The stallion with the magnificent mustache frowned audibly. "Around four hours ago. The caldera of the Pangmare Supervolcano simply blew up and released thousands and thousands of tons of ashes into Maretesia Prime's atmosphere."
That could be a problem: Maretesia Prime was a world in the Outer Rim, a distant system far away from the Crown Possessions, even when one thought in galactic standarts. It wasn't as simple as simply sending over a fleet of freighters and battleships to escort them. It was far more complicated: Local interests of local governments, pirates, independent communities, other powers having interest in the sector... it was a mess. Even having von Kloppenburg and his cruisers was a mess, although they were just on a friendly, and actually meant as such, visit.
With the long awaited explosion of the supervolcano Pangmare on Maretesia Prime and its whole population in jeoproady and in need of help, Celestia simply couldn't stand by. The battlecruisers and their escorts were simply not enough to deal with the catastrophe and local ressources and infrastructure wouldn't suffice.
"Your Majesty, were are kind of bucked here.", von Kloppenburg added, "I mean, really bucked."
"Do you talk like that to your mother as well?", Celestia mumbled deep in thought. It was going to be a problem: Maretesia Prime always preserved their neutrality as a major waypoint along four minor trading routes, two of them leading into the Empire, the others leading... somewhere.
A quick tap on one of her many datapads revealed the routes:
One branched off at Albion, passed Dolomare and Colt Sara, Fillystine was near the route as well, went along the Apehead Nebula and finally came to Maretesia Prime. The other went from Mane Calamari, a Client State of the Reign, over Marelowe, through the Regimare Cloud and the Princess Belt before passing Deep Space, Daysum I and II before arriving at Maretesia Prime.
Problem was, that next to all of all these waypoints were Near Rim or Far Rim Systems, places claimed, and sometimes under heavy influence of, the Reign, but not territory. Contrary to some beliefs, she actually didn't possess many grains of sand on the great beach of the universe. However, these routes were only of minor importance due to pirate raids, which went uncontrolled by the Golden Armada, as much as she tried.
"We will send a convoy to help, using the Mane Camari Route.", Celestia said over the comlink to the Admiral, "And we will invite others to send help along with it."
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Fillies and Gentlecolts,
I bid you welcome to the next great RP hosted by me, the friendly Celestial Empire from your neighbourhood.
As a short summary of the things written above: While a detatchment of the Golden Armada was in orbit of the claimed, but not possessed world of Maretesia Prime, a supervolcano erupted and is now threatening the whole population. But simply sending a fleet to help would cause unnecessary diplomatic incidents, so Celly asks other nations to build up a convoy to help with the relief efforts and eventual evacuation of the world, if needed.
However, all routes leading to the planet, not only those coming from the Reign, are infested with pirates and other elements such as these and are sometimes even worse off then the Reign's routes.
This is, where you, the other players, come in: Either as civilian helpers, people of good will coming to the aid of those in need, as government-helpers, basically the same, but ordered to do so, or as pirates, trying to board the freighters of the convoy in order to sell the freight to the highest bidder. Of course, the Golden Armada will send some escorts along with it, but it will not be enough, not by a long shot, so we might need mercenaries (who either discover the good in their hearts or the depth of the Coffers for Special Expenses or who were hired by foreign governments to disrupt the convoy's operations).
Of course, we have apps:
Where there's a RP, there are also rules:
- - No godmodding or metagaming.
- I'm OP, my word is the law. I am searching for a Co-OP to help me, but the final decision will be mine.
- Be civil, at least in the OOC. ICly, keep it PG-13.
- Keep it reasonable, so no massive battlefleets to escort a small relief convoy. However, keep in mind, that we send relief for a whole planet, so "reasonable" is to be interpreted as a general term of goodwill.
- This RP is about getting the convoy safely to the planet, but we can also include parts of people not liking each other and putting that aside for a common goal (or not).
- As for the App:
- - A sample of a past RP has to be provided. I don't want an excerpt of a novel or something, but an actual RP with you in it.
- For Merc and Pirates: Homebase means, where your company has its base. Of course, the closer to the convoy route it is, the better for you. The second route outlined will be used.
- For pirates: "Known and feared" means, if your band and its base is known to the authorities or if that is not the case. For the RP that basically means, that we then can say "Hopefully we don't run into these guys!" (which we will then do).
- For Government Helpers: "Civilian Help Force" mean civilian, but government controlled relief agencies, while "Military Help Force" is basically the same, just in BDU.
- For Civilian Helpers: You are basically private funded relief efforts.
- All convoy units will, once the RP-starts, start at Mane Calamari. No exceptions. Late arrivals can join at navigation waypoints. Attackers can start whereever they want along the route.
- As confirmation of you reading these rules, please put "I love the sun, you love the moon, we both love the twilight." in your app at the appropriate place.
- IC in the IC-thread, OOC in the OOC-thread.
- Since this is a FT-RP: All races allowed, including, but not limited to, ponies.
Thanks for looking again.
