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@Lone Wanderer Gotchyea I still need to hash out some details for the RP and stuff.
I grew up watching the mad max films, reading and watching post apocalyptic books and movies, playing the fall out series and wasteland. I thought I'd try and get a Post apocalyptic NRP with some restrictions.
Intro
“The world began to spin apart. Mighty war tribes fought and destroyed each other with big flashes of light. The peoples were driven out of the tower cities and into the barren waste, where we call home. The peoples in the tower cities that stayed, fought against their old war tribes, the bodies were piled so high in the city roads that they were almost as high as one of the great glass towers. Now all that remain in the tower cities are ghosts of the dead, forever roaming the roads looking for peace.
Back then a person had everything they could want, unlimited gasoline, food, water, or whatever the heart desired. There are stories of peoples swimming in pools of water that they filled from their own water spout. Stories of great stores of food, and places you could fill up your car with the precious road juice any time you wanted. Cards that gave you access to everything.
But those days, those stories are long gone. The peoples that remain live in the wasteland in tribes fighting for day to day survival. If we’re lucky we find a meal for the day or even the week. We drink tainted water, we scavenge what little gasoline we can find, the precious oils from wrecks and we continuously fight for our lives.” - partial Lore Of Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is the world after the Apocalypse, the nations fought each other and destroyed each other. Now all that's left is the ruin. The few people who remain have either become wanderers, nomads, or joined one of the great tribes.
Great Tribe Resources
Tribe #1 Rich in Clean water
Has moderate food, and moderate population.
Lacking Gasoline, Ammo for guns, Vehicles, and Raw material
Tribe #2 Rich in Gasoline
Has moderate vehicles, and raw material
Lacking in Ammo for guns, Clean Water, Food, Population
Tribe #3 Rich in Ammo
Moderate Vehicles, and Food
Lacking Gasoline, Raw materials, Population, Clean water
Tribe #4 Rich in Food
Moderate population, and Gasoline
Lacking Ammo, Vehicles, Raw material, clean water
Tribe #5 Rich in Raw material
Moderate Gasoline, and Population
Lacking Ammo, Vehicles, Food and clean water
Nomad, Small tribes resources.
Small tribes can have one moderate resource the rest are lacking.
Nomad tribes have lacking in all resource categories, but have access to horses and can scavenge better than tribes. They can also by pass the 1/5 population military and use half their population as military.
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Tribe Name:
Tribe status: (Nomad,Small,Great)
Tribe resources:
Location Map:
Population:
Culture:
Government:
Important people(s):
Military: (Brief description)
Military Size:(1/5 of your population)
History:
Allies:
Enemies:
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Rules
1. No meta gaming
2. No god mode
3. Have fun, and make sure others are doing so also
4. No fighting ooc take it into PM
5. There will be death.
6. Be fair
7. Have fun
8. Ask me any questions
9. Ask to change or add to lore
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Update
Populations, Great tribes have a max of 15,000.
Small Tribes have a max of 7,500
Nomads have a max of 4,000
Okay so I had an idea with the resources. I put a limit to them the Lacking, Moderate, and Rich
If you think its a bad idea let me know.
Rich is going to be seen as unlimited turns, if you have a rich resource you'll have it forever so thats your key stone for great tribes and such.
Rich = unlimited
Moderate = 10 posts
Lacking = 5 posts
These are your posts not all of IC
Here is how resources will go
(population can only be changed from either capturing territory, or killing other people, or losing men in war, conquest.)
Food and Water
You drop Food, or water from moderate your population drops by a 1/4
lacking to none will drop your population by 1/2.
Ammo,Gasoline, and raw material
You drop from moderate to lacking your military drops by 1/8(round down)
you drop from lacking to none your military drops 2/3
Vehicles
These aren't required for military use but help greatly. They also help scavenging.
If Gasoline or Raw Material drop from moderate to lacking, then scavenge time doubles,
If it drops from lacking to none then all vehicles drop to none also. And scavenge time doubles again.
Scavenging
You can only scavenge every Third post. And you can only choose one resource to find. This will keep a moderate resource at moderate. but can increase a lacking to moderate if you scavenge it three times in a row.
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Thats all I got for now, let me know if I should toss out this section above or not.
Intro
“The world began to spin apart. Mighty war tribes fought and destroyed each other with big flashes of light. The peoples were driven out of the tower cities and into the barren waste, where we call home. The peoples in the tower cities that stayed, fought against their old war tribes, the bodies were piled so high in the city roads that they were almost as high as one of the great glass towers. Now all that remain in the tower cities are ghosts of the dead, forever roaming the roads looking for peace.
Back then a person had everything they could want, unlimited gasoline, food, water, or whatever the heart desired. There are stories of peoples swimming in pools of water that they filled from their own water spout. Stories of great stores of food, and places you could fill up your car with the precious road juice any time you wanted. Cards that gave you access to everything.
But those days, those stories are long gone. The peoples that remain live in the wasteland in tribes fighting for day to day survival. If we’re lucky we find a meal for the day or even the week. We drink tainted water, we scavenge what little gasoline we can find, the precious oils from wrecks and we continuously fight for our lives.” - partial Lore Of Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is the world after the Apocalypse, the nations fought each other and destroyed each other. Now all that's left is the ruin. The few people who remain have either become wanderers, nomads, or joined one of the great tribes.
Great Tribe Resources
Tribe #1 Rich in Clean water
Has moderate food, and moderate population.
Lacking Gasoline, Ammo for guns, Vehicles, and Raw material
Tribe #2 Rich in Gasoline
Has moderate vehicles, and raw material
Lacking in Ammo for guns, Clean Water, Food, Population
Tribe #3 Rich in Ammo
Moderate Vehicles, and Food
Lacking Gasoline, Raw materials, Population, Clean water
Tribe #4 Rich in Food
Moderate population, and Gasoline
Lacking Ammo, Vehicles, Raw material, clean water
Tribe #5 Rich in Raw material
Moderate Gasoline, and Population
Lacking Ammo, Vehicles, Food and clean water
Nomad, Small tribes resources.
Small tribes can have one moderate resource the rest are lacking.
Nomad tribes have lacking in all resource categories, but have access to horses and can scavenge better than tribes. They can also by pass the 1/5 population military and use half their population as military.
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Tribe Name:
Tribe status: (Nomad,Small,Great)
Tribe resources:
Location Map:
Population:
Culture:
Government:
Important people(s):
Military: (Brief description)
Military Size:(1/5 of your population)
History:
Allies:
Enemies:
----------------
Rules
1. No meta gaming
2. No god mode
3. Have fun, and make sure others are doing so also
4. No fighting ooc take it into PM
5. There will be death.
6. Be fair
7. Have fun
8. Ask me any questions
9. Ask to change or add to lore
-------------------------------
Update
Populations, Great tribes have a max of 15,000.
Small Tribes have a max of 7,500
Nomads have a max of 4,000
Okay so I had an idea with the resources. I put a limit to them the Lacking, Moderate, and Rich
If you think its a bad idea let me know.
Rich is going to be seen as unlimited turns, if you have a rich resource you'll have it forever so thats your key stone for great tribes and such.
Rich = unlimited
Moderate = 10 posts
Lacking = 5 posts
These are your posts not all of IC
Here is how resources will go
(population can only be changed from either capturing territory, or killing other people, or losing men in war, conquest.)
Food and Water
You drop Food, or water from moderate your population drops by a 1/4
lacking to none will drop your population by 1/2.
Ammo,Gasoline, and raw material
You drop from moderate to lacking your military drops by 1/8(round down)
you drop from lacking to none your military drops 2/3
Vehicles
These aren't required for military use but help greatly. They also help scavenging.
If Gasoline or Raw Material drop from moderate to lacking, then scavenge time doubles,
If it drops from lacking to none then all vehicles drop to none also. And scavenge time doubles again.
Scavenging
You can only scavenge every Third post. And you can only choose one resource to find. This will keep a moderate resource at moderate. but can increase a lacking to moderate if you scavenge it three times in a row.
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Thats all I got for now, let me know if I should toss out this section above or not.
I had a rough day at work I'll try and throw together a post tomorrow, its looking good so far guys!
Sorry for the short posts, I had to make it short and sweet. I won't be on until this up coming monday. I hope you don't mind! if you guys arn't going to be around or lose interest let me know so that I can write you out if you've made an appearance.
Indeed he was knocked from the moving truck. He managed to roll out of the fall and quickly recover into a crouch, he upholstered his revolver and took a few steps back. It felt like his he maybe had a cracked rib. Another voice appeared on the other side of the truck. He couldn't leave, all his gear could potentially be traced back to him. "Listen here, you don't want to do this. Both of you just leave and forget you saw me. People forget thousands of things everyday, let this be one of them."
He began to side step until he was in view of both the people, a large muscle bound man, and the girl from the apartment. He was blown away that she'd found him, or that she had come right too him. "How the hell did you find me? You were just at the apartment." He gave her a quizzical look. He had not known it was her at first and this almost took the wind from his sails. Had this been a setup? "Who are you working for?" He asked them both. He trained the revolver on each of them.
He began to side step until he was in view of both the people, a large muscle bound man, and the girl from the apartment. He was blown away that she'd found him, or that she had come right too him. "How the hell did you find me? You were just at the apartment." He gave her a quizzical look. He had not known it was her at first and this almost took the wind from his sails. Had this been a setup? "Who are you working for?" He asked them both. He trained the revolver on each of them.
In
Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)
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10 yrs ago
Forum: Nation Roleplay
ooc: with forsythe
Faira hexus - Command deck
“...And that’s all I have for now, but it has worrying implications about our own computers. I do not wish to one day wake up to mz ship telling me ‘no’.” Captain Libra finished her report. In front of her was a holo displaying all four of the admirals in a conference call.
“Most worrying, yes, but given how long it took for the RLC to awaken, we should be safe for now. It seems to me that the easiest way to solve this problem would be to periodically rip out computer systems from our ships and install new ones. Uncomfortable, but not really consuming any resources.” Admiral Sola noted.
“Back to the matters at hand - ” Cygnus spoke up, “I am in favor of doing what the Captain suggested.” One after another, the admirals agreed. “Very well, Captain, you may proceed. Oh, and please inform them of our impending inspection of the jump nodes. The probe data should be available within few hours and they are welcome to join my fleet through.”
Faira Hexus - Conference room
Back after the recess, Libra sat herself in her chair and set up a holo projector in the middle of the table that has been hammered to a semi-flat shape by a maintenance bot during their break. “Ready to continue, ambassador?” she asked, not knowing what the robot has been up to until now, although nobody reported him leaving the room. Libra would have guessed he would be curious, but then she realized he probably knew everything form the engineer bots anyway.
“I have contacted the admiralty and I’m pleased to say you have indeed made quite a good impression. Good enough in fact that most restriction on information sharing have been lifted.” Libra confessed, tapping the controls of the holo.
A 3D image of the galaxy flashed into being, with three stars highlighted in green and lines drawn between them. The three systems then closed in for details and their names appeared next to them. “What you’re looking at is the sum of all the systems the Faira have explored. As I said, we are a young people. The reason for that is this.”
The image of the Faira system magnified. The swirling gasses of the nebula took up most of the room, but a thin belt of rocks could be seen orbiting the neutron star in the middle. “I was not at liberty to be completely honest with you about our home planet. All I told you was true, however, it was not a complete truth. Our planet...” here her voice hitched, the topic being as uneasy for the Faira to speak about as it got.
“You are looking at it. In our infancy we have realized our star was dying. We put a plan into motion to preserve our kind, building a number of ships to evacuate as many as we could through the jump node. But fates were still cruel to us. We ran out of time. Out of seven billion Faira living on Faira Erea, only a million remain.”
“I hope you now understand the need for secrecy. It is exactly as you said - we are short on everything. It took us two hundred years to make sure we would not go extinct before we dared to explore a new system. And in our first attempt, we found you. We needed to make sure we could trust you with the knowledge of this weakness.” the captain explained and fell silent for a while, needing a few moments for herself.
“The whole truth.” it simply stated. “Did you choose the best and brightest, or was it a random selection?” He was curious as to how they decided to take a million out of seven billion. “We have resources, with over a thousand years left if we continue at the rate we are now. Until recently we hadn’t explored other systems because we wanted a military capable of defending our home system from intruders.” Carn said honestly.
“I would be willing to trade resources for knowledge, as I said earlier. I want your current shields, while I give the old ones to the council, I need an upper hand for some internal politics that are currently going on.” He tapped the dented table slightly and pointed a clawed finger at the hologram. “These rocks here have you strip mined them?” speaking bluntly it carried on. “I have workers that can work day or night, who never need rest. Our supply system is perfect. We can build equipment on site if things haven’t yet been touched. It would take roughly a day for a full mining structure to be built. Whatever we mine from them, we can give you half.”
Carn was keeping its plans close to its frame. Carn was setting plans in motion very big plans for the homeworld. And fully intended the Faira to be apart of them. “I would like you to directly deal with me.” the robotic spoke calmly.
Libra shook her head. “A generous offer, but we have had ample time to deploy our mining fleet should we have chosen to. I do not know if your people would hold a similar sentiment, but the Erea asteroid belt is the graveyard of six billion, eight hundred fifty million, nine hundred eighty five thousand, six hundred forty one of our people. It is a place of piety for us, and we do not wish to disturb it more than necessary.” the captain explained.
“I have however been right in my assessment of the admiralty’s reaction. Aside from military tech, I can offer you everything we have right now, and the rest pends the formulation and signature of mutual defense treaty.” she confirmed her earlier assumption. “I have to say though, you put me in a hard position with what you told me. I was under the impression your people were united, and now you tell me to what sounds you are planning to cause a revolution, ambassador. Assuming that is true, you have been forthcoming towards us, however I can not say The admirals would be too thrilled at the prospect of aiding to create a possible civil war. So tell me - what do you intend to do?”
“Mourning the dead, is pointless, but nevertheless, its a trait all organics seem to posses. Revolution? No, if there were to be a revolution it would happen before you could process the event. It would all be in the Data Link where the rest of the council is. But I do not intend to have a revolution. I plan on having the advantage of more knowledge than my counterparts. They declined to meet with you, while I was the only one who would go. They have no interest in furthering my race. I do, you may think this be a revolution, but think of it differently, I want to teach my people so that we can better defend ourselves from what could be vast hordes of unrelenting organics out there.” The machine said in its own defense.
“I’m not sure about a defense treaty, we have only just met.” Carn said frankly. “What could you offer me for my resources?” It lifted the large hand from the table and waited patiently for the captain to answer.
Interesting. To be honest, Libra would have loved to know at least some of this a while ago. Now she felt like talking to the admirals all over again. But alas they made her an ambassador, and that meant having to make decisions on her own accord. There was only Carn’s word on what he said, but Libra could see that if the first contact was indeed facilitated by a defective probe, then the possibility that the other leaders of the RLC did not wish to negotiate was indeed real. And the Faira needed this alliance to work.
“Very well then. We will stand with you. considering the other leaders of your world would not even meet us, we have little choice than to deal with you exclusively. As for your earlier inquiry, there were supposed to be many more ships to ferry our kin out of danger. But the collapse of our star came earlier than our science predicted at the time. Only the first wave made it out of the system, and said wave did consist mostly of people picked for their skills. It was a necessity.”
“As for what we can offer you with that treaty signed - everything we have and know. Our shields are impressive, however there are other systems of interest that would be made available to you. this is a recording from a live fire test of our most potent weapon. the test target was an asteroid a kilometer in diameter equipped with a shield of the same capacity that you ask us to give to the rest of the collective.” Libra said and the holo switched to display the described target with a raider-class sitting next to it.
The two large turrets on the ship moved to track the target, and a red glow bloomed from the flat barrels. and then, tow bright crimson beams shot out, punctured right through the shields and carved holes into the asteroid within their ten second firing sequence. “You see why we did not anticipate the need of many ships to defend ourselves. Furthermore, our home system is now a highly ionized nebula that would scramble most sensors. In case of the direst of situation, we offer you one of the safest spots in the galaxy to rally your forces, as well as the use of our drydock ship for… sensitive…. construction projects.” Libra said, her words a sugar coat for ‘black ops’.
“Do you know what happens when Antimatter and matter collide Captain?” it said in reference to their turrets. “ I’ll assume you do. Your species is highly intelligent. It was recently brought to my attention that we could and should use our power source for unconventional things. Weapons and the such. Our weapon technology is lacking, due to the lack of conflicts in our past, our main weapons being the plasma cannons and railguns, but they’re not as effective for certain tasks. They make in opinion only great defense, with our ability to process information we can intercept most incoming projectiles with the rail guns. The plasma for closer rangers if it were to ever come to that.”
Carn paused to let the captain digest the information. “I have a ship design I’ve been working on these past few hours. With our engineers and your advanced technology we could build something great. All of the things you told me earlier would come with no hidden strings? You wouldn’t want to regulate us and we would be treated as living beings?”
For the first time Libra allowed herself a smile. NOW they were getting somewhere. “We have looked into antimatter, but we ruled it out in favor of fusion warheads due to the expensive fabrication and dangerous nature. Good for mines and little else for our purposes.” as far as she was concerned, siding with Carn was the correct choice. however, she still had a few restrictions imposed on ehr by the admirals. “However I am afraid I must insist on the defense treaty before sharing any military technology, and since you are one voice of three, I understand it may be… difficult to sell to the rest. I am however prepared to assist you to that end. You now understand why that treaty is important to us. Perhaps a demonstration would help convince your equals?” Libra offered, certain the Admiral wouldn’t mind turning a few rocks into space dust if it gained them the RLC fleet in time of need.
P1 Surface
In the databank, there were eighteen that stood from the rest. Their knowledge was larger and their coding more distorted than the other consciences that floated in the cyberspace of the planet. Each one of the eighteen had a backup hard drive which was kept in a secured building. The second, of the council of three had been quiet for sometime, the rest of the members were beginning to worry. They all considered this being somewhat volatile and unpredictable, prior to the recent update they could extract information from it quite easily. The first of three spoke to the others then “Second, if you are not responding your vote will be void from this round of voting.” There still was no response. “Its almost unanimous, we shall open the vault and disconnect the second from the system, and put in for maintenance.”
The robotics unsealed the vault, which had been transported back to its original location after the first contact. When the vault was opened, none of the backups were in place. The end of the hardwired connectors were set up with small wireless devices. When this was relayed to the rest of the council, they knew their time was limited.
Elsewhere on P1 a droid with no AI received a command from offworld, and with that destroyed seventeen of the eighteen wireless transmitters. Leaving only Carn with the ability to issue commands, and the rest of the council in isolation. A message was delivered throughout the system, and new representatives would be selected to serve alongside Carn. At its discretion None of the robotics seemed to mind the change as it didn’t dawn on them that it was foul play. Something that had never been seen before. Sometimes robotics went rogue and with this they could be willingly decommissioned or forcefully. They were led to believe that this is what happened. The rest of the former council was then hidden out in the wasteland and the droid self destructed internally.
P1 Orbit - Faria Hexus
After Carn had been recognised as ruling council member for the time being it re-addressed the Captain. “All power of The RLC has been turned over to me. Would your admiralty like to discuss terms of this peace treaty now?” it said without hesitation.
Libra’s eye ridge rose up in surprise when the robot did not answer to something immediately. her surprise grew even bigger when Carn’s revolution apparently succeeded in all of eleven seconds. “Impressive.” the captain acknowledged, “Humor me though and make sure you can not be succeeded so easily. Also, Admiral Cygnus wishes me to inform you that they will momentarily be sending probes through the jump nodes discovered in your system, the data should be available shortly. She wishes to know whether you will be accompanying our forces through and in what capacity. ships or only a diplomatic team - all are viable. I shall set up the conference with the admirals right away.”
Faira Fleet News
New alliance
After prolonged negotiations today, Ambassador Libra and the Admiralty brokered a treaty between the Exiles of Faira and the Robotic Lifeform Collective, securing peace with the newfound race. Admiral Sola commented on this achievement:
“Over three hundred years have passed since the death of Faira Star. We are the heirs of the ghosts who haunt the shattered remains of our home. I remember our once thriving civilization. Cities with spires that reached the sky. I remember a beautiful world with endless silver plains. and the children who saw in the dying star the death of their race. They thought they had no present - only a past filled with despair and a future they could only dream of. So they hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear. But now we have forged a new alliance to guard our tomb of space, and hopefully find within its cold expense the salvation of our race.”
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ooc:@RomanAria
Planet Aura
After a suitable amount of data had been collected on their language the probe set about working out the dialect. After several long moments it finally had broken down what it assumed was the basic language for the species. It noted that the species were entirely too small to pull it to shore. It began to deflate the sections of the airbag that covered the probe directional thrusters. It fired the small engines and began to motor its self past the small organics and towards shore.
"Follow me please" were the only words it said in passing. The waters splashed across the airbags. The water resistant synthetic fabric did a marvelous job of keeping the probe afloat. It quickly beached itself against the shore and deflated all of the airbags leaving only the empty section where its main boosters had been, and the vacant hole where the black box had formerly occupied. It waited for the smaller voicestus beings to arrive so that it may hopefully begin successful first contact talks.
Faira hexus - Command deck
“...And that’s all I have for now, but it has worrying implications about our own computers. I do not wish to one day wake up to mz ship telling me ‘no’.” Captain Libra finished her report. In front of her was a holo displaying all four of the admirals in a conference call.
“Most worrying, yes, but given how long it took for the RLC to awaken, we should be safe for now. It seems to me that the easiest way to solve this problem would be to periodically rip out computer systems from our ships and install new ones. Uncomfortable, but not really consuming any resources.” Admiral Sola noted.
“Back to the matters at hand - ” Cygnus spoke up, “I am in favor of doing what the Captain suggested.” One after another, the admirals agreed. “Very well, Captain, you may proceed. Oh, and please inform them of our impending inspection of the jump nodes. The probe data should be available within few hours and they are welcome to join my fleet through.”
Faira Hexus - Conference room
Back after the recess, Libra sat herself in her chair and set up a holo projector in the middle of the table that has been hammered to a semi-flat shape by a maintenance bot during their break. “Ready to continue, ambassador?” she asked, not knowing what the robot has been up to until now, although nobody reported him leaving the room. Libra would have guessed he would be curious, but then she realized he probably knew everything form the engineer bots anyway.
“I have contacted the admiralty and I’m pleased to say you have indeed made quite a good impression. Good enough in fact that most restriction on information sharing have been lifted.” Libra confessed, tapping the controls of the holo.
A 3D image of the galaxy flashed into being, with three stars highlighted in green and lines drawn between them. The three systems then closed in for details and their names appeared next to them. “What you’re looking at is the sum of all the systems the Faira have explored. As I said, we are a young people. The reason for that is this.”
The image of the Faira system magnified. The swirling gasses of the nebula took up most of the room, but a thin belt of rocks could be seen orbiting the neutron star in the middle. “I was not at liberty to be completely honest with you about our home planet. All I told you was true, however, it was not a complete truth. Our planet...” here her voice hitched, the topic being as uneasy for the Faira to speak about as it got.
“You are looking at it. In our infancy we have realized our star was dying. We put a plan into motion to preserve our kind, building a number of ships to evacuate as many as we could through the jump node. But fates were still cruel to us. We ran out of time. Out of seven billion Faira living on Faira Erea, only a million remain.”
“I hope you now understand the need for secrecy. It is exactly as you said - we are short on everything. It took us two hundred years to make sure we would not go extinct before we dared to explore a new system. And in our first attempt, we found you. We needed to make sure we could trust you with the knowledge of this weakness.” the captain explained and fell silent for a while, needing a few moments for herself.
“The whole truth.” it simply stated. “Did you choose the best and brightest, or was it a random selection?” He was curious as to how they decided to take a million out of seven billion. “We have resources, with over a thousand years left if we continue at the rate we are now. Until recently we hadn’t explored other systems because we wanted a military capable of defending our home system from intruders.” Carn said honestly.
“I would be willing to trade resources for knowledge, as I said earlier. I want your current shields, while I give the old ones to the council, I need an upper hand for some internal politics that are currently going on.” He tapped the dented table slightly and pointed a clawed finger at the hologram. “These rocks here have you strip mined them?” speaking bluntly it carried on. “I have workers that can work day or night, who never need rest. Our supply system is perfect. We can build equipment on site if things haven’t yet been touched. It would take roughly a day for a full mining structure to be built. Whatever we mine from them, we can give you half.”
Carn was keeping its plans close to its frame. Carn was setting plans in motion very big plans for the homeworld. And fully intended the Faira to be apart of them. “I would like you to directly deal with me.” the robotic spoke calmly.
Libra shook her head. “A generous offer, but we have had ample time to deploy our mining fleet should we have chosen to. I do not know if your people would hold a similar sentiment, but the Erea asteroid belt is the graveyard of six billion, eight hundred fifty million, nine hundred eighty five thousand, six hundred forty one of our people. It is a place of piety for us, and we do not wish to disturb it more than necessary.” the captain explained.
“I have however been right in my assessment of the admiralty’s reaction. Aside from military tech, I can offer you everything we have right now, and the rest pends the formulation and signature of mutual defense treaty.” she confirmed her earlier assumption. “I have to say though, you put me in a hard position with what you told me. I was under the impression your people were united, and now you tell me to what sounds you are planning to cause a revolution, ambassador. Assuming that is true, you have been forthcoming towards us, however I can not say The admirals would be too thrilled at the prospect of aiding to create a possible civil war. So tell me - what do you intend to do?”
“Mourning the dead, is pointless, but nevertheless, its a trait all organics seem to posses. Revolution? No, if there were to be a revolution it would happen before you could process the event. It would all be in the Data Link where the rest of the council is. But I do not intend to have a revolution. I plan on having the advantage of more knowledge than my counterparts. They declined to meet with you, while I was the only one who would go. They have no interest in furthering my race. I do, you may think this be a revolution, but think of it differently, I want to teach my people so that we can better defend ourselves from what could be vast hordes of unrelenting organics out there.” The machine said in its own defense.
“I’m not sure about a defense treaty, we have only just met.” Carn said frankly. “What could you offer me for my resources?” It lifted the large hand from the table and waited patiently for the captain to answer.
Interesting. To be honest, Libra would have loved to know at least some of this a while ago. Now she felt like talking to the admirals all over again. But alas they made her an ambassador, and that meant having to make decisions on her own accord. There was only Carn’s word on what he said, but Libra could see that if the first contact was indeed facilitated by a defective probe, then the possibility that the other leaders of the RLC did not wish to negotiate was indeed real. And the Faira needed this alliance to work.
“Very well then. We will stand with you. considering the other leaders of your world would not even meet us, we have little choice than to deal with you exclusively. As for your earlier inquiry, there were supposed to be many more ships to ferry our kin out of danger. But the collapse of our star came earlier than our science predicted at the time. Only the first wave made it out of the system, and said wave did consist mostly of people picked for their skills. It was a necessity.”
“As for what we can offer you with that treaty signed - everything we have and know. Our shields are impressive, however there are other systems of interest that would be made available to you. this is a recording from a live fire test of our most potent weapon. the test target was an asteroid a kilometer in diameter equipped with a shield of the same capacity that you ask us to give to the rest of the collective.” Libra said and the holo switched to display the described target with a raider-class sitting next to it.
The two large turrets on the ship moved to track the target, and a red glow bloomed from the flat barrels. and then, tow bright crimson beams shot out, punctured right through the shields and carved holes into the asteroid within their ten second firing sequence. “You see why we did not anticipate the need of many ships to defend ourselves. Furthermore, our home system is now a highly ionized nebula that would scramble most sensors. In case of the direst of situation, we offer you one of the safest spots in the galaxy to rally your forces, as well as the use of our drydock ship for… sensitive…. construction projects.” Libra said, her words a sugar coat for ‘black ops’.
“Do you know what happens when Antimatter and matter collide Captain?” it said in reference to their turrets. “ I’ll assume you do. Your species is highly intelligent. It was recently brought to my attention that we could and should use our power source for unconventional things. Weapons and the such. Our weapon technology is lacking, due to the lack of conflicts in our past, our main weapons being the plasma cannons and railguns, but they’re not as effective for certain tasks. They make in opinion only great defense, with our ability to process information we can intercept most incoming projectiles with the rail guns. The plasma for closer rangers if it were to ever come to that.”
Carn paused to let the captain digest the information. “I have a ship design I’ve been working on these past few hours. With our engineers and your advanced technology we could build something great. All of the things you told me earlier would come with no hidden strings? You wouldn’t want to regulate us and we would be treated as living beings?”
For the first time Libra allowed herself a smile. NOW they were getting somewhere. “We have looked into antimatter, but we ruled it out in favor of fusion warheads due to the expensive fabrication and dangerous nature. Good for mines and little else for our purposes.” as far as she was concerned, siding with Carn was the correct choice. however, she still had a few restrictions imposed on ehr by the admirals. “However I am afraid I must insist on the defense treaty before sharing any military technology, and since you are one voice of three, I understand it may be… difficult to sell to the rest. I am however prepared to assist you to that end. You now understand why that treaty is important to us. Perhaps a demonstration would help convince your equals?” Libra offered, certain the Admiral wouldn’t mind turning a few rocks into space dust if it gained them the RLC fleet in time of need.
P1 Surface
In the databank, there were eighteen that stood from the rest. Their knowledge was larger and their coding more distorted than the other consciences that floated in the cyberspace of the planet. Each one of the eighteen had a backup hard drive which was kept in a secured building. The second, of the council of three had been quiet for sometime, the rest of the members were beginning to worry. They all considered this being somewhat volatile and unpredictable, prior to the recent update they could extract information from it quite easily. The first of three spoke to the others then “Second, if you are not responding your vote will be void from this round of voting.” There still was no response. “Its almost unanimous, we shall open the vault and disconnect the second from the system, and put in for maintenance.”
The robotics unsealed the vault, which had been transported back to its original location after the first contact. When the vault was opened, none of the backups were in place. The end of the hardwired connectors were set up with small wireless devices. When this was relayed to the rest of the council, they knew their time was limited.
Elsewhere on P1 a droid with no AI received a command from offworld, and with that destroyed seventeen of the eighteen wireless transmitters. Leaving only Carn with the ability to issue commands, and the rest of the council in isolation. A message was delivered throughout the system, and new representatives would be selected to serve alongside Carn. At its discretion None of the robotics seemed to mind the change as it didn’t dawn on them that it was foul play. Something that had never been seen before. Sometimes robotics went rogue and with this they could be willingly decommissioned or forcefully. They were led to believe that this is what happened. The rest of the former council was then hidden out in the wasteland and the droid self destructed internally.
P1 Orbit - Faria Hexus
After Carn had been recognised as ruling council member for the time being it re-addressed the Captain. “All power of The RLC has been turned over to me. Would your admiralty like to discuss terms of this peace treaty now?” it said without hesitation.
Libra’s eye ridge rose up in surprise when the robot did not answer to something immediately. her surprise grew even bigger when Carn’s revolution apparently succeeded in all of eleven seconds. “Impressive.” the captain acknowledged, “Humor me though and make sure you can not be succeeded so easily. Also, Admiral Cygnus wishes me to inform you that they will momentarily be sending probes through the jump nodes discovered in your system, the data should be available shortly. She wishes to know whether you will be accompanying our forces through and in what capacity. ships or only a diplomatic team - all are viable. I shall set up the conference with the admirals right away.”
Faira Fleet News
New alliance
After prolonged negotiations today, Ambassador Libra and the Admiralty brokered a treaty between the Exiles of Faira and the Robotic Lifeform Collective, securing peace with the newfound race. Admiral Sola commented on this achievement:
“Over three hundred years have passed since the death of Faira Star. We are the heirs of the ghosts who haunt the shattered remains of our home. I remember our once thriving civilization. Cities with spires that reached the sky. I remember a beautiful world with endless silver plains. and the children who saw in the dying star the death of their race. They thought they had no present - only a past filled with despair and a future they could only dream of. So they hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear. But now we have forged a new alliance to guard our tomb of space, and hopefully find within its cold expense the salvation of our race.”
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Planet Aura
After a suitable amount of data had been collected on their language the probe set about working out the dialect. After several long moments it finally had broken down what it assumed was the basic language for the species. It noted that the species were entirely too small to pull it to shore. It began to deflate the sections of the airbag that covered the probe directional thrusters. It fired the small engines and began to motor its self past the small organics and towards shore.
"Follow me please" were the only words it said in passing. The waters splashed across the airbags. The water resistant synthetic fabric did a marvelous job of keeping the probe afloat. It quickly beached itself against the shore and deflated all of the airbags leaving only the empty section where its main boosters had been, and the vacant hole where the black box had formerly occupied. It waited for the smaller voicestus beings to arrive so that it may hopefully begin successful first contact talks.
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From no where the girl leapt up and ran, the older couple tried to escape into what he assumed was the living room, he adjusted his rifle and fired the shot. It had all become clear on how to send the message. From the range he shot at and the sound suppressor it would be nearly impossible to detect from anywhere further than a few hundred yards. The recoil of the rifle was nothing he wasn't used too.
The bullet passed through the space between the apartment and his rifle, in a matter of moments. It pierced the window and exploded the wine bottle showering the trailing parent with the wine. It buried through the wall and planted its self into the elevator frame.
He watched through his scope as the lights went out in the apartment and it all went quiet. He hopped that his message was received. He sat up and exposed himself, folding the blanket to carry it with him. He left the empty shell in the rifle so he didn't have too find it later. "Damn fine shooting if I say so myself." he chuckled softly. He sat for a moment all the tension melting, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a slightly crumpled pack of cigarettes, pulling the last one out he lit up. Sucking down the smoke greedily he gave a sigh of relief.
His contact would be angry, but the message was still delivered. And he could sleep soundly. He'd killed women and children before, he saw their faces every night. Men, he didn't mind he supposed or at least he'd gotten used to them. He rarely saw their faces anymore.
The bullet passed through the space between the apartment and his rifle, in a matter of moments. It pierced the window and exploded the wine bottle showering the trailing parent with the wine. It buried through the wall and planted its self into the elevator frame.
He watched through his scope as the lights went out in the apartment and it all went quiet. He hopped that his message was received. He sat up and exposed himself, folding the blanket to carry it with him. He left the empty shell in the rifle so he didn't have too find it later. "Damn fine shooting if I say so myself." he chuckled softly. He sat for a moment all the tension melting, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a slightly crumpled pack of cigarettes, pulling the last one out he lit up. Sucking down the smoke greedily he gave a sigh of relief.
His contact would be angry, but the message was still delivered. And he could sleep soundly. He'd killed women and children before, he saw their faces every night. Men, he didn't mind he supposed or at least he'd gotten used to them. He rarely saw their faces anymore.
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