This story will begin the day after a consortium of intergalactic races introduce themselves to mankind and propose to invite them into their midst as peers. Humankind at this point has stretched out beyond the moon and has set up numerous bases and terraformed all the planets within our solar system. The consortium has noticed our successes and praises our arts, recognising we are very advanced. They also noted however that we are an angry race, which is not a huge issue as we are still young and in our rebellious stage, but that if humans were to be accepted they must come to terms with more than melanin levels. So humankind accepts, and us - the writers - continue from there. Where we go and what we do is entirely up to you.


This is not a grimdark story about the dangers of trusting aliens, nor is this a kiddie story where we all live happily together. One person may be pessimistic and another may be optimistic; it all depends on how your character views the unfolding events. Some people may not care about what is happening while others immediately set off in search of their planets to learn or to fight. Some have a moderate interest and will watch the news but they have work to do. Unfortunately, I will only allow writers to portray humans because this story is viewed from a larger, single standpoint: what would humans do? What would you do?

Seeing as we have colonised our entire solar system, there are a lot of people doing a lot of things and going to a lot of places, even more so now that we have an entire new universe to adventure to. Therefore, despite us all writing this story together, I want to say that you may never actually meet a lot of the other characters. I will have to restrict too many isolated characters as that is incredibly boring, but if your character is the Head of Commerce and suddenly bans the sale of tobacco, this will have an effect on the tobacco trader currently running between Venus and Jupiter. It's the little details that count in the big places.

Another aspect I have been contemplating is the aliens. I am not a highly imaginative person, and so wouldn't wish to create a whole boatload of races that frankly everyone finds bland and trite. So what I am offering is the chance for other writers to contribute in a huge way to this effort. Create any kind of race you want, and seeing as it is a whole bunch of different people creating a whole bunch of different races, I think it could be something marvellous. This too goes for planets and cities. If a writer is the first one to reach a city, they are free to describe that place as much as they want as long as it is in accordance with the characteristics of the race.

I intend this story to be enormous. Hopefully there will be double digit numbers investing words, actions and emotions into this brave new world, so that this isn't just another space adventure. I am fully open to allowing this to be wacky (within a large boundary, of course), delving into things that many other by-the-book space stories haven't allowed. Along with that, I am also imagining the power plays that will be occurring in the political climate, and this may branch into intergalactic wars and huge moves if we do some incredible things here. I want this to be relatively unprecedented, reaching new levels of depth, growth and interest.

This isn't the DM's story here, this is a whole universes story at play.

OOC: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/93896-high-cas-adv-aphelion/ooc
General Interest Check thread: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/93799-high-cas-after-humans-are-accepted-into-alien-government/ooc
Casual Interest Check: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/93895-high-cas-aphelion-title-wip/ooc

Oh goodness, Dare I get involved?! I've done some rather variety work before on aliens species before >3> Fluffy space raptors, wobbly gooey things, space dragons, space whales, I even made 'Equestrians' believable in a space-faring scale once. [I said 'equestrians' because there's not a single 'species' involved in that one]

Just to clarify, I like to work the experience of not-so-obviously-human-like species in space, not 'because furry!', but because random 'kinda looks human but it's not because X random trait is present' has been done to DEATH by EVERYONE before.

It's so much more fun to explore the functions of entirely different creatures than it is to say something like 'these dudes look like humans but they're not... caaauuuse... oh! they've got gills, yeah, that's totally it... oh, and these funny looking lines on their faces! that too!'

Oh goodness... Dare I get involved?! I've done some rather variety work before on aliens species before >3> Fluffy space raptors, wobbly gooey things, space dragons, space whales, I even made 'ponies' believable in a space-faring scale once... Just to clarify, I like to work the experience of not-so-obviously-human-like species in space, not 'because furry!', but because random 'kinda looks human but it's not because X random trait is present' has been done to DEATH by EVERYONE before... It's so much more fun to explore the functions of entirely different creatures than it is to say something like 'these dudes look like humans but they're not... caaauuuse... oh! they've got gills, yeah, that's totally it... oh, and these funny looking lines on their faces! that too!'

Dare you should! We'd always love to bring aboard new creative minds, and even better if they can create races like that! I'm actually super-interested in that space dragon one right now hahah. I see your point though, everyone always does the same thing, mostly humanoid creatures that are slightly different. That's not bad, if a race is good then a race is good, but it's always interesting to explore the 10-legged camel with acidic fangs who loves the alien equivalent of Mozart and Don Quixote. We'd be happy to have you if you decide to join!

An example is the race I created in my Day One segment. Pretty standard, I have little imagination. We're needing people who enjoy pushing the boat out, as it were.

I'm certainly seriously considering it! >3>

Though I shall warn thee! I have a habit of over-achieving when I get really into something... I'm liable to make several races... Or hell, just a whole list and see which ones the group decides to make use of XD

On a side note, 'space dragons' could be anything from the general 'dragon-like species in space' to literal 'space' dragons, some big ancient buggers big as a Dreadnought literally flying through space >3>

*claps hands together and pulls them apart in an arc* IMAGINATION!... PFFFahahaha!

I'm certainly seriously considering it! >3>

Though I shall warn thee! I have a habit of over-achieving when I get really into something... I'm liable to make several races... Or hell, just a whole list and see which ones the group decides to make use of XD

On a side note, 'space dragons' could be anything from the general 'dragon-like species in space' to literal 'space' dragons, some big ancient buggers big as a Dreadnought literally flying through space >3>

*claps hands together and pulls them apart in an arc* IMAGINATION!... PFFFahahaha!

That would be okay with everyone I think! The more the better would probably be an apt saying here.

Either of those sounds phenomenal haha.