Primal Conundrum

Space Oppressors

Derp, there's only two of us besides the OP, you're in fine time :D

Space Oppressors

So... any more word on this?

(TL;DR Rant) Standard based Roleplay sections and why I don’t like them.

One of the most memorable, fun moments I had was actually in an RP that didn't last very long, and it came about while dealing ICly with a character who was godmodding.

I've tried to reboot that RP a few times, but it's one of those ones that's different from the norm enough that people generally don't end up joining :s

(TL;DR Rant) Standard based Roleplay sections and why I don’t like them.

Ya'll think this is bad? I came here from the Gaia Online roleplaying boards.

Admittedly, we might not see many RPs to completion here, but our average quality level is WAY above that of old Barton Town.

Also, I'd ask you this: does the fun of an RP come from completing it? I personally don't think so. It's like a bowl of ice cream- you're happy when you finish it, but even if you don't finish it (you have to leave, whatever) you at least enjoyed the parts you had, even if you do feel a little sad you couldn't have more. At the end of the day though, some is better than none, and it was good while it lasted.

It's the same with RP, to me. It's great, and even if it doesn't get completed I'll have a good time.

Space Oppressors

I don't think that having a mixed species crew in and of itself needs to be a stand-out thing. We risk destroying our own world because we're fighting each other, but honestly if we still had Earth and we encountered a potentially hostile alien race? Well, nothing makes humans put aside their arguments and band together like an outside threat.

Actually, another idea-

Could be that Humans were just starting to set up colonies on other planets in our solar system when the Yuan-ti war started, and unknown to us our system was more or less in the crossfire. An alien warship stopped in our system to do repairs, and they reacted with hostility when they found that there was curious life in this system. What they didn't expect was for the hugely outgunned Humans to end up working together to fight them, eventually taking the warship for themselves and killing the creatures that had "invaded" the Sol system. The technology from the alien craft catapulted human technology forward by a few generations in some fields (especially in regards to ftl travel) and so Humans set out into space, intent on heading off this threat before it could attack again.

They were a bit surprised when they found out that they had taken out a warship from the losing side of an intergalactic war, and in doing so earned the respect and allegiance of the side that wound up winning, along with the enmity of all those on the side that lost.

This sets up the humans as the fairly scrappy new kids on the block, that the other races don't really have a clear idea of yet. After all, they were just poking around with interplanetary flight until they took out a HIGHLY ADVANCED WARSHIP using highly outclassed ballistic weapons and chemical rockets, and that launched them forward into intergalactic flight and energy weapons.

Space Oppressors

I just can't picture Humanity stepping out into space and kicking the shit out of everyone else. We're violent when we have something to stand up for, yes, but we also got to where we are by knowing how to pick our battles and by not rushing in to combat against potentially superior foes. Along with that, our media has been quite interested in the idea of advanced aliens for far, far too long for us to be widely comfortable with starting battles with aliens as one of the first things we do. I think most of humanity would try to approach the aliens peacefully.

I think a mix probably sounds good, as Sheik said.

Space Oppressors

Hey if you don't want to use it, don't use it. Just tossing out an idea, you're the one making the RP so it's ultimately up to you.

Space Oppressors

Basically, I'm thinking that the Humans, while not necessarily the most technologically advanced race, have proven to be really good at exploring and adapting, and as such can be found in pretty much every corner of known space. Although one of the relatively newer races on the galactic scene, they've spread at a prodigious rate.

Of course, they kind of had to, ever since they blew up their homeworld. Now there's just a second asteroid belt in the Sol system.

One thing that the alien races quickly noticed about the humans is that they generally just seemed to be quicker to band together and draw swords than some of the other races- let's face it, humanity has a military history that runs VERY deep. Once humanity didn't have a homeworld to call their own anymore, they also didn't have the same territorial borders that they had fought over for thousands of years. As such, as new factions emerged, they were divided by ideas and principles and goals rather than by region, in most cases. This has resulted in everything from 'nations' of artists of various types, to other 'nations' of soldiers, hedonists, white supremacists, pretty much anything. The aliens, seeing this divisive nature (along with the human's readiness to violently defend their ideologies) wound up coming up with their own name for the humans. Though the pronunciation and exact words vary from species to species, translated into english the humans are frequently referred to as "The War Cults", or "Cultists" as an individual. It's become a blanket term to the point where even those humans not affiliated with such a faction are often referred to as Cultists.

Due to the rate at which the humans spread and made names for themselves, there is quite a lot of power in the collective hands of humanity. However, the divisions between factions have only deepened since Earth was destroyed ('Spacefall', as they generally refer to it) and so the odds of them ever banding together are effectively null. That's probably a good thing, since by now humans could be said to have the largest fleet in the galaxy, if not the most technologically advanced- the key phrase being that they COULD be said, because this fleet will never act as a single fleet.