A-Traveller

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All right, sorry for this happening so late, Xaxl, but I'm working my reply now.

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Kangaroo and Gowia have been accepted. You're both missing your history sections, but you have time to get those up. You're free to start posting.

@Rare, Terminal, VoiD, ASTA
Looking forward to seeing your works-in-progress completed. Let me know when you're done.

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@Xaxl and Sigma
If he's going to leave, let him leave.

@Freeshooter92
If you're leaving, you do not need to reply.

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Freeshooter92 said
Welp, I said huge, and FUCKHUEG is what I went for.The large blue sphere with the hazard line box is earth.Blue circles are 'Populi' worlds, planets that were 'glassed' from orbit to clear indigenous life to make way for enormous hab-complexes to stash lots and lots of people. The Terrans get most of their recruits from these worlds.Green circles are 'Agri' worlds, worlds designed entirely for farming, so that they may provide the fucktons of food this empire requires.Black and dark yellow boxes are mining worlds, ones that 'core' various rocks out for valuable materials, and double as industrial centers. Many worlds in many systems have been utterly destroyed, and many of these are actually in asteroid fields. Almost all imperial systems have some sort of industrial/mining operation, but the marked ones are the extremely important ones.While enormous, the Terran empire is spread extremely thin, and can only bring but fraction of its might to bear upon any foe, thus their original plan of rapid expansion has slowed down and is now focused almost entirely on securing current lands. Most of their armed forces are also currently employed on the internal zones as 'peacekeepers.'

The Imperium of Man is far too large of a faction for the scale of this roleplay. Advanced Interstellar should be no more than two dozen systems, give or take.

A-Traveller said Advanced Interstellar
Interstellar travel has become significantly cheaper, safer, and easier. Advanced Interstellar factions have many extrasolar colonies across around a dozen or more star systems, and new infrastructure is being built all the time. While they are fairly advanced, they are still mortals and lower ranked factions can still pose a threat to them, though they will be at a significant disadvantage.

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Xaxl said
It strikes me that theoretically the IoM territory could be a bit more acceptable if everyone else boosted how much territory *they* cover. Having a more cramped map where people actually share borders might be more interesting than all being isolated with lots of empty space; I just didn't want to make myself too big when I claimed my territory and I suspect I might have set the bar for what was "reasonable".

The size of the area you, Sigma, and Isotope took up was good for your respective holdings. Everyone else seems to have crammed their holdings together for a star every lightyear, if not more frequently.

I may have to ask everyone with highly dense factions to spread out, and move closer to the center of the map.

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Reviewing completed nation sheets.

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The map has been updated. Updated version is also in the first post.

Map

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For years, the fleet had been floating through hyperspace, running through the void between stars. Each research ship had entered hyperspace under their own power, cutting themselves off from one another for the duration of the trip, some decade or more in length. Friends, colleagues, and even young loves would be isolated, victims of the fleet's organizational procedures.

But it was an incredible privilege to be able to journey among the stars, something no Jhinga would forget in their lifetime. Each ship carried some hundreds of species, and thousands of genetic samples from even more. Sapience was rare among the stars, and the odds of any one of these lifeforms reaching space of their own will were astronomically unfavorable even if they did reach the level of wisdom required for civilization.

The trip was nearing its end, however. The Pilots felt it with the whole of their being, the system that was their destination. Several more months passed before they finally reached its edge, and slipped out of hyperspace. The ships did not arrive simultaneously or even very closely, arriving hours and days apart, and landing hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from each other's own landing sites. The first two research ships and their escorts arrived within hours of each other, and immediately set out towards the system's gas giant for refueling, and to wait for their kin.

Their nuclear torches burned bright in the void, and they exchanged radio communications carelessly. Within hours, they would realize the presence of a civilization in this system, but for now, they remained ignorant, blind and deaf to the obvious signs of a space worthy species.

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Freeshooter92 said
Where is Earth?

Earth is not marked on the map.

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@Xaxl
You are accepted.

RE: Map
The map will be updated tonight before I log off, and will include the positions of everyone who has posted their claims.

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Here's a simple hexmap. Just tell me what hexes you've claimed, either by posting the numbers or filling in the map yourself. Each hex will roughly represent a parsec, but not every hex has a star, so you may end up with some empty hexes as part of your territory. I'd recommend selecting which hexes have systems you control, first, and then connecting them with empty hexes.

Map

EDIT: You can open the image in a new tab for better zooming. Right-click.

When you finish your WIP nation sheet, remember to post or PM so I know to review and accept it.

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How many players would like a simple map to place their territory on, so they know who their neighbors are?