TheSovereignGrave

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@Hael This doesn't really concern me since Ch'ak only has the most rudimentary of AIs, but I don't see how a machine race being unable to naturally reproduce is a downside. It means that while most races have to copulate, gestate, give birth, and then mature this hypothetical machine race would be able to pump out 'adults' on a conveyor belt. Plus hacking could be rather difficult; you'd have to understand how their programming worked and in the case of a sapient or sentient machine it could take a long period of study before you did. Also, that's assuming they're hooked up to anything that would allow you access in the first place.

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Eyy lmao

@Lauder

Goddamnit, you're defiling the meme! It's ayy lamao! AYY!

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Oh, and @Hael, I couldn't get anything done on my sheet today since I just got internet back up. But I'll work on it tomorrow; all I got left are the ships and history (and explorer sheet) anyway. So it shouldn't take too long.

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Announcement of Utmost Importance:

I, your almighty and sometimes irrational GM, have decided to speak regarding an issue.

As Arawak and others have brought up a couple of times now, our empires are not nearly large enough to fill 1/4th the galaxy, but the map makes it appear as though they do.

I've decided, therefore, that we should assume the area we are RPing in is only a small part of the alpha quadrant. In other words, we are in a small fraction of a fraction of the galaxy, because space is enormous and it would take hundreds or thousands more years of expansion to actually fill the Alpha Quadrant to it's complete capacity.

Our explorers, it can also be assumed, are not necessarily exploring the part of the galaxy depicted on the map. If you want, we could say that your character has flown off somewhere to the left (or right, or south, or north, or up, or down- it's all subjective in space) of our map to explore the mostly uncharted territories of the Alpha Quadrant.

That is all. You may return to your regularly scheduled programming.

@Hael

nooo...

But alright, that's cool with me. Hell, it makes far more sense anyway. :D Oh, and did you ever check out my military tech section? I just wanna make sure everything is fine as I get it written down.

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<Snipped quote by Hael>I can't see any difficulty for an industry that can break down entire planets, though.

Anyways, the point of replicators is small-scale use. If you have enough energy to rely on replicators alone then we long have problems.

Oh well, if you don't like that word, how about Q-Fabs?
They are basically nano-assemblers using modern sintering technology turned up to eleven. You make a blueprint out of forcefields and then "print" the matter on it. Might not be the most economical solution for large yet simple construction but it has the advantage of versatility which means once you have a decent Q-Fab it can build anything from mobile phones to sports cars after just adjusting the program and the required preparation/materials.

This and my idea of replicators are similar. The point is that while making stuff out of energy is nice, it's expensive. E=mc^2 is no joke and that's not even talking about other issues. Rather you use raw materials whenever you can because energy is not for free.
In general:
Traditional construction > Q-Fabs (so long you don't account for versatility thus the latter still dominates in many fields)
Raw materials > Transforming one material to another > creating metamaterials > creating matter out of energy
Replicators using up metastable matter are a kind of compromise. It works for a simple and not too energy consuming versatile creation kit but metastable matter is not cheap. Its benefits are in the simplification of logistics.
Just like how practically every vehicle from ships to airplanes or even tanks within the modern US military uses the same type of fuel. Might not be the most economical but it's an amazing accomplishment regardless.

@Willy Vereb

Well, to be fair it's not like I just quickly break them down. It's years of constant work to get through a single planet by manipulating gravity to slowly tear it to pieces.

Plus we already have one race that has replicators and it's kind of a thing that they're pretty technologically advanced, and they're a bunch of peaceful refugees without any worlds of their own.

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@HaelAny quick pointers on the tech level?
My White Corps is often a Star Trek expy in tech, or at least a rational take on it.
Shields, compact fusion reactors, metamaterials, replicators and artificial gravity are the things which is the most worthwhile to mention.

Mind it, I can axe or tone down any of these and did in the dozens of incarnations of this faction. But that's why I am asking you here.

@Willy Vereb

I know for a fact that replicators are a resounding 'no'. But as for the others, I think they're stuff at least someone else already has. What exactly are metamaterials though, I'm curious. Plus, I mean you have my nation: a single system full of megastructures who break down entire planets for raw materials.

But I'm gonna add the usual disclaimer: GM has final say.

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Likewise I can't imagine a branch of this White Corps in Ch'ak. Maybe a small one that's not doing too well against native companies, but nothing too major. Plus they'd be banned, by law, from actually having anything resembling a military in Ch'ak itself.

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I feel we were overcrowded then, so even with those drop-outs, we're still more full than we should be.

*sigh* But I am super-easy to persuade, so if @Willy Vereb will give me the general idea of what he wants to do, I'll consider letting him in.

@Hael

Ah, fair enough. As I said, you know best how many people you can handle. I was just wondering, and that makes sense enough.

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I'm sorry, but we're very full.

I really can't handle anymore people now. In the future I may open up spots again, but I am not certain. If I do, I'll contact you.

I'm sorry.

@Hael

Huh, really? Even with one guy dropping out and another thinking about dropping out? You're the GM and you have final say on how many people you can handle (and who the hell am I to argue? I'm not you). But shouldn't spots have opened up? Or did I completely miss something?

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I realize EMP is energy, I never denied that. However, I am simply proposing that if it were in a missile form, would it not pass through the energy shielding?

@Lauder

I think in most settings 'energy shields' protect against ballistic and solid weapons too.

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Well, it appears I have missed a rather fun game here.
Are we seriously full?
I might introduce my usual White Corps here.
Then again, as a late joiner I literally missed 50+ pages of OOC and have yet to read up the faction profiles here.
So yeah. Pending.

@Willy Vereb

I'm not the GM or Co-GM but we did have one person drop out, and another might be dropping out. So there is a chance; though you'd probably have to wait for @Hael to pop in to know for sure.

And the 50+ pages of OOC aren't really all too important. Nothing you won't find in the NSs.