Considering some of our species can preform magic, thats not overpowered. The only thing is that some people would have a willpower that could resist the longer lasting directives, but otherwise that sounds completely fine.
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Considering we have the Equestrians who can make magic weapons, the Triarii who can take over your mind and the likes, I don't think what you're suggesting is implausible, as long as it can be resisted and the likes
Would it be overpowered if I had a process of coverting matter to energy and then back to matter? Say I had a baseball in one part of the room. Could I turn it into energy, move it to another corner, and then turning it back into matter? Is that too overpowered?
The amount of energy that would be released would cause a lot of damage. As we have established before to make something like a hamburger out of energy would require the amount of energy needed to destroy a planet. I doubt anyone has that kinda of storage thats easily buidable and not expensive.
Name of Nation:
-- Kuuros Banner
Species:
-- Kjurii, aka "Sirenbirds"
-- Image
-- Bird-like humanoids with brilliant white plumage and patterning in black and red. A subpopulation of the main species known as "sirens" may use the small, nonfunctional wings on their hips to display patterns which function as a form of basilisk hack; individuals exposed will be temporarily brainwashed into considering the siren their best friend, and commands given during this period can persist as compulsions after the main effects have worn off.
Description of Government:
-- All decisions within Kuuros are made by the sirens, who maintain a loosely-consolidated meritocratic government with strong hereditary leanings. There is no single central leadership figure, with decisions instead falling into jurisdictional boundaries between broad psuedo-familial House-chapters.
Description of Military:
-- The Kuuros military is mostly composed of non-siren kjurii, driven to almost fanatical levels of devotion through careful use of implanted commands and frequent exposure to the sirens basilisk hacks. Technologically, the kjurii make use of accelerator platforms, plasma beamcasters, smart munitions, and drone support.
History:
-- The history of the kjurii is rather long and tragic, tracing its roots back to the discovery of a prehistoric hive-entity which took control of the species and created the sirens to serve them. While the kjurii have largely renounced the less savoury parts of their society, their civilization is still built upon the right to rule of the sirens, and the sirens themselves often have issues in dealing with other species due to how naturally their talents come to them.
-- For a full description of the kjurii's history and a closer look at their biology, please see here.
-- Kuuros Banner
Species:
-- Kjurii, aka "Sirenbirds"
-- Image
-- Bird-like humanoids with brilliant white plumage and patterning in black and red. A subpopulation of the main species known as "sirens" may use the small, nonfunctional wings on their hips to display patterns which function as a form of basilisk hack; individuals exposed will be temporarily brainwashed into considering the siren their best friend, and commands given during this period can persist as compulsions after the main effects have worn off.
Description of Government:
-- All decisions within Kuuros are made by the sirens, who maintain a loosely-consolidated meritocratic government with strong hereditary leanings. There is no single central leadership figure, with decisions instead falling into jurisdictional boundaries between broad psuedo-familial House-chapters.
Description of Military:
-- The Kuuros military is mostly composed of non-siren kjurii, driven to almost fanatical levels of devotion through careful use of implanted commands and frequent exposure to the sirens basilisk hacks. Technologically, the kjurii make use of accelerator platforms, plasma beamcasters, smart munitions, and drone support.
History:
-- The history of the kjurii is rather long and tragic, tracing its roots back to the discovery of a prehistoric hive-entity which took control of the species and created the sirens to serve them. While the kjurii have largely renounced the less savoury parts of their society, their civilization is still built upon the right to rule of the sirens, and the sirens themselves often have issues in dealing with other species due to how naturally their talents come to them.
-- For a full description of the kjurii's history and a closer look at their biology, please see here.
Accepted
And yes despite not being the GM I am a mod of the RP and do have that stuff. Keyguy just forgot to mention.
And yes despite not being the GM I am a mod of the RP and do have that stuff. Keyguy just forgot to mention.
Sweet.
Anybody want to volunteer for some interaction? Up to you whether or not this would be "first contact" or not.
Anybody want to volunteer for some interaction? Up to you whether or not this would be "first contact" or not.
I would of course, but expect during the contact for the ponies and other races onboard to be immune to the effects of the sirens. Generally during diplomatic contact there is a Archmage there, and Archmages are some of the best when it comes to magic. There is a telepathic branch of magic and it can also be used to resist telepathic suggestion, which is what the Sirens ability is. This is mainly due and part that the Equestrians are paranoid about security and just general rules of first contact.
duck55223 said
I would of course, but expect during the contact for the ponies and other races onboard to be immune to the effects of the sirens. Generally during diplomatic contact there is a Archmage there, and Archmages are some of the best when it comes to magic. There is a telepathic branch of magic and it can also be used to resist telepathic suggestion, which is what the Sirens ability is. This is mainly due and part that the Equestrians are paranoid about security and just general rules of first contact.
Sirens abilities aren't telepathic in nature at all, actually. Its a visual-based neurological hack, not psionics. Any commands issued need to be issued verbally.
Oh, uh. Okay then
Alright, although as mentioned people will still have the will to resist, and considering Archmages are powerful as they are they are usually high-willed compared to other unicorns.
Alright, although as mentioned people will still have the will to resist, and considering Archmages are powerful as they are they are usually high-willed compared to other unicorns.
duck55223 said
Oh, uh. Okay thenAlright, although as mentioned people will still have the will to resist, and considering Archmages are powerful as they are they are usually high-willed compared to other unicorns.
I'm not terribly concerned about people being able to resist the implanted compulsions, or even having countermeasures to stop the hack itself from working (although it would be nice if people were willing to play along, because there's not much point in having the ability if everyone I encounter is somehow immune). I just want people to be clear on what they should be defending against (if they're so inclined); think of the whole thing like a barcode scanner. The sirens wings generate patterns that the "scanner" (that being, your eyes and visual processing cortex) reads and then executes the relevant "command", in this case that command being to make the affected individual consider the siren to be their best friend.
If you can disrupt some step of that process, you're safe. Visibility is a concern (can't see the patterns, can't be hacked), and if people used cybernetics or augmented reality they could "screen out" the patterns in real-time and basically put a big censor bar over them from their perspective.
Long-term exposure to the compulsion effect gradually eats away at your ability to resist it and makes you more pliable, though; the non-siren kjurii thralls are more or less incapable of resisting because they've been exposed to the effects for their whole lives.
Oh yeah Cybernetics
I remember back in the old thread the Equestrians had developed basic level cybernetics for replacing limbs and some neuro-implants, so in ten years they could have replacement cybernetic eyes. The problem with using cybernetics to resist that is that not everybody likes them and you have to know what patterns to block out, and before getting those patterns that they even caused that effect. Also the Archmage will be resistant, but a few of his guards and the ships crew will be susceptible. While normally military is trained to resist any neurological compulsions like that a lot of there ship crew and guards are fresh recruits put into place till they can get more highly trained soldiers in to replace the losses from the Drac War.
I remember back in the old thread the Equestrians had developed basic level cybernetics for replacing limbs and some neuro-implants, so in ten years they could have replacement cybernetic eyes. The problem with using cybernetics to resist that is that not everybody likes them and you have to know what patterns to block out, and before getting those patterns that they even caused that effect. Also the Archmage will be resistant, but a few of his guards and the ships crew will be susceptible. While normally military is trained to resist any neurological compulsions like that a lot of there ship crew and guards are fresh recruits put into place till they can get more highly trained soldiers in to replace the losses from the Drac War.
That works.
I'm assuming (based on the fact that we're discussing how resistant your contact team would be at all) that you're aiming for a "first contact" scenario rather than more established relations? How do you think we should kick that off? Do you want the Kuuros to come to you, or would you rather that some Equestrians stumble into Kuuros space?
I'm assuming (based on the fact that we're discussing how resistant your contact team would be at all) that you're aiming for a "first contact" scenario rather than more established relations? How do you think we should kick that off? Do you want the Kuuros to come to you, or would you rather that some Equestrians stumble into Kuuros space?
Usually in the RP its been first contact then they work out trade deals and what not. As for kicking it off it make more sense for the Kuuros to come to the Equestrians. Again while the Equestrians replaced there Battle Fleets and Planetary Defense fleets there scouts fleets were left a bit empty. Most are scouting near Equestrian borders or scouting in areas for planets to expand to where there is no confirmed signals that would indicate a advanced civilization.
I have aswell. Also if you could go to the wiki linked in the OP of the OOC that be great, we want to keep that up to date.
duck55223 said
I have aswell. Also if you could go to the wiki linked in the OP of the OOC that be great, we want to keep that up to date.
I'm not sure what exactly you want me to put up there. A page for my entry sheet?
Yeah, just adding your nation to the list. It already on the Empires list on the main page, so you just need to click on it and it should bring you to a page creation window.
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Just to put it out there, all but the strongest willed humans are easily affected by the whole mind control thing, along with specially altered cyborgs with artificial eyes.
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