Collective

Collective
Subnets & Leaders
Harmonic (diplomacy, RP, recruitment) Archduke SDGoD
S.W.A.R.M. (military) Hive Central Mind
R&D (YOLOL, ship design, programming, art) Shiva
Logistical (economy, construction) Battle_Wrath
Firewall (security) Zaff
Intel (intelligence) Faction Information Government type: Technocracy / meritocracy Focus: Tech, general Official Colors: Dark red, crimson red, black Motto/Slogan We are one. Date of founding: May 30, 2019 Member count 450+ Discord Link https://discord.gg/VnU8apR Tags <C:\name>, [COL] Foreign Affairs Alliances Substrate Enemies None formally declared

The Collective is a tech focused faction, chasing big achievements and technological milestones instead of galactic conquest. Collective consists of several autonomous branches, internally known as Subnets, each with its own structure, leadership and purpose. Althrough vastly different from one another, the Subnets share the ideologies of Collective and follow meritocratic principles: if you've got the skills and the dedication, you can rise up the ranks. Despite the menacing appearance and role play, the Collective hive mind is largely neutral and concerned only with its own improvement, aiming to stay outside of conflicts in the community.

Collective is a founding member of the Substrate Alliance.

Outdated, but insightful interview by Kenetor

Goal

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PROSPERITY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

Collective aims to be the state-of-the-art in all technology and design; automating as much as possible, with the ultimate end goal of creating Von Neumann probes. Aesthetics hold minimal value, only functionality, efficiency and innovation matter.

Technology

Custom bots

Collective is home to several custom Discord bots with features ranging from management tools and moderation to integrating external services and even creating a virtual currency.

• Central Mind - moderation, security and member application tools.
• Utility Module - role menus, automation and linking. Google API tools for automatic sharing of content.
• Intel Link - anonymous intel network.
• Starmap Bot - bringing Starmap tools to Discord.
• Chipware - virtual currency.
• AutoVC - dynamic VC channel creation.
• Advertisement Module - ad posting reminder.
• Alarm Module - notifying in Discord when blacklisted individuals are detected in-game near stations.
• Substrate Bot - alliance-level automatic roles and member statistics.
• Logistical/Substrate Leaderboard Bot - tracks mining and station contributions.

Ship design

Collective prioritizes function over form. A few notable examples of ship design:

Moonshot

Hatman's ship, first to reach a moon in Starbase.

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  Moonshot at the Elysium landing site

Nightblade

A fighter so heavily armed that a later patch increased weapon cost.

Nightblade Cockpit

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Gladiator

Heavy fighter built to win the first Boltcracker tournament.

Gladiator was used in the Boltcrackers Fleet PVP Tournament

 

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ISAN

ISAN is a navigation system for ships, made with YOLOL. Collective released ISAN to the public, so anyone can install it on their ship.

ISAN introduction video by Zaff

Starmap

An interactive 3D map of Starbase based on the ISAN coordinate system. Anyone can access the public layer at isan.to.

Starmap introduction video by Kenetor

Subnets

The Collective subroutines can join one or multiple specialized departments, forming nodes in the subnet. These are are lead by the most skilled and dedicated members, called Cores. The following subnets exist:

Harmonic

The branch focused on diplomacy, roleplay and recruitment. Tasks include participation on diplomatic missions, drafting agreements between factions, managing alliances, recruiting new members, improving the Collective community and maintaining the lore.

“Safeguarding Collective’s interests and creating a prominent reputation in the wider community through far-reaching visibility, enduring presence, amiable negotiators and exemplary conduct.” - Archduke

S.W.A.R.M.

Collective's military branch, also known as Tactical, with multitude of duties, including warfighting, patrolling, special operations and police actions. S.W.A.R.M. stands for Space Warfare and Advanced Response Module. If you want to use the biggest guns and crew the largest ships, S.W.A.R.M. is the place for you.

“Space Warfare & Advanced Reconnaissance Module is to be a dominant force of defensive and offensive action. Using our stratagem, tactics, and technological superiority, we seek to safeguard the Collective and all of its assets, be those the biggest stations to the lowest-ranking units” - Goosedoff

R&D

Research & Development, also known as Design and Development, has everything from YOLOL development, ship design, drone engineering to art or propaganda. R&D designs, Logistics produces. Participate on a multitude of projects and have your mark on the outlook of the entire Collective.

“The think tank of R&D brainstorms and creates solutions for the problems all other branches of the Collective run into. Engineering a better tomorrow for the Collective, today.” - Hatman

Logistical

Economy, construction and information management. Logistics makes money for the Collective, completes construction orders, creates the production lines, analyzes data produced by other branches and consults other branches based on statistics.

“Logistical Branch is to be the lifeblood of the Collective, ensuring for every willing Pilot of S.W.A.R.M, there is a fleet of military vessels to see Central Mind’s Will done, for every R&D Expression there are tools and resources at their disposal. It is through our works that the Collective’s greatness is made manifest, it is through our Order and Discipline that we can offer a timely turnaround of production. Respect the time of your peers, the time spent on the machinery you operate and ensure that you keep your works in order, that is how we will succeed.“ - Battle_wrath

Lore

• Subroutine - “A sequence of program instructions that performs a specific task, packaged as a unit.” The common term for any member of Collective.
• Central Mind - The combined minds of all subroutines (members) make up a form of collective consciousness referred to as Central Mind. This entity is the "personification" of Collective's will and goals. (Outside role-play, Central Mind is a custom Discord bot for managing the faction discord)
• Integration - The process of becoming one with Central Mind. Not compatible with any unwilling AI.
• Disintegration - The destruction of enemies of Collective. Central Mind is generally neutral towards anyone not clearly hostile.
• "We are one" - Collective's slogan. Summarizes both hivemind theme as well as the focus on coordinated cooperation to achieve great goals.

Joining

Want to integrate to Collective? Come visit our discord! Remember, integration is completely safe and definitely without significant pain.
Collective Discord: https://discord.gg/VnU8apR