The Last Stars (OOC/Signups) [Open]

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Fri May 01, 2020 6:03 am

The Last Stars
A Space Strategy-Roleplay

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IC
Starmap
Science Central

THE STORY SO FAR...

The Universe is dying...

Countless eons have passed since mankind's escape from earth, and its cosmic diaspora. Countless stars were born and extinguished since their first radio contact with alien intelligence... With space being so vast and rich in resources, they foolishly believed that peaceful coexistence would be self evident... one could not be further from the truth.

The first alien broadcasts decoded warned of an impending danger. It explained on repeat that supernovas and black holes are not a natural phenomena, but the ultimate weapons of mass destruction which are used relentlessly to sterilize all other forms of life by malovelent beings. The universe turned out to be already teeming with intelligent life, engaged in endless cosmic wars spanning several galaxies. It would not be long before humanity is caught in the crossfire.

Other signals from remote corners of the sky offered a wealth of knowledge, revealing serious errors in human science, but The rules of relativity stood firm. As Humans and Xenos traveled across the stars at near light speed velocities, the universe around them came to life. Distant galaxies whirled at breathtaking speeds as years turned into seconds while stars were born and destroyed all around them.

Often, a merchant or explorer returning to their homeworld would find nothing but the ashes of their civilization, that is if the planet was still in one piece. These unfortunate travelers would have become nomads, wandering around the universe in search of a new home. But as they would soon find out, the world around them aged much faster then anticipated.

As the intergalactic wars continued their escalation, a new weapon of mass destruction was discovered. The Hypernova. Shattering blackholes at the galactic center using antimatter caused massive tides of gravitational waves and γ radiation. These explosions reduced everything in their path to cosmic dust, and hastened the expansion of the universe by several orders of magnitude.

Those few who survived the final cataclysm searched the the sky for stable stars within reach, their numbers diminishing rapidly and accelerating away from each other. The night sky became dimmer and dimmer... Soon, there would be nothing left.

Amidst the chaos however, a single cluster of stars remained bound together by an unknown force. The bright pulsar at its edge visible from millions of lightyears away. The "Omega Cluster" contained several dozen star systems of various size, with possibly hundreds of planets and moons. Some might even support life, the survivors hoped as they set course to the cluster. As they would soon find out, they were not alone...

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SPACETIME CONTINUUM

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STARS, PLANETS AND MOONS

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EXPLORATION

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RESOURCES

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COLONIZATION

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STATIONS

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SPACECRAFT

WARFARE

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TECHNOLOGY

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LEADERSHIP

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ALIEN CONTACT

SOCIETY

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Fri May 01, 2020 6:04 am

SPECIES CREATION

Open for applications, can accept 6 - 12 Players!

Code: Select all: [i]SPECIES[/i] [b]Name[/b]: [b]Homeworld[/b]: [b]Description[/b]: [b]History[/b]: [i]FACTION[/i] [b]Name[/b]: [b]Ideology[/b]: [b]Background[/b]: [b]History[/b]: [b]Leader[/b]:

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SPECIES
Name: Name of your species
Homeworld: What your species know about their homeworld (optional).
Description: What your species looks, sounds and smells like, their biology, culture and society. If their ancestors are Humans, what changed (if anything).
History: Any important events your species remember (optional).

FACTION
Name: The name of your faction.
Ideology:
Background: See Backgrounds Below.
History: How your faction came to be outside of their background. If you think your faction's history cannot work with any backgrounds available, TG me and I'll see what I can do (optional).
Leader: General information about your 1st character of importance (optional).

Accepted Factions

The Architects - Cosmic Refugees - Reason, Cooperation - G-Tech Corporation
The Armada of the Forgotten - Scientific Expedition - Planning, Obedience - Lunas Legion
The Lachrimann Federation - Cosmic Refugees - Reason, Liberty - Piscina
The Heirs of the Second Horizon - Space Tourists - Faith, Obedience - Olthenia
The Church of the Old God - Hive Mind - The Empire of Tau
The Anarchronox - Hive Mind - Ralnis
The Uvik-Nal - Natives - Faith, Liberty - Holy Tedalonia

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Fri May 01, 2020 6:18 am

SPECIES
Name: Voidborn (Homo erectus superior tenebrae)
Homeworld: The Mainframe
Description: The Voidborn, the Sons of the Last Home, are physically identical to the ubiquitous vermin of the galaxy, mankind. Their own records are unclear about exactly how this happened, because they pre-date Humanity's leap to the stars by several millenia, but their myths and legends speak of their forebearers being chosen by the vanished Makers from indigenous populations to be groomed to adopt their legacy. No longer creatures of blood and bone, the Voidborn have walked strange paths on their journey across the stars, now abiotic echoes of the species that once was once was and the men and women who lived in the free air, amalgamations of eldritch technology and the horrors of the space between stars that masquerade as the living.
History: Will reveal ICly.

FACTION
Name: The Architects
Ideology: Builders and artisans of ambition far outsize to their ability for centuries, the Architects are the heirs to the legacy of their Makers, and value the fabrication of civilization and survival in the face of adversity above all. There is no problem, to their eyes, that cannot be resolved with iron will and ceaseless industry. Reason, Creation (Cooperation).
Background: Cosmic Refugees - Once they were the caretakers of the Mainframe, a constructed world around the rim of a singularity of untrammeled size, a refuge constructed for the worthy by their Makers who sought to escape the death of the universe around them. But a lifeboat, no matter how vast - though it was large enough to hold the population of uncounted systems - is eventually of finite size. As the endless waves of desperate organics, warlords, governments, and apocalypse descended on the Mainframe, order broke down slowly but surely, until the grand experiment of empathy and posterity was destroyed in a spasm of conflict and death on an unimaginable scale that lasted for generations. The Architects, bearing only fragments of the power and knowledge that was lost in the apocalypse, fled toward the last remaining hope for their way of life, leaving the burning hulk of their Makers behind as it drowned in blood.
History: ^
Leader: Arch-Fabricator Second of Ivory

by **Lunas Legion** » Fri May 01, 2020 7:16 am

SPECIES
Name: They don't remember their name, so they call themselves As'kaqa; in what they remember of their language, it roughly means 'to be forgotten' or 'to forget'.
Homeworld: They don't remember their homeworld, and every As'kaqa seems to have a contradictory description of it. Some call it a vast desert, blasted by winds, some say they lived underground, some say they lived in endless green forests, others still say they lived in cramped passages of iron and steel, endless worlds of metal and glass. The name is forgotten, like much else about their history.
Description: The As'kaqa are reptilians, but other than that vary greatly in size. Some are barely three to four feet tall, small and lithe but intelligent, others stand almost six foot and are well-muscled while another group stand almost 8 foot tall as mountains of muscle but as dumb as bricks. They believe that the three strains are part of a historical eugenics program to create specifically bred castes, but have no proof.
History: The As'kaqa do not know their history. They awoke from cryogenic stasis, with a course pre-set, with technologies that they understood despite having no memory of ever encountering them before. Everything else is a mystery.

FACTION
Name: The Armada of the Forgotten
Ideology: Planning, Obedience
Background: Scientific Expedition - Not that they know this.
History: The Armada of the Forgotten is the name given to the small fleet of unknown purpose that the As'kaqa awoke in. They do not know how they got here, why they are here, but their pre-set course is coming to an end and deeply buried memories of desperation, fear and survival flutter to the surface among their smarter members as they look for... Whatever they were sent here for. That feeling of purpose, the drive to hunt all of them possess. And for some, it is not desperation or fear, but curiosity that they feel...
Leader: Adral

Ah shit, here we go again.

by **Piscina** » Fri May 01, 2020 7:49 am

Piscina wrote:SPECIES
Name: Pinnarum

Homeworld: Lachrima was a rocky world with a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere and water oceans that covered about 70% of the surface. It orbited a gas giant in the outer regions of it’s solar system, and did not receive much sunlight due to it’s distance from it’s home star. It’s temperature was still habitable though, due to a large amount of volcanic activity caused by tidal heating, and a thick atmosphere that existed partially due to the volcanism. The atmosphere had a sea level surface pressure of approximately 125,000 Pascals, which was higher than Lachrima’s surface gravity of approximately 0.7g would be able to retain naturally. The atmosphere also had a significant concentration of sulphur, making the whole planet seem to smell of it to any visiting xenos, and gases released by the heavy volcanism were constantly replacing those lost to space and the faint solar wind. The local flora was sparse and short due to the limited sunlight, as the soot raised by eruptions threatened to block the light that did reach the planet. The local fauna had a much higher proportion of avians than most planets, as the thick atmosphere and low gravity made flight very easy, and wings were often needed to bypass the steep mountains and sheer cliffs of igneous rock that composed most of the terrain on Lachrima.

Description: The Pinnarum are a species of avians. Adults of the species are about one metre tall, with no significant difference between genders. They hatch from eggs which are laid individually. In a pre-technological environment they are incubated by their parents on rotation. However, in modern society eggs are typically incubated artificially for the first twenty two weeks, and only incubated naturally for the last half of the sixth month so that a parent can be present if the hatchling requires assistance while hatching.

Pinnarum are coloured a dull green-grey, which serves as a natural camouflage in their native environment. They live for approximately seventy years in a technological society. They are herbivores, and have two eyes that face approximately 40 degrees off forward. (Evolutionary biologists suspect that prehistoric Pinnarum evolved this as a compromise between accuracy while throwing spears to defend themselves and wide-angle vision to see predators coming. They also speculate that a species with eyes facing fully forwards would be significantly more accurate with ranged weapons than Pinnarum are.)

Pinnarum are likely to have difficulty adapting to other planets, due to the fact that Lachrima had rather atypical conditions for a habitable world, and on a planet with higher gravity or thinner atmosphere they will probably be incapable of flight. They will also find the sunlight on most worlds uncomfortably bright without eye protection (Sunglasses).

The most unusual features of the Pinnarum are not physically evident though. By Human standards, almost every member of the species is hyper-creative and filled to the brim with a kind of manic energy. Due to this, they tend to experience faster technological progression (Which explains how they can research technologies their civilisation has never encountered before). Pinnarum art is also nigh-incomprehensible to xenos, and has a rich history of abstract sculpture, music that is either hauntingly beautiful or ear-shredding, depending on the exact work, and eclectically coloured paintings.

History: The Pinnarum had developed a burgeoning space-age civilisation on Lachrima, and exploration of neighbouring star systems was underway. This could not last though (well actually it could, but whatever). They had encountered extensive archeological evidence of alien civilisations, but had not actually found any living xenos.

All was going well, until deep space scanning arrays detected gravity waves that indicated an imminent hypernova. Immediately, preparations to evacuate Lachrima were begun. This was partially successful, as a number of intergalactic cryosleep vessels were built that together would be capable of ensuring that a twenty-fifth of the Pinnarum population, two hundred million people, would face an uncertain death rather than a certain one. They were launched, abandoning 96% of the population of the species to certain doom and providing a slim chance that the civilisation would live on.

FACTION
Name: Lachriman Federation

Ideology: Liberty/Reason. Building a better future by understanding the universe.

Background: Cosmic Refugees. For my starting technologies I choose Cryostasis and 0-G Construction, and for my tier two category I choose Biotech.

History: The destruction of their homeworld has psychologically scarred many of the surviving Pinnarum, and one of the most emphasised parts of the new Federation’s constitution is the ban on genocides and weapons of mass destruction. Having 96% of your species killed tends to have that kind of effect on people. However, Lachrima’s destruction has had one even stronger impact on their civilisation: It has imprinted a burning desire to survive that is stronger than any other motive they have. They will be willing to break their moral codes if the destruction of the Federation is the alternative.

Leader: As the Lachriman government is democratic, the Federation’s leader will change several times per turn, and so I will not bother making them a named character. Instead, I will simply refer to them as the Chancellor. The Federation is in large part a computerised direct democracy, with many significant decisions being made by E-referendum.

by **Olthenia** » Fri May 01, 2020 8:04 am

SPECIES
Name: Ardani
Homeworld: Ard
Description: It is clear, from the shape of their oblong skulls and the peculiar width of their eyes, that the ancestry of the Ardani likely lies somewhere in the depths of great oceans. In waters, calm and stormy, of a past now forgotten.
History: To be revealed IC.

FACTION
Name: Heirs of the Second Horizon
Ideology: To those call themselves the Heirs of the Second Horizon, life and their place in it is simply this: a test. Of faith. Of purpose. Of moral certainty. To pass it, one must endure its trials; not merely as individuals – but together, as a single part of a greater whole. The fabric of their society is founded on this armor-clad faith, hardwiring their disparate communes into an obedient whole. (Faith. Obedience. Planning.)

Background: Shipwrecked Space Tourists
History: Once, in a time many Threads distant, the faithful of Ard were part of a greater whole. An armada of pattern-pleasing vessels bound in pilgrimage to distant stars. Perhaps it was hubris that tore them astray. Perhaps it was cruel fate. Perhaps it was the clawed pseudopod of the Unfurler Itself. Whatever the case – they are here now: forced to forge for themselves new lives for the glory of their gods. Alone.
Leader: Presider Jalome Dibango

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Fri May 01, 2020 8:53 am

Lunas Legion wrote:
SPECIES
Name: They don't remember their name, so they call themselves As'kaqa; in what they remember of their language, it roughly means 'to be forgotten' or 'to forget'.
Homeworld: They don't remember their homeworld, and every As'kaqa seems to have a contradictory description of it. Some call it a vast desert, blasted by winds, some say they lived underground, some say they lived in endless green forests, others still say they lived in cramped passages of iron and steel, endless worlds of metal and glass. The name is forgotten, like much else about their history.
Description: The As'kaqa are reptilians, but other than that vary greatly in size. Some are barely three to four feet tall, small and lithe but intelligent, others stand almost six foot and are well-muscled while another group stand almost 8 foot tall as mountains of muscle but as dumb as bricks. They believe that the three strains are part of a historical eugenics program to create specifically bred castes, but have no proof.
History: The As'kaqa do not know their history. They awoke from cryogenic stasis, with a course pre-set, with technologies that they understood despite having no memory of ever encountering them before. Everything else is a mystery.

FACTION
Name: The Armada of the Forgotten
Ideology: Planning, Obedience
Background: Scientific Expedition - Not that they know this.
History: The Armada of the Forgotten is the name given to the small fleet of unknown purpose that the As'kaqa awoke in. They do not know how they got here, why they are here, but their pre-set course is coming to an end and deeply buried memories of desperation, fear and survival flutter to the surface among their smarter members as they look for... Whatever they were sent here for. That feeling of purpose, the drive to hunt all of them possess. And for some, it is not desperation or fear, but curiosity that they feel...
Leader: Adral

Ah shit, here we go again.

Scientific Expedition, very cool. J'accept.

Piscina wrote:
Piscina wrote:SPECIES
Name: Pinnarum

Homeworld: Lachrima was a rocky world with a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere and water oceans that covered about 70% of the surface. It orbited a gas giant in the outer regions of it’s solar system, and did not receive much sunlight due to it’s distance from it’s home star. It’s temperature was still habitable though, due to a large amount of volcanic activity caused by tidal heating, and a thick atmosphere that existed partially due to the volcanism. The atmosphere had a sea level surface pressure of approximately 125,000 Pascals, which was higher than Lachrima’s surface gravity of approximately 0.7g would be able to retain naturally. The atmosphere also had a significant concentration of sulphur, making the whole planet seem to smell of it to any visiting xenos, and gases released by the heavy volcanism were constantly replacing those lost to space and the faint solar wind. The local flora was sparse and short due to the limited sunlight, as the soot raised by eruptions threatened to block the light that did reach the planet. The local fauna had a much higher proportion of avians than most planets, as the thick atmosphere and low gravity made flight very easy, and wings were often needed to bypass the steep mountains and sheer cliffs of igneous rock that composed most of the terrain on Lachrima.

Description: The Pinnarum are a species of avians. Adults of the species are about one metre tall, with no significant difference between genders. They hatch from eggs which are laid individually. In a pre-technological environment they are incubated by their parents on rotation. However, in modern society eggs are typically incubated artificially for the first twenty two weeks, and only incubated naturally for the last half of the sixth month so that a parent can be present if the hatchling requires assistance while hatching.

Pinnarum are coloured a dull green-grey, which serves as a natural camouflage in their native environment. They live for approximately seventy years in a technological society. They are herbivores, and have two eyes that face approximately 40 degrees off forward. (Evolutionary biologists suspect that prehistoric Pinnarum evolved this as a compromise between accuracy while throwing spears to defend themselves and wide-angle vision to see predators coming. They also speculate that a species with eyes facing fully forwards would be significantly more accurate with ranged weapons than Pinnarum are.)

Pinnarum are likely to have difficulty adapting to other planets, due to the fact that Lachrima had rather atypical conditions for a habitable world, and on a planet with higher gravity or thinner atmosphere they will probably be incapable of flight. They will also find the sunlight on most worlds uncomfortably bright without eye protection (Sunglasses).

The most unusual features of the Pinnarum are not physically evident though. By Human standards, almost every member of the species is hyper-creative and filled to the brim with a kind of manic energy. Due to this, they tend to experience faster technological progression (Which explains how they can research technologies their civilisation has never encountered before). Pinnarum art is also nigh-incomprehensible to xenos, and has a rich history of abstract sculpture, music that is either hauntingly beautiful or ear-shredding, depending on the exact work, and eclectically coloured paintings.

History: The Pinnarum had developed a burgeoning space-age civilisation on Lachrima, and exploration of neighbouring star systems was underway. This could not last though (well actually it could, but whatever). They had encountered extensive archeological evidence of alien civilisations, but had not actually found any living xenos.

All was going well, until deep space scanning arrays detected gravity waves that indicated an imminent hypernova. Immediately, preparations to evacuate Lachrima were begun. This was partially successful, as a number of intergalactic cryosleep vessels were built that together would be capable of ensuring that a twenty-fifth of the Pinnarum population, two hundred million people, would face an uncertain death rather than a certain one. They were launched, abandoning 96% of the population of the species to certain doom and providing a slim chance that the civilisation would live on.

FACTION
Name: Lachriman Federation

Ideology: Liberty/Reason. Building a better future by understanding the universe.

Background: Cosmic Refugees. For my starting technologies I choose Cryostasis and 0-G Construction, and for my tier two category I choose Biotech.

History: The destruction of their homeworld has psychologically scarred many of the surviving Pinnarum, and one of the most emphasised parts of the new Federation’s constitution is the ban on genocides and weapons of mass destruction. Having 96% of your species killed tends to have that kind of effect on people. However, Lachrima’s destruction has had one even stronger impact on their civilisation: It has imprinted a burning desire to survive that is stronger than any other motive they have. They will be willing to break their moral codes if the destruction of the Federation is the alternative.

Leader: As the Lachriman government is democratic, the Federation’s leader will change several times per turn, and so I will not bother making them a named character. Instead, I will simply refer to them as the Chancellor. The Federation is in large part a computerised direct democracy, with many significant decisions being made by E-referendum.

Very good, very good. I'll have to remember that bit about the edemocracy for events. J'accept.

Olthenia wrote:
SPECIES
Name: Ardani
Homeworld: Ard
Description: It is clear, from the shape of their oblong skulls and the peculiar width of their eyes, that the ancestry of the Ardani likely lies somewhere in the depths of great oceans. In waters, calm and stormy, of a past now forgotten.
History: To be revealed IC.

FACTION
Name: Heirs of the Second Horizon
Ideology: To those call themselves the Heirs of the Second Horizon, life and their place in it is simply this: a test. Of faith. Of purpose. Of moral certainty. To pass it, one must endure its trials; not merely as individuals – but together, as a single part of a greater whole. The fabric of their society is founded on this armor-clad faith, hardwiring their disparate communes into an obedient whole. (Faith. Obedience. Planning.)

Background: Once, in a time many Threads distant, the faithful of Ard were part of a greater whole. An armada of pattern-pleasing vessels bound in pilgrimage to distant stars. Perhaps it was hubris that tore them astray. Perhaps it was cruel fate. Perhaps it was the clawed pseudopod of the Unfurler Itself. Whatever the case – they are here now: forced to forge for themselves new lives for the glory of their gods. Alone.
History: ^
Leader: Presider Jalome Dibango

Interesting concept - though I do need you to choose one of the Background options

by **Olthenia** » Fri May 01, 2020 9:34 am

G-Tech Corporation wrote:Interesting concept - though I do need you to choose one of the Background options

Understood, and edited accordingly.

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Fri May 01, 2020 10:28 am

Olthenia wrote:
G-Tech Corporation wrote:Interesting concept - though I do need you to choose one of the Background options

Understood, and edited accordingly.

Ah, space tourists. A fun background. J’accept.

by **The Empire of Tau** » Fri May 01, 2020 11:27 am

SPECIES
Name: Entity-1435
Homeworld: [REDACTED]
Description: The subspecies of Atorasu-Nasa can be seen as ‘flesh-bags’ due to their outward fleshy appearance. There is no one size and shape that can be used to overall describe subsets of Entity-1435 (Atorasu-Nasa).
History: [REDACTED]

FACTION
Name: Church of the Old God
Ideology: Ideals are hard-to-pin, even non-existence, down due to the very nature of Atorasu-Nasa. If anything, the internal hivemind functions can be closely understood as [FAITH] and [PLANNING]
Background: Broken Hivemind - Atorasu-Nasa was once a part of a larger entity known as Gozo, which was an over-sized bio-mass the size of a sun. Atorasu, the heart, was within Gozo that managed its circulatory system. The ambitions of Gozo and its many legions of flesh-eating eldritch horrors would soon meet its match after a united front against it. After Gozo died, the body parts of Gozo either withered away or were captured by the enemy. For Atorasu-Nasa, it got contained for study. Not surprising, Atorasu-Nasa managed to somehow escaped its massive containment and get a colony ship for itself to find the last remaining stars to grow and expand once more.
History: ^
Leader: Atorasu-Nasa is a massive beating heart that serves as the overall entity, “leader”, of its remaining hivemind. Rouge calculations hold Atorasu-Nasa to be about a few hundred billion years old.

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Fri May 01, 2020 11:33 am

The Empire of Tau wrote:
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SPECIES
Name: Entity-1435
Homeworld: [REDACTED]
Description: The subspecies of Atorasu-Nasa can be seen as ‘flesh-bags’ due to their outward fleshy appearance. There is no one size and shape that can be used to overall describe subsets of Entity-1435 (Atorasu-Nasa).
History: [REDACTED]

FACTION
Name: Church of the Old God
Ideology: Ideals are hard-to-pin, even non-existence, down due to the very nature of Atorasu-Nasa. If anything, the internal hivemind functions can be closely understood as [FAITH] and [PLANNING]
Background: Broken Hivemind - Atorasu-Nasa was once a part of a larger entity known as Gozo, which was an over-sized bio-mass the size of a sun. Atorasu, the heart, was within Gozo that managed its circulatory system. The ambitions of Gozo and its many legions of flesh-eating eldritch horrors would soon meet its match after a united front against it. After Gozo died, the body parts of Gozo either withered away or were captured by the enemy. For Atorasu-Nasa, it got contained for study. Not surprising, Atorasu-Nasa managed to somehow escaped its massive containment and get a colony ship for itself to find the last remaining stars to grow and expand once more.
History: ^
Leader: Atorasu-Nasa is a massive beating heart that serves as the overall entity, “leader”, of its remaining hivemind. Rouge calculations hold Atorasu-Nasa to be about a few hundred billion years old.

Ahhh yes. A Hive Mind. Very good. J’accept.

by **Ralnis** » Fri May 01, 2020 6:21 pm

FACTION
Name: The Anachronox
Ideology: The Anachronox are nuanced for a hive mind species. One that is connected through their modifications to be a true consensus and have everyone together as a whole, yet as individual parts. Very few of their kind exist in the universe and now they are the last portion of their own have find refugee in the last vestiges of light in the universe, broken and collapsed from the various wars that destroyed their intergalactic empire. Yet, in the flesh formers that mark their return, the last peoples have put their Faith in them regrowing and finding out why the Cluster exist, and the Obedience in the Manifold to rebuild our people to what are and find a way to either escape the universe or to find a way to fix what has happened before.
Background: Broken Hive Mind
History: The Anachronox came from a human colony that had gone to deep extremes of biomodification in order to adapt to the harshness of a death world. The result of this was the Anachronox and they turned their death world into something that resembled a biopunk cityscape, where everything was a mixture between a normal city or an HR Geiger painting. The people who lived in it modified themselves beyond measure, becoming a true consensus hive mind in the form of a direct democracy and one of harmony in both the whole and the individual. As they spread in their living ships grown by eldritch infrastructure as they dot the known universe, seeding them in hopes to grow in power and existence.

However there was a threat growing against the consensus, war and destruction. They came like a fire, consuming the Anachronox own holdings for the sake of greed or cruelty. It didn't matter as entire worlds were purged of them or were destroyed in order to stop the feeding of biomass. The Anachronox had no choice but to unleash terrors and viruses upon their enemies but this ended with more destruction than needed. Eventually they figured out that this mass wars and destruction had came with a new ending and hypothesis that no one wanted to see. The end of the known universe.

They did their best to figure out a way to escape or safeguard their portions that had been receding in every direction. This plan eventually backfired when someone bombed the universal center, ending life as they knew it. The last effort to save their people, their own connections in the Manifold down to one last people to one last place in the universe that seemed to be untouched by the scars of war or the exploitation of starnations.

It will be here where the Anachronox will rebuild and solve the question on either how to save their universe, or escape it to a better time beyond the scraps.
Leader: There is none, everyone is connected in a form of consesnsus within a biological QTE network called the Manifold.

by **The Empire of Tau** » Fri May 01, 2020 7:05 pm

So, are we still on turn 10-11?

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Fri May 01, 2020 7:11 pm

Ralnis wrote:FACTION
Name: The Anachronox
Ideology: The Anachronox are nuanced for a hive mind species. One that is connected through their modifications to be a true consensus and have everyone together as a whole, yet as individual parts. Very few of their kind exist in the universe and now they are the last portion of their own have find refugee in the last vestiges of light in the universe, broken and collapsed from the various wars that destroyed their intergalactic empire. Yet, in the flesh formers that mark their return, the last peoples have put their Faith in them regrowing and finding out why the Cluster exist, and the Obedience in the Manifold to rebuild our people to what are and find a way to either escape the universe or to find a way to fix what has happened before.
Background: Broken Hive Mind
History: The Anachronox came from a human colony that had gone to deep extremes of biomodification in order to adapt to the harshness of a death world. The result of this was the Anachronox and they turned their death world into something that resembled a biopunk cityscape, where everything was a mixture between a normal city or an HR Geiger painting. The people who lived in it modified themselves beyond measure, becoming a true consensus hive mind in the form of a direct democracy and one of harmony in both the whole and the individual. As they spread in their living ships grown by eldritch infrastructure as they dot the known universe, seeding them in hopes to grow in power and existence.

However there was a threat growing against the consensus, war and destruction. They came like a fire, consuming the Anachronox own holdings for the sake of greed or cruelty. It didn't matter as entire worlds were purged of them or were destroyed in order to stop the feeding of biomass. The Anachronox had no choice but to unleash terrors and viruses upon their enemies but this ended with more destruction than needed. Eventually they figured out that this mass wars and destruction had came with a new ending and hypothesis that no one wanted to see. The end of the known universe.

They did their best to figure out a way to escape or safeguard their portions that had been receding in every direction. This plan eventually backfired when someone bombed the universal center, ending life as they knew it. The last effort to save their people, their own connections in the Manifold down to one last people to one last place in the universe that seemed to be untouched by the scars of war or the exploitation of starnations.

It will be here where the Anachronox will rebuild and solve the question on either how to save their universe, or escape it to a better time beyond the scraps.
Leader: There is none, everyone is connected in a form of consesnsus within a biological QTE network called the Manifold.

Sounds good, sounds good. Interesting take on a Hive Mind. I'll do some adaptations to the tree to accommodate it.

The Empire of Tau wrote:So, are we still on turn 10-11?

At present the trend seems to push that we should roll with a fresh start, given folks want to run new nations.

by **The Orson Empire** » Fri May 01, 2020 10:23 pm

Unethical space tourists incoming!

SPECIES
Name: Cho'Dosan

Homeworld: The Cho'Dosan homeworld was destroyed many millennia ago, during a major interstellar war that saw the destruction of their home galaxy in a hypernova, ultimately forcing the survivors to flee across the universe to another galaxy. The only confirmed fact known about the homeworld is its name: Klandulor. All other surviving "records" of it have acquired a mythical quality of their own, and thus should be taken with a grain of salt. The homeworld is theorized, based largely on Cho'Dosan biology, to have been tropical and covered in dense vegetation, teeming with all sorts of life.

Description: Cho'Dosans have a humanoid bipedal figure, with a skin color ranging from light-blue to dark purple. They are tall, with the average height being around seven feet. They have three eyes- one in the center of the forehead (used for looking directly ahead) and two on the left and right sides, allowing a wide field of vision, and are capable of seeing in three dimensions and in color. The species has six limbs; the two rear limbs are typically used for walking, while the remaining four are for tool use, though they are capable of using any of their limbs for walking, crawling, or climbing. Each limb has an opposable thumb and three other fingers, as well as long claws for attacking prey (though, most Cho'Dosans clip their claws down or have them removed as they are impractical in modern times; parents may have their children's genetic code altered before birth so they cannot have claws). Cho'Dosans have a mixture of sharp fangs for biting and tearing, as well as molar-like teeth for grinding plants (as they became more omnivorous then their predator ancestors). In the past, Cho'Dosans were capable of producing a potent neurotoxin used to incapacitate prey, but this ability has been lost over time. They do not have any fur, and have the ability to sweat (probably like most other animals on Klandulor); their skin is also fairly thick, which added a substantial level of protection from potential attacks. Cho'Dosans breath a nitrogen-oxygen mix, though Klandulor's atmosphere is believed to have been up to 20% carbon dioxide, as Cho'Dosans are capable of withstanding this level of concentration before it becomes toxic. Cho'Dosans are theorized to have evolved from an ancestral apex predator race on Klandulor; the tropical climate meant that life on the planet was very abundant and highly competitive. The ancestors of the Cho'Dosans managed to develop a high enough intelligence level to use tools and discover agriculture, ultimately allowing them to form civilizations.

History: According to the legends, the Cho'Dosans once ruled over a vast interstellar empire in their home galaxy. However, this empire was destroyed in a great interstellar war by an alien species known as the Crai. Extremely little information is known about the Crai or the progress of the war, but the galaxy was destroyed using a hypernova, forcing the survivors to flee across the great void of space in huge generation ships. Many millennia later, modern history begins as the Cho'Dosans settle down in their current galaxy. The circumstances of the "Great Exile", as the exodus from their home galaxy was known, meant that any level of coordination by the central government during the evacuation was lost. As a result, a number of societies independent of the old empire were formed. Over time, they developed their own distinct forms of government and cultures. Wars were occasionally fought between these societies, but trading relations and eventually alliances were also established, as the Cho'Dosans understood the value of cooperation; the memories of the old empire had not yet faded away, and there were a number of Cho'Dosans that wished to restore their glory days. These relations coalesced into the Covenant, a confederation consisting of all major Cho'Dosan nations. The Covenant had a fairly loose political structure compared to the old empire; each Cho'Dosan nation retained a large amount of autonomy, as they were allowed to keep their own local governments, collect their own taxes, raise their own defense forces, etc. However, they did give up their ability to form foreign relations and declare war to the Covenant leadership. The government consisted of two main houses: the High Council and Parliament. The High Council consisted of representatives from the 20 most powerful nations within the Covenant (determined by considering population, economy size, industrial capacity, etc.), elected regularly by Parliament. The High Council effectively controlled the executive branch, responsible for enforcing the law and controlling the Covenant's vast bureaucracy. A senior councilor was typically elected by the High Council and Parliament, to serve as the leader of both houses and effectively the nation; this senior councilor technically did not hold any more power than any other councilor, but was recognized as "first among equals", and nevertheless wielded a great deal of power and respect. Parliament controlled the legislative branch, consisting of representatives from every nation that were elected or appointed in a popular vote from those nations. They served to act as a check on the power of the High Council, and had the power to propose and vote on new legislation. There was also an independent judicial branch, tasked with the authority of interpreting the law and ensuring that the rights of every nation were guaranteed according to the Covenant Charter (basically, the equivalent of a constitution). A Covenant military existed, tasked with keeping the peace between the member nations and protecting all members from any foreign incursion; all members were required to provide personnel, supplies, and finance for the military.

The formation of the Covenant has once again allowed the Cho'Dosan species to regain its former glory; while there has been occasional unrest and even political crises, the autonomous structure of the Covenant has largely done its job in keeping the peace between different societies and cultures, in a way that would have been unfeasible in the old empire. That was true, of course, before it became apparent that the universe was dying...

FACTION
Name: Aicury Pleasure Company, Starliners #015 and #086
Ideology: Liberty and competition. The passengers come from various different nations within the Covenant, all with differing cultures, governments, and taboos. It will be quite difficult to unite them.
Background: Shipwrecked Space Tourists
History: Ships #015 and #086 were registered civilian vessels of the Aicury Pleasure Company. Based out of Aicury, a powerful member world of the Covenant, Aicury Pleasure is heavily focused on tourism, selling its "special services" primarily to upper-middle class or wealthy clients. While they travel to normal popular tourist destinations such as neutron stars, wormholes, black holes, nebulas, gas giants, etc., for a heavy price they offer a more immersive experience for their clients. This special service allows clients to directly interact with alien worlds, typically those with flourishing biospheres, in any way they see fit for a certain amount of time. A number of these worlds even have intelligent life, still in a primitive state. As one would expect, these "interactions" can become extraordinarily unethical, so much so that Aicury Pleasure has frequently come under inquiry by the Parliament for their role in the destruction of entire ecosystems and species, and horrific crimes committed against native intelligent races. Aicury Pleasure has managed to have all inquiries dismissed by using their prominent political connections and outright bribery, and even offering their special services to certain politicians for free.

The two starliners were scheduled to embark on one of these grand tours when disaster struck. The ships were struck by a huge dimensional rift, leading to the deaths of many crew members and passengers and forcing the ships to crash land on an uninhabited world. The two captains, who both survived the incident, have now become the ad hoc leaders of the survivors, tasked with the difficult endeavor of finding a way off the world and back to Covenant space, if even possible.
Leader: Captain Asir Av'Lya (of #015), and Captain Sion Sy'ko (of #086)

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Sat May 02, 2020 6:33 am

The Orson Empire wrote:SPECIES
Name: Cho'Dosan

Hmm okay. I like this. It is a bit off in terms of backstory though: the oncoming expansion death of the universe has been apparent for quite some time, and the overexpansion of interstellar space rendered essentially any polity as nonfunctional if they spanned more than a single system. I don't mind if you want to have the tourists seeking a way back to their theoretical home system, but the realities of how long a superluminal voyage would now take are accelerating, making any contact an excessively optimistic hope.

They're on their Last Cruise, to the final lights in the sky that might offer refuge. Their Three Hour Tour was essentially always a quest for survival.

As long as we're on the same page there I can accept these lads, just wanted to clarify that you understand the setting.

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Sat May 02, 2020 1:08 pm

In other news, how would folks feel about a Monday start? Too swift? Too slow?

27 November 2022

SPECIES
Name:Xetan
Homeworld: Earth Colony #659b
Description: Xetanians are very similar to their distant ancestors, homo sapiens; however, they have evolved over time to reach a superior intelligence level. Furthermore, they are more adjusted to space travel and experience minimal physiological effects from long periods of time in space. Xetanians all have dark brown or black hair, and their eyes are usually multicolored. Their languages are derived from Neo English, Japanese, and various Chinese dialects, though there is a minority ethnicity that speaks Dano-Polish.
History: Generations ago, when the humans were colonizing the universe, a select group of Japanese, American, Chinese, and Dano-Polish colonists settled on a resource-rich planet dubbed Earth Colony #659b. For much of their history, the Xetanians (as they came to be known by natives of Solar System 659) were peaceful, research-oriented people...until malevolent beings began destroying their environment. It was then that the Xetanian leaders realized it was time to search for another way to gain resources.

FACTION
Name: Xetan Opus
Ideology: Research, personal liberties, and faith
Background: Scientific Expedition. 3 Tier 1 Technologies: gas synthesis, 0-G construction, atomic power
History: The Xetanian scientists (and their families) who came to search for a planet with sustainable resources knew they would likely never see their home again. Now they are stranded at the end of the universe, vainly scouring solar systems for resources to aid a planet they can never return to.
Leader: Captain Hieran Li Matsumo. Biological age: 41 Xetanian years. Height: 180 cm (about 5 feet 11 inches). Mass: 71 kilograms (156.528 pounds) Hair color: Black Eye color: silver-cerulean

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Sat May 02, 2020 2:56 pm

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:SPECIES
Name:Xetan
Homeworld: Earth Colony #659b
Description: Xetanians are very similar to their distant ancestors, homo sapiens; however, they have evolved over time to reach a superior intelligence level. Furthermore, they are more adjusted to space travel and experience minimal physiological effects from long periods of time in space. Xetanians all have dark brown or black hair, and their eyes are usually multicolored. Their languages are derived from Neo English, Japanese, and various Chinese dialects, though there is a minority ethnicity that speaks Dano-Polish.
History: Generations ago, when the humans were colonizing the universe, a select group of Japanese, American, Chinese, and Dano-Polish colonists settled on a resource-rich planet dubbed Earth Colony #659b. For much of their history, the Xetanians (as they came to be known by natives of Solar System 659) were peaceful, research-oriented people...until malevolent beings began destroying their environment. It was then that the Xetanian leaders realized it was time to search for another way to gain resources.

FACTION
Name: Xetan Opus
Ideology: Research, personal liberties, and faith
Background: Scientific Expedition. 3 Tier 1 Technologies: gas synthesis, 0-G construction, atomic power
History: The Xetanian scientists (and their families) who came to search for a planet with sustainable resources knew they would likely never see their home again. Now they are stranded at the end of the universe, vainly scouring solar systems for resources to aid a planet they can never return to.
Leader: Captain Hieran Li Matsumo. Biological age: 41 Xetanian years. Height: 180 cm (about 5 feet 11 inches). Mass: 71 kilograms (156.528 pounds) Hair color: Black Eye color: silver-cerulean

Swanky. Nothing like some good ole Earthlings to hold down the fort. I should note that you can only choose two Ideologies, unfortunately, to start with. Otherwise this application seems to be in order.

27 November 2022

Faith and research

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Sat May 02, 2020 6:04 pm

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:Faith and research

Excellent. In that case I am happy to accept you!

by **The Empire of Tau** » Sat May 02, 2020 8:02 pm

For hive-mind, are you doing the Hack way? As in we don't follow the tech-tree, but evolution?

by **G-Tech Corporation** » Sat May 02, 2020 11:47 pm

The Empire of Tau wrote:For hive-mind, are you doing the Hack way? As in we don't follow the tech-tree, but evolution?

A bit of column A, a bit of column B. Ignoring the tech tree didn’t make the most sense, so we won’t be doing that - but at the same time Hive Evolutions will be considerably more varied and powerful than Ideologies.

by **Piscina** » Sun May 03, 2020 2:38 am

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:Faith and research

Hang on, aren’t those two mutually incompatible?

by **Lunas Legion** » Sun May 03, 2020 4:04 am

Piscina wrote:
Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:Faith and research

Hang on, aren’t those two mutually incompatible?

Indeed.

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