Lore Resources and Discussion Thread

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These are for the main alien universe mostly but a lot of it applies to CM still

If you have any questions ask me.

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Who is the current Emperor of the Three Worlds Empire and what is the name of the Royal House?

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We know it’s a woman based off the mention of “Her Majesty’s Ship” in A:RPG Op manual, but the house and name are never given,

The name is probably a combination of both the british house and japanese house, British is windsor and japan is
 no clue really, they don’t have a house from what i know.

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Thank you for the information @Blue-Lou. House of Yamato would be Japan’s.

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where’s the “house of yamato” thing from i can’t find any mention of it.

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Yamato is the name of the prominent ethnic group of Japan. It is an older phrase.

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They do, in fact, have a house! Problem is, it’s not named. If you look on Wikipedia, they get the title 皇柀 (こうし぀, koushitsu), but the problem is, that just means “Imperial family” (and more literally it translates to “emperor’s room”).
As far as I know, this has always been the case, and hence the current Emperor of Japan, Emperor Naruhito, really is just called Naruhito, and nothing else. (Though if you were to call him just Naruhito to his face, expect to be in a very awkward situation).


Pictured: Emperor Naruhito (ćŸłä»)

As for how this would translate to CM, uh

Call the royal house Windsor皇柀 from now on???

Er, really, we would have to know the actual identity of some the members of the TWE royal family to figure something like that out.

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Yeah that’s what i meant by “no house”

they don’t have a named house.

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That is true, but the issue is that wouldn’t necessarily translate into a royal house name. Indeed, even most of the ruling houses of China (where our ethnic names is literally derived from two of our most successful dynasties), do not have the name of either Han or Tang*. During the Han dynasty, the ruling house was named Liu (抉, Liu2), and during the Tang dynasty, the ruling house was named Li (李, Li3)

*If you’re wondering why I include the Tang dynasty, it’s because in Southern Chinese dialects (Cantonese especially), we alternatively use the term 攐äșș (Mandarin: Tang2ren2, Cantonese: Tong4jan4) to refer to us Chinese. Long story short: Tang dynasty was the most prosperous age for us Southern Chinese, and it was arguably the time when the Southern Chinese (again, especially Cantonese) identity and culture really blossomed.

Honestly, I think it would be a bad idea to try and blend the two royal families together for the TWE. The British and Japanese have completely different cultures and national identities. If one family gains supremacy over the other, it could be interpreted by nationalists and other right-wingers of the other familiy’s country that their place within the TWE is either unequal or under threat of annihilation. If the two blend together
why? The two royal families already have no power, so more effectual change would come about with a union of the two nations’ parliaments instead, with the royal families remaining separate figureheads of their respective nations. Satisfy the globalists and the conservatives all at once (to an extent).

Basically, who’s the emperor of the TWE? No one. Such a position would necessarily upset any one of the nations in the TWE and undermine the point of the TWE as a federation of states rather than a complete union of them.

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I feel the reason the royal families blend together is less because it’s the 1300s again and we’re doing strategic marriages and more just because it’s now both japanese and british upper class aristocratic families are now in more contact with each other, so over the nearly 100 years from it’s inception in 2088 they’ve slowly merged into one.

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There was a time when it all belonged to us! What are we now? A few tiny nations, a few worlds and a thousand monuments to past glories. Living off memories and stories, and selling trinkets. My god, man! We’ve become a tourist attraction. See the great Three World Empire! - open 9 to 5 - United American Time - Unknown TWE Ambassador

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(this is a babylon 5 quote if you don’t get the reference steel is making, though it’s not entierly true given they have the neroid sector, which isn’t saying much because the place is a dump.)

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Really cool lore question that I agree should have some kind of answer.
Windsor is the easier part to add since we all speak English and are implementing it in English.

“Yamato” isn’t a bad idea for the Imperial Japanese family.
Wikipedia did help shed more light on it.
Yamato is a dynastic name for the Imperial Japanese, that then got used for a ton of stuff.
Yamato basically became the name for “Japan” and also the province they ruled from.
But there are like tons of things named Yamato since, like battleships and insurance companies.
There are a ton of places named Yamato in Japan now.
Maybe naming a TWE ship, colony, or weapon “Yamato” could be more appropriate?
Then we can Japanify the Brits a bit more.
Honestly a new Battleship Yamato would be really funny.

I think the “Kƍshitsu” term might be a better Imperial Japanese family name.
Searching the term specifically pulls up the Imperial Japanese family tree.
This is the chad Wikipedia page for them.
It’s also included under the formal Japanese title in the OP post.

Also, random English thing to note, they use Imperial in place of Royal for most everything.
So it’s the Imperial family and not the Royal family.

I’m going to ask some Japanese guys I know about this and come back later.
Just sent the question before I post this. They can confirm or deny pretty easily for me.
Honestly, as long as we’re being respectful and trying to understand, I don’t think anyone will be upset with our fun little space pixel game RP server.

ALSO, some fun character name ideas for TWE are under the “Cadet Branches” in the Imperial House wiki which is the same link from the Kƍshitsu paragraph.

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The Navy of the 3WE is actually not british, rather it’s the IASF, which functions as army, navy and air force, the Imperial Armed Space Forces name is reference to the japanese military and the self defense forces.

Meanwhile they’re separate elite fighting force is the Royal Marine Commandos who are based off the real life Royal Marine commandos.

So i imagine it as there being the IASF for the japanese and the RMC for the british in terms of influence.

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Thank you for providing this information.

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I have a lord question. So are the UPP effectivly the space soviet union under stalinist rule or are they diffrent in anyway. If they are effectivly a stalinist era nation in space then who is the chairman of the UPP.

Also if the UA and UPP are in a cold war why would ground troops ever be allowed to fire on each other. It also says that conflict between them has resulted on nukes being used. Seems odd that millions of UA and UPP people getting turned to vapor would not result in a nuclear war on earth. Whats stopping them from threatning to drop a cobalt bomb on washington or moscow.

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UPP aren’t just russian, they’re china germany spain and korea, plus a few others, the answer to the government questions is here.

As for their president i believe it’s “Helmut Honecker”

Because the UPP ERT is basically just taking advantage of weak marines, basically the USS Almayer has no real connection to the outside world and can’t warn others, so the UPP are attacking it because then UA presence has been weakened, they’re attacking in secret basically, as for why nukes are okay, you got to remember that this is in space, far away from earths leaders, and most rules on earth don’t apply to outer space, which is why the UA can use gas and bioweapons, it’s because earth rules don’t apply, everything is fair game, so who cares when the UPP nuke some place, if they do that on earth then it’s bad because that’s where the leaders of all the countries live and it’s humanity’s origin point.

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Thanks for the answer to the rules of space part. However when I said are they effectivly the space soviet union I ment that in how they handle the laws. Cause from what I have seen UPP’s players and the wiki paint them effectivly the exact same as IRL countrys like the USSR, east germany, Mao’s china, north koera, cuba, communist albania, communist romania. The kind of place where the police send you to ice colony classic for makeing a joke about how the leaders name sounds like helmat honker. I was wondering if they where diffrenet in some way.

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Depends on how far you think they take “stay true to the union”

The MSS is basically the KGB/GRU of the UPP,

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Apparently their imperial name is literally Yamato as “of the Yamato people” in a sense https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/7gtvwh/comment/dqlo4e1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

IMO, the reason for it maybe from mythology they are descendants of Gods, or from historical sense they are the head of the Yamato tribe

Therefore they are above all others and have no need to differentiate themselves with household name.
But again it maybe just me talking nonsense so take it with a grain of salt.

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