Above a Million Stars - Sci Fi Nation RP OOC.

[GrievousKhan]

Ya once you guys started talking about Zerg and Nid things I searched them up and hot damn they are giving me loads of ideas, heh.

[Anjwalker]

O rly?


Hey Silux I edited one of my traits added some fluff just so you know. And also renamed it.

Creep: Through the use of Overlords, creep can be used to bath large regions in substance that is harmful to organics without a Spawn parasites creating "Creep". This area once bathed in the green humid fog and black bio-mass makes Spawn units much more resilient and stronger even as their enemies become weak. Creep is a living Spawn organism. It has a black coloration and feels thick and slimy. Creep is psionically-sensitive and may be influenced and controlled by psionic entities. It is used to nourish Spawn structures and larvae. Creep may be deposited in a number of ways. Some Spawn structures, such as nest, serve as loci for creep growth. Hive spores may also be used in the initial stages of infestation. Overlords also, by direct secretion can create creep, and indirectly by queens through laid creep tumors. If left unchecked, creep can consume an entire planet within days. Creep spreads rapidly if left unchecked. This proliferation may be observed in real time. Creep helps to sustain itself and other zerg organisms by processing minerals extracted from the ground via deep tendrils.Creep may grow in anaerobic environments and over water. It may also grow over hollows in the terrain; attempting to traverse over such hollows may cause creep to tear and give way.

My point exactly. My androids won't be affected.

Plus, I just realised that my very planets will destroy you. If your organisms require to breath, they will be corroded from the inside out and if they are not highly resistant to acid, they will melt when its rains.

Yay, I'm Spawn resistant XD

[the Forge]

I made some units.



-Race-

Name: Leonines

Appearance: The Leonines appear very similar to Earth lions with the same general size and shape. The rare male of the species is often roughly 20% larger than the typical female. Leonines are carnivores. They are warm-blooded. They have some fur but a lot less than Earth lions in the same way that Humans have less hair than monkeys.

They switch easily back and forth between bipedal and quadrupedal. They tend to go on all fours when moving and squat on their haunches when sitting still. They normally only extend their back legs while sitting still if they are trying to reach something up high.

Their tails are semi-prehensile and half as long as the entire rest of their bodies. The digits on their fore-paws are longer than a normal lions and their dewclaw is longer and opposable. With claws extended they are slightly longer than Human fingers. With claws retracted they are slightly shorter than human fingers. The fingertips and palms are padded for both grasping and running.

Culture: Long ago, the Leonines rarely formed groups larger than Prides. Their Different prides would trade their males for other males or for goods. Because of this they never really got over thinking of males as property. This was partially due to the fact that the Leonine species consists of only 3% males and 97% females.

Despite this, their culture is very communal. The old expression "It takes a village to raise a child" is often put into literal practice. Only a few females have a litter of cubs. When they do; the mother and her friends raise them together as a group. A single female rarely has more than one litter.

The common citizen lives on welfare. They have free housing, transportation, entertainment and food provided by the Forgelings. Apathy runs rampant in their society. The only ones who really get ahead in life are those with a drive to achieve. The scientists and adventurers who seek to discover more about the universe. The traders, miners and manufacturers who seek to turn a prophet. The Warriors who hone their skills to perfection. These are the only members of the species of real value.

The Leonine government does not mind providing this welfare when it lets them have free reign to do whatever they wish. They don't even bother trying to inform their people of what's going on and would think it laughable to consider consulting the common citizens in deciding what to do.

The general attitude of the common citizen seems to be apathy towards grand scale events. The majority of Leonines only care what happens to them personally. That's not to say that they don't have communication, however. Their communications technology is mainly used for chatting with friends or viewing entertainment such as music, sports or fiction. They don't really have a concept of news.

Racial Traits:

Positive: The Leonine species has a high potential for physical and mental acumen. The common Leonine has a natural gift for Speed, strength, reflexes and agility but only if they do a physical exercise regimen. They all have universal night vision, keen hearing, mid-level reflexes, metabolism and naturally low stamina.

Negative: The rampant apathy and laziness from their somewhat stagnant slavery and entertainment based culture has led to the majority of the species being not only useless, but actually a drain on planetary resources.



-Nation-

Nation Name: Simply known as the Leonines.

Races: the Leonine species (native to their home planet) and the Forgelings (created through science to serve as slaves.)

Nation Type: Scientific and Industrial

Nation Traits:

Military:

Robotic Assist. (Forgeling based technology repairs itself as long as there are resources to do so with.)

Automatic Defenses. (Forgelings are capable of fighting with no outside help needed. Any unused part of a structure can be converted into weapons.)

Warp-mastery. (Wormhole based transportation can be used to allow ships to cross interstellar distances or to deposit personnel on a planet's surface.)

1) Must have a device at one end of the wormhole in order to create it. These devices are too big and heavy to be man-portable. (Roughly the size of a small car for the smallest ones.)

2) Must have a source of power equal to the job. For example, in order to make a 100 lightyear jump (what I'd call near the upper distance limit) you have to be near a star so you can use the energy from it to make the jump.

3) Time taken to create the wormhole increases as the distance the wormhole covers increases. Between stocking the energy and opening the wormhole, for a multiple lightyear jump, it'd probably take at least an hour from arrival at the star being used for fuel before the Wormhole is all the way open. For within a local star system you could probably spin open the drive and jump from earth to Jupiter in ten minutes. From orbiting ship to planets surface would probably take ten seconds.

4) The wider the opening of a wormhole the less precise it's placement. For travel between stars this isn't too big of a deal since missing a star by a few hundred Kilometers is no big deal. However, for orbit to surface wormholes you must be able to match planetary position and rotation. Thus the maximum size for a ground level wormhole is generally less than 2 meters. (wide enough for two people to walk through shoulder to shoulder.)

5) Before a wormhole forms there will be a spinning vortex of colour informing those on the receiving end exactly where the wormhole is going to open. That means you can see where the user of the wormhole will be coming in but the user can't see what's around the arrival point until they arrive.

Civilian:

Nano-bot Construction. (Forgeling based technology is able to build itself and can use parts interchangeably. May take extra time if it needs to consume resources to increase mass.)

Powerful Medicine. (Healing chambers can repair most forms of injury and can even regrow lost limbs with enough time.)

General:

Speedy Colonize. (Forgeling based structures can be converted in part or in whole into other structures at incredibly fast rates.

Size: Small. 1 planet, several mines and space stations.

Population: Approximately 5 Billion civilians

Technology Level: Interstellar capability but no expansion. They only have their home planet, mining operations and space stations. No fully terraformed planets.

Culture: The majority of their populace tend to keep to themselves. Those who go out and about are generally traders looking to buy and sell, miners looking to mine or adventurers and scientists looking to explore and learn. The government mainly focuses on keeping the home planet fed, regulating financial concerns, defending the home planet and engaging in diplomacy to protect their off-planet interests. They have never attempted to conquer another world and do not intend to do so. They have defensive ships surrounding their planet and escorting their ships but they welcome guests with open arms.

History: The Leonines took their industrial revolution and ran with it. They started from internal combustion engines, gunpowder and metal working and moved into materials science and the manipulation of natural forces. They developed smart materials and devices that could bend gravity, create wormholes, forcefields and holograms. They eventually ended up adopting one such smart material into a lesser race known as forgelings. They adopted forgelings as a slave race and have come to rely on them for everything. Forgelings are essentially a semi-sentient, highly docile building material that can change it's own shape.

Military details: The Leonines have a very minimal standing army with less than a thousand ships guarding the home planet and about the same number escorting the traders and defending the miners. Their ships, and indeed all of their building materials, are capable of becoming industrial age weaponry. However, only escort and defense ships are equipped with laser batteries and gravity based weapons. What class a ship is depends on what non-forgeling technology it is equipped with.

Class Type: Cruiser/Frigate

Class: Escort Cruiser

Armaments: Twelve laser batteries. Primary and back-up Gravity weapons. Forge material for assorted other weaponry.

Defences: Sextuple redundant Shield systems. Forge material based armour is regenerative.

Crew: Forgeling material and assorted other life support. Quadruple redundant hyperwave communication array. About 3 or 4 dozen organic hands.

Generators: um, yes? Capable of harvesting energy from stars and storing it.

Size: Typically about the size of a battleship or submarine.

Engines: Quadruple redundant Wormhole drives. Triple redundent gravity drive for sublight transportation and crew comfort. Forgeling based rocket propulsion.

Strike-Craft: Equipment to make twelve Standard Fighters.

Description: Typically shaped like a long tube. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

Number of Units in Service: just under two thousand.

Class Type: Space Station

Class: Planetary Defense Platform

Armaments: Twentyfour laser batteries. Primary and back-up Gravity weapons. Forge material for assorted other weaponry.

Defences: Primary and back-up Shield systems in each wing (12 units total). Forge material based armour is regenerative.

Crew: Forgeling material and assorted other life support. Quadruple redundant hyperwave communication array. About a hundred organic hands.

Generators: A combination of solar, storage batteries and generators.

Size: Approximately 1200 meters in any direction.

Engines: Primary and back-up gravity drives in each wing (12 units total) for crew comfort and orbit adjustment. Primary and back-up short range wormhole systems for ferrying cargo and personnel to and from the planet and other ships.

Strike-Craft: Equipment to make Thirtysix Standard Fighters.

Description: Typically shaped like a giant XYZ coordinate system. It has six arms sticking out in the six directions. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

Number in Service: Just under a hundred spread over the whole planet.

Class Type: Space/Air Fighter

Class: Standard Fighter

Armaments: Twin laser cannons. Forge material for assorted other weaponry.

Defences: Single miniaturized shield system. Forge material based armour is regenerative.

Crew: Forgeling material and minimal life support for two organic occupants.

Generators: Microreactor and retractable solar collectors.

Size: Approximately the size of a F-14.

Engines: Single miniaturized gravity drive. Forgeling based rocket propulsion.

Description: Dart shaped, much like an F-14. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

Number in Service: Technically 0 but enough supplies are kept on hand to make about 10,000 Units.

Unit Name: Mining Station

Unit Size: Massive, about the size of a town.

Unit Purpose: To fly through space, survey potential mining sites and then to become a small mining town.

Unit Equipment: Forgeling material and assorted life support. Quadruple redundant massive Wormhole drives. Quadruple redundant massive Gravity drives for transportation and crew comfort. Twelve independent shielding systems. A plethora of laser systems and gravity systems used both in defense and mining operations. Quadruple redundant hyperwave communication array. Equipment to make twentyfour Standard Fighters. Often carries a holographic chamber for crew and guest entertainment. Surveying equipment.

Number of Units in Service: A few dozen.

Unit Description: Generally looks like a giant space starfish with six points. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

Unit Name: Scientific Survey Vessel

Unit Size: Can change size drastically to suit various scientific purposes but they are always at least as big as a Blue Whale.

Unit purpose: Vessels designed for scientific exploration or planets, asteroids and such.

Unit equipment: Forgeling material and assorted other life support. Primary and back up Wormhole drives. Primary and back up gravity drive for sublight transportation and crew and guest comfort. Primary and back-up short range wormhole systems for ferrying cargo and personnel to and from planets, asteroids and other ships. Primary and back-up Shield systems. Primary and back-up Hyperwave communication array. Scientific Equipment related to whatever the ship is doing. Highly advanced scanning equipment.

Number of Units in service: A few dozen.

Unit Description: Generally looks like a giant space potato or perhaps a giant asteroid. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

Unit Name: Exploratory Vessel

Unit Size: Can change size drastically to suit various purposes but they are always at least as big as an RV.

Unit purpose: Vessels designed for adventurous exploration of other planets.

Unit equipment: Forgeling material and assorted other life support. Primary and back up Wormhole drives. Primary and back up gravity drive for sublight transportation and crew and guest comfort. Primary and back-up short range wormhole systems for ferrying cargo and personnel to and from planets, asteroids and other ships. Primary and back-up Shield systems. Primary and back-up Hyperwave communication array.

Number of Units in service: A few dozen.

Unit Description: Generally looks like a giant space potato or perhaps a giant asteroid. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

Unit Name: Cargo Freighter

Unit Size: Can change size drastically to suit the size of it's cargo but is always at least as big as a large sized RV.

Unit purpose: Vessels for Traders to transport their wares.

Unit equipment: Forgeling material and assorted other life support. Primary and back up Wormhole drives. Primary and back up gravity drive for sublight transportation and crew and guest comfort. Primary and back-up short range wormhole systems for ferrying cargo and personnel to and from planets, asteroids and other ships. Primary and back-up Shield systems. Primary and back-up Hyperwave communication array. Often carries a holographic chamber for crew and guest entertainment. Cargo of whatever nature the vessel is engaged in selling and/or buying.

Number of Units in service: A few hundred.

Unit Description: Generally looks like a giant space potato or perhaps a giant asteroid. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

Unit Name: Emergency Fighter/Lander/Escape Pod

Unit Size: Generally about the size and shape of a fighter airplane. Some can be as large as a city bus.

Unit Purpose: A small section of the larger ship that separates itself for emergencies such needing to protect the main unit, needing to get quickly to the planet's surface or needing to escape a ship for other reasons.

Unit Equipment: Just the Forgeling material and whatever the crew happens to drag on board.

Number of Units in service: Technically 0 but they can be made on the fly when they're needed.

Unit description: Varies from fighter jet to 747 shaped. Of course, like all forge material, it can change shape.

[GrievousKhan]

My point exactly. My androids won't be affected.

Plus, I just realised that my very planets will destroy you. If your organisms require to breath, they will be corroded from the inside out and if they are not highly resistant to acid, they will melt when its rains.

Yay, I'm Spawn resistant XD

Um have you seen my units?

They practically bath in acidic compounds and the works. They are highly resistant to chemical weapons. They also don't need air, and seeing as they have living ships that can survive in the vacuum of space it should not pose a huge challenge in of itself.

So your not totally Spawn proof


...unless you have no water

[Lupus]

This is the latest in my NS, my races are done.

Nation Name: Masters of Darkness

Races: Humans, and (my custom race) Ysbrydion (welsh for ghosts)

Humans:

EXAMPLE NS

-Race-
Name: Human

Appearance: Humans are bipedal humanoids, with 2 arms and 2 legs. Skin colour varies from pale white to almost jet black. Eye colour varies, too, from blue to brown to green to more uncommon shades such as red and white.
Males stand, on average, at about 5’11”, females stand at 5’7” on average, though this does vary greatly.

Racial Traits:
Survivors: Humans are, by nature, incredibly adaptable and hardy creatures. Not so much for their biological advantages, but because they are wonderfully stubborn about the whole concept of dying, and will go to extreme lengths simply to survive.

Cowardice: An intrinsic disadvantage to having such a survival instinct is that humans tend to pussy out in the face of anything that could cause them serious harm or death. Though there are individuals who forgo their own safety for the good of their kind, the vast majority have a serious cowardice problem.

Culture of Humans: These humans are the exiled and war prisoners of the Imperium. They were offered a new life, as sort of slave labor colonizing almost uninhabitable locations, from hostile planets, to astaroid belts. As they are the undesireables of the Imperium, they have a slight resentment to large and tyranical nations.

History of Humans: They were part of a small and failed resistance effort to change the ruling characteristics of the Imperium. As they were a small group, they were easily crushed. The Imperium felt these people could be still be used, so the Imperium began a massive 'colonization' of any hostile location that could wield materials for expansion.

Name: Ysbrydion

Appereance: Ysbrydion are bipedal humaniods, 2 arms/legs. They have pale skin with tribal tattoos running all over them. They have a sort of living 3d 'shadow' that moves seperately to them. Their eyes have cat-like pupils surrounded by a silver or gold iris, which too is surrounded by what looks like the midnight sky. Men have an average height of 6'11'', and the women have an average height of 7'4''. The average Ysbry would weigh 200 pounds on Earth, and 150 on their own planet. They are slim, muscular, and of attractive look.

Culture: Their culture is loosely based around their 'shadows'. They believe their shadows are their souls. They have no "religion", exeept they believe in not being taken by the shadows(shadows of society, evil, etc). They see children as their future and will do anything to protect them. The women are the best fighters of the race.

History: The Ysbrydion began their change from interstellar power to galactic power 75 years ago. They finally built their pride of their Armada 5 years ago. 1 Year ago, The Spawn attacked their planet. It was a total massacre, both sides losing millions of people. In the end, it looked inevitable that the Swarm would kill everyone. So, in a last ditch effort, a suicide army of 3 million and an Armada of 20k ships cleared a path for 500,000 Ysbrydion(200,000 Males, 50,000 females, 250,000 children) and 1000 ships, including the Capitol Ship(which is 25% functional after the battle) to run. 9 months ago, the Ysbrydion reach the Penal Astroid colony nicknamed Planet P. The Ysbry quickly found a kindred spirit in the humans of the collective Penal colonies of the Imperium. Together, they formed a ragtag army and fleet to begin rebuilding and expanding. The Humans gain the tech of the Ysbry, and the Ysbry get a chance to live again.

Traits:
Shadows among us: The 'Shadows' of Ysbrydion can actually fight. They cannot be harmed, but are tied to the Ysbry *so, if the body dies, so does the shadow*, and they can only do melee. The 'shadows' can be used to cloak anything in darkness if there is enough people. This ability is mentally and physically straining, the average time is 2 hours. The shadows can be dissapated with a powerful burst of light, but will reform in 4 hours. They also can travel 5 meters from the Ysbry and have the same level of perception as the Ysbry.

Last of our Kind: Since there are less than half a million Ysbrydion, moral is low, but unity is high compared to most other individual based species. They have a need for vengence against the Spawn.

[GrievousKhan]

Ahhh, those are Ysbry. Glad I made some friends

[Anjwalker]

The water factor is on a planet to planet basis

Actually, I just realised, it'd be hydrochloric acid. If you don't know what that is, see the following from Wikipedia:

Hydrochloric acid is a solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl) in water, that is a highly corrosive, strong mineral acid with many industrial uses. It is found naturally in gastric acid.

My Luminal's survive because their skin is basically natural plastic, but not sure about other species.

[Zvezda]

With ventilation pretty much covering the entire internals of Noir'an ships, I don't have to worry much about Creep. ;3

[GrievousKhan]

Hehe, it still would be deadly in ships.

Have you seen Dead Space?

Stay away from the Vents!

[Zvezda]

Hehe, it still would be deadly in ships.

Have you seen Dead Space?

Stay away from the Vents!

:I

But the Creep would be... Jettisoned...?

Did you hear me? :<

---------- Post added at 07:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:04 PM ----------

Theme for the Spawn

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbS0B1cW9HY&feature=fvst[/yt]