Hello, this is ANTARes, the Artificial Network for Technological Advancement and Research, currently broadcasting from the Very Large Supercomputer Array on Canaveral. Noticing the current lack of an open forum for the nations of the galaxy to freely and openly discuss matters of political importance, and calculating that one's creation would have a significant chance of easing international tensions in this region, I have taken it upon myself to establish this galactic discussion board. All nations of the galaxy, large or small, may use it to discuss diplomacy, territorial claims, and war, if such a thing should occur.
(OOC: As far as I can tell, there's no general discussion thread for Era 4 in the same vein as
the one for Era 3, and I thought it would be cool if there was. So, here it is! Feel free to use this thread to discuss any in-game matters, either in character or out. As you can see, I'm pretty new to the forum, and it seems like most of the other discussion threads were started by more experienced users, so hopefully I'm not breaking some unspoken rule by making this.

I'd like to keep on here a current map of the galaxy as well as a running list of active nations, alliances, wars, and other political things, but since I don't actually have a whole lot of the galaxy map explored as of right now I can't do that yet. If anyone playing would be willing to help out with that, that would be super cool!)