AlienBastard

From Stardust, To Stardust

ASTA, would you be interested in a crises between Ogeria and your guys over the accidental bombardment of a developing colony world or something like that? If not, what kind of situation would you see as a appropriate trouble? Planet claims gone amiss? A hostage crises?

Maybe we can have a diplomatic talk about it.

Empty Horizons - A Small Scale Sci-fi RP set 700 years into the future

Sigma said
WIP////// Faction////// Remains of Eastern United States, Southern Quebec, New Brunwick, Nova Scotia, the Cuban Isles, Lunar Territories. ///// Elective Monarchy///After the fall of the Atlantic Union, there came an Age of Warlords for North America, as the Supersate fell into total collapse, and for next fifty years, Chaos ruled, millions living in constant fear as countless wars waged between the Warlords, techno-barbarians roamed the lands, pillaging and razing all in their path, it was decades of hell. However, hope arose as the long hidden remnants of the NAU Military had emerged from the shadows, were on the warpath. (WIP)///

I'd like to see more info, the picture gallery of military personnel and vehicles fails to explain the concept of the faction to me and it seems that for the past couple weeks it's almost entirely what you've worked on. Sure they like war and are likely militaristic due to their origins, but I know nothing of their society like why they're a elective monarchy or how their culture has developed.

I am aware you app is a work in progress, but you need to progress your app in other areas outside of military before I can do any early acceptance.

Darkspleen said
///////Subject: Faction/////Government: Stratocracy////History:///Culture: The fleet boasts a culture that had a diverse origin; while always a “navy” culture, the various original members of the fleet brought with them their cultures from the various countries that made up the NAU, although Americans and Brazilians made up the bulk of the fleet’s personnel. Over the centuries these cultures blended together into what could be considered a homogenous blob. Honor, loyalty, science, efficiency, hard work, and equal opportunity are all core values of the fleet. Honor and loyalty are especially important to members of the fleet; in the past ‘honor duels’ had to be outlawed due to the alarming number of fatal injuries they had caused.//Military:/Technology:Other:

Everything is in check; while technology has no information the culture and military sections explain well enough what their tech is like and I am aware of the .1c propulsion which for your guys is fine due to their unique circumstances.

The only area that i'd like to see filled out more is their history section, however I know the basics of it through chatzy enough. However you probably should fill out the history section so other players know that some people from their fleet deserted while they were at Eridani around 2310 or so.

Accepted.

Rare said
Well, if I can join, I call from the '[Desert world]'!//////Name: Setekh./////Subject: Planet.////Location: Epsilon Eridani.///Geography: The planet has some craters, that are as large as 60 km and smaller than 10 km. Since Setekh has no oceans and hence no 'sea level', it is convenient to define an arbitrary zero-elevation level or "datum" for mapping the surface. The datum for Setekh is arbitrarily defined in terms of a constant atmospheric pressure. There is 610.5 Pa (6.105 mbar), on the basis that below this pressure liquid water can never be stable (i.e., the triple point of water is at this pressure). This value is only 0.6% of the pressure at sea level, which forms the zero elevation datum for our planet. Note that the choice of this value does not mean that liquid water does exist below this elevation, just that it could were the temperature to exceed 273.16 K.There is a dichotomy between the northern and southern hemispheres. Most of the northern hemisphere is flat, with few impact craters, and lies below the conventional ‘zero elevation’ level. In contrast, the southern hemisphere is mountains and highlands, mostly well above zero elevation. The two hemispheres differ in elevation by 1 to 3 km. One distinctive feature is the fretted terrain. It contains mesas, knobs, and flat-floored valleys having walls about a mile high. Around many of the mesas and knobs are lobate debris aprons that have been shown to be rock-covered glaciers. There is also large river valleys and outflow channels that cut through the dichotomy.The river valleys and outflow channels are empty of course, but this could lead that Setekh once had water. The idea of how Setekh got to the wasteland of where it's today is that, a large comet hit on the side of the planet, which caused it to move by a couple of feet. Which caused the planet to go dry faster and after the planet was empty of water, the sand began to form. //Atmosphere: The atmosphere of Setekh has around 96% carbon dioxide, 1.93% argon and 1.89% nitrogen along with traces of oxygen and water. The atmosphere is quite dusty, containing particulates about 1.5 µm in diameter which give the skies the light tan color when seen from the surface. The scale height of the atmosphere is about 10.8 km (6.7 mi) because the surface gravity of Setekh is only about 38%, an effect offset by both the lower temperature and 50% higher average molecular weight of the atmosphere. The solar wind interacts directly with the ionosphere, lowering the atmospheric density by stripping away atoms from the outer layer.Methane has been detected in the atmosphere of Setekh with a mole fraction of about 30 ppb; it occurs in extended plumes, and the profiles imply that the methane was released from discrete regions. In northern midsummer, the principal plume contained 19,000 metric tons of methane, with an estimated source strength of 0.6 kilogram per second. Volcanic activity, cometary impacts, and the Aasiths are among possible sources. Methane could also be produced by a non-biological process called serpentinization involving water, carbon dioxide, and the mineral olivine, which is known to be common on Setekh. It could come from a byproduct of electrical discharges from dust devils and dust storms or the result of UV radiation. Setekh also has a metal-poor core, generating a weak magnetic field and allowing more solar radiation into the atmosphere. /Fauna: [only if the world is valid for alien life]Other://////Name: Aasiths./////Subject: Intelligent Species.////Location: On the desert planet of Setekhin the Epsilon Eridani.///Physiology/Biology: Due to Setekh having a metal-poor core, generating a weak magnetic field and allowing more solar radiation into the atmosphere. To deal with this, they evolved some form of metallic "exoskeleton" to protect themselves. Their reflective plate-like skin makes them less susceptible to long-term, low-level radiation exposure, but they do not possess any sort of "natural armor". Their blood has a dark blue colouration because of that. It was differcult from the Aasiths to devolpe a nose or the ability to smell, so their eye sight got better. The lower class (the poor and homeless) had to lived in the surface because of that, their eye sights are better than the Aasiths living underground.//Psychology: /Technological limitsOther:

Too WIP to accept for now; however the properties of the planet you have will be official.

The desert world is now named Setekh!

NewSun said
I'm just going to drop this (at the moment) very basic framework of the sheets I intend to complete over the next few days. Very WIp right now, but its just so I can see my progress as I update it://///Name: Hell////Subject: Planet///Location: Alpha Centurai//Geography: The closest planet to Alpha Centauri, at a temperature of 1200 degrees celsius and an orbital period of four days. Despite being only slightly larger than earth, the planet is completely hostile to human life. The planet’s atmosphere is being constantly flayed by the star it orbits, there is no solid surface other than lava and the radiation levels are extreme. However, the cold side of the tidally locked planet is the perfect temperature for the formation and support of an ingenious rock superstructure that spans for tens of miles in every direction; even tens of metres below the surface lava layer of the planet. This strange structure, colloquially known as ‘Limbo,' is said to be home to the elusive and fearsome ‘Berith's Hellions’ rebel group, granting them shelter within it’s massive span of caves that provide vital protection from the inhospitable elements above. /////Name: Elysium////Subject: Planet///Location: Alpha Centurai//Geography: Elysium is Alpha Centurai's Water World. The entire surface is covered an a single super-ocean that reaches a maximum depth of 236km, far exceeding the depth of the oceans of Earth. There is very little solid ground to speak of, any that exists are simply the result of mantle anomalies that cause jagged and jutting icebergs to protrude from the water surface, from the exotic ice mantle itself. These icebergs can reach many hundreds of metres above the surface, but are too steep, small, and rough for any Human habitation. /Fauna: Elysium is number to a multitude of bizarre and unusual creatures. The majority of these are ocean-dwelling organisms, though some airborne creatures exist, using Elysium's jutting ice structures as nesting grounds and places of respite. Some of these strange animals include: or 'Sheet-Feeders' are small, nearly microscopic creatures that have spheroid bodies and a ring of nine, short tendrils circling their bodies. They have, strangely, two mouth-like cavities lined with a set of hundreds of tiny grasping mandibles. These mouths can be found on either side of the tendril line that crosses the Sheet-Feeder body. These creatures display an unusual behaviour when large quantities come together: they align themselves and grasp on to the tendrils of their neighbours with their own; this happens in massive numbers, the result being a huge sheet of tiny creatures that filter the water for particles of nutrients. /Atmosphere: Largely CO2, O and H20 Vapour. Trace amounts of other gasses. Other:///////Name: HEAVEN (Holy Ecclesiarchy And Venerable Elysian Nobility)//////Subject: Faction/////Location: Elysium////Government: Ecclesiarchal Dictatorship///History: The nation of HEAVEN is a relatively new establishment, though the current leadership caste often insists that HEAVEN is eternal, and has always been. The original voyage to Alpha Centurai saw the foundation of a very different nation upon Elysium, one that was constructed entirely upon floating, domed cities that drifted on the currents of the planet; the name of this precursor nation has since been eradicated (or lost, as the nobility caste of HEAVEN will convince you). It is generally accepted that the original colonies of Elysium were led by a man named Harlan Egris, a designated colony leader and an integral part of the NAU's extrasolar colonisation committee. The colonies were run through a mostly democratic system (with an advisory council for good measure) with a huge focus on education and research; and excelled in their designation for a time. The Solar War, however, radically changed the fate of Elysium: when contact with Sol was lost, one of the upper advisory council families began to accuse Egris of being an abomination and a spiritual threat to the people of Elysium. At first, the wild accusations were given little credit, but as they persisted, they gained popularity and credibility within the colonies of Elysium. The rumours concluded with a short but violent coup de'tat. Egris was executed, as was his advisory council on charges of Heresy and Crimes Ggainst God, and the Elohim family took full control of Elysium and it's colonies with the full support of it's populace. They established themselves quickly as eternal rulers of the planet, declared themselves Gods among mortals and founded the extant nation of HEAVEN in place of the colonies. //Culture: How an individual is treated and how he acts in HEAVEN is entirely dictated by their place in the hierarchy: the majority of the civilians fall into the lowest class, and they are widely regarded by other nations within Alpha Centurai and Sol as an oppressed populace, though they are often blissfully unaware of it themselves. They are convinced that they must work tirelessly for their masters in order to gain access to an arbitrary 'Promised Land' upon death. HEAVEN is presented as a utopian society, supposedly with no crime and with art in abundance; the sad reality is that all criminals are brutally executed without trial and Elysium 'art' is mostly imported from other cultures secretly, giving the oppressed populace the illusion of freedom.The upper caste of HEAVEN, however, lead far different lives. They engage in hedonism copiously, and you can often ring them atop their personal silver spires in the cities, hosting orgies and drinking themselves to blackout on the finest wines, taking part in frighteningly sadistic activities and ritual killings. Their self-indulgence knows nearly no limits; they never have to work as all of their needs are met by the lower caste who work themselves to death for no pay, simply because they are misguided by those who claim to guide them. While the Elysium colonies before the onset of HEAVEN were domed, the new leadership has seen a few drastic changes to this paradigm. The domes have since been removed, and the populace have been forcibly (often at great pain and expense) modified to be capable of filtering oxygen through the thick, steamy atmosphere. The city of Eden has also been recently constructed, serving as the pride and joy of the Elohim family. /Technology: Teachnology of Elysium has always had it's roots in art and aesthetic. It is less functional, but more designed to impress and convert. military technology focuses on intricate armours and ostentatious laser weaponry. These assets do little in practice, but HEAVEN knows that to win a battle, the enemy simply needs to believe that you are capable of more than you are. Other://///Name: Berith’s Hellions////Subject: Organization///Location: Hell//History: The Hellions are a shady, dangerous, and outright frightening group of rebels and defectors from the society of HEAVEN. Most have roots in the lower caste, but a select few broke away from the upper caste, disgusted by the lives they were choosing to live. Stories tell of warriors as fierce as demons descending from the sky, borne of Hell itself, to wreak havoc upon their brethren in Elysium. The truth is, however, that the Hellions are simply advocates of freedom; a group composed of those who see past the oppression of HEAVEN and are willing to do anything to push past the veil that it has so cleverly placed upon itself. The Hellions were formed and are still led by one Berith Hellrunner (by birth ), the child of Harlan Egris, the leader of the original colonies of Elysium. After his execution by the deposing forces of HEAVEN, he and his mother fled off-world in search of sanctuary, but could find none within reasonable distance of Elysium. For a time they seemed doomed to die alone, drifting between planets of Centurai; it was only by sheer luck that in a last ditch effort, scans of the cold side of Hell revealed an igneous superstructure that seemed suitable for habitation, albeit barely. Other fleeting supporters of the Egris family soon tracked and discovered the frightened mother and child in the structure now known as Limbo and made it their goal to set up a suitable sanctuary within. This base of operations becomes home to the Hellions years after, when Berith was old enough to fend for himself. It is said that every year, the Hellions descend to Elysium to pull away worthy individuals from the oppressive society of HEAVEN to join their ranks. Nobody really knows if this is myth, or hold some credit, however... /Information:Other://///Name: Eden////Subject: City///Location: Elysium//History:/Information:Other://///Name: Limbo////Subject: City///Location: Hell//History:/Information:Other://///Name: The Burning Ones////Subject: Organization///Location: Elysium//History:/Information:Other://///Name: Berith Hellrunner////Subject: Character///Location: Limbo / Hell//Appearance:/Biography:Other://///Name: Aamos Sonnellion ////Subject: Character///Location: Limbo / Hell//Appearance:/Biography:Other://///Name: Arkiel Elohim////Subject: Character///Location: Elysium / Eden//Appearance:/Biography:Other://///Name: Koriel Elohim////Subject: Character///Location: Elysium / Eden//Appearance:/Biography:Other://///Name: Uriel the Watcher////Subject: Character///Location: Eden / Elysium//Appearance:/Biography:Other:.

While you have many unfilled out sheets for organizations and characters, the baseline factions and worlds are enough information to start IC with; accepted.

Also the water world is officially named Esylium now.

Monkeypants said
WIPLocation:: The moons of Jupiter and SaturnGovernment:: Military AuthoritarianHistory:: The Jovian league draws its roots from early colonization efforts of old earth. As colonies began to spring up through the moons, earth began calling for resources to sustain itself. At first the Jovians were more than happy as they were just a colony of their home world, earth. As time went on an they became more and more abused, a sort of national pride kicked in and they began a bid for independence. Families of the miners of Jupiter and Saturn began leaving earth which bolstered numbers and the ships they brought seemed to bolster the Jovians resolve. The taxation of heavy metals and gasses began towards earth did not help the situation on earth. When the Solar war began, the CCZ arrived in large numbers to take over the resource rich moons and machinery that at the time, has been untouched by the war. They were somewhat well received as the Jovians felt like they had some security. The GIU would tear that security down in a heart beat as they arrived in force, causing fighting right in the Jovians living room. As the two fought it out, various colonies were occupied by marines from both sides until the third earth faction arrived. An NAU fleet arrived and for a while, they fought it out but as they began to tire, the Jovians made a move on the occupied colonies, from within. It was luck that the colonies weren't bombed from orbit as they began liberating the worlds, the fleets started receiving word of earths fall and that their war was over and a cease fire was created. The Jovians were now in the middle of a culture war as the earth forces began merging peacefully in to the colonies they once occupied militarily. At first it was harsh and people didn't trust one another but after two hundred years, the old wounds had healed as the old generations died out. There would still be some finger pointing to this day and the occasional extremist would raise their voice but one thing would always arrive to snuff it out, the Jovian military. Made up of all factions, the military grew into a juggernaut with a sole purpose of not allowing another solar war to ravage the only home these men and women have. Numerous rulers have come and gone but none have ever been allowed to lead without the backing of the military. Some colony leaders have lasted mere days before vanishing or being publicly executed to be sure people to understand how serious they are about their mission, to protect the Jovian LeagueCulture: Various cultures have taken root in the nation that are traced directly to the old super nations of earth. One dominant belief is shared through them though, the defense of the league itself. There is no one religion that shapes any ideology or any one figurehead that is revered as a grand leader of old. There is an criminal culture that has formed in the bowels of the nation that has formed everything from black market weapons dealers to mere gangs that fight for food.Military:Technology:Other:====================================================================================================Subject:: PlanetLocation:: JupiterGeography:: Old craters now filled with green fields with settlements dotting the surface. both small and large canyons stretch for miles with cities built into the more shallow and wider ones. Atmosphere:: Only two seasons, Fall and Winter due to the lower natural temperatures of the world. Fauna: Imported and genetically modified earth plant lifeOther:: Orbiting the planet is a decent number of orbital facilities ranging from orbital habitats and long range sensor satellites to massive shipyards both military and civilian. Name:: New Galileo Subject:: Capitol CityLocation:: Along the technical equator of Ganymede.Population:: 220,000 estCulture:: The heart of the Jovian League is a mix of most cultures that exist in the League itself with many earth influences as well. Much of the culture can be seen in its building styles that vary from race to race. The city itself is very calm and reserved as the police patrol it heavily. This place is one of the few Idyllic places in the League.Other:Being the Capitol of the Jovian League and named after the man who first discovered the planet, the city is an impressive display of craftsmanship. Large pillars line streets with ornate crafted lamps. Huge sky scrapers and massive arrays of mass transit systems define this city as one of the biggest in the League. The city is built in a circular pattern with an underground city that supports it. Huge underground power stations fuel the busy world above it. The Capitol building itself is underground for protection./////Name:////Subject: Character///Location://Appearance:/Biography:Other:====================================================================================================Subject:: PlanetLocation:: SaturnGeography:: Numerous plains flanked by light mountains. Craters and chasms are sporadic throughout the surface.Atmosphere:: Comfortable open atmosphere, year round fall season. rain is common.Fauna:: Imported and genetically adapted earth plant life.Other: The Capitol of the Saturn area in the Jovian League. The world is full of open colonies and its underground facilities aren't even half as big as the ones on Ganymede. The reason for this is that the world had many domed colonies at the point of Terra-forming. The world has few, but heavily populated large cities that are partially underground. The buildings are close together and have massive enclosed foot bridges from building to building. Mag lev trains move throughout the city on a very complex rail system that has become more and more crowded as the cities slowly expand. Few settlements exist outside the major cities but usually have less than two hundred colonists, making these settlements nothing more than a footnote. Name:: KarstownSubject:: Capitol CityLocation:: TethysCulture:: Karstown is a heavily populated city but the majority is Ethnic NAU descendants. Other: The Karstown settlement was established shortly after the solar war ended and the League was in its infancy. The NAU portion of the fleet spearheaded forming a more NAU affiliated colony and at the time the man the colony was named for, Randy Karson, was one of the proponents of a more unified nation. His desire to tear down those barriers was so strong that he ordered families to be spread throughout the league to every world to promote unity so that the original ideology that formed the nation in the first place, to never be conquered or destroyed, would require no interior racial hatred. To this day, the planet is still more ethnic NAU than any other race.====================================================================================================/////Subject: Planet////Location:///Geography://Atmosphere:/Fauna: [only if the world is valid for alien life]Other:====================================================================================================/////Subject: Planet////Location:///Geography://Atmosphere:/Fauna: [only if the world is valid for alien life]Other:====================================================================================================/////Subject: Planet////Location:///Geography://Atmosphere:/Fauna: [only if the world is valid for alien life]Other:

While currently your lore is incomplete, especially in regards to military and tech [I know some bits about their capabilities from what I gleamed off the app sheet and what I know from OOC, however] you're accepted.

The population count of the city you have seems a bit small; feel free to up the numbers to a couple million if you want.

And as a note, feel free to make the plants any color you like; Isotope's genetic engineering of plants has opened the door for more radical modification of plant life. Not to mention already today there's plants that glow in the dark.

Sutternalt said
[Complete]~~~~~~~~~ Watson Faction/Artificial Intelligence Tyre, Earth, Sol; [Triton, Neptune, Sol] <either nonexistent or only the groundworks of a construction project Watson is in direct control of all its agents. They are just extensions of itself, like limbs are to you and I. Watson is a series of servers and at least a miles' worth of network cabling. Watson also stores routines in its drones, as well as in data center spaces that it rents from local governments under a shell corporation, "Watson Data Industries". Any forces Watson has are defensive in nature. These mainly consist of a few land, air, and sea drones near Tyre. There is also a micro-satellite parked in geostationary orbit above Tyre. In the bunker itself, there are lethal laser and machinegun turrets, explosive traps, and blast doors. Most of its technological innovation is in the digital medium. Most of that is just Watson's day-to-day processing of information. While Watson has a small fleet of unmanned vehicles, they aren't quite enough for complete independence - Watson sees humanity's infrastructure as sufficient and more economical for most of its purposes. On top of that, its drones swing from making incredibly elegant decisions one moment to making incredibly basic mistakes the next. Usually these mistakes are a result of unaccounted-for external variables that Watson can't react to in time.The other main technological innovation that Watson has are the advanced PDA's that he distributes to his human agents. The PDA's have powerful communications antennaes, many digital, audio, visual, and chemical sensors, and have been locally adapted for power and data ports. They are Watson's eyes, ears, and mouth.

Accepted; the AI is made in a way that's not ridiculous or post-singularity and everything checks out.

Maxim said
Here's my WIP Nation:////////Name: The Dawn Republic (also known as the Republic of the Dawn)///////Subject: Faction//////Location: Titan Like world within the Luhman System, named Yumia/////Government: Elective Republic. Each of the 19 colonies sends a representative to the Council, then all 19 vote on a single Emperor. Despite the name, the Emperor has less political power, only being able to break ties (abstaining from a vote is possible, though discouraged), and lead the military.////History: Bullet points for now. History not final.///Culture: WIP//Military: /Technology: WIPOther: WIP

The ships seem a bit advanced in design; although this may due to the deisgn more than actual advancement.

We can work out the details on the history later, since the attacking of the palace will have fun consequences that I need to think through. However the titan-like's name I am going to modify a bit if it's okay with you. [Yumogesi is my proposed name]

Will wait before accepting since your app is still too WIP to accept.

TachyonBlade said
The images will be organized soon. I don't really care too much for the images

Looks good to me, although the early accounts of the history seem a bit dubious with the any weapon aspect; genetic modification has advantages, but a guy with a rifle is going to take down a super human who is bare handed unless the weapons used were like, swords or something.

Other that that, accepted.

Williwiw said
Faction Mistery shrouds the Hansa Cartel, as much as it did with now disappeared Futokai Society. However, this Organization model stablished a complex etiquette as a neutral ground for interactig with the very diferent backgrounds of the Cartel agents. Some of the cartel highest directives are great collectionists and philantropists, and that seems to be a value greatly appreciated in the Cartel elites. Honesty, loyalty, dedication, cooperation, intelligence, and subtleness.Many subgroups included in the Cartel have very peculiar cultural perks, that are, however, not relevant to the executive funcions of the Hansa Cartel. The Cartel forces are not an army. Instead, they control an heterogeneus group of gang members, terrorist cells, paramilitar groups and spy and saboteur agents. Unoficially, the Cartel operates a large fleet, composed mainly of small fast vessels., utility and industrial civilian ships as well as some big cargo ships,EDIT: TYPOS,TYPOS EVERYWHERE

Seems fine to me outside the warp gate control; of which I mentioned earlier.

Just mind the internal consistency principle; other players can use similar tech if they choose to do so.

Other than that, semi-accepted; i'll wait until the warp gate control aspect is taken out. Uranus being used as a spot of activity is okay by me.

Apollo26 said
Name: The Navitas or simply Navitas Government: OligarchyThree Ruling Members; Rostov Vasieli, Gerrard Halcroix, Anil ChandaHistory: Following suit with the rest of the solar system, the Neptune colonies declared independence shortly after Mars. This declaration went largely unnoticed however due to the other conflicts closer to earth, leaving Neptune out of the loop. The Neptune colonies weren’t completely spared from the violence however. Large Naval battles were fought around the planets and large scale land campaigns were fought over control of its moon colonies. The conquest of Triton by Chinese forces left the colonies on that small moon obliterated and littered with destroyed military hardware. While the numerous naval battles around the ice giant itself have left hundreds of destroyed ship carcasses in orbit around the planet . Although the battles around the ice giant were very bloody the colonies in the planets atmosphere remained mostly intact and unscathed. This allowed for a new government to be adopted quickly and without much distraction. Three major national groups make up the majority of the colonies: The Russians, French and Indians. These three groups formed an oligarchy and have one representative from each national group that come together to debate laws and make policy. This relationship has been a friendly one, Russian and French paramilitary along side indian military troops defended indian installations on the triton and participated in naval battles above the planet. The combined military of Neptune was nearly decimated however and for defense the planet now relies on paramilitary groups to act as both the police and military for the new Navitas colonies.Society: Navitas is largely “sea-faring” community, the colonies floating in the atmosphere use ships for everyday use. Every family, man, woman and sometimes child have their own personal ships to get around in. There is a high level of travel everyday between the different structures making the colony as a whole extremely well-connected. Navitas citizens see each other as close friends and it is common to to know someone where ever you go in the colony. The three cultures have mixed almost seamlessly, music, cuisine and dance have been converted into a fusion of the three. Because of the unbreathable and downright hostile atmosphere, living is done in large ultra resistant structures. These structures are usually domed shape and sport many different radial smiler domes. More often then not, there are collections of domes connected via large bridges and “highways” for quick and easy travel. There are living domes floating in the high to mid troposphere to combat the pressure and temperatures from the planet below . Atmospheric domes use repulsor magnets that allow the dome to stay floating in place, while air intakes convert the constant gale force winds into energy through turbines. Due to the high hydrogen content in the atmosphere using combustion based propulsion on planet is strictly forbidden, citizens get around using sails an archaic but effective method. Because of the high winds sails can be used to attain blinding speeds and transfer people and goods around neptune very quickly. In the living domes in the high troposphere personal travel is hazardous because of the increased wind speed, only a very select few human pilots can maintain control of their crafts at this speed. Most of the piloting and navigation is done by computers and is human assisted, but a large number of personal craft are still completely human piloted and seen as sport craft. A number of orbital stations serve as trading hubs for bringing supplies down to the planet and point of entry for foreigners. Navigating the hazy expanses of neptune without the proper know how or navigation charts can be deadly. All foreign ships must dock at these stations and travel down to the planet by way of the space elevator, rental sails are available for a price once in atmosphere. Entertainment: Sport is an important part of Navitas culture, sport is the only thing that Navitas citizens come to odds with. Sailing, Football ( Soccer), Basketball, Baseball……most of the earth based sports have been retained in Navitas. Betting is common and each living dome usually has its own sports team. There are also clubs and bars all over the different living domes.Technology: Blue Water Propulsion and Ballistics The company was founded on the Neptune colonies and specializes in advanced propulsion and weapon systems, because of the need for non-combustion propulsion.Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters: is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion which uses the Lorentz force, the force on a charged particle by an electromagnetic field to generate thrust. Currently in the late research and close the development phase. Magnetic Acceleration weapons: Using causeless tungsten rounds, rounds are magnetically propelled at blinding speeds, aiming more for penetration and stopping power. This method requires no combustion, rounds are electrically propelled with minimal heat gain. Repulsor Magnets: These are constantly in a state of research, due to the need for a more energy efficient method to keep living domes in the air. The repusor uses a polarity opposite to the planets magnetic field to keep the domes in the air.Military: Due to the lack of a colony wide military force, the government has allowed paramilitary groups to become both the police force and military for Navitas. The groups must adhere to stringent conditions and regulations before being recognized as a paramilitary group. These regulations are in place so that one group does not try and overthrow the government through force ( Although, what citizen of Navitas would want to do that?). Each group trains and ultimately funds itself and members, as a result each paramilitary organization has a different standard of training. These groups do receive hardware and some funding from the government but are mostly self contained.Notable Paramilitary groups:Navitas Defense force ( Police trained)Second Sons ( regulars)Abakumov and Gupta Special Solutions Group (Specialty Trained shock force)Navy: Usually re-purposed civilian ships fitted with weapons ( Auto-cannons, Missiles, large caliber cannons). The Navy consists of privateer vessels of varying classes, any civilian captain who wishes to serve is given his pick of weapons for his vessel.

Apollo26 said
Name: The Navitas or simply Navitas Government: OligarchyThree Ruling Members; Rostov Vasieli, Gerrard Halcroix, Anil ChandaHistory: Following suit with the rest of the solar system, the Neptune colonies declared independence shortly after Mars. This declaration went largely unnoticed however due to the other conflicts closer to earth, leaving Neptune out of the loop. The Neptune colonies weren’t completely spared from the violence however. Large Naval battles were fought around the planets and large scale land campaigns were fought over control of its moon colonies. The conquest of Triton by Chinese forces left the colonies on that small moon obliterated and littered with destroyed military hardware. While the numerous naval battles around the ice giant itself have left hundreds of destroyed ship carcasses in orbit around the planet . Although the battles around the ice giant were very bloody the colonies in the planets atmosphere remained mostly intact and unscathed. This allowed for a new government to be adopted quickly and without much distraction. Three major national groups make up the majority of the colonies: The Russians, French and Indians. These three groups formed an oligarchy and have one representative from each national group that come together to debate laws and make policy. This relationship has been a friendly one, Russian and French paramilitary along side indian military troops defended indian installations on the triton and participated in naval battles above the planet. The combined military of Neptune was nearly decimated however and for defense the planet now relies on paramilitary groups to act as both the police and military for the new Navitas colonies.Society: Navitas is largely “sea-faring” community, the colonies floating in the atmosphere use ships for everyday use. Every family, man, woman and sometimes child have their own personal ships to get around in. There is a high level of travel everyday between the different structures making the colony as a whole extremely well-connected. Navitas citizens see each other as close friends and it is common to to know someone where ever you go in the colony. The three cultures have mixed almost seamlessly, music, cuisine and dance have been converted into a fusion of the three. Because of the unbreathable and downright hostile atmosphere, living is done in large ultra resistant structures. These structures are usually domed shape and sport many different radial smiler domes. More often then not, there are collections of domes connected via large bridges and “highways” for quick and easy travel. There are living domes floating in the high to mid troposphere to combat the pressure and temperatures from the planet below . Atmospheric domes use repulsor magnets that allow the dome to stay floating in place, while air intakes convert the constant gale force winds into energy through turbines. Due to the high hydrogen content in the atmosphere using combustion based propulsion on planet is strictly forbidden, citizens get around using sails an archaic but effective method. Because of the high winds sails can be used to attain blinding speeds and transfer people and goods around neptune very quickly. In the living domes in the high troposphere personal travel is hazardous because of the increased wind speed, only a very select few human pilots can maintain control of their crafts at this speed. Most of the piloting and navigation is done by computers and is human assisted, but a large number of personal craft are still completely human piloted and seen as sport craft. A number of orbital stations serve as trading hubs for bringing supplies down to the planet and point of entry for foreigners. Navigating the hazy expanses of neptune without the proper know how or navigation charts can be deadly. All foreign ships must dock at these stations and travel down to the planet by way of the space elevator, rental sails are available for a price once in atmosphere. Entertainment: Sport is an important part of Navitas culture, sport is the only thing that Navitas citizens come to odds with. Sailing, Football ( Soccer), Basketball, Baseball……most of the earth based sports have been retained in Navitas. Betting is common and each living dome usually has its own sports team. There are also clubs and bars all over the different living domes.Technology: Blue Water Propulsion and Ballistics The company was founded on the Neptune colonies and specializes in advanced propulsion and weapon systems, because of the need for non-combustion propulsion.Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters: is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion which uses the Lorentz force, the force on a charged particle by an electromagnetic field to generate thrust. Currently in the late research and close the development phase. Magnetic Acceleration weapons: Using causeless tungsten rounds, rounds are magnetically propelled at blinding speeds, aiming more for penetration and stopping power. This method requires no combustion, rounds are electrically propelled with minimal heat gain. Repulsor Magnets: These are constantly in a state of research, due to the need for a more energy efficient method to keep living domes in the air. The repusor uses a polarity opposite to the planets magnetic field to keep the domes in the air.Military: Due to the lack of a colony wide military force, the government has allowed paramilitary groups to become both the police force and military for Navitas. The groups must adhere to stringent conditions and regulations before being recognized as a paramilitary group. These regulations are in place so that one group does not try and overthrow the government through force ( Although, what citizen of Navitas would want to do that?). Each group trains and ultimately funds itself and members, as a result each paramilitary organization has a different standard of training. These groups do receive hardware and some funding from the government but are mostly self contained.Notable Paramilitary groups:Navitas Defense force ( Police trained)Second Sons ( regulars)Abakumov and Gupta Special Solutions Group (Specialty Trained shock force)Navy: Usually re-purposed civilian ships fitted with weapons ( Auto-cannons, Missiles, large caliber cannons). The Navy consists of privateer vessels of varying classes, any civilian captain who wishes to serve is given his pick of weapons for his vessel.

A faction on a gas giant- who would've expected that?

Accepted; however this means now that repulser magnets can be used by other players on other gas giants; but they must have gravity similar to earth's in order to work right.

Commodore Robot said
This is just my initial thing. The history still feels kinda bad to me, I'm probably going to re-write it at some point but the gist of it will remain the same. I'm probably gonna go more in-depth with some stuff but that's all TBD. I'll fluff out the government some more in its own log post. But its late, I'm tired, here goes nothin. ////////Name: Vesta Free State///////Subject: Faction//////Location:Vesta and Pallas Family Asteroids, several resource asteroids and space stations; Main Belt; Solar system/////Government: Limited Franchise Federal Republic////History: The Vesta Free State was originally a small group within the Belt State in the early days who were critical of the former's actions. Not wanting to follow the same path as the Belt State they hoped to break away while the Solar War was still young and avoid serious harm. Unfortunately the conflict escalated before they had a chance. By the time the dust settled the solar system was in shambles, including the Belt State. Finally seeing their chance they people of Vesta broke away from the Belt State and formed their own nation. Having come out surprisingly intact from the war Vesta found itself in a powerful position in the Belt and quickly absorbed the other asteroids in the Vesta family into its growing sphere of influence. Less than a decade later Peacekeepers from Vesta were fighting to restore order to the chaos riddled corridors of Pallas and in doing so forged a binding alliance between the second and third largest objects in the asteroid belt. Attempts to take Ceres, and with it control of the seat of power of the Belt State, were shut down when the Belt State recovered faster than expected. The Vesta Free State decided not to risk war with resources as thin as they were at the time and simply moved to consolidate its power base at home. Using its rich resource base the VFS quickly began rebuilding its infrastructure in order to assert its independence against would-be invaders.///Culture: The people of the Vesta Free State are a fiercely nationalistic and precision oriented people. They see themselves as genuine proof of the Belter ideal unlike the Belt State who they have come to consider Insular and foolish; too busy plotting revenge against Mars to truly thrive on their own and reach prosperity. They do not find mars to be truly to blame for the chaos in the belt anymore than fire is responsible for burning down one's house instead of the person who started the fire. They instead view what they consider "the old order" to be responsible for the chaos of the Solar War and have great disdain for those remnants of the former power blocks: Belt State and Venus included. They have managed to retain the obsessive attention to detail that kept early colonists alive in an environment where minor oversights killed. The VFS also has a pronounced futurist bent, always seeking the bleeding edge in efforts to bring about true prosperity. It is a common practice among Vesta citizens to alter their children's genome in the womb to get certain desired traits. While this is a widespread phenomena its not a societal requirement nor is it particularly encouraged.//Military:The military of the Vesta Free State is primarily based around its strong fleet which is essential to defending the wide area of the asteroid belt from invaders or privateers seeking to muscle in on VFS holdings. Being a predominantly space based power their ground forces are not very extensive and lack much in the way of indirect fire artillery or heavy armor. Even with artificial spin the gravity on Vesta and Pallas are lower than that of earth and many other worlds, to account for this most of their forces make use of powered armor to lower the strain on the soldier. The Military of the VFS Is divided between Vesta Fleet Command which oversees the spaceborne units of the military, and Vesta Fleet Strike which covers all ground based operations.

A break way state of the belt state. Belt state ain't going to like this one.

I suspect there probably has been some unpleasant conflicts in the intervening time.

Accepted as I feel the military and culture gave good info on the technology.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

When it comes to NRPs I generally use the whole faction/nation building aspect mainly as a tool to have players collaboratively world build within the story since I found that when you make a world you're spending a lot of time for something many people probably won't even read half of. Not to mention good luck getting anyone to play a alien race that isn't their own.

Empty Horizons - A Small Scale Sci-fi RP set 700 years into the future

-Oh how frustrating it is when you think someone's replied when all that's been going on is a double post-

Empty Horizons - A Small Scale Sci-fi RP set 700 years into the future

Feel free to have infrastructure on uranus; floating habitats/gas mines on gas giants is fine by me.

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I finished my app.

Os

Name of nation: The Big Horde of Communal Federal Unions and Democratic Republics of Oger. [Also simply known as Ogeria]
Species: Os and minority races from other civilizations



Artistic representation of a O and its ever edible child.

The Os are a species of spherical entities who lack any limbs, instead using telekinesis to manipulate objects and the environment around them and have no eyes or visible mouth; instead relying on radiative sense [whatever that means] to know where everyone is. They tend to look like large balls of raw flesh, however some ethnicities look a little better cooked, a couple look plain well done. The Os speak by making long, drawn out low tonal noises that can remind one of the noise made by electric bass or of someone saying "oh". They have never bothered to learn anyone else's language or even use a translator, instead desiring to just use their native language as a means of communication with the only real way to work with them being to simply infer what they are trying to say.

The Os reproduce by metamorphoses and consume food much like a single celled organism does. Their properties however limit them to moving like a ball can, however due to the amount of space opened by being a spherical body the Os have managed to become incredible good psychics and despite no one understand a word an O says, the O understands everyone else perfectly fine. There is some Os who are said to be able to read minds and usually shout in protest of insulting things they hear, but due to the self-imposed language barrier all one ever hears is a intense "OOOOH!" when it comes to matters like this.

The magical capabilities of the Os can get greater and greater depending on how many Os are stuffed into a small space, and due to their design quite a few can be stuffed into a space area like cargo. While Os need to eat [and often will cannibalize each other when lacking any other food sources] and need to be energized to keep their magic potent the more Os you have in a small area, the more extreme their magical powers get. Hence, they can collectively fly spaceships using just their minds.

Os psychologically due to their telepathy can communalize at will when the need exists, and it is this ability to communalize that allows them to fly their spaceships and use their technology overall. As a result a legion of Os can cause weapons of the enemy to misfire or jam if they are close enough and cause missiles to go in other directions. When there is only a few Os, they often will resort to using weapons that have internal firing mechanisms however.

Os on their diet often have blood, algae and fruit juice, sodas of varying source; as well as various kinds of hard drinks that tend to be consumed as much as any other food. Overall Os like to drink liquids or anything that they can absorb much like a sentient sponge. Caffeine is very important for Os to work, and they are constantly bathing themselves in soda imported from other alien societies or vassals along with sodas of their own design they can't export due to how awful it tastes to everyone else.

Description of government: Their governmental system is a very complicated hierarchal bureaucracy whose form of government keeps changing depending on the level of government one is at. For instance one layer of government is totally democratic, while another is a totalitarian police state. The government comes as the result of Os being psychologically unable to commit to one form of government like the less sane species. Instead, the Os just use whatever government they feel like using and the system is any system that the individual has subscribed to for the time being.

Their government however manages to be heavily centralized and is often compared to a federation while being more like a meritocracy with some totalitarian police state and technocracy sprinkled in with a quite a bit of socialism and capitalism depending on the government their citizens subscribe to.

Description of military: The military of the Os in space is made of almost completely spherical ships, which has allowed them to fill their ships to the brim with their kind. In doing so, their ships are completely ran by the magical energies of the Os within, who are very well fed and energized before taking flight and large reserves of food are kept inside just encase a trip goes too long. There is not really any concept of ship classification in O society, instead there are bigger spheres and smaller spheres with no actual specialization instead taking whatever combat role best suited for the time being. Often these ships will trail asteroids , space junk and comets in a ring around the sphere that is used to fling kinetic attacks at their enemies through acceleration their projectiles around the sphere and guiding them into the enemy. On the defensive their ships use energy barriers generated by the magical powers of the Os inside. They also tend to take control of missiles and fling back them at their enemy instead of simply intercepting them. The bigger the ship the more power they have and the larger energy threshold the craft has before enough projectiles cause the ship to break under pressure.

More advanced designs in recent use have included ships that can sense objects in other planes of existence, and be able to see a ship en route using FTL coming should the ship be activated. However they lack any means to intercept anyone in-warp; only be able to evade and react for when the enemy ship leaves warp space.

Technological Overview: The Os technologically have not much diversity, and have much technology they reverse engineered from their rather abusive engineer forefathers.

Among these technologies is the amplifier, a technology used to amplify telekinetic powers that is used in place of a engine on spaceships and also used on some O worlds as a means of transporting cargo and building large sky scrapers that tend to be like cubes as opposed to the rectangular prisms typically associated with skyscapers in other civilizations. Another example of tech would be their wheel ways- long winding tube-like structures that transport Os throughout their space stations and worlds. Thanks to the roll ways, there has been no practical application for cars. However, other vehicles like large radially symmetrical tanks that look like a large bottle cap that make use of magical acceleration devices [or MADs].

MADs are used on any combat vehicles be it the walkers or high flying planes. Their purpose is dual application; in being a field that causes objects to rapidly move away from the object with the device MADs have in many different designs been used for launching cargo into space, deflecting asteroids and other hostile projectiles and launching projectiles of their own at the enemy. Yet MADs, like amplifiers are limited to the amount of magical energy Os innately have; and the defense system is not perfect. For one plasma weapons can only be evaded by Os; they have no means to manipulate plasma yet.

One of the most important devices for the Os are the energizers, a battery-like device that

Cultural Overview: The Oger as a civilization is a very old, decadent one. Very often you'll find Os rolling up on each other in the streets, crime happens because Osec forces think it is funny to watch their fellow citizens get stabbed by a particularly angry O, and there have been many accounts of Os selling themselves in interstellar markets as pets for other civilizations; there being indirect purposes for this.

Os tend to enjoy diplomacy, preferring to react more than act in public cables while often being entertainers or specialized workers in societies where Os are acceptable.

Internally there is not much strife due to the military of the Os keeping their weapons aimed on civilians as well the massive amounts of bread and circus obtained through trade and prosperity from the highly valuable territories Oger have domain over.

The O also tend to play blood sports, and often parpicipate in blood sports in oher civilizations if possible.

Religion wise the Os seem to believe they don't really exist and therefore lack much qualms about being murdered or slaughtered. They however do care for being dominant; and they fear losing power more than dying by far. As a result, the suicide rate in Oger is amazingly high with 1 in 8 deaths being from suicide.

Immigration in Ogeria has been a messy process, and often minorities are regulated to X-species towns due to infrastructure in Ogerisa being made in ways that don't accommodate other races. As a result immigrant communities tend to not assimilate. However,t hey also tend to be under constant super vision and it is said that kill switches are put in every immigrant community that implode the whole town if necessary.
History: The Os are not a natural species, instead the folk only known as the Engineers made them as a toy to take their abuses on; a sentient punching bag they could watch a alien beast tear into and sense the pain the balls of flesh felt for their sadistic amusement. The Engineers as a race were some what magical, of which affected how they designed their torture toys; they made them have psionic organs in order to have them be tugged at using spatial forces to try turning the O inside out [turning a sphere inside out as it turns out is possible; but extremely painful if the sphere is alive. The various things the engineers did to the Os is near unspeakable; anything a sentient mind could think of some engineer did, for the Os were a product and were slaves in the most absolute way. While Os were ibntelligent, due to how spread out they were revolt was difficulty and always crushed by the Engineers.

However, the engineers suddenly would just die out and wither away. No one is completely sure why, but the general speculation on the matter by the Os is that the Engineers poked around with the inner workings of the universe too much, and accidentally eradicated their entire species as a result. These events happened thousands of years ago, and the accounts are dubious at best; other observers claim that a major war went on and that the Os managed to run off and form big enough groups ona world they called Oger where they silently constructed ships in justified paranoia that they'd get snuffed out. However, after the Engineers died out Oger managed to rapidly dominate the power vacuum left. And since that, no Engineers have ever been found again. Some say that the few survivors of the cataclysmic war were exterminated by the military of Oger as they expanded in the lost territories, but there is no concrete evidence due to how long ago the whole ordeal was.

Over the millenia the Os have advanced themselves considerably and developed technologies that worjk to their magical properties best; developing a charade of war machines that work through telekinetic manipulation and making a non-objective form of government that came as a result of the Os lacking any ability to come to a good agreement on the best kind of government.

Currently they are a moderate sized dominion that has built up a economy based around their unique talents being outsourced to other civilizations they are on good terms with while importing luxury goods from other civilizations. They however have from time to time gone on a spree of imperial fervor, and often like playing divide and conquer through one-sided trade and treaty-based dickery as opposed to direct conquest.

Other: ASTA's guys I wanna dick around with

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

I swear when it comes to NRPs people see the limits of the RP as unfair restrictions. Multiple times I have gotten people who complained about how having only 1-2 non-human aliens is such a ridiculous restriction in a space RP that takes place across only 4 star systems that has only one alien world and said aliens can't be space faring on contact.

I've gotten people who left the RP over it even when me and iso tried to work with the guy to make what he wanted fit in.

I just don't get it. Why is it there is people who some how not see how absurd it is to want to have five alien species that are intelligent within four star systems independently occurring on different planets? I even had people who thought such "limitation" was contrived... Somehow. Even though many intelligent races in close proximity to earth seems far more contrived to me.

A Kind question

Dinh AaronMk said
Hell if I know. But it was something, I think. Another really weird sci-fi RP if I remember. I'm just not generally interested.Also, I did finish up the map. So, . I would have written more in Arabic if I wanted to go through the challenges of translation/transliteration. But I wasn't sure if I could write it all to a large enough size given the space on some things.

So when can this RP be expected to be up? I want to pillage some marble statues and have some kidnapped artisans put my face on them.

Among other things.

Like maybe giving the poor statue some clothing and writing verses from the quran on the arms and assuming that the aniconism typically associated with the sunni faith has fallen on the wayside. Especially with the relative societal stability and Mongolians not killing everyone I know or burning down the house of wisdom.

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ASTA said
Well, that's trillions. But even so, my point still stands. No reason why a futuristic civilization couldn't make a plasma torch that could generate enough heat to melt through any material. I mean honestly, how else are you supposed to shape this wonder metal into usable components?

A torch that has that high of temperature would probably melt the device generating the heat and the user. Of course in this RP there's no reason why not. Here you could make a space wizard who can direct such heat in a nice package of death and you're set.

All in all I am just going to be happy with the race of sentient balls of flesh that have telekinetic powers. Seeing that there's all assimilating hive minds and this RP is totally fine with space magik, I figured such race is totally valid to this setting.

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I'm over half way done with my app. I made the history section, but the culture and tech sections will have to wait a few days i'm afraid.

I hope that sentient balls of flesh are fine. [As for how they eat, well they have a process known as energizing i'll explain later]

ASTA said
Actually, they can. Plasmas can retain temperatures measured in the millions of Celsius.

Millions?

I get thousands, but MILLIONS?

What's your source on that? I looked up the hottest star in the universe which was Eta Carnae and that star was only a little under 37000 degrees Celsius.