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I'm back and planning a return.

This RP will be character driven and will involve political, economic and military factors. Combat is to be allowed if it is justifiable due to plot.

It will have several Acts that will follow this basic guideline.

Act I: Setting the Stage
- In which participants lay out what they are doing pre-contact

Act II: Contact
- The return of myself and contact with other participants with myself and others.

Act III: Escalation
- This is when all the trouble starts.

Act IV: Confrontation
- When the metaphorical or literal bullets start flying.

Act V: Resolution
- The end of conflicts and the conclusion of the story.

What form the Acts take in implementation is free-form but must follow that general guideline.

EDIT: This is FT by the way.

Sounds interesting. The arrival of a race the Ascendants had observed who had left and arrived again, much like they did, would interest them. I am willing to hear more.

Since we had Prior relations IC, albeit slight, I believe Anagonia would be interested. Only one post per day or two, due to work, of course. :D

Most excellent! It will be a relatively slow moving RP due to real life factors, it is exam, holiday shopping and family time time after all.

The title will be Up from the Ashes: The Return of Xessmithia. I'm doing the mental pre-write of the intro post at the moment so expect the first post within a few days, a week at the most.

EDIT: So far it's me returning to the Milky Way and nearby ,universally speaking, surrounding galaxies and running into the colonies that were abandoned by me at the start of my "off-screen" civil war I'm using to explain my absence. I have also decreed that these colonies have been caught in a region of chaotic space time caused by damage to the gates I used to connect them to my home galaxy, thus some will have fallen into neo-barbarism of about modern tech and up to just FTL capable. This should provide ample plot and intrigue opportunities.

count me in..

Hmmmm...the Ascendants would only begin to fight if they felt threatened or if it somehow benefited their cause of defense and deterrence of enemies. None of those sound too ready to have the Ascendants worry about them. Mostly, they would hang around, out of phase with this universe, almost all but undetectable, and just watch. If someone had the right sensors to detect them and someone decided to attack them, then things might get interesting...

sounds rather interesting, I'd be up for this, I haven't done a FT RP in awhile

I'm looking to get back in from my 2-month hiatus, Xess, and in a better way than just by plopping down a new version of my factbook, so you may give me an excuse here...count me in.

Slow-moving RP works as well for me, with football over now, I have budget-avaliable time.

And the intro is up and can be located here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13246664#post13246664).

The actual workings of Act I will appear as soon as I can get it written.

sweet looks like its us vets, this should be good

And the intro is up and can be located here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13246664#post13246664).

The actual workings of Act I will appear as soon as I can get it written.

So we can start posting now? Just to be clear....you know...

So we can start posting now? Just to be clear....you know...

Absolutely, post away!

I have written the first little bit of my next post, As I said it is a slow moving RP so don't worry your authortorial little heads about the pace! If anyone else wants to join the RP they are free to do so in this thread, the more the merrier!

Also those fine souls who are already participating have my thanks for joining in. It is going good so far, stuff like this is why I joined NS in the first place! If you have more to post don't wait on my account. We're still in Act I so its all individual story telling, let your metaphorical pens run wild!

I'm not a fan of double posting so I simply wait for someone to post then i'll post again

I'll just give this a bump since OOC chatter is a good thing

Made a short post to keep it going. I'm busy with Christmas travel plans so my mind is a little pre-occupied, keep it up though everyone your posts are good.

yeah sure thing, ill post every so often and keep it alive