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OOC Thread

Firstly, greetings and good tidings to you all :D

Here's the deal; I'm starting up a space-based future-tech nation here, for the purposes of intelligent RP, but I really have no idea who the other space nations are, or who owns which planets, and what the current future-tech political climate is.

I was hoping, then, that those of you who play active future tech nations might give me some pointers as to what's going on in the galaxy (or galaxies, for all I know :wink: ), who's who, and such like, before I RP my nation's intro.

Any info would be grand.

Thanks muchly. :)

Welcome to space. Here's a list of space tech RPers besides myself:

Valinon
Taka
New Ortaga
Falamayson
Klonor
Lunatic Retard Robots
Resi Corporation
Dontgonearthere
The WIck
Xanthal
New Xanthal
Arenumberg
Menelmacar
Melkor Unchained
Eizen
Hive Fleet Immodius
The Fedral Union
Corpsac
CoreWorlds
Foe Hammer
Kajal
Clairmont
Santa Barbara
Eniqcir
Wazzu
Skeelzania
Crimmond
Thelas
Nodeau Radav
Nanakaland
Andmerica
Central Facehuggeria
Xanter
Five Civilized Nations
Swordmasters of Ginaz
Northrop-Grumman

EDIT: I'll add in more as I see em.

Bah beaten out by a guy who can't spell worth a damn.

Anyway, I can tell you where some of these people are in the galaxy. Arenumberg, The WIck, and myself are all located about 40,000 lightyears out from Sol. If you were to dig up a Star Trek map and locate the Dominion on it, thats us. Most of these people have fact books that tell where they are located as well.

As for current political climate, can't help you much there. Skeelzania is a somewhat isolated and extreamly xenophobic nation, so most of our diplomacy involve clashing with other species (Arenumberg for one, I might secede from New Aranmor and start a war with her if I get bored enough).

Oh yes, visit my storefront (http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showtopic=190) for all your basic space nation needs.

Well, I'm limited to the Sol System, but don't be suprised to see a couple of my rogue fleets running around wreaking havoc on pirates and such. Oh, and if you ever want to find out how the Earth will be destroyed, ask me. I'm the only one who has been able to pull off sealing the fate of every Earth nation and gotton away with it. Of course it will by 70 odd trillion years from now, but hey. :P

I'm not in any position to offer you any IC help (My goverment has just been completely wiped out and my territory is invading, being invaded, and being subjugated as we speak. Boy it's been fun) but I'd be more than happy to offer OOC advice. I've been around Space NS more than once and know the ins and outs of pretty much everything. Get in trouble, come to me. I can get anything worked out (Shockingly, this is me being modest :wink: )

EDIT: Just to make it clear, I do not mean that I actually can work out anything. The winking smiley dude is meant to imply that, but many many times here at NS people have treated my joking statements as me being serious.

Welcome to space. Here's a list of space tech RPers besides myself:

Valinon
Taka
New Ortaga
Falamayson
Klonor
Lunatic Retard Robots
Resi Corporation
Dontgonearthere
The WIck
Xanthal
New Xanthal
Arenumberg
Menelmacar
Melkor Unchained
Eizen
Hive Fleet Immodius
The Fedral Union
Corpsac
CoreWorlds
Foe Hammer
Kajal
Clairmont
Santa Barbara
Eniqcir
Wazzu

And theres a lot more I can't think of right now.

You've left out:

Super American VX Man
Techon
Nanakaland

The entire region of GCON
The region of Deep Space

and countless more.

I'm not in any position to offer you any IC help (My goverment has just been completely wiped out and my territory is invading, being invaded, and being subjugated as we speak. Boy it's been fun) but I'd be more than happy to offer OOC advice. I've been around Space NS more than once and know the ins and outs of pretty much everything. Get in trouble, come to me. I can get anything worked out (Shockingly, this is me being modest)

Well, it's OOC advice I'm mostly after - I have a very clear idea of cultural identity, society structure, etc. of the nation I'm going to play, but I need to know what's out there, before I suddenly appear on the sidelines. :)

Who the good guys are, who the bad guys are, what the general accepted tech level is (I'm going for fairly low tech, but I don't want to be completely out of my depth), what the major alliances/inhabited systems are, that sort of thing. Obviously, I can't expect someone to just describe the whole universe to me, but general pointers of what is and isn't sensible, if you know what I mean?

I don't really need any IC info, because I'm intending to RP my 'intro' as a sort of first contact situation (Although, I'm not playing aliens; just a bunch of humans who went off and got lost, and then came back again) I just want to know whose lawn I'm treading on, when I show up. :D

Techon reitred, i am currently the caretaker of it till he gets back,

I am in the 30th Century.. but i still play with people and try not to godmod, as far as im concerned everything affects everything,
and as for the bad and good guys, well, just depends who you fall in with :D

(Come to me :D lol)

You've left out:

Super American VX Man
Techon
Nanakaland

The entire region of GCON
The region of Deep Space

and countless more.

Hey, I never said it was a complete Big List of Space RPers. I did say I couldn't remember a bunch of them, that serves as a disclaimer.

The rate of population growth presents a problem to my RP idea, though.

Would anyone have a problem, if I asked you to ignore my listed population, and accept a fairly constant population of about 1.2 to 1.5 million? (Yes, I want a population lower than the 5 mill minimum) Or is that Godmoding?

no one mentioned me...at all...

:?

Anyhow...my empire is far-future tech, spans 9 inhabited planets, and all of the space in the Orion Sector. For an example of a future-tech RP of mine, check Let the Outside Slowly Die (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2631904#2631904), the second thread of my civil war.

The rate of population growth presents a problem to my RP idea, though.

Would anyone have a problem, if I asked you to ignore my listed population, and accept a fairly constant population of about 1.2 to 1.5 million? (Yes, I want a population lower than the 5 mill minimum) Or is that Godmoding?

It depends who you RP with, you see, while even I try to RP with as many people as possible, you normally get a "posse" of sorts who you normally RP with. I have three - a far-future space RPing group, a fantasy RPing group, and then there's the diplomatic/political RPing group which is much larger.

Accepted tech level? Well most people seem to use far-future, with big powerful ships that can destroy planets with a single thought. I suppose you could call mine 23rd century tech, but thats something of a stretch. I don't use many lasers/engergy weapons, instead favoring kinetic energy weapons and limited use of torpedos. My ships are also smaller and weaker, but I have more of them (I'm currently pushing about 220 ships of various classes).

As for having your population hovering around 1.5, I don't see how anyone would object to that. Your planet would be pretty empty IMO, though maybe your planning on having a world-ship or something.

From my observations, theres no clear cut Good Guys and Bad Guys. Like Arenumberg said, it depends on who you fall inline with. I've been accused of being evil by Kecha (a defunct RPer) and some other people, but I'm allied with a bunch of goody-goody two shoes in New Aranamor. Politics are rather tangled in space...

Techon reitred, i am currently the caretaker of it till he gets back.

That explains why he didn't join A Scream in Space III when he was the second (or third) most important nation involved in the other two.

I think I'll make a sort of fact book at some point soon, and then any nations who like the idea can join in an intro RP I'm going to start, for a first contact situation with Vagari. I'll give a basic summary here, though:

The reason I need a limited population, is because I intend to play a 'nation' that lives entirely on their ships, and has absolutely no planets of its own. Furthermore, we don't have artificial-gravity, so the population have been living in zero-G for the last 600-700 years. This means that compared to those used to gravity, Vagari are pretty feeble and are incapable of surviving on the surface of a planet.

Tech level is fairly low; no energy shields, cloaking devices, or molecular disruptors or anything like that. We tend to fight exclusively using long-range (up to 200,000km) guided missiles, with short range lasers for anti-missile defence. If the missiles don't work, we run away :) Nothing really planet killing; some cruisers carry nukes with a yield of about 5mt for planetary bombardment, but most weapons either have conventional warheads, or nuclear warheads in the 0.5-10kt range (although these are limited in number due to the ever-present lack of resources).

While we will have several thousand ships, there is the fact that most of them are habitats, and neither ships nor personnel are easily replaced (or even ammunition for that matter). Ships are quite small (30-200m long for combat/auxilliary vessels, and about 750m long for habitat ships) Also, I'm looking to be fairly low-tech, in a reasonably high-tech environment; the Vagari have been in space for a while, they just haven't had the resources to develop much in the way of technology, so have been limited to just making refinements to what they already had. Until I manage to get my economy to basket-case, you'll have to imagine that's what it is :)

Rather than being any kind of intergalactic power, I'm more looking to scrape a living on the edge of civilisation, through scavenging and mercenary work, and even piracy if things get really desperate.

What do you think? Sound reasonable as a basic premise?

BUMP

Greetings, here is the current status of Nodea Rudav via Location:

Nova Kretani Solar System
-Eight Planets
-New Homeworld chosen as Novar
-Small Colonial Space Forces
-Far from the eyes of many, close to those whom dare to dream. :D

Greetings, here is the current status of Nodea Rudav via Location:

Nova Kretani Solar System
-Eight Planets
-New Homeworld chosen as Novar
-Small Colonial Space Forces
-Far from the eyes of many, close to those whom dare to dream. :D

Woo! I was listed above Melkor 8)

What do you think? Sound reasonable as a basic premise?

It sounds...excellent! I am very impressed, as you are new to NS, but you've obviously put some time and energy into this. I take it you're not new to RPing...

Regardless, I'm rather tangled up right now, but I look foward to RPing with you sometime in the future.

Woo! I was listed above Melkor 8)I was listed above... Thelas?! GAH!!! :lol:

Not any more... :)

Welcome to space. Here's a list of space tech RPers besides myself:
*the list goes on and on
I always make these and am never featured in them...

I'm only #5? I demand to be placed higher! No less than #3! Or at least #4 and a cookie

What do you think? Sound reasonable as a basic premise?

It sounds...excellent! I am very impressed, as you are new to NS, but you've obviously put some time and energy into this. I take it you're not new to RPing...

Regardless, I'm rather tangled up right now, but I look foward to RPing with you sometime in the future.

Thanks :)

No, not new to RPing, although I haven't RPed much sci-fi before. I'm more of a writer, so I expect I shall be boring you all with huge long posts that you have to spend all day reading through. :D

How odd, you actually knew that i was Space Tech altough i dont RP a whole lot. Bleh.

And guys complaining about their placement on the list, its just a damn list, not a ranking table.

But Klonor is special :twisted: :roll:

Welcome to space. Here's a list of space tech RPers besides myself:
A few glaring omissions:
Myself
The Snel Race
[Insert List of All Mars Nations]
[Insert List of All ToY Nations]

The reason I need a limited population, is because I intend to play a 'nation' that lives entirely on their ships, and has absolutely no planets of its own. Furthermore, we don't have artificial-gravity, so the population have been living in zero-G for the last 600-700 years. This means that compared to those used to gravity, Vagari are pretty feeble and are incapable of surviving on the surface of a planet.
Ooo! Look in the mirror, I say. Just about everything you have described (save for the mercenary and pirate bit) is exactly the same as me. This could prove interesting.

Ooo! Look in the mirror, I say. Just about everything you have described (save for the mercenary and pirate bit) is exactly the same as me. This could prove interesting.

You have the zero-G thing going on? Damn, I thought I was being original :D

Check out my fact book;
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=138179

I don't want to make a carbon copy of anyone.

Hey another new guy, was thinking i was the only one here trying to get myself established as future tech.

As for being oringinal with the zero e stuff, well i thought i was going to be original by useing Honor Harrington tech, utill i found Vernii Posts lol

That being said they gave me a lot of ideas amd how to tweek the tech to make it fair, yet the trick is to stay different at the same time, thus my navies' ships are fast but more lightly armed then Vernii's but our ecm or missles may be slightly better at the same time.

Have fun thats what im trying to do...getting histories for my nation set is rough though he he

Hey WIck, did you get that telegram I sent yesterday?

This is open to everyone: OOC Planning for a Space RP (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3026653#3026653)