Sorry for my inactivity, guys, and I must apologize because unless things change I will probably remain inactive for a few days. My internet is down and without it I only have my phone, which I am using now. Unfortunately all my sheet info and resources are on my desktop so I can't finish it until internet returns in proper.

Sorry for my inactivity, guys, and I must apologize because unless things change I will probably remain inactive for a few days. My internet is down and without it I only have my phone, which I am using now. Unfortunately all my sheet info and resources are on my desktop so I can't finish it until internet returns in proper.

YOU ARE NOT FORGIVEN. YOU MUST PERFORM SEPPUKU TO RESTORE HONOR.

Nah, it's fine. I'm glad to see you haven't dropped out!

@Ozerath Got a little response post up.

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You're back!

If you still want to join, I'll allow it sense you expressed interest earlier, and also because I need someone to distract me from all the shit that went down higher up on the page

Still planning on doing the human-like creatures that can do complex mathematics in their minds? I won't allow them to be immortal or disease-immune, as it isn't possible for any organic creature, but I will gladly accept all the rest that you proposed.

EDIT: I'm just calling mine "Shield Interference Emitters" xD

A few Earth-native species are biologically immortal. Turritopsis dohrnii, colloquially known as the "immortal jellyfish", is one such creature. Lobsters are technically biologically immortal, but they eventually succumb to pestilence, fold to predation, or die from sheer exhaustion during a molt attempt during the later stages of their adult lives. Other animals like the three-toed box turtle, certain species of sturgeon fish, or the rougheye rockfish do die from old age, but are negligibly senescent: they do not show any declines in locomotive capacity or reproductive capability as the years pack on.

The ring worlder's greatest cultural achievement was finally rendering the Four Horsemen (Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death) effectively null and void by reaching a sufficiently advanced echelon of technological standing. Their nation's fundamental design philosophy was principally predicated on the unorthodox concept of "Gross National Happiness", maximizing this unique measure of national prosperity, and climbing ever forward up the ladder of hedonistic indulgence.

Worrying about the flu or where your next meal is going to come from gets in the way of that hedonistic indulgence.

Still being constrained by the comparatively petty challenges of 21st century human civilization doesn't make much sense for a people who can pump out interstellar fabrication projects at a whim, traverse the stars at frightening velocities, produce artificial gravity, and wield handheld weapons that can turn a modern 60 ton MBT into a heaping pile of molten slag with one pull of a trigger.

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A few Earth-native species are biologically immortal. Turritopsis dohrnii, colloquially known as the "immortal jellyfish", is one such creature. Lobsters are technically biologically immortal, but they eventually succumb to pestilence, fold to predation, or die from sheer exhaustion during a molt attempt during the later stages of their adult lives. Other animals like the three-toed box turtle, certain species of sturgeon fish, or the rougheye rockfish do die from old age, but are negligibly senescent: they do not show any declines in locomotive capacity or reproductive capability as the years pack on.

The ring worlder's greatest cultural achievement was finally rendering the Four Horsemen (Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death) effectively null and void by reaching a sufficiently advanced echelon of technological standing. Their nation's fundamental design philosophy was principally predicated on the unorthodox concept of "Gross National Happiness", maximizing this unique measure of national prosperity, and climbing ever forward up the ladder of hedonistic indulgence.

Still being constrained by the comparatively petty challenges of 21st century human civilization doesn't make much sense for a people who can pump out interstellar fabrication projects at a whim, traverse the stars at frightening velocities, produce artificial gravity, and wield handheld weapons that can turn a modern 60 ton MBT into a heaping pile of molten slag with one pull of a trigger.

Yeaaaahhh... that's extremely O.P. and I laughed when I read your post. Immortality and disease immunity is ridiculous. I'm not going to allow it.

And while it may be possible for some species, I will not allow it for anything remotely resembling humans- we aren't any of those species. Perhaps you'd like to play a jellyfish?

If not, then it's against the rules. It's unfair to every other player. I'm not allowing any nation that absurdly high tech. Such technology could NOT be achieved by 2323. This is three-hundred years in the future, not three thousand. If that's what you want to do, then this isn't the RP for you. It would make your nation better than all others.

Don't argue with me on it again. Either play fair or leave. I'm not going to change my mind, so stop wasting your breath. Get real.

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A few Earth-native species are biologically immortal. Turritopsis dohrnii, colloquially known as the "immortal jellyfish", is one such creature. Lobsters are technically biologically immortal, but they eventually succumb to pestilence, fold to predation, or die from sheer exhaustion during a molt attempt during the later stages of their adult lives. Other animals like the three-toed box turtle, certain species of sturgeon fish, or the rougheye rockfish do die from old age, but are negligibly senescent: they do not show any declines in locomotive capacity or reproductive capability as the years pack on.

The ring worlder's greatest cultural achievement was finally rendering the Four Horsemen (Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death) effectively null and void by reaching a sufficiently advanced echelon of technological standing. Their nation's fundamental design philosophy was principally predicated on the unorthodox concept of "Gross National Happiness", maximizing this unique measure of national prosperity, and climbing ever forward up the ladder of hedonistic indulgence.

Still being constrained by the comparatively petty challenges of 21st century human civilization doesn't make much sense for a people who can pump out interstellar fabrication projects at a whim, traverse the stars at frightening velocities, produce artificial gravity, and wield handheld weapons that can turn a modern 60 ton MBT into a heaping pile of molten slag with one pull of a trigger.

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Yeaaaahhh... that's extremely O.P. and I laughed when I read your post. Immortality and disease immunity is ridiculous. I'm not going to allow it.

And while it may be possible for some species, I will not allow it for anything remotely resembling humans- we aren't any of those species. Perhaps you'd like to play a jellyfish?

If not, then it's against the rules. It's unfair to every other player. I'm not allowing any nation that absurdly high tech. Such technology could NOT be achieved by 2323. This is three-hundred years in the future, not three thousand. If that's what you want to do, then this isn't the RP for you. It would make your nation better than all others.

Don't argue with me on it again. Either play fair or leave. I'm not going to change my mind, so stop wasting your breath. Get real.

What you need to realize is that there's this thing called "fairness", and it's pretty important in RPs. There's also "reality", which would not allow anything like humanity to develop this technology in three-hundred years. Maybe three thousand.

Having an entire nation of Mary Stu characters sounds enjoyable, until you realize how awful it would be for the 15 other people in this RP. If I allowed you to do this, I may as well rename this RP "ASTA wins everything".

It sounds fun only for you.

And while it may be possible for some species, I will not allow it for anything remotely resembling humans- we aren't any of those species. Perhaps you'd like to play a jellyfish?

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Anyways, @ASTA, the simply fact is that pretty much all organic life as we know it succumb to disease, death, famine, etc. We do have a max lifespan of 500-1,000 years though. (In this RP in the OP somewhere, I believe). While I am all up for creativity, we cannot allow this as it simply wouldn't be all that fun. I do hope you understand.

Posted my second IC. Actually pushing some story now.

Next thing to work on is an explorer post.

@Queen Raidne, what would you think of my explorer landing on Ragnorak station, then getting contracted by the Syndicate to chase down your explorer?

All of the yes is what I would think. That sounds marvelous! I should add the Syndicate to my important organizations list, now that they're becoming more important.

Anyways, @ASTA, the simply fact is that pretty much all organic life as we know it succumb to disease, death, famine, etc. We do have a max lifespan of 500-1,000 years though. (In this RP in the OP somewhere, I believe). While I am all up for creativity, we cannot allow this as it simply wouldn't be all that fun. I do hope you understand.

xD I love how I get so fired up and Lauder is just "I do hope you understand".

Me and you could make the perfect good-cop/bad-cop team

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All of the yes is what I would think. That sounds marvelous! I should add the Syndicate to my important organizations list, now that they're becoming more important.

Oooo! Explorer vs. Explorer drama! I love it!

But yes, I'm curious about that- what exactly is the Syndicate?

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Oooo! Explorer vs. Explorer drama! I love it!

But yes, I'm curious about that- what is the Syndicate?

A criminal organization, I think, not even sure. Though they use X'Cor operatives!

@Queen RaidneThe Syndicate sounds quite awesome, mind if they have their tendrils deep in the Federation's Underworld?

Ha! Sure, @Sigma, why not. I updated my sheet with a brief description of what they are in my head, but feel free to add what feels right beyond that description. Just think "shadowy capitalist criminal underworld". Pull tropes from spy shows, the mafia, gangs, that sort of thing.

((technically they use separatist X'Cor from back when they weren't evil bastards, but those separatist X'Cor aren't unique to the Syndicate, anyway))

@Queen Raidne Thank! The Syndicate would actually be perfect as the primary arms suppliers of the CLF.

Ha! Sure, @Sigma, why not. I updated my sheet with a brief description of what they are in my head, but feel free to add what feels right beyond that description. Just think "shadowy capitalist criminal underworld". Pull tropes from spy shows, the mafia, gangs, that sort of thing.

Ah, good! I think we needed something like that.

Xim that leave the Initiative often turn to crime, as they struggle to find a purpose beyond what they were created to do. So I imagine the Syndicate has a few Xim running around. Is that okay?

@Queen Raidne Super special awesome! I'll get started on that in two days or so.

@Sigma Same sort of timeline, right meow my other RP needs a little attention.

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What you need to realize is that there's this thing called "fairness", and it's pretty important in RPs. There's also "reality", which would not allow anything like humanity to develop this technology in three-hundred years. Maybe three thousand.

Having an entire nation of Mary Stu characters sounds enjoyable, until you realize how awful it would be for the 15 other people in this RP. If I allowed you to do this, I may as well rename this RP "ASTA wins everything".

It sounds fun only for you.

I was planning on exploring the inner mechanical workings of ring worlder culture by following the lives of several paramount characters of various "professions" and social stations.

Unless someone is deadset on initiating hostilities against my faction (for whatever reason), the military stuff is going to rank phenomenally low on my priorities list because I don't really care about it nor do I particularly care for it.

At the end of the day, a handheld particle cannon is going to splat and fry a 17ft tall space iguana about as easily as it would a 4ft tall space dwarf. A bunch of transhumans (with said transhumans restricted to one gargantuan void installation that's rooted firmly in one planetary system) who don't get the seasonal flu or an STD when they go at it without wrapping it up first aren't going to somehow solo the RP's entire nation cast at any point in time whatsoever.

Also, humanity went from unimpressive subsonic monoplanes to breathtakingly powerful aerospace launch and travel systems capable of making precise outer-Earth-orbit and lunar-based operations within a timespan of circa 60 years.

Tanks went from sluggish boxes with grossly underpowered engines, abysmal transmission and suspension systems, and armor barely capable of weathering a reversed infantrymen's rifle round to hulking goliaths with armor thick enough to effectively shield its crew from a nuclear strike and a gun (with the right ammunition) capable of penetrating over 1,000mm of rolled-homogenous armor within the space of a 100 years.

3,000 years to invent nanoscale medical machines that can effectively target and annihilate cancerous cells within the body? 3,000 years to make someone unphased by the corrosive consequences of natural aging?

Seriously?

I think this is less about fairness and more about your own skewed take on exponential technological growth or how a proper human-esque species *should* be in your eyes.

In keeping with my faction in general, yes, of course there'd be some Xim in the Syndicate.

I'm turning into the seedy underworld faction over here, aren't I? Hmmm. And @Hael, you should respond to my PM when you get a chance.

@ASTA
I'm not debating this with you any further. I don't have the energy to argue with these absurd ideas. This has stopped being funny.

I'm the G.M. I made my position clear. If you disagree with it, that's fine, but you have to either follow the rules or leave peacefully. I told you that I'm not going to change my mind, so you shouldn't keep interrupting the OOC with it.

In keeping with my faction in general, yes, of course there'd be some Xim in the Syndicate.

I'm turning into the seedy underworld faction over here, aren't I? Hmmm. And @Hael, you should respond to my PM when you get a chance.

Alrighty. I'll reply in a little bit. I've been focused on completing my NS, which keeps getting delayed. Everytime I think I'll be done soon, something comes up

But, honestly, I think it was inevitable that the Coalition would be the "seedy underworld faction". Afterall, they often pick up cast-aways from other nations, and if someone left their own nation to join the Coalition (Which they know is accepting of ANYTHING), there's a good chance that they had some motivation for leaving beyond just not liking the scenery. xD

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EDIT: @Arawak, @Monarch, and @Lauder should all expect requests from the Xim for help regarding the Commonwealth/Federation treaty.

Machines are OP.

They live forever and don't get disease please ban.