That's fine. The way this is set up, you can jump in at any time, more-or-less.

alrighty

Queen Raidne said
Driving Park - You're accepted! I may, however, decide to limit your base's capabilities/units, depending on how the RP goes - I'm simply concerned about starting everyone off on a roughly equal footing. I'm working on an IC initial post, so expect this RP to start up shortly.Weiss - I hadn't thought of single-character wanderers. I might let them in; that's neat.

Just let me know if you want the base smaller or tech limited (e.g. Recycler can only build basic units) and I'll edit the faction sheet to reflect that. I'd like to start small enough rather than have to lose most of my forces like everyone else seems to be.

I left a PM for LeeRoy. If he hasn't responded in a day or so, I vote we continue.

EDIT: Oh, speaking of which: for now, his hex is empty.

Alrighty.

Okay, let's keep going. If he has dropped, I'm going to throw a surprise hex into the game. Hint: it's not going to be a friendly surprise.

This looks interesting. I've just gotta bring the metroids from Metroid into this and be completely evil, lol.

Woo, we're back on track.

Out of curiousity, would you like me to throw periodic update posts into the IC (for posting order and such)? I can, if you'd like. I wasn't planning it until somebody actually wandered into one of the NPC hexes. And we don't have to be super strict about posting order. I think that'd actually hold us back at this point.

I think updates would be cool.

Also, question. How does weather work? Does it differ from hex to hex, or is weather a world wide thing? Or is a mixture of both?

I like the idea of the updates post.

Maxxorlord said
I think updates would be cool.Also, question. How does weather work? Does it differ from hex to hex, or is weather a world wide thing? Or is a mixture of both?

Hmmm. Hexes maintain their native temperature. So arctic hexes stay arctic. Precipitation and wind, however, cross from one hex to another. It works like Minecraft: it's snowing in one hex while in the next it's raining, and there's just heavy fog in the desert one hex over. How does that work? If you dig into it enough, maybe you'll find out. If you don't care and don't look into it, then the answer is "because I said so".

And updates it is, by two votes (okay, so that was a very short polling time, but who cares).

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Edit: So I've got most of the center hexes rolling. If you're really very curious about what's happening on a hex, then I can include it in my updates. But I shall, of course, be as vague as I deem necessary until you actually explore said hex.

Faction Name: SR-388 Metroids

Universe: Metroid

Summary in a Sentence: An artificial species engineered to be the ultimate weapon gone horribly wrong.

Description: The Metroids of SR-388 are a race created by the avian race known as the Chozo. They created the metroids as an attempt to counteract a threat known as the X parasites. The metroids worked too well. They completely annihilated the X parasites in a matter of weeks, and then continued evolving and began to attack the Chozo themselves, and then started spreading out throughout the stars and becoming a plague-like threat. They were engineered to be the ultimate predator, and they were a massive success.

Metroids cannot spread on their own, however. The Zebesians, a race most know as Space Pirates, touched down on SR-388 and brought them to their research facility on their homeworld, a place known as Turian. From there, metroids were transported to other research facilities on other worlds, including planets such as Tallon IV (causing the Tallon Metroid to come into existence) and Aether (causing Dark Metroids to be created). They also somehow made it to Phaaze, where a Gamma Metroid was mutated into Metroid Prime, who then evolved into Dark Samus with the aid of one of Samus's suits along with her DNA. (the links are provided to show how varied metroids are)

Technology Level: Nonexistent (Dark Samus will not appear here due to being a unique individual that had never gone to SR-388)

Magical or other Supernatural Powers: They have several abilities, which vary based on their hyperevolutionary process. The most common forms are the ones originating from the piece of SR-388 that was planted on this world, and each one has their own unique abilities. There are two abilities that are always present: their energy drain and hyperevolution. A metroid, no matter how it has evolved, can suck the life force right out of any living creature. The method of doing so varies between forms, but it is always present no matter what. The energy drain causes the body to shrivel and blacken, producing a smell akin to burning bodies.

The other ability, hyperevolution, is not directly offensive. By entering a cocoon, a metroid will observe its surroundings and make an assessment of the hazards. It can then begin to adapt to these hazards, but the process is limited by their level of intellect. As they undergo further evolutionary changes, their intellect will increase, thereby increasing their ability to adapt with each subsequent stage. Currently, only the initial stage of metroids can spread to other hexes.

It's also important to describe the base evolution's abilities. By taking in air and then thrusting it out forcefully, it can float pretty much any distance above the ground. They are also immune to all forms of weaponry save for extremely cold temperatures. If a base-form metroid is frozen, they can be shattered with the slightest touch.

Other:

Important People:
+Name: The Queen Metroid
+Role: Gives birth to metroids
+Description: A very rare evolution that can only occur on the SR-388 hex, the Queen Metroid can birth metroids far faster and more efficiently than the normal splitting method can (which can only occur in the base evolutionary stage, anyway). They are rare enough that it's safe to say there's only one in existence at a time.
+Brief Bio: The Queen Metroid happens on the rare occasion that the most powerful common evolution, the omega metroid undergoes an additional evolution.

Hex Location: 0,1

Terrain Type: Rocky wasteland

Important Terrain Features: There are many caves scattered throughout the terrain. Chambers are connected by hatches that can be opened with weapons fire. Blue hatches can be opened by anything, red can be opened by missiles, green by high-explosive missiles, and yellow by extremely high-explosive bombs.

Important Structures: Other than the hatches, there are no important structures.

Other:

Your first link to metroid actually goes to the IC page for some reason.

I'd just add a couple of things about the immune to weaponry part (garnered from the wiki):
"Sensitivity to certain sonic frequencies" - http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_(species)#Physiology_and_morphology, toward the bottom of the section.
And I imagine that X-Ray lasers can damage them, more-or-less, based off of Samus' use of the Nova beam to kill phazon metroids by aiming at their... nuclei(?). According to the wiki, it's a "high-frequency electromagnetic radiation beam" weapon, which means X-Rays or Gamma rays. Not that, I think, anybody's going to get X-Ray lasers any time soon.



Anyway, you're accepted! Throw up an intro post when you're ready.

I'll get a post up some time today. I've been a bit busy this week, sorry 'bout 'dat guise.

Nice. I'll try and get a post up soon.

And I thought I typed the URL into that first part manually. Strange.

Queen Raidne said
Your first link to metroid actually goes to the IC page for some reason.I'd just add a couple of things about the immune to weaponry part (garnered from the wiki):"Sensitivity to certain sonic frequencies" - http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_(species)#Physiology_and_morphology, toward the bottom of the section.And I imagine that X-Ray lasers can damage them, more-or-less, based off of Samus' use of the Nova beam to kill phazon metroids by aiming at their... nuclei(?). According to the wiki, it's a "high-frequency electromagnetic radiation beam" weapon, which means X-Rays or Gamma rays. Not that, I think, anybody's going to get X-Ray lasers any time soon.Anyway, you're accepted! Throw up an intro post when you're ready.

That was actually only implemented in Metroid Prime 3, and you never encounter standard metroids in the Prime Trilogy. In all actuality, there's no telling how high-frequency energy weaponry would affect standard metroids. The lore of the series states that that the non-standard metroids encountered in the Prime Trilogy are mutated variants, either through differing evolutionary paths due to differing environments, mutation through Phazon, or via direct genetic manipulation by other species (namely, Zebesians). Most of these mutated variants do still have weakness to cold, but lack the total vulnerability to all other forms of attack. Such mutations can actually absorb too much energy and explode, where standard metroids have an infinite capacity for energy absorption.

I realize it's ironic that the "natural" metroids are superior to the genetically engineered variants, but that's just how the lore is. There is only one instance where a genetically engineered variant is superior to the standard variety, which was engineered by the Galactic Federation, which are the humans. They created the Unfreezable Metroid, which is a variant with its weakness to cold eliminated without any of the side effects of previous variants that are also immune to cold. These metroids are totally indestructible, which is why I'm not putting them here.

I'll include the sensitivity just so they won't be totally unstoppable, since most of the people here wouldn't have cold-based weaponry that I know of. However, this is nothing more than a sensitivity, rather than an outright weakness like the vulnerability to cold. I should also note that they can't circumvent the vulnerability to cold, but later stages of evolution could possibly overcome the sensitivity to high-frequency energy attacks if it proves necessary.

EDIT: It isn't really obvious, but the metroids do have a problem. They are very few in number and the hex didn't have a Queen Metroid, so they're stuck with low numbers until an Omega proves to be special and evolves into a Queen. The highest stage they have at the moment is Omega, and there's only one of them. This Omega is also not one of the special kind, so it's hit the end of its evolutionary path (that of being the ultimate predator and having no real need to evolve again unless genetically tagged as a Queen).

Oh, okay. Not having actually played Metroid, I wouldn't have known all that. And I didn't mean to make it out to be more than a sensitivity, although looking back I can see the potential for confusion, so I'm glad that's been cleared up. And for some reason I thought that you had a Queen, but you don't, so that's okay. The only thing that matters in the end is how you RP them, anyway.

Man..

That was a rather long down time. Anywho, I'm going to try to post as I said I would two days ago.

Nice. I'll try and post in a bit.