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From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

Im not criticizing you im looking for clarification. But I would, you just happened to post this right in front of me. One problem at a time :)

@Apollo26

They're breech-loading rifles, bolt-action rifles, and muzzle-loading firearms. By their nature, they're going to have low cyclic rates when compared to automatic weapons. Azu war fighters offset this weakness by simply shooting things from very long ranges with exceptionally powerful ammunition. With deadly precision to boot.

There's nothing else to really explain. Advanced recoil mitigation systems are a given when discussing futuristic firearms, though it should be noted that azu are not identical to humans when it comes to physical attributes. For one, they're built more robustly, allowing them to endure more recoil than your average homo sapien.

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Follow up question: Id imagine that A: These rifles are heavy as all hell and feature the traditionally slow rate of fire that accompany muzzle loaders, bolt action rifles and revolvers. B: How long would it take to correctly dial in that shot? Taking a seven mile shot would require you to measure distance, Windage ( at you, 3.5 miles out and at the target), the rotation of the earth ( Coriolis effect) and unless its completely flat, wouldn't the horizon keep you from seeing targets with the naked eye. C: The recoil of firing these weapons would literally tear your arm off, unless you have some godlike recoil dampening system.

@Apollo26

You should criticize the hand-held railguns and hand-held particle weapons used by other players while you're at it.

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Duck, How do your people know I am communicating with anyone if there are no ships in the area?

And ASTA, <Snipped quote by ASTA>

So does this mean your weapons just destroy everything it touches? Your small arms ( rifles, pistols, Sub-machine guns) can pierce up to medium armor at well over standard engagement distances?

@Apollo26

Both the submachine gun and the assault rifle were never invented by the azu. The only hand-held automatic rifles that they produce are select-fire battle rifles. These are uncommon and, among many hunter circles, are quite unpopular. The lion's share of azu firearms comprise a wide variety of howdah-style pistols, hunting revolvers, 2 bore paradox double-rifles, single-shot breech loading rifles, and bolt-action double-rifles.

Essentially, most guns on Anuku are extremely accurate anti-material rifles, elephant guns, or hunting pistols that fire rocket-accelerated cartridges that climb to hypervelocity speeds within mere seconds of leaving the barrel; some of these cartridges are APFSDS rounds that perform flawlessly against armor. Others are simple armor-piercing munitions that have the ability to expand within the target, creating deep wound channels in their wake. Modern weapons (like the Russian PTRS-41, Barrett M82, or the Model 95) are fully capable of destroying armored vehicles and killing infantry. The .700 Dinosaur Hunting WTF rifle (yes, this is an actual weapon) boasts performance comparable to a .50 BMG rifle. Many of the aforementioned weapons can penetrate more than 35mm of RHA from several hundred meters away. Azu firearms, by decree of being more advanced than their modern counterparts, can be expected to penetrate far deeper.

Although not a very creative people, all azu are quite adept at mathematics, possess an acute sense of judgment, and have a feline's eyesight. Even when restricted to iron sights, they're able to accurately down man-sized targets from several miles away. With enhanced ammunition, longer barrels, and optical sights, this range is dramatically increased. Electrothermal-chemical technology is not required due to the azu's use of stronger, highly-concentrated propellants and their superior metallurgical sciences, but it can push the envelope even further if need be.

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Here's my WIP sheet. I'll finish it either later on tonight or tomorrow.

Anuku WIP

General Species Information

Untouched by the taint of the obri
Upon a proud world
Under a shimmering sky
There lived a pure, hardened people

Foreign Policy and Public Opinion of Aliens

Anuku, while culturally diverse, is figuratively (and in some circles, literally) described as a “one-race world” by azu social scientists and political leaders, with this bold, racially-charged declaration stemming from the racial homogeneity that propagates through the cultural pillars of the Lone World's multitude of tribal societies. Many of Anuku's ethnocentric inhabitants are quite condemnatory in their prejudice judgments of the greater galactic community, and cite Anuku's past confrontations with imperialistic alien invaders and disagreeable illegal migrants as irrefutable proof that the obri (or the "Other") are instinctively incompatible with azu culture and will, inevitably, pose a significant threat to all life on the Lone World if allowed to establish formal contact with the azu race. Unsurprisingly, Anuku's seven paramount chiefdoms have jointly implemented a sequence of isolationist decrees that forbid Anuku's boss nkosi from interacting with aliens and alien civilizations in any shape or form.

Military

No professional land army exists, but the azu's rich, ancient gun culture and their staunch fondness for the ways of the hunter has resulted in a substantial population of seasoned survivalist shooters to accumulate with rapidity on Anuku over the eras.

Ever since their initial conception, the august firearm has operated as a powerful and intricate aspect of azu martial culture. Primordial dogma preaches that the gun is a sanctified and arcane artifact of moving power and importance, ergo being deserving of nothing less than unadulterated respect and reverence. Out of an adult population of circa 2.2 billion, it is estimated that 6.5 billion small arms are currently in use on the Lone World. Owing to their sheer power, most azu small arms can reliably destroy powered armor, light vehicles, and medium vehicles from extreme engagement distances.

Discounting the seven boss nkosi battle wagons that constitute the Guardian Fleet, Anuku is bereft of a traditional space force. She is, however, protected by a vast number of shielded, networked ground-based x-ray laser installations. They are stationary, but their individual firepower is great enough to deter (and even destroy) enemy fleets, anti-planetary missiles, and RKVs from two-dozen light minutes away. Their employment of azu energy shield modules coupled with their cataclysmic power necessitates the need for ground-based operations in the event that yet another hopeful invader seeks to sack Anuku.

Technological Overview

Outwardly, the azu appear to be a pre-industrial civilization, but this observational conclusion is gravely misleading. On the contrary, the azu deliberately strangle and shroud their factual technical prowess in a conservative attempt to stay the cultural stagnation and genetic degradation that customarily befalls an intellectually-gifted species that overindulges in the prolific “benefits” that sophisticated technology often promises. In a way, this global philosophical perspective can easily be compared to modern Neo-Luddism, though azu communities specifically avoid technologies that encourage excessive slothfulness, restrictive antisocial behavior, and weakness (either in a physical or mental context) rather than holding the unrealistic conviction that all technology is harmful to Anuku or her protectors.

Description of Society and Culture

Quintessential commodities that are characteristically associated with technologically-advanced civilizations (in example: railroad systems and vast industrial complexes) are rarely seen in contemporary azu society, with the vernacular adobes and constructs that the azu do erect being intricately engineered to accommodate, and not dominate, Anuku's environmental facets, in turn reducing the carbon footprint of settled (and nomadic) azu communal groups. Like the sparse number of fission-fusion powered manufacturing installations, refineries, and ground-to-space launch sites that hug and sprinkle the Peaks of Hia-Hia, azu adobe design tends to select for symmetricalness, plainness, reliability, and sturdiness, though are typically erected from timber, stone, animal hides, bone, or other readily-available materials that can easily be fabricated into usable construction stuffs using un-powered tools.

As the azu species has historically been represented by a female majority, azu clans are matriarchal, with matrilocal families often taking up residence within a sanctioned highhouse, a semi-subterranean variation of the archetypal longhouse of our own world. Highhouses are furnished with their own armories, smithies, larders, kitchens, nurseries, general storage facilities, and medical wards, and can adequately harbor up to four-hundred families of various sizes and hierarchical compositions throughout four different floors. Highhouses may feature reinforced nuclear fallout passageways that offer superior heat retention, provide ample protection from dangerous ultrafauna, and present safer options for travel should invasion befall Anuku in the foreseeable future.

A highhouse is headed by a wise woman and her diligent house arbiters, a tight-knit cadre of barren, middle-aged azu women who aid their esteemed elder in maintaining order and harmony within the home by meditating disputes between clan members, assigning house duties to able-bodied adults and adolescents, and communicating with the highhouse's blood head (a genetic specialist that administrates the clan's systematic eugenics policies by establishing arranged exogamic mating sessions between fit males and females, culling flawed offspring, and sterilizing marred adults) to ensure that the genetic strength of the house is being sustained and steadily bolstered. The wizened alpha male, the wise woman's one and only life mate (with this pair being the only “married couple” that is afforded persistence within the house), does not retain dominion over the house's females, but exclusively mentors the clan's few precious males in the ways of manhood.

History:

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Sometimes you're the Slowbro, sometimes you get Slowpoked.

@Alfhedil

#slowlife

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World of Warships.

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<Snipped quote by Alfhedil>Well, nonstop wars was an exaggeration but when they weren't fighting they were usually prepared for one.
A kilonova explosion sent neutron star fragments to dozens of star systems and it critically changed them. Many previously habitable planets became barren rocks, while the surviving civilizations needed to live in a radically changed environment. Morte managed to adapt to their death world relatively unchanged but apparently all the other aliens sorts of went insane from the radiation and grew warlike. To them it was attacking either others or their own so they chose the former.

Anyways you're not wrong on that Morteans are reproducing like rabbits. Even with their technology and slightly adapted physiology every third newborn dies. They also used cloning at times albeit the records on its extend are unclear, same for genetic experiments on the population. Anyways for living for a decade in "peace" the Morte is already struggling with overpopulation thus the current plot in the IC.

@Willy Vereb

You'd think a One Child policy would be drafted, implemented, and enforced by this point.

Or maybe sterilization on a massive scale would suffice.

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Why are you even here then, It's quite ridiculous.
If you don't want magic, go to the other version of From Stardust to Stardust, as per my INCREDIBLY limited knowledge, that roleplay doesn't have magic. When it comes to realistic and logical sci-fi roleplays, they don't quite exist, because they'd be incredibly boring.

@KaiserAuto

While I'm not a large fan of it, I don't have a particular bone to pick with magic. It only appears on my radar when someone calls upon it as a "Get Out of Jail Free" card in nearly every unfavorable circumstance that happens to befall them. I'm not saying that this has happened extensively in this RP, but Apollo's gripe with it illustrates an instance where it was used to easily circumvent an obstacle (though seeing as how it was Duck who was the perpetrator, I'm not exactly surprised).

Generally the game seems to go with the assumption that everybody has comparable power.

That isn't what I've seen from Andromeda or its sister RP, but I guess I'll take your word for it.

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It's not about me trying to dictate what you can and cannot do with your civilization, but it's more about preventing newcomers or existing players from feeling as though they need to have X fictional technology to have a chance at being relevant in the setting (or if they need to resist attacks from players that have Gypsy Danger as their standard armored fighting vehicle; thank goodness this hasn't occurred yet). In the end, it becomes a contest in seeing who can wank the hardest. It turns into a roleplay where the hyper-advanced magic-flinging empire is the standard.

That's ridiculous.

There's handwavium, and then there's abusing handwavium; having unrestricted access to pseudo-science in a collaborative writing exercise requires one to possess a smidgen of sincerity and restraint.

...Or all measure of consistency and sense can be thrown into the trash and 45 megajoule handguns can be written off as being entirely capable of destroying super heavy tanks but they can somehow fail to penetrate a 15th century suit of plate armor when the writer demands it.

Some people want to go hardocre sci-fi

The current atmosphere of the RP doesn't even allow this particular style to flourish.