The Silent Imperium's relations to non-Dominion factions will need to eventually be worked out since I don't my faction's whole existence to be 'those things that really hate the dominion' despite that oath they took over a thousand years ago. A thousand years is a lot of time, they are bound to have gotten wrapped up in other affairs by than, especially with their tendency to fumble about.

I could see the Terminus trying to help some of the Tikalli when they made contact. Granted the Terminus likely doesn't have a particularly pleasant view of the Silent Imperium itself, seeing how the Simulacrum put a major emphasis on personal freedom and liberty. They'd probably get along far better with the non-Pact aligned Tikalli; hell, I can even imagine the Terminus having given some of them a garden world. After all, worlds like that are more difficult for the Simulacrum to live on.

@WrongEndoftheRainbow
I don't understand them at all to make any relations with them beyond using some of their artifacts. There likely is a connection with them however, since I get a 'deal with the devil' vibe from them.

@TheSovereignGrave
The risk having a Tikali haven holds is that of being frequently spied on by the Silent Imperium simply because the Silent Imperium tends to assume the worst until proven other wise. On the flip side a agent may periodically clue your faction's own intelligence services in on potential plots against your society from what they have learned elsewhere. The Silent Imperium may secretly have a pact with Terminus but is unlikely to ever acknowledge an open alliance. Even Tikali who decided to set up a independent home world 'prematurely' end up having the Silent Imperium spying on them to a degree. The Dominion is still out there after all, and you never know what plots they convene to finish what they started.

@WrongEndoftheRainbow
I don't understand them at all to make any relations with them beyond using some of their artifacts. There likely is a connection with them however, since I get a 'deal with the devil' vibe from them.

@TheSovereignGrave
The risk having a Tikali haven holds is that of being frequently spied on by the Silent Imperium simply because the Silent Imperium tends to assume the worst until proven other wise. Even Tikali who decided to set up a independent home world 'prematurely' end up having the Silent Imperium spying on them to a degree. The Dominion is still out there after all, and you never know what plots they convene to finish what they started.

you don't really need a connection with them, they just kinda show up wherever, whenever, to talk to whomever. only recently they've started doing that, too.

So it's not connected to artifact use?

@TheSovereignGrave
The risk having a Tikali haven holds is that of being frequently spied on by the Silent Imperium simply because the Silent Imperium tends to assume the worst until proven other wise. The Silent Imperium may secretly have a pact with Terminus but is unlikely to ever acknowledge an open alliance. Even Tikali who decided to set up a independent home world 'prematurely' end up having the Silent Imperium spying on them to a degree. The Dominion is still out there after all, and you never know what plots they convene to finish what they started.

I don't think a secret pact would really work out; in the view of the Terminus it'd be healthier for the Silent Imperium to move on. Settle new worlds and stop being stuck in the past, and some such. Hell, to be honest some would probably pity the Tikalli of the Silent Imperium, viewing them as prisoners to their notions of revenge and letting the Dominion dominate their very existence. But I can still imagine the Terminus as letting the Tikalli set up, they're just nice like that. Plus any Tikalli would stick out like a sore thumb on a Simulacrum world.

they may show up to people who use their artifacts more often in the RP, but it's their own prerogative on who to show up to.

Internet is currently down across the board where I'm staying but in the meantime I am working on a quick introductory post though that will go out whenever my internet returns.

I want to do a collaborative for my first post, so my post comes out when someone agrees to collab.

@Commodore Robot What has the Dominion's activities in regards to the Silent Imperium been? (They probably aren't aware of the Oath or what it entails, the Oath is meant to be secretive, but probably presume their intentions to be genocidal in nature)

Do they actively try to hunt Tikali down to this day or not? This may alter the trajectory on the Silent Imperium's behavior, which radicalizes if the Dominion really does go on campaigns to locate and destroy concentrations of Silent Imperium activity and any Tikalli populated worlds (the ones that are independent anyhow).

@TheSovereignGrave A devoted Tikali agent of the Silent Imperium would likely find those views foolish if not blatantly patronizing.

The less devoted but still oath bound Tikali might miss your point entirely and seemingly avoid the subject when brought up, saying something like "You are right, this whole war with the Chelonians has been going on for ages. We should've killed them all down to maybe a couple million or so like they did to us centuries ago. But things happen, not all plans go right and the ones at top like their pointless adventuring, you wouldn't believe what's out there. Once there was a time my excavation team encountered a planetoid filled with paste. From top to bottom, just paste all around. Paste everywhere, from the highest mountain tp the deepest crater, even when digging inside we found a whole underground ocean of paste. We thought there'd be something more to it, but alas the scans proved it was paste to the core."

@Arawak Considering the length of time its been since then the Dominion may not even think of them at all in any serious capacity. Also considering the nature of the Silent Imperium they may not even realize who it is that is doing things against them. If ships go missing, politicians die under mysterious circumstances, or anything short of a full on invasion happen it may just be chalked up to standard guild squabbles. That being said there probably are still standing orders to wipe out any large concentrations of Tikali that are found throughout space, though its doubtful the average Chelonian knows about such things. There may even be a neglected and underfunded Ministry of Tikali Pacification whose mission it is to pursue the Silent Imperium but are hamstrung by the Dominion's inherent slowness and inefficiency. Even then the ministry likely wouldn't have the tools to enact a grand campaign of extermination, more likely it would be small strike teams with limited fleet support.

@Commodore RobotSo would you mind to be the first civilization to be visited by the Federation.
The basic plot is us finding signals likely implying intelligent life and sending a starship to explore and investigate it.

yo, who owns the blue dirtball and what's the rough year?

Earth? The GM.

2150. A bit too slim a margin but workable for human castoffs at least.

@Commodore Robot In this case the Tikali at this point may be too short sighted and prone to 'side missions' to actually dedicate themselves to the grand mission (I.e actually enacting that campaign of genocide against the Chelonians the Oath hypes up so much) beyond the periodic harassment of Dominion citizens and operations of sabotage/assassination that happen every so often while the Dominion is too red tape filled to actually bother going about continuing extermination operations with any semblance of effectiveness beyond sometimes getting lucky and attacking a outpost. Of course if a major incident happened it could lead to an actual total war, but it would seem that no such incident has happened as of yet to really push forward beyond the severe risk the total lack of communication causes.

@Willy Vereb
I am entirely fine with that.

Comcast guys are over now so I hope this outage will be fixed within the hour, would prefer not to make big posts on mobile.

I have red tape locked down with my 'tens of thousands of years to deliver a message through the bureaucracy' UU

@Commodore RobotDoes your kind have large standing fleets? Just wondering.

Also I do wonder what the Dominion would do if one anti-matter would had a melt down so to speak. Would it cause something to actually happen or just be a "Well shit, there goes food for Xernos 4"-type of reaction?

Also expanding Silent Imperium behavior and relations is in my interests. The Solarians probably have no clue the Tikali are even a thing, but what of the Ouroburos or the Asvir? I believe there may be contempt for the Asvir among the Silent Imperium's populous (viewing them as another 'monster' in the galaxy) but not among those at top who would rather just see them as neutral as those at top tend to be more interested in "acquiring new assets" than going all-out with military operations unless the time is "right". Not to mention the Oath was to systemically kill off the Chelonians, not the Indiscarians or Asvir.

Also what sort of vibe is the UU meant to fill @WrongEndoftheRainbow? This is important since they seem to be sorta like Q from star trek in niche or something.

@Arawak The name itself should give away a large amount of it, it's a blatant rip-off of the HL2 Universal Union. They're meant to be a vastly superior force that's revealed to only be a scouting party.

EDIT: Also, they're the natural enemies of the Fallen. The UU knows the most about them and are trying to 1. prevent the heat death of the universe, 2. escape to another, newer universe or 3. succeed where the Fallen failed and ascend.

I think it may take a bit of time to process how the Silent Imperium would deal with that. Like, I feel that such revelation should be saved for IC in how impact that might end up having. The Dominion suddenly seems like a quaint issue when a intergalactic invasion force is likely headed this way, doesn't it?

Hmm.

If that's the case it would seem the Silent Imperium's caught the attention of something far, far worse than the Dominion. This could be really bad.

Whelp, off to the void again to go looking for more super weapons from dead people.

Convince the Fallen to help you out! :p