User:Mathetesalexandrou/Fanon:Politics of Time Paradox at Time of Heptanomis

Overview
The Time Paradox fanon is quite known for its longwindedness, its strength and more so its weakness. Given its tendency to go to much details or take branchlines of plot. Time Paradox is ridden with tons of factions, tons of rather undeveloped storylines. This article is to clear up the specifics.

Basic Conflict
The base conflict, and the one that the readers might be most familiar with, is the conflict between the mainstream SimNationian culture lead primarily by the Council of Bridgeport against the nascent but promising power of the Papacy under the Ecclesiarchy under the leadership of Kallisto Syrakosia and the rest of the Big 6. The conflict is rather similar to the Cold War between US and the USSR as it enters the detente caused by the ever-going construction of Heptanomis.

The similarity with the Cold War grows with the tendency for proxy conflicts to occur, one of the most visible located in Moonlight Falls, in which the pro-SimNationian (more specifically, anti-institutionalized celibacy) Bronzefangs under Ezekiel Gretchyn is pitted against the various witch cults which were attracted to the Papal State due to its great role in the elixir market, especially the celibate Silver Lilies and the Victorian-style Lizardworts. The Papacy not only have the supernatural on their side, but also the scientific minds, who are attracted to the Papal attitude towards science, research, and experimentation. Transhumanists are a notable portion of the Papal faction, since the Big 6 embrace the idea of human augmentations. Thus transhumanist camps, such as the Heraldry of the Machines, join the Papacy-led coalition against the celebrity-led popular culture of SimNation.

Despite the grand scale, it really boils down into a hilariously aggrandized form of conflict between the adult versions of stereotypical high school "preps"/popular kids against the adult version of the nerd population, with the non-nerds largely supporting the popular kids because they disagree with the nerds on some positions.

Free World (a.k.a. the high school "preps"/popular kids and allies)

 * Council of Bridgeport
 * Bronzefangs
 * Free Love Movement

Transhuman Revolution

 * Ecclesiarchy
 * Heraldry of the Machines
 * Lizardworts
 * Silver Lilies