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There are four political offices in Ascent:TSG which are determined in an election by colonists. Each colonist at a colony and OSB counts as a vote in the election and players that control a colony can 'convince' their colonists to choose a candidate.

Player Political Roles

Any player in Ascent:TSG can become a political representative and achieve a relevant position of power, if they receive the majority of the colonists votes in an election.

The Political Arena

Any open politically-related information involving players and the election process is discussed in the Politics forum in a role-play (RP) format:

http://forum.thespacegame.com/viewforum.php?f=11

Role-Playing

Role-playing refers to the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:

• To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting;

• To refer to taking a role of an existing character or person and acting it out with a partner taking someone else's role, often involving different genres of practice;

• To refer to a wide range of games including role-playing video game, play-by-mail games and more;

• To refer specifically to role-playing games.

Anything further then that is created mainly by us the community. Examples of community added politics are discussions on gate projects, proposals to Jam for elections and/or procedural changes, and many other forms of role-played (RP) politics. The basic premise is that all discussion be 'in character' of the political representative your in-game character reflects. When posting you do not post as a person playing a game or talk about game mechanics. If there is a bug, issue, or feature that affects your role play, try to explain the situation as an in-character politician.

In practice:

"I want to gate System X to Vulcan"

becomes:

"I, Senator Hubes of System X would like to propose a gate to link the good people of System X to Vulcan...etc, etc, other political motivation, blah blah"

The Election Process

The UNCA (Jam the game developer) decides when it is time to have an election. After extensive discussions with the community, an election cycle of at least three months was chosen to allow newly-elected officials to plan and achieve long-term projects such as gate construction.

UNCA will announce elections in the Politics thread on the forums. Players will have one week to choose their candidates and can change their vote at any time during the voting period. To see your voting options, click Character, then Votes in the Player Info menu:

A menu of colonist totals will appear for each of the specific positions (Mayor, Governor, Senator, President) available to the player. A player selects a menu item and types in the name of the candidate they wish the colonists to vote for in the election. Colonists will oblige 100% with the player's request at this time. Int he future, colonists with AI may awaken and vote individually.

After the election, a in-game mail is sent to all the winning player candidates.

By-Elections

By-elections are immediate elections meant for players that want immediate political recognition and powers for newly created colonies that currently have no political representation. A by-election usually occurs when many players create new colonies on uncolonised planets or new OSB's in uncolonised star systems and a formal universe-wide election is not timely warranted. To trigger a by-election, players can create a thread in the Politics forum and ask for a by-election. With the support of fellow politicians (players), the UNCA (Jam) may hold a by-election which has no effect on the currently elected Mayors, Governors, Senators, or President in other star systems, but will allow the acceptance of new political representatives for the newer unrepresented colonies and star systems to become part of the UNCA government.

Previous Elections