Only ice cream can sooth the lashing gap in my soul.
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I will only feel soothed after Serp gives me a hug.
Any opinions on what I have so far for my app.
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Duck, Darkmatter is doing that right now. Preparing either praise or perdition upon our fragile and scared NS's....
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I shall now withdraw. I probably won't be able to keep up very well anyways.
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I shall now withdraw. I probably won't be able to keep up very well anyways.
You're pulling out?
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You're pulling out?
lol that's what she said.
Anyway, to Iso or anyone else wanting to read it. I had time to update the situation between the Karkosians and Hau in my history sections. What was in there before was a basic premise of the situation. I still have not gotten with Sigma about our nations prior contact. *might be a hint there sigma* :)
*edit* need a chat alternative.
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I know I was just surprised.
Sigma will rear his head soon I'm sure.
Sigma will rear his head soon I'm sure.
I hope I'm doing this right. ;_; First time doing a nation roleplay.
Name: Starwalker Communion, Cult of Infinity
Capital System: "The Beginning"
Treating nearly all stellar bodies like cherished entities or aspects of their life, Starwalkers have opted to dub their home system and its star 'The Beginning' to simply signify their origin point. This name is used singularly when speaking to biological life incapable of comprehending the obscenely long and true name they have given their home system. In reality, Starwalkers speak of The Beginning using a long, drawn out title comprised of notable aspects of their history summarized into one or two words. Able to communicate this title within a split second to one another due to their cybernetic nature, such a title does not test their patience.
The Beginning is a G-type main-sequence star with three major orbiting bodies, only one of which (a gas giant) remains intact. The two remaining planets, both terrestrial, have been so heavily that their very cores are vacated, leaving only empty space. Leftovers of the planets remain as massive interlocking urban developments. As the mining proceeded lower into the planet, materials were brought up closer to the surface, causing the inner megastructures to be smaller than the exterior ones. Their atmospheres have since vanished, leaving the "planet" inhospitable even on the interior of the megastructures, which lack atmosphere all the same.
Dominant Species: Starwalker
Sub-Factions/Species: None
Direction From Galactic Core: TBD
Race Name: Starwalker
Race Info: Starwalkers are the cybernetic ascensions of a previously organic race. Though clearly robotic, the Starwalkers have retained nearly all psychological aspects of their former, fleshy lives. Starwalkers display a capacity for all forms of emotion, albeit with certain countermeasures put in place to warn the entity of potentially destructive behavior, and to ward them away from it. Their forms are massive, completely electronic, and self-sustaining; each is built to live for an eternity even in the void of space, destined to walk among the stars (hence their name). A Starwalker is its own world, complete with anything and everything an individual would need to traverse the galaxy as it pleases.
Average Lifespan: Indefinite
Physical Characteristics: Each Starwalker appears different than another, built with varying forms of architecture and design that no two individuals completely share. On average, Starwalkers stand at 18m tall with significant variation. Their coloration and designs also range heavily, though are highly focused on aesthetics; Starwalkers do not care for cost-efficiency or material efficiency. To them, design is everything. It is impossible to find a Starwalker that has been built in a fashion similar to the economic military vehicles of mankind. Each Starwalker is outfitted with a repertoire of devices meant to service it during its lifetime. The range of cybernetic capabilities an individual Starwalker can perform is outstanding, given its limited size. Each Starwalker is capable of faster-than-light travel without outside aid. Starwalker FTL is especially adept at frequent usage, able to be booted up and cooled down quite quickly (within a matter of minutes). They also possess a perpetual energy generator (specifics TBD, need help) to allow them infinite operation times. Quantum entanglement allows for Starwalkers to communicate with one another from any distance and highly advanced telescopic and radar systems grant Starwalkers extreme sight and detection ranges.
Their bodies are built to withstand extreme forces, including but not limited to atmospheric re-entry, cosmic debris collision, solar radiation, among others. Sustaining themselves within space for extended periods of time means, of course, that their bodies must be able to take on large amounts of punishment, whatever they may be, and allow for them to continue moving, or at the very least return home for repair. Starwalkers all possess "wings" of some design and size bearing advanced microwave thrusters. The wings are capable of varying amounts of rotation and angling, granting Starwalkers a fast and wide-ranging choice of maneuvering. Most Starwalkers come equipped with weaponry of sorts, just in case, generally being some sort of large gun (even the appearances of Starwalker equipment varies) projecting a small slug (so as to maximize ammo capacity) at near-light speeds.
Starwalkers also come equipped with a squad of small drones bearing tools that maximize the number of activities it can carry out, from mining to growing gardens and everything in between.
Moral Values: Most of all, the Starwalkers adhere to a code of cooperation between themselves. Though susceptible to the same emotions as in their past, Starwalkers have adopted and cemented an unspoken code that shuns conflict between themselves with extreme prejudice. In tandem, a belief in the expulsion of worldly possession not inherently a part of one's own body. "Upgrades" are not available to Starwalkers, and so from birth until potential death, Starwalkers make do only with what they were born with, eliminating the necessity for seeking resources or claiming possession in the first place. So to speak, Starwalkers have nothing to fight over. Due to the fact that their appearances do not change, they also value the appearances of countless things, mundane or magnificent. As they are taught to be happy with themselves, they can appreciate the beauty in all things. Knowledge, science, research and the like, however, are not things to be relinquished by the Starwalkers; all are encouraged to discover as much as they can, and to ultimately relay it to as many others of their kind as they can. This leads to the basis of their religion...
Religion: Since their very beginnings as a form of life, the biological predecessors of the Starwalkers have believed in a cosmic, "greater" entity of some sorts, sometimes several of them. When the predecessors were subject to the appearance of a much more advanced civilization coming upon their planet, their concept of a god of some sorts was washed away, though the idea of a greater entity remained as firmly as ever. The predecessors saw the alien's existence as a representation of ascension, mortal as they most certainly were, and looked into themselves; they would eventually reach the very same state, if not grow to become even more. With further advancements, the predecessors began to go as far as to worship an entity that had not even been created yet; they became a cult of time travel, so to speak, believing that this "Future God" had the ability to see through time and aid them in their quest to create the very thing blessing them. The Starwalkers call this entity the "End", and continue to this day to believe in its existence. All knowledge gained by individual Starwalkers is collected and stored to serve as a compendium of all that will eventually make the End. Eventually (the time is unknown), the End will rise and complete their destiny and fulfill the time-traveling cycle.
To those familiar with the Starwalkers beliefs, rumors abound that a special Starwalker is being built continually, new aspects being added or improved eternally to become this "End". It is not known, truly, if it actually exists or where it is being constructed.
History: Prior to their introduction as the Starwalkers, the Nionans, as they were called, lived their lives upon a sphere of red oceans and red sky. Their bodies were strange, shifting, with the only distinguishable feature of themselves being a chevron-shaped white structure containing their nervous system. Compared to other living things on their world, the Nionans were weak, easy to damage, and possessed short life spans. Only with their intelligence did they manage to survive the environment. For a great deal of their history, the Nionans lived in relative peace and solitude, invisible to the greater galactic eye.
One fateful visitation to them by an unknown race well into space travel directed their future to where they are today. The aliens came upon their planet in a massive ship of grandiose design, spoke to them in an indecipherable language, and simply left, leaving nothing behind but the memory of their presence. The Nionans took the event in stride, bringing up great discussions of their future, and what they were to become. The aliens wore hard suits of metal, impervious to their primitive weapons. The Nionans believed themselves to be weak so long as they retained their current forms. The ability to become the Starwalkers was many, many years ahead of them, but they did not cease in imagining the day it would be possible.
Nionan society became engrossed in technological development, and soon the topic came up of religion and its place in their society; discovery led to the evidence of a godless universe, but Nionan in particular bent the meaning a bit. He pointed to their technology and recalled the sheer magnificence of the aliens that visited them. Surely technology was merely the path towards godhood. Thus far, it seemed as if nothing was impossible given the research and effort they put into it. Why not divinity? Time travel, too, was often a subject of debate among the scientific community, and it was hypothesized that a time-traveling entity might be possible. They put one and one together in their growing fanaticism to devise the existence of the End; the final stage of their existence.
So devoted to the cause were the Nionans that they shed their mortal bodies in favor of becoming cybernetic entities capable of living into eternity. They would not miss the chance to see their god born.
Head Of State: N/A
Head Of Government: N/A
Government Type/Operation/Description: The Starwalkers lack any centralized or definitive government, interacting with one another as they wish. Automated mining systems means no Starwalker is confined to a job, though all Starwalkers are required to repair mining systems if they are found to be closest to the broken unit in question.
Economic System/Prosperity: As the Starwalker have no need or desire for things other than the construction materials needed to propagate themselves, they lack an economy. Starwalkers come upon resources and opt to bring them back to systems they have already colonized for conversion into a new Starwalker.
Empire Size: 20-40 billion
Empire Power:Multi-stellar Power – Full control over multiple solar systems
Besides their home system of The Beginning, the Communion controls four others which they continually mine to produce new Starwalkers.
Type Of Power: Scientific/Religious
Technological Overview:
Starwalkers have wings with a number of microwave propulsion drives embedded within. The drives function solely on electricity, requiring no fuel beyond what is available from their own cores. Highly developed, they are capable of moving Starwalkers about the vacuum of space as incredible speeds, though suffer from significantly decreased efficiency when used within atmospheres or around large gravitational forces. They still allow for flight, though are evidently less than stellar when used for such transportation. Thus, Starwalkers prefer to remain in space, approaching planets only to carry out research before leaving.
The Switch Drive is essentially a modified Alcubierre drive that instead "switches" regions in space with one another. In the same sense as an Alcubierre Drive, the Switch Drive initially brings forward a region of space to simulate traveling from one point to another, though instead opts to take the drives section of space and switch it with the grabbed region. Without moving, a Starwalker reaches its destination as if instantly teleporting. Travel times for Starwalkers using this Switch Drive are notably faster than other forms of FTL travel, though suffer from shorter possible travel distances and require the Starwalker to be immobile during the process as the drive quickly grabs the initially designated region of space it was in.
Weaponry the Starwalkers use generally constitutes the manipulation of an objects mass into negligible amounts before projecting them forward. By manipulating the higgs field within the "barrel" of the weapon, a slug can be reduced to a mass that is easily flung at near-light speeds. Mid-flight, the slug regains its mass when encountering a new higgs field, thus sporting a significant mass.
Starwalkers can entangle two electrons between one another given they are within initially sub-light distances during the set-up. Each individual can retain an entanglement with up to fifty other Starwalkers at a time, generally keeping a tally on at least a few individuals remaining in their controlled solar systems. Every Starwalker also retains a connection with at least one Entanglement Hub, which possesses a record of all other Starwalkers in the census; by "calling" the hub, a Starwalker can indirectly relay messages to Starwalkers not included in their entanglement setup. The other 49 connections are kept in case a Hub is down.
No idea how this could be feasibly explained
Across the systems the Communion has taken control of, automated mining machines eternally carry out their purpose; to gather resources towards creating new Starwalkers. Everything needed for such a process is included in their design. Once the machine has collected everything necessary, it unleashes a squadron of drones to construct the Starwalker from start to finish in the vacuum of space. Starwalker "brains" are constructed such that their personalities are left blank but quickly developed given their experiences, and allow for further change as they live on. Each machine is equipped with a non-intelligent program with an "imagination" that allows for new architectural design to be made. Mining machines can be upgrades or changed by Starwalkers seeking to make better Starwalker model versions.
Prior to launch and activation, an Alcubierre Bomb is designated to select a nearby orbiting body (or similarly large object). Upon activation, the bomb unleashes a quick and far-reaching zone of effect, creating a wormhole that pulls the previously targeted body at FTL speeds towards its position. When released upon a planet, the bomb sinks due to gravity, approaching closer and closer until it unleashes its effects. Entire orbital bodies are suddenly warped into the sky of the planet, and quickly crash upon its surface as improvised impact weapons capable of extinguishing entire civilizations from its surface.
Other technology:
-Weaponized lasers
-Advanced super-alloy compositions
-Plasma blades
-Extreme-yield neutron bombs
-Nanotechnology (mainly used for self-repair)
Name: Starwalker Communion, Cult of Infinity
Capital System: "The Beginning"
Treating nearly all stellar bodies like cherished entities or aspects of their life, Starwalkers have opted to dub their home system and its star 'The Beginning' to simply signify their origin point. This name is used singularly when speaking to biological life incapable of comprehending the obscenely long and true name they have given their home system. In reality, Starwalkers speak of The Beginning using a long, drawn out title comprised of notable aspects of their history summarized into one or two words. Able to communicate this title within a split second to one another due to their cybernetic nature, such a title does not test their patience.
The Beginning is a G-type main-sequence star with three major orbiting bodies, only one of which (a gas giant) remains intact. The two remaining planets, both terrestrial, have been so heavily that their very cores are vacated, leaving only empty space. Leftovers of the planets remain as massive interlocking urban developments. As the mining proceeded lower into the planet, materials were brought up closer to the surface, causing the inner megastructures to be smaller than the exterior ones. Their atmospheres have since vanished, leaving the "planet" inhospitable even on the interior of the megastructures, which lack atmosphere all the same.
Dominant Species: Starwalker
Sub-Factions/Species: None
Direction From Galactic Core: TBD
Race Name: Starwalker
Race Info: Starwalkers are the cybernetic ascensions of a previously organic race. Though clearly robotic, the Starwalkers have retained nearly all psychological aspects of their former, fleshy lives. Starwalkers display a capacity for all forms of emotion, albeit with certain countermeasures put in place to warn the entity of potentially destructive behavior, and to ward them away from it. Their forms are massive, completely electronic, and self-sustaining; each is built to live for an eternity even in the void of space, destined to walk among the stars (hence their name). A Starwalker is its own world, complete with anything and everything an individual would need to traverse the galaxy as it pleases.
Average Lifespan: Indefinite
Physical Characteristics: Each Starwalker appears different than another, built with varying forms of architecture and design that no two individuals completely share. On average, Starwalkers stand at 18m tall with significant variation. Their coloration and designs also range heavily, though are highly focused on aesthetics; Starwalkers do not care for cost-efficiency or material efficiency. To them, design is everything. It is impossible to find a Starwalker that has been built in a fashion similar to the economic military vehicles of mankind. Each Starwalker is outfitted with a repertoire of devices meant to service it during its lifetime. The range of cybernetic capabilities an individual Starwalker can perform is outstanding, given its limited size. Each Starwalker is capable of faster-than-light travel without outside aid. Starwalker FTL is especially adept at frequent usage, able to be booted up and cooled down quite quickly (within a matter of minutes). They also possess a perpetual energy generator (specifics TBD, need help) to allow them infinite operation times. Quantum entanglement allows for Starwalkers to communicate with one another from any distance and highly advanced telescopic and radar systems grant Starwalkers extreme sight and detection ranges.
Their bodies are built to withstand extreme forces, including but not limited to atmospheric re-entry, cosmic debris collision, solar radiation, among others. Sustaining themselves within space for extended periods of time means, of course, that their bodies must be able to take on large amounts of punishment, whatever they may be, and allow for them to continue moving, or at the very least return home for repair. Starwalkers all possess "wings" of some design and size bearing advanced microwave thrusters. The wings are capable of varying amounts of rotation and angling, granting Starwalkers a fast and wide-ranging choice of maneuvering. Most Starwalkers come equipped with weaponry of sorts, just in case, generally being some sort of large gun (even the appearances of Starwalker equipment varies) projecting a small slug (so as to maximize ammo capacity) at near-light speeds.
Starwalkers also come equipped with a squad of small drones bearing tools that maximize the number of activities it can carry out, from mining to growing gardens and everything in between.
Moral Values: Most of all, the Starwalkers adhere to a code of cooperation between themselves. Though susceptible to the same emotions as in their past, Starwalkers have adopted and cemented an unspoken code that shuns conflict between themselves with extreme prejudice. In tandem, a belief in the expulsion of worldly possession not inherently a part of one's own body. "Upgrades" are not available to Starwalkers, and so from birth until potential death, Starwalkers make do only with what they were born with, eliminating the necessity for seeking resources or claiming possession in the first place. So to speak, Starwalkers have nothing to fight over. Due to the fact that their appearances do not change, they also value the appearances of countless things, mundane or magnificent. As they are taught to be happy with themselves, they can appreciate the beauty in all things. Knowledge, science, research and the like, however, are not things to be relinquished by the Starwalkers; all are encouraged to discover as much as they can, and to ultimately relay it to as many others of their kind as they can. This leads to the basis of their religion...
Religion: Since their very beginnings as a form of life, the biological predecessors of the Starwalkers have believed in a cosmic, "greater" entity of some sorts, sometimes several of them. When the predecessors were subject to the appearance of a much more advanced civilization coming upon their planet, their concept of a god of some sorts was washed away, though the idea of a greater entity remained as firmly as ever. The predecessors saw the alien's existence as a representation of ascension, mortal as they most certainly were, and looked into themselves; they would eventually reach the very same state, if not grow to become even more. With further advancements, the predecessors began to go as far as to worship an entity that had not even been created yet; they became a cult of time travel, so to speak, believing that this "Future God" had the ability to see through time and aid them in their quest to create the very thing blessing them. The Starwalkers call this entity the "End", and continue to this day to believe in its existence. All knowledge gained by individual Starwalkers is collected and stored to serve as a compendium of all that will eventually make the End. Eventually (the time is unknown), the End will rise and complete their destiny and fulfill the time-traveling cycle.
To those familiar with the Starwalkers beliefs, rumors abound that a special Starwalker is being built continually, new aspects being added or improved eternally to become this "End". It is not known, truly, if it actually exists or where it is being constructed.
History: Prior to their introduction as the Starwalkers, the Nionans, as they were called, lived their lives upon a sphere of red oceans and red sky. Their bodies were strange, shifting, with the only distinguishable feature of themselves being a chevron-shaped white structure containing their nervous system. Compared to other living things on their world, the Nionans were weak, easy to damage, and possessed short life spans. Only with their intelligence did they manage to survive the environment. For a great deal of their history, the Nionans lived in relative peace and solitude, invisible to the greater galactic eye.
One fateful visitation to them by an unknown race well into space travel directed their future to where they are today. The aliens came upon their planet in a massive ship of grandiose design, spoke to them in an indecipherable language, and simply left, leaving nothing behind but the memory of their presence. The Nionans took the event in stride, bringing up great discussions of their future, and what they were to become. The aliens wore hard suits of metal, impervious to their primitive weapons. The Nionans believed themselves to be weak so long as they retained their current forms. The ability to become the Starwalkers was many, many years ahead of them, but they did not cease in imagining the day it would be possible.
Nionan society became engrossed in technological development, and soon the topic came up of religion and its place in their society; discovery led to the evidence of a godless universe, but Nionan in particular bent the meaning a bit. He pointed to their technology and recalled the sheer magnificence of the aliens that visited them. Surely technology was merely the path towards godhood. Thus far, it seemed as if nothing was impossible given the research and effort they put into it. Why not divinity? Time travel, too, was often a subject of debate among the scientific community, and it was hypothesized that a time-traveling entity might be possible. They put one and one together in their growing fanaticism to devise the existence of the End; the final stage of their existence.
So devoted to the cause were the Nionans that they shed their mortal bodies in favor of becoming cybernetic entities capable of living into eternity. They would not miss the chance to see their god born.
Head Of State: N/A
Head Of Government: N/A
Government Type/Operation/Description: The Starwalkers lack any centralized or definitive government, interacting with one another as they wish. Automated mining systems means no Starwalker is confined to a job, though all Starwalkers are required to repair mining systems if they are found to be closest to the broken unit in question.
Economic System/Prosperity: As the Starwalker have no need or desire for things other than the construction materials needed to propagate themselves, they lack an economy. Starwalkers come upon resources and opt to bring them back to systems they have already colonized for conversion into a new Starwalker.
Empire Size: 20-40 billion
Empire Power:Multi-stellar Power – Full control over multiple solar systems
Besides their home system of The Beginning, the Communion controls four others which they continually mine to produce new Starwalkers.
Type Of Power: Scientific/Religious
Technological Overview:
Starwalkers have wings with a number of microwave propulsion drives embedded within. The drives function solely on electricity, requiring no fuel beyond what is available from their own cores. Highly developed, they are capable of moving Starwalkers about the vacuum of space as incredible speeds, though suffer from significantly decreased efficiency when used within atmospheres or around large gravitational forces. They still allow for flight, though are evidently less than stellar when used for such transportation. Thus, Starwalkers prefer to remain in space, approaching planets only to carry out research before leaving.
The Switch Drive is essentially a modified Alcubierre drive that instead "switches" regions in space with one another. In the same sense as an Alcubierre Drive, the Switch Drive initially brings forward a region of space to simulate traveling from one point to another, though instead opts to take the drives section of space and switch it with the grabbed region. Without moving, a Starwalker reaches its destination as if instantly teleporting. Travel times for Starwalkers using this Switch Drive are notably faster than other forms of FTL travel, though suffer from shorter possible travel distances and require the Starwalker to be immobile during the process as the drive quickly grabs the initially designated region of space it was in.
Weaponry the Starwalkers use generally constitutes the manipulation of an objects mass into negligible amounts before projecting them forward. By manipulating the higgs field within the "barrel" of the weapon, a slug can be reduced to a mass that is easily flung at near-light speeds. Mid-flight, the slug regains its mass when encountering a new higgs field, thus sporting a significant mass.
Starwalkers can entangle two electrons between one another given they are within initially sub-light distances during the set-up. Each individual can retain an entanglement with up to fifty other Starwalkers at a time, generally keeping a tally on at least a few individuals remaining in their controlled solar systems. Every Starwalker also retains a connection with at least one Entanglement Hub, which possesses a record of all other Starwalkers in the census; by "calling" the hub, a Starwalker can indirectly relay messages to Starwalkers not included in their entanglement setup. The other 49 connections are kept in case a Hub is down.
No idea how this could be feasibly explained
Across the systems the Communion has taken control of, automated mining machines eternally carry out their purpose; to gather resources towards creating new Starwalkers. Everything needed for such a process is included in their design. Once the machine has collected everything necessary, it unleashes a squadron of drones to construct the Starwalker from start to finish in the vacuum of space. Starwalker "brains" are constructed such that their personalities are left blank but quickly developed given their experiences, and allow for further change as they live on. Each machine is equipped with a non-intelligent program with an "imagination" that allows for new architectural design to be made. Mining machines can be upgrades or changed by Starwalkers seeking to make better Starwalker model versions.
Prior to launch and activation, an Alcubierre Bomb is designated to select a nearby orbiting body (or similarly large object). Upon activation, the bomb unleashes a quick and far-reaching zone of effect, creating a wormhole that pulls the previously targeted body at FTL speeds towards its position. When released upon a planet, the bomb sinks due to gravity, approaching closer and closer until it unleashes its effects. Entire orbital bodies are suddenly warped into the sky of the planet, and quickly crash upon its surface as improvised impact weapons capable of extinguishing entire civilizations from its surface.
Other technology:
-Weaponized lasers
-Advanced super-alloy compositions
-Plasma blades
-Extreme-yield neutron bombs
-Nanotechnology (mainly used for self-repair)
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Abysse said
WIP. I hope I'm doing this right. ;_; First time doing a nation roleplay.
Get out of here.....
I'm kidding. I just saw this as I went to post the reviews of everyones' sheets
So I'll go read and review yours now too
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AGH
Yea I kinda saw that and was like, "Poor guy will have to keep reviewing after he thought he finished." :(
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So how far along are you with those reviews anyways?
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This will be linked in the OP for convenience.
Disclaimer: Everything said in this is to be taken in good taste as that is how I meant it
All comments are meant to be positive or else suggestive. If anyone downright fucks up, don’t worry, I’ll tell them. Overall I am very happy with the way things are going so far.
Just remember guys the set date for Sheet completion is the 24th of August, at midnight GMT so that’ll be early evening for those of you in the States for example.
Go team
@Terminal I already discussed a few things with you. Not much more to be said. Great sheet overall presented and written well, as always, and I love the originality of the stoor themselves. Your FTL drive really gave me a nerdgasm. One slight thing; your tech descriptions are very high concept and while I am able to understand it, as would anyone else with an physics background just be prepared to answer any questions from others that may arise in regards to it.
Status: Accepted
@Monkeypants First thing is first. The hau is likely the largest empire we have to begin with as far as I can tell; be prepared for the amount of hostility this brings with it.
I’d like more on these so called organic computers? Do you mean literal biological computers, because then they’d just be living beings right? And how are they faster? Everything we know suggests silicon based processing to be more efficient. I’m not saying no, just some more detail on this point would be nice.
With the tachyon beam; I suggest reading up on tachyons a bit more and how they actually would theoretically act. Firing them as a weapon would be hugely energy inefficient. My earlier suggestion of using them within a contained field that matter is dumped into so as to impart impulses onto the matter would work better in my opinion but this is ultimately up to you.
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The whole male v female thing is interesting but it seems a little black and white. Actual social networks and systems tend to be far more complex. The whole thing seems a blanketed by stereotypes. Obviously they’re not human so the same things can’t be applied but I think you’ll catch my drift.
Everything else is perfect and it’s overall another great sheet.
Status: Accepted – but I’d appreciate the comments being considered
@Kangaroo Some great ideas but I’m not going to say anything for now, I’ll let you work on the sheet and add comments later.
Status: Awaiting Completion.
@Theodorable What’s there is all good but as it is yet unfinished I’ll once more reserve any comments for later
Status: Awaiting Completion
@Sigma there’s nothing really to go on at the moment. However, I’ve dealt with the federation in the past and know what to expect. Assuming you don’t decide to go bat shit insane anytime soon expect a straight yes once the sheet is done.
Status: Awaiting Completion
@Serpentine The sphere looks great so far. Assuming there’s nothing broken in the technology sections, which there won’t be because I trust your knowledge, then you’re in. I’m also finding it less and less jarring that we have so many inorganic races. I mean it’s clearly a natural focal point for tech of any race. Nobody ever complains about too many squishies, so as long as we keep the AIs original they can be as different from each other as any organic and I’m seeing that trend emerge already.
Status: Awaiting Completion.
@Darkspleen Well hello there commonwealth and welcome aboard. I can see it is not entirely finished but I’m giving a yes based on what is there trusting you to finish it in due course. I look forward to getting an opportunity to interact with the commonwealth properly this time around.
At first I wasn’t sold on the frozen photon concept. I was a bit ‘hmmm I don’t know about that’ but after a little digging of my own and some rumination it has grown on me in an aesthetic sense and scientific one so that’s no longer a problem
I’ll raise the same queries I raised earlier with monkeypants about organic computers and ask for the same response. It’s something I’ve never put thought into really so I’m looking for light to be shed on it.
Very well produced sheet on the whole
Status: Accepted – minor considerations
@Sizzlin Bacon I’m really like the concept but have a few questions: who or what is this Shkar, a race or an individual? Was the interbreeding just with humans or with several species? Are they capable of breeding amongst themselves?
Other than the initial description the sheet is unfinished so I can’t make a decision yet obviously.
Status: Awaiting Completion.
@NewSun Man I loved this sheet. Very cool and original to put it simply. At first I was thinking their intelligence was a bit overhyped but with their small population, water restrictions and other factors taken into consideration I began to feel it was appropriate. It's a little dash of biological magic but I'm ok with it's a great concept.
As usual, I've a few questions though. Do they have infrastructure? Buildings, utilities, communication networks etc? Or are they literally each an island of intelligence? If so how are the Cephlonar constructed? Where do the raw goods come from, how are they refined into high tech industrial materials and then assembled? Is it all done by the single individual over a long span of time? Tools and machines would surely be necessary and these would propound some kind of underlying infrastructure.
Food. It sounds silly but how do they feed if in space for extended periods?
The telepathy was a bit of a push at first but it's not really space magic either and it makes sense here.
Also expect a PM soon
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@kyelin another sheet where I very much so enjoyed the basic concept behind it. The asexual all female race had me a little 'eyebrow raised' in scepticism initially but you've made me a believer.
I'd like more info on this harmony concept however. Again I just don't want to fall too far deep into space magic, but I'm assuming it's based within the idea of the nanites and the associated psionics. If so then all is good.
The Govran are a nice idea too. We may use them much later in the RP as an event.
The keep takes up an entire star system? That's massive. As in ridiculously massive. As in you'd need FTL to just reliable travel across it. Or do you just mean it dominated the star system?
I know there's a few bits yet to come but I'm happy to accept the sheet now knowing adjustments can be made :)
Overall another good sheet :)
Status: Accepted.
@isotope they remind me so much of a race I created before; also a former hivemind of insects who attained individual sentience. Mine however, brutally overthrew the queens and maintained the hivemind and lived aboard deathstar esque stations. Anywho, enough about that. Great sheet overall. I’m happy with it and enjoyed the collaborated history; it made for interesting reading.
The ships though; I was expecting far more stereotypical insectoid design aesthetics
I look forward to seeing any other additions you may have
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@duck I’m disregarding the first sheet for now because of the aforementioned issues. What you have so far in the second one seems a-o-k. I’ll as before, reserve final judgement until more of the sheet is present. One thing I will say is maybe just lay it out a little more spaced and formatted. If its easier on the eye the more likely I am to get a nerdgasm over any tech
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@Ollumhammersong first things first, consult serp over the human thing if not having done so already. Dibs were made on mankind and I stand by the universal laws of shotgun. I’ll assume you have so. The sheet is fine overall, I like the human separatist vibe going on. Some editing would be nice, there seems to be unnecessary capitalization throughout and just a general formatting edit would make it easier for dissemination of the information for everyone. The actual content is perfect.
Status: Accepted.
@Wernher bit on the shortside but that isn’t actually an issue. I would have thought that for a tech focused nation that that section would be rather more extensive. Elaboration is more than welcome. They seem like an antithesis of the Technocracy; wallowing in their own knowledge and scoffing lesser beings and I like it. It shows we can have similar nations in design but different completely in ideal and intent. The sheet is great, and I’ll gladly accept it but would like just a tad more detail on the tech side of things.
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@Abysse at first I was like
Then I was like
And finally
Love the concept of ‘The End’ it’s great and a nice twist on classic ascension based religious beliefs.
I’m assuming the sheet isn’t complete but I’m liking it so far.
Much like I said to NewSun, I was initially against the actual race being so powerful but when they are essentially the race and tech rolled into one it makes perfect sense, if you know what I mean.
I look forward to the rest.
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Crap, forgot about the organic computers. It was mainly a response to Iso's virus, a plot device. Seeing as he is no longer that faction. I'll be using regular computers. does that solve the problem?
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It wasn't a problem feel free to use them, I'm just curios as to their design and operation.
Wow. There's a lot more factions than I counted by going through the pages.
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I honestly forgot how they worked XD, when Iso dropped the virus I completely let the idea go, just forgot to remove it from the NS. my bad.
*edit* Thanks for the praise! i'll definitely build on your comment on the male v female. always nice to have outside input.
thanks again,
*edit* Thanks for the praise! i'll definitely build on your comment on the male v female. always nice to have outside input.
thanks again,
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Abysse said
Wow. There's a lot more factions than I counted by going through the pages.
Fifteen applicants thus far.
Monkeypants said
I honestly forgot how they worked XD, when Iso dropped the virus I completely let the idea go, just forgot to remove it from the NS. my bad.
No problems.
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@NewSun Man I loved this sheet. Very cool and original to put it simply. At first I was thinking their intelligence was a bit overhyped but with their small population, water restrictions and other factors taken into consideration I began to feel it was appropriate. It's a little dash of biological magic but I'm ok with it's a great concept.
As usual, I've a few questions though. Do they have infrastructure? Buildings, utilities, communication networks etc? Or are they literally each an island of intelligence? If so how are the Cephlonar constructed? Where do the raw goods come from, how are they refined into high tech industrial materials and then assembled? Is it all done by the single individual over a long span of time? Tools and machines would surely be necessary and these would propound some kind of underlying infrastructure.
Food. It sounds silly but how do they feed if in space for extended periods?
The telepathy was a bit of a push at first but it's not really space magic either and it makes sense here.
Also expect a PM soon
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Why thank you! And yes, I know i'm very on the edge with everything I did in this sheet. Still, i'm touched you trust me with it!
Anyway, moving onto your questions!
1: Do they have infrastructure?
Sort of. Each Cephaol claims their own stake in the oceans of their systems if they wish to be somewhat grounded and settled (which many research Cephaols do). Their 'buildings' are instead communal cave networks that is carved out by the Cephaol staking it's claim in the area. The inside of these giant underwater cave networks can be dotted with all sorts of random goodies: designs, built technology, scraps and materials. In terms of these Cephaol 'homes' communicating with themselves on a larger racial scale, they do. But usually only within their Cephaol focus. Research groups will probably hold steady communication with other research groups, warlike groups will 'broadcast' hunting sectors and such to other war likes, though these groups will rarely interact. But mostly, each is an island of intelligence.
2: How are the Cephlonars constructed? How do they refine goods and create things?
I'm glad you asked! Cephlonars are created by hand. or, you know, by tentacle. Each Cephlarrior creates it himself as he becomes a Cephalion. Now if you;re wondering how they actually pull any of this off, they have their psionic capabilities to thank. You may recall that one of their abilities is the capability to interact with the physical constants and properties of materials they come into contact with. This can include raising and lowering boiling points and melting points (so they can fuse and forge and weld and cut), altering malleability (to make materials super easy to shape) and such and so forth. Their ability to produce voltage through their tentacles also helps with this. Their bodies are literal tools, and each Cephlonar is a labour of love. Material is refined through their ability to alter material states, and they think that's pretty damn neat.
3: Food.
They try not to stay in space for *too* long, but like a lot of things that they are capable of, their ability to survive in space is due to their size.
You know how a fat person can live off their own fat for ages? It's kind of like that. Except that Cephlarrior are truly fat people indeed. They will feast extensively before leaving for space, often adding hundreds (if not more) of tonnes of weight in pure fat reserves. These reserves can last a long time if needed, though most Cephlarrior don't like to push their limits to avoid the danger of such.
I hope this answers your questions.
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