For anyone interested, I'm open to starting other first contact scenes as well if people would like to get together and think of a scenario that'd work.

For @Keyguyperson or @Palamon, one thing could be the Terran Remnants heading in your directions in search of other human colonies that may still be kicking around.

Honestly, that idea could really work for anyone, since it gives the Terran Remnants an excuse to jump to various star systems in search of other signs of humanity, and maybe they just stumble across someone else.

@Dragonruby
I'd be good with that. It could create some fun tension early on for both of us, which is good because the post I'm working on right now cements a pilot as a recurring character and you can only do so much with a military character before you need some threatening positioning, harshly-worded international communications, and maybe some large-scale artillery bombardment.

*Flies in through an open window*

Caw, caw!

I've been watching you guys like an hawk since the very start. I'm glad I helped a little with conceiving the plans for this RP. I hope it's doing fine?

If things are slowing down, it should be normal. As long as you get to post once a week, I think it's good enough.

I don't mind joining if it could help the RP. I'd hate to see something I contributed to go to ruin.

My idea is a race of isolationist Grey aliens obsessed with science, technology and experimentation. Impossibly old, they are brought to the level of the other races by over-dependence on technology to procreate, and mixed in with genetic failure from over-splicing. They have only recently been recovering, but have never stopped abducting members of other races.

Speaking of abduction, they are advanced in stealth and propulsion technology, non-lethal weapons, espionage and the technologies required to capture and study sentient races. But they have no military in the conventional sense, only border guards consisting of the descendants of abductees whose first generation are conceived via in-vitro fertilisation and artificial wombs. They have numerous science ships for various purposes (including obtaining 'specimens') that could be pooled together into a battle fleet, but that's not their main purpose and they will be weak in direct confrontation.

So I'm thinking that my little Grey aliens can be a wild-card race. They won't attempt to make contact, they'll randomly take anywhere between individuals on shuttles to a whole town on a capital planet, and they will do radical things that fit their agenda of adhering to the 'Great Plan' - Which might involve anything as benevolent as dropping packages the size of skyscrapers to aid a suffering alien colony to something as nefarious as throwing a plague bomb on a sprawling military base but it doesn't have to be a life-and-death thing.

They have regained a special interest in human beings, as they are central to their 'Great Plan'. They have millions of them stored in underground vaults, after all.

EDIT: So basically, they're also going to do a lot of weird things. Their space is going to be like a 3D Bermuda Triangle, there's probably going to be some ghost ships floating around and anomalies from scientific experimentation can be found here and there. Oh, and did I mention that some of the specimens they've collected are from millennia ago? If nothing else, you guys are going to get a lot of alien sightings in space, though I'm not sure how weird that would be when the various spacefaring species already knows they're not alone.

Going to be completely honest here in voice my thoughts: But I think that as of right now, we have enough ancient old races/children of said wrinkly coots and science obsessed researchers as of now :\

I think some more variety like zealous missionaries, federation builders, cutthroat merchants, martial expansionists and dare I say "evils" to spice things up.

I could always snip out the science and experimentation bit and turn my nation into a sinister and unpredictable espionage/stealth race bent on weakening most if not all the races it meets so that it could elevate itself above them. Science and experimentation would only be instruments of their espionage machine. They'll still be abducting and doing funny things, but since they're not ancient there won't be that many humans and other aliens in their vaults. Maybe numbering at most in the tens of thousands.

Lemme know ;)

@Darkraven
I'd like to see some abducting in any capacity, really (makes for some fun storylines and character development, even if said development amounts to development of PTSD). A mysterious boogeyman species could be fun too.

Well that's Christmas over... now I can finally get back to this.. I've ate so much I can barely move x_x

For anyone interested, I'm open to starting other first contact scenes as well if people would like to get together and think of a scenario that'd work.

For @Keyguyperson or @Palamon, one thing could be the Terran Remnants heading in your directions in search of other human colonies that may still be kicking around.

Honestly, that idea could really work for anyone, since it gives the Terran Remnants an excuse to jump to various star systems in search of other signs of humanity, and maybe they just stumble across someone else.

I think that's what I'm going for. ALSO APOLOGIES to everyone for being so late with an IC post. I'm finally done with Holiday Stuff and am now visiting GF's family i bumblefuck New Hampshire so I will have LOTS of freetime to write. I will be posting one TODAY definitely or I'll change my name to dirtyliar.

@ClocktowerEchos Hey, would you like to get a First Contact scenario going between the Ouroboros and the Third Aztrovan Lineage? I think we can probably use it as a chance to expand on the previous interactions because the Ophisians and the Mon'hali, too.

@ClocktowerEchos Hey, would you like to get a First Contact scenario going between the Ouroboros and the Third Aztrovan Lineage? I think we can probably use it as a chance to expand on the previous interactions because the Ophisians and the Mon'hali, too.

Fine by me, I give it a green light.

Hey-o.

Just wanted to let you know, I'm still working on that profile. I'm not sure how long you'll be open, so I wanted to make note of that.

And I'm sorry for all the delays. Holidays are a crappy time to work at a donut joint and try to finish up a profile.

@ClocktowerEchos Do you want to start the scene?

@MissingAxis Sure but wait, whose going to start the meeting/post first?

@ClocktowerEchos I was thinking either the Ivrah are looking for some remnants of the civilizations the Mon'hali fought, or the Ouroboros are exploring in the direction the Mon'hali came from/fled to, following some recently unearthed archive. I'm open to ideas, though.

@MissingAxis That sounds good, want me to start or do you want to do the honors?

@ClocktowerEchos It'd probably be better if you start. I gotta take off for a few hours here in a little bit.

*Flies out the window*

@MissingAxisMentioning you here since I didn't do it in my post.

@ClocktowerEchos All right, I'll get a post up for you in a few hours, when I get home from work.

I think I join with a variation of my Principalty of Krugstahl nation.
Think of an interstellar Zeon from Gundam spiced up with heavy dose of feudal sheanigans and you pretty much get what I mean.