NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: This is a mix of MT and FT nations. Both are welcome, but I'd prefer a larger number of MT nations... Would I like fries with that? Yes please! Some coke... *thinks* and rum while you're at it, too!

IC:
It seemed like a typical night in Andros City, ViZion. Andros City is a city with a densely-packed six million people in it, siting back in the foothills of the mountains.

Tuesday, 10/4, had been a long day for the roughly six hundred sales people at the AC Convension Center. Among them was Rick Plack, a 48 year old father of four - two boys and two girls.

On his way home at 12:03 AM, he noticed something strange in the sky. He figured it was just a plane. No, a helicopter he decided after it kept moving back and forth high in the sky.

It wasn't until he reached his home in the outskirts, higher up in the foothills, that he realized something strange about it. It seemed to glow. But not just any single color... it seemed like it was glowing both red and green at the same time!

He went inside to grab his camera. But before he could get to his desk, he began hearing a strange wirling sound. He stopped for a moment as the family awake and began coming out of their rooms. "Dad?" asked the youngest, his nine year old son, "What's that noise? And lights? Is Santa here?!?!" he exclaimed excitedly.

The dad didn't respond, so the boy tugged on his shirt, "DAAAAAD... IS THAT SANTA?!" the boy insisted. Rick shock out of his trans to respond, "Uhhh... n... no, I don't think that's Santa. Honey... take the kids back to our room... Now." he commanded.

Yet, not even before they were all turned around to head back to the room, the sound completely disappeared, as did the light. It was gone. Vanished. Nothing. Only the sound of cars and the light of the street lamps. "Huh?" he mumbled. The whole family slowly walked forward... Opened the door... and...

To be continued...

OOC: TAG. IC post will come when I have more to post on. Are you gonna lead this down a set story for a while? Or just like two posts?

((Same as said above by Borman...If I can find a way to squeeze in, that is.))

OOC: TAG. IC post will come when I have more to post on. Are you gonna lead this down a set story for a while? Or just like two posts?
OOC: haven't completely decided yet... you'll see at the end of my next post... lol

OOC: haven't completely decided yet... you'll see at the end of my next post... lol

OOC: Sounds like an interesting read. I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can find a way to fit myself in at an appropriate moment.

Nice story line so far.

OOC: Argh! No! I posted a nice, long follow-up, copied it, posted it... it had logged me out, so logged back in, come it, and it wouldn't paste!! WTF? Argh! To tired to redo it tonight, so the follow-up post will be tomorrow... and thanks SQ. :)

Semi-OOC: Previously, in “From the Dark Skies”
It had been a long day for Rick Plack, a salesman who spent his day at the Conference Center in Andros City.

On his way home, he noticed some strange light in the sky. He disregarded it at first, thinking it was a helicopter. But upon arriving him, he took a good look at the light, which kept darting around. It glowed green and red. Confused, he ran inside to grab a camera to take some pictures of it. Yet, before he could even read his desk where the camera was, a very loud and foreign sound, followed quickly by bright green, red, and white lights, appeared, surrounding the house.

Startled, the family awoke from this, and quickly come out from their bedrooms trying to find out what was happening. The youngest of their four children, a 9-year old boy, wonder if it was Santa, but Rick said he did not think so. He then asked his wife, Jene, to take the kids back to their bedroom. But before they even started back, it all stopped, everything seeming back to normal like nothing every happened…

"Huh?" he mumbled. The whole family slowly walked forward... Opened the door... and...

IC:
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Everything was white. Like their world had been drawn up on a piece of white paper, and everything but their house and them were erased. There was absolutely nothing but white.

The family stumbled back, slamming the door shut. Looking through the window’s, everything looked normal. But once the window was opened, everything was white. There was nothing. Absolutely nothing.

”What the fuck…?” he mumbled to him self. ”This has got to be a…” a terrible, unbearable sound split thru the air… BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Rick opened his eyes and glanced around. Everything was normal, the same. Jene was sleeping next to him. He glanced at his clock… 6:30, time to get up for work. It was 10/4 the clock said. Wow, what a strange dream… he said to him self.

He got up, got ready, and headed to work – today, he would be at a salesman conference at the Conference Center. As time went on, things started to seem oddly familiar… Speeches were exactly like they were in his dream. The people he met and talked to – nothing different than in his dream. Everything seemed exactly as-is from his dream.

He shrugged it off. Ehh… just a coincidence… he thought to him self.

Then, he noticed something in the sky. He nearly veered off the road. The same green and red glowing he saw in his dream. That scared him. He pressed the gas harder and harder, then slammed in all the way down.

The car with the small, over-worked engine, tried roaring to life. But it was to much of a burdon on the little thing, and it look a little while for the car to speed up.

Finally, he reached home. He stopped, slammed the gear into ‘P’ and ran towards the house not even turned the ignition off.

He burst into the house, breaking the front door. He began yelling for his family, yelling louder than he ever had. The family awoke, startled. They rushed out to find out what was happening.

”Get in the car, now! Hurry! No time to explain! Get into the car now!” he demanded. Jene was clearly disturbed, ”Honey. Calm down. You’re gonna scare the children. You’re scaring ME for God’s sake! What’s going on?!”

But he wouldn’t reply to here… he just kept saying, ”Go! Get in to the car! Hurry! Go and get into the car now!”

Without further dispute, the family jammed into the little old station wagon. Rick jumped into the drivers seat and knocked the gear into ‘D’, and sped off. But there were no asking from anyone why they had to go. Because it was already clear. They saw it… the green and red light in the sky darting around. But there was not just one of them. No. The sky was filled with green and red glowing ships in the sky.

And off to the East-South East, there was something else… it was much larger, and glowed white with green and red spots creating a ring on the bottom of triangular shaped monstrosity in the sky. It had to be at least four hundred miles long – presuming that was length, not width.

Something was happening…

OOC: Like my little intro to this post, the “Previously, on…” like they do on shows? Ya, that’s what I thought… :p lol

THIS RP IS NOW OPEN!
Ya, I know that’s not much to go on… honestly, if this was happening in real life, would you have any more info to go on? No… didn’t think so… lol

Tag!

OOC: I have a great class of ship to use for this. Only problem is that it is a different size then what you posted. The class I would like to use is only 157 meters long.

Here is a pic of the class I am thinking of.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/SeaQuest_Sim/Babylon%205/glider.jpg
The wings are on the back end.

Do you think that design would work for this?

"President... President! Wake up!" demanded a voice. President Delain had just fallen to sleep not but a moment or two before hand. He was exhausted.

"What the hell is it now...?" he asked, blinking so he could get the person into view. "Waht's going on, General Amshire?"

"President, we've got a major situation. We need you in the ESR immediately. Hurry. We may be under attack!" the General reported, then hurrying off to the ESR. (OOC: ESR=Emergency Situation Room)

President Delain quickly got into his cloths and rushed towards the ESR room.

When he entered, the room was already abuzz with people scurring around, trying to find out what was happened.

The General rushed up to him and started to fill him in.

"President... there's hundred, maybe thousands on unidentified flying objects over ViZion... there seems to be two 'mother ship' sort of objects as well... one over ViZion City, one over Andros City. Millions of people are flooding the streets of just about every town and city, trying to get a view of these objects in the sky. They glow green and red.

"While nothing has been fired, the crowds in some areas have gotten very rough. Riots have been reported."

President Delain was clearly distressed. He had no clue what to honestly do. Space ships from an unknown kind? How crazy was that?!

"Order all..." he stopped, realizing the military was already called up and mobilized. "I mean, begin sending the troops into the towns and cities... prepare incase something happens. And see if there's any way you can get communication with this... 'mother ship' above us. I'm not liking this..." he stated.

Moments later, he was on the airwaves. But not to the mother ship. He was sending out a message to all nations,
Fellow nations of this world. We have come across something we have never delt with before. Until tonight, I would have laughed at the idea of space ships from another planet. That's just ludacris! But, tonight... I come singing a different song.

We have hundreds, if not thousands, of unknown objects above ViZion, as well as two massive ships above us. We ask you questions of you. The first is, are your nations experiencing such an event? And the second, are your nations able to aid us in contacting these ships, and finding out their origins?

This looks to be a very bad situation for life on Earth right at this moment. We call upon you join us in defending this Earth if we must.

Thank you,

President Delain.

He also send out a message to the ViZionarian people to try to calm the people down, but it was of little usage. The people continued to riot, pray, welcome, and curse this odd event.

OOC: I have a great class of ship to use for this. Only problem is that it is a different size then what you posted. The class I would like to use is only 157 meters long.

Here is a pic of the class I am thinking of.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/SeaQuest_Sim/Babylon%205/glider.jpg
The wings are on the back end.

Do you think that design would work for this?
OOC: If they can glow green and red, they could fit at "bomber" type things should this event turn bad...

OOC: If they can glow green and red, they could fit at "bomber" type things should this event turn bad...

OOC: Technically, the Glider class is a transport ship. But, I do have a mid-range attack bomber design. Here is a pic of the Al'Kesh class.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/SeaQuest_Sim/Jaffa/alkesh.jpg
As for the glow, all my ships have green and red lights on their port and starboard sides (just like a 20th century airplane).
Oh, here are the measurements of the Al'Kesh class mid-range attack bomber.
Length: 67 Meters.
Width: 31 Meters.
Height: 14 Meters.

Bump, for interest.

OOC: Hope you don't mind my putting this RP on hold until the current RP I'm in ends... and don't ask when it will, because I have no idea... we're at the edge of war... and it's back and forth on if someone's gonna attack or not.

OOC: Not a problem. I'll work out what I'll use (character and ship-wise) in the meantime and what I'll do with them. Hehe, bring on the anal probes.