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[Tinfect]

So uh, anybody know who New Constitution of Lost Earth is? He just posted in the IC thread.

[Excidium Planetis]

So uh, anybody know who New Constitution of Lost Earth is? He just posted in the IC thread.

He's my regional delegate, and he posted an App here, Tinfect.

[The Second Brotherhood of Planets]

30 meters is large? Lol the ship we sent is classified as a Heavy Fighter.

According to Wikipedia, the largest fighter ever in service in the real world, the Tupolev Tu-128, only had a wingspan of 17.53 meters. If your craft is wider than 30 meters, that's a damn big Fighter.

Anyways, the Hangars are sized for Excidian craft, the Bolt starfighter only has a wingspan of like 15 meters or something, and I don't think the V64C even has wings, honestly.

Anyway, unfortunately, no. Not in its current configuration. It's just slightly wider than 30 meters right now. It would have to shift back into V-form and, due to that form's emphasis on acceleration with terrible maneuverability, it would have to look like it's about to ram your hangar in order to dock fittingly.

...

Although if you had something like a grappling hook or some tractor beam equivalent we could dock much more easily and then leave even more easily in V-form.

Of course we have magnetic tow cables, we need to pull damaged ships in somehow.

Then perhaps the next scene can involve the use of said cables when the hangar is proven to be too small for T form and the shifted V form proves to be too 'fast' for proper docking.

Or we can just handwave the ship as docked in V form. I prefer the latter.

At any rate, the reason why the T form is so wide, especially when compared to modern-day fighters is because strictly speaking the Mmrnmhrm Transformer (the class of ship) isn't actually a fighter.

But the Broes do not currently have a classification between cutter/corvette and heavy fighter. Since the Transformer is not standardized, well, there's even less incentive to create one.

The Transformer has a fairly large crew for a ship that size, just so you know. But Mmrnmhrm are shorter, if not slimmer, than most humans so more space for them. No need for biological life support helps with crew space too.

[Potted Plants United]

So uh, anybody know who New Constitution of Lost Earth is? He just posted in the IC thread.

He's my regional delegate, and he posted an App here, Tinfect.

An app that was 1) seriously lacking, considering the requirements for others, and 2) which you didn't approve. Also they seem to be getting quite ahead of the game/godmodding about everyone being on the Starliner already.

Also, EP, I still need you to cut out the majority of your reaction post for PPU, as I asked here, because it makes no sense if I add PPU's response to Hailey's first response after everything in that post.

[Lyrical Extrasolar Mission]

...just how fast are these dropships (acceleration-wise), if you don't mind me asking?

[Excidium Planetis]

He's my regional delegate, and he posted an App here, Tinfect.

An app that was 1) seriously lacking, considering the requirements for others, and 2) which you didn't approve. Also they seem to be getting quite ahead of the game/godmodding about everyone being on the Starliner already.

Yes, I noticed that. I'll try bringing it up.

...just how fast are these dropships (acceleration-wise), if you don't mind me asking?

I don't know for sure, but I would guess close to the FZ-60 Ventus Combat Interceptor, which has essentially infinite acceleration in space, as AE Celestia lists the speed at half a light year per hour, clearly FTL speeds. (You know, I don't know why we still use messenger ships, actually, we could use Ventus interceptors for 15 times faster communication).

Things get a bit weird with Stormwrathian tech, it's far beyond our own.

[New Constitution of Lost Earth]

An app that was 1) seriously lacking, considering the requirements for others, and 2) which you didn't approve. Also they seem to be getting quite ahead of the game/godmodding about everyone being on the Starliner already.

Yes, I noticed that. I'll try bringing it up.

...just how fast are these dropships (acceleration-wise), if you don't mind me asking?

I don't know for sure, but I would guess close to the FZ-60 Ventus Combat Interceptor, which has essentially infinite acceleration in space, as AE Celestia lists the speed at half a light year per hour, clearly FTL speeds. (You know, I don't know why we still use messenger ships, actually, we could use Ventus interceptors for 15 times faster communication).

Things get a bit weird with Stormwrathian tech, it's far beyond our own.

Sorry bout anything that seems lacking in detail, I DONT do detail. Also, as far as I could tell you mentioned everyone that was already there already on the star liner... Also you did TG me, so I thought I was clear, and you TGed me that the rp had offically started cause you didnt know how much I checked the forums
Also(I will have to start to do this) I dont always read really long post all the way through, just skimming them, otherwise I may get bored

[Excidium Planetis]

Sorry bout anything that seems lacking in detail, I DONT do detail.

Now, that's just not true. You've done detail before, better than what you posted here.

And nothing personal or anything, but detail is one of the focuses of the RP:

Your characters will be free to explore the world, and I will work hard to craft an experience around your interactions. I intend this to be an exercise in world-building as much as it is an RP, so creating rich, detailed scenes will be my top priority.

On an RMB post, where almost everyone does one liners, sparse detail may suffice, but for this kind of RP, the level of detail expected is a bit higher. Your post just looks out of place in the RP.

Also, as far as I could tell you mentioned everyone that was already there already on the star liner...

The Sierra Lyricalia delegation is now on board the Starliner, but Aeiouia's post clearly has Ayda flying a starfighter towards the Starliner, the dropship Potted Plants is on is still in space (maybe, PPU wanted to go back a bit so the plants could ask more questions), Tinfect hasn't even had their people leave their ships yet, and the Second Brotherhood of Planets is still trying to dock.

Also you did TG me, so I thought I was clear, and you TGed me that the rp had offically started cause you didnt know how much I checked the forums

I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, because you are an RPer.

Also(I will have to start to do this) I dont always read really long post all the way through, just skimming them, otherwise I may get bored

As long as you ask questions about things you aren't sure about (Like, "Is everyone already on the Starliner?") that will be fine. It's when you miss key details in the skimming that there are problems.

Speaking of problems, I have a few questions about your post:

On board the star liner ahead of the others a shade appears and walks over to them and looks at everyone "I appear to be late...Anyways, I am Lord Castilin the representative for the NCLE"

The first is the biggest problem: How did Castilin's shade even get on board our ship? You explained in your TG that shade projection is your Ultimate Lore Tech, but your own description (the one approved by the Federacy's leadership) says this:

Desc: Several centuries ago a small group, including Castilin, journeyed into a lost temple on an unknown planet searching for some dark powers, what he found was The Void. A dimension of darkness, which is where he stayed for several days learning its secrets, and with those secrets he has learned to harness the powers of the shadows.
Effect: He can summon shades in places he is familiar with, such as the capital or his flagship, those shades can possess the weaker minded and use them to carry out his will. He can also teleport to nearby areas.

Negative Effect: The shade itself has little physical effect so alone it can only be his eyes and ears, and anti-magic immediately dissipates or knocks it back. It may be able to possess someone but only the weakest of mind and can't push them to far. The more shades he has out the longer it takes him to process things as his focus is split between every shade and himself. His teleporting/blinking covers him and the area around him and where he is teleporting to whenever he does so, meaning he can't teleport behind someone and they not notice, then it also takes time to teleport, which is when he is most vulnerable.

I think it's pretty safe to say your leader is not familiar with one of our regular old civilian cruise ships in the middle of a random empty system we asked everyone to meet at.

Second, how did Castilin know to show up at this exact second, on that exact ship, and that the random group of people he has never seen before and was not yet introduced to are in fact the other people who were invited to this project (and, by the way, none of the other nations were informed that other nations would be invited, except PPU's plants just now) and that he is late? Seems like an awful lot of assumptions to make.

[Excidium Planetis]

My description of the Amaranth noted a zero gravity gym. After reconsidering the ship design, this is highly impractical, as it would require just the center portion of the starship spinning while the connection to the warp ring was stationary. Better to have the whole thing rotating, which makes the connecting portion have a slightly higher gravity. High gravity gymnasium, then, which is actually quite the hazard.

[New Constitution of Lost Earth]

Sorry bout anything that seems lacking in detail, I DONT do detail.

Now, that's just not true. You've done detail before, better than what you posted here.



And nothing personal or anything, but detail is one of the focuses of the RP:

Your characters will be free to explore the world, and I will work hard to craft an experience around your interactions. I intend this to be an exercise in world-building as much as it is an RP, so creating rich, detailed scenes will be my top priority.

On an RMB post, where almost everyone does one liners, sparse detail may suffice, but for this kind of RP, the level of detail expected is a bit higher. Your post just looks out of place in the RP.

Also, as far as I could tell you mentioned everyone that was already there already on the star liner...

The Sierra Lyricalia delegation is now on board the Starliner, but Aeiouia's post clearly has Ayda flying a starfighter towards the Starliner, the dropship Potted Plants is on is still in space (maybe, PPU wanted to go back a bit so the plants could ask more questions), Tinfect hasn't even had their people leave their ships yet, and the Second Brotherhood of Planets is still trying to dock.

Also you did TG me, so I thought I was clear, and you TGed me that the rp had offically started cause you didnt know how much I checked the forums

I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, because you are an RPer.

Also(I will have to start to do this) I dont always read really long post all the way through, just skimming them, otherwise I may get bored

As long as you ask questions about things you aren't sure about (Like, "Is everyone already on the Starliner?") that will be fine. It's when you miss key details in the skimming that there are problems.

Speaking of problems, I have a few questions about your post:

On board the star liner ahead of the others a shade appears and walks over to them and looks at everyone "I appear to be late...Anyways, I am Lord Castilin the representative for the NCLE"

The first is the biggest problem: How did Castilin's shade even get on board our ship? You explained in your TG that shade projection is your Ultimate Lore Tech, but your own description (the one approved by the Federacy's leadership) says this:

Desc: Several centuries ago a small group, including Castilin, journeyed into a lost temple on an unknown planet searching for some dark powers, what he found was The Void. A dimension of darkness, which is where he stayed for several days learning its secrets, and with those secrets he has learned to harness the powers of the shadows.
Effect: He can summon shades in places he is familiar with, such as the capital or his flagship, those shades can possess the weaker minded and use them to carry out his will. He can also teleport to nearby areas.

Negative Effect: The shade itself has little physical effect so alone it can only be his eyes and ears, and anti-magic immediately dissipates or knocks it back. It may be able to possess someone but only the weakest of mind and can't push them to far. The more shades he has out the longer it takes him to process things as his focus is split between every shade and himself. His teleporting/blinking covers him and the area around him and where he is teleporting to whenever he does so, meaning he can't teleport behind someone and they not notice, then it also takes time to teleport, which is when he is most vulnerable.

I think it's pretty safe to say your leader is not familiar with one of our regular old civilian cruise ships in the middle of a random empty system we asked everyone to meet at.

Second, how did Castilin know to show up at this exact second, on that exact ship, and that the random group of people he has never seen before and was not yet introduced to are in fact the other people who were invited to this project (and, by the way, none of the other nations were informed that other nations would be invited, except PPU's plants just now) and that he is late? Seems like an awful lot of assumptions to make.

The detailed post was me making something that happened in the past, and by myself without any other person having any say on what is going on. I will try to go for more detailed, and I thought everyone was there so I was trying to catch up, when I can I will edit my post to fix that

[Sierra Lyricalia]

My description of the Amaranth noted a zero gravity gym. After reconsidering the ship design, this is highly impractical, as it would require just the center portion of the starship spinning while the connection to the warp ring was stationary. Better to have the whole thing rotating, which makes the connecting portion have a slightly higher gravity. High gravity gymnasium, then, which is actually quite the hazard.

If you'd like, it could be a multi-level gym where each tier has its own apparent gravity, from greater-than-human-comfort near the hull all the way up to zero-g at the center, with the gym space itself forming a partitioned wedge of one slice of ship. If this is a particularly cosmopolitan cruise liner, many of its passengers might even prefer this setup, depending on the varying strengths of their native gravitation.

[Excidium Planetis]

I edited in some additional dialogue with PPU per a telegram exachage we had.

I also posted a response to all the posts since my last post.

Aeiouia, feel free to RP your arrival in the Hangar.

NCLE, you might want to actually have a character say what it is they said to Amaranth (saying "Hail them." And then saying you are waiting for a reply is like saying "Castilin asked the Excidians a question and then waited for a reply". I need to know what exactly was said to know how to respond). I gave an IC excuse for another post.

[Potted Plants United]

Aeiouia, does Ayda breathe? I mean, obviously she doesn't need to breathe (the bit about her trying to talk in the vacuum was amusing), but she's just as obviously capable of speaking in an atmosphere.

I'm mostly asking because if the PPU plants get close enough to people, they'll be able to detect the CO² that people breathe out (RL plants can, too, which is fairly cool, though not with the precision that the hivemind is capable of - it takes a mind to have the ability to put "breeze from direction X", "a person in direction X", "slight increase of CO₂ in direction X" together and come up with "the person in direction X is breathing out CO₂"), and the hivemind would probably be slightly puzzled if it didn't detect that from someone.

[Excidium Planetis]

I'm kinda waiting on Aqua to make a post saying the Mmrnmhrm have gotten out of their craft and rolled up, or whatever, and for NCLE to post an entrance.

But if you guys want, I can assume they are within earshot already and start the introductions.

[Aeiouia]

Aeiouia, does Ayda breathe? I mean, obviously she doesn't need to breathe (the bit about her trying to talk in the vacuum was amusing), but she's just as obviously capable of speaking in an atmosphere.

I'm mostly asking because if the PPU plants get close enough to people, they'll be able to detect the CO² that people breathe out (RL plants can, too, which is fairly cool, though not with the precision that the hivemind is capable of - it takes a mind to have the ability to put "breeze from direction X", "a person in direction X", "slight increase of CO₂ in direction X" together and come up with "the person in direction X is breathing out CO₂"), and the hivemind would probably be slightly puzzled if it didn't detect that from someone.

The the drone mimics breathing, but does not actually do so. After all it is designed to fool Humans, not a sapient plant hivemind. The PPU plants would indeed detect no CO² emanating from Ayda.

[Potted Plants United]

The the drone mimics breathing, but does not actually do so. After all it is designed to fool Humans, not a sapient plant hivemind. The PPU plants would indeed detect no CO² emanating from Ayda.

Well, the hivemind's very well aware that there are other strange(r) species out there in the multiverse, so it probably wouldn't mention it right away, but just might (semi-)privately ask Ayda what her species is, as she doesn't appear to be the kind of human the hivemind is used to.

But if you guys want, I can assume they are within earshot already and start the introductions.

That's fine by me - and if you want to, you might mention the leafsnake is visible again around the speaker plant's "shoulders", this time banded with green-and-red (most of the trip it would've spent out of sight under the speaker plant's fronds).

[Tinfect]

I'm kinda waiting on Aqua to make a post saying the Mmrnmhrm have gotten out of their craft and rolled up, or whatever, and for NCLE to post an entrance.

But if you guys want, I can assume they are within earshot already and start the introductions.

You might just want to throw a TG at him, I know I've forgotten about this sort of thing in the past, and it's really the best way to get someone's attention here on NS.

[Lyrical Extrasolar Mission]

If you're bored, I'm happy to make small talk with Rainier on our way out the hatch

[Potted Plants United]

By the way, if anyone wants to write their reactions to PPU's plants, the speaker plant in its plantpot is just shy of 2 metres (6.5 feet) tall, though the last 15-20 cm (6-8 inches) of it are the "crown" of eyes on stalks.

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Note: Tinfect and I decided to include the message conversation that PPU and Markhov are currently having in Strangers' Bar as canon and happening before the various ships show up near the Starliner. So both nations will be aware of at least both of them having been invited (and Tinfect's going to have a lot of information of PPU in IC that most others have only got OOCly). Not that either would probably have thought to mention it to the Excidians...

[Excidium Planetis]

I'll post tomorrow, I swear.

Now, after the introdictions, a question on how we proceed:

Do we want to roleplay out the whole trip from Kappa Canis Majoris to the location of Home Fleet, or skip it and go straight from getting acquainted with Amaranth to docking procedure with Reckoner?

[Tinfect]

I'll post tomorrow, I swear.

Now, after the introdictions, a question on how we proceed:

Do we want to roleplay out the whole trip from Kappa Canis Majoris to the location of Home Fleet, or skip it and go straight from getting acquainted with Amaranth to docking procedure with Reckoner?

I'm fine with both, really. Maybe continue on for the early portion of the trip, and jump ahead from there, just to let everyone get the hang of their characters?

[Araraukar]

Do we want to roleplay out the whole trip from Kappa Canis Majoris to the location of Home Fleet, or skip it and go straight from getting acquainted with Amaranth to docking procedure with Reckoner?

I'm fine with both, really. Maybe continue on for the early portion of the trip, and jump ahead from there, just to let everyone get the hang of their characters?

Definitely should let everyone get acquainted first, but if the trip lasts for weeks, probably best to jump forward to arrival to Reckoner - and I hope we'll get a visual of approach from outside too.

EDIT: Bah, forgot I wasn't on PPU. To those that haven't read PPU's siggy, Potted Plants United is my WA puppet. EP, is it ok if I post here on Ara?

[The Second Brotherhood of Planets]

I'll post tomorrow, I swear.

Now, after the introdictions, a question on how we proceed:

Do we want to roleplay out the whole trip from Kappa Canis Majoris to the location of Home Fleet, or skip it and go straight from getting acquainted with Amaranth to docking procedure with Reckoner?

I'm fine with both, really. Maybe continue on for the early portion of the trip, and jump ahead from there, just to let everyone get the hang of their characters?

Seconded. Either way works, although sure having us get to Home Fleet sooner helps with pacing. We should still get everyone acquainted though.

[Excidium Planetis]

EDIT: Bah, forgot I wasn't on PPU. To those that haven't read PPU's siggy, Potted Plants United is my WA puppet. EP, is it ok if I post here on Ara?

Yeah, that's fine.

[Excidium Planetis]

Alright people. My post is finally up. Time to interact.

Question for Sierra Lyricalia and Tinfect (and NCLE, I guess?): are your humans physiologically the same as real life Earth humans? Can they eat the same things, do they have the same digestive process, etc?