Hello! Some friends and I have kicked up a discord to maintain canon for a long term galactic scale RP, filled with various races and conflicts! However, we need more people to fill the ranks and provide for more variety, so we have decided to open it up to the public. Basically the way it works, is that each galactic empire has full latitude to do whatever they wish in a semi-sandbox environment. Later on down the line, there will be some large scale events taking place to shake up the political climate and provide more opportunity for larger group play. RP is handled by setting up various rooms for two (or more) different races to come into contact over a particular event, making each event self contained in the server. This allows people to post at the speed they wish to, without getting caught up waiting for a slower user.
Post length is not enforced, and tend to be large single paragraphs and smaller. Below is an example of one of the races in the server. If you're interested, feel free to pop by and have a look around: discord.gg/KF3BEh7
Welcome to the beginning of the #zarbayeed_lore channel. Zar'Bayeed:
Main Race, Habitat in Arm [whatever number isn't taken] referred to as Thara'la in their native tongue.
6 to 8 foot hieght range (6 being equivalent to a 4'8 human, 8 equivalent to a 7 footer)
Massive variance in physical characteristics, skin pigmented in any hexadecimal coded colour, textures range from smooth and dolphin like to gnarled and warty. One common racial characteristic is a head bearing resemblance to an earthling cephalopod, and black eyes, always black. Roughly humanoid/anthropomorphic though with limited sexual dimorphism, mainly more slender cranial bells and shorter facial tendrils on females. Musculature is smooth and undefined, with the fittest of Zar'Bayeed having concentric rings running along their trunk, and parallel cords along their arms. Cartilagenous endo skeleton offers a wide range of movement though means that any ZB wishing to preform strenuous physical activity must be custom engineered to do so, usually with spliced genetics. Tech: rather than develop silicon based computing, or internal combustion engines, the ZB simply opted to perfect their knowledge of the cell, and it's biological processes. Their buildings are shaped coral grown above the surface of small lakes, their computers are the brains hacked apart and wired to rudimentary displays. Their tech is powerful but use of it is seen as a near religious process due to the necessity of transmuting life to create machines and tools. The concept of recreational technology is abhorrent to a ZB, on par with a stringent Catholic being told a friend only visits church to get wasted on communion wine and oggle the statue of Jesus. ZB Then moved onto the engineering of custom built organisms, rather than the crude cannibalisation and biological rewiring of cadavers and beasts of the land. Think travelling beneath the waves in a hollowed out still living whale, in whom you grow GMO funghi packed with energy to sustain him rather than an engine bay or feul. To cut things short, after the Biohacking together of a space faring civ ZB became more spiritually focused and gradually more idealistic and ruthless. They worship progress, and strive for the permutation of life into one final glorious form. More on religion and societal structure when I r sleeped Your Deadbeat Dad - 10/11/2017 Religion:
ZB are incredibly religious. The cornerstone of their faith (Balaten) is that eventually a life form will be created by some means that will be all encompassing. That God did not create the universe but the universe will create a god. They are therefore open to constant self permutation and change, and despite their puritanical views on recreational technology are willing to cooperate with races that strive to push themselves in some way. The profligate sinner may one day repent their wasteful use of tech, but what the ZB cannot abide is nihilism, and stagnation. A planet that bears no intelligent life, whose animals plod, and chew cud till they expire is simply a well to be drained, to feed into the endless cycle of Balaten. And an intelligent race whose people are content to stagnate and be fed like chattel is the ultimate abhorrence, and their rejection of Balaten should not stand. Society: Egalitarian, completely and utterly as there is almost no physical distinction between ZBs, and both partners are required to spawn the life that continues Balaten.
Highest caste are a priest/ruler council of six, along with a parliment of about 120 known as the dimaaj, potential replacements etc.
Below are Syjet-Clergy responsible for maintaining high end biotech (ordered like a standard Catholic thing, a pope, cardinals, bishops etc)
Feeders, ie anyone not building new life and instead feeding the cycle of Balaten through procreation (Civilians, majority)
Syjeed: animals and lower life forms who serve, they ARE the tech, their role in Balaten is to prop up the society that feeds into it.
Kotaala: The infertile or too infirm to breed or contribute to Blaaten otherwise. Wretches, second class citizens, but not actively opressed, moreso just pitied and thought of as gutter scum Tech and weapons:
So I heard you like bioweapons.
Bioengineered animal shocktroops, chemical and biological weapons and diseases.
Signature unit ((think the equivalent of a human marine, the one most well known and sorta mythicised but that's not a word.) :
Mareed: A clergyman rendered sterile and turned into a breeding ground for aerosolised toxic bacteria and spores, engineered for durability and to spray AIDS.
Predictably ZB are shit at fighting non living units, unless they can gunk up the circuits in blood and guts, or bury it in bodies. Large scale gasmasks and hazard suits are a must when fighting ZB which makes it fairly costly. Luckily ZB do t fight unless they feel another race is utterly violating the natural principles of Balaten. World buster: literally a giant acorn that burrows a few miles into the crust of a planet then converts resources into energy and discharges it into a form usable by their FTL ship:
FTL travel: Bateekh
A gigantic barnacle/kraken thing that literally eats and siphons energy till it gets so fat that it has to molt it's shell, releasing so much stored energy that it zips through at FTL speeds. Longish recharge on FTL drive since it needs to gorge on the product of its internal farms/a siphoned dead planet for a long while but it's very cheap to operate. Which means more money of fancy Desi style robes and genetic engineering. Short of turning it into a whole comic book, done, more details on a Quick and A basis
We're closing down invites as Spiral enters into the final stages of the end game. As things draw to a close there, we'll be opening up a new discord RP for people to join, using lessons learned to make for an even better RP experience! Thanks to all of those that played, and we're looking forward to meeting new people in Behemoth when we open to the public next week!
