Factory Standardized Rules
Players are also encouraged to read and often quote the rules where appropriate.
Table of ContentsPlayers are also encouraged to read and often quote the rules where appropriate.
General Factory Rules
1. Maintain a polite and constructive dialogue with Factory Staff at all times. Be respectful.
2. Do not bump your submissions.
3. Factory submissions may only be introduced into role-play threads whose start date begins after the submission's posted date.
4. Plagairism is prohibited.
5. Submissions must follow restricted or banned item guidelines.
6. All submissions need to conform to the general idea of Star Wars. No Gundam Wings, no Transformers, etc.
7. All measurements in all submissions must be in metric.
8. A submission cannot have a higher production rating than the submission used in its creation.
9. Using submissions by other writers requires proof of their permission if marked Closed Market.
10. SSD/Dreadnought/Superweapons require Admin approval.
General Submission Guidelines
1. All manufacturers and affiliations must be properly sourced with provided links.
2. All submissions should reflect the strengths and weaknesses of their materials and components for transparency and fair play.
3. Language that could be interpreted to force another writer to do something they do not wish for their character is prohibited.
4. All canon item submissions are to be treated as replicas and can be claimed/reproduced by multiple players.
5. A Unique submission is generally regarded to be an item, weapon or ship that is meant for PC use, the affiliations should match accordingly.
Pre-Factory Forum Rules [x]
1. Submissions posted to the Live Factory requiring significant work may be returned to the Pre-Factory by a member of Factory staff.
2. The Pre-Factory is for Work In Progress (WIP) Submissions only.
3. WIP Submissions will not be deleted nor archived nor moved from the Pre-Factory forum.
4. WIP Submissions, when finished, must be resubmitted to their respective Factory forum.
5. Members may use the Feedback prefix to indicate they seek other members' advice on Pre-Factory submissions.
6. Members will not comment on threads that do not have the Feedback prefix.
7. Spamming, trolling, and drama in the the Pre-Factory will incur a minimum of a 30 days Factory/Codex ban.
Technology Forum Rules [x]
- Fully constructed Lightsabers and Forcesabers are restricted to a maximum of Semi-Unique production.
- The Armor Rating Extreme will require the submission to be Semi-Unique. This armor rating is considered to be very strong and is usually used when dealing with semi-unique items that should be restricted to Player Characters only.
- Mechs, Walkers, and War Droids, in Star Wars have an iconic, industrial feel. They are not Gundams, Warhammer 40k, Zoids, Titans of Titan Fall, or any sort of extremely over-sized robot with humanoid features and/or erratic animal-esque movements. The permitted aesthetics for all of these items mentioned are those which can be held up to existing, canon examples of Mechs, Walkers, or War Droids.
Note: If it's bigger than an AT-ST [9-10M] it shouldn't have arms or shoulders. A more indepth explanation can be found here.
Starships Forum Rules [x]
- Civilian vessels/stations are defined as having an armament rating of 'None' and, if they have a hangar rating, should not be able to field a compliment of starfighters in a combat capacity.
- For rules on what ships can be owned, operated and manufactured by a Major Faction, Minor Faction, Company or an Individual, please refer to the following table.
- Only a Major Faction has the resources necessary to role-play having a large fleet, army, etc.
Super Star Destroyers / Dreadnoughts
- Acquiring a Super Star Destroyer / Dreadnought will be restricted to Major Factions. Acquisition will follow Dominion rules.
- A major faction, upon completing their second dominion of the calendar month, may begin their third eligible Dominion as a SSD / Dreadnought dominion thread.
- A SSD/Dreadnought factory submission requires admin approval. They are not available for use until they have been approved.
- An SSD is permitted to be any size larger than 5,001m within reason, a Dreadnought will be permitted to range from 5001m to 7000m.
- A unique SSD is permitted one extra point when balancing.
- A semi-unique Dreadnought submission must be a single submission of 3 ships of the same class.
- Each SSD must be labeled Unique, each Dreadnought submission must be Semi-Unique.
- No player may captain a SSD / Dreadnought without the Major Faction Owner's consent.
- If a Major Faction is recalled, merged into another Major Faction, or drops to minor, any SSD / Dreadnought created must be decommissioned and archived.
- While SSDs may be destroyed or scuttled, they cannot be stolen by an opposing Faction.
- Major Factions that are tied to mandates that prohibit rebellions are excluded from building SSDs or dreadnoughts.
- Major Factions that are permitted more than three dominions per month may still only submit a single SSD or Dreadnought submission after their third dominion.
- Dominions submitted must be started and completed within the same month to qualify for an SSD submission.
- Superweapons may only be submitted to the Factory by a Major Faction that has given the 7-day notice of an Annihilation thread, or has started an Annihilation.
- Only one Superweapon may exist per Annihilation thread. e.g. Major Faction A has launched 2 Annihilation threads. It may own 2 Superweapons.
- Superweapons require official two-level approval. They are not considered approved until they have been approved by a factory judge and a RPJ/Admin.
- Each Superweapon must be subbed at unique.
- No player may deploy a Superweapon without the respective Major Faction Owner’s permission.
- If a Major Faction is recalled, merged into another Major Faction, or drops to minor, any Superweapon created must be decommissioned and archived.
- While a Superweapon may be destroyed, it can not be stolen by the members of another faction.
- After a submission has been approved, it will be locked. If you wish to make a modification to it, you may post a request to have the Submission moved to the Factory Modifications Forum to make edits HERE.
- All Submission modifications must be posted by the same account/author of the original submission in question.
- A brief summary of the changes to a submission should be made at the bottom of a submission each time it is modified before being moved back to the Live Factory.
- All Submission Modifications must adhere to current Factory Rules and Templates.
Affiliations and Permissions. What do I do?
Affiliations and Permissions. What do I do?
Affiliations and Permissions are an area of creating submissions of Chaos that writers, both old and new often find themselves confused by. They aren't related to balance or to the creation and content of a submission, but rather directly impact who it is who can use the submission once it has been created. This guide will cover both affiliation and permission to help explain it and explain the current stance of Codex and Factory.
Affiliation
“the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc.”
Merriam-Webster
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Affiliation on Chaos
On Chaos, affiliation denotes which factions, or groups, a character or submission is associated with. This could be a Major Faction, a Minor Faction or a Group within a faction, it could even be a Company. It all depends on you and the story you want to tell.
How affiliation affects creations
When you create anything on Chaos, be it a character, a factory or a codex submission, you retain control over it. Nothing happens to your character without your say so. The same applies to most factory and codex submissions, no-body gets to use your factory submissions, or your NPCs without your say so.
Important Note
Not all Codex Submissions are treated in the way described above. Planets, Species and Locations are available for anyone to use regardless of affiliation. A Super Star Dreadnought is a faction item, and even if you submit it, the use of an SSD is at the behest of the faction owner and it remains a faction resource even after you leave.
Not all Codex Submissions are treated in the way described above. Planets, Species and Locations are available for anyone to use regardless of affiliation. A Super Star Dreadnought is a faction item, and even if you submit it, the use of an SSD is at the behest of the faction owner and it remains a faction resource even after you leave.
How to use affiliations in a submission
We have several affiliations which we use in submissions on Chaos. The two most basic ones are “Open-Market” and “Closed-Market”.
An Open-Market submission is one which you intend to make available to anyone who wants to use it. This could be a gun, a ship, anything, it doesn’t even need to be a mass-produced submission. As long as it’s not unique, any submission may be marked as “Open-Market”. No permissions are required for their use in RP or in other submissions.
A “Closed-Market” submission is the opposite of this, it is a submission which is not simply available for use. If someone wishes to use a “Closed-Market” submission then they will need to seek out the permissions of the original poster before they do.
How to grant permission for specific people to use a submission
There are several other options for affiliation which you can use to grant pre-existing blanket permissions to an individual or a group of writers.
Individual Character Name(s): This affiliation is permission for an individual character or multiple characters to use the submission without seeking additional permissions.
Company Name(s): As above, this is blanket permission for anyone using a company, or group of companies, to use the submission in question without seeking additional permissions.
Faction Name(s): This is blanket permissions for any member of a faction to use the submission in role-play, or in the creation of their own submissions.
How to let multiple types of people use a submission
A submission may have multiple affiliations if you wish, whatever best describes how you want your submission to be used. However, it is important to remember that the production value of a submission can have an impact on this. After all, a unique submission can only be used by one person at a time, a semi-unique submission can’t be used by the entire roster of a Major Faction. Use your best judgement but if you’re unsure, feel free to ask any member of staff.
Permission
At several points in the above section, I talked about seeking permission to use a submission from the original poster. They may choose to extend blanket permission via the affiliations field, but if you’re not included in that permission, or the submission is set to closed market then you need to approach the original poster to obtain permission to use the submission.
Approaching the Original Poster
There are several ways to obtain permission from the Original Submitter that the judges on Chaos find acceptable that will be detailed below.
Marketplace
Many factory users have a storefront thread in the Market Place forum that they list their submissions on and where you can approach them to request permissions. This normally takes the form of a purchase, as per the example below.
That little interaction is all that it takes to obtain permission to use the submission in question. There is no inherent right to approval though, and the Original Poster may reject your request for any reason they deem fit. Some writers are closely tied to a faction and so won’t sell to that faction’s enemies. Another writer might only sell to the lightside or the darkside.
When it comes to showing your permission to use the submission, all you need to do is to link the post granting you authorization. You do this by selecting the three-circle icon in the top right of the post and copying the link provided there.
This link can be used to hyperlink to the post, allowing you to insert it into any submission or RP text.
Board DM
Some writers don’t have store pages, or you may be unable to find it, but there are other ways for you to get the permissions you need. The simplest way would be to drop the original submitter a board DM asking them for permission to use their submission. I’ve included a sample below.
If you just take a screenshot of this conversation then that can be used as permission to use the submission. You can either include the image in your submission or link to it on an image storage site.
Discord
If you know the original poster’s name on Discord then you can reach out to them there and ask them to provide permission for you to use their submission there. I have included an example of this below.
Again, include a link or the screencap for the judges to see.
In thread contract
This isn't so common now as it used to be when contracts were required to tier up your company, however writing a thread is still an option. The thread needs to set out what is being offered and accept a payment or contract in return. If you have such a thread then you can link it in the permission section.
Permissions: Required or Optional
If you’re using something another writer has created then you need to obtain their permission to include it. There is no room for give and take or discussion on this topic, you NEED permissions for any submission which isn't marked as "Open-Market". The only exception to this rule are super star dreadnaughts, codex species, locations and planets which are created for the community. The only person who doesn’t need permissions of some kind to use a submission is the original poster, who is able to use the submission on any of their accounts.
Using Submissions whose author’s no longer write on Chaos
Without the original poster’s permission, you can’t use their submission unless the affiliations allow you to, there is no statute of limitations on this, no give and take to be had. The ultimate authority concerning a submission is the original author. If you like something written by a writer who is no longer on Chaos the best option is to write your own submission to achieve that.
Using submissions only affiliated with a specific group when you are not part of that group
This is possible but only with the permission of the original poster. Affiliation is a blanket approval, but the original poster is the ultimate arbiter of a submission and is able to give out additional permissions at their discretion. This means they can allow you to use a submission even if you’re not part of faction X.
Permissions vs Sub Mods
A submission modification can be carried out via the codex of factory submission modifications thread and is a way to amend your submission. Anything about a submission can be changed, including affiliations. Sub-modding in an affiliation change is a way to provide blanket approval for a certain group to use the submission, but it isn’t necessary. Permissions act as an effective submission modification, allowing a writer to use the submission even if they’re not included in the original affiliations.
Sub modding after leaving a faction
This is one of the only times site staff will step in to prevent the original poster taking back permissions. Once permission has been extended to a faction to use certain submissions we don’t allow that permission to be taken away because of a falling out.
As always if you have any questions please reach out to the Codex Admin or the Factory Admin for more information
Restricted Materials
Restricted Materials
Restricted materials may only be used in submissions where the quantity is Semi-Unique or below.
- Alchemized Artifacts/Items [Force Imbuement, Alkahest, Jal Shey, etc] * (Alchemized artifacts/items where the only effect is increased resilience are not considered to be restricted materials)
- Orbalisk
- Nanotechnology *
- Nykkalt
- Stealth Technology***/Personal Cloaking Device
- Pyronium
- Stygium Crystal
- Void Stone
- Gree Technology
- Hypergates
- Rakata Technology
- Particularly rare or powerful special features/canon technologies **
Items marked with a double asterisk (**) are subject to the following rule:
Technology marked with a triple asterisk (***) are clarified as below:
Banned ItemsBanned Items are not permitted to be used in canon role-play threads on Star Wars RP: Chaos without the explicit permission of the SWRP Staff Team.
Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering Rules
Any player may reverse engineer submissions where there is evidence that these were previously owned by/ manufactured for them. This is to distinguish submissions whose intent is the reverse engineering from an available approved Factory submission.
- A Faction or Individual may reverse engineer or create a new submission for items where there is evidence that these were previously owned by/manufactured for the new submitter. Proof of permission from the original submitter may be requested in some instances.
- The original submission must be referenced and properly cited for reverse engineering.
- The new submission must adhere to current Factory standards.
- The old submission will then be archived accordingly.
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