Bastee (Shirpas)

The Bastee, short for Sherapa Bastee (Sherpa Settlement), is an affiliation of towns and militias around the coast of Wilkes Land.

## Society

### Ideology

Dominance and sustainment of Sherapa interests within the claims of the stateEmphasized cultural traditionalism

## Background

* Antarctica is semi-habitable, has a shit ton of FEV and Rads still in the air, has 1/39th the population as a whole of fallout 1's California but 99% of it came from large "Vaults" effectively. Stuff is very well preserved but there is still very large income and tech disparaties between the centers of old war technological science/military settlements and outside in the "wastes" and "subwastes"

a lot of FEV exposure and outrage over new weapons in the market after Casey was seiged. Central-ish government established to regulate the technology, communicate with other nations, and protect the Sherapas and their existence on Antarctica. Projects to unite Lhama and Sherapa literacy/culture since they were all packed into smaller, disconnected Vaults across Wilkes Land in boats. Central-ish volunteer army established. Taxation/Patronage system implemented. Roads and radio towers salvaged/built from brick and wood. Greenhouses and water purifiers built.

The first Stealth technology, power armor, and geiger counter salvaged.

etc ettc.

## Society

The Sherapas are organized around mountains or energy sources ruled by Lhamas that also act as the ultimate political advisor. it is customary for this Lhama to be exceptionally resourceful and welcoming to the whole community. A town hall is a church and a church is a town hall, often providing beds for homeless and wanderers. These can work as good player housing if they do not plan on holding contraband items that they stole from the town.

Political decisions of the highest degree are voted on by each Lhama from each town using radio.

The Sherapas still largely maintain traditional gender roles, though no shame is attached to bending them in times of need.

Sherapa religion mainly revolves around worship of families and local spirits using offerings or idols. The advice that Lhamas will give will often follow with Buddhist doctrine, though it has become common for Lhamas to develop their own variations of religious and social philosophies without regard for Buddhist dogma.

Most market trade happens by mountaineer caravan amongst distant settlements co-ordinated by radio. Pre-War [Coffee Mugs] have been unofficialy used as a standard currency in many transactions for the same reason as Hub Bucks in the NCR.

The Sherapa nation has a comparatively large scale of radio communication infrastructure and knowledge storage (in the form of city and capital libraries) than other Antarctic factions. They also have inherited little military technology, however, due to most of India's funding and attention going to the "Oasis" where Mahtri base used to be.

Ghouls are held in high regard for their wisdom and service to the nation, since most of them were driving the vault-on-boats that started the Sherapa Nation.

Mutants are hated and FEV exposure is treated as a spiritual and physical ailment depending on the education of the people interpereting it. Similar attitudes surround radiation poisoning.

## Relations to Other Factions

In the establishment of their nation, the early Sherapa settlers unleashed into the Arctic by the Indian government sieged and stormed the Casey Research Station. The occupants of the settlement, mostly agents of the Australian state that were sent for the similar reason to the Sherapas, were all wiped out in the attack. Casey was renamed to Kesee and made the capital of the unified Sherapa Nation. The remaining Australian settlements of Davis and Mawson still blame the Sherapas for this massacre.

The Sherapa nation has had regular border skirmishes and power/land grabs against raider and tribal groups further inland. They tend to come out on top of these fights, but due to poor internal planning these border expansions are not long lived.

The Russian breakaway state of Vostok is an rival nation to the Sherapas, due to them expanding in the opposite general directions.

Due to a 100 year grudge against the Chinese, Sherapas tend to have a distrust of settlements controlled by the [Manchus].

The Novolazarevskaya Dominion is still blamed for taking over centurial Indian bases in the former Oasis that would have acted as higher-tech allies to the Sherapas with possible aircraft technology

## Relation to the Player Character

The Player character can do multiple quests to aid the Bastee, but may not officially join any of their ranks if they aren't a Sherapa. Occasionally they will be able to work as a translator, however, if they have literacy in two or more languages including Sherapa.