Category:The Mirror

Random notes: will improve.

1. Most of society is extremely capitalistic and free market, this includes with personal lives. I’ve got one time-frame in which family is nonexistent for a large set of young adults who were bred specifically for the purpose of being mirror pilots. Even for those not specially set aside, the kids largely leave their family units when it comes time to train. Rather independent lot. Doesn’t bode well for political stability, though it makes it easier for the Empire to maintain control. Next major time-frame, family is as family does. You got every kind of family anyone wants to have, but family is not even close to a part of the political structure, which is run by individual corporations and large swaths of smaller businesses and freelancers.

2. Heirarchy is well-delineated based on skill and not inheritance, but serves more as a ranking and training system than anything involved with individuals on an ongoing basis. Of course, in the first time-frame, this isn’t true. It’s much stronger heirarchy, but that’s because there’s an Empire involved, and that heirarchy doesn’t extend downward into the home-life.

3. Cultures here are intermix rather freely and like to borrow anything they like that they come across from anybody else. Very democratic, these.

4. Religious beliefs vary widely, and interfere little with daily life except for among the faithful. I even have my first character that soundly states she is not religous; she’s a philosopher. Of course, she also makes me want to bang my head against my desk half the time, but safe to say…

5/6. Language/dialects moot. It’s all descended from English in a way (maybe might throw in Italian) and all the characters are from the same area. Not used as a distinguishing marker.

7. Clearly divided social subsets that are difficult or undesirable to change once selected.