-Playing Nice

Typical RP rules apply.

This RP is not about winning. Don’t try to make a faction built to ‘win’ the RP.

Try to avoid causing drama in the OOC.

Please don’t do something like make a Big Alien Asshole empire and disappear on the RP.

-Rules of the sector [limits on what people can creatively do]

Please do not use fandom based content.

Please do not make anthros as aliens

While humanoids are fine, aliens too human-like aren't. [As a test tell me, would their females be sexually attractive to a typical human male or vice versa? If so, they're chances are they're too human-like.]

Please no magic [stuff like psionics or the force] or gods [stuff like Q].

Avoid making a empire that exceeds 250 star systems in size, and 250 is a number that I am unlikely to accept for the most part unless it’s well justified

-Technology limits

Most tech is reviewed on a case-case basis.

However Time travel is banned, too messy

While you can use a multitude of FTL methods, the max speed for faster than light is x10 the speed of light when “exploring”

Continuing the above rule, the fastest speed when using a already connected part of your interstellar empire is x200 the speed of light [this concerns things like wormholes or warp gates or any device that must be constructed in general]

No one should be able to make a star go super novae

-Other

If human, the starting year is 3000 AD

I will not spend any time using the star system scale in astrosynthesis for anything beyond population count, specifying star type and specifying political affiliations.

-Big Alien Asshole Empire [BAAE's]



Disclaimer; humans can also make big alien asshole empires.

Large, powerful civilizations basically. The big boys of the cosmos, generally comprising of tons of star systems and a wide range of cultures under their yoke. They're the ones you can be certain will fight by proxies and regularly need to deal with shit from every corner of their empire.

Big alien asshole empires can be comprised of multiple players, and these big alien asshole empires have high levels of power projection and influence. Think America or the USSR to get an idea of what I am thinking.

Technological capability wise they can get pretty advanced, but this is not a given as remember- Incans also were a powerful empire.

Being a big alien asshole empire requires lots of responsibility [there's a good chance you will be dealing with a lot more shit than other societies] and a application as epic as the empire you intend to make.

Basically I expect for you to spend a lot of time in this RP if you intend to be a Big Alien Asshole Empire.

Update:

A BAAE would be very much appreciated as of March 9, 2014

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-Hyper Nomadics;


[This is a xero, a alien from one of the aforementioned RPs I ran two years ago that were hyper advanced but were apolitical and didn't intervene much. They're what inspired me to make this category. The author of the painting is AaronMK]

Hyper nomadic are like their nomadic cousins in being limited in number and having no world they call home. They do not have a huge empire they run like BAAEs, but what sets a hyper nomadic apart from nomadic is that hyper nomadic is as advanced as you can get technologically in this RP. They should technologically outclass even the most advanced BAAE's.

However, hyper nomadics should be apolitical as possible, and while they could puppet other societies they lack the numbers to do anything like conquer a BAAE single handedly as without numbers they lack the occupying/conquering capabilities of a BAAE. As a result a hyper nomadic who wants power is going to have to do so through the shadows.

Be careful with how you craft your hyper nomadic; if you for instance have it so they could easily make tons more of themselves and make an empire or are so advanced that they can actually take over other players they're too powerful.

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Super Organization;



Super Organizations are organizations that have vast levels of influence, wealth and power. The kind of organization doesn’t matter, be it a very powerful trading guild or a peacekeeper corps of some sort. What matters is that a super organization tends to be able to transcend factional boundaries and generally can do quite a bit.

Secret societies/parallel societies count as super organizations as do stuff like terrorist organizations and space pirates.

However an organization generally has to operate under a faction and the relations factions have can and will effect where and how the corps can operate. However if they piss off a faction too much, one can expect bad business if the player of that faction cracks down on you.

Like with BAAE’s, I expect for whoever that plays this super class to think out their super organization and be devoted to their organization.

Faction [contains nomadic fleets, empires and secret isolated protectorates as well]

Name:

*[pic]

Type:

Locational information: [Due to using a 3D map I decided to make faction placement semi-random in that you can specify where you want to be [towards the center or at the edges of the sphere for instance. Color is for all the lanes that connect the stars in your faction!] [If you want more in-depth placement options, check the map section].

*Governing system:

Species contained:

History:

Technological capabilities:

Other: [place demographics and anything else here; I am fine with people customizing their apps from the application sheets I have].

Organization [this encompasses everything from terrorist organizations to scientific foundations, mercenary groups, corporations, guilds, and so on]

Name:

*[pic]

Type:

Civilizations[s] and place[s] of operation and associates: [basically where you operate and if you work with other organizations. I'd suggest talking this part over on the OOC]

*Products: [what does the organization produce? Feel free to detail this as much you want]

*Ideology/beliefs: [this will be useful for those who make terrorist organizations or secret societies and the like]

History:

Other: [place demographics and anything else here; I am fine with people customizing their apps from the application sheets I have].

Species [Encompasses all things, living or mechanical]

Name:

*[pic]

World/Place of origin:

Appearance:

Biological/Mechanical information:

Early History: [what they did before they founded your faction or got contacted. This is the only history you'll need if you just want to be a species].

Other: [place demographics and anything else here; I am fine with people customizing their apps from the application sheets I have].

Person of interest [very optional application]

Name:

*[pic]

*Race:
*Affiliation:
*Appearance:
*Bio:
*Other:

Spaceship model [very optional application]

Name:

*[pic]

*Type:
*Appearance:
*Capabilities:
*Other:

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*Optional

In order for me to place your faction on the map, I’ll need the following info:

Origin location/home world; [where do you want to be in relation of everyone else? Feel free to put lore here.]

System Count; [How many systems? Detail as much you want.]

Systems of notice; [give distance from home world and name; feel free to add lore for your systems of notice here as well]

Distribution; [How do you want me to distribute your faction in the sector? Information on lane patterns, whether or not they clump around their home world, distribute themselves in some oblong way or distribute themselves in a node-like way should be pointed out here.]

Lane Color; [color of choice you want for your faction’s trade lanes]
Other; [Any info you want I didn’t give?]

Name: The Puppet Masters

Type: Hyper Nomadics

System of Government:

Puppet Masters, few as they are powerful, have come to accept a system of government based around manipulation in order to achieve their goals. They assume a general sense of domination over other civilizations. In effect they see everywhere they are as "in their control" despite not dictating the rules, annexing worlds or improving on the region.

Instead they keep control of their domains through manipulation of individuals and associating with proxies in order to "keep stability through chaos". Societies that are large, innovative and expansive tend to get their attention more than other societies.

The puppet masters are not a united entity, rather they are a massive multitude of tiny groups that wander around collecting information "of their dominion" and have been known to come into conflict over contradicting actions taken to cause chaos in a "potential threat".

Despite all that they're rather rare and generally do not have any effect on the typical basis of things.

Species contained:

Many species that are weird and too obscure to depict, however the puppet masters have become in recent times one with their spaceships.

History:

Once upon a time lost to history there was an ancient interstellar empire known simply as the Ecumene. It was a very prosperous and near utopian empire; one that was said to have stretched thousands, if not millions of star systems and kept stability despite the constant terror that beheld them from their expansion.

However this period of prosperity, where hundreds of races were said to have worked together for the grand purpose of making a truly galactic community things started to degenerate. Factions within the dominion grew and secretly, and slowly undermined the ways and traditions that kept the Ecumene in its uphill prosperity slowly, but surely started to wear down the wave of civilization that rocked the cosmos.

The internal damage got progressively worse, and the Ecumene eventually traumatically disunited, the stability and order than once governed society for vast periods of time reduced to a mess of squabbling factions who lost track of what made the Ecumene great.

However, this was only the start of a disaster that would only spiral progressively worse.

For Ecumene was not alone in the cosmic fugue- it had enemies it kept down and away for so long, now they took their opportunity to strike at the Ecumene. Massive invasions and wars on scales incomprehensible broke out, and continued in a perpetual, almost ritualistic manner as titans crashed into each other, smashing apart the foundations of civilization forged over vast sums of time in a matter of centuries. Entire species being systematically erased from the face of the universe, plagues and super weapons unleashed that eradicated entire sectors of civilization in one burst- in was the end times.

The Eon of Sunshine this time was called, due to all the gamma ray burst based WMDs used. Thankfully such destructive weapon was lost with those who used them.

The end result of the eon of horrors would not only be the fall of the Ecumene, but a dark age in which societies degenerated back to the stone age slowly and painfully or marauding crooks with advanced technology went about forging little space empires in the corpse of the Ecumene.

After some time the chaos cooled down, but technological innovation ceased and in many ways went back ward. Societies rose and fell in the space once in the Ecumene, but the flame of the Ecumene would seem to be forever extinguished.

There was for 20,000 years a weak neo-Ecumene that formed around 50,000 – 30,000 years ago that looked like it was going to reclaim its lost glory, but the lack of resources in the region and lack of ability to reclaim the technologies from the ancient Ecumene that once ruled caused it to come and go like any civilization, but this neo-Ecumene did contribute to the Puppet Masters and their spread, as the puppet masters derive themselves from a cult that formed in the neo-Ecumene and spread to the far reaches of space as they got persecuted for their ideals of nomadism and indirect domination.

As a result the Puppet Masters, as they became called due to their puppetering ways spread across much the galaxy. However number wise they are very thin, lack the ability to reproduce much and lack any ability to innovate any further with their current technology. Despite all these problems, the puppet masters believe their system to be on the slow rise- one day perhaps remaking a new Ecumene of a nature better fit to running a galaxy. However, as time marched as and the Puppet Masters became more isolated ideological difference became more increasing different to the point where quite a few “puppet” masters have become very different in nature to the point where if someone wanted to make a hyper nomad with a shared history whose nomadic ideology was near completely different they could.

Also note that while they are unable to innovate, the cultural markings and technologies they utilize does vary with what ideology they follow and what technologies they see best suited to carrying out their goals. The splinter of puppet masters that reached the sector the Cosmic Community takes place is very, very far from home and has only been around for 3,000 years, a timescale which is not much time for a puppet master.

Despite that, they intend to control from the void and manipulate however they see to best and their presence in the sector cosmic community takes place in is very evident, perhaps too much so...

[[Any further history from this point on will require folk to have as associates]]

Technological capabilities:

All technology the puppet masters use has been in use as long as they can rmemeber. The technology they use to them it is rather mundane in the same way that you may see a car or toilet paper mundane.

Make of what you will, as I list off the technologies most relevant.

For one, they’re biologically immortal and can pretty much appear wherever they want to as any form in any space as something that is best described as a sentient hallucination as they can fade away and don’t get detected on the scanners.

They can subconsciously hack into systems and get information they want very quickly; hiding stuff from them is only feasible with stuff like paper, any files kept on a online source or archive is bound to be cracked by them sooner or later.

Their conventional weapons are in a sense "death pulses" waves of varying frequency that can cause those targeted by the weapon to wither away. Energy shields tend to help to some level, but the weapon saps heavily on energy as well. There's variants that shoot waves and spheres instead of streams as well. They can and will give a associate a hand weapon that shoots death pulses; but if the associates do something with the weapon the puppet masters do not like, the weapon will crumble apart in their hands.

They're also rather liberal when it comes to using anti-matter based bombs and missiles. They can and will give some of this tech to a associate.

Their FTL is as fast as the limit I allow for the RP is; they can travel across the sector in around 8 years.

Despite all the technological wonders, it must be noted that stuff like space craft are very, very hard to replace as they have no access to manufacturers so every spaceship of theirs destroyed is a spaceship that can’t be replaced for over a century.

Also, the puppet masters are the spaceship.

Other: They're pretty much inspired by a certain classic metal song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKhsTXoKCI

I tried my best to keep them balanced; they're very low in numbers, can't innovate/have a very hard time making more of themselves and generally must rely on indirect means of power. I also made it so other players can potentially make hyper nomads of a similar origin to the puppet masters pretty easily.

Also their history may or may not be a creation myth and not really happened in their ancient history.

I've avoided making a species sheet since it's impossible to use a species of them due to them being spaceships and they got to that form during the neo-ecumene period.