Imperium: Reboot (OOC/Sign Ups) Always Open

[Parcia]

Mostly money, though dealings with those known to be galactic pariahs tends to be more covert. Though whom "The Company" works with is often solely up to Johannes.

My character is certainly not a Galactic pariah... but he's still under close surveillance by the Crown Princess' agents. To the future I can see Uri having numerous dealings with Johannes. Perhaps Johannes would accept bodyguard work, like a counter-espionage operation to identify those who spied on Uri?

Counter espionage is on the table, though attempting to counteract the II it self is not likely, all things considered. We can hash out the details ICly.

[G-Tech Corporation]

I would -love- to do some espionage nonsense.

[Union Princes]

I hope the rebellion won't devolve into a Space Vietnam, the Betreuen Blackguards would take a more liberal approach in suppressing the populace.

[G-Tech Corporation]

I hope the rebellion won't devolve into a Space Vietnam, the Betreuen Blackguards would take a more liberal approach in suppressing the populace.

Space Vietnam with swords!

[Bolslania]

I hope the rebellion won't devolve into a Space Vietnam, the Betreuen Blackguards would take a more liberal approach in suppressing the populace.

Space Vietnam with swords!

Space Vietnam with orbital bombardments!

[Parcia]

Make it a Space Cold war with your friendly Info Broker.

[Union Princes]

Might as well start making a post for the BB being sent over to the Hyperborean front

[Revlona]

I would -love- to do some espionage nonsense.

How far will this rebellion need to go before your house calls for Imperial aid?

[Imperialisium]

I would -love- to do some espionage nonsense.

How far will this rebellion need to go before your house calls for Imperial aid?

Given it’s a matter of pride and outward appearance. I imagine the Hegemony wouldn’t call for aid until they’ve given a decent show of effort.

[Imperialisium]

I hope the rebellion won't devolve into a Space Vietnam, the Betreuen Blackguards would take a more liberal approach in suppressing the populace.

Really guerrilla warfare or at least unconventional warfare is any rebels greatest asset. Sure the GI may be unable to really hyper focus on any one insurgency or rebellion, but until the GI really starts going into severe factionalism/warlordism/fragmentation any head to head war is basically a grand scale Iwo Jima. The Imperium will cross the metaphorical beach, eventually.

[Parcia]

Oh, apps perry much done Imps, and I've blown up ye DMs about the Corsair.

[Imperialisium]

Name: Johannes Achermen
Nickname/Alias: "Jack Abernathy" "John Doe" "The Spider"
Age: 65
Birth Date: Unknown.
Gender: Male
Planet of Origin: Voidborn (Born aboard a starship)
Race/Species: Listed as both Solarin and baseline Human, reports vary.
Height: 5'10
Weight: Est. 200 lbs
Physical Description or Image:

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Social Class: Rumored to be a noble, though nothing concrete exists. Easily a member of the wealthy upper class. Primary income comes as a result of his profitable Information and data Brokerage business, allowing for a high end and comfortable living on paper. In reality a solid if not considerable portion of his earned wealth goes in to his business and it's assets, paying crew payroll and purchasing advanced tech and gear for his operatives.

Titles: None Officially.

Occupation: He is most well known for the most common and low level service he offers to those who seek him out, Information and data exchange. For higher end service, one must be some one of sufficiently high standing to warrant Jack to offer his more end services. To be offered the highest level of services, Jacks personal repertoire of assassins, hackers and specialists often requires being someone of high noble standing. Jack caters to the upper class, and his services match.

"I am an information broker, call me Jack. Those with much more imaginative minds then I call me "The Spider", something to do with having multiple eyes I guess. As the job title suggests, I mostly deal with Information and Data, mostly industrial espionage, state secrets, a few state rumors, that sort of thing. I have a few high price assets im willing to part with, things that most would not likely be able to find other wise. I have a few individuals under my retainer that are willing to perform certain services for payment rendered, with a cut for my self of course. I offer discrete, covert services with little chance of outside interference and a high degree of customer satisfaction."
Hobbies/Pastimes: Writing, fishing, and cooking."

Talents/Skills: Intelligence gathering, networking, and Informational warfare. Secondary skills do include handling of small arms, hand to hand combat, and traditional Intelligence field craft and operations.
Religious Beliefs: None.
Personality: Often described as anything ranging from sly, to cold, to even cruel, to those who know him as Johannes Achermen know him to be a rather cold and calculating, if loyal and consistent man. He pays his debts, upholds his end of the bargain and deep down, genuinely cares for those who work under him and do well for him.

Biography:

Born a bastard to an Imperial Noblemen and his bodyguard aboard their personal Starship, he would enjoy a quiet if wealthy life, though he would be occasionally targeted by rival noblemen and their assassins for simply being related to a high ranking senator. Nonetheless, he would grow up not knowing his father, and often not seeing his mother for months on end as her profession required her. Spending most his time alone (though under the care of a contracted nanny) would see him immerse himself in to the arts of literature and reading, harboring some dream of becoming a published writer.

Sadely, nearing his 16th birthday his mother would simply never return to him, having finally met a quick end that is rather commonplace among her line of work. His father, being rather sympathetic for bringing the boy in to the world present him with an application to the Imperial Intelligence service. Having cultivated a sharp and quick mind, he entered it's rigorous and intensive training program and reportedly doing well. Being subjected to the standard realm of Biological and technological augmentations, the installation of a neural chip set, and made a junior operator and field agent combating low level rebels and their organizations.

While met with success, owing to a driven and almost ruthless sense of duty and drive, it would become rather clear to his handlers and fellow agents that his true talents lay in the planning and organization of operations rather then being boots on the ground and would be pressed in this role as a full fledged operator. Some time during this time he would aquire a set of blueprints for an Imperial Stealth frigate and store them away for later use. With Johannes behind several successful small scale operations against potential rebel threats he would be recognized as some one of potential and soon elevated out of the field and in to the command structure of the agency, were he would enjoy a storied carrier and rising through the ranks before being offered a Sector Chief's position some time near his 50th birthday.

Suddenly, and with out little reason as to why, he would tender his letter of resignation and leave the Agency, going off the grid for some time as well. Right around this time the Agency would suffer one of its very few database security breaches that would see most of his mission and personal files deleted and scrubbed, essentially erasing him from their records. Unbeknownst to those at the agency, Johannes had been planning his "out" for some time and took the opportunity to do it then and now.

With his records erased and a private shipyard contracted to build his personal ship, Johannes set about cultivating a portfolio of assets and contacts in which to build his business, and being 10 year since he left the agency, business has been good.

Accepted

[Astarten]

Aite posted my first post. Curious to see how the other factions would view this act.

Btw @Imperialisium not sure if you saw my previous post but I'll repost it here just in case

Sorry I was absent for awhile. RL stuff as usual. But is the senate meeting already over?

I got a post half ready but wanna see if there's anything needs to be changed according to ongoing IC events. Just gonna stick to playing the Federation since I really just wanna get into it right now. Also are space-mechs existent in this universe? was thinking of developing a space-mech program instead of a super soldier one as I feel that fits the Federation's M.O better. Think gundam but without the OP abilities you see in some series. Just an organic neural interface system similar to the Alaya-Vijnana System from Iron-Blooded Orphans. Grant the pilots acute spatial awareness and the ability to fluidly control their machines like as if it's their own bodies. Of course at the cost of severe cerebral nerve damage when overused for long periods of time.

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https://imgur.com/qCLMIxz

Map updated.

"United Federation Territorial Size: Several star systems totaling 60 planets (of which only 30 are habitable) and 100 moons, 13 of which have moonbase settlements."

Also can you add the Free Worlds somewhere in-between Hyperborea Alfa and Aquillon IX?

[Imperialisium]

Sorry I was absent for awhile. RL stuff as usual. But is the senate meeting already over?

I got a post half ready but wanna see if there's anything needs to be changed according to ongoing IC events. Just gonna stick to playing the Federation since I really just wanna get into it right now. Also are space-mechs existent in this universe? was thinking of developing a space-mech program instead of a super soldier one as I feel that fits the Federation's M.O better. Think gundam but without the OP abilities you see in some series. Just an organic neural interface system similar to the Alaya-Vijnana System from Iron-Blooded Orphans. Grant the pilots acute spatial awareness and the ability to fluidly control their machines like as if it's their own bodies. Of course at the cost of severe cerebral nerve damage when overused for long periods of time.

EDIT

https://imgur.com/qCLMIxz

Map updated.

"United Federation Territorial Size: Several star systems totaling 60 planets (of which only 30 are habitable) and 100 moons, 13 of which have moonbase settlements."

Also can you add the Free Worlds somewhere in-between Hyperborea Alfa and Aquillon IX?

Mecha do exist but have more logical applications. Meaning they’re typically deployed in terrain or atmospheres (or lack there of) where treaded vehicles or suspensor using vehicles may have problems. Nor are they strictly bipedal. Imperial Walkers and Mechas typically operate in extreme elevation areas, often worlds with low gravity. Where stepping and sinking into the ground a bit due to less contact area may actually be beneficial. However, mechs and walkers aren’t large. As they’d be easy kills for any decently equipped infantry squad. Nor do they often walk. Their legs are mostly to grip and stabilize in the extreme environment while they “hop” from point to point using VTOL thrusters.

[Astarten]

Mecha do exist but have more logical applications. Meaning they’re typically deployed in terrain or atmospheres (or lack there of) where treaded vehicles or suspensor using vehicles may have problems. Nor are they strictly bipedal. Imperial Walkers and Mechas typically operate in extreme elevation areas, often worlds with low gravity. Where stepping and sinking into the ground a bit due to less contact area may actually be beneficial. However, mechs and walkers aren’t large. As they’d be easy kills for any decently equipped infantry squad. Nor do they often walk. Their legs are mostly to grip and stabilize in the extreme environment while they “hop” from point to point using VTOL thrusters.

Ahhh I see, so no super-mega-omega-titans of doom then

So would it be fine if the United Federation started a flying space-mech program based on what I described earlier. Since you brought up the size point they most probably won't be as large as the actual gundams from the series. Just the bipedal aesthetics maybe and that neural interface system if that isn't considered too op as well.

[Imperialisium]

Mecha do exist but have more logical applications. Meaning they’re typically deployed in terrain or atmospheres (or lack there of) where treaded vehicles or suspensor using vehicles may have problems. Nor are they strictly bipedal. Imperial Walkers and Mechas typically operate in extreme elevation areas, often worlds with low gravity. Where stepping and sinking into the ground a bit due to less contact area may actually be beneficial. However, mechs and walkers aren’t large. As they’d be easy kills for any decently equipped infantry squad. Nor do they often walk. Their legs are mostly to grip and stabilize in the extreme environment while they “hop” from point to point using VTOL thrusters.

Ahhh I see, so no super-mega-omega-titans of doom then

So would it be fine if the United Federation started a flying space-mech program based on what I described earlier. Since you brought up the size point they most probably won't be as large as the actual gundams from the series. Just the bipedal aesthetics maybe and that neural interface system if that isn't considered too op as well.

Neural interface isn’t OP. So long as it doesn’t devolve into wank or something utterly illogical. Like if they’re fighting actual void fighters they'll wind up as space debris rather fast.

[Sarderia]

Make it a Space Cold war with your friendly Info Broker.

Oh, soon. Soon.

Also, WMDs are banned?

[G-Tech Corporation]

I would -love- to do some espionage nonsense.

How far will this rebellion need to go before your house calls for Imperial aid?

Technically this is already House Gaisere pulling in a friendly House (a Major House, Erudite) from the Hegemony to deal with a local rebellion, but more assets will probably be committed if the OLG proves to be trying to dig in nearby. It would take a pretty serious collapse of order in multiple systems, and rebel control of theater-level assets, before anyone is going to bother the central government though. The Hegemony has plenty of bodies to throw on fires in any attempt to smother them.

[Union Princes]

Can I use this as the Imperial SPG for my armored divisions?

[Imperialisium]

Make it a Space Cold war with your friendly Info Broker.

Oh, soon. Soon.

Also, WMDs are banned?

Not inherently. More just logically the Imperium and all it’s sub factions wouldn’t be keen on someone openly flouting significant stockpiles of what amounts to 26th millennium WMDs. It would be unsurprising if various polities had at least a nuclear stockpile. But that’s different than saying “I have my nukes ready and primed.”

[Imperialisium]

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Can I use this as the Imperial SPG for my armored divisions?

Could use as one of them sure.

[Parcia]

WMDs are bad for business.

[Sarderia]

Oh, soon. Soon.

Also, WMDs are banned?

Not inherently. More just logically the Imperium and all it’s sub factions wouldn’t be keen on someone openly flouting significant stockpiles of what amounts to 26th millennium WMDs. It would be unsurprising if various polities had at least a nuclear stockpile. But that’s different than saying “I have my nukes ready and primed.”

Conventional nuclear weapons shouldn't be that high of a concern now, imo. What the Imperium needs to watch out is the likes of antimatters (though it is admittedly very hard to make - IRL scientists currently could only create nanograms of it), dark matter-powered (if a suitable process to extract them is found) weapons, and yes - admittedly Nuclear as well, but probably only if a polity owns like a massive number of Tsar Bombas paraded around.

[Imperialisium]

Not inherently. More just logically the Imperium and all it’s sub factions wouldn’t be keen on someone openly flouting significant stockpiles of what amounts to 26th millennium WMDs. It would be unsurprising if various polities had at least a nuclear stockpile. But that’s different than saying “I have my nukes ready and primed.”

Conventional nuclear weapons shouldn't be that high of a concern now, imo. What the Imperium needs to watch out is the likes of antimatters (though it is admittedly very hard to make - IRL scientists currently could only create nanograms of it), dark matter-powered (if a suitable process to extract them is found) weapons, and yes - admittedly Nuclear as well, but probably only if a polity owns like a massive number of Tsar Bombas paraded around.

Which is largely what I mean. Though the only race to have successfully used Dark matter and energy is the Solarians (their FTL ran off an engine using Dark Energy).

[Astarten]

Neural interface isn’t OP. So long as it doesn’t devolve into wank or something utterly illogical. Like if they’re fighting actual void fighters they'll wind up as space debris rather fast.

Aite I'll introduce the program in my next post if all's alright. Also will there be other senate meeting or any gathering later on. Feel sad I missed out on a chance to interact with other player chars.

I do have an idea of getting Space Force strictly involved with only relief and rescue operations for any refugees wanting to flee from the warzones in the Hyperborea region. If the United Federation's location on the map is confirmed, by rights we should be close enough to provide such assistance to the Hyperborea government.

Also, just to all of you in general to avoid confusion. WMDs are banned from use and development just within the Free Worlds. Not just nukes or thermonukes but any sort of WMD which includes anti-matter, red-matter and alpha-omega bomb of existential annihilation thingies......not that the Federation has any, just saying