Story
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” - Stephen Hawking.
In the Darkness, they live, in the world between worlds, it contains no temporal or spatial dimensions, had no "up" or "down", even time itself, in the truest sense of the world does not exist there. The Ancients, they called it the Void, the Eternal called it the Howling and the Time Lords called it Hell. The Codexians call it “home”, The Codexians are a race who live in the heart of the multi-verse, they maintain, they watch, they write. Then the Great Rapture came upon us, the detonation of a reality bomb a unique weapon, that could literally erase the bonds holding atoms together, wiping out entire universes, and then it spread to parallel universes, from world to world, from universe to universe like a spiders web across creation, as if someone had hit the centre of the multi-verse with a great hammer!.
The Codexians knew that if they did not act, then all life in the multi-verse was in danger, not just in our world, but every world, to stem the tide the Codexians used there own reality bomb, - one to cancel out the other, it was the slimiest of chances, it worked but at terrible cost, trillions dead but worse the universal barriers were severely weakened and so several universes collapsed into each other forming the great Rapture...and an area known as the Delphi Expanse, Earth tore itself apart as the multiple version of itself tried to exist in the same space at the same time, the Codexians eventually Phase locked it to prevent it from causing another reality bomb and collapsing the multi-verse further. The Map
The OOC
The Delphi Expanse is a “Galaxy sized” area of space, that has just suffered “The Great Rapture” as mentioned above, which is in effect the merging of several science fiction universes into one massive melting pot of awesome!. I've sectioned off the Galaxy into various political sections with borders, territorial disputes and more anomalies than you can shake a stick at. In many ways the Expanse, at its core is like the “Earth” Experience but for Future Tech so that FT Players can RP in a closed ‘Universe’ as it were, Essentially creating an environment where we can all relate to each other and distances and borders actually mean something.
Universes Included So far: -
Star Trek
Star Wars
Mass Effect
Halo
Babylon 5
Andromeda
Doctor Who
Starcraft
Warhammer 40k
XCOM
Stargate
Claims
Just pick the Stellar nation you want to RP. Initially you'll be limited to what technology your empire has will depend on the universe it came from, but I imagine as you encounter other powers some friendly others not so much, and trade, steal or pillage you way to technology supremacy. Borders are set on the map for the start, but again – if you want to expand your territorial ambitions either though Liberation or “Liberation” that's up to you so long as we get a good story out of it. You can use Canon characters, but I'd prefer they be used sparingly, though if you do use them remember to portray them as they would react in character in their native universe, example Picard isn't going to go full on Blood God nor is Carrigan going to shit out unicorns and rainbows.
To Identify your Planets I'm going to go with the Star Trek System, because “its Easier”
Type : -
Class A – Arctic Ice climate
Class B – Barren desert climate
Class D – Demon Planet
Class J – Gas Giant
Class M – Garden World
Class V – Volcanic Climate
Rare Resources, Shipbuilding, Etc.
I’ve pretty much-covered most of the Cannon resources that we’re likely to encounter; if your universe has a rare resource, presume its present, also since these resources generally cannot be replicated or fabricated presume someone else will probably also want them, I'm not going to be exceptionally harsh on this unless someone is blatantly hogging all the resources (unless you've Rped a Global Galactic Conquest of Epic Awesomeness and left blood and gore in your wake). For the Sake of those of you who prefer hard numbers over story for development your Economy is dictated by your NS GDP (which you can find on any decent Calculator) multiplied by the first number of your NS population.
Technology bases
When it comes to technology, especially smashing to together so many different technology bases I embrace the maxim - Nothing is true; everything is permitted". Essentially so long as it appeared in the source material, there is some kind of reference materials available I can look at (if augments arise and I need to rule on it) and its not so ridiculously overpowered as to encroach on my sanity I'll allow it at least in principle. The rule of thumb when it comes to FT is this - “Don't be a dick”, So long as no one is a dick then I'm fully willing to embrace “the Rule of cool”. For the sake of narrative Cohesion and my sanity Time Travel and Omnipotent Beings are out however, they just cause far more trouble than they ever bring benefit to the story. Planet Killers however I'll allow, but remember before you start cranking out the Death Stars that this applies equally across the board – so the Sith get Death Stars, but the Commonwealth gets Nova Bombs, the SGC Gets Gate Busters, the Cardassians get Inter-System Ballistic Missiles...you get the idea, Also none of your planetary death machines are invincible, when they were designed they could never have compensated for the potential technology of another universe. Also its worth noting, since we've smashed universes together there will be relics around the place from the Forerunners, Ancient Lantians and the like.
Rules
Rule One – Thou Shall Not God Mod.
Rule Two – Thou Shall Not Be a Dick
Rule Three – Thou Shall remain Civil and Not Flame
Rule Four – Thou Shall Use Ignore Cannons as a Last Resort.
Application
Interested? Okay then. Fill out the Form Below. This is open to all, so anyone wants in just hit up the Application, I don't expect war and peace for every post but so long as you make an effort we're all good.
Faction Application
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[b]NS Name:[/b] <Your NS Name>
[b]Faction Name:[/b] <Chosen Faction Name>
[b]Faction Strength:[/b] <Number of Ships>
[b]General:[/b] <Some General Background on your faction and how its currently dealing with the Great Rapture>
If for some reason you'd like to be a character "In-Verse" then use the form below.
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[B]Character Name:[/B] <Name>
Gender: <Male or Female or Other>
[b]Birthday:[/b] <Birthday >
[b]Age:[/b] <Age>
[b]Height:[/b]
[b]Weight:[/b]
[b]Hair Colour:[/b]
[b]Eye Colours:[/b]
[b]Any Phobias:[/b] <List any Fears of Phobias they have here>
[b]Traits:[/b] <List any Traits here>
[b]Ideals:[/b] <What are your characters ideals and have they changed since the Rapture>
[b]Bonds:[/b] <How does your character see there bonds to other people>
[b]Likes:[/b] <Likes>
[b]Dislikes[/b]: <Dislikes>
[b]Appearance:[/b] < 1 to 2 Paragraph description and or an Image>
[b]Personality:[/b] <2 to 4 Paragraphs about your characters personality>
[b]Personal History:[/b] <Some Personnel History about them and how they fit into the world>
[b]Additional Information: [/b] <Anything you think is relevant that I missed out>
Edit: Because I derped and Forgot to mark it as Sign up and OOC
the last question is more a test of effort than RP skill. Also - the Map? Yeah I made that myself. Took forever. lol
that's probably why, yeah a lot of the ones that didn't get a Government type in the name is because of space reasons, anyone that takes them is free to state them as there government types though. 
