Warhead Keep

Warhead is everywhere. It is less a place than a state of mind. Nonetheless, Warhead does have a central location. In the Far East, just beyond the border of the Walk of Man, and north of the border of the Azuremar Plains. The large training range they created there to begin their initial goals blended into their quickly forming liberty city, and became known at some point as Warhead Keep. In short order, an interesting new society was founded on the ancient patriotic ideals espoused by Robert A. Heinlein in his novel Starship Troopers. The General, who is, generally speaking, in office until he chooses to retire, presides over the Colonels' Senate, which functions much the same as a typical democratic senate.

Warhead Keep itself is a massive walled city, with many utilitarian barracks, motor pools and officers' housing facilities surrounding a liberty city and residential housing district with a quaint pastoral feel, like a European mountain village with an almost German atmosphere. There are more than an average numbers of bars, but also many sit-down restaurants, open-air cafes and many theaters and sports fields for both families and troops to relieve tension and enjoy themselves.

The many colonial bases for Warhead are typically basic military base structures built behind solid walls, located within an hour's driving distance of a town which can be used for free time, and which have a very strong utilitarian air to them. The citizens of Warhead all live above the poverty line, except for those who live below it by choice. There's always work to be done, be it civilian, civil service or military.

Anyone who needs housing and food can always perform grunt work for the military and receive a hot meal and a place to sleep in exchange for a good day's work doing whatever needs doing. Very few citizens, or even officers, become wealthy by traditional standards, but making a comfortable living requires only a little elbow grease and some ingenuity.

Locals of Warhead are patriotic and adventurous. The idea that it's their duty to help make their community a better place is drilled into their heads from a young age. They tend to be open and friendly to visitors, though their soldiers and police aren't afraid to growl at those who stray into areas off limits to civilians and foreigners. When they come of age, many young Warhead citizens spend a year or more wandering the continent of Youzem or Neo Titania doing odd jobs or mercenary work to learn about the world around them.

Warhead does business with all of the factions of The Council of Avalon. As a result, they keep their business as cordial as possible. However, outside observers note that they seem to have a natural bias against Xanadu and Aquilon.

At the very end of the 20th century, people on Earth began developing new technologies such as internet, better embedded systems, etc. During the beginning of the 21st century everything was computerized and it went so far as to the point where everything was more or less a computer. Even the toilet was voice activated and furniture in your house had small wheels and could be moved by voice control. As it is well known, such advancements in technology came at a price. People more or less stopped depending on each other. They stopped going out and meeting each other in the flesh. They became colder towards one another and cared only for themselves, which was also one of the reasons why things went so very wrong later on.

It is therefore not surprising that Trapper Town (Walk of Man) on New Horizon shuns technologies of every kind. Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of their past, the people of Trapper Town and the Walk of Man only use technology when needed, and nothing more. They are simple folk, lacking sophistication, and they are slow to accept new ideas and new concepts. Aquilon's Reach is the opposite, which causes a lot of conflicts between the two. Trapper Town hates that Aquilonians are trying to contaminate the world with new technologies and they believe that they are the proof that people can live without it and be better off at that.

Aquilon's Reach and Xanadu are well known competitors. They each have a different sort of technological path, they argue over which is best, and they clash on ideology and social values as well. Both of them develop state-of-the-art weapons, which are sold all over the world, and both want to be known as the world's prime weapons manufacturer. Aquilon favors high energy technology for its weapons, and more sophisticated technologies, like energy shielding, where as Xanadu focuses on slug based weaponry and solid state armoring. When one of them manages to develop something new and groundbreaking, the other often tries to steal it.

Xanadians are very conservative. They believe that hard work always equals success so people who aren't successful are just lazy. Aquilonians are extremely liberal individuals. They believe that many people work hard but may not be successful for a variety of reasons such as racism or classism. They believe that the government can help solve these inequalities.

Aquilonians see Xanadians as outmoded, socially repressed lunatics led by doddering old men. Xanadians see Aquilonians as lunatics without morals or scruples, pushing pie in the sky technology and eroding their social values. Xanadu also dislikes Promethean Cyborgs and Medeans. They discriminate against them in a manner not unlike racism, which more often than not becomes the main reason for conflicts.

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