[OOC] True Vacuum - New Universe Space NRP

[Terminal]

The universe has ended.

It had always been mere speculation, but in the end, reality proved to be a False Vacuum. Either by chance or due to the machinations of some unknown force, multiple nucleating wavefronts of true vacuum were generated within the Virgo Supercluster.

These bubbles of spacetime, after expanding to swallow entire galaxies, began to expand faster than light as the rest of the universe began to implode upon the new expansive regions. As a result, the entirety of your civilization was engulfed in the true vacuum in an instant, without warning.

By some unforeseen miracle, all life and reality as it is known fail to cease. You have found yourself displaced in an entirely new universe. Theories abound as to how such is possible, but no firm answers are forthcoming.

Of more immediate concern is that the ultimate ecological disaster did not affect you alone. Other nations, other sovereign powers and forces, were displaced as well. Your nation, regardless of its previous existence, now finds itself isolated in an entirely unfamiliar geopolitical landscape.

New alliances will be forged. New hatreds will be kindled. The great minds were wrong. In this new universe, the capacity for a joyous existence remains. The paradigm of life, intelligence, and impetus go on.

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Welcome to the new Advanced Space NRP on the block, again. Hopefully this one will possess more longevity than its predecessors. Here is a link to the thread's chatzy, I will remain on standby there with pings enabled. If you ever need to discuss an issue with me or ask a question, come on in. Incessant idle chatter about the RP in general is also encouraged.

The piratepad frontpage for those of you not already familiar with it.
Titanpad too, in case piratepad is down for some reason.

Regional Map

Below are a couple of maps and a map legend. Some basic information:

• The map is 800x800 pixels, with every individual pixel representing one-hundred lightyears.
• The map exists as as a three-dimensional cube with a width of eighty-thousand lightyears and a height of eighty-thousand lightyears, illustrated in two flat X,Y,Z coordinate maps.
• The region has an internal volume of some five-hundred and twelve trillion lightyears.
• Star density in our box is lower than the average density of stars in the milky way, but has an added vertical dimension. In the Milky Way, the accretion disk has a height of only 12 lightyears. We have fewer stars, AND an added vertical dimension, so we have a lower star density.
• There are around nineteen-billion stars in our little box, with an average distance of thirty lightyears between them.
• A single pixel on our map contains approximately thirty-seven stars.

Coordinate List

Here are the coordinate locations for everything on the maps, including anomalies. For identifying the anomalies, they are ordered from left to right, and their order remains the same across both maps (since they just move up or down between them). So 'Magnetar One' is the Magnetar furthest to the left on both maps. Coordinates shown here have been rounded in order to make distance calculations easier.

Need to calculation distances quick? Here is a handy calculation site. In case that is not working or you prefer the hands on approach, here's a manual input equation for you: Sqrt((x2 - x1)^2 + (y2 - y1)^2 + (z2 - z1)^2).

Nation Coordinates:
@Nilesapa - 620, 670, 330
@Eschatologist - 360, 230, 410
@Monkeypants - 180, 380, 730
@Facepunch - 640, 400, 280
@AbysmalDemon - 440, 240, 740
@Willy Vereb - 300, 570, 500
@Keyguyperson - 530, 740, 700
@Mihndar - 530, 610, 530
@Terminal - 650, 680, 240
@AmongHeroes - 160, 620, 240
@SgtEasy - 360, 540, 610
@Durandal - 560, 390, 180
@Ascendant - 570, 270, 690
@Beach Burrito - 740, 20, 480
@Grisette - 230, 230, 400
@Isotope - 750, 140, 540
@Apollo26 - 760, 640, 410
@Darkspleen - 20, 50, 280
@Duck55223 - 60, 220, 500
@eemmtt - 740, 570, 270
@Heartfelt Gamer - 620, 290, 200

Anomalies:
Rogue Galactic Core - 450, 680, 490
Blazar Bubble One - 260, 470, 640
Blazar Bubble Two - 450, 480, 300
Supernova Remnant One - 160, 510, 690
Supernova Remnant Two - 180, 230, 530
Supernova Remnant Three - 480, 330, 120
Supernova Remnant Four - 600, 100, 320
Magnetar One - 260, 310, 450
Magnetar Two - 480, 730, 330
Magnetar Three - 500, 470, 240
Magnetar Four - 640, 550, 560
Wormhole One - 60, 30, 300
Wormhole Two - 280, 480, 560
Wormhole Three - 390, 120, 430
Wormhole Four - 500, 790, 610
Wormhole Five - 600, 300, 200
Wormhole Six - 760, 390, 760

X-Y Map

Red Line: X Axis
Green Line: Y Axis

X-Z Map

Red Line: X Axis
Blue Line: Z Axis

XYZ Comparison Map

Red Line: X Axis
Green Line: Y Axis
Blue Line: Z Axis
White Line: Map Divider

Map Legend

This is a Rogue Galactic Core! Displaced from its home galaxy, it thankfully is not spewing out any blazars and so is relatively docile so long as you keep your distance. Its most significant effect on the map is its dark-matter footprint, which affects FTL travel in unusual ways. Close proximity to the core will render FTL jumps increasingly inaccurate, displacing them further away than intended from their desired destination point...skewed in the direction of the core, by a magnitude inversely proportional to the distance from the core. So the closer you get, the more dangerous FTL travel is.

Watch out! It's a Blazar Bubble Remnant! It does not matter /how/ technologically advanced you are or how super-duper your experimental Superdreadnought prototype is, if it goes in here it's DONE. Conventional matter of any kind flash-vaporizes within this region, so be very careful about moving around it. If everyone is fortunate, the region should hopefully dissipate within several hundred million years.

A Supernova Remnant! Don't let that calm eye fool you, the stormwall is still capable of baking entire planets into balls of molten slag and is only now starting to to dissipate. Ships can still move through it, but they'd better have good armor and excellent shielding. While dangerous to maneuver around, the inner system is a cornucopia rich with otherwise rare protoplanetary matter and aggregate floating about in loose, nebular clouds.

This rare sight is a Magnetar. A neutron star that is so magnetic, it actually polarizes the surrounding vacuum, rendering it birefringent, and all sorts of other weird and incidentally horribly lethal things. It may be dangerous, but it's an excellent site of study for high-energy physics, and may help you to better understand the new True Vacuum Universe if you analyze it carefully.

An inexplicably stable Schwarzschild wormhole. Assuming you can pass the event horizon and survive close proximity to the singularity, you should be able to 'fall' past its maximally extended terminus boundary and be ejected from the event horizon of another wormhole somewhere else. Just be careful not to be immediately pulled back into the event horizon you just shot out of.

The Premise

Every nation in play has been displaced from the false vacuum universe and finds themselves in an entirely new universe at a random coordinate location (which, for our purposes, occurred four weeks prior to the start of the RP). This involves a bit of weirdness, since every civilization has been displaced in a cookie-cutter fashion - every planet and star that was a part of each respective power remained in the same place respective to each other, but every other star and celestial body in the universe was thrown to a new spot. Amongst other things, this means there are no galaxies or star clusters in the new universe - everything is just floating around in an unorganized jumble right now. The True Vacuum universe is therefore rife with rogue planets, surprise singularities, supernova remnants, massive gamma bubble fields, and more. Lots of room for esoteric space adventures in other words.

If, for any reason, one poster or another is forced to withdraw, or is simply inactive/AWOL, it will be said that their entire nation -mysteriously vanished' due to anomalous events due to shenanigans involving the new universe. Similarly, new nations can be placed anywhere they like on the map without having to worry about pre-established history. It's a new universe and there is lots of uncategorized weirdness drifting around, so new nations appearing out of the blue will not be entirely surprising.

Rules

-This is a Collaborative Roleplay. If you're here, that means that you are trying to play with others. Make sure you play well. Keep things civil, and remember that it costs you nothing to be polite. If you find yourself in an argument anyway, please try to confine it to PMs. Do not clutter the OOC with personal grievances.

-Follow the standard guild rules.

-Obey the Dark Lord Sauron's rules as well (just to cover all the bases).

-This is a soft science Roleplay. I prefer Hard Science myself but will not be enforcing rigid technological functionality. If you say your super laser is powered by exotic super duper matter, I will take your word for it. However, my patience for the ridiculous is limited. Your stuff does not need to make scientific sense, but make sure it is at least internally consistent and reasonable within the expectations of the genre. If you aren't entirely sure what that constitutes, that is perfectly ok. Ask about it here in the OOC or contact me directly.

General Rulings

Here is a list of general rulings on points of contention common to most Space NRPs. These are /general/ rules, and I am open to occasional exceptions as long as there is good reasoning and intent behind them. These will be judged on a per-case basis. Also note, some of the figures listed here are subject to change.

-There is a speed limit on FTL travel. It takes a full week to travel 10,000 lightyears (for reference, the Milky Way is approximately 80-100,000 lightyears in diameter, so this is fairly high for a speed cap).

-Local Area FTL Jamming will exist as a defensive measure to prevent Alpha Strikes on Homeworlds and similar nonsense. Blitz can still be run since the range for Jammers will be limited to (relatively) small areas of space, and will be severely limited in number. It's mostly intended to give strategic planets time to brace themselves.

Jamming Elaboration

Jammers, for the purposes of this RP, are to be stationary structures - space stations or planetary facilities. They are relatively short ranged. Specifically, I'm going to say as a general rule of thumb that they have a maximum range of One Astronomical Unit, or approximately 150,000,000 kilometers. A fleet of ships moving at a constant velocity of 50,000 kilometer per minute would be able to cross that distance in two days. In essence, jammers buy you a little bit of time to brace for an impending attack fleet.

Jammers can be discriminatory - targeting only a specific form of FTL - or they can be Nondiscriminatory - targeting EVERY conceivable form of FTL. Both forms have their advantages and disadvantages, which should be apparent enough.

Jammers should be hard and time consuming to produce due to reasons, and so it is encourage that factions make use of only a limited number of jammers that are strategically employed at critical locations, such as your capital or homeworld.

For your convenience, here is the description for a Nondiscriminatory Jammer that was co-developed by @Darkmatter and myself. It is 90% hard science, and reiterates the basic expectations outlined here.

Nondiscriminatory Jammer

Here is a direct copy of the basic functionality of the FTL Jammers.

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-In principle, Jammers have to be very expensive/time consuming to make, so that people don't just spam them everywhere.
-Space volumetrics and high production costs encourages strategic placement of a limited number of Jammers.
-Jammers should halt incoming FTL at its edges and prevent it within its range.
-Jammers should be nondiscriminatory.

First we identified as many methods of FTL as we could think of. We divided these broadly into three categories.

Rushers: Ships somehow improbably accelerated to faster than light speeds in the literal sense, moving through regular space faster than light, or that distort spacetime around them (Gravitics or otherwise) in order to move faster than light within their frame of reference relative to the rest of the universe.

Drillers: Ships that either open wormholes, enter hyper/subspace or another equivalent, or phase out of concert with matter/energy while still moving through spacetime.

Poppers: Ships that vanish and immediately reappear elsewhere, via superpositioning and discontinuous wavefunction collapse.

Then we tried to find a way to stop all of them at once, with as few different methods as possible.

What we came up with is a field possessing Non-Newtonian properties.

The idea is that the universe has a number of different, interacting fields which we define using mathematical equations representing how changes in one field interact with others, and that these fields have different sources and originations (such as the Higgs Boson 'causing' particles to have mass). Ultimately, stopping FTL from working takes some pretty impressive space magic no matter what you do, so we decided to provide a hypothetical mechanism by which our space magic is reasonable within the boundaries of how our mechanism interacts with regular spacetime and matter.

The field (generated by each individual Jammer) possesses Extra-Newtonian properties, and interacts with spacetime in a way that affects the motion of matter and energy across it. Akin to non-Newtonian fluids, the idea is that the motion of matter and energy across spacetime affected by the field changes in a non-linear fashion proportional to the strain that motion causes (strain being generated by the field) - particularly in regards to matter and energy moving faster than the speed of light.

With Rushers, the idea is that a vessel enters the field, and strain caused by the vessel moving faster than light (either literally or simply within a different frame of reference; as the field would also stretched across distorted/stretched spacetime and generate stress due to the difference in motion of matter inside distorted area from the motion of matter outside of it) forces the field to deform. The deformation causes the field to stretch space out in a direct, geometrically proportional relationship to the overall speed of the vessel. Since the Jammer can't project this hypothetical field beyond a certain absolute boundary (determined by its power generation), the deformation caused in the field also forces it to press inwards on the sides of the vessel as it advances. The deformed field thus traps the vessel inside an ever-increased, localized area of space that stretches infinitely while the vessel continues to move faster than light - only by dropping out of FTL does the field stop being deformed and movement become possible.

With Drillers, the field prevents the deformation of spacetime that allows wormholes and breaches into hyper/subspace to form. The idea is that the field stretches timespace in order to continue to occupy the same area of space at all times despite deformation caused by matter moving through it faster than light (thus generating strain). Since this field cannot be projected beyond a particular, absolute limit (defined by the power generation of the Jammer being used), but since the space is being deformed and stretched without any strain being produced (which means the field itself isn't being deformed), the field keeps the space it occupies from deforming, thus preventing the formation of wormholes or breaches in spacetime.

With ships that have phased out of concert with matter/energy, it's a simple matter that the field interacts with the motion of matter through spacetime - the phased ship cannot move through the field without producing strain, since it would have to be phased out of concert with spacetime in order to avoid producing strain while moving faster than light. If the ship does not occupy spacetime, it cannot move through spacetime, at which point one presumes it behaves similarly to a vessel attempting to move through hyper/subspace.

This is where our idea breaks down, because now we have to try and stop Poppers. I tried wrestling with the Pauli Exclusion principle a little to see if there was a way to cause a sort of lockout effect in the wave function of superpositioning/discontinuous motion. We were sort of hoping you might have some ideas - and also whether you might critique/analyze/review our idea.

-Terminal

Darkmatter's Response
Here are my thoughts on how it works for poppers, based on what you've said and my contemplations.

How I'm picturing itself is the field as highly volatile viscous fluid which reacts to any kind of tension on it. It seems like the closest analogy as far as I can tell. Popper pops in, bringing an instantaneous and large impulse onto the field resulting in an equally large and instant distortion of the field and thus the connected space essentially 'throwing' the craft off course.

More specifics can be given; take the concept that some infinities and some nothingnesses are more vast than others. For example, one infiniy divided by another infinity is never one, it is another smaller infinity. With this is mind, take into consideration that though poppers are instant, relativistic changes mean that the field, relatively non-moving, actually exists at a stationary time reference point whereas the popper is a changing reference point. As such there is a 'delay' in relativity upon arrival of the craft. In layman's terms the field knows the craft is there before the craft does, meaning that although the instant of arrival and instant of reaction are the same moment relative to either reference point, relative to each other there is a discrepancy.

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-Terminal

-Tactical FTL Jumps will be permitted as an additional layer of tactics for naval warfare, but tactical FTL Jumps must have sufficient power consumption/recharge/detriment so as to prevent its frequent abuse. No ship should be able to pull off two consecutive FTL jumps without some kind of downtime, drawback, or limitation.

-FTL Weaponry is also permitted, although such weapons are subject to the same limitations as regular ships. This means no multi-drive FTL missiles that can perform multiple consecutive jumps.

-No dyson spheres or similar megastructures. Space elevators are ok.

-In order to keep things consistent, everybody will stick to starships and space structures that are less than ten kilometers in diameter.

Nation Sheet

Check the Raw for this post (upper right hand corner) for the BBcode formatting. Also note, this template is just a base. If you're more comfortable with another format or style, use that - just make sure you cover all the bases listed below. This template is based on the same one that was used in a prior NRP. I'm still working on my own Faction for the moment, so if you want to see an example nation sheet arranged in this format, check out this.

Faction Name Here

General Overview

Give us a holistic synopsis/summary of your nation. Hit the important points and give us a good exterior view or first impression.

Territory

Describe important star systems or areas/zones of control here. Including your Capital System/Home System would be a good start.

Governance

Describe your nation's system of governance here. How do your politics work?

Species

Describe the dominant or most prominent species within your nation here - just their physiology and relevant psychology though. Describe their lifestyles and such in the culture section.

Culture

Tell us about important Social and Population demographics and dialectics. Castes, classes, social hierarchy, standards of living, cultural norms, that sort of thing. Give us a broad overview of society as a whole and a bit of a more personal look at the life of the individual.

Organizations

Are there any large, powerful, or prominent subgroups, political, religious or otherwise within your nation? Tell us about them here!

History

Describe the history of your nation prior to its transition into the True Vacuum universe.

Outlook

Your nation was randomly gobbled up by an undetectable FTL phenomenon and displaced into an entirely new universe surrounded by completely unknown alien powers in a geopolitical landscape you know nothing about. Do you know what happened? Are there any theories flying around about what happened? What has been the general reaction of the public? What do your scientists and military specialists think? Describe in general how the move to the True Vacuum universe has influenced your nation.

Technology: Give a brief summary of the state of your nation's technological advancement and standards.

Important/Noteworthy Tech

Describe important and noteworthy technological innovations here. You can either describe everything in this one hider or, if individual bits and pieces are particularly long/important, you can stash them all in multiple hiders. Military technology, while important, is not the only thing that should be covered. Show us technology as it is used throughout your civilization.

Military Structure: Give a brief summary of your Military hierarchy's structure/arrangement.

Military Organization

Describe the different structures within your military here! Again, you may benefit from using multiple hiders for separate structures.

Accepted Roleplayers/Nations

@Nilesapa has been approved, writing for The Verdant Sanctum.
@Eschatologist has been approved, writing for the Transhumanist Memory Harvesters.
@Monkeypants has withdrawn from the roleplay.
@Facepunch has been approved, writing for the Grykian Union.
@AbysmalDemon has been approved, writing for Abysmallia.
@Willy Vereb has been approved, writing for White Interstellar Corporations.
@Keyguyperson has been approved, writing for the Empire of Four Species.
@Mihndar has been approved, writing for the Noviran Socialist Union.
@Terminal has been approved, writing for the Ennedi Legacy.
@AmongHeroes has been approved, writing for the Valeth Unified Republic.
@SgtEasy has been approved, writing for the Fay'Ran Jik Democracies.
@Durandal has been approved, writing for The Unity of C'ran.
@Ascendant has been approved, writing for The Arms of the All-Mother.
@Beach Burrito has been approved, writing for The Bituman Adipicracy.
@Grisette has been approved, writing for the United Valaran Empire.
@Isotope has been approved, writing for the Sevromahi Aggregate.
@Apollo26 has been approved, writing for the The Septonium Concordant.
@Darkspleen has been approved, writing for The Sentinels.
@duck55223 has been approved, writing for the New Roman Empire.
@eemmtt has been approved, writing for the Irodien Empire.
@Heartfelt Gamer has been approved, writing for the Aerues Regency

[Nilesapa]

Okay so I may need to modify my app sheet fit this.

Outlook is already a given as far as i'm concerned. A new universe? Oh goodie! This means it's time to plant more garden worlds, more than ever!

Do I need to fill out every section 100% to play? Stuff like organizations I might add as we go along since they have them, but I haven't really put much thought into that yet. With the military hierarchy, I suppose the patrons command and everyone else follows and there is more specialized patrons for other combat roles like infiltration or piloting spacecraft. Is that good enough?

I'll probably be spending time doing other things for this week need to think out this a bit more first. Maybe sunday i'll have a good revision up.

For now, here's what my faction is so far, ripped straight from Stellevia:

The Verdant Sanctum

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The Liliate


The liliate are really a composite of two species. The first species being the titular liliate, who are large, plant-like beings with many lily-like heads. The second species are the buzzers, who are akin to bees except come in many uniform colors instead of the yellow jacket color bees typically are associated with. Through millions of years of co-evolution the liliate have become a mutually intelligent being. The buzzers get a mobile home and food source in exchange for pollinating the liliate and carrying out tasks for the liliate.


The liliates themselves are large, plant-like beings whose many appendages, stems, leaves, vines and roots give them mobility as they wrap, pull and drag themselves around. They tend to move about in large capsule-like devices when inside spaceships or environments hostile to their kind, but on good soil they tend to go without the capsules. The lily-like parts of their bodies are akin to their heads in that they hold many sensory organs that allow them to see countless more colors than humans. Liliates also reproduce with their lilies, usually pollinating themselves when alone or pollenating with another liliate in close proximity. They don't have gender or sex, but have seen enough other animals and aliens to have a concept of what gender and sex are. Liliates are universally referred to in feminine pronouns despite not having human concepts of femininity. They're liliates.


Besides liliates, there are buzzies who co-evolved with the liliate. Buzzers, like mentioned earlier are like bees with multiple castes and a highly eusocial mindset. Physically they're only a bit bigger than a bee, but come in many colors of the rainbow to indicate their role in the hive. A liliate is a host to buzzies, usually having at least two dozen hives and queens who make their home somewhere in the liliate's large stems. These queens act as a consciousness for the liliate through a mode of communication not properly understood. Buzzies are around the size of a large bee on average, the queens being only 5 inches in size and have a whopping 12% of their body weight as a brain. They're not that smart despite that. The queens produce babies and relay commands from the liliate to the buddy drones to have them do all sorts of tasks. With advancements of technology, the amount of Buzzer types has expanded greatly through genetic engineering.


Liliates as a species are numerous, but the vast majority are commoners who lack the advanced biotech the higher classes of the sanctum carry about. Their high populations are more due to their long life spans as opposed to fucking like rabbits; a Liliate can live 3 centuries on average.

Their diets consist of water, sunlight, fertilized soil and dead, rotting corpses along with a wide range of nectars or bloods (depending on role) for the buzzers.


Government


Their society is a somewhat feudal society where the affairs of government are private to the common liliate as the typical liliate has no concern for political troubles. They are much more inclined to enjoy a pastoral existence on a garden world than to go around conquering and empire building. They don't see the point in democracy since your typical liliate can live in the wild just fine, modifying it however they like.


The ruler of their civilization is the Verdant One, who is picked by assembly (ritual will be shown IC) from the elder patrons.


The elder patrons are the close knit circle around the Verdant One who carry out the will of the Verdant One and enforce policies domestically. Their jobs are also highly spiritual in that they will pick worlds to bless with life, however the Verdant One can overrule any of the decisions a Elder Patron may make. Besides the additional responsibilities, they still carry the burdens of their lesser peers.


The liliate who deal with political concerns are the patrons, who are called such due to their patronage of the arts and their patronage of life. Their main tasks are to carry out the more complicated tasks of the sanctum such as genetic modification, diplomacy, waging of war and management of the commoners. They do not own land like a noble, instead having a communal spaceship with other members of their pod they watch over a planet with.


The commoners have it the best, arguably. While the patrons in theory have absolute control over the commoners, the commoners in practice are simply tasked with making the world a prettier place. They are numerous and live on a planet without borders, tinkering with the ecosystems and biomes of a garden world or progressively designing and terraforming/bioforming a wet enough desert world. They don't get drafted into wars except in situations of planetary defense where they may levied by the patrons to fight against a hostile intrusion.


Outside of the liliates (and their buzzers), various forms of organic drones/wetware are used for repetitive tasks and ship construction. These drones tend to just be modified versions of animals they have encountered among the cosmos.




Military technology


Their military is a mixture of organic and artificial technologies, but very lopsided towards organic tech with inorganic (metal/metalloid-based) tech being seen as a "necessary evil".


Their deadliest weapon is a powerful radiation array ("Sunshine" as it is colloquially called) that pretty much reduces a world to a blighted hell hole incapable of growing life. The liliate themselves find the weapon utterly horrifying and only use it as a last resort, only having a limited supply stashed on high level spaceships under constant watch.


Liliates specialize in biological and chemical warfare, with conventional methods not really gettuing nearly as much funding. Their vast library of deadly toxins and diseases is a well known secret of the Sanctum, and this library only grows as they expand and find new chemicals and breeds of bacterium.


On ground, their deployments of drones who are chemically intoxicated to do anything on the whim of their liliate patron, offensive terraforming and swarms of patronized buzzies (with stings that contain all sorts of horribly contagious, extremely fatal illnesss) make them pretty much a death knell to civilian infrastructure. In space, their weapons are sub-par due to their ships being more carriers than fighters. They make use of laser weaponry and other conventional modes of ballistics, but all this is more to defend a ship more than engage in a offensive war in space. Instead, the Liliate try to rush to planets they know the enemy won't be willing to glass (like a planet full of civilians) to get a leverage on their enemy and force negotiation.


On the defensive they tend to make use of multiple defensive platforms laden in conventional weapons and tend to dig very deep into planets (especially cave heavy worlds) in places where potential conflict may arise. Such digging in can make quite impressive monuments to the terraforming capabilities of the Liliate, despite how amish the common liliate is to an outside viewer.


Technological Overview


The Liliate, as mentioned in the military section are biotech heavy. This applies to their less murderous applications of tech as well. For instance, they make use of neural manipulation (or mind control) to make beasts of burden bend to their every whim. This mind control relies heavily on instinct manipulation and requires for a node to be placed inside one's head for it to actually be effective. The Buzzers have developed castes that pretty much try to go into your ear to allow for a liliate to control your mind.


Their computers use a neural form of wiring that allows them to think through many different designs of creatures and splice them. Experimentation using these computers is a constant in their society. This same neural wiring is used in their space probes, which are encased in protective layers of plastics/metals. The application of the automations are pretty diverse, but they're only seen in the company of patrons and on spaceships- they aren't allowed on the garden worlds.

The Liliate tend to terraform worlds that 'have potential' into garden worlds and can do so in a matter of a several decades because once a planet is blessed to be terraformed more and more common liliate will be transported to the world by the patrons.

Number and industry-wise they're around average in terms of productivity when it comes to space ships. In colonizing and terraforming, they're very productive.

The FTL they use is standard with nothing unique about it. The cultural impact of FTL however, is what caused them to begin their quest to start seeding and terraforming any world they bless with their kind. Even if it's already in use, as the concerns of some meathead or metalhead only matter if they dare undermine the Verdant One's wishes.


Cultural Overview


The Verdant Sanctum's overall culture is actually quite artistically inclined, at least for the vast majority. They treat their ecosystems and biome modification as art, and therefore is not usually trying to be efficient in terms of sustainability or ecological harmony. The common liliate live in quite open conditions with the closest things to homes being shelter systems from harsh weather or incomplete worlds. Patronic liliate tend to live in spaceship terrariums, only being allowed to go on world by a elder patron. A elder patron is only allowed to go on world by the verdant one, who is rooted on the home world.

The word buzzer is never actually used to describe the species that is in communion with the liliate; buzzer is a slang term invented by some other species. The liliate themselves do not really distinguished buzzers from the liliate. It's as absurd to them as claiming your tongue or pinky is a separate species. Or claiming white blood cells are separate from humans. In the Verdant Sanctum, the "buzzers" pretty much act as and perceive themselves as extensions of the liliate. The queens may be psychologically independent from their liliate, but they pretty much see themselves as part of the same mind. Despite this, the buzzers pretty much have autonomy in what the liliate is saying since when a liliate talk, it's really the coordinate buzzing of the buzzers. If a buzzer queen is lost, it is like losing a part of one's personality.

Liliate have a great interest in life in general, going as far as to raid and abduct life on alien worlds should there be no other means to obtain it. On several occasions already there are liliate who have put multiple alien species on a planet and tried making a functional ecosystem out of it. They see technology as a necessary evil that has enabled them to spread life outside of their single star system and their relationship with technology is very mixed as a result.


Their economy is pretty much built around constant expansion, for they need to keep colonizing and terraforming more worlds in order to keep growing as a civilization and most liliate go without money instead just having a simple barter economy. Patrons however, do have a system of wealth that is more based in favors than in actual currency- the better a patron is doing, the more they are allowed to commission to the common Liliate. Trade with aliens is done exclusively in barter, however.


Their relationship with other forms of intelligent life who have embraced metal-based technology to far greater degrees is not all that great, however they may find common cause with an ideologically similar species. Their system of blessing worlds may cause them to get into major trouble with another society. They have many other art forms beyond ecological art including art that humans would refer to as "art" like their large scale gardening, rock art, symbol drawing and painting. (sadly their paintings can't be fully enjoyed, let alone understood by human eyes).



History


The Verdant Sanctum's History is one that started in tragedy, for the Verdant Sanctum formed only after their kind some several hundred years ago suffered a massive dying off known simply as "The Weltering" that nearly caused their species to fall back to the stone age. In what seemed like the end of their kind, the first Verdant One managed to bring together the anarchy that was consuming their world and in what should have been the end of Liliate civilization turned into a renaissance and cultural rebirth as their conventional technology managed to accidentally happen upon the Warp Drive. In this renaissance, the baseline for the Verdant Sanctum was born.


In the first explorations of space, a realm once seen as a empty void without any value to their kind they discovered that other planets also had life. The discovery of alien worlds with life lead to the first blessings of alien worlds as the Third Verdant one set down the foundations for which worlds may be blessed by herself personally.


The criteria goes like this:
1. Wet enough
2. Warm Enough
3. Sunny Enough


Over the following few centuries and to present day, the Verdant Sanctum has spread across dozens of star systems (moderate size civilization with dense population- tell me how big is balanced for this RP) and have made contact with intelligent life in the past century.


(History beyond this point will be based in history collaboratively decided on)


Other


(Will use this section for my characters)


Formulaic Patron of Skimming Light

Prospecting Elder of the Blue Abyss

Imagining Patron with Violet Minds

(Naming convention is ROLE + SOCIAL CLASS -transition (not nessecarily just "of")- Adj + Noun)

[Terminal]

No, I will accept works in progress as long as there is at least some evidence that some effort was invested in the sheet. If you have a bunch of completely fleshed out sections and two or three that are works in progress, that will be sufficient. I'll go ahead and review the Sanctum for you, give me a few minutes.

[Eschatologist]

What are the methods of power generation in this setting and how easy is it to disperse heat? Can I have non-orientable wormholes, or is that too obscene?

Also, get ready for that good ol' fashioned hard-line transhumanism for my nation. Gotta rep that singularity lifestyle.

[Nilesapa]

Mind my app contextually was made for Stelliva so their history is definitely in the list of "things to be altered". For instance how the whole displacement thing affected them.

[Terminal]

What are the methods of power generation in this setting and how easy is it to disperse heat?

@Eschatologist

Anything you'd like. You can use fusion, antimatter, or even straight up alenium. This is a soft science RP, so I'm not going to enforce you to use scientifically rigid power sources.

Same goes for heat dispersion, although if you're looking for actual advice on the matter: In Mass Effect, heat is stored in lithium capacitors along the inner hull of the ship. Ships regularly stop inside atmospheres and discharge built-up heat by converting it into electrical discharge. Personally, I prefer to deal with it simply by not having large active crews and using base radiation to shed heat before it starts to interfere with integral components. One other roleplayer I know managed to work out a gas-exchange/filtration system that recycled internal atmosphere into thruster propellant.

Use your imagination.

[Sigma]

*Rewriting*

[Terminal]

@Nilesapa, having reviewed your sheet it seems sufficiently detailed, although it could probably be better organized. Keep working on it, but consider yourself approved - you're cleared to post once the IC goes live (and your name has been added to the active roster in the OP).

[AbysmalDemon]

is there still room for another this looks very interesting

[Terminal]

is there still room for another this looks very interesting

@AbysmalDemon

We are still open and accepting. Feel perfectly free to submit an application or ask questions.

[Willy Vereb]

How much time has passed since the "True Vacuum" catastrophe?
What were the effects?
Should we need to account for any damage?

If the catastrophe happened decades or a century ago then I may try to make a "civilization" as an interstellar trade company called the White Interstellar Corporations.

[Eschatologist]

Transhumaist Memory Harvesters

Cessian Ascendancy

General Overview

The Cessians, distant cousins of humans, through their mastery of robotics and information technology blew past the singularity, not only having essentially conquered biological death, but have fully integrated themselves with machines. Most of their massive population live on one world, brains wired into a digital paradise, where existence is bliss. This existence of digital paradise is supported by the million+ Cessians who do not live in the Dream, who protect the Brain Clusters from outside invaders, and trade, explore and conquer all in the search for that most valuable of commodities, new experiences and foreign memories, to be fed into the dream and maintain the paradise a little longer.

Territory

The Cessians were blessed with an incredible home system, and have not expanded beyond it. It was chosen by their distant human ancestors millennia ago, on their fabled exodus from their old homeworld. Their homeworld, Cessia, is a verdant world dotted with the hive cities that contain the lion’s share of the hundreds of billions of Cessian brains that inhabit the dream. The population density being truly massive [seeing as each inhabitant takes only a few feet to store], most of the world’s surface is devoted to producing the massive amounts of food needed to keep the billions of Dreamed citizens alive, through mass-scale on land or sea. There are five other terrestrial planets, and several habitable moons, not to mention a mineral-rich asteroid belt. Many of these spaces are devoted to food production, much to the industry needed to sustain such population and keep the Dream functioning without fail. Much of the asteroid field is cannibalized for antimatter production, or for the shipyards that churn out either manned or unmanned exploration vehicles for the great galactic Experience Harvest

Governance

The Dream, being a paradise wonderland that can be shared or instanced per person, has no real government. Those Cessians who exist outside the Dream work under the direction of the Shepard Council, a gathering of a dozen of the oldest Cessians, who direct the running of all Reality functions, with each Councilor controlling their own aspect, from Agriculture to Maintenance to Exploration to Diplomacy. The Arch-Shepard has almost absolute executive control, though on matters that effect all aspects of Reality, the council holds a veto with 1/3 agreement, and on matters effecting the dream, unanimous agreement is required

Culture

The Dream is constantly changing, and to almost every citizen of Reality it is entirely alien, its trends and changes invisible to the outsider. In reality, in its massive mental exchange the average citizen seeks entertainment and pleasure, trends and diversions shifting constantly, burning through experiences and living or creating fictions and tales to be enjoyed by all. In Reality, the culture is one of highly moralistic duty-oriented service, with the improvement and maintenance of the Dream holding almost religious significance, each Reality-bound Cessian hungry to do their duty, and each prizing highly the most valuable commodity for the Dream, new experiences and never before seen memories

Organizations

As mentioned, the Shepard Council controls the entirety of the Cessian Reality operations. Subject to the council, the Exploration Councilor controls the Discovery Fleet, a massive assembly of manned and unmanned vehicles to meet new species and buy their memories, or chart new worlds and bring tales of their geography back to the Dream to fuel its paradise a little longer. The Discovery Fleet works closely with the Defense Councilor’s Vanguard Fleet, which is the second largest institution, and is tasked with defending the home system and the Dream from foreign powers, fanatical and absolutely devoted.

History

The earliest history of the Cessians is unknown, and the reason for their exodus from human society is a mystery. What is known is that after they settled on Cessia their scientists raced forwards in the fields of robotics and biology, and created semi-sentient robots and the ability to create believable, malleable alternate realities. The effects of this latter development nearly destroyed the Cessians, with nearly every citizen leaping at the opportunity to live in the Dream. The Cessians nearly died out, and starvation or technological failures killed hundreds of millions of the first adopters of the Dream, but during a scramble to create the infrastructure necessary to support these Dreamers the Cessians finally became almost entirely sustained on the labor of machines, most citizens remaining in Reality joining their Dreaming brothers and sisters as those who remain outside paradise are needed only for oversight and large-scale guidance.

The first issues arose hundreds of years later, after the cloned populace had surpassed previous census levels and the Dream had become stable. People started to grow bored within ‘paradise’. It was a catastrophe, and while solutions were looked for years of perdition held the Dreamers as there was nothing left for them to do. The idea was finally struck to begin feeding the Dream computers with harvested memories, and while new species and planets were searched for the Reality-bound Cessians gave their memories to keep the Dream alive that little bit longer. Eventually, new civilizations and new locations were found, and the Dream was bolstered, but in the years leading up to the Vacuum the realities of this tactic, that it would only delay and never solve the problem of boredom, became evident.

Outlook

Elated. This is the absolute best-case scenario. Exploration fleets were sent out in a mass exodus to build a massive stockpile of experience, and trade with new lifeforms has tapped an entirely new vein of philosophies, tales and memories. There is little care about why it happened, though scientists are beginning to look into how it was survived and if it can happen again [or be caused]. There is fear for the safety of Cessia proper, but the Defense Councilor is confident in the extra-asteroid defensive perimeter.

Technology:

Important/Noteworthy Tech

Semi-sentient, self-modifying robots under strict control from biological Cessians make up almost the entirety of the massive workforce. Artificial intelligence has progressed by leaps and bounds, and automation is a natural process. Everything from farming to fleets to construction is run by single Cessians and performed by armies of robots. Biological advancement has made cloning possible [a necessity when the stable breeding population entered the dream], and though not entirely immortal lifespans have been increased to millennia [a number constantly increasing, despite the negative effects on the stagnation of the dream]. Most Cessians are little more than brains wired into their virtual paradise, with most not even knowing their world is fake. Power is generated via non-orientable wormholes, a new and slightly unstable technology but one with massive potential in the eyes of the Cessians.

Military Structure:

Military Organization

There are only a few thousand Cessians involved in Defense, but with autos that is seen to be sufficient. The last millennia has seen a constant buildup and improvement of planetary fortresses, spheres of defenses surrounding inhabited planets made up of every weapon at the Cessian's disposal, thought by their designers to be nearly impregnable, or at least dangerous enough to assure mutual destruction. The Cessian fleet is fairly small by comparison, intended to supplement defensive structures and engage alongside fortifications, never to commit to aggressive action.
The Defense Councilor has overall command, and beneath him are two Admirals, one of the Fleet and one of the Fortresses. Beneath them the required staff are present. Not a military institution, the Exploratory Fleet is organized as one, with several admirals commanding massive automated armadas of scouts, tying closely with the diplomatic and trade services in procuring requisite commodities from other civilizations.

[Eschatologist]

Posted: fairly short, but I prefer to let most of the details come out in RP. Also, transhumanists who care only for the creation and procurement of interesting memories and information are pretty self-explanatory, in my mind at least. It can be expanded if necessary, there is plenty more I could write about them.

[Terminal]

How much time has passed since the "True Vacuum" catastrophe?
What were the effects?
Should we need to account for any damage?

If the catastrophe happened decades or a century ago then I may try to make a "civilization" as an interstellar trade company called the White Interstellar Corporations.

@Willy Vereb

We will say for the sake of drama that the Catastrophe happened exactly four weeks ago at the start of the RP - which gives everyone a 40,000 lightyear scouting umbrella if they moved immediately.

The effects are stated in the premise, but here's a reiteration of them:

-All structures in the universe - galaxies, star clusters, nebulas, star systems etcetera - have had their constituent parts randomly redistributed throughout the True Vacuum universe. This means that no galaxies star clusters, or nebulas currently exist. Supernova remnants (which can be like nebulas) remain, so expect a few of those littered around. Singularities and galactic cores have also been displaced but remain intact. Galactic Gamma Bubbles also remain intact, meaning there may exist large regions of the True Vacuum which are impassable (introducing a natural barriers aspect which would normally not be present). Thankfully for everyone, RPJs did not remain intact, and so there's no need to worry about being obliterated by those.

-The exceptions to the above: Your civilizations. Every star system and planet controlled by your nations were lifted out of the False Vacuum universe cookie-cutter style (nobody knows why). All your systems and territory remains in the same configuration in terms of distances and such. However, all surrounding territory is completely unfamiliar, composed of utterly alien star systems with planets and stars completely unknown to you.

Damage that could have occurred to your nation includes the loss of trade routes and alliances, the loss of territories you controlled in name (plantations and the like), and incidental damage from a lot of planets and stars either be closer or further away from your own star systems (imagine if a new star appeared within 70,000 AU of Sol, or if a couple of new rogue planets hurtled into the system). However, it would not be unreasonable to say that apart from displacement shock and loss of external assets, the nations did not receive any major infrastructural damage unless they were a large Trade federation or the like.

[Terminal]

@Eschatologist has been approved and added to the OP.

Also: The OP has been updated to include the chatzy link. I only mentioned it and forgot to include the actual link. Silly me.

[Durandal]

@Terminal

First of all, I just want to say that the effort you put into creating the nations that you do is truly amazing. I often wish I had the knowledge and dedication to research everything needed to create something so detailed.

Secondly, I am posting to remind myself to create a character sheet for this RP when I get around to it.

[eemmtt]

Im interested in this rp. Im gonna try to get a CS up tomarrow.

[The Captain]

I've got a potential concept for a human state. Perhaps even Earth itself, depending on how things shape up.

[AbysmalDemon]

Abysmalia

General Overview

A Human Faction mainly based on military and minerals. Abysmalia is on a planet called SC-947-1. A lush green planet. However, even though it is lunch, and green, we do not put our efforts into farming here, as it would take on the farming "planets". Abysmalia's total size is around 3,470sq miles, and quite populated, at 75mil Up in orbit, we have a large trade outpost, around 9km in diameter. Abysmalia is on the west, east, and north side covered by mountains, and in the south a harsh desert. A route is a gap between the Eastern Mountains, and the Southern Desert. For what we have explored there seems to be no other life forms on this planet.

Territory

Gorraen Astroid Field: Where Abysmalia Collects most of the helium 3, metals, and stones. It was named after Captain Gorraen who discovered the small field. Now the resources are soon to run out, so we have started to relocate our mining positions.

Rathean Astroid Field: Slightly bigger than the Gorraen, at 6.3 kilometers, we have now started to mine here, since the Gorraen is starting to run out.

Vegetation Field 1: a cluster of small "planets", like earth, which are able to hold plant life. We have used this to grow our crops since the beginning. Each "planet" is aroun 1-2 kilometers wide.

Governance

Abysmalia is run by a dictatorship. When the True Vacuum, began, and the faction began, many smaller, internal factions began to war. General George Gorraen, put an end to it by use of his words.

After Gorraen's death, the fighting started once more, and was soon put to and end once more, by Captain Johnathan Rathean, who was deemed the new dictator.

Culture

As of classes, there really are no poor. By that I mean the ones with low pay, or low money, in general, still can afford to live. There are three classes. The upper, the middle, and the lower.

Abysmalia does have a rich culture. Originating from California, a very cultural place, many Hispanics, African Americans, and many other races were sent up from California. To celebrate a rich culture, once every year, on the 23rd of March, there is a festival in the Abysmalian Center Square, where people share food and drink, dances, and traditions from there culture.

Organizations

Xerxes: Xerxes is a corporation, and main supplier for Abysmalia, of spacecraft, and anything that has to do with it. Engines, Shuttle parts, AI, and the tech that goes behind it all.

Apollo: Abysmalia's privately owned weapons manufacturer. For guns,tanks, weapons systems. There weapons systems also feed into Xerxes' spacecraft.

Infamous: A religious group causing riots, and murders because they say there can only be one religion. But have not yet specified which one.

Nebula Corps: An organization run by Insect Humanoids. They have attacked several times to get hold of resources. There leader has not yet been revealed.

History

Notable Missions:
Resc-347-295: a rescue mission from the Nebula Corps. 25 crew members were taken, and evidence led us to a large ship. We were able to rescue the hostages with 2 casualties, a crew hostage, and a resc squad trooper. Barely making it out alive when the ship blew up when we got out.
-Captain Rathean

Def-0323-03: A defense against Nebula Corps. After the incident with the hostages, Nebula Corps retaliated severely. Bringing in 8,000 infantry, 5 battle cruisers, and 10 assault carriers. We were able to push them back to where they came, but not without loss of life. 2,000 people died that day, and we will never forget the day of 8-24.

Outlook

Noteable Theories:
Another Big Bang occurred. Like the first one, but much smaller. Not enough to destroy and create planets, but enough to disorient them and move them around, therefore explaining why Alien Lifeforms are more common to us now.

With The True Vacuum, we have been influenced to respect other Lifeforms, because we now know, that were not the only ones out there. It has influenced us to respect other races in general. In Abysmalia, rascism has been abolished and we can now share our culture, happily.

Technology

Since 2015, the world has advanced significantly, Abysmalia more specifically. Abysmalia is now fond of the Advancement of Antimatter, using it for engines, gun propulsion, and more.

Important/Noteworthy Tech

Ion Shielding: Ion shielding can cover the whole of Abysmalia in nanoseconds. In all there are 20 flux capacitors, all powered by plutonium, underground of course. When shields are hit with any type of energy blast, it Ionizes the energy, transfer it, then shoot it out of the various Ion Cannons set up around Abysmalia, and shoot it as a controlled beam.

Hybrid Engines: An Antimatter- Synthetic Helium 4 triple tank engine. The ship mainly runs off of Antimatter. One tank is filled with antimatter, another with the Synthetic Helium 4(SH4) For quick getaways and FTL jumps, some of the the SH4 and Antimatter, are put into the third empty tank. They mix, causing it to "erupt" and send it of with speed.

Military Structure

Total Manpower: 700,000
Infantry: 100,000 Active, 100,000 Reserves
Navy?(What would u call the spaceship flying people): 150,000 Active, 150,000 Reserves
DOD(Department Of Defense) 200,000 Active

Ever since the Nebula Corps has been attacking Abysmalia we've upgraded our defenses, and military in case.

Logbook

Trade: Abysmalia is currently trading with the Draxi, a bipedal race. When the Vacuum was finished Abysmalia found themselves close to the alien race, so they decided to make relations with them. As of now, every two days, Abysmalia sends them a shipment of 150 lbs of Damascus Steel for 200 lbs of titanium.

For trade, Abysmalia is currently looking for a supplier of helium 3.

Crops: The atmospheric levels are perfect to sustain life on the farming "planets". Since they are so close to earth, the sun also shines on them the right way. The crops must be sprayed daily. Because of the great positioning, and atmospheric levels, the crops seem to grow better, and faster, than on earth itself. Because of that, Abysmalia collects around 20,000 pounds of crops per month.

Minerals: In the Gorraen Astroid Field, not much is left. In the final collection, ET, in a week, all the resources will be collected from the astroids. So far from Gorraen we have collected: Helium 3, Damascus Steel, Iron, Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, and Sapphire. With the Rathean we expect the same, but at greater quantities.

[AbysmalDemon]

@Terminal