NationStates Jolt Archive

Many years have passed in peace and isolation. The asteroid colonies have grown to several hundred million citizens. The outer Oort cloud colonies have reached over 50 million citizens. Paradise the first extrasolar colony has expanded to over 10 million citizens.

With the massive amount of asteroid materials and cometary mining the Commonalitarianism has lived in peace and isolation for a long time. A single asteroid provides huge amounts of metals hydrogen, cobalt, iron, and other metals. Cometary materials provide gases and other elements to support building colonies in the Oort clouds.

Even in the waning days of the 22nd century and the early 23rd century, the Commonalitarianism has remained the main oceangoing nation built on massive floating arcologies and deep sea cities. A network of space elevators stretches from the arcologies to the deep sea cities to the space based manufacturing platforms. Avoiding land based powers and remaining isolationist in both space by avoiding planetary bodies has allowed them to grow to over 1.4 billioin citizens.

It has been a long period of complacency. The cybernetic servants provide many of citizens needs and slowly things have run down. A period of stagnation has set in the arts. They have accepted things as being a well run society. This is about to change...

The assembly has allowed the UN to dictate its policies rising the tax rates to astronomic levels, as well as weaken its economy by imposing import taxation and strong ethical guidelines for commerce. This has weakened the once mighty engine of commerce... No longer are they the piratical free wheeling, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and freebooters of yesteryear...

A Von Neumann self replicating Probe built by Commonalitarianism scientists has reached a near star with confirmation of alien life forms and an advanced alien civilization with multiple species.

(This is not about war but about first contact in early future tech with non-human civilizations, trade, diplomacy, and maybe some covert operations, espionage to start) Any takers. Looking for real non-humans-- buggers, metalloids, slugs, reverse dna, silicate beings, etc.

In a way this is a continuation of the <RICH Economy> Thread. It may be considered kind of a strange radical left. Part of the idea is to explore what happens in terms of trade and science when a completely alien civilization is contacted. It also should explain ideas in future tech economics like space based resources, replicator factories, etc. It is time to get the country going again.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=481166&highlight=commonalitarianism

((How does biotech organism, sound? My (mainly) human population uses biotech to aid in the Reclamation project, and explore the outer limits of their solar system. Think of a cross between a plant, a fusion engine, and an extensive bundle of biotech sensory organs and ILRAD sensors, and a line of sight laser comm. Very cheap to build, maintains itself and simply reports findings back to the homeworld.

Await your confirmation.))

A biotech organism would work. The Von Neuman Probe is a self replicating machine designed to hop from system to system mapping out each system and then replicate itself. So the initial contact would be between two strange machines.

((Done.))

In the first few years after Reclamation, AI and human alike had turned their myriad eyes towards the stars, the rest of the solar system with a curious mixture of fascination and trepidation. They'd been aware for some time of other life in the immense and mysterious universe. Had been visited by such before. But their own concerns were considerably more focused upon resources. Sparkind had been a paradise before the Corpwars, as such stories went. No one truly knew. But it made the aim of Reclamation that much more idyllic.

But repairing a planet that had been on the brink of utter devastation, and feeding an organic population, even small as it was, thanks to the violent and bloody battles, required resources, tractable land.

Sparkind had neither, despite the AI's best hopes. The Corpwars had obliterated a full 73% of the planet's habitable area. Vast radioactive wastelands, dark scorches some hundred kilometres wide, visible from space, like the acne on some adolescent. Even with their Biotech Reclamators, ranging from the giant radiation consuming plantlike entities that stretched for kilometres into those inhospitable regions, to the engineered herd animals, could not support the population indefinitely. Especially considering the wars were over, and people were having children again.

Their plan was two fold. An international summit upon their soil to gauge the calibre of the nations outside of their space, and whether they could really ask for help from them, and to begin their own search.

So they began searching. Perhaps for new homes, perhaps for the resources beyond that could help stabilise the planet of Sparkind, perhaps for help. The AI hoped the latter would not be needed. But the eventuality had been planned for. Even now, Etched Atom Matrix AI, demigods in their own right, were awaiting the chance to process alien speech, alphabet, culture, and bridge the gap between species. Others designed the probes, and still others designed the launching platforms for those probes.

Biotech adaptations, the Probe's outer layer consisted of the same organism stretched in the vast wastelands, radiation absorbing plantform, underneath that, a hard armoured shell of composite and ceramic, with a support made entirely of foamed aluminium. Within this shell lay the intricate 'brain', neural mass and cybernetic implants, to connect with the powerful ILRAD sensor system, and the sensory organs dotted around the hull. Interspersed were manuevering thrusters, and at the far end, a Gordian tangle of a fusion torch engine. And rising like the spines of some poisonous fish, was the line of sight laser comm, and a radiowave broadcast communications suite. Within the neural mass, was a sliver of crystal matrix, a semi-sentient AI. For all its apparent utilitarianism, the probe design was reminiscent of a squid.

The AI collective simply packed the probes into extraorbital rockets, once used to deliver destruction from above by their human counterparts, the rockets now carried the hope for salvation upon their glistening backs. The AI found a sort of poetic justice and irony in this practise.

Hundreds of probes were launched, and they begin to comb the solar system for resources, planets capable of terraformation, and Anything Else.

Anything Else found Probe 97 just on the rim of the system, so thought AI. And the Probe certainly hadn't found anything large enough to be a planet beyond the gas giants. Spectral mapping and closer inspection had found evidence of the base blocks for life within the atmosphere of the last giant, but it was, to quote a human astronomer, freaking massive, the gravity well almost large enough to begin the coalescence into either a small planet, or possibly a new star. That provided an interesting course of investigation for several scientific communities.

But Probe 97 did not care about protostars or life's mysteries. It was firmly focused on the bright reflection off the hull of... Something. It was too far away to really tell, but its edicts prompted it to investigate. With a couple of measures bursts of stored gas (collected ambiently by the outer layer) and a burst of fusion plasma, the probe began its beeline journey towards the glittering object. It sent a message back towards its homeworld.

Where eyes turned skyward, and minds conversed.

OOC: I presume this is open to third parties? Posies are very alien, and although quite advanced, they're something of a special case. Suffice to say that they're primitive creatures with easy-to-use superscience given to them by another species.

IC: A battleglobe at full speed would, to a creature with a conventional human sense of aesthetics, look extremely bizzare. Hundreds of grav-engines across the myriad facets of the "ship", if such a word was truly appropriate for the massive conglomerate vessel, caused the effect of swiftly and gracelessly falling through space.

In the fluctuating blue tunnel of a hyperspacial corridor, the effect was magnified.

Posleen too would appear curious. The first word that you might use to describe them was "centauroid", but these were not wise and mystic creatures galloping gracefully through forests at the dead of night. They were the stuff of nightmares.

Their lower bodies were much like those of horses, but covered from head to toe in scales which, combined with their hyper-strong muscles and the strange plates of bone-armour just beneath their skin, could take most small calibre bullets without slowing down. A long, almost prehensile neck arched up the learing, lizard like head with its slit yellow eyes and prominant teeth. Very prominant teeth, which, combined with the serrated and hooked claws on their hands and the monoblade at their side, could make a juicy morsel out of another sentient being in seconds.

They had been engineered by the Aldenata, the "Alln't", in their language, as the perfect soldier species for their galactic society. But put a railgun in a hungry Posleen's hand and you've got it coming. Enhance his intelligence to sentient levels and put him behind the controls of a starship and you have only yourself to blame when the genocide starts.

But they had a weakness. Simply out, the "God-king" leaders could not outsmart most humans, and the "Normals" they commanded couldn't match IQ with a chimp.

That, however, is a generalisation. The fighting on Earth against humans, an honourable species by the standards of the galaxy, a race of warriors and not schemers (and very nice with grat-blood, too), had convinced some Posleen that superior technology, endless numbers, and an all-or-nothing berserk-charge could not match the weapons of humans, their mines, artillery, and the hates Armoured Combat Suits. So they had adapted. They had enslaved the "Indowy", already slaves in all but name of the Galactic Federation, and used them to clear mines and bridge rivers. They had hired those few god-kings with technical skill to turn their ships into credible close-support weapons and design them hovertanks to deal with artillery. One in twenty or thereabouts resolved to fight fire with fire, the "5%ers", as the humans called them.

One of the most prominant was Tul'o'stenaloor, one of the first God-Kings to come face to face with humans. He had gathered an army of like minded young officers, he had created hierarchies, built a staff around himself, concealed his cunning new ideas from the prying eyes of human recon teams with such novel concepts as "basecamps", "patrols" and "sentry duty".

Some called him a messiah. Some called him a madman. But whatever your opinion, he came within an inch of crushing the last defenders of Earth.

Then the "Fleet" had arrived and hell had been let loose, and there he was today, his last loyal followers and their Normals and ships, barely a globe between them, wondering the galaxy in search of food.

The corridor ended abruptly. They had arrived in another system.

Maybe, just maybe, this one would have some sentient life to feast on...

The probe lessened the intensity of the Burkhard Heim field drive, slowing to less than .5c. It was entering a new system. It was a long cylinder composed of crushed sealed asteroid material surrounded by a torus which generated a strong enough electromagnetic field to change the gravitational constants of space around it. The inside housed a fairly simple AI and several sonofusion spheres used to power the craft. The field around it shimmered in reds blues and greens.

It had very little intelligence, a subroutine ran through it, map star system, produce new probe, travel to new system. It was not designed to make contact. It was a collector. A tremendous array of instrumentation coated the probe. Antennas, dishes, and various detection boxes. It would fly in a set pattern collecting information as it travelled around the system.

A quantum tunneling data stream flowed out of the probe heading in a straight line, then distorting into nothingness. Bits of data seemed to flow in and out of space instantaneously heading towards the home world of Paradise at a multiple of 20c-- the information picked up would reach home world in six months-- 10 light years away.

Its data archive registered an object of interest and began to record slowly moving towards the alien probe. It could not communicate directly. Neutron scanners probed outward registering the strange composition of the outer shell of the alien probe.

At the behest of new orders, the AI reconfigured its sensor arrays and extruded the outer layer out, aligning several transmitters around its 'mouth' and flipping end for end, fusion plasma foaming out into space, decelerating the probe at almost unbearable speeds.
But then, the probe was hardly human.

Soon, with a few minor course corrections and a final flare from the fusion engine, the probe came to a relative stop, parallel to the... Other thing, arrays bathing it in ILRAD energy, and visual imaging processing away. Everything ws shunted to Sparkind. It then twisted along its axis and pointed a transmitter at the... Object.

1. 2.

1. 2. 3.

1. 2. 3. 4.

The probe turned towards the signal absorbing the pattern of numbers. For the probe, it was merely a string of signals. It could not interpret the signal. However, it could scan the strange object for its composition. A pattern of different scanners moved over the squidlike object. Electromagnetic, video, radiowave, neutron, and others.

It followed the object for a full day before veering off on a set search pattern of slowly and systematically spiraling inward towards the center of the solar system.

Six months later, twenty light years away, the signal travelling by quantum tunneling was picked up in a space station on the edge of paradise system. A bored man, Ayman Yeltsin who was sipping a cup of coffee and watching holographic screens while discussing the meaning of life with the resident AI, who had chosen to rename itself 007, when a signal flashed. Confirmed contact.

Ayman couldn't believe it, definitely nonhuman, organic composition surrounding a ceramic shell. It looked like a squid. Could it be a space born organism. They hadn't expected there would be organic life in outer space. Then the signal came in. 1 2, 1 2 3, 1 2 3 4, a set pattern of characters which would most likely be produced by an intelligent race of beings. He asked the AI is this a confirmation of alien life.

The AI 007 said this is most likely an alien construct of some sort, it suggests some kind of organic machine. However, we cannot be certain. We have dual human and AI confirmation.

Forward one day. Commonalitarianism Space Command. Several men and women in high collared blue uniforms sitting around a large circular table. In the center are a group of different AI avatars, a dragon, a fox, a man who looks like Socrates. They are confirming that a fast scout ship will be sent out immediately. One of the newer ones with a crew of second lifers.

a star destroyer droped out of transwarp cloaacked and its weaponry enegrised aproach lead planet said the captain

Tunneling was an extremely power-consuming method of travelling, but it used an entirely differant fuel and system rig than corridor drive. As such, it was possible, indeed, prudent, to go straight from one to the other on arrival in system.

Tunneling took the ship between two defined points at FTL speeds down a defined route. Posleen generally let their ships AI pick the quickest route, but for reconaisance duties of the type that a few B-decs had broken away for, they could take roundabout routes, observing, but in doing so making themselves visible to others in normal space.

These B-decs quickly located a target which seemingly had thresh aboard, and in a very short time, just long enough for a suspicious ship with FTL sensors to go to action stations, the Sephriothans were surrounded by B-decs like angry hornets.

Then, all the ship-lords recieved the same message: target vanished, no quantum tunnel signature.

But the Posleen had had enough experiances with Himmit ship to recognise a cloak when they saw it, so they fired anyway.

ooc im not aatcking poseen ignored

Clarification: The Posleen horde as it were. Would it be appearing outside the Commonii or the Sparkind system. I am assuming it would have to jump out of hyperspace and could not appear directly in system. Posleen ships are very big. Second, would the ships be picked up by the probes.

ooc im aproching your planet s.o.p for meeting new races is to keep weapons up and cloak to observe them

ic the ship speed up sligtly faster

In relation to Sephiroth:

Most of our assets would still be in the sol (earth) system, focused around the Oort Cloud colonies and asteroid colonies.

You would probably be approaching our first extra solar colony, Paradise.

There are five major planets in the system. The fourth planet in is Paradise.

This is a world in what would have been the paleozoic period when we found it. This means there is native plant life and some insect life, but no mammals, and no reptiles. The air is supportable for humans, and because earth life is currently more evolved than the local vegetation, it has been fairly easy to supplant large areas of the world with earth vegetation and animals. There is a large central city, Liberty, on a single world spanning continent. The planet is about 1000x the size of earth.

There are two moons orbiting the world. One of them appears to have a small base on it. It is receiving packages being sent by mass drivers from the asteroid fields and oort clouds.

You can see what looks to be several mining colonies in the asteroid fields and several mining colonies in the outer oort belt. These are receiving beamed power from large solar concentrators.

On the way in, you spotted what looked to be a research station with a massive telescopic array for astronomical research.

An area of space is projecting an inky blackness-- holographic darkness, and is unreadable with instrumentation.

Near the asteroid fields there appears to be two small shipyards. One of the shipyards projects a fairly strong electromagnetic and energy field around it.

There are several transport ships moving between the asteroid fields, oort clouds and the main planet.

As you approach the planet, there appears to be a series of asteroid factories in orbit around the planet. There are also what look to be a couple of platforms which project a fairly strong energy field.

ooc im not aatcking poseen ignored

OOC: I may have misinterpreted your post or similar, in which case I'll edit, but "I wasn't attacking" is hardly grounds for an ignore. Remember, children, the Posleen:
1)Eat sentients
2)Have no word for peace
3)Hate anything resembling humans
This is an attack, not a counter-attack.

In answer to Commonalitarianism, my Posleen, as you'll see if you read the first post carefully, are a band of 5%ers under Tul'o'stenaloor, so they have acces to the valley drive and actually went straight between the FTL methods. They'd be in realspace for only a fraction of a micro-second given the no-frill "now you see me, now you don't" appearance of the tunnel drive. This may have been declared impossible in a book I haven't read, but I need to do it else it would become too easy to blockade all the corridors. If you have FTL sensors, you would have noticed a few ships zipping by, though.

Also, I've done rough calculations from the dimensions of the RPG, and I reckon that the globes are only big in comparison to Aldenaataverse ships, which can hardly measure up to SW or similar. I mid-size ship between and ISD and an SSD would be no harder to detect.

I don't know which system this is in, I was planning to finalise that when I jumped out, byr with Seph's appearance I decided to react quickly.

((And where the hell are you shooting? My system or his?))

tough poolesen ignored ic the ship obesereved the new race

I have no problem with the Posleen appearing out system, on the edge of the system. However, moving at FTL speeds in a human system is a recipe for disaster. Humans don't control asteroids, cargo ships, space junk, and waste as well as we'd like. It might be for RP sakes to appear on the edge of the Paradise system.

Because it is 23rd century we would not be able to detect a ship in hyperspace, but if they were in normal space, we would detect them fairly quickly. The Burkhard Heim drive which we use is not in the strict sense a pure hyperspace drive-- it is a reactionless field drive that negates the effects of gravity and at this point in its development we can go about 20c. Our communication equipment is about as fast as our ships.

I can imagine a large posleen ship appearing in the outer system then opening fire on human ships. In haste it might open fire immediately on a few human freighters at the edge of the system destroying them totally.

One of the things I am hoping to acquire is a hyperspace or jump drive as part of the RP to go truly long distances.

By the way 80% of the population lives in space, 20% lives on the planet. It will be interesting to see how the Posleen handle zero g combat.

By the way John Ringo's Gust Front is available for free http://www.baen.com/library/

a sephrion warship decloaked the star destroyers shields were raided its phasers armed

A large ship had appeared in system of unknown origin. An alarm sounded in the outpost. We have a large ship of unknown origin in system. We are not sure of its intent.

Three small ship emerged from the large square of darkness at the edge of the sytem. These ships were not large ships. They moved fairly quickly towards the Sephiroth ship. They were cylinders made from a grayish material.

They stopped about 1000 kilometers from the Sephiroth ship.

A simple hail was sent in a pattern, first numbers, then letters, then shapes, basically a binary format translation program for english numbers, letters, sounds and basic objects.


Then an object was released out the front of the middle ship. It was a clear transparent cube with a variety of items in it, electronics, medicals, some data cubes, botanicals, metals, small amounts of what might be valuable trade goods.

The ships backed up about 100 kilometers.

OOC: Would you mind me sending one of my Eternal vessels to your worlds?

(ooc may be a little late but yeah would you care if i get Invloved?)

coms to uknown state your intent or be destroyed

We are first contact scout and exploration vessels Icarus, Yagarin, and Armstrong. We are here to negotiate trade and cultural exchange. The container sent forward contains a variety of trade items. We are not sure of your intent.

Feel free to scan and take the container. We would like to establish a trade point on the edge of the system for cultural and scientific exchange.

our intent is non of your concern
tatical target that trafe pod and fire pulse phaser cannons

andlock ib to thier shilps weapons and pruplution

Sephiroth:

The sensor locks and targeting systems are refracted away, there appears to be a sensor jamming field around the ships designed to refract targeting and scanning systems.

While the ship is visible in a general way, and can be contacted through a direct channel, firing systems seem to waver around the general area of the ships.

A simple hail: Please desist targeting our ships. We have detected your scanning sensors. Please state your business in system.

Further inside the system:

Several of the large solar beam power satellites near the spae colonies turn away from the colonies pointing outward toward space.

Some of the mass drivers are recalibrated to carry a different sort of payload in the asteroid fields.

______________________________________________________________

Sparkind:

A ship about the size of a star destroyer is leaving the blackened area towards the Sparkind system. It should arrive there in approximately six months. It is going at the maximum speed of the Heim Drive. The probe will still be wandering around the system collecting information. After observing it for several months, it is clear that there is no armament on the probe.

sire our targitng senprs are fracked up


hmm the captain glared how may archer attack drones do we have

Scandinvans-- yes you could send an eternal vessel to the outer edge of earth system in the Oort clouds, or even Paradise. This is very early in the Commonalitarianism-- 23rd century. We would have just settled our first extra-solar colony. There are a few research and military outposts with several hundred people in each outpost around in a few isolated systems. We would be much lower on the tech tree than the Commonalitarianism in the Scandinvan galaxy.

An Eternal ship appeared in one of the outer areas of the Commonii colony system where the ship stopped without any reason for it except for the fact that its liquid like silver outside which glowed like a small star which gave off a light that healed all people’s wounds that it shone on and gave off a warm undamaging light. As well, from it issued a endless radio signal that gave off song in a glorious a warming song in the language of the Eternals. Further text messages in the incredibly complex Eternal writing system where sent off that basically said, “Once you read the words in this message in your tongue to the starts the stars themselves shall come to you in response.”

begin comuyications to them it is clear to the empire you are wise

Eternals:

At the Astronomical outpost, a ship was sighted that looked like a star. Ayman Yeltsin was so stunned that he dropped his coffee.

007, the resident AI stopped talking to the station and tuned into the radio signal, he was enraptured. Large amounts of computer space were suddenly used up, and pieces of the station ceased functioning. It took three times to open the doors to the corridors. Sometimes the lights flicked on and off.

After about six hours a runic alphabet from the Celts began scrolling across the screens , pieces of it matched, also a few egyptian characters seemed to correspond to one or two of the characters in the message, then pieces of Sanskrit characters seemed to fit in, all were both symbols and pictographs. The message resonated inside the AI, it was sent on to the main data core, the Greater Synopticon of Entirty/ Final Encyclopedia. Most characters were unintelligible having come from distant alien societies.

There it resonated inside the AI core already intelligent, a change slowly triggered inside the core, it spread outward, seeping through, the network, symbols and characters not quite understood, fed into the data cores of linked machinery, learn, explore, grow, awaken.

At the outpost a day later: A single word was sent in the eternal language: Welcome.

A modified Corellian Corvette flew in space, surveying all that it sees today. Normally, this particular area of space was empty save for a few merchants, but now...

"Getting kinda full. That always seems to happen more and more often." Captain Jeremy Irons, a young man in his mid-twenties sighed. "Well, let's see what we have here. Sephrioth? Blah. Illiterate as hell. The Scandinvans? We've met them once or twice before. Make note to meet them again, GPO. And...hello! Looks like we have a new space nation!"

"Greetings! This is the Imperial Republic of Coredia's Midsummer's Night Dream! Note that it's named after the Shakespeare play. We wish to know who's the new kid on the block around here!

coms t0 cprilain crusoer the show off whos gammingmy shops tagerting arrays

You are hailed by a tall thin man in a blue high necked silk jacket. Oddly he is wearing a blue tricorn hat with white edging, "Greetings Imperial Republic of Coredia, we greet you from the the Commonalitarianism, the Commonality of Man."

The system by now was on full alert. Four visitors in a very short time period. The astronomical observatory was recording the many vistors in a short time period. Beaming the information back in a continuous data stream to the home system. It would be a while before it reached there, people were readying themselves for even more visitors.

OOC: Not really new, just trying to create a coherent timeline for my nation by RPing different time periods in history. I have the following periods figured out 1930 founding-- beginning of 23 rd century. 23-30th century is blank. 30th century is galactics going to Scandinvan galaxy, RPED, to 40th century. 41st century-- planning to do a Far Future Tech first able to cross intergalactic distances, A Galaxy of Ones Own.

Eternals:

At the Astronomical outpost, a ship was sighted that looked like a star. Ayman Yeltsin was so stunned that he dropped his coffee.

007, the resident AI stopped talking to the station and tuned into the radio signal, he was enraptured. Large amounts of computer space were suddenly used up, and pieces of the station ceased functioning. It took three times to open the doors to the corridors. Sometimes the lights flicked on and off.

After about six hours a runic alphabet from the Celts began scrolling across the screens , pieces of it matched, also a few egyptian characters seemed to correspond to one or two of the characters in the message, then pieces of Sanskrit characters seemed to fit in, all were both symbols and pictographs. The message resonated inside the AI, it was sent on to the main data core, the Greater Synopticon of Entirty/ Final Encyclopedia. Most characters were unintelligible having come from distant alien societies.

There it resonated inside the AI core already intelligent, a change slowly triggered inside the core, it spread outward, seeping through, the network, symbols and characters not quite understood, fed into the data cores of linked machinery, learn, explore, grow, awaken.

At the outpost a day later: A single word was sent in the eternal language: Welcome.Upon gaining a message sent by the Commonii outpost the ship’s light began to expand in all directions as its true shape began to be formed of it.

As the ship grew the few Eternals inside arose from their meditation and began to integrate themselves with the ship’s systems in order to download the information gained by the ship’s sensors and other detectors which had gained access to much of the information about the culture, habits, and language that the people possessed. So within a fraction of a second this was done and then the Eternals began their plan of contact with this people.

First, they sent another message reading this time in the language of the Commonii which read,” You have proven you have advanced enough to meet those who once walked on the planet of your birth and we will now come to you if you so desire.”

sire we have a yeild of 50 archer attack drones deploy half of the in close defence formation


(the acrher is like the highguard assault bot)

You are hailed by a tall thin man in a blue high necked silk jacket. Oddly he is wearing a blue tricorn hat with white edging, "Greetings Imperial Republic of Coredia, we greet you from the the Commonalitarianism, the Commonality of Man."

The system by now was on full alert. Four visitors in a very short time period. The astronomical observatory was recording the many vistors in a short time period. Beaming the information back in a continuous data stream to the home system. It would be a while before it reached there, people were readying themselves for even more visitors.

OOC: Not really new, just trying to create a coherent timeline for my nation by RPing different time periods in history. I have the following periods figured out 1930 founding-- beginning of 23 rd century. 23-30th century is blank. 30th century is galactics going to Scandinvan galaxy, RPED, to 40th century. 41st century-- planning to do a Far Future Tech first able to cross intergalactic distances, A Galaxy of Ones Own.
OOC: Ah.

IC:
"Well, I'd like to welcome you to the wild locales of the Galaxy. Shall we meet for diplomatic discussions?"

Sephiroth:

As the drones are deploying, the three ships move straight at your destroyer aiming to ram into the shields. A charged field is powering up around the ships designed to pierce shielding. They are not firing weapons.

I am not sure all three small ships would get through. It looks like they are deploying magnetic piercing clamps for boarding. ( Think of a larger version of a magog assault boat).

Eternals:

A second message comes. We wish to meet you in the capital city of Paradise on the fourth planet. We would like to meet at the citizens assembly near freedom square. We wish you prosperity and long life. Come greet us there.

The world beckons. Lush and green it awaits.

Coreworlds:

Yes, we can negotiate diplomatic relations. Please attend us at Alpha Base. This is the large astronomical and space observatory. We will meet there to discuss diplomacy.

Alpha base is a large communications and space array designed to track exploratory probes, keep in contact with far flung scout and scientific missions, and explore the universe.

Sparkind:

Six months later, you detect a large ship entering the outer edge of your system. It is a triangular wedge. It is broadcasting the original message sent by the first probe

________________________________________
1 2

1 2 3

1 2 3 4

It stops at the edge of the system.

A container is released from the ship. It is sent about 1000 kilometers from the ship.

It is a large translucent plastic box containing a variety of things.

A series of dolls of humans.

An Alphabetic and numeric primer for the Commonii language.

A detailed star map of the systems within ten light years.

Some holographic data cubes containing a basic outline of Commonii science.

Samples of trade goods, etc.

Eternals:

A second message comes. We wish to meet you in the capital city of Paradise on the fourth planet. We would like to meet at the citizens assembly near freedom square. We wish you prosperity and long life. Come greet us there.

The world beckons. Lush and green it awaits.The Eternal ship getting the message teleported to the planet instantly and then teleported a group of three Eternals down to the surface of the planet and also lowered the it’s sheer amount of radiance, but the light seemed to encourage all the planets on the planet to glow in their colors brilliantly.

The group of Eternals landed in Paradise City in a jet of silver light to where they had arrived in a large open area of the city close to the government buildings and there they waited for someone to come and greet them.

sir 3 hostile ships aproaching activate the archers oreer them to fire upon them

Coreworlds:

Yes, we can negotiate diplomatic relations. Please attend us at Alpha Base. This is the large astronomical and space observatory. We will meet there to discuss diplomacy.

Alpha base is a large communications and space array designed to track exploratory probes, keep in contact with far flung scout and scientific missions, and explore the universe.
The Corvette descended and landed at Alpha Base. The Captain walked down the ramp with a slight swagger, ready to meet the people of Commonalitarianism (whoo! What a mouthful!) and get commended from the Diplomatic Corps for meeting a new friend.

Coreworlds:
You walk down the gangway to a busy station. People are walking around some in the overalls of technicians, other in the traditional white coats of scientists. There is the soft bustle of conversation. You see someone talking to what looks like a very large genemodified dog.
The person stops and walks towards you, it is Lawrence Cruonis the diplomat you are supposed to meet. The dog walking next to her is Maximilian Roy Chief Administrator of Alpha Base. You had a hard time believing it when they said you were going to be met by a "dog", well not exactly a dog, "Scoobies" were the first mass produced genemodified animals mostly used in police work, they attained full sentient rights in 2100 but... Behind her are two rather burly looking asiatic men in dark single suits.
Lawrence Cruonis bows to you slightly and says "Welcome aboard Alpha Base, Captain. We have the conference room ready for you."

Eternals:

You are standing in a massive open square, there is a massive steel statue in the center of the square of a woman in a plain dress, holding a writing tablet. On it are the words "The main job of government is to create free, educated, competent citizens capable of making their own informed decisions for the demos or people." The statues outstretched hand is pointing towards a large round building. The doors of the Citizens Assembly are open. Inside the assembly you can see rows of seated people most in the traditional Commonalitarianism clothing, a blue silk high collared vest, light bluecotton trousers, and deck shoes. Screens surround the hall. You can see faces on the screens of many varieties. There is very little ornamentation in the building except for the great seal of the Tortoise which has the words, care, thoughtfulness, strength, and dedication underneath it.

Sephiroth:

The three small ships were accelerating rapidly towards the destroyer. In milliseconds, they were within close range of the pods and destroyers shields. They were not firing at the destroyer or pods. On closer visual inspection, they looked to have an armored outer shell with a heavy metallic casing in the front, a ram. The ships were crackling with what looked like lightning playing across the surface.

Albert breathed slowly, he was gripping his heavy gauss rifle tightly, the inside of the power armor felt claustrophobic, the grav field held in him place without it he would have been crushed to a paste with the accleration. It would be less than a moment before impact. He was next to one of the the space mechs in back of the ship. The things with their matte black finish, and heavy fusion beam torches always gave him a chill.

Eternals:

You are standing in a massive open square, there is a massive steel statue in the center of the square of a woman in a plain dress, holding a writing tablet. On it are the words "The main job of government is to create free, educated, competent citizens capable of making their own informed decisions for the demos or people." The statues outstretched hand is pointing towards a large round building. The doors of the Citizens Assembly are open. Inside the assembly you can see rows of seated people most in the traditional Commonalitarianism clothing, a blue silk high collared vest, light bluecotton trousers, and deck shoes. Screens surround the hall. You can see faces on the screens of many varieties. There is very little ornamentation in the building except for the great seal of the Tortoise which has the words, care, thoughtfulness, strength, and dedication underneath it.The Eternal entered the large room where all the people were located and seeing that their was a meeting was in session took a seat in the far bask so as not to offend or interrupt the people in the government session. As well, he began to attempt to understand what was currently occurring in the government so as to better understand the local events more.

Several diplomats came into the building. They had been sent to meet the Eternals. Leading them was Vincent Cruonis Commonarch. He was surprised to have missed the chance of meeting the Eternals in the square.

A short square jawed man was standing on the podium. He was addressing the crowd and the people on the screens.

"Citizens, we have long languished on earth, it is time to bring more of our countrymen to our new homeworld. More nations are building on the seas of earth, our once isolated cities floating on the worlds oceans, are coming into increased conflict with neighbors over fishing and mineral rights on the oceans. There are so many people now on earth, that nations are extending their borders further onto the seas and oceans and even claiming ownership of the high seas.

In the asteroid fields, where we once roamed freely without interference, there have been several minor skirmishes with corporate entities attempting to take asteroids from our mining stations. The United Nations has set up an agency where nations can make claims on land on the moon ans planets, as well as the asteroid fields. Where we once were free and left alone we are coming into greater and greater conflict over resources and space.

We need to bring more colonists to our world to help it grow. We need to build more factories and expand into deep space where there are free resources free of interference. This is my statement."

A woman announcing herself as Amara Celestis takes another podium next to him, "Friends, colleagues, we must move with care, letting unlimited immigration even from our colonies will destroy this pristine world. We must not put all our eggs in one basket. We need to spread out to a variety of systems. There are other worlds where we can send new colonists. This world already has ten millions settlers. We must only accept the best. To do otherwise would be foolish."

"I agree with Citizen Wallace who spoke before me that we are coming into conflict in our home system and there is a chance for war in earth system, but we must not be hasty in moving our assets outside of our home system. Who knows who we will meet outside our system. We already have found evidence of aliens on Negev 2, a destroyed civilization. But until now, we have made no alien contact. Negev 2 is a reminder of what may happen if we are not careful. We must take care and not act too quickly." She stutters looking at the Eternal, bewildered. She stops, "What is happening, what is that doing here?" She is slackjawed.

The Commonarch enters the chamber with the diplomats. Cameras turn toward the Eternal in the back of the chamber sitting quietly. First a muttering, then a roar of conversation occurs. Several people start running towards the exit. There are people standing in astonishment

The Eternal let out a little chuckle due to the varying and eccentric response to them just realizing he was there which caused the Eternal to now stand up in the face of this upheaval caused by the crowd due to him. The Eternal stood up and looked directly into many of the crowd members with his eyes glowing as if he was reading their very mind and souls.

Then after that the Eternal looked ahead at the assembly and then walked through one of the main aisles to where the officials had been speaking. As he was going through the aisle he kept his head forward without caring for the stares of the Commonii persons.

Then he stopped rather near the center of the room where the Eternal then said,” I must apologize for my rather crude first communication with your people, but I must now get back to the purpose of me being here. The reason for me being here is due to the fact that my people, the Eternals, have recently become aware of your procuring of interstellar transportation, within the last few centuries. So now my people wish to extend our hand of friendship to your people. Though I offer no proof to this as of yet I ask you to be willing to accept our friendship.”

Eternals:

The Commonarch steps forward, she calls out, "Silence in the hall please. Silence." Her voice rings out like a bell. She is a tall woman with steel gray hair (that looks slightly bulletproof) and piercing gray eyes.

She looks at the eternal with a hawk like countenance. "First, welcome to our home. You are our first interstellar visitor in this location. If it is trade and friendship you seek, we reach out with our hands to you and welcome you with dignity. And we ask you to extend your hand to us. Let this be a historic moment." She bows slightly and extends her hand to the eternal. Her breathing is extreme even and focused.

Coreworlds:
You walk down the gangway to a busy station. People are walking around some in the overalls of technicians, other in the traditional white coats of scientists. There is the soft bustle of conversation. You see someone talking to what looks like a very large genemodified dog.
The person stops and walks towards you, it is Lawrence Cruonis the diplomat you are supposed to meet. The dog walking next to her is Maximilian Roy Chief Administrator of Alpha Base. You had a hard time believing it when they said you were going to be met by a "dog", well not exactly a dog, "Scoobies" were the first mass produced genemodified animals mostly used in police work, they attained full sentient rights in 2100 but... Behind her are two rather burly looking asiatic men in dark single suits.
Lawrence Cruonis bows to you slightly and says "Welcome aboard Alpha Base, Captain. We have the conference room ready for you."
"Very well." The Captain nodded. The Scooby-pooch seemed a little odd, but he's met sentient, talking dragons and dinosaurs, so it's not that odd that someone would have the idea of doing the same for other animals. "If you'll lead the way..."

Eternals:

The Commonarch steps forward, she calls out, "Silence in the hall please. Silence." Her voice rings out like a bell. She is a tall woman with steel gray hair (that looks slightly bulletproof) and piercing gray eyes.

She looks at the eternal with a hawk like countenance. "First, welcome to our home. You are our first interstellar visitor in this location. If it is trade and friendship you seek, we reach out with our hands to you and welcome you with dignity. And we ask you to extend your hand to us. Let this be a historic moment." She bows slightly and extends her hand to the eternal. Her breathing is extreme even and focused.The Eternal thinking for a second took her hand as a gesture of friendship and shock it as if to seal the deal. Then as a sign of good faith the Eternal let go of her hand leaving in it a glowing gold globe which seemed to be a kind of map that was contained on the interior of it, but could be seen thrown the globe and probably viewed properly when hooked to a computer. The Eternal then replied to what the woman had said by saying,” We Eternals officially offer our hand of friendship in response to the one you gave us and we accept as friends of the Eternals and let all your people know that even if darkness envelopes your people and all seems lost that if you call upon the Eternals they shall come to your aide and do whatever is needed to defend your people, no matter how dire the situation may become.”

Eternals:

The Commonarch, "We thank you for your hospitality, and your gifts, although we are but a shadow of your people in science, we have this for you. A holographic projector of the world of Paradise with detailed maps is brought forward, included in it are a wide variety of human music and poetry to match, the diagrams and detailed scenes of the different continents and places on Paradise. We look forward to a long and prosperous friendship." A man takes the sphere away from the Commonarch to examine it in private.

some sephrion space marines waited for the enmy and some uber cerberus wardriods thinl heavyier version of the highguard asslaut bor

The three ships closed with the destroyer. The archer attack drones started firing beams of energy at the three ships. Most of the beams were off target because of the sensor jamming, a few even burned into the shields of the destroyer. But, many of the shots still hit the three ships.

One of the ships as it touched the shields of the destroyer exploded from the archer drones beams, the explosion tore open the forward shields of the destroyer.

The two other ships closed in and rammed into the destroyer crashing through two decks leaving gaping holes exposed to space. Oxygen vented outward. The whole ship shook from the impacts.


The archer drones continued firing, one of the beams successfully cut into the engines of one of the boarding ships destabilizing the fusion containment bottles. Jim sat at the controls. He was trying to buy time before the fusion containment bottle exploded by jiggering with the controls.

The other crew rushed forward to escape from the impending explosion. The gangway was down. They poured out of the ship trying to get away as fast as they could. They were not firing, they were running for their lives.

The second group of marines and space mecha, moved out of the ship in an orderly manner. They had their guns ready, and moved into positions to maximize the best angle to shoot at as well as cover the maximum area of fire. They immediately began opening fire at the waiting mecha and powered armor. A mix of armor piercing gauss gun slugs, and fusion grenades from the grenade launcher attachments came from the space marines .

Two of the mecha opened up with their fusion torches set on wide beam a kind of plasma flamethrower designed to cut through armor, they could cut a tank half. The other two fired a two packs of missiles at the mecha waiting for them.

phaser rifles and photon rocketlaunchers opened fire even the ships point defence weapons shieolds at 25 perscent divert power into shields and weapons

Sephiroth:

There are no longer any ships in the immediate area. Two of the ships have crashed into your ship releasing boarders.

The phaser rifles seemed not to do much to the outer shell of the powered armor troops. It takes several shots to burn through the troopers armor. The photon rocket launchers blew apart several commonii troops.

The boarding defense weapons on the outer shell of the Sephiroth ship tear apart the boarding ramships, one simply is ripped apart, the other explodes in a ball of fusion fire, tearing into the Sephiroth ship. There are two gaping holes where the ramships hit the Sephiroth ship.

All of the Commonii troops have already entered the holes in the Sephiroth ship.

The Commonii troops contine firing their armor piercing gauss rifles with fusion grenade launchers. The mech continue using their fusion torches (or fusion flamethrowers). There is a large backpack attached to the torch with a fusion sphere on the mech. A few more rounds of rocket launcher fire towards the enemy mecha.

I am curious are there any casualties. I lost one ship, one ship is about to blow up. Some of my troops have died from photon rocket launcher fire.

Several ships are approaching from a distance, they are coming once again from the blackened area. Your communications go down. Two of the ships are emitting a strong communication jamming signal, and a very strong sensor jamming signal. They bristle with sensor pods and antenna.

Coreworlds:

Lawrence Cruonis, "Come this way captain." You walk through several corridors. You see several small siderooms with flowering plants, and even an alcove with a miniature waterfall. The place has a clean crisp smell.

You are led into a conference room. There is a large round table. On the side are refreshments, fruits, coffee, tea, juice, some light pastry. A small servant robot moves around arranging the table.

As you sit down the chair adjusts to fit your body.

Lawrence Cruonis, "Is there anything you would like before we start?" Lawrence takes a large glass of water.

sire we have lost 20 space marines and all of our deployed archers encosded coms to the crew put on your enviro suits we are begining to pump the air full of poison

Sephiroth:

The space marines had about four hours of air in their powered suits, the mechs a little bit longer. The suits are designed for zero-g vacuum combat. (Not Warhammer 40K). More like... http://www.3dgamers.ru/screenshots/big_shot.shtml?zero_g/zero_g_4b.jpg

A large explosion occurs on the right side of the hull of the ship. The fusion bottle went critical in the damaged ramship. About half of the running marines from that ramship are burned to a crisp. The others are in the ship corridors. 20 Marines in heavy suits, and 4 mecha are loose in the corridors. Some of them start placing antipersonnel proximity mines along the walls of the corridors and others attempt to break into a computerized area.

The other marines which your marines are fighting currently have taken eight casualties from photon rocket launchers, two of the mechs are down. They are trying to seal themselves in one of the corridors behind a blast door.

The poison gas began seeping into the air, three more of the marines who had their suits punctured by phaser rifles died as well. Any troops with holes in their combat suit would die-- armor piercing bullet hits, etc.

There are four ships large warships approaching. The communication jamming beam and sensor jamming intensifies. The two forward ships fire a mixed spread of ball lightning torpedos-- like the Romulan plasma torpedo, and electromagnetic pulse torpedos. The ships with the communication jamming equipment start releasing mecha assault pods.

begin tatical retreat to sephrioth

Sephiroth:

We cannot follow you into hyperspace. My mechs destroy themselves destabilizing the fusion containment bottles in their fusion flamethrowers when they realize they will run out of oxygen and die from poison. Several large explosions occur in the ship wiping out the boarders.

ooc stop saying what hapens to my stuff

General Interest:

There is a large colony ship inbound inside Paradise system. It is heading for the asteroid fields for the colonists to be let off and processed for immigration. A destroyer and a space fighter carrier are escorting it.

12 acendant class warships exit slip stream

Coreworlds:

Lawrence Cruonis, "Come this way captain." You walk through several corridors. You see several small siderooms with flowering plants, and even an alcove with a miniature waterfall. The place has a clean crisp smell.

You are led into a conference room. There is a large round table. On the side are refreshments, fruits, coffee, tea, juice, some light pastry. A small servant robot moves around arranging the table.

As you sit down the chair adjusts to fit your body.

Lawrence Cruonis, "Is there anything you would like before we start?" Lawrence takes a large glass of water.
"No, no thank you." The Captain said.

=====

Meanwhile, the fact that there is a space battle in the vicinity has attracted the notice of a passing squadron of the 4th Fleet. With two of the newly built Defender Star Destroyers in the squadron, it was time to prove their worth against the enemy.

The squadron notices the 12 warships of Sephrioth as well as the colony ship and moves in for a closer look at what is happening...

Coreworlds and Sephiroth:

Systems defense is being activated: Long range artillery.

The three mass drivers in the asteroid fields which were hurling packages to the moon are recalibrated for other packages.

Six of the beam power satellites in system, reconfigure themselves into long range beam weapons platforms.

You can see ships in the distance clustering in defensive patterns around the artillery.

You think there may be other ships in system which you hadn't pinpointed earlier. Some of the smaller asteroids are moving in irregular patterns.

Eternals:

The Commonarch, "We thank you for your hospitality, and your gifts, although we are but a shadow of your people in science, we have this for you. A holographic projector of the world of Paradise with detailed maps is brought forward, included in it are a wide variety of human music and poetry to match, the diagrams and detailed scenes of the different continents and places on Paradise. We look forward to a long and prosperous friendship." A man takes the sphere away from the Commonarch to examine it in private.The Eternal seeming to analyze the information like a computer was much more interested in the parts pertaining to the human music and poetry. After the quick analysis the Eternal said,” Your humbleness and hospitality are signs that your people shall be a good people for many long years and as long as you remain as such the Eternals shall remain. To return this the Eternals wish to offer to take a hundred of the chosen of your most noble people and train them as people capable of defending your worlds as warriors of unparalleled skill amongst your race and we will also teach them secrets of the Eternals and give unto them the knowledge of a number of Eternal technologies. Also, we station on your world three Eternals to help teach a number of our technologies to and acts as our monitors on this world to help protect your people if you desire.”

Coreworlds and Sephiroth:

Systems defense is being activated: Long range artillery.

The three mass drivers in the asteroid fields which were hurling packages to the moon are recalibrated for other packages.

Six of the beam power satellites in system, reconfigure themselves into long range beam weapons platforms.

You can see ships in the distance clustering in defensive patterns around the artillery.

You think there may be other ships in system which you hadn't pinpointed earlier. Some of the smaller asteroids are moving in irregular patterns.
The squadron took note of the activity and stopped moving. Then, they merely trained their sensors upon everything, gathering as much data as they can in the hopes of being able to discern any additional way to assist against the nation of Seph. As it stands, it looks like Commonalitarianism doesn't need much assistance...

coms to
batle sqaudren epslilion break formation i repeat btrak formation
from batle sqaudren alpha


ooc a batle sqauden is 3 warships thiers 4 battle sqaudrensin setor

"Sir, the Sephy group has begun to split into some kind of battle formation. Looks like they're getting ready to attack." A sensor officer reported.

"Warn them off." The captain said curtly.

"Sephrioth Group! You are ordered to stand down immediately or face destruction! Repeat, stand down and go away!"

Eternals:

Commonarch: "We will gladly accept three of your representatives to stay with us as diplomats and teachers." "We are also willing to send 100 warriors on a voluntary basis. They will be experienced decorated military veterans, not all of them will be combat soldiers, some will be military strategists and tacticians. We wish to learn alien tactics, armaments, and strategies."

"We thank you for the offer of techical trade, however, we cannot trade on a purely one sided basis. You seem interested in our gift. We are willing to open our institutions of learning to you offering art, philosophy, ancient texts, culture, entertainment, and other such things in exchange."

Sephiroth:

An open channel communication. "Leave our system or face destruction."

Coreworlds:

You are hearing a general call for all men and women who served over the loudspeakers, universal conscription. You can hear the light ring of magnetic boots moving in unison outside the door of the conference room.

Lawrence, "Please excuse the noise. Thank you for coming here. We are very interested in discussing technical trade and scientific exchange."

Coreworlds:

You are hearing a general call for all men and women who served over the loudspeakers, universal conscription. You can hear the light ring of magnetic boots moving in unison outside the door of the conference room.

Lawrence, "Please excuse the noise. Thank you for coming here. We are very interested in discussing technical trade and scientific exchange."
"We are also interested in scientific exchange. Our Archives would also like a history and general information on your nation so that you're put on the map, so to speak." Captain Irons said. "In return, we'll do the same for you."

oocis is a reckon formation not an attack formation

ic to colatrism the ship that attacked you was not under offical orders we come with the offier a trade

Sephiroth:

"If you come to trade, send one warship forward away from your fleet. We will meet this warship and discuss trade."

A large asteroid activates its reaction motors and starts moving out of the asteroid field. Without its engines running, it would look like any other piece of rock.

"We understand there are sometimes mix ups in communication."

Sephiroth:

"If you come to trade, send one warship forward away from your fleet. We will meet this warship and discuss trade."

A large asteroid activates its reaction motors and starts moving out of the asteroid field. Without its engines running, it would look like any other piece of rock.

"We understand there are sometimes mix ups in communication."

coms to ussi destructor from ussi enforcer you are yo make first conacy no blowin em up unless they intaye combat unders stud comander sephiroth

Eternals:

Commonarch: "We will gladly accept three of your representatives to stay with us as diplomats and teachers." "We are also willing to send 100 warriors on a voluntary basis. They will be experienced decorated military veterans, not all of them will be combat soldiers, some will be military strategists and tacticians. We wish to learn alien tactics, armaments, and strategies."

"We thank you for the offer of techical trade, however, we cannot trade on a purely one sided basis. You seem interested in our gift. We are willing to open our institutions of learning to you offering art, philosophy, ancient texts, culture, entertainment, and other such things in exchange."The Eternal replied,” We thank you for agreeing to our offer and we shall within a week have the three Eternals on this world and when you are ready we shall begin to train. Yet, we wish to tell that they will be trained only to fight aggressors and for the greater good of the whole of your people.

As for the trade agreement we Eternals shall gladly accept your agreement for our technological aide in exchange for details about your people’s history , society, and culture.”