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Hello and welcome to the Union! This place hosts a Star Wars inspired role-playing game, focussed around inter-galactic politics, Jedi and whatever the galaxy can throw at you.

You can take control of a member of the Union, an intergalactic federation of many systems. As a member, you have your own Star System with planets and billions of souls, you can influence galactic politics with your Jedi, and you can run intergalactic corporations.

This page will help you get started on this page. This site is called FWURG, an abbreviation for Free World Union Role playing Game. To find out more about the concept of roleplaying, please see our Roleplaying Guide.

Our roleplaying game is based on the Star Wars universe, featuring some known elements merged with our own input to form a new galaxy. Our galaxy consists of various free worlds which together form the Union. There are many different races, factions and systems. There are also other super-powers besides the Union, like the Hutt Families and the Slave Rebellion. The Union has a Senate with a chancellor who rules this part of the galaxy.

As mentioned, Fwurg is a roleplaying game and you can participate as much or as little as you want. The degree of participation depends on what kind of characters you want to play and you can have one or more characters of different types:

• You can play a Jedi and have adventures.
  Help the Jedi Council, mediate in conflicts and fight evil dark lords.
• You can play a senator and engage in politics.
  Discuss matters of great importance, vote for new rules, regulations and subsidies in the senate.
• You can play a leader and rule your world.
  Be the emperor, queen, president etc.
• You can play other kind of characters and influence the world.
  Be a tabloid reporter, an environmental activist, a barkeeper etc.
• You can even manage the economy of your faction, prosper over time and build magnificent marvels like.

As a player, you can make your own world with your own race and original characters and we encourage you to do so! If you have an idea that does not fit with the rules, please contact a storyteller so they can help you make your idea a reality! You can also use existing races and add to existing story-lines but if you use a race or story created by another player, you should ask the creator for permission to ensure there are no conflicts.

Worlds have different sizes and influences. We distinguish levels of participation for worlds, depending on their level of involvement.

The first level is Candidate World. This status is used when a player is designing their world so they can start playing while the storytellers help them get everything in order. If a world is a Candidate World, this is used to indicate that the world is being judged for entry into the Union.

Approved worlds can have different level of participation.

• Protectorate - If you only want to roleplay a character.
  Your world has no economic or political power, but you can join discussions and voice your worlds opinion.
• Minor World - If you want to roleplay and have political power.
  Your world has no economic influence but does have political power. Your world has a senator and a vote in the Union senate.
• Inner World - If you want to roleplay, political power and run an economy.
  Your world has economic influence and trades on galactic level. It has political power and has a senator with a vote in the Union senate.

But there is more: by creating more details, and fleshing out your world you can switch to other levels of participation! Contact a Storyteller if you want to do so.

The top of our website is divided into the title part (with some in-game banners to the right), and a menu bar.

Each menu option links you to a different part of the site (from left to right):

• Intro – Opening crawl.
• Guides – List of guides to help old and new players.
• News – Page where the latest post of the forum can be found.
• Forum – The forum where you can post threads and play the game. The forum is divided in in-game character and out-of-game character part.
• Wiki – All the information of the galaxy is kept here on a wiki (characters, worlds, etc.).
• Rules – Here all the rules of the game can be found.
• Tools – Tools and builder to help you play the game includes the galaxy map.
• Account information – Shows as which accounts (character) you are logged in and where you can switch between accounts.
• Turn/date – Show you what in-game turn it is and the current real-time date.

To roleplay you first have to make and account on the forum. You make first your general (out-of-game) account and you can later create and link accounts of your new characters. See the Creating an Account and using the account switcher.

We have a set of guides which can help you to get started with roleplaying, they will assume you already have an account:

These guidelines are not set in stone, but if you go outside of them, please check with a Storyteller first to see how we can make it work.