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    1. Darkmatter 11 yrs ago

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9 yrs ago
Current Currently buried in a number of things which I hope will benefit the Guild.
9 yrs ago
In some ways, the guildfall was a blessing. It makes it harder for my original 2009 RPing to be found...
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9 yrs ago
I've finally returned to the Guild. Many months of much RPing ahead.
10 yrs ago
A thousand things to be done; plenty motivation.

Bio

Aeronautical Engineer
Irish
TV and Film addict

Been here on the guild since April '08, seen a lot of change but still love it. I've been on and off, I've GM'd fantastic projects and train-wrecks, it all comes with the territory. I once tried to make a YouTube ad for the guild because I'm slightly insane. In a weird place with the Guild right now, seems like so many names I knew are gone, but more than happy and ready to meet new people. Been writing casually for over a decade, a lot of that practice has been here. I have some small short sci-fi stories printed in anthologies but those are so heavily edited they don't even feel like mine any more.

When not on the Guild I'm most likely working, playing FFXIV or the Souls series or (insert recent must play video game).
Anyone with a passing interest in sci fi needs to read Saga by Brian K Vaughan.

Most Recent Posts

Isotope said
Hmmm.If we have some freedom with the sheets i will do some serious editing to make it all more comprehensible.


I had thought I stipulated it was just a template and that as long as the info was present I'm happy.
Isotope said
Well all i have to say is You guys love long NS's dont'chya. Frankly I prefer to explain things IC so with that in mind.Oh and another thing, quite a few categories could have been answered with "none" so i just excluded them, if that is ok.


I think that a lot of people think this. I've found however, after seven years of this, the more concrete info I have the happier I am. I love expanding worlds and I absolutely love reading what others write. I made a cup of tea and leisurely enjoyed terminal's NS instead of just forcing myself to read.

Alas, each to their own. If you wish to keep things short and sweet I'm happy with that.
As for excluding segments; like I said the template is just that. Feel few to fiddle around with it.
Isotope said
Well i will be reading OP for the next hour.:P


Sorry xD

I'll be constantly editing and fixing and updating it now. So reading it now is obviously what everyone will do, but I would suggest giving it a second read just as we kick off the IC in order to refresh everything and make note of changes. The NS in their isn't as important as the 2000 words before it.
duck55223 said
I realize VotS stuff would probably never be accepted.However I would ground it in real physics. I have a few other ideas im juggling around before I settle on what to do.


Pretty much what Serp said
Monkeypants said
Lol. My nation, the hau, uses biotechnology as well.. we've been discussing this for the past few days. Be interesting to see how they interact.This is a placeholder as well while I writeup the n's.


Cool I look forward to it.

I'll do my best to tidy up the OP but it's very hard with this lack of coding.
Terminal said
Just to say, unless you've gone crazy with colors and special text fonts and font sizes and spoiler bars, the conversion should be smooth enough. QQcode that the forum uses accepts most emphatics like [b ] and [i ], and hiders still work as long as they aren't stacked inside of each other. The only thing that should be crazy is internal links and images.


Everything had yellow and silver colouring as it worked so well with the guild natural colour scheme and I had several stacks of hiders. It was an arduous few hours but a labour of love to give you our 10K opening post xD

THE ROLEPLAY

I'll also link it on the OP of this thread.
So ya guys the lack of formatting has made this info much harder to present in a pleasing format but I did my best. If there's anything you think is off just shoot.

@Serp I have a human subfaction so give it a look and I'll edit it to fit in with your nation.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
~Sun Tzu

Nation Sheet Reviews

Compendium

Introduction

This roleplay takes place across the Milky Way Galaxy, millennia into the future. Strewn all across the arms of the galaxy are a vast array of civilisations. Large aggressive military dictatorships, great kingdoms, intangible hiveminds, AI conglomerates and many others traverse the space between the stars; colonising, trading, exploring and waging war. You enter this roleplay at the helm of one of these great nations. You and you alone will dictate how future generations of your own species and others will reflect on this period of your history. Will you be a footnote or a chapter? Only two factors can determine this; time and you.

Our story begins during a time of relative galactic peace. However, no such inaction can be permanent. Small upstarts are attempting to stake their claim to a patch of the stars. Ideological terrorism and schism is on the rise. Many nations are simultaneously reaching or nearing AI and technological singularity.
More worrying than any of this is a pattern emerging among many nations of frontier planets seeming to simply drop off all communication. Reports from outer colonies speak of outposts going completely dark and entire systems seeming to disappear. Governments are under increasing pressure to discover the culprits and some are quick to point blame at old enemies leading to increased friction in galactic political scene.
However, the truth behind the matter is far more sinister than one would imagine…

Our Antagonists


The Transorganic Alliance Party




Aside: The Flag of the All Party; The symbol of the all party, the Zomay represents the three pillars of the party, and the state. These tenets are Innovation, Revolution and Security. The Zomah is emblazoned on a blood red black round that symbolises both the Transorganic blood spilt by the former Imperium but also the necessary evils committed by the All Party to carve out a place for its members. Also adorning the flag is a section of the first software programme written that successfully mapped a sentient mind and translated the information to a computer. The programme’s section is represented in an updated binary format. To the All Party it represents their history and paved the way for all manner of Transorganic revolution and advancement. It is often referred to as the ‘seed’.

Brief History
The Transorganic Alliance Party, commonly just referred to as the Party, or the All Party began life as a political movement in the Arcturus Imperium several decades before its collapse. The movement was started among middle-class traders and among former veterans and current soldiers. These people shared one thing in common, what they viewed as 'forced' cybernetic augmentation at the hands of the Imperium. Whether physically forced as part of their service or economically forced by circumstance, the founding members of the All Party fought for the rights of the early transorganics. The All Party accepted organics and non-organics alike calling for a new societal integration. It was however, a difficult fight to have in the oppressive Arcturus state. The Imperium began cracking down hard on the Party and overtime began punishing regular citizens for even a murmur of collusion with the organization. This dogmatic crack down only fanned the rebellious flames amongst the oppressed transorganics, leading to greater angst.

Necessity called for greater measures and over the decades the Party became associated with more radical movements, eventually becoming synonymous with transhorganic terrorism. Although terrorism is an act, not a cause, many looked past the growing militant ambitions of the All Party and flocked to its banner across the Imperium. As more and more people felt the biting need to transcend their organic shackles, the influence and threat posed by the All Party grew significantly.

The Imperium’s difficulty proved to be the Party’s opportunity. For years it had laid dormant, working secretly, communicating through back eddies of the intranet, organising plotting and waiting. As the great collapse of the once so grandiose empire began, the Imperium crumbling under the weight of its own arrogance, the Party saw its opportunity to strike. Thousands of transorganics took up arms and revolted from within as the Imperium struggled to survive against attack from the outside. The largest part of the uprising took place on Vastoria, an industrial powerhouse of planet that was key to the Imperium’s shipbuilding and computing industries.

Within weeks Vastoria lay in ruins as the numbers revolting rose from thousands to millions. The Imperium faced an insurmountable challenge in reclaiming the world already stretched thin across all fronts. It set its sights on larger dangers and abandoned Vastoria to the All Party who renamed it Valhalis, an old word for paradise.
As the Imperium was vanquished the All Party became the sole leader of Valhalis and began spreading to the two other inhabited worlds in the Wolf-337 system, Jargen and Halfor, since renamed Anhilt and Saarstun since peaceful Party occupation nearly two centuries ago.
The All Party has since spread vastly beyond Wolf-337 but only has minor colonies and stations outside their home region.

Species: Transorganics

Official Doctrine Of The Glorious Transorganic Nation Of The All Party said

The next step in the long history of evolution, we are unbound by biological shackles. Our thoughts are not limited by organic constraints. We are nothing more than our consciousness acting through a vessel. You the glorious people of our nation are among those who have seen the truth; we deserve only the finest vessels. Those bestowed upon us by nature are fragile and inadequate when we have scientific truth, knowledge of a better life. We are not classifiable by the archaic nomenclature of outdated organics. We are transorganics. We are the future.


Nation Traits
Perks
Disciplined~Loyal~Efficient
Underneath a veneer of freedom and rights the All Party is even more dogmatic than the Imperium was only it uses far more subtle yet more effective methods. The Grand Council has the ability to systematically manipulate the software of any and all citizens, but it finds it more cost effective and satisfying to use more old fashioned methods. From the day a child is ‘born’ in the birthing labs to be delivered to successful applicants of the PAT (Parental Aptitude Test) to the day it dies, it is bombarded by propaganda disguised as truth hidden in the robes of free market advertising. The All Party is just and true, the Grand Council is all knowing and righteous and organics are destitute, primal and evil. This creates a military that is unwavering in cause and a populous unflinching in support through a natural means. Of course, direct manipulation is necessary; here and there.

Naval Force
Valhalis’ history as a naval outpost and manufacturing powerhouse of the Imperium meant that from the outset the All Party had access to resources necessary to make it a noticeable naval power among the countless fledgling factions left in the ruins of the Imperium.

Flaws

Free Thought
Recently more and more outside software has begun making its way into the All Party’s domain. This external manipulation encourages individual thinking and in recent years revolt has begun to become an issue. Although the general populace is acutely unaware of this.

Traditional Or Outdated?
The biggest secret within the All Party is that the Grand Council member that sit today are the same ones which sat when the All Party came into its own. The bi-annual elections are an elaborate government hoax. Thus leadership in the Party domain is stagnant. Despite their intellectual advantage over organics, it still means that it is only the same individuals in power and fresh ways of thinking or radical change is nigh on impossible.

Xenophobic
The All Party has an irrefutable hatred of organics, derogatorily ‘squishies’, and thus has quickly earned a massive amount of hatred itself.
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Nations Sheets, Basic Rules and Stipulations and FAQ


Nation Sheet
This is a template. Realistically, as long as this info is conveyed, feel free to lay your sheets out however you deem necessary.
General Info and Location
Name
Capital System
Dominant Species
Sub-Factions/Species
Direction From Galactic Core (for map making purposes e.g. 8 Degrees West of South alternatively given as 82 Degrees South of West. )

Politics, Power & Economy
Head Of State
Head Of Government
Government Type/Operation/Description
Economic System/Prosperity

Empire Size: (Population estimate)
1: 5-10 billion
2: 10-20 billion
3: 20-40 billion
4: 40-100 billion
5: 100-200 billion
6: 200-500 billion
7: .5 -1 trillion
8: 1-2 trillion
9: Innumerable
10: Ascended*

Empire Power:
Planetary Power – Confined to one or two planets
Solar Power – In full control of home system
Interstellar Power – Branched into at least one other system and successfully settled
Multi-stellar Power – Full control over multiple solar systems
Minor Regional Power – Influence within a region of star systems
Major Regional Power – Dominant Influence in a region
Quadrant Power – Authority over an entire quadrant
Arm Power – Exerts control over an entire arm (none to begin with)
Galactic Power – Full domination of the galaxy (obviously none of these either)

Type Of Power:
Scientific
Economic
Military
Social
Political
Religious
Other – Please specify

History, Biology & Society
Race Name
Race Info
Average Lifespan
Physical Characteristics
Dominant Society
Moral Values
Religion
History
Technological Overview
Giving total freedom here as I know this is where a lot people come into their element. If you’re unsure of tech levels, reference the FAQ and Basic Info below or just ask me.

Basic Guidelines And Answers to FAQ

• First off, tech level. Anything goes with me as long as you can at least somewhat explain it or ground it in real physics/science. Don’t worry too much about anything you have being too OP or anything else anyone has being OP as this will be limited simply by the actual roleplay. Too often people say ‘no that’s too good.’ Well it won’t really matter if it’s never actually used.

• Next up and on a related note: FTL speeds. The best way to explain this is in terms of distance and time instead of actual physics. Those who wish for actual numbers, which I can provide can ask but just for now I’ll use distance/time examples to demonstrate. This is subject to change after group discussion.
o System-System: Minutes-Hours
o Inter-Regional: Hours
o Region-Region: Hours-Days
o Inter-Quadrant: Days
o Quadrant-Quadrant: Days-Weeks
o Core-Arm End: Months

• With regards to standards. This is an advanced RP as such I expect high quality grammar and syntax. Vocabulary doesn't bother me too much, I’d prefer a well written post with limited vocab over one sprinkled with an unnecessary abundance of synonyms. As for length. I tend to post around the 1000 word mark each time but that’s not a limit or minimum. Do what feels comfortable for that post. Plot and character development is far more important to me than text walls. That said if you've a cool solo piece go for it

• Now I already mentioned time limits for posting to try and keep things fluid. As such I am going to attempt to enact one now. Ten days from now, August 24th, will be the deadline for nation sheet submission and background building at least for the time being. IC posting will start in earnest then.

• Last for now but by no means least: HAVE FUN

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The lack of BBcode is going to make info dumps less pleasing to read but unfortunately there is nothing I can do about.
My only concern so far is that I wrote my sheets in BBcode so they may look disastrous on here at first.

I cannot decide between which nation to use as a GM nation; they exist in the same universe but at different periods so cannot co-exist. I'm thinking of using the Technocracy although their benevolent assimilation may be too similar to the antagonists.

The free state is always so much fun to play as it's less of a nation and more of a world of its own.
Maybe a quick bit of info on each and you guys could decide which ye'd prefer to interact with/ see as the GM nation as I want to take players' considerations into account.
@kye it's a cool idea and I am for it but, it needs explanation and the easiest way to explain it, if nanotech is involved it, in my opinion, is grey mist (manipulable swarms of nanobots)

@kangaroo yes of course we're still open. Nothing has been accepted yet as I haven'y even created the RP thread yet. That is tomorrow.

@spleen&sigma loved those nations in past guys would like to see them again

@Ollum more concrete info will be coming tomorrow in the actual RP thread. The nation sheet template with outline a lot of criteria such as physical size and tech levels of the nations. I find quantify this these things initially helps as we can discuss if the spread of power is lopsided or not.

@everyone else, see above more info coming tomorrow. I have a day off from everything so much tea will be made and much writing shall be done. Thanks again to everyone for their interest, it is a great motivation in itself.

EDIT: one of my nations is so large it's information is spread across a wiki (war among the stars for those that remember) and the other, the Technocracy is currently 8000 words so couple that with the 2000 for the All Party (antagonists) and the several other thousand that will no doubt comprise the general info, and I am apologising in advance for the massive info dump that is coming
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