[OOC] From Stardust, To Stardust

[darkwolf687]

duck55223 said
There is emergency power but Darkwolf assumed there wasn't without asking me.

Just to clarify, I assumed you would activate back up generators in your next post to bring emergency lighting on line.

Right, Boerd, as Duck pointed out the Terrans haven't left Sol yet, I would assume you would have to have found humans from elsewhere (Considering we already have other humans outside of Sol such as the Mando's, just replace any mention of Terran with Human to avoid complications). Unless you mean something other than what I'm thinking when you say invited? Apart from that, I think all's good.

ASTA said
I think it's less about mod powers being abused and more about several individuals in this roleplay having a very poor sense of scale when it comes to weapon yields, weapon performance and the capabilities of military forces and production. For example, I don't know why people are fretting over the cost of things. Once you get into space and start mining asteroids, planets and moons using sophisticated automation technology, generic Earth-like economies (capitalism specifically) cease to be relevant. Everything basically becomes free and fielding truly massive space fleets is possible. The only thing that isn't free is time, I suppose.Additionally, a starship that can fire solid projectiles at .50 percent of c makes me seriously wonder why the Terrans haven't conquered the entire galaxy yet with their version of the SDF-1 or Space Battleship Yamato, because firepower of that magnitude makes several things come to mind:1) The material sciences of the Terrans. A barrel (or a twin-rail system) exposed to the tremendous forces of a projectile flying through it at 0.50 percent of c would have to be forged out of near-godlike materials. 2) The power generation of the Terrans. Accelerating a projectile to 0.50 percent of c is indeed possible using standard starship engines, but this process would demand many years of accelerating to work. To get a shell up to that speed in an instant would require hyper-advanced power generating systems (no, antimatter won't cut it; you're going to need exotic matter for this, or a massive reactor that would spend an ungodly amount of time charging the power-banks for this weapon ), some sort of capacitor that can safely store that amount of energy and discharge it immediately without exploding and some way to deal with the absurd amount of waste heat generated by this thing.3) Some tachyon weapon that can destroy Australia with one shot.4) And a 'cruising' speed that's ten times the speed of light.Basically you've made a ship that can solo every nation in the roleplay with impunity; the engineering and scientific capabilities of the human species makes that of every other nation's in this roleplay literally look like chimps banging two rocks together. I'd hate to see what the FTL speeds of this thing are.Also, worms that can eat through body armor. Alright. Now all we need is Wilson to come in with an impenetrable PD field that makes all missile technology obsolete.EDIT: I'm not asking for people to adhere to Hard Science, but the shit I'm seeing is flat-out ridiculous.

I am assuming ducks armour has joints and aren't solid metal all around. I don't think its unfeasible for an organism to tear a hole in the materials used to cover joints.

Also, yeah, a map sounds good

[null123]

darkwolf687 said
Just to clarify, I assumed you would activate back up generators in your next post to bring emergency lighting on line.Right, Boerd, as Duck pointed out the Terrans haven't left Sol yet, I would assume you would have to have found humans from elsewhere (Considering we already have other humans outside of Sol such as the Mando's, just replace any mention of Terran with Human to avoid complications). Unless you mean something other than what I'm thinking when you say invited? Apart from that, I think all's good.I am assuming ducks armour has joints and aren't solid metal all around. I don't think its unfeasible for an organism to tear a hole in the materials used to cover joints.Also, yeah, a map sounds good

The entire suit is made out of titanium
With the joints being cover in a slightly weaker but still pretty strong and more ductile titanium alloy

[darkwolf687]

Alright, let's not continue on that line because neither of us will agree and it doesn't matter anymore, we'll talk about that if and when that bridge needs crossing

Are you still entrenched in your position that your people do not know the general area of any of the planets?

[King Solterra]

Wow, so... is every Nation just immediately hostile to foreign beings?

[null123]

Cale Tucker said
Wow, so... is every Nation just immediately hostile to foreign beings?

My nation isn't
And yeah I am DW.

[So Boerd]

As in, wolf, John Galt types over the history of Humanity from Rome on recieved visitations and invitations as they were about to be jailed or killed by revolutionaries or Communists or what have you. If they refused, their memories of the event was wiped. If they accepted, an exact replica of their body was used to fake their deaths.

[null123]

So Boerd said
As in, wolf, John Galt types over the history of Humanity from Rome on recieved visitations and invitations as they were about to be jailed or killed by revolutionaries or Communists or what have you. If they refused, their memories of the event was wiped. If they accepted, an exact replica of their body was used to fake their deaths.

I like dis.

[darkwolf687]

So Boerd said
As in, wolf, John Galt types over the history of Humanity from Rome on recieved visitations and invitations as they were about to be jailed or killed by revolutionaries or Communists or what have you. If they refused, their memories of the event was wiped. If they accepted, an exact replica of their body was used to fake their deaths.

Accepted then, unless keyguy has any reservations

That's a shame duck, ah well, good thing I can still find one of your worlds pretty quickly...

[null123]

Not without bumbling around and alerting them first.

[So Boerd]

Kewl.

Precisely what is going down IC?

[darkwolf687]

duck55223 said
Not without bumbling around and alerting them first.

Not quite true, that major world you have floating around near the station. Presumably it uses a lot of energy, yes?

I assume I at least got the information from one of the infected that this world was "near" to the station, and even if not the quick arrival of the BCU implied that your nation probably had more nearby.

So I have an area to scan for signals and energy readings etc and once they are found I can follow them back to the source and show up on the doorstep.

Edit: Also, should we continue in a PM so we don't continue to drown everyone in our discussion

[So Boerd]

What's the biggest civilization?

[TAPnRACKit]

Hello everyone,

I have been reading some of the IC and OOC along with the Wiki. The universe seems to be quite hostile at the moment. I am curious as to if I could participate and add to the Universe. I have done nation Roleplays on other forums but I was thinking that instead of starting off with a nation I would start off with a character who is apart of a nation that has just recently been overpowered and enslaved.

My character would crash land on a planet (whichever one of you who would like to have me :) ) and have no real memories of how he got there (side effects of emergency deep space travel for a long period of time.) he would start off as a complete mystery and a good story for your nation, along with some technology the ship would have when recovering my character.

Eventually I want my character to find his way back home and free his people with help or without help and then from there I would transition into controlling an entire nation.

Would this work in this universe and would anyone be interested? If this is something the GM's would consider, I think it could prove to be a good collaboration and addition to the story telling and universe building.

Thank you

[So Boerd]

I'd be game, but the Confederation wouldn't help overthrow the conquerors.

[darkwolf687]

Sorry Boerd, missed your post

What has happened that I can recall

Conflicts:
Raid on planet N-1 (L'Er vs Valkian)
Assualt on Outpost A-5 (L'Er vs Eternal Union)
Battle above Earth (Terrans vs NPC)
Sol first contact skirmish (Terrans vs Eterneal Union)
Ethereal Gathering search (Ethereal Gathering VS NPC)

Diplomacy

Eternal Union and Terran first contact negotiations
Mandolorian and EU first contact
Sazkatjhit and EU first contact

I may have missed something though, but I think that's pretty much the gist of what's going on

To answer who's the biggest, in terms of planets alone, almost certainly me or the Custodes, but most of my worlds are owned by individual minor hives with little capability, and most of those of the Custodes are basically wild life sanctuaries, I believe. In terms of truly developed planets, Duck's certainly up there.

[WilsonTurner]

So Boerd said
What's the biggest civilization?

No idea.

I have a nearly-fully-developed nation in a solar system, where most of the planets could be considered "Core Worlds" in comparison to others. But in terms of military, crappy size, though they are all tanks in a land of APCs and armored cars. Except with just the same guns, maybe less powerful.

[WilsonTurner]

TAPnRACKit said
Hello everyone,I have been reading some of the IC and OOC along with the Wiki. The universe seems to be quite hostile at the moment. I am curious as to if I could participate and add to the Universe. I have done nation Roleplays on other forums but I was thinking that instead of starting off with a nation I would start off with a character who is apart of a nation that has just recently been overpowered and enslaved. My character would crash land on a planet (whichever one of you who would like to have me :) ) and have no real memories of how he got there (side effects of emergency deep space travel for a long period of time.) he would start off as a complete mystery and a good story for your nation, along with some technology the ship would have when recovering my character. Eventually I want my character to find his way back home and free his people with help or without help and then from there I would transition into controlling an entire nation. Would this work in this universe and would anyone be interested? If this is something the GM's would consider, I think it could prove to be a good collaboration and addition to the story telling and universe building. Thank you

The Valkians would be guarded, but wouldn't reject such a survivor. You'd have to work up to it, but if there isn't a war and if they can spare it, they might send an Explorer to help your character find his way home. I don't have any personal characters atm, so it'd be useful to have you force such perspective.

[Keyguyperson]

ASTA said
I think it's less about mod powers being abused and more about several individuals in this roleplay having a very poor sense of scale when it comes to weapon yields, weapon performance and the capabilities of military forces and production. For example, I don't know why people are fretting over the cost of things. Once you get into space and start mining asteroids, planets and moons using sophisticated automation technology, generic Earth-like economies (capitalism specifically) cease to be relevant. Everything basically becomes free and fielding truly massive space fleets is possible. The only thing that isn't free is time, I suppose.Additionally, a starship that can fire solid projectiles at .50 percent of c makes me seriously wonder why the Terrans haven't conquered the entire galaxy yet with their version of the SDF-1 or Space Battleship Yamato, because firepower of that magnitude makes several things come to mind:1) The material sciences of the Terrans. A barrel (or a twin-rail system) exposed to the tremendous forces of a projectile flying through it at 0.50 percent of c would have to be forged out of near-godlike materials. 2) The power generation of the Terrans. Accelerating a projectile to 0.50 percent of c is indeed possible using standard starship engines, but this process would demand many years of accelerating to work. To get a shell up to that speed in an instant would require hyper-advanced power generating systems (no, antimatter won't cut it; you're going to need exotic matter for this, or a massive reactor that would spend an ungodly amount of time charging the power-banks for this weapon ), some sort of capacitor that can safely store that amount of energy and discharge it immediately without exploding and some way to deal with the absurd amount of waste heat generated by this thing.3) Some tachyon weapon that can destroy Australia with one shot.4) And a 'cruising' speed that's ten times the speed of light.Basically you've made a ship that can solo every nation in the roleplay with impunity; the engineering and scientific capabilities of the human species makes that of every other nation's in this roleplay literally look like chimps banging two rocks together. I'd hate to see what the FTL speeds of this thing are.Also, worms that can eat through body armor. Alright. Now all we need is Wilson to come in with an impenetrable PD field that makes all missile technology obsolete.EDIT: I'm not asking for people to adhere to Hard Science, but the shit I'm seeing is flat-out ridiculous.

I admit, that 50% lightspeed figure should be toned down, and will be toned down. Drastically. Also, that 10c cruising speed? Yeah... we have that technology already. Nobody's broken the lightspeed barrier, but the mechanism for doing so has existed since the late 90's. Thing is, we have absolutely no idea how to create the negative energy (yes, real thing) fuel that it would need. Plus, by the original design, it would need multiple universes of that. Using modern designs created by Edward White and his team at NASA, that figure can be reduced to the mass of the Voyager space probe. We still don't know how to create a single particle of this stuff though, but it probably exists according to quantum physics. Besides, that's a really, really slow ship to the rest of the galaxy. A few weeks to Alpha Centauri for humans, and the Eternal union just pops in at Mars from somewhere outside Sol in seconds.

My idea for the humans in the long run, however, is that they use "primitive" science to great effect. A high-power railgun could one-shot an alien ship, despite being "primitive" in comparison to "generic DEW".

I like harder (Not that hard, but harder) sci-fi (hence why I chose the Alcubierre Drive instead of a "Hyperdrive" or "Warp Drive"), but I've always been bad with research. In fact, I was going to make those cannons less "whoops I forgot a projectile at that speed would destroy a planet" and more "Cutting beams, but, like, molten metal". Think Sovereign's main gun from Mass Effect. Instead, I was lazy and picked a number less than 90, said "eh, it'll work", and threw it in.

Also, I'm kind of surprised that nobody complained about the fact that a sublight vessel (a fighter, no less) made it to Mars in 20 minutes. That's another thing to fix.

TAPnRACKit said
Hello everyone,I have been reading some of the IC and OOC along with the Wiki. The universe seems to be quite hostile at the moment. I am curious as to if I could participate and add to the Universe. I have done nation Roleplays on other forums but I was thinking that instead of starting off with a nation I would start off with a character who is apart of a nation that has just recently been overpowered and enslaved. My character would crash land on a planet (whichever one of you who would like to have me :) ) and have no real memories of how he got there (side effects of emergency deep space travel for a long period of time.) he would start off as a complete mystery and a good story for your nation, along with some technology the ship would have when recovering my character. Eventually I want my character to find his way back home and free his people with help or without help and then from there I would transition into controlling an entire nation. Would this work in this universe and would anyone be interested? If this is something the GM's would consider, I think it could prove to be a good collaboration and addition to the story telling and universe building. Thank you

Sure! I've always loved roleplay story arcs, which usually end up being character-driven. I'd be happy to allow this, and even happier to get involved!

[TAPnRACKit]

Name of Character: Nahlaas
Species: Khoth - Bipedal, Vampire-like at the face, red skin complexion.
Description of government: Former Oligarchy
Description of military: Enslaved
Technological Overview:

Thermoelectric Technology - The Khoth have managed to research and create an entire society around Thermoelectric technology. They have been able to take the heat from the world they live on and use it to run their entire operation. The world has more lava below its surface than any other resource.

Sub-Technology from Thermoelectric:

Thermoelectric Sphere Cores - Spheres that can collect heat or a lava-like substance. These spheres can then be transported and moved from location to location without harm or potential damage. The cores must be placed in slots that are designed to pull the heat from the spheres to create energy.

Thermoelectric Weaponry - Weapons are designed to be able to have a small version of a core to be placed into the weapon. This core will immediately charge the weapon and allow it to then fire. The trajectory is quite precise due to some further advances with the weapon systems. If hit by a Khoth weapon, you can expect the feeling to equate to being hit by a ball of lava going 100 mph with residue traces leaving a constant burn and deteriation of life after the hit.

Thermoelectric Shield Technology - A core can be placed into a battle suit, ship, or building. It can then be integrated into the suit, ship, or building defense system if any are available. This will prevent damage done by kinetic objects because the shield will disintegrate the object before impact, reducing its power and impact to dust.

Cultural Overview:

The Khoth are a proud race that can at times be hot tempered. They have large hearts, strong minds, and physical superior attributes. They enjoy competition but also understand cooperation is necessary for success. They are not a militaristic culture but do understand that military and rigorous training is essential to survival and to honor old traditions they still wear the hunter rags of their ancestors when in a battle dress uniform. Khoth are more research minded believe it or not...for the most part, and enjoy strategy over brute strength. They are carnivores and have developed an evolution to the consumption of blood as if it is water. They do not need to drink often but when they do, they must consume 2 gallons of blood and eat large meals.

Their civilization is built on a caste structure, everyone has a role and anyone may pursue their role, but once a role is chosen, often times it is very difficult to switch due to the years of training it takes for someone to master a role. All citizens must master their role or they will become what's considered a "burden". Burdens are not liked and can be treated as if they are nothing more than trash on the street.

History Overview:

Khoth were once a divided race, a race that consistently found itself fighting over small and feeble matters which mainly pertained around who's family lineage was greater than the others. Clans were the normalcy if you were to observe the Khoth. They all marched under different banners, different ways of dressing their bodies and hair, different lineages, strengths, and weaknesses, but ultimately a greater enemy bound them together. The greater enemy forced them to see each other as equals, friends, brothers, and sisters.

In order to face this enemy the Khoth quickly formed the Khoth Covenant. An agreement between all Khoth that they would join as one to repel their new enemy and save their world. The war ended with the Covenant pulling off an underdog victory and destroying the enemies main carrier ships. The Khoth Covenant decided to remain as an understanding that they all knew there would be more enemies just like the one they faced.

200 years would go by and the Khoth would reach a golden age on their planet. They would expand to three other planets and have successfully created and stabilized the colonies which would eventually transform into cities and then reach out into nation-like numbers. Yet still all of the Khoth would remain loyal to their Covenant leaders.

It was during this time however a new threat presented itself. The new threat called themselves the Cabal. A dark unknown enemy that appeared from nowhere and began engaging settlements of the Khoth. The Khoth quickly mobilized and began fighting the enemy back with ferocity and relentlessness. The Khoth were winning but ultimately the Cabal somehow found their way inside the Capital and assassinated the Covenant leaders. Throwing the entire Khoth Covenant into disarray and confusion. Contact was lost between all the cities and settlements, fleets were lost in space, and soon the Khoth society would find themselves enslaved and at a lost.

[TehAlphaGamer]

So Boerd said
What's the biggest civilization?

That's difficult to decide depending on what your parameters for the "biggest civilization" is.