[OOC] Starship RP

[RumikoOhara]

[Vortex]

Ugh

[RumikoOhara]

Powered Battle Armor

[Vortex]

Ive seen that armour somewhere before...

[RumikoOhara]

I forget where I collected the pic from

[Vortex]

Ah nevermind then.

By the way im going for the next two days, do you think you can hold down the ship till i return?

[Vortex]

Anyone who has not posted do so ASAP

[SamRobbi4Life]

Vortex said
Anyone who has not posted do so ASAP

Anyone spots still open?

[RumikoOhara]

Submit a CS and Vortex will check it

[Vortex]

Roger that

[Vortex]

How many posts do you think it would take to reach the Nunu?

[TheUnknowable]

First, we need to establish what they are. I'm guessing fish-people, with the fact that they stink and have to migrate, it may be like Salmon, where they have to go back to their home stream once a year to spawn. Or, it could be a religious pilgrimage,with the migration being a ceremonial journey to some sacred space phenomenon.
But I'd think we could skip to it once everyone checks in.

[Vortex]

How about a religious fish-man holy pilgramage?

[TheUnknowable]

Vortex said
How about a religious fish-man holy pilgramage?

"Be fruitful and multiply"? Works for me.
Most of the year the monks are sworn to chastity, but once a year in the holy week of Salata they can return home and reproduce to increase the number of followers of Snilu, their fish-god.

[RumikoOhara]

Sure sounds good to me, I just provided the generalities

StinkyMonks going back to the home world to spawn Like Zoidberg

[Vortex]

TheUnknowable said
"Be fruitful and multiply"? Works for me.Most of the year the monks are sworn to chastity, but once a year in the holy week of Salata they can return home and reproduce to increase the number of followers of Snilu, their fish-god.

Then they abandon their hatchlings for several weeks to weed out the weakest of their spawn. They then return and collect the deceased hatchlings and devour them in a ritual to the Great Snilu.

Or maybe not

[RumikoOhara]

I love it

[Vortex]

Got anything to add the Religious Fish-Man lore?

[TheUnknowable]

I've got some more, but I'm not sure if you want it.

My Idea

The people with read spots are Snilu's chosen people. Only they can become priests. Also, because the holy scripture says that "all knowledge of the nature of the world must come from Snilu, or it will be impure", the priesthood has a monopoly on scientific research. The people with yellow spots mostly follow the religion of Snilu, or one of the offshoots, such as those that worship one of his mates or offspring. As such, they tend to have more rights under the law. They can even own starships, though the only ones that they get new are cargo ships and mining ships.
The Blue Spots traditionally live with much less advanced tech (think modern day tech) because they don't follow the religion of Snilu or any of its offshoots. Their religion (those that have a religion) are more Eastern in their structure, believing that intelligent life has the potential to meet or surpass the gods. Because of religious persecution many of them have started a rebellion along with many sympathetic yellow-spots and a few red-spots.
There was at one point a race of green-spots, but, due to a holy war between them and the red-spots (they worshiped Snilu's younger brother, who the red-spots believe lost a contest against Snilu, then cheated his way out of payment), they are now believed to be extinct.

[Vortex]

TheUnknowable said
I've got some more, but I'm not sure if you want it.

I love it. But how about we make it so instead of just different coloured spots the fish-men groups are actaully beginning to go their different ways in Evolution, they are still able to interbreed however and they haven't been separated long enough to Actually notice any major differences.

And how about we make it so the "Red-priests Science" is more Pseudo Science with strong religious and Occult influences impacting the way they think. Meanwhile the "Blue Science" is more orthodox by our standards.

And the Green-fish-people died (maybe not?) in Mysterious circumstances (Early Nuclear Weapons? Experiment Gone Bad?) and the Nomad Red-fish-people found the ruins of the Green-fish-people with all their tech still inside and that is why the Red-fish-people hold the monopoly but are heavily influenced by Mysticism because they were still nomads when they found it. The Blue-fish-people did not find any ruins and so advanced more slowly and so they are less advanced but also less involved with the Occult.

Tell me if you like, this was your idea afterall