NEWS, GUBBINS, AND STUFF
We're a go for this! Everyone get apping! When constructing your app, please TG me upon completion and MAKE SURE to put the app in the Citadel Archives thread which will eventually appear in order to keep it accessible for everyone.
Music to Save the World To
Theme Song
Quote of the Day:"I'm dead, Geoffrey. Wake up and smell the coffin."
Oliver Welles
Rules, Regulations, and Red Tape
1. My word is law. Don't make me lay it down.
2. If you have any issues, present them to the community. We'll see what we can do. On the other hand, if you whine you'll get no sympathy.
3. Utilize common sense. Just think about if your stuff would actually work before doing it.
4. That being said, Rule of Cool still applies. This is about as AU as it's going to get, and you have a lot of latitude for fun. If you want the Alliance Prime Minister and the Asari Councillor to hook up, then fine by me.
5. Steamrolling is a no. Give people time to respond. Also refer to Rule 3.
6. We understand if life's crap, but please try to post in the IC once a week.
7. If you want to fight with an individual, that's not our business. Take it to TG.
8. No spamming. In other words, respect the threads and the people who use them.
9. This is the internet, but try to remain at least slightly civilized. Keep your rage and frustration IG. It's more fun like that.
10. Don't post links to your NSFW blog. We don't want it. Keep the stuff you link to PG-13. Also, please ask before advertising for another RP. I'll say yes, but this is a game, not a commercial slot.
11. I beg of you. TG me if you're going to be away or something. I need to know.
Admin Team
GM: Greater Istanistan- Your Great Leader. Rules supervision, random events, and general administration. Acknowledged grand master of Warhammer 40k trivia. Bow before me, plebes.
VGM: Lunas Legion-Quite a good schemer, and knows the ropes of the game. Ask him about his first run with Cerberus sometime.
VGM: Elerian-Elerian actually started the game about a year ago (I think), and after a hiatus has returned. Things have made a marked improvement. His swag is sending a benign influence over an RP that was formerly deeply questionable in character and setup.
VGM: Ilan - Ilan's a bro, and knows where it's at. Like Pressly, but less racist and (if possible) more level.
Introductions
Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Slightly after three,
Welcome to Mass Effect Factions. This is an RP with an illustrious (relatively) and rather (in)famous past, and we'd be glad to have you on board. This game is based in the Mass Effect universe. Players will be able to take command of any major or minor species or faction or, if they don't like any, build their own out in the Terminus. There's a bigger list later, so peruse it at your pleasure. Once you have your faction, the goal is simple. Do whatever you want. Build an economy, invade the Volus, kill Cerberus, acquire additional pylons, or engage in impossible romantic subplots with your characters. It's all up to you.
Don't pay attention to any other threads that say MASS EFFECT: FACTIONS. Or any other Mass Effect roleplays, for that matter. The road to glory is littered with the corpses of the martyrs and our enemies, and the previous iterations of Factions died gloriously for the cause of this RP. Have respect. Kind of. I have little, so please compensate. My lack of respect really is astounding. It might come from the fact that I always win. Or that I continuously self-delude about always winning. Or that I refuse to face up to my self-delusions and am a coward. Perhaps it has something to do with me being so utterly scared of losing that I try to always win. It might come from...
FUUUUUUUUUUUU...........
This roleplay starts off being shaped by several key choices by Shepard. The Council was saved, so Humanity has gained itself a Council seat in exchange and is temporarily experiencing galactic goodwill. The Rachni Queen is alive and well somewhere out in the Terminus. Wrex is off on Tuchanka attempting to unite the Krogan, because anyone who kills him is kinda terrible. Unless you're doing it to save Mordin, at which point it's still kinda iffy. Ashley Williams is the Virmire Survivor, because she’s more interesting if less likeable at times. The game starts just after Shepard's death and the downing of the Normandy. Depending on whether or not you screw Cerberus over or not, the Lazarus project may not even happen.
Each faction starts with a preset number of credits (each representing around 500 million credits in the actual games, because having a Fornax mag cost more than a fighter squadron would mean that it would have to be a pretty damn fine Fornax issue) that they can use to make ships, units and so on. Credits are generated on an IG monthly basis through the construction of economic buildings or through random events and deals. Credits may be saved up.
Admins are responsible for administering the passage of time IG. Months will be marked clearly every 2 or so pages with random events and admin-created natural responses to extremely stupid things done by players. This may stretch to 4 pages in times when the rate of posting gets exceptionally high. It might also go down should things be slow. Basically, everything is at my discretion.
Purchasing happens at the beginning of every month. The player may buy things with a credit value less or equivalent to their monthly credit generation plus their saved credits. This includes infrastructure and ships. Please note that when building units, it is important to count up credit values of them building on specific worlds. Why? Because the credit value of units building on a specific world at any given time may NOT exceed the monthly credit generation of that planet. If a planet has an economy of 200, you can’t be building 3 dreadnoughts on it. Things don’t work that way.
Have fun, RP hard, and welcome to Factions!
Istan
Useful Threads
Archive - viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=31&t=305622
IC - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=306178
Galaxy Map
Click Here for Map
Just for reference. Click for appropriate music.
Factions:
Human Systems Alliance - Eridanus 3
Asari Republics - Segmentia
Turian Hierarchy - Paddy O’Fernature
Salarian Union - Versail
Batarian Hegemony - Elerian
Omega - Greater Istanistan
Krogan (Urdnot Clan) - TriStates
Cerberus - Soviet Union of Mother Russia
Quarian Flotilla - Illan
Volus Protectorate - OPEN
Hanar Primacy - OPEN
Elcor Courts - OPEN
Rachni - OPEN
Geth - Liechtenbourg (Reserved)
Asari Terminus Colonies - Nuxipal
Unaffiliated Human Colonies - OPEN
Blood Pack - OPEN
Eclipse - Lunas Legion
Blue Suns - OPEN
Batarian Warlords - INFINITE OPENINGS! HAHAHAHAHA!
Free Human Colonies - STILL INFINITE OPENINGS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Pirate Groups- Open
Independent Geth - Go for it
Reservations are good for 48 hours unless people give justification for their tardiness.
App Structure
Faction:
Leader (You decide): (No ME2 squadmates as your leaders)
Citadel Council member Y/N or N/A:
Brief description of diplomatic relations
Military state of readiness:
History:
Infrastructure and Claimed Worlds:
Military:
Rannadril - Do not remove.
This is, if you're wondering, going to be useful to me for tracking your apps. As to why this word, Rannadril is the first segment of Administrator Anoleis' proper name. It's suitably obscure and unlikely to come up in random conversation. Unless you talk about it. DON'T.
Kidding. Chat about whatever.
Quick explanation. Once you've decided that you want the Elcor, say, and are ready to fight the Batarians, consult the price tables below and your starting Credit and Infrastructure in order to build your faction. Purchase from there within the starting cred limit. Roughly stick to canon, but overall you've got a lot of latitude. We expect far more detail for custom factions, such as Batarian Warlords or Free Human Colonies, than we do for heavily established factions, such as the Turian Hierarchy. Leaders can be OCs in the event of there being no real detail. The Mass Effect wiki is one of your best friends here. Use it to choose planets - again, roughly within canon - for settlement and construction. Please note that groups purporting to be mercenaries must act as mercenaries, not just conquering armies.
Starting Stuff:
What all the factions actually start with in terms of infrastructure, dreadnoughts, basic income, and spending cash. Not that the Basic totals are outside of the income generated by the free infrastructure or any other considerations. These reflect a basic level of income that the faction generates.
Store
Infrastructure
The foundations of your glorious imperium, AKA things the Reapers are going to try to burn for no particular reason. Stop them with megaguns.
Everyone wants a dreadnought or two. Here's how much they cost.
In case you want a land army too. You horrid person.
Upgrades
In case you want to improve your stuff. Ships and land units may only have two upgrades applied to them unless otherwise specified.
The Ban List
Thankfully empty.
Alternate Names for the Roleplay:
GroundhogDayExtinction Cycle
Only You Can Save Mankind
Planet of the Husks
Rebuild of Factions 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo
Oncoming Updates:
This is an update.
YOU MAY NOW POST.
)
