Huo Xing
09-04-2005, 21:15
Pharaoh Imperator Fuling IIII Caesar Liu Sophopator, undisputed and supreme ruler of the Imperium of Huo Xing, strode out across the beautified gardens of the Unstained Palace in the center of the city Huo Xing in a peaceful state. Flanked on both sides by the solemn procession of the Lictor, his personal bodyguard and a symbol of the authority of his person, he made his way to a gate leading out into the Imperial motorpool. They and only they were allowed to carry arms within the sacred limits of the pomerium, the ancient boundaries of the city from it's founding.
Much had changed since then, including the steady and lately rampant pace of technological change. What had been main streets were now historic walkways beneath raised maglev trains; the architecture retained it's classical appearance, but now underlying steel gave it the strength that held the old marble in it's pristine condition and position. Within the hallowed and old boundaries the city was fairly quiet; it was only outside of the small and ancient center of the city that it truely showed itself for the modern and bustling metropolis it was.
But this did not concern Fuling, the Pharaoh Imperator of his lands. He simply walked toward his personal limosuine, and was practically lifted and inserted into it by a small cadre of obsequious servents. After the Lictor filed into the vehicle with him, it set off silently, rolling down the recently refinished streets, empty of traffic thanks to the efforts of the Legio Praetorian.
The imperial limosuine made it's way through the streets of Huo Xing uninteruptted, and in a calm and silent ride it proceeded out of the pomerium, into the city proper, and then onto the highway. Again, thanks to the traffic controlling of the police force and the Praetorian Legion, they were alone and uninterupted; several armed motorcycle riding Praetorians flanked the limosuine, and above it was pursued by a Century of armed helicopters. Along the highway the car drove, almost entirely silent.
Finally, the imperial limosuine makes it outside of the city, and then not long after, to the limits of another city, this one a port. Nova Alexandria, on what was now known as the Nyaoan sea. Again in silence, flanked by the Lictor and followed at a distance by the Praetorian, waited on without asking by many servents, he made his way from the limo to a pier, and a ship. It was not a grand ship, just a magistrate's yacht being borrowed for the purposes of the day.
Accompanied by several other such yachts, carrying aboard various senators, priests, and generals, the Pharaoh's yacht for the night pulls away from the port, moving out to sea. As the white gleaming hull of the ship cuts through the waters leading out of the bay, the disk of the sun, Amun-Re manifest, gleams red across the waves before them. In the quickly coming twilight, the ships around become visible by their own lights. Soon there can be seen to be a very wide semicircle of ships, all gathered around and facing one point. There gleamed the light of another ship, a converted barge formerly used for heavy industrial hauling, now the property of the Imperial government and the Legio I Astra.
There sat the squat and massive assembly on it's deck, and next to it the looming bulk of project Xinglong. A gigantic tube floating on it's side, half submerged in the ocean waters, giant exhaust nozzle flaring out one end. Technicians and engineers swarmed over the barge next to it, and on the rocket itself, checking everything again, with giant spotlights shining upon their work. Quickly, twilight faded...
OOC: This is on the non earth planet of New Shoggoth, but within the Sol system. I'm posting this for all to see, but unless you have interplanetary star travel or really good telescopes located somewhere off of the planet earth, this likely won't be an ICly observable event. Basically this is just me announcing my prescence as a modern moving into slightly postmodern or differently modern nation. The rocket, btw, is loosely based off of this (http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/searagon.htm), which is a rocket proposal from the 1960s, but with a nuclear thermal rocket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket), probably similar to the Nerva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA) type. Also note that this is not the first orbital rocket of the nation's, but is supposed to make space access, or at least low orbit access, relatively cheap.
Much had changed since then, including the steady and lately rampant pace of technological change. What had been main streets were now historic walkways beneath raised maglev trains; the architecture retained it's classical appearance, but now underlying steel gave it the strength that held the old marble in it's pristine condition and position. Within the hallowed and old boundaries the city was fairly quiet; it was only outside of the small and ancient center of the city that it truely showed itself for the modern and bustling metropolis it was.
But this did not concern Fuling, the Pharaoh Imperator of his lands. He simply walked toward his personal limosuine, and was practically lifted and inserted into it by a small cadre of obsequious servents. After the Lictor filed into the vehicle with him, it set off silently, rolling down the recently refinished streets, empty of traffic thanks to the efforts of the Legio Praetorian.
The imperial limosuine made it's way through the streets of Huo Xing uninteruptted, and in a calm and silent ride it proceeded out of the pomerium, into the city proper, and then onto the highway. Again, thanks to the traffic controlling of the police force and the Praetorian Legion, they were alone and uninterupted; several armed motorcycle riding Praetorians flanked the limosuine, and above it was pursued by a Century of armed helicopters. Along the highway the car drove, almost entirely silent.
Finally, the imperial limosuine makes it outside of the city, and then not long after, to the limits of another city, this one a port. Nova Alexandria, on what was now known as the Nyaoan sea. Again in silence, flanked by the Lictor and followed at a distance by the Praetorian, waited on without asking by many servents, he made his way from the limo to a pier, and a ship. It was not a grand ship, just a magistrate's yacht being borrowed for the purposes of the day.
Accompanied by several other such yachts, carrying aboard various senators, priests, and generals, the Pharaoh's yacht for the night pulls away from the port, moving out to sea. As the white gleaming hull of the ship cuts through the waters leading out of the bay, the disk of the sun, Amun-Re manifest, gleams red across the waves before them. In the quickly coming twilight, the ships around become visible by their own lights. Soon there can be seen to be a very wide semicircle of ships, all gathered around and facing one point. There gleamed the light of another ship, a converted barge formerly used for heavy industrial hauling, now the property of the Imperial government and the Legio I Astra.
There sat the squat and massive assembly on it's deck, and next to it the looming bulk of project Xinglong. A gigantic tube floating on it's side, half submerged in the ocean waters, giant exhaust nozzle flaring out one end. Technicians and engineers swarmed over the barge next to it, and on the rocket itself, checking everything again, with giant spotlights shining upon their work. Quickly, twilight faded...
OOC: This is on the non earth planet of New Shoggoth, but within the Sol system. I'm posting this for all to see, but unless you have interplanetary star travel or really good telescopes located somewhere off of the planet earth, this likely won't be an ICly observable event. Basically this is just me announcing my prescence as a modern moving into slightly postmodern or differently modern nation. The rocket, btw, is loosely based off of this (http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/searagon.htm), which is a rocket proposal from the 1960s, but with a nuclear thermal rocket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket), probably similar to the Nerva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA) type. Also note that this is not the first orbital rocket of the nation's, but is supposed to make space access, or at least low orbit access, relatively cheap.