Created by: Garry Stahl
Number of Members: 2.2 million
Nature of Members: Humans and humanoids
Organization: Feudal
Game Role: A weird little planet for PCs and NPCs to come from.
World Role: A lost Earth colony that has really beat the odds.
Relative Influence: None
Public or Secret?: Public
Publicly Stated Goal: To relive the glory days of Tudor era Merrie Olde England.
Real Goal (if different): This has varied with the monarch currently on the throne.
Relative Wealth: Poor. Tudor lacks the technology to effectively harvest the limited wealth of their star system, and they really don't want it.
Group advantages: None really, unless mass delusion is an advantage.
Special Abilities: None
Group disadvantages: Technology is stuck in the pre-industrial era by both law and custom. Technology enclaves exist, but are regulated and tightly controlled.
Special Disadvantages: More of the same.
Who belongs: People living on Tudor. People that find the idea of a pre-industrial English society just so romantic.
Those who favor them: Tourists.
Those opposed to them: Residents of Standish,, real history buffs.
Area of Operation: Somewhere in the Federation part of the Orion sphere.
Headquarters Location: Loundon (what else?)
Public Face: Queer people stuck firmly in what they think is the past.
Notable Members: Henri Tudor XXI. Founder and first King
Michal Standish Rebel and founder of the Standish colony
History of the Organization: In the late 21st century many colony efforts were launched that were less than successful. Tudor should have been one of them. Only luck beyond reason saved it, and it continues in its curious way.
       Shortly after the launch of the first warp drive ships, Henri Tudor XXI, born Henry Taylor, a descendant of Henry the 8th by a bastard son, decided to put his wealth to good use. He declared himself the true scion on the royal Tudor line, and that he would found a New England in the stars. The company charter made the new colony an absolute monarchy, with Henri as king. Well people knew that when they signed up. The charter also specified that once a given bit of technology failed, it would not be replaced.
       Questionable charter in hand, starship ready the Tudor Colony was off and running, and in trouble from the start. On initialization the warp drive formed a wormhole, they went in. Lucky for them the drive failed at the critical moment and they got spat out whole. However they had no warp drive. Lucky for them they were in a star system with a class M planet.
       After a rocky start the colony flourished. Technology failed bit by bit and within two generations a somewhat accurate recreation of 16th century England was established. They had some rocky times when some of the Kings abused power, but all in all it worked, at least as well as the original.
       Again luck intervened. As their world was resource poor, and the Orions knew this. The Orions never visited and decided to raid the colony. They never figured a colony would be there.
       In the mid 23rd century a Federation starship paid a visit. The hulk of the orbiting colony ship told the tale. Tudor was left be for the most part, but taken under the wing of the Federation as a lost Earth colony.

       Michal Standish was a miller. He was an ambitions miller. When one of his mill improvements caused the crown to seize and burn his mill, he became an angry miller and a rebel. Why was he not allowed to improve his lot and reduce his work load if his mind could devise such schemes? Standish gathered followers and they fell back into the hills, and fought the King and his technology police.
       When the next Federation starship came around, the King complained to them of the rebels. Talks were arranged, Standish and his followers pointed out that the King had the advantage of Federation technology, why not them?
       The upshot of the matter was the King got replaced by a new King, technology enclaves were set up, and Standish and his followers were offered a ride elsewhere, which they took to found the Standish Colony. Tudor became a tourist destination. A sort of live in theme park.

       The current situation is much the same. People that don't like the limits can leave, and do. They tend to be balanced by the immigrants seeking a simple life. Immigration has changed the face of Tudor. it is no longer strictly human. Subjects of Tudor have the right to Federation level medical care that is provided in the technology enclave, and to an education about the Galaxy as a whole.
       Tudor is happy enough with its status as a protected colony of the Federation (Earth turned Tudor over to direct Federation supervision due to the distance from Earth) and has not sought separate membership in the Federation, nor would such an application be accepted as the planet has no space capacity of its own. Tudor has one non-voting representative to the Federation Council.
       Economically Tudor is dependent on tourism. Tourist are expected to follow the local customs outside the enclaves with the exception of recording devices. Some locals think it amusing to feign that sensors are stealing their souls.