EVE Fiction

Cross-posted from here http://backstage.eve-inspiracy.com/index.php?topic=3161.msg47798#msg47798 to get wider coverage, possible dev input.

The topic question especially applies to Caldari and Minmatar, possibly Amarr too.

With the Federation, this is handwaveable. There is no one planetary culture being enforced. The Gallente stuff is just what you see on interstellar networks. Federation is an entity that connects separate, independent planets with their own cultures and politics (as long as its democratic) as a security and regulatory force.

The State and Republic have a bit of an issue. You fly around State and Republic space and notice all the lit-up worlds and think "How the hell can all these be enforced to be Caldari or Minmatar?". Technology? Heavy government footprint?

Instead, I think it would make more sense if the Minmatar Republic just had Matar with billions+. The rest of the worlds are just colonies of, at most, a few million. Sort of like other IPs where you have "Earth and colonies". The State, meanwhile, either just has New Caldari Prime which is governed by the CEP, and then small colonies governed by megacorporations. Or, to avoid the trouble of being bombarded by fascists again, have eight different worlds that are fully-developed, each owned by a megacorp, and the rest are colonies. Ofc, that's not how EVE is, so :dealwithit:

The answer could be that these entities enforce the cultures from the top-down through bureaucracy, media, etc.

Assuming that these divergences with Minmatar and Caldari DO happen, what would they entail? I presume they won't be as diverse as the Fed. Eg. Caldari variations in Wayism (like Christian denominations), instead of fundamentally different religions for Fed (like Islam versus Greco-Roman paganism). You wouldn't have Heart of the Forest on a desert world, maybe, instead a new 'Desert Wind'.

The variations would take place within what is known of Caldari culture. Federal variations would take place within what is known of human culture.

EDIT - At the very least, the trouble outlined above is that while there possibly/definitely is variations, we just don't have many fictional examples. Moar examples in the PF please.