The Infinite IDS - The Esscela Incident
Out Of Character
Setting:The IDS, mostly in the local orbital area of the planets Esscela & Mayy.
The Inter-Dimensional Space (IDS), the Everything, a infinite space governed by the three universal laws and inhabited by an infinity of species, build out of Dimensions - shorter from Dimensionally Defined Unique Probability - unique possible realities which can differ between each other in anything from a single even or all the laws of physics & magic. The Post-Dimensional Society, the joint economy and culture of many countries in the IDS which are able to project their military power in any part of the known IDS, is the dominant power in the IDS with an never-ending thirst for power.
Now in one corner of the IDS a mysterious device left by some ancient civilization is found on a planet under the concession of the Revenul Corporation. Without facilities and experts required to examine such artifact Revenul decides to ship off the artifact to United Corporation, their parent corporation, for study. They hastily load the device into "SS Lorgger" a Forkaw Class Transport, put it into one of the ore-filled convoys to disguise it, while at the same quickly summoning mercenaries to create an escort group for the convoy. But the Pirates of IDS will not waste a opportunity to attack such a target, even if well protected and while making its way, near the planet of Esscela the convoy is attacked and during the course of the attack the artifact on the Forkaw activates, sucking in both convoy and pirate ships far into the orbit of the still undiscovered planet of Mayy. Now Mercenary, Pirate and Mayyins alike will have their fate rewritten by this single event...
Relevant terms:Esscela - A minor transit system & planet in the outer area of the known IDS.
Mayy - ? An Earth-like planet. More info will be given as part of the story.
United Corporation (UC[]) - The largest IDS corporation which is also an IDS superpower.
Revenul Corporation - One of the many corporations that have been made/taken over by United Corporation to evade monopoly charges.
... requires an elite seven man team for a SO retrieval mission. Pay is 500,000 C per person in advance plus 750,000 C upon return.
MNB Input #...213,450,189,443,123,843,902; Post-Dimensional Year 1,921,544,771,621...
Request to all mercenary starships and groups: 2 cruisers, 5 destroyers, 10 frigates, 12 corvettes and up to 25 gunships are required to escort a Forkaw class transport of the Revenul Corporation. Pay depends on the class and type of your vessel.
MNB Input #...213,450,189,443,123,843,903; Post-Dimensional Year 1,921,544,771,621...
Trakara Kingdom seeks ...
... so there is this talk about Revenul Corporation having found some device and other highly cashable stuff in one mine and are planning to transport it in a Forkaw trough Esscela. Trough expect Mercs as well as a UC cruiser, Revenul is 57% owned by UC & affiliates after all. Well a raid is up to those with guts and ships capable of taking on a Nautilus cruiser. Good hunting, now I have to tell you about ...
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To note:
Mercenaries have to submit a actual identity when making a Universal Mercenary Identification so you need to put a all the stuff that is listed here but that some of that might not be known to others since only the leader(s) of the Merc starship or group (Merc groups have multiple starships in them some being the size of fleets of small IDS nations) can look at your Universal Mercenary ID.
As for Pirate characters - put all public information so everyone can see them and what is not public into HIDERS saying "For GM eyes only".
I will allow character from Mayy. For more info consult with the Mayy Info hider and then contact me.
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General about ship classes
Mercenaries mostly use ships build by one of the IDS corporations or the newest ships that were put out of service by one of the larger IDS countries. Many of this ships are human in origin and a large part come from Earth-based corporation and nations resulting in names like for example "Washington class, Nebraska Class, America Class and so on." The usual pattern of naming spaceship classes is cruisers - countries; destroyers - states/regions; frigates - cities; corvettes - people; gunships - animals & plants. Battleships & carries are usually named after larger land masses like America or Tempe (from Tempe Terra on Mars).
Pirates on the other hands have many unique, custom build starships, many even not of much combat use. There are still a few notable classes like the Cutlass Class Raiding Cruiser, the Pirate Class Raiding Destroyer, the Raider Class Raiding Vessel (frigate sized) and the Cloak MP Strike Craft. Pirate vessels of all types exceed at using stealth.
About some of the stuff in the sheet.
Weapon classification. Strategic are weapons designed to attack larger orbital structures and planets. Capital weapons are designed to be effective against larger ships and all kinds of orbital structures. Tactical are designed to engage smaller, quicker starships and have some effect against larger targets and strike craft as well. Anti-strike craft weapons are designed to take on Strike Crafts, fighters, bomber & torpedo bombers trough they are also quite good against smaller gunships.
Weapons. Some notable weapons or weapon types. Arrays - just like phasers in Star Trek those are long strips which can fire beams at enemy ships. Most arrays are Tactical or Anti-Strike Craft Weapons. Torpedoes - guided ammunition fired from tubes used as strategic, capital or tactical weaponry. SPARROW - in all sizes and varieties the SPARROW are missiles with an almost perfect guiding system used in all roles. from bombarding planets to killing humans. SPARROW is a invention of UC. Omega Uplink – A device which generates a dimensional passage which allows the UC’s Omega Cannon to fire trough it, bringing its devastating power to the battlefield.
Armor & Shielding - Armor in IDS military starships is usually build with a Power Metalum (magically treated Ancient Metalum) layer on the outside a few Ancient Metalum (a strong metal which requires too much energy to be efficiently replicated so it is mined) layers bellow that all with numerous femtobot (robots on the femtometric scale) repairing layers. Shields are Magi-Tech constructs which can have between a few thousands to just a half a dozen of layers.
Turning - To be expressed by X/10 in which X is any number from 1.0 to 10.0 (one decimal point score). The bigger the ship the slower the turning!
Power- Most power on IDS ships is provided through a series of reaction which use the energy and radiation from matter-antimatter annihilation to do a step by step procedure whit the help of Magic to create a reaction between Energy and Anti-Energy and the collect the resulting Magic to gain power. Pure matter-antimatter annihilation is still used for secondary power and fusion usually provides the auxiliary needs together with Magi-Tech batteries. It should be noted that a quasi-stable form of antimatter, known as Antimatter Crystals are used in Matter-Antimatter reactions in the IDS.
Name:UCSPSS L452R532 "Normal"
Starship Class:Nautilus #2 (Type/Mark... 2) AKA Class IV Combat Vessel Upgrade 7211
Starship Type:Cruiser
Specifications
Dimensions(Size):300m (Lenght) * 60 m (Width) * 30 m (Height)
Crew:
Minimal- 1 Class Two Digit AI
Optional- 300 + AI
Maximal- 1200
Armaments:
Strategic- Omega Uplink
Capital- Omega Uplink, 2 Cap. Cannons
Tactical- 4 Tac. Cannons, 8 Arrays
Anti-Strike Craft- 240 SPARROW ASC tubes
Other- 120 SPARROW MP tubes, 8 Torpedoes
Power:
Main- 3 UC Cruiser AM-Based Anti-Energy Annihilation Power Plant
Secondary- 3 UC Cruiser AM Annihilation Power Plant
Auxiliary- Multiple UC Cruiser Fusion Power Plants & Batteries
Survivability:
Armor - 3.5 m with 1.5 m of Power Metalum (the rest is Ancient Metalum)
Shielding - 3 UC Cruiser Shield Generators generating a total of 6000 shield layers.
Speed - Up to 1/44 c, but equipped with Sliding Engines which allow the ship to perform a short teleportation of a few AU of distance.
Turning - 7.1/10 (Due to engine placing)
Other:
Hangar- Up to 24 Strike Craft, Usually a compliment of 10 (2 squads).
Other-UC Supply Uplink, which allows resupply with almost any resource via teleportation anywhere in the known IDS. Equipped for surface assault and can enter atmosphere.
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Name: Humans (Homo Sapiens Sapiens)
Common Biological Features:HumansCommon Mental Features:HumansCommon Magical Features:Humans are by default magically neutral but are know to give mages from time to time in dimensions where magic exists.
Other:Humans are one of the 7 basic races of IDS - aka one of the races which serve as a basis for all other races in the IDS. They are also the most common IDS race but are fragmented into many smaller or larger states with the largest being the Great Allied Worlds (which also has a significant non-human population).
Mayy is a world in the Earth's late 20th century inhabited only by humans. A single country managed to dominate most of the world for over 1000 years but in a war some 30 years ago due to lack of oil it was greatly weakened until oil was found in one part of the country, allowing the battlefronts to grind to a halt since it and its enemies were roughly equal in all things. But that might not stay for that long ... (Nukes are known but MAD is preventing anything except a tactical one being used from time to time. Due to the war most countries are militarized and while military techs are starting to enter the Earth's eighty's the civilian ones, like television, are still in the mid sixty's.) Expect a map soon ...
Feel free to ask questions and show your interest. I hope I get to see Sheets soon.
