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Ravaged by the Swarm... (FT, open, set roles)

Hyperspatial Travel
02-08-2005, 09:03
OOC: This is a 'set' RP, in other words, you cannot use your standard nation. You have to use one of the roles presented here.

IC: A flickering light gave a brief burst of illumination, and died. The holder of the electrolyte, the name given to the strange, heatless lights on this world, swore. Janrik Denkon, leader of the Shuridi Clan. He had lead his warriors to the edge of the clearing, and they were prepared to attack the beast.

He heard a warrior whispering, and whirled around silently, fixing the warrior in place with a deadly stare. He turned back around, and carried on. He held up the strange device he had found in the cave, and pressed the nub on the side.

A burst of blue swept out of the gun, ripping through the beast's head. The beast was a huge, strange, alien, fifty feet tall, claws and blades everywhere, and six legs. It screamed loudly, and collapsed. Quickly, the warriors ran to the side of the beast, and began ripping off its plates and claws before it could recover. Janrik then drew his strange blade, which he had attached to a piece of wood, and stabbed it with brutal precision, through every one of the beast's hearts.

The warriors loaded up the plating and claws into sacks, and strode off, back to the City of the Ancients, as they had called it, to store their plunder.

OOC: This is a past/future RP. Essentially, this planet was a thriving colony, then some strange biological army attacked it, and ripped it to pieces. The colonists managed to slaughter the creatures, and destroy their 'mind', but many remain, with little intelligence, wandering the planet to kill what they may. There are five tribes, each with a unique technology, and one person must RP the 'Swarm'. If this fills up (Yeah, right), you can either join as a hitherto-unnamed faction, or a character.

Tribes:

Shuridi Clan. Leader: Janrik Denkon. Janrik leads because he is both strong, smart, and discovered the City of the Ancients, which is fortified, protects from the terrible storms which rip across the desolate planet, and has a huge supply of food. He discovered firearms, although he does not know how to reload or resupply them, and also has a small supply of lightsticks, as he calls them. (Torches) Shuridi is the smallest clan, numbering seventy-four people.

- Hyperspatial Travel - Shuridi Clan

Deso Clan - Deso is a huge, anarchic clan, which has five-hundred and sixty five people, whom live among the ruins of an Ancient city. They have rediscovered molecular arrangement, in the guise of the food machines, which can supply the tribe indefinitely with food. The leader controls the food machines, as the huge tribe could not gather enough food without them.

- Deso Clan

Kalida Clan - Kalida is a medium-size clan, who live in a series of caves, below the surface. They are the most advanced, although the possess less advance technology, they can forge metals and write, and have invented crossbows, after a diagram in a book. Other than that, they have no special technology. They are the only clan to have a system other than rule by strength, which is a peculiar form of democracy. All hunters, women over thirty, and elders can vote, for the new clan leader, who cannot be a hunter, a woman, or an elder.
Numbers: 176

- Kalida Clan

Ekno Clan - Ekno is a clan which lives atop a mountain, in a strange city, which they call the Living City. The Living City was once the base of the swarm, but provides edibles, and weaponry for the Clan. However, they have little protection against the storms, which regularly kill Eknons. Numbers: 134

- Ekno Clan

Illumini Realm - A kingdom founded by a splinter faction, in the early days of the colony, Illumini has less technology than any of the other clans, yet has an advanced auto-turret system throughout their city. Illumini numbers six hundred people, yet these people are split into eight factions, and constantly war against each other, unaware of the world outside the city.

- Illumini Realm

The Swarm - The Swarm invaded Illumini, (The colony), at the colony's prime. The colonists fought bravely in space, but the sheer bulk of their enemy overwhelmed them. A man, named Shuridi, with aid from his colleagues Ekno, Kalida and Deso, created a virus which ripped the swarm apart, but destroyed all life on the planet, and also created a strange storm system, with purple lightning, which roam the planet constantly, defying the laws of nature and gravity alike. The Swarm retreated into pods, and most died. A few were isolated enough to live, and, deep beneath the surface of the planet, the last Queen of the Swarm, the only being capable of thought, and laying eggs to propagate the Swarm, sleeps. The Swarm themselves cannot venture below, as they have not the thought. Should one of the colonists do so ,however...

- The Swarm
Hyperspatial Travel
02-08-2005, 09:52
A passing mole bumped into the topic.
Hakurabi
02-08-2005, 11:31
OOC: I suppose you have an idea for the RP right? Like a buildup to its ultimate conclusion.

I see that of the clans:
- Shuridi has the most effective weapon, but cannot be used indefinitely.
- Deso is the only group that does not have to hunt.
- Kalidi is the only clan that can construct crossbows.
- Ekno has the old swarm technology, but is periodically culled by the swarm.
- The Illumini has a powerful defensive system, but is splintered into 8 factions.

Now, the possible Non-Hunted Trade Goods:
Shuridi - Firearms, Torches
Deso - Food Supplies
Kalida - Crossbows, Metal Goods
Ekno - Assorted special weaponry and food
Illumini - Artefacts, mostly a consumer due to warfare.
Hyperspatial Travel
03-08-2005, 01:23
It is doubtful the clans will ally, due to the distances (Most clans are around 100 km away from each other, more than 99% of the planet is uninhabited. It's more that each clan has to focus on their strengths for survival. The Swarm is essentially a fun, less detailed RP, unless the Queen is somehow discovered. [endelaboratebump\]
Hyperspatial Travel
03-08-2005, 01:33
OOC: I suppose you have an idea for the RP right? Like a buildup to its ultimate conclusion.

I see that of the clans:
- Shuridi has the most effective weapon, but cannot be used indefinitely.
- Deso is the only group that does not have to hunt.
- Kalidi is the only clan that can construct crossbows.
- Ekno has the old swarm technology, but is periodically culled by the swarm.
- The Illumini has a powerful defensive system, but is splintered into 8 factions.

Now, the possible Non-Hunted Trade Goods:
Shuridi - Firearms, Torches
Deso - Food Supplies
Kalida - Crossbows, Metal Goods
Ekno - Assorted special weaponry and food
Illumini - Artefacts, mostly a consumer due to warfare.

Pretty much true, but Ekno isn't culled, they simply harvest the growing, unintelligent city, but the Swarm don't need cover, so there isn't much in the way of roofing.
Hakurabi
03-08-2005, 08:10
I'm more referring to the fact that they lose a lot of their population every storm, and therefore need to find a way to create shelter (Maybe trade hunted goods?) before proceeding to the ultimate goal of destroying the queen and maybe helping to recreate society.

Maybe have 'Chosen ones', descended from the original scientists, who finally triumph over the swarm for once and for all, and begin to rebuild society.

But I'm not going to participate, as I'm preoccupied with the Nation States War I.
Hyperspatial Travel
03-08-2005, 08:54
Eh, I doubt this'll take off. Not many people are partial to fixed roles. I guess I'll just let it die, for now, anyway.