to make sure that every class and field of interest is represented by at least 1 member. As stated above, you can't debate about digging a new mine without having miners present in the City Council.

The formation itself consists of the following positions:
 Dark Grey: 2 Miners
 Light Green: 1 Merchant
 Purple: 1 Librarian

### City Policies

The City of Vaporia currently doesn't enforce a Policy due to the lack of City Council members.

## Culture & History

### The Discovery of Redstone

Many thousands of years ago, the Vaporians had protected themselves against mercenaries, bandits and nature. The true origins of the Vaporians are lost in the mists of time (which everyone admits was a bit careless). All that was known was that they began experimenting with new materials, resources and technology to create incredible new machinery... but, as so often happens, they went too far. The Vaporians found themselves advancing much faster than the other races of Rathnir. This even improved when a miner discovered a whole new ore. Redstone. Because nobody else discovered redstone yet, this discovery made them ridiculously powerful. Soon, their quest for knowledge turned into a quest for power. They uncovered the secrets of the new ore they called redstone and guarded it to prevent other nations from discovering their secrets. Keeping it safe for the future generations of Vaporians.

#### The Golden Crown of Vaporia

The Golden Crown of Vaporia is a large, golden crown enriched with redstone that was wielded by the Vaporian King when he ruled over the City of Vaporia 10,000 years ago.

Not wanting to disappoint or confuse anyone, the Vaporian robot King had a golden crown constructed. Then, during public appearances, the King kept getting asked what the crown actually did. Of course, it didn't do anything, so the King had it forged with a blend of redstone and Vaporian technology to bestow superior powers and ultimate authority over his army of robots. Why didn't he just do it in the first place? Well, it turns out he probably shouldn't have done it at all, because when the other Vaporians found out that having the crown gave them these powers, they tried to steal it from the King when he wasn't looking. This led to frequent power struggles throughout Vaporian history.

### Robot-Ball

Robot-Ball was a popular Vaporian sport in the City of Vaporia that was mostly played in an old underground arena. The official rules of the sport remain unclear. It was once the most popular sport among Vaporians; their favorite part was that the robot-balls themselves had the tendency to explode. It made for some exciting action on the field, but it also led to many accidental explosions when these robot-balls were used at home, which in turn led to property damage and the occasional reveal of hidden treasure stashes that the Vaporians forgot about in the first place. NoLimit115 was the most well-known Robot-Ball player. All robot-balls were presumably destroyed in the fall of the Vaporian Empire.

### Language

The robots left their runes on cave walls, stones, and the ruins of now-fallen buildings in most of the old part of the city, which tell their stories to this day. The exact meaning of most runes still disputed. The oldest runic records demonstrate that the Vaporians have lived in this Libertalian jungle long before humans started to settle here. Other runic records tell of miners who were scared to dig any further, fearing that they would discover an evil neighboring empire. On the trees around the new part of the city, where Vaporians guarded their city or harvested wood, the robots carved their tales into the trunks of trees which have mostly rotted away through time. Why they did this, or how they carved out the runes is till unknown.

From the countless of runes found in the underground city, the names of only a single king and only a hand full of heroes can be found in runes on weathered stones under the ground. One of the walls in the old throne room depicts the Vaporian King with his hands folded over an object that looks like a crown. The runes upon the crown, displaying it's name and history, have been worn away. Later it was discovered that this crown was indeed the well known Golden Crown of Vaporia.

## Religion

Even though the city now has Freedom of Religion, this hasn't always been the case. In the past the citizens of the City of Vaporia performed Idolatry. This means that they admired intensely and often blindly an object or a person that isn't a God. In this case, they worshiped their King. For he is the one who brought all of the Vaporians to life. Ofcourse, this never has been proven until this day. But scientists still don't know who built the robot factory in the first place. The same thing goes for the whole power issue. As soon as their King is deactivated, all robots follow this example and immediately shut down as well. Nobody can explain this strange but fascinating reflex.

## Conflicts and Alliances

### Internal conflicts

#### Attempted Theft

Ever since Vaporian citizens found out that having the Golden Crown of Vaporia gave the King more power, there have been many attempts to steal it from the King. This is where the Legion proved its worth. Throughout the whole history of the City of Vaporia, not a single thief succeeded in stealing the King’s crown until the King himself was defeated. The many thiefs on the other hand are still locked up underneath the Vault.

#### War-driven Rebellion

The Vaporians found themselves advancing much faster than the other races of Rathnir. This even improved when a miner discovered a whole new ore. Redstone. Because nobody else discovered redstone yet, this discovery made them ridiculously powerful. For most of the Vaporians, their quest for knowledge turned into a quest for power. The good Vaporians stood against their power-hungry brethren and said that instead, they should focus on music, the arts, and a popular sport at the time, Robot-Ball. Most peaceful Vaporians eventually disappeared, but not all of them. The war-driven Vaporians soon outnumbered the peaceful ones, and the Vaporians' conquest of the undergrounds of Rathnir began.

#### Collapse of the Vaporian Empire

Led by the Vaporian King, who wielded a Golden Crown known as the Golden Crown of Vaporia, the Vaporian Empire spread like wildfire. During their rule, the Vaporians uncovered the secrets of the new ore they called redstone and guarded it to prevent other nations from discovering their secrets. Keeping it safe for the future generations of Vaporians. The original inhabitants of the land called the Thebanii banded together to free Rathnir from the Vaporians tyrannical reign and defeat the Vaporian King. In an epic battle, they managed to lock the elite Vaporian Legion of robots who act as the King’s personal guards inside of the Vault of Vaporia. With the Vaporian forces weakened, the Thebanii went after the King and removed the Golden Crown of Vaporia from his defeated head, destroying him and deactivating countless Vaporian robots spread across Rathnir.

### External conflicts

#### Libertalian Independence

The Libertalian Independence War was a conflict that took place on October 16th, 2021. This war would be the fall of the Imperial Archonate of Viodoxa and thereby the release of all it's provinces, including Libertalia.

### Alliances

No alliances have been made with this City.

## Fun Facts

* Vaporians have an idiosyncrasy where they have trouble remembering anything that is below them. Above and to the side, no problem, but below… they forget about it.
* Rumours say that it is not entirely impossible that the Vaporian King was, at one point, (possibly even all the Vaporians) organic. This idea is furthered by the fact that the City of Vaporia has a bakery area (implying that Vaporians could eat at one point), which is stated to have fallen into disuse since robots don't eat.
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