Mandates

MANDATES

  • Mandates are unique characteristics that may be adopted by a Major Faction that provide the Major Faction a bonus.


CHOOSING A MANDATE
  • A Major Faction Owner must declare his/her Mandate in the Map Update Thread upon their Faction being approved for Major status.
  • Major Faction Mandates and their dates changed will be displayed in the Major Faction Mandates thread.


CHANGING A MANDATE
  • A Major Faction Owner may request their Mandate be changed once every 60 days in the Map Update Thread.



MAJOR FACTION MANDATES [Updated 1/07/23]



1. Fair Fight
"Honor. That is why a Knight does what he does." -Ser Gawain
  • Strength: This Major Faction may only be targeted by one Invasion every 30 days.
  • Weakness: This Major Faction may only win a maximum of one hex per Invasion.
  • Weakness: This Major Faction loses this Mandate if it forfeits an Invasion at any time, and may not choose it again.

2. Fortress Worlds
"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" -Richard III
  • Strength: This Major Faction may designate up to three hexes that count as a capital for purposes of invasions. These hexes must be listed on the Mandate page and can only be changed every 60 days.
  • Weakness: This Mandate may only be possessed by Major Factions with 7 or more hexes in their Influence Cloud.

3. Hyperlane Trader
"When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble." -Warren Buffett
  • Strength: Once per month, this Major Faction may gain a free hex that can be submitted as a Dominion/PvE Thread without any associated thread so long as that hex is adjacent to or directly on a Hyperlane that exists on the map.
  • Weakness: This Major Faction may only submit three completed Player Vs Environment threads every calendar month.

4. Rampant Frontier
"One needs a vision of the promised land in order to have the strength to move." -War and Peace
  • Strength: In the place of Dominion threads, this Major Faction may submit four quality unique Codex Location submissions by four unique writers completed that month to the Map Update thread.
  • Weakness: This Major Faction may not submit more than one Dominion thread a month.
  • Weakness: This Major Faction may not submit more than 12 Codex Location submissions to the Map Update thread a month.

5. Rebel Storm
"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it only takes a few determined leaders and a sound cause." -H.L. Mencken
  • Strengths: A Major Faction with this mandate may mark a Major Faction as its Oppressor. Invasions against this Major Faction may target any valid hex within its cloud, up to three at a time. They can choose a new Oppressor once every 60 days or retain the same one.

  • Weaknesses:
  • This Major Faction may not gain territory on the map at all.
  • This Major Faction may only target its chosen Oppressor.

6. Relentless Horde
"If you had not committed such great sins, God would not have set a punishment like me upon you." -Genghis Khan
  • Strength: This Major Faction may invade two different Major Factions simultaneously.
  • Strength: This Major Faction may submit a completed Invasion thread as a Dominion to the Map Update thread to claim an unrelated hex.

7. Total War
"Total war is the most humane in the long run." -C.S. Lewis

Strengths:
  • This Major Faction can invade and claim 6 Hexes with a single invasion in any order or shape as long as 1 Hex is adjacent to their cloud.
    Can be used to cloud break.
    Weaknesses:
  • If they lose the invasion they lose 6 Hexes of the winner's choosing.
  • Can be used to cloud break.

8. Vassal States
"It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires." -Baron de Montesquieu
  • Strengths
  • This Major Faction can choose to sacrifice 5 Hexes and gain a "Secondary Cloud" of 3 Hexes on the map, excluding Major Faction Capitals.
  • At any point, this Major Faction can sacrifice 2 Hexes to add 1 Hex to the Secondary Cloud if it is in neutral space.
  • Invasions can be launched to and from this Secondary Cloud, and any territory gained or lost follows traditional Invasion rulings.
  • When this Major Faction changes Mandates the number of hexes in the Secondary Cloud are returned to the Main Cloud. The Major Faction may choose which hexes are regained.
  • It can be used to cloud-break.
  • They will be labeled on the Map as a "State" of the Major. (Ex. Empire/Alliance/Sith State).

  • Weakness:
  • The Secondary Cloud can only grow through a 2 Hex sacrifice (in neutral space) or an Invasion Victory.
  • The Secondary Cloud can also be cloud-broken. The portion of the cloud that is closest to this Major Faction's Capital Hex is what will remain.
  • This Mandate follows Dominion Rules, in which this Major Faction cannot reclaim a sacrificed hex by any means for 30 Days.
  • When attempting to take space occupied by another Major for the initial secondary cloud, the defending Faction can try to block the claim, which triggers an invasion. The invasion thread can be started by either Faction, as long as the defending Faction agrees to fight. If the invading Faction loses the invasion, the penalty is reduced to 2 Hexes instead of the initial sacrificial 5, and the defending faction retains all of its territory.
  • Only one Secondary Cloud per Major can exist at a time.

2024 Mandates

9. Kingmaker
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." – Henry Ford
  • Strength: Whenever this Major Faction completes a Junction with another Major Faction, they may claim an additional hex for free.
  • Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a completed Dominion to the Map Update thread, they may gift an additional legal hex to another Major Faction of their choosing.
  • Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a completed Dominion to the Map Update thread, they may begin a Junction with a Major Faction regardless of limits or rules.

10. Techno Boom
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Krutch
  • Strength: In the place of Dominion threads, this Major Faction may submit four quality Factory submissions by four unique writers completed that month to the Map Update thread.
  • Strength: In place of Invasion threads, this Major Faction may opt instead for a Technology Race. During a Technology Race, each faction submits technology, vehicle, starship, lore, or location submissions with their Major Faction listed as the Affiliation in the submission. In lieu of roleplaying in the Invasion, writers post a single link to a submitted submission, with roleplay writing optional. The Major Faction with the most submissions submitted within 30 days is declared victor. A successful Invasion will obey normal rules, but upon failure to win, the defending Major Faction is granted two free hexes.

11. Strength Of The Matriarchy
"We can endure much more than we think we can." -Frida Kahlo
  • Strength: Each PvE thread that rewards hexes rewards double that many hexes. This only triggers if the overwhelming amount (66%>) of characters involved in the thread are all female.

12. Functional Parity
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is no liberty without it." -Frances Wright
  • Strength: This Major Faction may select another Major Faction to be listed as a Target of this mandate. Whenever the Target gains a single hex as a result of a PvE thread, this Major Faction also gains a hex so long as it owns less hexes than the Target. This only applies to the hex gained, as bonuses provided by other mechanics (Map features, Mandates) do not apply.
  • Weakness: Whenever the Target loses one hex or more, this Major Faction loses as many hexes.

13. Megacorpopolis
"Greed is good." -Gordon Gekko
  • Strength: This faction may pay 100,000 credits to a SWRP Staff Administrator to gain a hex for their faction, up to a maximum of four times per month.
  • Weakness: This mandate takes the place of submitting any PVE Threads to the Map Update Thread for hex gain.

14. Wild Magic
"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design." -Richard Dawkins
  • Strength: Each time this Major Faction submits a Map Update, they may make a request in their update to have the SWRP Staff Administrator add or remove a hex from any Major Faction on the map, to include their own. This is decided by flip of the coin.
  • Strength: The Major Faction Owner of this Major Faction may determine the success of any PvP thread their Major Faction is involved in by requesting a public flip of a coin, performed by a SWRP Staff Administrator.
  • Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a completed Junction, a SWRP Staff Administrator will flip two coins. If both heads, this Major Faction will receive an extra hex. If both tails, another Major Faction in the Junction will receive an extra hex at the Administrator's discretion. If mismatched, no extra hexes are rewarded.
  • Weakness: Each time this Major Faction makes a request using the Wild Magic mandate, this Major Faction may lose any number of hexes as determined randomly by the coin flip of an SWRP Staff Administrator. This may only happen a maximum of once per month.

15. Eternal Fleet
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." -Unknown
  • Strength: Each time this Major Faction submits a Map Update, the Major Faction Owner may opt to move it's Major Faction Capital Hex up to two hexes away from its original starting position. If the target hex is owned by another Major Faction, unless it is the opposing Major Faction's Capital Hex, this Major Faction nullifies that hex then gains it.
  • Strength: Whenever this Major Faction moves its Major Faction Capital Hex, it gains all hexes not adjacent to it's Major Faction Capital Hex that do not belong to another Major Faction's influence cloud.
  • Strength: There is no limit on how many Invasions this Major Faction may simultaneously initiate.
  • Weakness: This Major Faction may not exceed more than 7 hexes, to include its Major Faction Capital Hex. If any event supercedes this due to another mandate, the Major Faction may not gain more hexes until it has fewer than 7.
  • Weakness: Whenever this Major Faction moves its Major Faction Capital Hex, it loses all hexes not adjacent to it's Major Faction Capital Hex.
  • Weakness: This Major Faction may only initiate Invasions on hexes adjacent to it's Major Faction Capital Hex.
16. Rebellion
"To steal from the Empire, you just walk in like you belong." -Cassian Andor
  • Neutral: This Mandate may only be chosen by a newly established Major Faction as its first Mandate, and must be announced during its Major Faction application.
  • Strength: This Major Faction may choose three connected hexes a Major Faction owns as it's starting location, with one as its Major Faction Capital.
  • Weakness: This Mandate may only target Major Factions that occupy 12 or more hexes.

17. Beyond The Void
"Nothing exists but atoms and the void." -Democritus
  • Strength: This Major Faction owns an artifact that can be activated in one of two ways during an Invasion or Annihilation.
    • It can dampen the usage of the Force, nullifying it to negligible levels.
    • It can dampen the usage of any announced technology, forcing ships down from the sky.
  • Weakness: The artifact can only be used while this Mandate is active.

18. Wrath Of God
"Damnation does not slumber." -Jonathan Edwards
  • Strength: Annihilations this Major Faction initiates will count instead as three simultaneous Invasions against up to three target Major Factions, with starting and ending hexes decided by the Major Faction Owner. If the Annihilation is won, all three Invasions are won, and all legal hexes between this Major Faction's cloud and the target hexes are gained.
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