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Basically, I want to do my first space RP. I want to do something along the lines of my nation is sending its first group of SpaceTroopers, around 8 men, to go and find a place to colonise in space. However, to make things interesting by having things go a bit wrong for them so that when they find the perfect place it turns a mission just for them to survive.
I need ideas though about what exactly should happen as these men are essentially soldiers specifically trained in space combat but they are amateurs in space. Whatever happens such as if aliens turn up etc etc I need a couple of people to RP them.

So any ideas?

Well, I cover a large amount of territory away from SOL. While I mainly employ BORG technology, I am pretty sure I could pick up a small alien craft, big enough to cause some problems for you. As for the planet, you could try and get one at the edge of my territory. The aliens could live on that world, having a small colony themselves there, and, you could battle them for control of the planet.

I would want it to be Alien-esque. So the small group of men trying to survive by destroying all the aliens on part of the planet etc etc

All right it could be on a small part. OR.. if you really want a challenge, you could stumble across a BORG planet, or even Unimatrix itself... of course Unimatrix isn't a real planet either.

OOC: Mate I know nothing about star trek if that's what you're going about. lol I just want something action packed for a group of soldiers for whom this should be their first successful mission in space but it goes a bit tits up.

I understand full well. Let me explain the BORG then. The BORG are a race of Cybernetic beings with Nanites in their blood stream. The BORG do not Eat, do not reproduce in the usual fashion, do not have a sense of individuality, or any feelings, have a hive mind, and Regenerate in side a special chamber instead of sleeping. The reason for all of this is of course, the Nanites in their blood stream.

The Nanites synthisize any nutrients a BORG Drone needs. The Nanites also give Drones the ability to 'Assimilate' other species by injecting them with Nanites, which in turn take over the bodies functions. Each drone has a pair of long needles in their arm for just such an occasion. The Nanites when they are injected as I said, take over body functions. That part would take a lot to explain, lets leave it at the Nanites become necessary to bodily functions. Because of this though, Your body no longer wastes any food and there for Drones do not use the Restroom. The nanites also take over parts of your brain, which explains the lack of individuality and the lack of feelings, it also explains the Hivemind. Because the Nanites take over a part of the brain they set up a comunication signal with all other BORG drones, this in turn sets up a hivemind. The only real reason the BORG do not sleep and regenerat instead, is because when they are assimilated, their bodies are altered to better benifit from BORG technology. This means losing your lower extremities, sometimes an Eye, which gets replaced with an occular implant, and about 50 percent of your body which does get replaced with BORG machinery. My Drones in particular also have Phaser echnology embedded in their arm, personal sheilds, and Teleportation nodes implanted in their bodies. Because of all this technology that needs to be reenergized every once in a while, and the fact that a drone can only carry so much energy within it, the step into a Regeneration chamber to both heal themselves and to reenergize their bodies. BORG also carry the unique ability to adapt to enemy combat techniques and weapnry, on the fly. This usually means anything will only work against them 2 or 3 times before it becomes ineffective. I hope this helps you undestand the BORG a little better.

galaxy is a big place just find a future tech nation that has evil tendencys and rp this out with them...my suggestion at least.

I understand full well. Let me explain the BORG then. The BORG are a race of Cybernetic beings with Nanites in their blood stream. The BORG do not Eat, do not reproduce in the usual fashion, do not have a sense of individuality, or any feelings, have a hive mind, and Regenerate in side a special chamber instead of sleeping. The reason for all of this is of course, the Nanites in their blood stream.

The Nanites synthisize any nutrients a BORG Drone needs. The Nanites also give Drones the ability to 'Assimilate' other species by injecting them with Nanites, which in turn take over the bodies functions. Each drone has a pair of long needles in their arm for just such an occasion. The Nanites when they are injected as I said, take over body functions. That part would take a lot to explain, lets leave it at the Nanites become necessary to bodily functions. Because of this though, Your body no longer wastes any food and there for Drones do not use the Restroom. The nanites also take over parts of your brain, which explains the lack of individuality and the lack of feelings, it also explains the Hivemind. Because the Nanites take over a part of the brain they set up a comunication signal with all other BORG drones, this in turn sets up a hivemind. The only real reason the BORG do not sleep and regenerat instead, is because when they are assimilated, their bodies are altered to better benifit from BORG technology. This means losing your lower extremities, sometimes an Eye, which gets replaced with an occular implant, and about 50 percent of your body which does get replaced with BORG machinery. My Drones in particular also have Phaser echnology embedded in their arm, personal sheilds, and Teleportation nodes implanted in their bodies. Because of all this technology that needs to be reenergized every once in a while, and the fact that a drone can only carry so much energy within it, the step into a Regeneration chamber to both heal themselves and to reenergize their bodies. BORG also carry the unique ability to adapt to enemy combat techniques and weapnry, on the fly. This usually means anything will only work against them 2 or 3 times before it becomes ineffective. I hope this helps you undestand the BORG a little better.

Sounds pretty impossible for a group of space newbs to deal with them.

Well...remember that the BORG are the easiest group in the Star Trek universe to godmod with.

Anyway, there's a cheap, simply, and effective way to destroy any BORG vessel or person: use kinetic force. Shooting, stabbing, bludgeoning, elbowing, flinging asteroids at, and simply ramming BORG cubes and soldiers generally does more damage than phasers. (I distinctly remember Worf dismembering a BORG with his shiny Klingon crescent of doom) And there are more than a few species that the BORG can't assimilate. And I'm quite confident that any decent space-tech nation has the ability to make nanite systems to counter the BORG assimilation tech. And the borg can only move at a shuffle, and have no heavy ground weapons. The list goes on........

Anyway, I can't offer Weyr, simply because Weyreans would stare at the marines, then coat them in nanofiber and ship them back to Terra with a Come Back in a Few Years tag.

Keep in mind also that Species 8472, as the BORG have designated them, are invincible against the BORG. Their bodies carry within them organic nanites (that's somewhat of an oxymoron) that neutralize and destroy all mechanized nanites.

Also, kinetic energy may not be very effective against a BORG cube, due to the fact that its cutting beam can destroy pretty much anything. A cube is also capable of firing and maintaining several beams at one time.

Actually Weyr, the only species the BORG couldn't assimilate on their own was species 8472 and their BIOships, It took Janeway and her crew to figure out that Modifying Nanoprobes was the Key. The Borg took this information and proceeded to chase out species 8472 from BORG territory. See Scorpion Parts one and two for more information. I took this knowledge, and created species 8472, and assimilated them, although I had to modify my Nanites to do so. Aside form all that, I am looking to get rid of my drones because there is another species I want to use, that although similar in some aspects, are easier to deal with. They are not Humanoid in any way shape or form, and don't even think like humans do. I might just do an RP with my self wher I control these new creatures and take and destroy the BORG with them.

OOC: Hey! Stop hijacking the thread! I don't give a shit about star trek, borgs, species up my ass or nanites. I just want to do a space RP. I appreciate your help but you are taking it a bit far now.

Yes....apologies....but this sort of stuff does have to be taken into consideration if you're doing military space-tech RP. You have to know what someone's equipment does in relation to your own. Otherwise, the entire RP degenerates into a load of OOC crap about one person's imaginary tech being better than another person's imaginary tech.


Anyhoo.....you could just find an aggressive nation like Neo-Makenta and see if you can drop in on one of their colonies or something. I -could- take on the role of a corporate outpost wanting to kill your marines due to a misunderstanding; but unless your marines come with good power armor and heavy guns, they'll be taken down very, very fast. The joys of anarchy.....

ooc: My group of men eight men will have decent armaments. Their ship will be fairly state of the art whatever that is. They are going on a mission to find a habitable land. They know how to fight but thats not what they're there to do. As far as they're concerned they want to do some experiments and explore the area.......things just happen to start to go a bit wrong.

I need someone to fill in the gaps,

There are very few nations that are already space-able that you'll be able to defeat it you just discovered space. For example, though you might get lucky and find a chip in the armor, 5 guys wouldn't stand a chance against a single Daemonhunter Space Marine much less an army or squad of them. You'd have to find someone else that also wants their civilization to just have discovered space travel and perhaps fight over an area of disputed land with them.

I know of just such a nation, however the person behind it is currently busy with college. I could try and get him to put a few days aside for the weekend to RP with you. The only downside is, is his ENTIRE Nation consists of Monkeys

Well you could always enjoy having me around. Since I'm constantly expanding my colonys slowly sice taking over worlds ain't that easy when you need to constantly renforce your bases as a show of might to any of the populaiton to prevent a uprising.

OOC: Phalanix our alliance may kick in imminently. We may have to war to defend a country called Paddy Terrorists I believe it may be an adequete platform for doing some annexing ;). There is a thread called Terrorist Training I think. CHECK IT!

Heh you got it.