INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the galaxy of Andreemea, a unique sci-fi setting from which will spawn multiple roleplays in the future. This roleplay specifically is the primary base of operations for Andreemea and part of Wave 1 of it's roleplays. However, one does not have to join this roleplay to take part in other roleplays in the setting, or have to join other roleplays if taking part in this one. Although highly ambitious, people with a more casual outlook on things can still join and appreciate what this roleplay has to offer.
Participants are encouraged, if they so wish, to participate in many creative ways to flesh out the galaxy. Feel free to submit alien race and planet ideas, for but a few examples of what you can do. If not, there will be plenty of stuff created by me or other eager roleplayers to chose from...or just play as a simple human. I'm not judging.
RESOURCES
Wiki
Multiple different resources can be used for this roleplay to help organize things. Although all of the necessary information can be found in the OOC, you can see tons of extra background information and reminders of what things are at a simple glance at the Andreemea Wiki found HERE.
For example, in a post in the IC we might not have time to explain every detail of a certain alien, so we might just know them by their race name and perhaps their green skin or something. However, with the wiki available to you, a page may be made to paint a far better picture of them! Of course it would be nice if we could explain everything that well IC, but that's not always realistic, and people might forget over time what was said in a certain post, having to hunt through pages and even across roleplays to find what they are looking for.
That being said, the wiki will be a highly valuable tool at our disposal, and while not 100% needed, it's highly recommended. At the time of this writing the wiki is not entirely up to date everywhere due to how much work is needed, but it still has a tons of very helpful pages and will be fixed up in the coming weeks in areas most relevant to current IC situations.
Chatzy
Not nearly as important as the wiki, but still a great asset for quick back and forth communication; not clogging up the OOC and having to keep refreshing to see if a reply has come in. Also good if what is being said doesn't really need to be recorded for all time on the OOC. Just head to that chatroom and type back and forth in real time. It can be found HERE.
SETTING
Background:
Andreemea is a far away galaxy that's connected to our own through a wormhole that was traversed by us earthlings in our calendar's year of 2195 ad, although with a history altered in some ways to account for some alien involvement. The galaxy is separated into 81 different sectors and the wormhole sent us into Sector 70.
However, earthlings aren't the main focus of the galactic narrative. There exist thousands of races spread throughout the galaxy, many of which are far grander than us. A collection of races called the UNT was found at the location we entered and can be thought of as the most powerful good guy alliance within the galaxy, even if some others disagree. They were formed 6,130 years prior after a great war threatened to destroy most of the "civilized" galaxy with their advanced technology. With warring races teaming up and signing agreements that were also signed by many others in the galaxy not even a part of the UNT, they banned weapons of mass destruction, which includes things such as sending meteors on a collision course to unleash devastation on a planet. Although war still continues in much of the galaxy, at the very least they can rest easy knowing that they won't tear apart the entire galaxy itself for the time being.
Magic
Souls exist and are vital for magical abilities. Magic originated as physical energy generated by the Soul that became powerful enough to create an aura. It allowed the individual to achieve feats not normally possible, gaining more and more powerful as this magical aura evolved down the generations. It was eventually possible to extend their aura out of their body and connect with the aura of others, turning it into a web of energy called magiwaves that now permeate much of the known galaxy.
At this point it was considered magic as they needed to create what are called "magical formations" in the magiwaves to their bidding, what can be thought of as 3-dimensional glowing runes (only visible by those who can sense magiwaves or certain technology). Their soul energy flows out and is what does the manipulation of the magiwaves into said formations, different ones creating different spells, and every minor alteration in the formation gives a magical spell it's unique flavor to the magic user that's insanely hard to duplicate exactly. There's too large of a number of different magic available to list. Simple ones such as throwing a small fire would require a relatively easy formation that may take about three seconds of concentration to achieve, given a moderate amount of practice.
Some organisms who use aura couldn't or wouldn't achieve magic while others have a mix of aura and magic. Even organisms such as plants have souls that give off magiwaves. However, not everyone or everything can use magic or aura by any means, as they must be able to use their soul energy. This requires much practice and is simply not possible in a lot of individuals. Some races have this talent far more frequently than others. With training, most people with any capability in aura/magic can at least use aura to enhance their physical abilities to some extent, even if nothing else.
Magic can be used from technology by a magirite gem etched with a magical formation through a special process, combined with magitrinail, saturating the gem while spinning at high speeds and acting as the soul energy to spark the formation into life. Magic done this way is rarely as powerful as organic users unless the gem and magitrinail is of very high quality.
Technology
As you might have guessed, there's a wide variety of high level technology available. Obvious stuff are not needing to be mentioned, but I shall list certain technology that is important to know about. If it's not listed then it may or may not be possible. Weapons of mass destruction are possible but banned throughout much of the galaxy for those capable of doing so. Weapons are still far more deadly in small scale, so someone shooting a pistol would possibly be able to destroy our earth tanks from the year 2016. Their armor is also far stronger yet far lighter.
Anti-Gravitational Field Generator - Inhibits the ability of gravitons to interact with an object, allowing it to float.
Cosmodrive - Allows an object to interact with an invisible energy/wave called cosmowaves as if it's an atmosphere. This allows dogfighting in space and faster than light travel as it takes advantage of the malleable nature of cosmowaves to bend it in a process commonly called "diving". Diving takes more powerful cosmodrives.
Elzion Particles - Looks like glowing energy and what people would mistake as being lasers in various sci-fi shows. They can behave like bullets while in a high energy state, held loosely together in a glob, or while in a low energy state they can be attracted by what is called an energy net (specialized nanomachines) to form together into solid shapes like a sword. Lastly they can be used as energy similar to electricity in it's neutral state. Energy shells hold elzion particles and can be found in anything from guns to tanks, sending out energy in the desired form to power different functions.
Cloning - Possible. However, cloning people's magical/special abilities doesn't work without a legendary magic to also clone parts of the soul of a person, which isn't possible normally. This leaves normal clones relatively weak.
Warp - You can use cosmodrives to bend cosmowaves and travel to a location very quickly, possibly instantaneously if the cosmowave can be warped completely by a perfect cosmodrive, which is only theoretically possible at best. Plus you wouldn't find adequate cosmowaves on planets so would only work in deeper space anyways. Other "warping" technology is simply copying the makeup of an object and printing it elsewhere. This would be more akin to cloning someone at another location if used on a person, as the soul would not be transported by currently known technology.
AI and Robotics - Artificial intelligence has largely been in steep decline after a robotic race called the virous was able to corrupt military robots and tern them against their creators, almost resulting in the UNT being destroyed in it's infancy. Any large scale number of such things swiftly becomes a huge target for them, so it's gone widely out of practice. However, small numbers of combat robotics and AI still exist and some AI races of old have managed to withstand corruption more easily, allowing them to flourish where others have failed. Some other rare exceptions also exist.
Cyborgs - Due to the existence of souls, people's bodies tend to go wackier the more robotics are attached to them. Some races and individuals can withstand becoming cyborgs to a certain extent a lot easier, while on a large scale it's not possible or practical due to the risks involved. In one case gone horribly awry, a large population of a planet turned into what amounts to cybernetic zombies. This incident has scared many off of the practice and stereotypes/fear of cyborgs remains ingrained in society to this day.
PLOT
Faith in the UNT is starting to fade in a lot of people's hearts as they simply have too much territory to properly govern and protect everyone within their borders. Some planets and races are bound to be left out, and this breeds resentment that can slowly build against the government, even against those trying to do the right thing. Something must be done to address these concerns before full scale riots break out. Not much progress has been made, and some would say that the situation is even worsening.
It's now the year Twentythree 224 gt (23,224 years since the first recorded space flight that began the galactic timeline). This is equivalent to the year 2629 ad for the Earthlings.
A mysterious bounty hunter named Sahvin Bel stole an outdated prototype of an Outreach Class Scout Cruiser from a scrap yard. Things took a turn for the bizarre when he sent it back on autopilot months later, heavily upgraded and with an AI program installed called ANI. They wanted to aid the UNT with the condition that nothing be done to harm ANI or remove her from the ship. Although suspecting a trap, port authorities found nothing suspicious on board. Still hesitant on what to do with the ship, called the Exeralune, a man going by the code name Hidden Eagle said that he'd take command of the ship and assemble a crew.
His mission? To use the ship to restore people's faith in the UNT. He vowed to spend the rest of his days flying around the galaxy, protecting the innocent and aiding others in whatever way he and his crew could manage. Even if ANI was watching as a spy, all she'd see is the good that they were doing for the galaxy. Plus, Hidden Eagle highly doubted that she would turn on them, for unexplained reasons.
It's now their first mission together as a crew, having blasted off from the UNT Sector 49 Headquarters planet of Elistore. Traveling northeast for a day and half of the night to reach a distress signal, they're given a rude awakening when a ship that they have never seen before, one about their own size, violently cross paths with them. After sizing each other up, a combination of boarding party ships and spacefighters are sent out from the enemy as the capital ships themselves prepare to fire upon each other.
And so begins our long series of adventures...
EPISODES
This roleplay will follow an episodic format. Some plotlines carry over, but most episodes follow their own self contained story. Before each episode starts, everyone participating can vote on which plot they'd like to go with for that episode. You may submit your own plot ideas giving however little or much information you desire. However, expect more votes the more exciting and vivid you make your idea. They don't have to all revolve around action, but can instead have a comedic or character development purpose to them. Most of our boring missions such as giving out food to the poor will obviously be left out of the episodes we will visit.
RULES
1. Standard forum rules apply such as god modding and posting illegal stuff.
2. Don't leave us waiting on your post for over a week without warning. If we decide on it, we can control your character for the sake of moving the plot forward had you kept us waiting too long. This can include killing them off, if deemed necessary.
3. Don't make a habit of one sentence posts. At best this should be very rare, and most should be at least a paragraph in length. More would be appreciated but not required.
4. I can claim any of your stuff non-canon if needed, but will have a good reason for it. There can still be other possible canons where your stuff can be used if this happens to you, but not our main one we are using. Different roleplays may take part in these different canons.
5. Do not double post in the IC. Wait for everyone who is also in the scene with you to post before posting again unless they don't plan on posting at that point in time.
6. I can create more rules as needed.
CHARACTER SHEET
When filling out the character sheet, remove the round brackets, which are there to explain what the different parts of the sheet can be so not needed in the final sheet. You can use your own format if it includes everything.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race: (They can be earthling or alien. I shall provide a list of potential races you can use but there will be plenty more and you can even create your own. If you do, please explain about them. You don't have to be detailed, but if you spring the fact that they can shoot nukes out of their eyes or some other op or not fitting thing, I can make their ability to do so non-canon, so it will help if you explain such things beforehand so we can see if they are acceptable from the very beginning)
Homeworld: (Feel free to make up your own, same as what is said about races)
Position: (View the crewmember list below to see available positions)
Personality:
Appearance: (picture or written description)
Abilities: (Includes magic and other talents they currently have)
Equipment:
Biography: (anything else of note about them, mainly their history. You can keep a lot about them a secret to build up over time if desired)
CREWMEMBER LIST
Choose from this list when creating a character. Even if not a security personnel, like all good sci-fi tales, the other crewmembers might still end up fighting so they won't feel left out when we leave the ship. If a position doesn't say how many positions are available then it's only for a single character. If you have multiple characters they cannot occupy the same position and you cannot occupy more then one single position slot no matter how many characters you have, unless everyone has had sufficient time to take it. Also, please wait to see if others are joining before posting multiple characters across the board in other positions only allowing a certain number of character spots.
Captain: Ahn Vora (Reserved by me)
Flight Officer: (Responsible for navigation of ship. Can command pilots)
First Helmsman: (Pilot) (Reserved by Simple Unicycle)
Second Helmsman: (Co-pilot)
Executive Officer: Do'Rak (MonkeyBusiness)
Security Chief: (Works directly under the executive officer. Takes over their position when he or she is off duty. Following the combat strategy given, they focus more on the tactics to carry out the orders by commanding the field commanders)
Field Commander: Msalti "CG-145" (Nytefall)
(Each one personally commands a squad of security personnel, doing smaller scale orders to carry out instructions given by the security chief/executive officer. 2 positions remaining)
Security Personnel: Vordak (Lord Zee) (Takes part in the most action. Numerous positions available)
Gunner: Starla Stratos (CirusArvennicus) (Mans the turrets during space battles. 1 position remaining)
Fighter Pilot: Y00-17 "Metalhead" (FacePunch) (Can fly a spacefighter. 3 positions remaining)
Operations Officer: (Responsible for day-to-day operations of ship)
Head Chef: (In charge of food, preparing and ordering)
Chef: (2 positions available)
Sanitation Officer: Scree (Bainshie) (A janitor. 1 positions remaining)
Engineering Officer: (Responsible for repairs and ordering parts)
Engineer: (Works under the Engineering Officer. Can fix things that go wrong. 4 positions available)
Technology Officer: (Responsible for managing those working with the technological equipment)
Technician: (Works under the Technology Officer. Operates specific systems they specialize in such as engine room, weapons systems, etc. 4 positions remaining)
Communications Officer: (In charge of communication both outside and inside the ship)
Communication Technician: Mana Vil Mo-an (ImportantNobody)(Works under the Communication Officer to communicate information. 1 position remaining)
Lead Physician: (In charge of medical related matters and can operate) (Reserved by Nevix)
Medic: Niesha Dee'Shan (Caits) (Also called nurses. They aid the doctor or perform more simple healing on their own. 3 positions remaining)
Prisoner: Zhaelara (Kingfisher) (They hang out in the brig. Up to 4 positions available, 2 per cell)
Ally: (Not official crewmember but hangs out with the crew for whatever reason. Any number of characters allowed)
Civilian: (Doesn't take any normal actions of a crewmember. Any number of characters allowed)
Other: (Give suggestions)
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