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...and the Darkness is Harsh [SF]

- This post meant to say something idiotic. It has been annihilated -

...and the Darkness is Harsh [SF]

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Race Name: Padoven
Demonym: Padovens

Name of Faction: The Padoven Union / PSCF Union ( Padoven States and Colonies Federate Union)
Government Structure:
The Padoen Union is an intergovernmental organization, first founded in 7678 C.I. in order to promote planetary and extraplanetary co-government. Officially declared a federation twenty years later, it regrouped the 23 nations of the Padoven Hegemony under a common flag,
In the Union, each state preserves limited local authonomy, whilst the executive, the legislative and the judiciary are held by the central government.
Each great state boasts one to three representatives* in the 'Nations Council', a counseling organ from which are elected those deputies who will make up the General Council. The latter detains legislative power, and the power to elect through a votation system the Primarchs, heads of the military.
The judiciary power is composed of a tripartite organ, each composed of different courts for various crimes, ranging from war ones, to civil ones.
Lastly, the executive is held by the Union Steward, a life tenure office, who has moreover veto over the laws passed in the General Council. The Union Steward is elected by the Nations Council after a week of mourning after his predecessor's death.

Representatives are not chosen by the Council, but by the local state government, whose government form may vary. As of the day, the permitted local
administration governments allowed are: Republic, Monarchy, Illuminate Dictatorship, Militaristic Hegemony, Technocracy, Theocracy, Democracy, Monarchy and
Organized Anarchy.

Race Biology:
Characterized by an thick hexagonal plates exoskeleton that covers almost entirely Padoven skin (except for the neck, hands and *cough* private locations), and low sexual dimorphism, this race body reseambles particularly that of other species. Vertebrates, bipedal mammals, Padovens have, like many other species, a capillary cardiac system, a neuronal one, organic fabrics and a diplontic life cycle. They are particularly tall and based on an avian build.
Having a slow metabolism, Padovens need half-dozen more hours of sleep during the night than averange species, though noticeably increasing their life-span, tranquillity and thoughtfulness.
Having evolved in an envirnment based on L-amminacids, Padovens are not able of disgesting any kind of organism not based on the same amminoacid structure. Though originally evolved from an herbivore species, they are omnivore, and really appreciate eating soft and well-coocked meat.
With small and thick eyes, their prolonged head is covered with unusually straight shining plates, that end over a toothed mouth - to be noted the presence of six canines-, devoid of lips. Lastly, on the side of the mouth, important is the presence of two long and moving mandibles, once used by Pedovens' ancestors to group substantial bundles of grass to be eaten; today they don't have any pratical use anymore, since the invention of cutlery, but still bear symbolic meanings and attractiveness.
Their hearing is really developed, and they can catch even lower and higher frequences compared to other species. For this reason it is commonly said 'listening to the universe' in order to indicate someone who isn't very talkative, because when in empty space, Padovens can hear a weak background considered as the 'Universe melody'.
An interesting anomaly of Padoven physiognomy is an odd soft protuberance situated behind the neck, capable of stretching over their heads and shrinking back at will: though without any practical utility, thus leaving geneticists really baffled on why their race developed something this useless, this hood-like sack is often used by people to cover their heads during particularly hot or rainy days.

Padovens

Cultural History:
Almost seven thousands of years before the current times, Vituvia - Padoven homeworld - was devastated by a cataclysm, which transformed that idylliac terran world into a scorching ball of restlessness. A comet, moving unexpectedly away from its course, entered in contact with the atmosphere of the planet, unleashing high values of toxic gases; moreover, after the melting of the frozen gases, the comet revealed an heavy metallic core, which survived and crashed with unimaginable strenght on the surface.
The Padovens, silent spectators of their world premature end, eventually adapted, evolved to strive and survive in the new hostile environment: taller and more slender physognomies appeared, and they naturally developed in the successive two thousand years enzymes for digesting meat based meals, easier to find in those blasted lands.
Eventually from the ashes of the world they boosted an healing process of their own planet, slowly regaining pieces of land from the toxic miasma, or rebuilding the fractures on the land. Today Vituvia has returned to his former beauty, partly at least, having undergone an heavy terraformation process. Godless, Padovens rebuilt their world with their own capabilities, thus ascending to a new level of self-conception. They were the center of the universe.
Today the original tendency of equilibre and sobrity frequent during the cataclysm has passed out, and since the last thousand of years -basically, the return of drinkable waters in most inlands- the Padovens have started again to regroup in differentiated ethnics and cvilizations, eventually leading to the birth of very different nations all through the world. Cultures are now incredibly different each from another, and describing each one of them would be quite a pain in- it would be really wearsome.
Only to be noted that Padoven mix of cultures has led to the birth of the 'New Empire' culture, a global elegant but simple union of arts, architecture and forms of speech, which is swiftly gaining its space in both planetary and extraplanetary communities.
Of what was before the cataclysm, very little remains: only shadows of a forgotten past, and the first light that wasn't from their sun.

Social Structure:

Formerly, the Union is based on the sacrosanct equality of rights for all Padovens.
In practice, society is based on a socio-economic hierarchical system based on wealth, and merits. Basically, the self-fulfillment of the individual is entirely based on its capability of striving through this sprawling society, and also on its social background. However, the government bases most of his fortune on this propaganda, promising better conditions and a more just meritocracy.
Still, socio-economic inequalities are frequent, and probably the situation will never change. This is in fact the main reason why the numbers of people enrolling in colonial missions in the system is esponentially growing, having seen that by creating a new colony - and thus a new state -, they would achieve that generally precluded high-ranking position. Of course, that if they survive the unknown environment.

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Reaction to Aliens: After the sudden leak of top secret informations, Padovens discovered that the government didn't have an emergency 'first contact' plan, thus leading to the massive exploitation of such an hot topic by the media. After the sold-out 'Baugrund Investors II - The Vengeance', a major weekly magazine surveyed great portions of the population on 'how would they act, whether they see an alien': surprisingly enough, the choice with the highest votations was the number C 'Interested in a Lemon Bubbling Blaster?', immediately followed with equal votes by answer A and E, respectively saying 'Welcome, did you lost yourself or somethin'?' and 'GET THE F*** OUT OF HERE!'.
The Steward suggested an alcoholism survey next.

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'Now calculating...'
A small red light was turning repetitively around, alerting an alert. What kind, none of the crew could not guess. The ship WAS had suddenly closed all exterior windows and activated emergency measures. Whilst everyone was slowly falling into a hidden state of panic, the colonization fleet Captain Arcturus sat comfortably on his chair. None dared to speak. None dared to move. He knew everyone was looking at him, at his closed eyes: that very flesh that few minutes before ordered to cross that alien artifact.
And he could not hide his pleasure. If only they could calm down themselves...
'Now calculating...'
'Shut up, AI ! Rehabilitate the systems at once.' uttered someone in a corner of the hall.
'Now calculating...' repeated the mechanical voice.
Oh oh oh... he knew perfectly what was lying behind the walls. Baffling indeed that one of the most modern computers couldn't even understand that. Or probably it knew, but was so eagerly shocked by such a discovery that was trying to recover useless data, thus shutting up the systems to save energy. Who knew, who knew.
Well, more bemusing was the apparent inability of his crew to hear.

'Calculation complete'

All the windows opened concurrently. Not that was necessary, since all of the small colonization crew was now in the main hall. There, over their bewildered eyes, the observation dome opened, revealing what most strange existed in the universe. An infinite, sprawling sea of stars greeted the adventurers with shiny and gleaming smiles.
There a blue dot, there a giant bundle of milky lights, there, far, almost invisible, a solitary galaxy joined the welcome as well. Surely no words could describe that sight.
Still, someone dared to, and, obviously, failed to embody the beauty and magnificence of it.
'Calculated an asymmetric bundle of barely three hundreds of millions of stars. Spotted around eight point eight millions of possibly hospitable planets. Should I report to the Union, sir Captain?'
Arcturus could not refrain a smile to curl his lipless mouth. The metallic voice lost itself in the void, whilst an harmonious and strong melody completely engulfed the dazzled crew.

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Warmongerers / Military Production: 6
Scientists / Research Income: 9
Theologians / Faith Income: 0

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Tier 1: 20
Robotics
Cold Fusion
Particle Manipulation
Ballistics

Tier 2: 40
Industrial Robotics
Artificial inteligence
Impulse Drives
Particles Physics

Tier 3: 30
Orbital Platforms
Particles Beams
Orbital Ballistics

...and the Darkness is Harsh [SF]

I'm pretty interested in this.
I have two questions regarding the gates:
Have these portals a specific form, size, shape?
When you define the 'nexus station', you mean some kind of run-down alien civilization space station somewhere near the core, or just a zone near the core of the Milky way?

Thank you for your answers in advance.

Mass Effect: The Cycle Countinues

Is this still a thing? Cuz I'm interested :P

Colonial Powers, A NRP of colonisation, conquest and diplomacy.

darkwolf687 said
Ouch, poor Iria. The odds certainly weren't in their favour

Pretty much as always :I

Colonial Powers, A NRP of colonisation, conquest and diplomacy.

*shivers*

Colonial Powers, A NRP of colonisation, conquest and diplomacy.

Iluvatar said I think Argentaurumia may need to get some friends, or we may be crushed...

Iria is always open to gain a protectorate :)
* abruptly bursts into an evil grin, uttering 'You have no power here!' *

Clash of Civilisation: A Historical/Alternate History RP

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Resigned

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Name: Kingdom of Naples
Ruler: Charles I
Form of government: Feudal Monarchy
Traits:
- Seafaring "Menarse a mare cu' tutt'e panne." "Plunge in the sea with full clothing"
- Commercial "Chi fraveca e sfraveca nun perde maje tiempo." "Who works hard, in anything, does not waste time."
Brief history: WIP
Claimed land: [/centre]

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Name: Charles I of Anjou
Title(s): King of Sicily - King of Naples
Age: 39
Brief backstory: WIP
Appearance:

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Personality and interests (what do they want?): WIP

(( I personally vote for having resources on the map. Moreover, I suggest of making possible the refinement of raw resources through workshops, in order to trade better goods for an higher profit :). ))

Clash of Civilisation: A Historical/Alternate History RP

*Enters the room in a rush carrying a dozen colorful banners and flags, breathless*
W-wait! I'm here as well!

Colonial Powers, A NRP of colonisation, conquest and diplomacy.

gowia said
Ahhhhh yeah you local climates and geology is up to you HOWEVER I want some realism here. For example you couldn't have tropical or huge rolling deserts simply because the climate isn't like that. Imagine European. So there is some tundra, snow and humid climates. Also placing natural defences in is fine but if somebody were to try and fill themselves those I would give them a little more trouble simply because it's not fair for a nation to be un-invadable because of impassible mountains.

Clear. Another question: how much land is permitted to be claimed?

For example

Is this much ok?