As I'm pretty sure we all have noticed, NS has recently acquired some fantabulous new forums. Sure, the color scheme isn't quite perfect, and the frequently shifting brightness and highlights can give me a migraine, but that's neither here nor there (I think it's somewhere over there); what does matter is that, for the first time in a few years, we're actually on our own forums. Well, okay, they're not really "our" forums, they're Max's, and I'm sure he'd get pretty ticked if one of us showed up and began sticking something onto his servers, but you know what I mean. We're back to our roots, in a way, and I thought it was about time for me start an RP on these new forums. Nothing major, just a groundbreaking epic that would have all its readers weeping at its sheer beauty. That sort of thing. But, before we can have such an epic, we need to have players, so we are now signing up for On Tania Austrailis Station, my newest Future-Tech RP, set in the once-again expanding Associated Systems of Klonor.
Despite my original problems (Yes, that's right, two threads about my posting issues), the thread is already up and open if you would like to read the introduction. I know, there's not much point to having a sign-up thread after the thread is open, but I think the reason a lot of my RP's wind up going nowhere (Including this very RP when I originally posted it on Jolt) is that people just randomly pop in, there's no planned path from the beginning, so this time I'm hoping to work out some of the details before we get rolling. In this thread I would like to attract general interest and get the framework set up for us to have a rip-roaring good time.
For those not interested in reading thirteen pages before they've even decided to enter the RP, the summary is that my nation (The afore mentioned Associated Systems of Klonor) has placed an infant colony in the Tania Austrailis system. Because of its youth, small size, and negligible value in all measurable ways, it's something of a joke and, as such, the military assigned to guard the colony are the rejects the Corps is looking to get out of the way. Enter Captain (Junior Grade) Hatio Hou, a brilliant officer who is nevertheless shuffled off here for reasons beyond her control. She is going to, through a combination of skill, blind luck, and random coincidence, discover some sort of nefarious plot to seize this colony, or destroy it, or do something else evil and cruel (We're talking full-blown moustache twirling here), which she will be forced to thwart.
The RP needs a person, or group, to act as the aggressor and antagonist of this story, matching wits and will against Hou and Klonor in some sort of contest to control this (apparently worthless) system and colony. Tanaara has already entered as a non-hostile third party, which are always welcome if somebody would like to get involved in less confrontational manner, and I'm looking for a few more players to fill out our roster.This RP is semi-open, I don't have any roster of players, but I do ask that you TG me or post here (And wait for my response) before joining in. I've found that if you leave an RP completely open it tends to get swamped beyond control, and not just by new players; when a player as awesome as me gets involved (Come on, you all know how great I am) everybody wants to jump right in. Other than that, my only requirement for participation is proper spelling/grammar/punctuation. I'm aware that I'm something of a grammar Nazi, I recognize it's not necessarily fair for a medium where many of the participants do not speak English as a first language, or have not yet completed their education, but it's who I am. I'm sorry, but I'd like you to honestly look at your writing and think if it qualifies before asking to join. The odds are that I'll probably feel too bad to actually reject anybody on those grounds, I'm a nice guy and I'll try to suck it up unless I actually receive a telegram with "i wunt to plea wit joo," but also think about yourself, do you really want to RP with somebody who's such a douche that he'd look down on you for your spelling? I know I sure wouldn't.
Other than that, let's bring on the play!
I can see the similarities, and the differences, and it probably means I'm going to see where things are going before they happen, at least until we get going a bit and the differences introduced by the rest of us alter things. But it bodes well, so it's all good. And given this is supposed to be heavily inspired, there wasn't a lot different you could have done by this point, in my view. It's all still setup at the moment.