[OOC] The Stars Themselves || Sci-Fi Nation Roleplay

[Williwiw]

Is still posible to join? I have some ideas on my mind...

[Alfhedil]

As far as I'm aware, this is still going, what did you have in mind?

[Williwiw]

An old human expedition which by the time have become a nomadic, superstitious and adaptable race, under a traditional caste-monarchy. After millenia of travels, they have begun to consider technology and myth the same very thing, as they have spent more time trapped inside their vessels in the vast space than in any other environment. Just very recenty they have managed to find a planet which they can finally settle. However, although they have learned much from their travels, their civilization is sparse and incommunicated.

[Darkspleen]

I'm interested in joining as well. If you're still accepting I'll work to get a sheet up before the weekend.

[Williwiw]

Instead of wating to be answered, i could not resist to propose this. I am sorry for my impatience, hehe.

Fitting music:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs02P3Rhd0U


Faction Name: Court of the Concái
Faction Type: Meritocratic absolute monarchy
Species: Slightly evolved humans
After millenia of space travel, Concái humans have adapted to lower gravity environements.

Scale and Territory

Basic Interstellar
The Concái are sparse in the Stars. Just fifty years ago they have been able to claim and colonize a suitable planet:
Pidui: Pidui (tr: “Morning”) is a tropical yet arid planet. The planet has been chartred by orbit mesurements, but most population live in reduced area. The main city is Lagoc'háutl (tr: snake's belly), named as the mothership that has been the home of the Concái since inmemorial times. The ancient ship is now on orbit and is being slowly dismantled, and its treasures and population being transfered to Pidui. Lagoc'háutl and other cities are built around huge atmosferic terraformation pyramids. As Concái (tr: gardeners) folk reach Pidui, many other small comunities have formed in the main continent. Roughly 1,650,000 Concái citiziens live in Pidui and its orbit.
Other terriotries: Concái people do not posses terriotries. They only posses mobile asteroid-mining facilities and a pilgrim fleet, now stationed in Pidui.

Government

The soverignity of the people of Concái lays in the king. The actual king, His Majesty King Pykhal XIX, watcher of the Dreams, watcher of the Stars, the Snake Dancer, Holy Comander of Lagoc'háutl by the grace of the Gods, descends from the lineage of Tuúlkuán, the first king. His authority is endorseed not only by his lineage, but also from his sacred condition. He holds and represent both chief of government, religion and tradition. He is assisted byt the Speakers Council, formed by the most skilled and noble subjects; and by the Listeners Council, formed by the most eminent priests and scientists. Each greatship and city is under the govern of a Lord, elected by the King, which can be disposed at any moment. Only the king retains hereditary rights.

Society

The Concái society is divided in open castes. Over everybody else, there is the King and his family. Just under them, the High Court, which covers approximatedly the 10% of the population, formed by High Priests, Army Comanders, Ship Captains, politicians and brilliant artists, artisans and scientists. The Low Court is formed by villagers and workers. The artisans caste, the monks caste and the scientists caste were abolished during the Dawn Era. There is mobility in the different social classes. Exceptional individuals are rewarded and join the High Court. Also, corrupted officers and inneficient nobles are often degradated. Sever ofences from unloyal subjetcs are sometimes forced to exile.
Only High Court spaceship crew subjects are allowed to know the navigation keys, a encrypted space chart system that allows long distance orientation and the ubication of Pidui.

The common Concái would be very gregarious, with a humble lifestyle. Their past has taught them to save every single resource and profit as much. They are not, however, unready to waste high amoutns of food in gifts, and celebrations. Indeed, there is a solid tradition of collective rituals, which involve storytelling, dancing, music,debate and collective meditation. Concái enjoy, more than anything else, gardening and agriculture both as a form of art and work. They value the development of their tradition and knowledge, learning and researching. Overall, they are very mystic, and they also like to collect art pieces and treasures for the glory of the Gods.They also rely on "scrying", a form planification according to complex predictive simulational computation systems that Governors use arrange economy and politic plans .

Religion and science

The Concái have a very complex understanding of the world. They mix myth and logic in their belies. For them, their Gods are aspects of reality, a simbolic explanation of what science has unveiled. Religion hasa social function in tying up and integrating idividuals in their role in their society. The principal Gods or Aspects of their religion are Hualtzu, the cosmic snake, of the death and birth of everything; Láatzilil, God of Stars and navigation, of travel and misteries, Jukul, patron of the arts and Mayuk, Aspect of Dreams and revelations

History

Origins: In the Gliphs of the Evening, carved in Lagoc'háutl front, it can be read:
“In the Evening, King Tuúlkuán, he who watches the stars, he who dances with the Snake, he who was blessed, holy and feared be his name, set out from Home with his most beloved subjects of his Court. As we entered the [i]púha, the ever-hungry snake of Hualtzu put King Túulkuán and his folk in the Deep Slumber.”[/i]
The origins of the Concái people are blurry. The only memories from the days before the Dream are few conserved inscriptions in the frontal parts of the Concái homeship and the distorted oral and written tradition, mixed with more recent myths originated during the Journey. The reasons of this púha (hyperspace jump) are completely unknown to modern historicians.

The Dream: The myths of the Concái people begin with the Journey. The jump placed Lagoc'háutl in the very empty vastness of space. There is an huge written traditions which cover over one thousand years of isolation and hardship. This period is called the dream, for the modern Concái culture, religion and myths originated in this epoch, when they inmersed in a colective illusion due to the divinization of the ship, the stars, and the loss of the scientific knowledge. This later fenomenon was caused by the maintenance of a formated elite who sacralized the hlding of knowledge.
There are no records of this era. This is described in the Myth of Mauaca, a lower-class hero who rose and confroted the elite. The myth tells that, the King, under the requests of freedom of Mauaca and the common folk, erased all the information stored about the ubication of their ancestral homeworld, and then inmolated himself “in the eyes of the galaxy”.

The Night: First records are dated from after this period, and consist of a vast yet neverending monotonous chronicle of the different travels of the Concái people in the vastness. The second púha is narrated extensively in the Saga of the Dust. Since that moment, many other púha were posible, and this leaded to a period of growth once the first solar systems were reached. However, no suitable planet was found, and another 380 years should pass until Pidui was found. Concái calendary begins to count from the second púha. The calendary system, called the Long Count is extremely complex, since it combines the astral measurements of the movements around the galaxy core and the translation of the same galaxy with preditions on púha jumps.

The Dawn: The Saga of the Rocks tells:
“And the Gardeners visited many worlds and met many strangers. They saw magnificient diamond asteroids and colorful stas, and they saw also many beautiful things and horrible ones, and they struggled sometimes, but they finally arrived to Xibalhuá, where my story begins...”

Prabably, half of the things registered in the sagas are lies, but the growth and development of the Concái in these days is acknoledgeable. Many artifacts and treasures were found in this era. Who the scribe refers with strangers, we do no know, as such thign would have been kept secret by the Upper Court.
In 378 puhaljáalk (since the jump), the last and most lucky jump was made under the rule of King Pykhal XIX, watcher of the Dreams, watcher of the Stars, the Snake Dancer, may his name be holy. From time to time, Concái ships arrive to Pidui to settle and pledge loyalty to King Pihkal, .

Technology

FTL: “Púha” jumps used to be the only hyperdrive techlogy the Concái had during the Night. Puha drives consist on a Coincidence Engine. This technology, however, is not fully understood by their propietaries, but they have discovered that it “shorcuts” space by recognizing two equivalent curvature locations. When two points are naturally “equal”, the engine can espontaneously engage in a jump, without almost none energy use. However.
Very recently, thanks to the studies of the dimantled engines of the mothership, the Concái are mastering the Coincidence Induction technology, by wich they can induce coincidence either at the entrance or at the exit of the jump. This requires higly complicated computations in massive computers, an so the jump time can be very variable. Although a spontaneus púha is extremely cheap in energy terms, forcing a jump can be extremely costly both in energy and time terms, depending on the situation. A way to facilitate jumps, now being implemented, is to deploy Coincidence beacons. Púha jumps are very often accompanied by inharmonicity, which cause different mental effects on travelers to which the concái are relatively adapted. Coincidence is also used to generate energy in small amounts.

Ordinary Space Travel: The used propulsion systems are “sails” and Q-thrusters. While sails are normally used in civilian and bigger ships, Q-thrusters are prefered for smaller, faster ships.
Passive matter collectors: Historically, Concái have faced shortage of materials. Thus they developed matter collectors, filters that allow them to pasively capture atoms. In the long race, matter collectors are extremely cost efective.
Solar satellites: Concái fleets recharge thanks to microwave transmited energy collected satellites that colect light from celestial bodies, normally stars in solar systems.
Advanced biotechnology (Gardening): Trapped in the depths of Lagoc'háutl, Concái learned to produce food in extremely efficient manners. Therefore, they are master ambientalists, synthetic biologists and reciclers. They created the “Seed library”, a collection of creatiosn that suit most engineery needs of these people. Their research on huan brain and their rituallistic tradition has made them develop an advanced knowledge of the drugs-counciousness-mind relation, and so, they are masters in manipulating intelligent life forms in laboratory conditions.

Massive predictive computation: The quiet pilgrim life teached the Concái to observe every single detail i nthe unvierse. Their isolated environement encouraged to do extensive simulative computation in order to optimize every aspect of navigation, economy, survival and púha jumps. This requiered enormous amount of computation, and they managed to achieve massive computative prediction engines that often work as “oracles”.

Militar technology: Concái often avoid confict. If forced to battle, they rather use subterfuge and hit and run tactics than enganging in direct battle.
“Masks”: Concái use electronic warfare technologies. They hide the electronic signatures of their ships and comunnications, using masks, firewalls and other devices, so as to ahieve scanning invisibility and inexpugnability. Very similarly, they fake their vessels identity to appear like asteroids and different ships
“Mouths”: Offensively, Concái use informatic warfare to cripple their enemies sensors and to control the flow of invormation in battles.
Weapons: Concái weapons are very rudimentary, consisting mostly on missiles.

Military Forces

Concái fleet is scarce, with many damaged and obsolete ships. Some other ships may be coming to Pidui, only the vastness knows.

4 Garden (farm) Ships
3 Carriers with 550 lightfighters, 250 bombers and 40 “Tickles” (boardment ships) each.
1 Frigate: “Xibalhuá”. Heavily damaged.
61 logistic ships
39 Minelayers / Beacon deployers

[Alfhedil]

@Williwiw - Looks solid to me, so unless Traveler says otherwise, I think you're pretty good to go.

[Kyelin]

Was this still accepting? Can write something up for approval, if that is preferred.

[Sigma]

Yeah, we got plenty of room.

[Isotope]

Exams suck, my absence will continue for a tad longer.

[Kyelin]

Awesome, I'll get a NS up soon. Have to read through the NS list and see what has been done so far.

[Sigma]

Just letting you know some players have kinda dropped the rp.(although I'm not too sure, but who knows), so if you want to try out an idea but someone else has, could be a safe bet to try it out anyway because most likely that person won't be coming back on.

[Meth Quokka]

I'm still around, unfortunately most of my time is limited to just post writing so I won't be terrible active in the OOC.

[Kyelin]

Faction Name: The Ordered Governments of Elok (O.G.E)

Faction Type: Technocratic Tribal Federation

Species: Elok - Standing at 6’5” on average, the Elok are a curious race, which have many features shared with most bipedal species. There are three major differences. however: A highly interconnected and complex maze of vocal cords and resonance chambers that allow for an astonishing array of clicks, whistles and cries that echo and reverberate through the air (making their language near impossible to lear or even attempt to mimic), a shunt based interconnected organ structure (opposed to highly specialized organ systems) and extended brain lobes into their frills and spines on the backs of their heads and necks, allowing for an unnatural situational awareness due to heightened sensory processing. They have digitigrade lower limbs, stubbed vestigial tails and are sleek and slim, with tanned to brown to whitish fur. They have large, dark eyes with poor eyesight and three sets of large, pointed ears for stereoscopic hearing.

Scale and Territory: Advanced Interstellar. They have no home world to speak of, and have established only two colonies, due to limited resources and unwillingness to expand after the disastrous Optera incident. Instead, they live their lives mostly in space, aboard massive life ships, in various un-colonized areas of space.

Culture

Due to the sudden evacuation of their home world, martial law has largely been enforced as a result of the need to survive with next to no resources. As such, they are a resourceful and cunning species, quite capable tinkerers and adept at reverse engineering salvaged machinery. The Elok are mostly peaceful, and have built their new society around the last great tribes of Topka, Miluf’Tseu, Haras’Dain and Fwinzondi. Each tribe controls a certain aspect of the Fleets, such as salvaging and mineral gathering or military offensives. Elok are nomadic, and do not wish to remain in one place for too long, and enjoy co-operating with most other races. Elok leadership is largely matriarchal, with the females often leading fleets and in charge of important affairs.

History

Before the loss of their home world Tyo’Pa, the Elok were a highly technologically advanced species, having developed the FTL Tunneler and several other crucial space faring technologies. With these advances, the Elok had established several colonies, including the biological research station on Optera 4. It was here that the greatest threat to Elok kind arose, The Raw Materials and Compounds Assimilator.

Originally designed as a bio-organic large scale materials fabricator, the experimental Assimilator somehow went haywire, and began to absorb and repurpose all matter (inorganic and organic) it came into contact with. Devouring everything around it, it quickly created hybrid synthetic/biological monstrosities to expand off world, and spread to the other colonies. This enemy had one crucial advantage over the Elok: It only had to make contact with their ships, and it became unstoppable.

After thirty years of losses and failed attempts at containment, the Elok found their home world over run, and faced a harsh reality: Force their home star into super nova, sterilizing and destroying their colonies and home world, or risk the Assimilator spreading to other planets and across the galaxy. And with great sorrow and despair, the remaining clean Elok ships abandoned their world, as it was consumed in cosmic radiation and vaporized to dust.

With the Assimilator threat eliminated, the ships were forced into martial law, to help prevent starvation and maintain coherence among the various tribal leaders. It was this emergency council that founded the Ordered Governments of Elok, which continue to be their people’s best chance at survival and prosperity, no matter the gulf between them.

Technology

Before the evacuation of Tyo’Pa, the Elok were highly advanced, and masters of both quantum energy creation and manipulation, as well as advanced polymer synthesis and genetic manipulation, as well as the ability to tamper and tinker with the very fusion reactions of stars and other celestial super structures. Much of this knowledge has been lost in the 2000 years since the death of their home planet, but some of it still survives in the Miluf’Tseu Archive Fleet.
FTL Tunneler – An unusual solution to the problem of light speed travel, the FTL Tunneler uses the refractive properties of large celestial bodies (such as gas giants) to create a dense hyper static photon veil, which creates a rip in space time. This rip enters hyperspace, which is then used to travel to, theoretically, any point in the universe. There are, however, some major drawbacks to this design:
1: To activate, the Tunneler requires a large surface to ‘mirror’ the ship against (anything smaller than a planet’s atmosphere will not be sufficient to create the hyper energetics needed to create a mass entropy field).
2: All ships entering this veil must divert ALL energy to shields, to prevent vaporization.
3: The coordinates must be known, or the ships fail safes will activate, preventing travel. This restricts movement to within the galaxy, for the foreseeable future.
Wireless Thermal Beam Transfer – These methods of energy transfer allow for a single reactor ship or many smaller ships to power and overclock an entire fleet’s or individual ship’s weapon systems, shields or engines. While individual ships are quite weak, a networked fleet can present quite a formidable force, firing a single beam of terrifying destructive power. This advance was coined as a solution to the limited number of ships possessed by the Elok, as a way to remain competitive with the other factions.

Military Forces

The Elok lack numbers in their military and naval forces, but more for make up for this with specialized units and fleets, that maximize the use of the WTBT energy system. These systems include:

“Kur’Stal” Lifeship - The Kur’Stal is often at the heart of any fleet, protected by all other ships, and for good reason: Up to 80% of the population dwells there, and are flown out to areas of the fleet where personnel are needed. Often, crippling or destroying the Kur’Stal will lead to a full retreat from the rest of the fleet. This ship also acts as a short range reactor ship in times of danger.

“Guyoi” Heavy Cruiser - Basically a huge gun in space, the Guyoi is lightly armed in normal engagements, but can be overclocked by adjacent ships to activate the Neutrino Deterioration Main Cannon, a devastating particle projection weapon that can be used effectively as heavy assault or capital ship killers, when gathered in small groups.

“Tri’pol” Shield Frigate – Tri’Pols are a support class of ship, which can be networked to produce a large scale energy shield around friendly ships, at the cost of the Frigate’s own defenses. To compensate, the frigate is small and extremely maneuverable, a difficult target to hit.

“Arids” Destroyer – One of the few Elok ships that cannot be networked at all, the Arids is a standard destroyer, firing high density plasma charges at enemy vessels and covering more soft, vulnerable targets.

“Soklo’Pisa” Fighter –A standard fighter/bomber used by Elok forces.

“Fugyt’Nasa” Champion Battle Suit – Only 80 of these are in service, due to their extremely high manufacturing costs and expertise requirements, and are flown by only the highest ranking and expert Elok pilots. These suits are nothing special individually, but when networked with a fleet, are quite devastating opponents, with enough firepower to cripple or even destroy anything cruiser class or lower. There weapons, however, are designed to engage the Assimilator, should it ever be encountered again, and as such, are rarely seen in battle.

In addition, there are standard frigates and cruisers for civilian use, as well as standard assault frigates for light offensives.
Ground forces are few, with less of an emphasis on large scale tank and mass troop warfare. Instead, the Elok employ highly specialized inter-species strike teams, occasionally with vehicle support, to eliminate targets of opportunity or assassinate enemy leaders. These teams are some of the best trained in the galaxy, with cutting edge technology that allow for such things as active camo or extreme demolition.

[A-Traveller]

@Kyelin and Williwiw
You are both accepted.

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I've been busy with the final weeks of the quarter, but with only one exam remaining, I'll be far more active.

I'll edit a note into the OP stating that the roleplay is still accepting. I'll also be in the IRC more often, so anyone can pop in and ask questions without having to wait for someone to notice the thread.

[Kyelin]

Okies, cool, I'll contribute tomorrow. Anyone have any ideas how? I don't know the lay of the galaxy, per se :L

[Meth Quokka]

First post is generally more introductory that action based, but if you want to make an impact straight away, pick someone close to you and send something their way.

[Williwiw]

Oh, one thing. I expressely did not choose any location. I'd liek to have my location i nthe map picked randomly by Traveller or by you, since it would fit the lore about my civilization quasirandom spacejumps. On the account of that, I'd gladly initiate contact with whoever I'm close to.

[NewSun]

Looks interesting! Can I express some interest in this?

[A-Traveller]

@Kyelin
There's a less up-to-date map in the first OOC post, and a more up-to-date one somewhere in the last couple pages. I've been meaning to update the map for a while now, and I intend to do that tonight.

@Williwiw
I'll update the map tonight and add you to it someplace, in that case.

@NewSun
Absolutely.

[HounderHowl]

I'm bak