If you're looking to apply: Great! Welcome to the world of the Black Star Order. To start, this will be a (hopefully) medium-long length role play with multiple people from all sorts of different factions. Continuous applications will be considered, as it's always interesting to have many people from many factions. As the GM, I will post the important bits pertaining to all characters in easy to read red bold (EXAMPLE) Posts for my own character, will appear much like this text.
PLEASE READ ALL CONTENT BEFORE BEGINNING APPLICATION
If you still intend to apply, please use the following template to submit your character for a rather easy screening process.
Name:
Age:
Race: (Human, Alien or Machine)
Faction: (TLP, DAEXR, SkiTTiSH, Ferox, Pirate, Singular Colony or OTHER)
*Alignment: (How your character generally is described. Pirates would be evil, SkiTTiSH would be lawful, friendly.)
*Technology you wish to use: (Lesser, Standard or Advanced)
*Ship type: (Corvette/Cruiser/Battleship or Destroyer/Dreadnought/Capital Ship or Flagship)
* These require justification in their use. As in, "my character used a heavy battleship because they are a high-ranking admiral" or "my character utilized a battle-mech since they are in an advanced faction" or "
OPTIONAL
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You may wish to create a custom Faction, with their own determined history and design. Humans can come from basically anywhere, but Alien races must originate from the Exclusion Zone.
For Aliens: You must provide the design of the alien, their features and abilities, their culture, their history and how they will act.
For Humans: You must describe their culture, governance and which area of space they originate from using the map provided in the IC page.
DESCRIPTIONS OR BIOS OR BACKSTORIES OR EQUIPMENT LOADOUTS ARE OPTIONAL
Loadouts can be described in character. One or the other is mandatory as I wish not to have deadpool-esque pulling out weapons.
DECIDING ON WHICH TECHNOLOGY LEVEL TO USE
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Use the IC page to decide. Decisions on my part as to what you shall use are FINAL.
TLP, DAEXR and almost all aliens will use advanced technology. (DAEXR and Custom Aliens will be more towards Standard.)
PPP/SkiTTiSH will use lesser to standard technology.
Pirates will use lesser to standard technology, possibly some advanced levels if proper reasoning and backstory is given.
Isolated custom colonists you create will use lesser, they have to focus on defending their planet and feeding the people.
WHAT THESE TECHNOLOGY TYPES MEAN
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Advanced: Anything you can imagine with a provided design which is close to realistic will be up for debate. This includes weaponry or ships that utilize non-real metals and techniques in certain ways that can be extrapolated as possible.
Standard: It is hard to describe what the standard level of technology is here, so this will be heavily debated as for what you bring to the table and ask for. I would like for the level of technology to be something similar to Mass Effect without Eezo. Ion is the primary engine, though certain factions may have the option of using gravity-driven ships which would prove much faster.
Lesser: Basic of basic. You have faulty equipment, barely scrabbled together which works in a miracle of engineering. Lesser is to Standard as an Iphone 3 is to a 7. You're alright, but not that great. More debate as to what you can bring, as your ideas and the faction you choose holds plenty of meaning.
ALL TECHNOLOGY LEVELS COME STANDARD WITH HYPERDRIVE TECHNOLOGY. JUMP BETWEEN SYSTEMS AT NEAR-LIGHT SPEED. SHIPS WITH THIS HAVE 5 MINUTE COOL DOWN AND SPOOL UP TIMES
RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT YOU CAN USE
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Not really anything.
Bear in mind however, that you must consider the dispersion of heat. Transferring electricity or firing giant missiles pushes heat into your ship and will melt the armour if you push on too hard. If you're in advanced you must give me details and descriptions on how your ship-weapon or handheld weapon is going to disperse this heat.
You can create materials and elements to aid or assist in your creations, yet they cannot be too overpowered, and you may not use elements from other factions other users create. If a role player creates a hypothetical Element P and they are from the TLP faction, only other TLP faction members which join later can use their ideas.
If you read all of this, great job! Make an application and we'll get to work shortly!
PLEASE READ ALL CONTENT BEFORE BEGINNING APPLICATION
If you still intend to apply, please use the following template to submit your character for a rather easy screening process.
Name:
Age:
Race: (Human, Alien or Machine)
Faction: (TLP, DAEXR, SkiTTiSH, Ferox, Pirate, Singular Colony or OTHER)
*Alignment: (How your character generally is described. Pirates would be evil, SkiTTiSH would be lawful, friendly.)
*Technology you wish to use: (Lesser, Standard or Advanced)
*Ship type: (Corvette/Cruiser/Battleship or Destroyer/Dreadnought/Capital Ship or Flagship)
* These require justification in their use. As in, "my character used a heavy battleship because they are a high-ranking admiral" or "my character utilized a battle-mech since they are in an advanced faction" or "
OPTIONAL
___________________________________________________________
You may wish to create a custom Faction, with their own determined history and design. Humans can come from basically anywhere, but Alien races must originate from the Exclusion Zone.
For Aliens: You must provide the design of the alien, their features and abilities, their culture, their history and how they will act.
For Humans: You must describe their culture, governance and which area of space they originate from using the map provided in the IC page.
DESCRIPTIONS OR BIOS OR BACKSTORIES OR EQUIPMENT LOADOUTS ARE OPTIONAL
Loadouts can be described in character. One or the other is mandatory as I wish not to have deadpool-esque pulling out weapons.
DECIDING ON WHICH TECHNOLOGY LEVEL TO USE
___________________________________________________________
Use the IC page to decide. Decisions on my part as to what you shall use are FINAL.
TLP, DAEXR and almost all aliens will use advanced technology. (DAEXR and Custom Aliens will be more towards Standard.)
PPP/SkiTTiSH will use lesser to standard technology.
Pirates will use lesser to standard technology, possibly some advanced levels if proper reasoning and backstory is given.
Isolated custom colonists you create will use lesser, they have to focus on defending their planet and feeding the people.
WHAT THESE TECHNOLOGY TYPES MEAN
_______________________________________________________________
Advanced: Anything you can imagine with a provided design which is close to realistic will be up for debate. This includes weaponry or ships that utilize non-real metals and techniques in certain ways that can be extrapolated as possible.
Standard: It is hard to describe what the standard level of technology is here, so this will be heavily debated as for what you bring to the table and ask for. I would like for the level of technology to be something similar to Mass Effect without Eezo. Ion is the primary engine, though certain factions may have the option of using gravity-driven ships which would prove much faster.
Lesser: Basic of basic. You have faulty equipment, barely scrabbled together which works in a miracle of engineering. Lesser is to Standard as an Iphone 3 is to a 7. You're alright, but not that great. More debate as to what you can bring, as your ideas and the faction you choose holds plenty of meaning.
ALL TECHNOLOGY LEVELS COME STANDARD WITH HYPERDRIVE TECHNOLOGY. JUMP BETWEEN SYSTEMS AT NEAR-LIGHT SPEED. SHIPS WITH THIS HAVE 5 MINUTE COOL DOWN AND SPOOL UP TIMES
RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT YOU CAN USE
_____________________________________________
Not really anything.
Bear in mind however, that you must consider the dispersion of heat. Transferring electricity or firing giant missiles pushes heat into your ship and will melt the armour if you push on too hard. If you're in advanced you must give me details and descriptions on how your ship-weapon or handheld weapon is going to disperse this heat.
You can create materials and elements to aid or assist in your creations, yet they cannot be too overpowered, and you may not use elements from other factions other users create. If a role player creates a hypothetical Element P and they are from the TLP faction, only other TLP faction members which join later can use their ideas.
If you read all of this, great job! Make an application and we'll get to work shortly!
