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Summer Camp 2023

If you can't believe it, it's a Summer Camp once again!

Howdy! It's been a while since I left worldbuilding, well, for a month. Life hit me with consistency. I don't have any motivations to do so - even this month.

I've missed a lot of challenges, but the Summer Camp is the exception since I joined WA. So it's a right time to go back on track! I can't wait to see what I can do :D

Ultimate Goal

The highest badge is always my priority, but after my first Summer Camp, I found the more interesting goal. Although I missed the strike in a following year, but my ultimate goal is to acquire all type of Summer Camp badges! Respectively, the only badge I left is that bluish badge, so....




Diamond, or Die!

Worlds

In this year, not only I'm going to focus on my main world Terraloga, I'm also going to focus on Confederate States of Earth, or C.S.E. for short. It's the sci-fi world with a simple concept that humanity has long extending their own race, but they have been connected by D.S.E., or what I described as "The Galactic Internet".

The problem I found is that the world is so mixed with major concepts that when I looked back at it I immediately think "Let's clean this thing up"

Homework I: POWER

C.S.E.

Firstly, I’m thinking about the Farland Company, the merchant guild selling capital goods and also non-capital goods across the non-CSE worlds. Secondly, I’m thinking about the C.S.E.’s biggest beef in the galactic war: Huegan Empire and Mulatos Democratic Republic.

Terraloga

The empire must grow, but without strong connection, it become just the fracture shell. I wrote the system down during the early day but never publish it, so the right time for it to shine. I’m going to focus on the power structure of the empire’s government.

  • How they manage such big state without collapsing?
  • How they solve the obstacle throughtout their existence, climbing up to become what they are today?
  • The system might also be looking down to the emperor as a whole.

  • How one heir rise to power?
  • How his dynasty manage to avoid all the war successions?
  • It's mysterious yet magnificent to find out.

    Homework II: FRONTIERS

    C.S.E.

    C.S.E. isn’t the center of the universe. Everyone want to have their free will, exploiting their needs. They may have some humans trying to go as far as possible to get away from them, even before their foundation. They want to the place with no restriction, the world of piracy and freedom. The only limitation is how far you can blind jump. It comes with a cost. When the rim expend, so do the CSE.

    Terraloga

    The biggest frontiers for them is the world outside the South Estisia. The Valonia Empire is still on their quest to unit all the land, and now it might be a good time for me to expend to the East. Before I do, I might have to update the lore first - how they claim to control all the southern region.

    Homework III: RELICS

    C.S.E.

    After the colonies dethroned the earth as the main capital of the entire human race, what happened afterward is unknown. Why the Major Six being called Major Six? Were there any great space nations that went out of existance? Since the past is one of the most fascinated aspects in my worldbuilding, I'm so excited.

    Terraloga

    The history of Valonia Empire and the history of the world, these are things I'd like to create, rework and nothing else, especially the latter which never been updated for such a long time it looked like a feature-testing.

    However, what I want to do the most is the birth of Luumism. I want to explain how such a small cult belief coming from the town in the Jungle become one of the most dominant religions of the South Estisia, and how it connect to this myth to be more believable and coherent to the world rather than just to be setting up for a single plot.

    For example, Hiden's Glyph become a key factor of the War of the Sacked thanks to Casto Hiden abilility to read an ancient scroll, but since it's initiated a thousand year prior, cracking a secret code should've not been an only purpose.

    Homework IV: COMMUNICATION

    This is going to be my favorite theme so far. The think I always curious about.

    C.S.E.

    As I heard the theme, I suddenly know when I'm going to focus there: DSC - Deep Space Communication, the fast-paced galactic network system. It help all the members to connect themselves without using fleet in case of something wrong happened. The system is still barebone and I'd like to expand:

  • How DSC affect the daily life of each member's population?
  • What type of information they like to send via DSC?
  • How DSC secure the government's chain of diplomacy?
  • What happen to DSC during the war?
  • On the other hands, I want to think about the traditional way as well. The wave of datas cannot send you some foods, so how do they transport one with or without DSC?

    Terraloga

    The bigger the empire, the further the data has to go. How do they send their massage throughtout - you get the point. The problem is, what should I do with it? Well. Let me think for a seconds....

    That's right, the Catas Mobile! The steel vehicle using Crystal Engine technology. The other usage of Catastropium!

  • How it evolve over the year after its invention 50 years later?
  • How related technologies involving in this invention has also changed?
  • How it impact the empire's power (see Homework I)
  • My previous attempt :)

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    Dates before the great tidying

    What is this?

    I was so scared back then that I'd lost I want to justify that all my prompt is written and finished in time without any editing, intentionally or accidentally, after the end of July, the period of judging. It also remind me of how my prompts has evolved over time, and oh boy I'm so cringed.

    For now, the moth-holder will take care of it.

    3/8/2023 - Summer Camp is now over. Let's get this cringe to shine!


     

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    Author's Notes

    18/6/2023 - Prep One, Two, and Three finished!
    25/6/2023 - Prep Finale finished!
    21/7/2023 - COPPER badge secured!
    30/7/2023 - SILVER badge secured!
    31/7/2023 - GOOD badge secured!
    1/8/2023 - DIAMOND badge secured!


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    Jun 17, 2023 19:19

    Have loads of fun obtaining the shiniest of shinies this Summer Camp! \o/

    Jun 17, 2023 19:25

    With one in a million opportunities, I'll try my best.   Wish me luck! ᕙ(▿´)ᕗ

    Jun 17, 2023 22:03 by Rin Garnett

    Love the banner, but you should really eat that ice cream before it makes a mess on the table ;) Best of luck reaching diamond, and may the prompts be forever in your favor!

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    Jun 19, 2023 14:51

    Sure thing! and good luck to you too! :D

    Jun 20, 2023 13:51 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

    The moth-holder is my new favourite thing.   Good luck with the diamond quest! <3

    Emy x
    Explore Etrea | Summer Camp 2025
    Jun 20, 2023 20:55

    Thank you! The only way to scare the moth-holders away are filling all the prompts. I can't wait to snap it all. :D