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A staging-point for declarations of war and other major diplomatic events. [In character]

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Time-skip to next RP? To speed up and get a actual story arc going instead of sandbox?

Yes, time skip to next RP with Vortukian victory
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Yes, time skip to next RP with Kraut victory
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No, don't time skip
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Total votes : 42

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Postby Equalsun Empire » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:33 am

Dolmhold wrote:Hmmm... I need to get a second storyline up other than the one between me and Imp. Toishima, Adel or Durm- do you have any room for a second story? You guys would be my top choices.

If not, anyone else want to volunteer? In any case, we'll have to come up with some kind of premise together first. I think that some other nation stumbling upon me or disputing my control over X system or having one of their people enter my nation would be best, since I've already gone the exploration ship route with Imp.

I would be more than willing to get a second encounter up, and the 3rd option seems quite appealing. How would your leader feel having a very shady visit from an Evangel?
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So I got into am currently in a name-calling contest in a flag rating thread...

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Postby Vortukia » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:37 am

Please contact me before making any OC threads any threads I have not been notified of will not be allowed to be carried over to Endless space, however if you already have one then I will make a thread that you can just continue on.

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Postby Equalsun Empire » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:41 am

Vortukia wrote:Please contact me before making any OC threads any threads I have not been notified of will not be allowed to be carried over to Endless space, however if you already have one then I will make a thread that you can just continue on.

...
This makes no sense. Why not just let us make threads and telegram them to you? It's not that I don't trust you to be able to OP all of them, it's just that applications can be... time-consuming with you, and I don't know if this extends to threads. I think it would be easier for the members to make them and just TG you links to put in the Endless Space OP.
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Dogs of War wrote:While the motto of the British SAS is "Who dares wins" the motto of Equalsun's SAS is "Who cares who wins?"

The Great and Kawaii™ Ella wrote:As much as I love Stellaris, video games are a magnet for powerwankers, and when the AI beats them too hard, they come over to II and P2TM and take their anger out on us.

So I got into am currently in a name-calling contest in a flag rating thread...

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Postby Vortukia » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:45 am

No I can more than manage all threads. Applications just get lost In the paelges and are often dealt with.

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Postby Equalsun Empire » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:47 am

Vortukia wrote:No I can more than manage all threads. Applications just get lost In the paelges and are often dealt with.

Oh, I know you can manage them; I was just wondering why we don't just make the threads and TG links to you.
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Dogs of War wrote:While the motto of the British SAS is "Who dares wins" the motto of Equalsun's SAS is "Who cares who wins?"

The Great and Kawaii™ Ella wrote:As much as I love Stellaris, video games are a magnet for powerwankers, and when the AI beats them too hard, they come over to II and P2TM and take their anger out on us.

So I got into am currently in a name-calling contest in a flag rating thread...

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Postby Dolmhold » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:54 am

Equalsun Empire wrote:
Dolmhold wrote:In any case, we'll have to come up with some kind of premise together first. I think that some other nation stumbling upon me or disputing my control over X system or having one of their people enter my nation would be best, since I've already gone the exploration ship route with Imp.

I would be more than willing to get a second encounter up, and the 3rd option seems quite appealing. How would your leader feel having a very shady visit from an Evangel?


Hmmm... this would give me the opportunity to develop the government of the Espoirites, and while I've opted for the no one leader per say it would also allow me to develop more. However, after looking at your app, I ask that you provide an RP example of sorts, whether it be a write-up here or a link to previous RPs. I asked for Durm, Toishima or Adel previously because I know they can write fairly long, well, and detailed, describing things and developing characters in their posts. I can occasionally hit some inspired writing level and wordspam lol. With Durm and Toishima, I also know them from before.

On that note, if we proceed, we'll have to develop this premise further. Beyond a shady visit, what is the purpose of this visit? What is the conflict- what drives the story forward? Why is it that this visit goes immediately to the leaders of the nation- is this visitor someone important?

Imp, with our current story, I think we need to do the same. Just in case it gets overlooked, I've edited my post on the last page to throw some ideas up like getting lost or getting lynched by a mob of human rights activists (or something).

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Postby The Fallen Jedi » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:57 am

anyone intrested in battling me?

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Postby Durmatagno » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:07 am

Dolmhold wrote:Hmmm... I need to get a second storyline up other than the one between me and Imp. Toishima, Adel or Durm- do you have any room for a second story? You guys would be my top choices.

If not, anyone else want to volunteer? In any case, we'll have to come up with some kind of premise together first. I think that some other nation stumbling upon me or disputing my control over X system or having one of their people enter my nation would be best, since I've already gone the exploration ship route with Imp.

Edit: And Imp, we need to get the plotball moving forward on our little story... we have my people being complete strangers, what will we complicate their little issue further? Human rights activists? Gangsters? Getting off the tour bus some time later and promptly getting lost? :D


2 or 3 would be most viable for me, I already have the stumbling plot going with Toishima. Yes, that means I'm perfectly willing to do something.
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Postby Dolmhold » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:14 am

Durmatagno wrote:
*Explaining some here, most of your critiques I have written down and will reveal IC*

Somehow I just noticed I didn't describe their short, sharp claws, perfect for shallow wounds that bleed a lot <-<' "What the hell is that brutal machine contraption!?" "It's one of our nail cutters. You see-" "Oh..." Hehe.

Blood: Its how their body reacts to digesting the cells that utilize such thing, why, they don't exactly know. Their home system hold all four known, and they have yet to taste any others. Hmmm... Home system-not planet. Is there more than one garden world then? That's pretty cool. I wonder what the evolutionary reason for evolving so many different types of blood were...

Enhanced Healing: Kinda both really, its using chemicals, and nanotechnology to exploit and expand the ability to regenerate teeth. Ah, sort of like super-medicines or how we abuse our immune system and jack it up by vaccinations I suppose.

As for Oxygen/Nitrogen: For the longest time both nitrogen and oxygen were very low in the atmosphere, so many species adapted to use both to make up for it, the extra energy it provides proved to remain beneficial even after their levels rose. When did it rise/fall and why was it so low? If it was low, what made up the dominating gas and what did the changing proportions do to the environment? Just some thoughts.

Twins: The female sex commonly has two ready-to-be fertilized eggs at once. Why? *shrugs* Ah, non-identical twins. Sort of like how many animals deliver in large litters I suppose? Although not quite there.

Paranoia: That's a bit of a typo on my part, they heavily distrust other groups, which actually meant it took a loooooong time for them to reach the city-state stage, only being forced together united them enough to kick start technological and cultural evolution. So, an enhanced ability to be racist coupled with a more clannish thought pattern? Just a thought. Also, don't underestimate the power of the small tribe and little village- the change to civilization was really gradual for us humans IRL, with lots of precursor 'cultures' before anything we call a civilization occured. See Yangshao for China's primary precursor, for instance.

Races: Other species. Blood-Folk used to be much more peaceful (despite the paranoia, it was simply because they avoided everyone else) so they came to be seen as meek, causing other species to attack. This eventually instilled a deep-rooted distrust of any non-Blood-Folk. This actually carries on now considering an attempt at genocide against them from a entirely foreign race. Is this cultural or genetic? It sounds like it should be cultural, since a genetic change in behavior would take ages upon ages, and even then there's no guarantees. I recall an ancient tradition of eating those subhuman 'pigmys' in Africa, yet those who got cannibalized are still as meek as ever.

Jobs: That's within their society, its mostly due to not many Blood-Folk are willing to get that close to another race without weapons, which tends to impede diplomacy. Hmmm... I imagine ambassadors walking in with automatic grenade launchers. "But its a ceremonial and prideful weapon! So what if I have 1000 rounds in it?" Hehe.

Characters: Some have already appeared IC

Culture: Its because groups of people that don't fit in well in the general culture of their current planet will flock to new colonies, usually in large groups, causing them to be the new dominant culture for there. I did this mostly so I could have a wide range of cultures and variables therein. Yess! Prediction accurate, American style colonization! :)

TITAN: You'll have to wait and see, but hint: One of the T's is Terraforming. Transformation initiative transforming alien natures? :)

Foreign policy: Neither really, its more. Come on in, just don't power your weapons. They contact many (NPCs currently), but its mainly for trade. They do have other forms of contact, but trade, and economic stuff dominates.

Military: Only thing that's still heavily WIP, needless to say, its already rather big, and I prefer to reveal things that only the other nation would know unless its needed.


Durm, any idea of what kind of story/plot your want to do? Should we pre-assume first contact or have this be first contact? Military or civilian, political standoff or none? :)

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Postby The Fallen Jedi » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:17 am

Dolmhold wrote:
Durmatagno wrote:
*Explaining some here, most of your critiques I have written down and will reveal IC*

Somehow I just noticed I didn't describe their short, sharp claws, perfect for shallow wounds that bleed a lot <-<' "What the hell is that brutal machine contraption!?" "It's one of our nail cutters. You see-" "Oh..." Hehe.

Blood: Its how their body reacts to digesting the cells that utilize such thing, why, they don't exactly know. Their home system hold all four known, and they have yet to taste any others. Hmmm... Home system-not planet. Is there more than one garden world then? That's pretty cool. I wonder what the evolutionary reason for evolving so many different types of blood were...

Enhanced Healing: Kinda both really, its using chemicals, and nanotechnology to exploit and expand the ability to regenerate teeth. Ah, sort of like super-medicines or how we abuse our immune system and jack it up by vaccinations I suppose.

As for Oxygen/Nitrogen: For the longest time both nitrogen and oxygen were very low in the atmosphere, so many species adapted to use both to make up for it, the extra energy it provides proved to remain beneficial even after their levels rose. When did it rise/fall and why was it so low? If it was low, what made up the dominating gas and what did the changing proportions do to the environment? Just some thoughts.

Twins: The female sex commonly has two ready-to-be fertilized eggs at once. Why? *shrugs* Ah, non-identical twins. Sort of like how many animals deliver in large litters I suppose? Although not quite there.

Paranoia: That's a bit of a typo on my part, they heavily distrust other groups, which actually meant it took a loooooong time for them to reach the city-state stage, only being forced together united them enough to kick start technological and cultural evolution. So, an enhanced ability to be racist coupled with a more clannish thought pattern? Just a thought. Also, don't underestimate the power of the small tribe and little village- the change to civilization was really gradual for us humans IRL, with lots of precursor 'cultures' before anything we call a civilization occured. See Yangshao for China's primary precursor, for instance.

Races: Other species. Blood-Folk used to be much more peaceful (despite the paranoia, it was simply because they avoided everyone else) so they came to be seen as meek, causing other species to attack. This eventually instilled a deep-rooted distrust of any non-Blood-Folk. This actually carries on now considering an attempt at genocide against them from a entirely foreign race. Is this cultural or genetic? It sounds like it should be cultural, since a genetic change in behavior would take ages upon ages, and even then there's no guarantees. I recall an ancient tradition of eating those subhuman 'pigmys' in Africa, yet those who got cannibalized are still as meek as ever.

Jobs: That's within their society, its mostly due to not many Blood-Folk are willing to get that close to another race without weapons, which tends to impede diplomacy. Hmmm... I imagine ambassadors walking in with automatic grenade launchers. "But its a ceremonial and prideful weapon! So what if I have 1000 rounds in it?" Hehe.

Characters: Some have already appeared IC

Culture: Its because groups of people that don't fit in well in the general culture of their current planet will flock to new colonies, usually in large groups, causing them to be the new dominant culture for there. I did this mostly so I could have a wide range of cultures and variables therein. Yess! Prediction accurate, American style colonization! :)

TITAN: You'll have to wait and see, but hint: One of the T's is Terraforming. Transformation initiative transforming alien natures? :)

Foreign policy: Neither really, its more. Come on in, just don't power your weapons. They contact many (NPCs currently), but its mainly for trade. They do have other forms of contact, but trade, and economic stuff dominates.

Military: Only thing that's still heavily WIP, needless to say, its already rather big, and I prefer to reveal things that only the other nation would know unless its needed.


Durm, any idea of what kind of story/plot your want to do? Should we pre-assume first contact or have this be first contact? Military or civilian, political standoff or none? :)


Could we have a Three Way First Contact?

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Postby Durmatagno » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:20 am

Dolmhold wrote:
Durmatagno wrote:
*Explaining some here, most of your critiques I have written down and will reveal IC*

Somehow I just noticed I didn't describe their short, sharp claws, perfect for shallow wounds that bleed a lot <-<' "What the hell is that brutal machine contraption!?" "It's one of our nail cutters. You see-" "Oh..." Hehe.

Blood: Its how their body reacts to digesting the cells that utilize such thing, why, they don't exactly know. Their home system hold all four known, and they have yet to taste any others. Hmmm... Home system-not planet. Is there more than one garden world then? That's pretty cool. I wonder what the evolutionary reason for evolving so many different types of blood were...

Enhanced Healing: Kinda both really, its using chemicals, and nanotechnology to exploit and expand the ability to regenerate teeth. Ah, sort of like super-medicines or how we abuse our immune system and jack it up by vaccinations I suppose.

As for Oxygen/Nitrogen: For the longest time both nitrogen and oxygen were very low in the atmosphere, so many species adapted to use both to make up for it, the extra energy it provides proved to remain beneficial even after their levels rose. When did it rise/fall and why was it so low? If it was low, what made up the dominating gas and what did the changing proportions do to the environment? Just some thoughts.

Twins: The female sex commonly has two ready-to-be fertilized eggs at once. Why? *shrugs* Ah, non-identical twins. Sort of like how many animals deliver in large litters I suppose? Although not quite there.

Paranoia: That's a bit of a typo on my part, they heavily distrust other groups, which actually meant it took a loooooong time for them to reach the city-state stage, only being forced together united them enough to kick start technological and cultural evolution. So, an enhanced ability to be racist coupled with a more clannish thought pattern? Just a thought. Also, don't underestimate the power of the small tribe and little village- the change to civilization was really gradual for us humans IRL, with lots of precursor 'cultures' before anything we call a civilization occured. See Yangshao for China's primary precursor, for instance.

Races: Other species. Blood-Folk used to be much more peaceful (despite the paranoia, it was simply because they avoided everyone else) so they came to be seen as meek, causing other species to attack. This eventually instilled a deep-rooted distrust of any non-Blood-Folk. This actually carries on now considering an attempt at genocide against them from a entirely foreign race. Is this cultural or genetic? It sounds like it should be cultural, since a genetic change in behavior would take ages upon ages, and even then there's no guarantees. I recall an ancient tradition of eating those subhuman 'pigmys' in Africa, yet those who got cannibalized are still as meek as ever.

Jobs: That's within their society, its mostly due to not many Blood-Folk are willing to get that close to another race without weapons, which tends to impede diplomacy. Hmmm... I imagine ambassadors walking in with automatic grenade launchers. "But its a ceremonial and prideful weapon! So what if I have 1000 rounds in it?" Hehe.

Characters: Some have already appeared IC

Culture: Its because groups of people that don't fit in well in the general culture of their current planet will flock to new colonies, usually in large groups, causing them to be the new dominant culture for there. I did this mostly so I could have a wide range of cultures and variables therein. Yess! Prediction accurate, American style colonization! :)

TITAN: You'll have to wait and see, but hint: One of the T's is Terraforming. Transformation initiative transforming alien natures? :)

Foreign policy: Neither really, its more. Come on in, just don't power your weapons. They contact many (NPCs currently), but its mainly for trade. They do have other forms of contact, but trade, and economic stuff dominates.

Military: Only thing that's still heavily WIP, needless to say, its already rather big, and I prefer to reveal things that only the other nation would know unless its needed.


Durm, any idea of what kind of story/plot your want to do? Should we pre-assume first contact or have this be first contact? Military or civilian, political standoff or none? :)


I like doing first contacts except having to deal with translating, which is why I support a galactic basic, easy to translate and known to many races. You'll see even our civilian ships with weapons, but if its outside our space its either a trade group that jumped to the wrong place, or a military cartographer (like with Toishima). Political standoff would be after first contact and no doubt be the first shots at diplomacy
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius

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Postby The Fallen Jedi » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:21 am

Durmatagno wrote:
Dolmhold wrote:
Durm, any idea of what kind of story/plot your want to do? Should we pre-assume first contact or have this be first contact? Military or civilian, political standoff or none? :)


I like doing first contacts except having to deal with translating, which is why I support a galactic basic, easy to translate and known to many races. You'll see even our civilian ships with weapons, but if its outside our space its either a trade group that jumped to the wrong place, or a military cartographer (like with Toishima). Political standoff would be after first contact and no doubt be the first shots at diplomacy


You guys love ignoring me huh? :(

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Postby Durmatagno » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:29 am

The Fallen Jedi wrote:
Durmatagno wrote:
I like doing first contacts except having to deal with translating, which is why I support a galactic basic, easy to translate and known to many races. You'll see even our civilian ships with weapons, but if its outside our space its either a trade group that jumped to the wrong place, or a military cartographer (like with Toishima). Political standoff would be after first contact and no doubt be the first shots at diplomacy


You guys love ignoring me huh? :(


I was writing that when you posted, and I don't like double posting. Up to Dolm.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. - Washington Irving

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius

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Postby Vaxon » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:30 am

Am I accepted?
Greetings, If you're reading this, YOU ARE A STALKER!
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Postby The Fallen Jedi » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:31 am

Durmatagno wrote:
The Fallen Jedi wrote:
You guys love ignoring me huh? :(


I was writing that when you posted, and I don't like double posting. Up to Dolm.


Please Dolm, can we make this a Three Way First Contact?

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Postby Durmatagno » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:32 am

Dolmhold wrote:
Durmatagno wrote:
*Explaining some here, most of your critiques I have written down and will reveal IC*

Somehow I just noticed I didn't describe their short, sharp claws, perfect for shallow wounds that bleed a lot <-<' "What the hell is that brutal machine contraption!?" "It's one of our nail cutters. You see-" "Oh..." Hehe.

Blood: Its how their body reacts to digesting the cells that utilize such thing, why, they don't exactly know. Their home system hold all four known, and they have yet to taste any others. Hmmm... Home system-not planet. Is there more than one garden world then? That's pretty cool. I wonder what the evolutionary reason for evolving so many different types of blood were...

Enhanced Healing: Kinda both really, its using chemicals, and nanotechnology to exploit and expand the ability to regenerate teeth. Ah, sort of like super-medicines or how we abuse our immune system and jack it up by vaccinations I suppose.

As for Oxygen/Nitrogen: For the longest time both nitrogen and oxygen were very low in the atmosphere, so many species adapted to use both to make up for it, the extra energy it provides proved to remain beneficial even after their levels rose. When did it rise/fall and why was it so low? If it was low, what made up the dominating gas and what did the changing proportions do to the environment? Just some thoughts.

Twins: The female sex commonly has two ready-to-be fertilized eggs at once. Why? *shrugs* Ah, non-identical twins. Sort of like how many animals deliver in large litters I suppose? Although not quite there.

Paranoia: That's a bit of a typo on my part, they heavily distrust other groups, which actually meant it took a loooooong time for them to reach the city-state stage, only being forced together united them enough to kick start technological and cultural evolution. So, an enhanced ability to be racist coupled with a more clannish thought pattern? Just a thought. Also, don't underestimate the power of the small tribe and little village- the change to civilization was really gradual for us humans IRL, with lots of precursor 'cultures' before anything we call a civilization occured. See Yangshao for China's primary precursor, for instance.

Races: Other species. Blood-Folk used to be much more peaceful (despite the paranoia, it was simply because they avoided everyone else) so they came to be seen as meek, causing other species to attack. This eventually instilled a deep-rooted distrust of any non-Blood-Folk. This actually carries on now considering an attempt at genocide against them from a entirely foreign race. Is this cultural or genetic? It sounds like it should be cultural, since a genetic change in behavior would take ages upon ages, and even then there's no guarantees. I recall an ancient tradition of eating those subhuman 'pigmys' in Africa, yet those who got cannibalized are still as meek as ever.

Jobs: That's within their society, its mostly due to not many Blood-Folk are willing to get that close to another race without weapons, which tends to impede diplomacy. Hmmm... I imagine ambassadors walking in with automatic grenade launchers. "But its a ceremonial and prideful weapon! So what if I have 1000 rounds in it?" Hehe.

Characters: Some have already appeared IC

Culture: Its because groups of people that don't fit in well in the general culture of their current planet will flock to new colonies, usually in large groups, causing them to be the new dominant culture for there. I did this mostly so I could have a wide range of cultures and variables therein. Yess! Prediction accurate, American style colonization! :)

TITAN: You'll have to wait and see, but hint: One of the T's is Terraforming. Transformation initiative transforming alien natures? :)

Foreign policy: Neither really, its more. Come on in, just don't power your weapons. They contact many (NPCs currently), but its mainly for trade. They do have other forms of contact, but trade, and economic stuff dominates.

Military: Only thing that's still heavily WIP, needless to say, its already rather big, and I prefer to reveal things that only the other nation would know unless its needed.


Blood: Yep, a second (smaller) planet that orbits their home-world, kind of like a binary star but with planets. It also has much stronger tides, it having the larger "moon". Silver and zinc originate from Hou'abar, while copper and iron are native to Heridon.

Healing: Yep.

Atmosphere: It started off low, the death of a not to far off star ripped away the ozone and much of the atmosphere of Heriodon and Hou'abar, though thanks to their shared orbits and gravity wells, it became a gas ring around them. After that, CO2 and Methane were dominate of Heriodn. This event was much like a (theoretical) gamma burst that did something similar (but smaller) to Earth. It killed an (estimated) 94-96% of species alive at the time, and all non-aquatic species. They had to recolonize land, and while the gasses slowly returned to the atmosphere, new plants evolved to produce more oxygen and nitrogen, making it necessary for new land based life to use both.

Twins: Yep

Paranoia: I know, but it slowed there's down much more, course they developed distinct cultures all the same across regions, but it took much longer for cities to form.

Races: Cultural, their probably a bit more aggressive than humans in a feral/natural state.

Diplomat: Pretty much, they have "ceremonial" armor and weapons, basically just normal armor and weapons that have been decorated.

TITAN: Nope, though I might use that for a TITAN 2 if this one ends/fails.
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Postby Canuckland » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:33 am

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I like doing first contacts except having to deal with translating, which is why I support a galactic basic, easy to translate and known to many races. You'll see even our civilian ships with weapons, but if its outside our space its either a trade group that jumped to the wrong place, or a military cartographer (like with Toishima). Political standoff would be after first contact and no doubt be the first shots at diplomacy


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Postby Dolmhold » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:45 am

Durmatagno wrote:I like doing first contacts except having to deal with translating, which is why I support a galactic basic, easy to translate and known to many races. You'll see even our civilian ships with weapons, but if its outside our space its either a trade group that jumped to the wrong place, or a military cartographer (like with Toishima). Political standoff would be after first contact and no doubt be the first shots at diplomacy

Hmmm... For the sake of avoiding FC cliches, let's have the first contact in the middle of some other nation's space or in neutral space! On that note, perhaps we could incorporate TFJ in that regard, although keep in mind I'm probably gonna have a policy of "Galaxy? You mean twenty systems in the Milky Way?" Simply because an actual galaxy would make no sense at all.

We'd need to figure something out to spice up this first contact. My current experience shows that FCs get really boring without something silly or crazy happening. Perhaps my explorer ship got stranded in the system because ran out of fuel before managing to get into an orbit to a gas giant or just that it'd take months on years at this pace, and so it becomes a first contact turn into aid mission.
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Postby The Fallen Jedi » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:48 am

Dolmhold wrote:
Durmatagno wrote:I like doing first contacts except having to deal with translating, which is why I support a galactic basic, easy to translate and known to many races. You'll see even our civilian ships with weapons, but if its outside our space its either a trade group that jumped to the wrong place, or a military cartographer (like with Toishima). Political standoff would be after first contact and no doubt be the first shots at diplomacy

Hmmm... For the sake of avoiding FC cliches, let's have the first contact in the middle of some other nation's space or in neutral space! On that note, perhaps we could incorporate TFJ in that regard, although keep in mind I'm probably gonna have a policy of "Galaxy? You mean twenty systems in the Milky Way?" Simply because an actual galaxy would make no sense at all.

We'd need to figure something out to spice up this first contact. My current experiance shows that FCs get really boring without something silly or crazy happening.


Maybe a battle comes to mind?

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Postby Durmatagno » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:50 am

Dolmhold wrote:
Durmatagno wrote:I like doing first contacts except having to deal with translating, which is why I support a galactic basic, easy to translate and known to many races. You'll see even our civilian ships with weapons, but if its outside our space its either a trade group that jumped to the wrong place, or a military cartographer (like with Toishima). Political standoff would be after first contact and no doubt be the first shots at diplomacy

Hmmm... For the sake of avoiding FC cliches, let's have the first contact in the middle of some other nation's space or in neutral space! On that note, perhaps we could incorporate TFJ in that regard, although keep in mind I'm probably gonna have a policy of "Galaxy? You mean twenty systems in the Milky Way?" Simply because an actual galaxy would make no sense at all.

We'd need to figure something out to spice up this first contact. My current experiance shows that FCs get really boring without something silly or crazy happening.


Most of my first contacts start or end with a military engagement. I don't mind if TFJ is involved, and that sounds like a good way to do it. I also had the idea of a TITAN scout bumping into a new colony or group of ships

Galaxy, same. Controlling every system in a galaxy is nigh impossible. You might be the only FT race and control systems all over the outside, giving you a sphere of control that gives the illusion, but an entire galaxy..........yeah, no. Not unless you annihilate every other culture and race that exists within, and that constitutes enough death for a intergalactic war of epic proportions.
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Postby Dolmhold » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:52 am

The Fallen Jedi wrote:Maybe a battle comes to mind?


You're hungry for battles aren't you :D

I can see you and Durm at some kind of cold war situation, with self-proclaimed communist bureaucrats on one end and technocratic capitalists on the other. It'd be interesting if I stumbled into a war between your two nations- I'd get to describe it like how the American warship describes the fight between that Chinese and Japanese ship in The Human Reach :)

I'd like to see an RP example from you though, since I don't know how good your RPing is, on the same basis as when I asked for Equalsun to do so.

On an interesting note, if this situation comes to pass, the two sides in this war suddenly have a first contact first communication reward for victory in a battle, which could lead to interesting astropolitics.
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Postby The Fallen Jedi » Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:56 am

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The Fallen Jedi wrote:Maybe a battle comes to mind?


You're hungry for battles aren't you :D

I can see you and Durm at some kind of cold war situation, with self-proclaimed communist bureaucrats on one end and technocratic capitalists on the other. It'd be interesting if I stumbled into a war between your two nations- I'd get to describe it like how the American warship describes the fight between that Chinese and Japanese ship in The Human Reach :)

I'd like to see an RP example from you though, since I don't know how good your RPing is, on the same basis as when I asked for Equalsun to do so.


i was thinking a Three Way Battle between us.

I heard that :lol:

My Rp experience is not very good when i have no inspiration, but when i do, expect me to be very detailed in my Posts.

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Postby Durmatagno » Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:03 am

Dolmhold wrote:
The Fallen Jedi wrote:Maybe a battle comes to mind?


You're hungry for battles aren't you :D



That's always me, I love the amount of detail and planning a *good* war needs.
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Postby Dolmhold » Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:06 am

The Fallen Jedi wrote:i was thinking a Three Way Battle between us.

Hmmm... What necessarily would make it into a three-way battle, especially upon first contact. I know, even I am eager to bring out my military goodies and the vectors of battle and the wall of battle ships, the packets and the laser counter battery knife fights, the mine dumps and the explosions all around, but we need a reason- a story behind this. How the heck did this happen, and why? With my current cannon on this nation, I don't think we'd be the third side in the battle, except as an accidental observer. My military ships have their traveling range limits, and we aren't exactly going to be setting massive logistic trains just to fight some random alien at war with another alien, both whom we don't know about and probably don't really have to care about.
The Fallen Jedi wrote:My Rp experience is not very good when i have no inspiration, but when i do, expect me to be very detailed in my Posts.

Dolmhold wrote:I'd like to see an RP example from you though, since I don't know how good your RPing is, on the same basis as when I asked for Equalsun to do so.

May I see an example please?
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Postby The Fallen Jedi » Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:18 am

Dolmhold wrote:
The Fallen Jedi wrote:i was thinking a Three Way Battle between us.

Hmmm... What necessarily would make it into a three-way battle, especially upon first contact. I know, even I am eager to bring out my military goodies and the vectors of battle and the wall of battle ships, the packets and the laser counter battery knife fights, the mine dumps and the explosions all around, but we need a reason- a story behind this. How the heck did this happen, and why? With my current cannon on this nation, I don't think we'd be the third side in the battle, except as an accidental observer. My military ships have their traveling range limits, and we aren't exactly going to be setting massive logistic trains just to fight some random alien at war with another alien, both whom we don't know about and probably don't really have to care about.
The Fallen Jedi wrote:My Rp experience is not very good when i have no inspiration, but when i do, expect me to be very detailed in my Posts.

Dolmhold wrote:I'd like to see an RP example from you though, since I don't know how good your RPing is, on the same basis as when I asked for Equalsun to do so.

May I see an example please?


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