Queen Raidne

OPTEVFOR JDF-1 [Modern Day][Naval][Ship-Based]

There's a WWIII option involving China and, I don't know, some other countries (that obviously needs more research on my part, but you get the idea).
There's a rogue elements of the US Navy/attempted coup option.
If you really want to Godzilla-abominations are possible, but I think human (or at least intelligent) opponents in naval vessels of their own would be much more fun.
I also prefer to keep this on Earth, rather than use teleportation-Bermuda Triangle shenanigans, but again, if you really want to, we can do that.

My favorite, though, is a business-as-usual scenario, with anti-piracy missions, maybe an encounter with some rogue Chinese forces (or something), military exercises against more conventional fleets to prove the worth of the program (and therefore your jobs), disaster relief first response, being deployed to assist an actual "professional" carrier battle group, "cooperation" with USSOCOM's mysterious orders (and being turned into glorified transport ships for said special forces, under strict orders not to interfere as things seem to go increasingly wrong with their mission [as best you can tell what their mission actually is]), and blatant communication snafu's. I think a fun angle would be the contrast between JDF-1 and the conventional Navy and armed forces, with hilarity ensueing.

Though if you want to do crazy alien monster shenanigans, we can. It would likely mean more opportunites to fire your weapons. At least, more opportunites to fire them without getting in trouble.

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On another note, I like your sub, Wernher. The crew especially fills my heart with warmth and fuzziness.

Need help with weekly notable interest checks and roleplays.

Separate IRC chat sounds reasonable to me.

Patchwork: A Multiversal Factions NRP

I'm so jealous of that girl; you have no idea.

Interesting. As far as I understand (correct me if I'm wrong), the One Power turns the Wheel of Time and comes from the Source. The Wheel of Time is more-or-less a "loom" that "weaves" the multiverse (or a multiverse) into existence, carefully manipulating people and lives (as "threads") to acheive a desired outcome (the "Pattern").

Assuming that to be true, here's my theory:

The Wheel of Time controls a subset of universes (a "Multiverse") amongst a wider field of universes (which I'll label "the Greater Multiverse"). The Source is, therefore, pervasive throughout the Greater Multiverse, and the Creator was just a damnedly clever being that harnessed it. The Creator harnessed the Source in a very particular manner so that it could power the Wheel of Time and manipulate its Multiverse into following the Pattern. It (they? he?) made this cosmic engine called the One Power.

So the Lone Intelligence, being a sufficiently advanced alien with the ability to travel through time, space, and the Greater Multiverse, swooped in and stole a hex of people from the Creator's Multiverse that happens to be particularly dense with both sides of the One Power. I'd imagine that the Lone Intelligence is manipulating the One Power to control its creation of the Patchwork Universe. It's using it to selectively and sporadically power its ships engines, etc. The Lone Intelligence probably has some constellation-sized capacitors somewhere in the Patchwork Universe that it stores all this raw power in. Given the Lone Intelligence's time-travelling abilities, it can then tap into said stellar capacitors and borrow however much power it wants from the future. Of course, given its concern with experimental integrity, it won't abuse its time travelling abilities any time soon.

But the Lone Intelligence is really not nearly so smart as it thinks it is; the Wheel of Time is still trying to correct the Patchwork Universe to bring it in line with the Pattern. The Lone Intelligence has, in fact, noticed strange instabilities in the Patchwork Universe, and has set up an entire galaxy to compute the proper changes that need to be affected to prevent any unintended consequences leaking down onto the planet Patchwork.

So what's all that mean for your faction?

Hmm. At the very least, I bet the One Power feels very different. Probably more raw and easily uncontrolled.

Then there's the issue of Ta'veren. The Wheel (which can only manipulate your hex) wants to create as many as it can to bring the Patchwork Universe in line with the Pattern. Meanwhile, the Lone Intelligence's ship (and computational galaxy), is fighting to keep the number down to only the Ta'veren that came with your hex, and maintain the hex pattern set up at the beginning.

That's my theory. What do you think?

And what about the Dark One?

There's several very good reasons the Lone Intelligence wants to keep the two hemispheres of the planet separate.

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