Into the Void (FT/Nation/OOC/Closed)

[Lunas Legion]

Hey, Hierophancy, small tip. Everytime speech changes from person to person, you should start a new paragraph, like so:

Bob said, "Hi Mark, how's your day?"

Mark, who had been having a rough day sighed, "Well, my mom died, and my car got pasted by a semi. But I bought a gallon of ice cream so I got that going for me."

Bob, the ever smiling sociopath that he was, took it all in stride, "Well that's unfortunate bud, you got a weed wacker I can borrow?"

I'm quite interested by this. I've always believed that the speech must come first ("Hi Mark," said Bob), but rarely have I encountered describing the action and then having the speech behind it.

English isn't actually my first language, is this a standard?

It really depends on the writing style. I've seen 'Hey' Bob said, 'Hey' said Bob and Bob said 'Hey'. All three work, it's really down to personal preference.

[Imperial Idaho]

I'm quite interested by this. I've always believed that the speech must come first ("Hi Mark," said Bob), but rarely have I encountered describing the action and then having the speech behind it.

English isn't actually my first language, is this a standard?

It really depends on the writing style. I've seen 'Hey' Bob said, 'Hey' said Bob and Bob said 'Hey'. All three work, it's really down to personal preference.

I typically use Bob said "Hey" in the past tense, though sometimes i use it in the present tense.

[Veroxia]

I can tell this meeting is going to be a blaaaast.

[The Hierophancy]

I can tell this meeting is going to be a blaaaast.

Orange is the color of heathens, you know?
Anyway, I don't think that you bringing a robot to guard you is particularly unorthodox, but if he started commanding humans around or, god forbid, thought himself our equal we may have some issues.

[Olimpiada]

I can tell this meeting is going to be a blaaaast.

Thirty kinds of tense, but ultimately for something loosely resembling a common good for a select handful of nations.

[Veroxia]

I can tell this meeting is going to be a blaaaast.

Orange is the color of heathens, you know?
Anyway, I don't think that you bringing a robot to guard you is particularly unorthodox, but if he started commanding humans around or, god forbid, thought himself our equal we may have some issues.

Hailstorm, good sir is not there to guard; but is a delegate for the Korosians. He is somewhat of a 'celebrity' in the Korosian Nation, and a model figure many look up to.

[The Hierophancy]

Orange is the color of heathens, you know?
Anyway, I don't think that you bringing a robot to guard you is particularly unorthodox, but if he started commanding humans around or, god forbid, thought himself our equal we may have some issues.

Hailstorm, good sir is not there to guard; but is a delegate for the Korosians. He is somewhat of a 'celebrity' in the Korosian Nation, and a model figure many look up to.

Yeah, this is going to be a blaaaaaast all right. I just hope the abomination lets his comrade do the speaking...

[Toishima]

I'm not entirely sure what Hailstorm is supposed to look like, so I assumed he's a funny-looking human, or at least humanoid. If he's not then I'll change my post.

[Veroxia]

I'm not entirely sure what Hailstorm is supposed to look like, so I assumed he's a funny-looking human, or at least humanoid. If he's not then I'll change my post.

Like these guys but with an orange cape and a more orange glow across his robotic body.

[Toishima]

Ah, I shall change my post, then.

[Anowa]

Name: BW-259 "Chrysalids"
Homeworld: Horizon
Life Span: >1 year
Height: 10'0" tall (304 cm) ~25 feet (762 cm) from beak to tail spur.
Weight: ~4000lbs (1814.369 kg)
Tech Tier: 7 (Engineered bioweapon)
Description: Known as the Chyssalid, it's appearances are rare, and seemingly random. Destroying everything that it can eat or kill, spawning hundred of others in a single brood to continue a cycle and disappearing just as quickly as they spawned. Rumors of monsters spread through the galaxy, but very little evidence results in them being labeled as demons, monsters, and myths. This is as far from the facts as possible.

Almost seventy years ago, the Aelids were discovered among the fauna of their planet was an apex predator known as 'The Desert Kings', the FoH took a few live samples for study and genetic sequencing. Seeing great potential for animal soldiers they improved upon their captured examples. The BW-259 was the peak result. With a bite force of 6,200 psi, and with a chitin plating of atomically aligned carbon it's almost unkillable to all but the most powerful anti-tank weapons or vehicles. Capable of moving at 25 km/h and with the weight it has, it's capable of bowling over vehicles and walls alike. Capable of seeing in IR and UV, capable of hearing a pin drop from a mile away, and with a smell rivaling and exceeding a black bear by a factor of six, it will find it's pray. With self fertilisation and an incubation time of three hours, it will outnumber anything it's beset upon within a day. As a pack hunter it will outsmart damn near anything that doesn't outnumber it. With an immune system only vulnerable to a virus in FoH control it's the perfect bioweapon.

With a retrieval cost of a single fertile example of eight hundred million credits, the deployment cost of six million credits, and the cover-up costs exceeding eighteen trillion credits per 360,000 km², it has only been deployed four times. And due to the possible backlash of using such a creature in war, it will very rarely ever be deployed for more than complete isolated genocide of an unruly race.


#I2tV (DO NOT REMOVE!!!!)

[Ithalian Empire]

(Image)

Name: BW-259 "Chrysalids"
Homeworld: Horizon
Life Span: >1 year
Height: 10'0" tall (304 cm) ~25 feet (762 cm) from beak to tail spur.
Weight: ~4000lbs (1814.369 kg)
Tech Tier: 7 (Engineered bioweapon)
Description: Known as the Chyssalid, it's appearances are rare, and seemingly random. Destroying everything that it can eat or kill, spawning hundred of others in a single brood to continue a cycle and disappearing just as quickly as they spawned. Rumors of monsters spread through the galaxy, but very little evidence results in them being labeled as demons, monsters, and myths. This is as far from the facts as possible.

Almost seventy years ago, the Aelids were discovered among the fauna of their planet was an apex predator known as 'The Desert Kings', the FoH took a few live samples for study and genetic sequencing. Seeing great potential for animal soldiers they improved upon their captured examples. The BW-259 was the peak result. With a bite force of 6,200 psi, and with a chitin plating of atomically aligned carbon it's almost unkillable to all but the most powerful anti-tank weapons or vehicles. Capable of moving at 25 km/h and with the weight it has, it's capable of bowling over vehicles and walls alike. Capable of seeing in IR and UV, capable of hearing a pin drop from a mile away, and with a smell rivaling and exceeding a black bear by a factor of six, it will find it's pray. With self fertilisation and an incubation time of three hours, it will outnumber anything it's beset upon within a day. As a pack hunter it will outsmart damn near anything that doesn't outnumber it. With an immune system only vulnerable to a virus in FoH control it's the perfect bioweapon.

With a retrieval cost of a single fertile example of eight hundred million credits, the deployment cost of six million credits, and the cover-up costs exceeding eighteen trillion credits per 360,000 km², it has only been deployed four times. And due to the possible backlash of using such a creature in war, it will very rarely ever be deployed for more than complete isolated genocide of an unruly race.


#I2tV (DO NOT REMOVE!!!!)

Oh boy. That would ruin someones day.

[The Hierophancy]

(Image)

Name: BW-259 "Chrysalids"
Homeworld: Horizon
Life Span: >1 year
Height: 10'0" tall (304 cm) ~25 feet (762 cm) from beak to tail spur.
Weight: ~4000lbs (1814.369 kg)
Tech Tier: 7 (Engineered bioweapon)
Description: Known as the Chyssalid, it's appearances are rare, and seemingly random. Destroying everything that it can eat or kill, spawning hundred of others in a single brood to continue a cycle and disappearing just as quickly as they spawned. Rumors of monsters spread through the galaxy, but very little evidence results in them being labeled as demons, monsters, and myths. This is as far from the facts as possible.

Almost seventy years ago, the Aelids were discovered among the fauna of their planet was an apex predator known as 'The Desert Kings', the FoH took a few live samples for study and genetic sequencing. Seeing great potential for animal soldiers they improved upon their captured examples. The BW-259 was the peak result. With a bite force of 6,200 psi, and with a chitin plating of atomically aligned carbon it's almost unkillable to all but the most powerful anti-tank weapons or vehicles. Capable of moving at 25 km/h and with the weight it has, it's capable of bowling over vehicles and walls alike. Capable of seeing in IR and UV, capable of hearing a pin drop from a mile away, and with a smell rivaling and exceeding a black bear by a factor of six, it will find it's pray. With self fertilisation and an incubation time of three hours, it will outnumber anything it's beset upon within a day. As a pack hunter it will outsmart damn near anything that doesn't outnumber it. With an immune system only vulnerable to a virus in FoH control it's the perfect bioweapon.

With a retrieval cost of a single fertile example of eight hundred million credits, the deployment cost of six million credits, and the cover-up costs exceeding eighteen trillion credits per 360,000 km², it has only been deployed four times. And due to the possible backlash of using such a creature in war, it will very rarely ever be deployed for more than complete isolated genocide of an unruly race.


#I2tV (DO NOT REMOVE!!!!)

This certainly sounds like a weapon that, if not handled properly, could become a major threat to both handler and victim. I certainly hope that none of these things ever become, by random mutation (Or not-so-random genetic engineering), immune to your control virus. Seeing as how they breed so quickly, such an event seems like an inevitability should they be deployed often enough.

A mutated strain could be a pretty serious threat to the galaxy at large should samples be distributed widely enough.

[Anowa]

(Image)

Name: BW-259 "Chrysalids"
Homeworld: Horizon
Life Span: >1 year
Height: 10'0" tall (304 cm) ~25 feet (762 cm) from beak to tail spur.
Weight: ~4000lbs (1814.369 kg)
Tech Tier: 7 (Engineered bioweapon)
Description: Known as the Chyssalid, it's appearances are rare, and seemingly random. Destroying everything that it can eat or kill, spawning hundred of others in a single brood to continue a cycle and disappearing just as quickly as they spawned. Rumors of monsters spread through the galaxy, but very little evidence results in them being labeled as demons, monsters, and myths. This is as far from the facts as possible.

Almost seventy years ago, the Aelids were discovered among the fauna of their planet was an apex predator known as 'The Desert Kings', the FoH took a few live samples for study and genetic sequencing. Seeing great potential for animal soldiers they improved upon their captured examples. The BW-259 was the peak result. With a bite force of 6,200 psi, and with a chitin plating of atomically aligned carbon it's almost unkillable to all but the most powerful anti-tank weapons or vehicles. Capable of moving at 25 km/h and with the weight it has, it's capable of bowling over vehicles and walls alike. Capable of seeing in IR and UV, capable of hearing a pin drop from a mile away, and with a smell rivaling and exceeding a black bear by a factor of six, it will find it's pray. With self fertilisation and an incubation time of three hours, it will outnumber anything it's beset upon within a day. As a pack hunter it will outsmart damn near anything that doesn't outnumber it. With an immune system only vulnerable to a virus in FoH control it's the perfect bioweapon.

With a retrieval cost of a single fertile example of eight hundred million credits, the deployment cost of six million credits, and the cover-up costs exceeding eighteen trillion credits per 360,000 km², it has only been deployed four times. And due to the possible backlash of using such a creature in war, it will very rarely ever be deployed for more than complete isolated genocide of an unruly race.


#I2tV (DO NOT REMOVE!!!!)

This certainly sounds like a weapon that, if not handled properly, could become a major threat to both handler and victim. I certainly hope that none of these things ever become, by random mutation (Or not-so-random genetic engineering), immune to your control virus. Seeing as how they breed so quickly, such an event seems like an inevitability should they be deployed often enough.

A mutated strain could be a pretty serious threat to the galaxy at large should samples be distributed widely enough.

They'd be contained to a planet at least.

[The Moscow Metro Red Line]

They'd be contained to a planet at least.

For the moment... Why not kill them all before they become a threat? Highbreed PTSD...

[The Hierophancy]

This certainly sounds like a weapon that, if not handled properly, could become a major threat to both handler and victim. I certainly hope that none of these things ever become, by random mutation (Or not-so-random genetic engineering), immune to your control virus. Seeing as how they breed so quickly, such an event seems like an inevitability should they be deployed often enough.

A mutated strain could be a pretty serious threat to the galaxy at large should samples be distributed widely enough.

They'd be contained to a planet at least.

I can imagine a situation in which a specimen is captured and modified to be immune to your strain before being used against you. Still though, I can think of a few interesting situations that could arise from this. Mission impossible style spec-ops to infiltrate a Federation biolab containing a sample of the control virus perhaps?

[Anowa]

They'd be contained to a planet at least.

I can imagine a situation in which a specimen is captured and modified to be immune to your strain before being used against you. Still though, I can think of a few interesting situations that could arise from this. Mission impossible style spec-ops to infiltrate a Federation biolab containing a sample of the control virus perhaps?

Good luck finding the lab first, and getting past 400+ ODPs.

[Ithalian Empire]

So with the international Concordant exploration thingy what would every on be brining? Who would wish to participate, and how should officers be chosen? I also need a better name the Concordant exploration thingy.

[The Hierophancy]

I can imagine a situation in which a specimen is captured and modified to be immune to your strain before being used against you. Still though, I can think of a few interesting situations that could arise from this. Mission impossible style spec-ops to infiltrate a Federation biolab containing a sample of the control virus perhaps?

Good luck finding the lab first, and getting past 400+ ODPs.

That's why it would be so interesting!

[Anowa]

So with the international Concordant exploration thingy what would every on be brining? Who would wish to participate, and how should officers be chosen? I also need a better name the Concordant exploration thingy.

Concordat Exploratory Program: Magellan.

I'll probably send a 'Frigate', and a few dozen scientists for the actual vessel.

[The Moscow Metro Red Line]

So with the international Concordant exploration thingy what would every on be brining? Who would wish to participate, and how should officers be chosen? I also need a better name the Concordant exploration thingy.

Concordat Exploratory Program: Magellan.

I'll probably send a 'Frigate', and a few dozen scientists for the actual vessel.

The Rezelian Empire would probably send provisions, drones, and security (military staff) to the expedition.

[Ithalian Empire]

So with the international Concordant exploration thingy what would every on be brining? Who would wish to participate, and how should officers be chosen? I also need a better name the Concordant exploration thingy.

Concordat Exploratory Program: Magellan.

I'll probably send a 'Frigate', and a few dozen scientists for the actual vessel.

The name could work, why is frigate in ''?

The Rezelian Empire would probably send provisions, drones, and security (military staff) to the expedition.

Alright. Since my and Tagli are supposed to be rivals I fully expect them to complain about something. Which will be interesting from a RP standpoint.

[Anowa]

Concordat Exploratory Program: Magellan.

I'll probably send a 'Frigate', and a few dozen scientists for the actual vessel.

The name could work, why is frigate in ''?

The Rezelian Empire would probably send provisions, drones, and security (military staff) to the expedition.

Alright. Since my and Tagli are supposed to be rivals I fully expect them to complain about something. Which will be interesting from a RP standpoint.

It's registered as a frigate, but it'll likely be battlecruiser weight.

[Ithalian Empire]

The name could work, why is frigate in ''?


Alright. Since my and Tagli are supposed to be rivals I fully expect them to complain about something. Which will be interesting from a RP standpoint.

It's registered as a frigate, but it'll likely be battlecruiser weight.

So frigate size and mass but battlecruiser fire power? So it would be like a pocket battleship then.

[Anowa]

It's registered as a frigate, but it'll likely be battlecruiser weight.

So frigate size and mass but battlecruiser fire power? So it would be like a pocket battleship then.

No, the ship's registry is 'FW-cc5-102479 Class: Frigate' and it's IFF reads 'Buford Class Frigate "Cultural Exchange"' but it's a Jury Class Battlecruiser.