Arawak

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani - One star system, infinite possibilities [Looking for Humans to get the show on the road!]

@Liotrent
You are. Feel free to PM me a introductory IC post to get the accept or make the focus civ, either path is fine with me.

I will note that I am waiting to see if we can get at least one human player, one custodian player and one alien player before starting up the IC.

(We already will be 2/3rds the way there when Oraculum makes his app. Hopefully someone out there who has been observing this thread is interested in being a human civ.)

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani - One star system, infinite possibilities [Looking for Humans to get the show on the road!]

It's decent and allows other players to give them all matter of colorful names.

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani - One star system, infinite possibilities [Looking for Humans to get the show on the road!]

That sounds intriguing. I hope to see more of your super-entity in the near future.

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani - One star system, infinite possibilities [Looking for Humans to get the show on the road!]

@Liotrent
Civ app would be the app you want your focus Civ to be.

what has the avatar above you been put in jail for and why?

Eating the pork dogs at the chilli factory and ruining my good day.

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@Nytefall
I recommend using the word species instead of race.

Chances are the Baridi have multiple races from the deviations the more heavily ingrained tribalism mixed with their tendency to colonize separate mountains which tends to lead to divides.

And they may not all have the same cultural norms, something to consider as you say "all Baridi", which bothers me since it implies they are monolithic and a monolithic species is no good.

Hmm. So they're basically more clever with a synthetic material. If other players want to be a Baridi (which they can due to the species being public domain policy) or something so akin to a baridi in niche that you could share a family with them, would you tolerate potential tech pooling? I ask this since one mechanic I have in mind is that when players share a species/genus of species that are closely related they tend to share technologies as well.

@Oraculum

Any thoughts on the current edition of Custodian guidelines?

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani - One star system, infinite possibilities [Looking for Humans to get the show on the road!]

Humanoid in shape and size? I'd like more elaboration on their design.

If you need help upping their alienness, one way is to give them a distinct psychological trait from humans along with some distinct means of reproduction (mother nature on earth has quite the play book for this). Think of them as animals in a habitat and how their social behavior is at their most primitive. Than you arm them with larger populations, civilization and carbyne infused bones.

Due to sharing a world, expect some carbyne to end up in use by Liotrent's bugs at times.

Chances are they'll have more than one culture, so defining their behavioral differences on culture alone isn't enough.

Though I will say I like the idea of some species that organizes in insular city-states with geothermal tech. Do they also have tribal groups outside the city-states?

Either way I like the direction you are going with this so far.

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani - One star system, infinite possibilities [Looking for Humans to get the show on the road!]

@Liotrent
Not really, they're pretty solid.

Also I wrote out the perspective system that this NRP goes by. I mentioned it earlier but never codified it.

Humans!

The first perspective is the perspective of humans or other beings who came in just one spaceship and had to redevelop their civilizations from scratch over the last thousand years.

Once there was the first tribe after the rebirth of our species, there was a original sin that happened after a century of unity and a Arcadian existence that led to us spreading around the world in a dark period (which players define).

Space travel became possible once more around three centuries before the starting time or the year 700-800 Post Birth.

Humans landed on Solomon and thus should have most of their civilization on Solomon, with any societies on other worlds being younger and likely having some relationship with a Solomon based human society.

Human technology should be internally consistent, which means that all human players share a tech pool and that every time a human player adds a new human tech, every human faction is likely to also have the tech you want to give yourself (especially if it is common use). So for instance if you decide to have swarm missiles, other human factions also know how to make swarm missiles.

In general humans are more faction explicit and deal with each other in a symmetrical fashion (meaning humans have similar tech to each other in general) but have to deal with the other two perspectives asymmetrically.
NPC human isolated colonies and such can be set up by other players to do whatever they want with.
As a human you just need a faction sheet.

Terms

PR
Post-Rebirth. We still use the gregorian calendar even though day cycles are far faster on Solomon. However, the sheer significance of our rebirth as a species means that a new year one separate from the birth of Jesus had to be established. The starting year is 1000 PR. (Times before PB are Before Rebirth, or BR)

The First Tribe
The first several thousand or so humans raised by dumb machines who managed to be united as a species for the first hundred years. One of the few points in human history where the human species was at relative peace. Lots of good press from this time.

Original Sin
The undetermined event that caused the first tribe to split for (player determined) reasons and lead to the dark period.

Dark Period
The centuries of time in-between the launching of the first spaceship by 700-800 PB and the Original Sin. I leave what happened here to whoever opts to make a human civ as it is in this archaic period your civilization likely began its developments even if your civ has continuity with the first tribe.

Arcology
A city that has its own internal farming and is self-contained instead of dependent on outside resources.

Aliens!

Your perspective as an alien is the most unique perspective, for to be an alien is to be of many potential perspectives all different from each other due to the limited knowledge you have. Your biology and life style dictates a way of life suited to the world you evolved on.

When making an alien, focus on making an interesting alien form that is a believable product of the world you want to set up shop. Avoid trying to make something to win a game. Think in terms of asymmetrical advantages and disadvantages instead of trying to match the tech of the humans or custodians. Be creative about this, try to avoid high tech solutions to the human problem. For your focus is on having a cool culture, strange tech and on making them feel like aliens. Weird them to death!

When making an alien, keep the species app separate from the civilization app as all species made are public domain (unless there is some lore reason why it can't be).

For a species is treated as a parent to the civilization, and thus a species can have multiple civilization along with all manner of less developed groups (or your sapient may just be 100% tribal, in which case you don’t need a civilization app).

NPCs of your species can be assumed to exist somewhere on the planet you base your species on.
Like with humans, should multiple players share a family of sapients who know each other well, technology is easier to share between them. Tech is harder to share between sapients with larger differences, though you can always trade anyways.

You can set up your sapients anywhere a complex biosphere is.

Sapients should avoid independently developing space travel unless there is a good reason for it.

In exchange, you get to have much higher populations and better adaptations to the world you set up shop on. You also get to define the environment, fauna, flora and so forth of the regions you want your alien to occupy much more than custodians or humans get to. So please be someone who likes making strange, horrifying creatures and landscaping if you seek to be an alien.

Custodians

The third perspective is that of the custodians.

Custodians are ancient beings, related to the Creators who built the megastructures and systems that keep this star system from falling to total ruin. How you define your relationship to them is up to you and due to not being a primitive or interloper you can set up shop anywhere in the star system. Be warned that the rules regarding space travel still apply.

Custodians are shockingly diverse entities, be it strange synthetic things, monolithic drones with a scary voice, surreal eldritch beings or as some memetic fuzz entity it is up to the player. Custodians have access to the most advanced technology of all three perspectives and are much more individual oriented than the natives or the humans.

Which means as a custodian you are more or less expected to be a character with powerful capabilities. You can be a drone collective unified by a personality too. It's up to you!

When you are in the custodian perspective, you can direct the drones and define the tech of the drones in the region you want to have your custodian make their main basing area (nomadic custodians may have many smaller outposts). You also can be the dungeon master for the various megastructures and define what technological artifacts exist in them.

In terms of technology, you can go high-tech more than the other two perspectives can within the limits of the NO list.

Custodians due to having a pervasive information gathering network have a lot of knowledge in regards to raw data about all the societies inhabiting the worlds of 82 Eridani. There is lots of spying going on in regards to the inhabitants of the Eridani System.

Custodians tend to be independent minded in nature and so often have their own ideas of the past. This is not helped by the periods of generational warfare that break out that distort the past.

Custodians can communicate with any species with ease by nature, they’ve done their homework and have had ages to understand everyone. They even can talk to the giant colonial gas bags that inhabit Gabriel.

Custodians are not invincible. Don’t make them so.

Terms

Primitives- The technologically primitive sapients
Interlopers- Humans and any sapients who come from another star system.
Creators- Vague term referring to the ancients who you have some connection to, however far back that connection is.
Generational Warfare- Custodians have generational wars from time to time, often fought by proxy and in the shadows. It is unknown how long these generational wars have gone thanks to the frequent revisionism the victors engage in, just that it has gone on for a long time.

The Comus

There is a being known as the Comus who will speak to you in private privates OOC who has an agenda. Even as a custodian you aren’t fully aware of who the manager is. Disobeying the Comus has IC consequences, but it isn’t against the rules OOC-wise and if you want you can be a rogue custodian from the start, though this means you are an enemy of all other custodian players (maybe the primitives or interlopers may be of better company?)
The Manager is story important!

You can converse with the Comud in the PM as a custodian, but remember that the Comus is like a god father in many ways, he cares for you ultimately but expects loyalty in return.

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani - One star system, infinite possibilities [Looking for Humans to get the show on the road!]

I see that they got their "telepathy" by developing radio mind control. Is this a trait exclusive to the more advanced colonies only?

And I like that you gave them a divisive nature instead of mindless hive unity.

Here is the guidelines for aliens for the second edition IC:

Aliens!

Your perspective as an alien is the most unique perspective of the three, for to be an alien is to be of many potential perspectives all different from each other due to being so biologically unique.

Your biology and life style dictates a way of life suited to the world you evolved on.

When making an alien, focus on making an interesting alien form that is a believable product of the world you want to set up shop. Avoid trying to make something to win a game. Think in terms of asymmetrical advantages and disadvantages instead of trying to match the tech of the humans or custodians. Be creative about this, try to avoid high tech solutions to the human problem. For your focus is on having a cool culture, strange tech and on making them feel like aliens.

When making an alien, keep the species app separate from the civilization app as all species made are public domain (unless there is some lore reason why it can't be).

For a species is treated as a parent to the civilization, and thus a species can have multiple civilization along with all manner of less developed groups (or your sapient may just be 100% tribal, in which case you don’t need a civilization app).

NPCs of your species can be assumed to exist somewhere on the planet you base your species on.

Like with humans, should multiple players share a family of sapients who know each other well, technology is easier to share between them. Tech is harder to share between sapients with larger differences, though you can always trade anyways.
You can set up your sapients anywhere a complex biosphere is.

Sapients in general should avoid having space travel unless there is a good reason for it.

In exchange, you get to have much better adaptations to the world you set up shop on and being able to build up the planets themselves on a detailed level. Humans do not get to do this to the same extent (To humans: you do get to define some select species if desired).

For you also get to define the environment, fauna, flora and so forth of the regions you want your alien to occupy. So please be someone who likes making strange, horrifying creatures and landscaping if you seek to be an alien.

In regards to aliens and custodians... Well, the custodians can communicate with ANY species. The custodians likely will impact you in some fashion, how so depends on the arrangements you come to with a custodian player.

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One thing about the 2nd edition OP you may notice when it is made is how I can be vague beyond mentioning natives, custodians and some vague overview of human history that really just gives people a loose timeline to answer questions like "when did humans get spaceships again after having to build up from just a few thousand people?". Humans are prone to division so multiple human factions I view as a given and thus I don't even dare speak of the details in regards to what human societies exist in this universe.

Similar with the custodians and the intelligent (or at least well organized) aliens. That is all player domain and so I don't go into it much. I just hope that players can work together to string together things to keep things coherent. That's why I suggested a way to link Lio's insectoids with Nytefall's and went as far as to have a "no redundant sapients" guideline to enourage such lore linking.

I like my aliens multicultural.