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In 2003 the Shivans invaded and were defeated by Indra Prime and Kanuckistan around SOL’s lone star.

In 2004-2005 The Shivans returned in the great war, many planets were lost in this conflict. Millions died. Yet the ESUS Alliance managed to defeat them.

In 2009 The Shivans are returning. From where, no one has been able to ascertain, but they know where your worlds are, and they are coming.

This is just an OOC sign up thread, for the upcoming Shivan Invasion. I intend to pull in as many nations into the war as possible, and even go after those who are not willing, in a 04 style of doom giving roleplay.

I first brought the Shivans on to Nationstates in 2003, when I was just starting out as a player, and I enjoyed playing with them, despite the rp quality from myself. As I have for this time period, retired the Galactic Empire, I am bring ing back my old flame for a while to have some fun and cause some much needed international chaos on II.

This is the sign-up thread for everyone who may want to take part in this RP, for those who want to have fun in forming new allies to defend yourself and fight against the nameless foe with the death black ships this is the RP with you, since even the most stubborn of enemies have to become allies whenever the Shivans are involved.

Victory is not guaranteed for you. Defeat is a real possibility, so please, do not expect victory if they come to your home system. RP, will be fair and realistic, but death, pain, loss and suffering will be for everyone and everywhere.

As, my role-playing circle has been very closed lately, I would love players to take part that I have not had much Rp’ing experience with, and those who I have not roleplayed with in a significant while.

So if you want to take part in the RP, all I ask, is you post your nation name, and your nations worlds and systems that you habituate, so any RP can be easily facilitated by me instead of a massive conversation on MSN.

Thanks,
- Sith.

IC Thread is located here :- http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread....7#post14585777

Please bare with me, as I adjust to rping with the Shivans, it has been a few years since I've written with them, so it will take me a few posts to get back into the "groove".

This is now the official OOC thread.

My MSN is Wardventure1@aol.com, feel free to contact me if you need questions or help. I have made a detailing post on page three for more information.

ATTENTION ALL
OOC ADVICE ON THIS RP

Firstly, I will be having attacks open up on everyone shortly. No one will escape. Some will suffer large loss, others, will suffer little loss.

The idea of this RP, is to have all races out of fear come together and be forced to join hands, to fend off this threat.

Shivan technology is far above anything and everything, you all have.

The war will move slowly to allow diplomacy to work, loss will be everywhere. Please, let me ecourage everyone to Roleplay that loss, the despair, and courage your nations will be facing from character as well as national perspectives.

And I remind you all, to stand alone will bring around swift and terrible destruction. To stand together, gives you a chance.

I'm glad so many have joined the RP, and I just ask that you trust me in what I do, and that I am intending on making this very fun, nail biting will I survive kind of thread.

Trust me, and if you have any questions post here, or get me on MSN.

~ Sith.

SUBSPACE TRAVEL

The Shivans use a network of subspace nodes to travel from star system to star system. Most races do not use the kind of travel, however I am providing an OOC network for your survey. The campaign will be directed along the lines of this map. Though the systems on the map will remain unknown until the Shivans manage to progress to them. The first system Doron has been revealed. Red indicates Shivan destroyed, or a staging ground. The map will be updated as the thread moves forward.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9610/map1i.jpg

Hmm, role play where planets actually get blown up and entire planets crumble... incredibly tempting but also very risky...

I voluntarily chose to have a single world for my race and leave it at that, merely spinning influence throughout th nebulae in which i'm based; since I have to branch out in other forms of role play. Hmm on the one hand this could be fun, on the other I could be anhilated.

How about I play the part of a bystander for most of the part, most of my role play will be RPing as the various covert organisations, groups, piates, mercaneries, companies ect which inhabit the nebulae. My people will be watching the fight but whether or not they decide to join is something to be assessed along the way.

No one will be completely destroyed, my mention of victory was more geared towards simply winning with very little loss.

My concept of this RP, is that no one nation can win against the Shivans due to their overwhelming FTL and at times technological superiority. Conflict, and battles will be few but they will be unfortunate for either side when they arise. Those races who want to survive will have to band together and seek alliances, aid, and support from those they may have traditionally seen as enemies.

This is an excellent opportunity to challenge the individual mindset of one nation is superior in NS FT, and force the collective to respond in an emergency scenario. With they disputes and difficulties which follow it.

Does that clarify anything for you?

Hmm, role play where planets actually get blown up and entire planets crumble... incredibly tempting but also very risky...

I voluntarily chose to have a single world for my race and leave it at that, merely spinning influence throughout th nebulae in which i'm based; since I have to branch out in other forms of role play. Hmm on the one hand this could be fun, on the other I could be anhilated.

How about I play the part of a bystander for most of the part, most of my role play will be RPing as the various covert organisations, groups, piates, mercaneries, companies ect which inhabit the nebulae. My people will be watching the fight but whether or not they decide to join is something to be assessed along the way.


You are more than welcome to take part in that style. I would advise that you simply "go for it" and don't focus upon the potential loss, but rather the new experience of being in an RP environment, where 1) You do not know what may happen. 2) You have very little control over what will happen unless you work with others to bring it about.

This "style" so to speak is very fun, and sadly quite rare on the forums. But it does give a good rush.

The People's Republic of Alanea's security service [The Black Corporation] have taken note of the coming war involving the Shivans. We are committed to defeating any kind of unjust behaviour, and therefore our nation will join the United Sith.

[OOC: That's me in.]

The People's Republic of Alanea's security service [The Black Corporation] have taken note of the coming war involving the Shivans. We are committed to defeating any kind of unjust behaviour, and therefore our nation will join the United Sith.

[OOC: That's me in.]

If your could post a tiny little bit about your nation, that would be grand. IE- Homesystems, a little bit on how your nation operates, I would be really grateful.

Well my good man, I have no fear of losing, provided that I loose graceully and artistically but that's my responsibility not the attackers :) Count me in dear fellow, along the assumption that I won't be destroyed but my fleets will i'm happy to go along with it; my nations name is the Metropolitan-Regional Association Of The Phale A'Theins or just M.R.A for short.

And yes I agree with you, most RP's are focused on singular battles and an "everyone for themselves" outlook; personally i've been striving behind the scenes to arrange some situation where people can come together under a diplomatic form of neutrality or something to make FT more... immersive?

But yes, count me in.

The People's Republic of Alanea is a liberal state. We have something similar to a coallition government system, where the monarchial Stephanie Black makes general decisions on her ill father's behalf, whilst Sandra Gustav, Governing Minister of the Purple Corporation-the state's leading political party. The rest of the state is run by 'corporations', although they are not profit-making organizations. Corporations are titled by colour, and the main corps of interest to foreign states are the Black Corporation [security and defence], White Corporation [scientific and weapons development] and the Purple Corporation [government]. Foreign states may however inquire about Alanea's other corporations, if they wish. Our nation is built upon the 'Pegasus Philosophy', and we have no literal currency [we use an electronic credit system based on merit].

Other quick facts:

POPULATION: 6 million
CURRENT REGION: The United Kingdom [however this is temporary]
CURRENCY: [not literal] Alanean credit chip
CAPITAL CITY: Saint Arthur's City
AREAS OF NATIONAL CONCERN: Civil rights and equality
AREAS OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN: Prevention of war and protection of environment and liberty.

If there are other questions or queries, please feel free to ask.

Thank you. Purple Corp. Press.

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I don't think you quite understand that this is, Future Tech. I'm afraid you are Modern Tech and appear to be a very new Roleplayer. I'm afraid I'm going to have to count you out on this one Alanea, sorry about that.

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I'm joining this RP, but my mostly Hard Science main FT NS wouldn't be fun for this type of thing, "so bear ourselves, that if the Polish Empire, lasts for a thousand of years, men will still say: This was their finest hour."

In 1939 we fought against the panzers of the Nazis
In 1944 we fought against the tripods of the Aliens
In 1959 we fought against the spaceships of the Nazis and Soviets

First and last, khazukan care about khazukan. However, a threat to the galaxy is a threat to the sons and daughters of Golugan, who know it is better to stand alongside strangers than to stand alone against a foe that has syphoned the strength from those who could have been allies. Being grudgebearing types, though, don't be surprised if after the end my guys send a fleet to chase down Shivan survivors.

I have two different FT nations that are at a standoff with each other. They're generally in an everlasting war, and so this might be an opportunity for them to join forces and fight against invasion.
The last post in my factbook gives the general information.

I have two different FT nations that are at a standoff with each other. They're generally in an everlasting war, and so this might be an opportunity for them to join forces and fight against invasion.
The last post in my factbook gives the general information.

If you have MSN please add me on Wardventure1@aol.com

I'm in why not. I have one Star in one system. A planet that is about 1 1/2 Earth. 98% of it is covered by one large sprawling city and it's ruled by the Sith Lord Darth Vaclavious. A man who, in all honesty, should've died a few times but I'm too attached to let him go. In any case my army is comprised mostly of Force-wielding Dark Jedi. I of course have the Stormtroopers and such :) but they typically will be able to Force Push your ass along with their blasters. I use all SW tech with some modded ships. That's me in a nutshell.

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Players taking part list updated.

Let me also reinforce the idea, that it is up to all the players on how they work together or stand alone in the upcoming RP. I am working on a nice easy entry post for everyone. It should be up tonight or the morrow.

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If you have enough time to bump this twice, I'm sure you could start the IC thread.

If you have enough time to bump this twice, I'm sure you could start the IC thread.

Good things come to those who wait. I need to know disposition of players first, and this is peak time for advertising an RP.

Thread will be up Sunday.

Count me in, Thats the Empire Of Tainith.

The Tainith Empire consists of a multiple races of Anthtomoprhic animals (AKA Furries). They have a rather standard military setup, with a Navy for space action with an acompanying army to provide ground action capabilites. It consists of several worlds controlled from one central location and in times of emergency the mobile command ship. They are on a mission to bring as many planets into the empire at any cost but also to improve relations with the other anthromorphic races out in space. They use a mix of mostly BSG, SG-1/A, 40k and some others I cant rember at this specific point in time.

Sounds like an interesting rp idea and since the Technonauts have yet to lose a single sphere to battle in this galaxy this would be a good way to knock them down a peg and also help flesh out some of my ideas for the collective. Depending on the specific threat posed by your Shivans they may or may not care enough to join with others, specially since they have no static defense or population to protect.

Technonauts are a nomadic, multicultural, hodgepodge of different races, cultures, technologies and ideas blended into one by an overmind that knows all(or at least thinks it does) and seeks all. There are many levels in the technonauts with the grandmaster and Overmind generally working together to cleanse the universe of the unpure, they have their generals(the masters) and their foot soldiers(drones). They have already successfully cleansed their home galaxy with many setbacks during that and since then so far they are few but they are growing...

This looks fun, may I join?

Name: The Telrosian Union, the Union.

Background: The Union came about when the United Nations of Telros, with its other allies, won the Battle of Tenetia and was left a power in the aftermath of the Galactic Empire's fall and splintering due to the plague which ravaged its planets and the death of its leaders Palpatine and Vader. With so many allies ready to aid it, with its power and prestige increasing daily, the United Nations were ready for peace and prosperity. But it was denied this since the founding of the United Nations was a hasty and patch-up affair, so when there were no enemies to unite against or problems that required full focus, it splintered and fell apart. A devastating, massive civil war consumed the United Nations for over a decade, with many groups vying for power. It was not until the formation of the battleplate and the subsequent technology that allowed one group to partially ascend so they could essentially awaken their psionic potential and link to the minds of those similarly awakened, that the war was ended and they were united once more.

Every Telrosian was awakened and the intellect link was born, allowing them to contact each other across great distances of space at FTL like speeds. This removed the need for the clumsy form of government most nations had, as they could make decisions in seconds by combining the process of the entire mental capacity of their species. They recovered and rebuilt from the war, and the United Nations was changed to the Union. Now, with their small but powerful Army and Navy, they have the capability of defending themselves and of slowly increasing Union power over the centuries. It's alliances still hold and its enemies are few. But it is only a matter of time before a great enemy comes forth to challenge the Union and they will be ready.


System of Government: The Union has no government in reality, since for any major decisions, it simply has all Telrosians link with each other to vote on it and combine their mental capacities so the decisions are made in seconds. Since the Link allows instantaneous, FTL messages to be sent to each other, government is finally, as promised by democracy and communism, in the hands of the people. They do keep a small fake government, to ensure other nations do not get faked out by their change. They have a President and a Congress, but that is all.


Internal Interaction: The Telrosians have automated most of the actions that take place in ordinary society. Mining, agriculture, industry, all are automated by sentient, ever-changing A.I. constructs who are considered full citizens by the Union. They work together with a few Telrosian overseers who meld their intellect link with the A.I.'s to ensure that no hacking or viral code like the Cylons used can take place and ruin their society from the inside out. With these and the fabbers that make anything from common raw materials, they are a post-scarcity society and as such, are more focused on philosophical pursuits. There are common debates between Telrosians about the meaning of life, whether or not they should pursue full ascension and such things. They are also collectors of knowledge and ancient artifacts; much of their attention is on studying the universe through science and logic, and they have scouting fleets searching for ruins of older civilizations by the day. A side effect of their rise to power and the partial ascendancy is that religion as they know it, aside from a single cult dedicated to the Shrouded Ones, has been wiped out.


Ships: The Union Navy consists of five fleets, each one having a battleplate as the foundation. The battleplate is the pinnacle of Telrosian power and technology, being able to withstand entire fleets worth of barrages and able to crush entire ships with its gravitic guns. To accompany these ships are a group of seven cruisers, along with five strike groups, consisting of a HQ sensor ship, several strike frigates and cruisers, and multiple fighters and gunships, all designed to support the Battleplate and its defending group of cruisers.


Homeworld System; The Terran System, capital world being Terra. With the Terran System, the Union controls sixteen systems, with thirty-eight inhabited planets.

I suppose I should give some background as well, because I didn't bother with a factbook yet.

Background: If too tl;dr , see this instead (http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/blog_images/turtledove.jpg)

The Autocratic Federation of Polish Worlds was one of the civilizations which spanned from the radical technological leap mankind took during the Third World War against the alien invaders that attempted to conquer Earth, while the Second World War still was fought, forcing Axis, Allies and Comintern to band together against the first and greatest threat to mankind supremacy on Earth. The aliens, through their ultimate tool of lightning warfare, far beyond the human technology of such time: the Tripods, have conquered more than four fifths of Earth, and were it not for the bravery of men who risked their lives to secure a nearly intact of such alien devices and of alien infrastructure built in Earth, and were it not for the geniality of the Polish scientist Andrej Stanislaw, who successfully managed to, with a multinational team, reverse-engineer much of the alien technologies, humanity would either have perished or be relegated to a slave species. The "Neues Blitzkrieg" strategy, co-developed by Manstein and Patton would then, allow for humanity to match their enemies in the battlefield, which stretched out and lost their momentum, as their plans considered a force of Earth 19th Century's artillery and riflemen, as they assumed humans had the same cultural mindset of theirs regarding technological advance. The Third World War lasted for four years, when the invasion force was eliminated from Earth.

The technological legacy left by the invaders would radically change humanity, turning the 20th Century into the greatest leaps of mankind. The manufacture of Tripods, the fully automated computing, robotics, artificial intelligence and material technologies far beyond those who once existed would lead to such degree of advances that few would be able to keep up with them. However, the war brought a toll of five hundred millions of human lives, and with the enemy driven out, the old grievances would continue.

Poland, although not losing the opportunity to acquire the alien technology, and prosper economically from the massive efficiency gains brought by it, would remain as a buffer between the hostile powers of the Greater Reich and of the Soviet Union. A "Cold War" between Nazism, Capitalism and Communism would last from decades, driven by skirmishes in satellite nations and by a space race, for the seeds for the colonization of outer space were also given by the radical advances that came. In 1950 the Reich sent the first man to the Moon, becoming the forerunner of space exploration. Only in 1955 Poland would start its own Space Program, by sending their first satellites into orbit. The increase of border tensions led Poland to establish their Space Navy in 1957, a wise move, for two years later both Soviet Union and Nazi Germany would attempt to annex Poland again. Only this time the chances were better than in 1939, and after two years of brutal assaults, where tanks, tripods, artillery and powered infantry fought, Poland prevailed, forcing the hostiles superpowers to seek another way to attack each other. One year later, both sides would exchange nuclear weapons, turning much of Central Europe into a wasteland, and threatening the future of Poland as Fallout would inevitably affect its territory. Meanwhile projects to Colonize the outer space were being proposed in every nation with the necessary infrastructure, as the first colony ships were built.

In 1962, Andrej Stanislaw would Invent the AS-Drive and make a theoretical breakthrough that would change the scientific media forever, by empirically invalidating much of General, Special Relativity and Causality, by developing the first mean of Faster-than-light travel of history, based on the costly formation of wormholes through exotic matter collected from alien facilities. However, crops were continually failing, and the rates of cancer increasing in Poland due to the radiation of the nuclear war, and despite all available technology, it was clear Poland would not survive for more than ten years in their territory. Thus, in 1964, six Polish colony ships were sent to explore the unknown of the space, and colonized six far-away inhabitable planet, forming the Federation of Polish Worlds.

System of Government: Each of the Polish Worlds is ruled by an Artificial Intelligence vested with absolute power, connecting themselves through faster-than-light communications to coordinate the Federation as an interstellar Civilization. Lacking ambition and desire, such entities can take fast decisions for the people and be trusted with such power, for unlike humans, they cannot corrupted by power as they lack a true ego, making of them the perfect evolution of the government of reason.

Economy: Robots have made every menial labor unnecessary for human beings, and the leap in capabilities they gave could be compared to the leap the first industrial revolution brought in Earth.

Spaceships: The Polish Space Navy is spread through seven fleets. Six home defense fleets are responsible for protecting their worlds from potential threats while a single fleet provides limited power projection capabilities, more than enough for the isolationist and cautious exploration policy the AIs set for the Polish Worlds. Their fleets are centered over battleships, which unlike their atmospheric counterparts, do not truly require escorts, and on spaceborne assault ships, which are carriers specialized in shipping spaceplanes and orbital bombers into hostile planets, while serving as support platforms for battleships. Most of Polish Worlds ships' armament is based on coilgun autocannons, railguns, fusion and kinetic missiles, with very few using energy weapons.

Cavalry: The Federation possess elite forces composed by genetically enhanced elite soldiers mounting augmented horses, with both equipped with power armors packing zero-g thrust capabilities. Although many question the point of such force, it is much more cheap, low profile and flexible than tripods or armored personell carriers, and usually an excellent complement for orbital, airborne and spaceborne operations.

Homeworld: Warsaw, in the Warsaw System. There are six systems, six inhabited planets and five automated mining colonies spread through the Federation

Final Bump - Post in progress. New Thread will be linked to here.

If this is still open I'd love to join in.

Some background info...see the sig'd factbooks for more detailed info

Historical: The Dominion is a fairly new government, formed from a violent revolution against the previous Amazonian government (the Amazonian Federation) that drove out the well-intentioned but fairly inefficient and wasteful democratic government and installed a strong and spread out imperial republic with either one or a few select leaders at the top making important decisions in conjunction with a senate that runs day-to-day operations. A spreading system of sectorial governors keeps orders and government decentralized. Though the Force has traditionally played a mid-level role in the direction of the Dominion, a new generation of Dark-Force users have risen to power in the young age of the Dominion.


Technology: The Dominion relies a lot on biotechnology and genetics in civilian and military operations, though a hardy synthetic intelligence and automaton industry exists as well to supply the military and civilian sectors with both day-to-day assistance and labor droids and war droids for combat, as well as network-integrated virtual intelligences and limited sentient artificial intelligences.

Bioengineering has gone to the point where organic, living ships ply the spacelanes and a majority of sentients in the Dominion are improved with genetic selection for optimum traits. In the military class, this goes even further with cloning and embryo-building, in conjunction with birth-to-maturity training for clones and selected infants.


Demographics: The Dominion is made up of several primary sentient races along with very small minorities of other races. Humanity exists as the primary race - broken into the higher class of genetically-modified humans and the unmodified lower class - but shares the space of the Dominion (known as the Shroud for it being, for the most part, within an enormous turbulent, crackling nebula surrounding a calm zone of space inside) with other sentient creatures.


Military: The Dominion military is a fairly large collection of ships, ground vehicles, gunboats, and other fighting craft. Vessels and vehicles are a combination of synthetic, droid, or organic ranging from small atmospheric fighters and speeders to monstrous organic worldships. Multiple levels of fleet organization exist, from small, rangy scout fleets to massive assault armadas headed by massive dreadnoughts capable of devastating planets and stars.

Home System: Amazonia system, with 9 planets including the home city-planet of Amazonia and the Home Defense Grid.

The first Post is up and it is located here -
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=14585777#post14585777

TELROS, is the first one to get hit by the Shivans, so, please just read and wait for a little bit, or post nothing really aiming at intervention. The next Shivan post is going to be wide and massive, bringing in as much of you all as possible. The damage and fighting will not be fair or equally spread, some will be hit harder and others, this will be deliberate.

The thread is open for anyone and everyone for as long as its active. As I said previously, this RP is to force players to work together. I will be revealing a good and fun plotline as we move along, but it will require some detective work on the "allies" part, but more of that to follow.

Consider this the official OOC thread!

~ Sith.

P.S It has been a while since i've roleplayed with the Shivans. They are very difficult to write with, and it is taking me some time to get back in to the Shivan "groove". Please bare with me as I adjust.

I can wait now that the thread's up.
Good luck getting into the right groove!
Although I don't really know how it is with not RPing a faction for a while, I suspect it is a complicated matter.

I can't wait for this RP now the thread is up. Ill have to post tommorow, damn it.

It look great, I will start off tommorrow, cannot tonight due to it being 12:10 PM local time :eek:

Hey, Sithy. I hope you'll leave a spot for me. :tongue:

I won't participate much beyond lending advice and minor assistance to nations who get hit by the Shivans and maybe using one of my deep space task forces if they're free. After all, I have my own problems to deal with. If I do participate, it will take place at an indeterminate time past Tenetia according to Coredian timelines to give me time to heal.

ATTENTION ALL
OOC ADVICE ON THIS RP

Firstly, I will be having attacks open up on everyone shortly. No one will escape. Some will suffer large loss, others, will suffer little loss.

The idea of this RP, is to have all races out of fear come together and be forced to join hands, to fend off this threat.

Shivan technology is far above anything and everything, you all have.

The war will move slowly to allow diplomacy to work, loss will be everywhere. Please, let me ecourage everyone to Roleplay that loss, the despair, and courage your nations will be facing from character as well as national perspectives.

And I remind you all, to stand alone will bring around swift and terrible destruction. To stand together, gives you a chance.

I'm glad so many have joined the RP, and I just ask that you trust me in what I do, and that I am intending on making this very fun, nail biting will I survive kind of thread.

Trust me, and if you have any questions post here, or get me on MSN.

~ Sith.

It would make sense for Warsaw to be the first targeted system, although all systems were colonized simultaneously and have similar levels of development and population, except for differences in environmental suitability of their planets.

It would make sense for Warsaw to be the first targeted system, although all systems were colonized simultaneously and have similar levels of development and population, except for differences in environmental suitability of their planets.

Thanks for the information.

You can count me in... I hope you have room for me any way.

Due to current OOC relations you have with Telros, I am afraid that since he singed up first, I will have to refuse you entry TFU. I am sorry, but, I cannot allow something from the past to even risk tainting this RP.

Telros singed up first, so he stays.

ooc: Course not. You know I never put him on ignore. or Ever claimed to ignore him so its a one way thing. All because of a little convo on msn.. I'll leave this thread now. Good luck best of intentions.

Some info for when the hit comes:

History: The sig more or less covers it. For those who don't want to read it, the Golugani are essentially dwarves in space, and their motive to go to the stars was an oath to let the crashed first contact aliens have their fate be known to their people. It took a millenium, but the job got done.

Technology: Golugani weaponry can be divided into two categories: Energy weapons and AI-guided missiles. The missiles detonate upon destruction rather than impact, and due to their size they can and do ram lighter enemy vessels, coming out the other end intact depending upon the durability of their target. The energy weapons, fundamentally ion beam weapons when unmodified, can be altered by a ship's runes.

The khazukan, the species of the Boundless Empire, have a weaker version of a 40K Ork's psychic gestalt. It can still be tapped into when focused around key points, and the khazukan forge runes to do this. Some runes can be specialized, but in the modern day most runes either function to provide the ships shields, propulsion, modulation of excess energy, or capacitors to inhibit an overload due to a technical error in rune-machine interface or a psionic attack.

Culture: ...Dwarves in space, really all that needs to be said.

Military: Aside from stationary orbital facilities, the Golugani military can be divided into two groups: the capital ships and the Drengi fleets. The Drengi are obsolete vessels built before standardization and are crewed by those that have either offended the Imperial Line or have dishonored their clan. They are tasked to die in a manner that would absolve their dishonor, which also allows the obsolete ships to be decommissioned without the late craftsman taking offense.

Added more information on page one. For those that want to know more about the Shivans method of FTL, please consult the Freespace wiki.

The space which I role play is the Arcadium Nebula, the area over which the M.R.A exerts it's political and economic pull over through co-operative and covert means. The Arcadium Nebula is a menagerie of assorted alien races who have gone mostly unnoticed by rigorous human expansion of the previous millenia; due to the nebula's composition making it a hazard for FTL and sub-FTL travel.

The two systems you can pick from to assault first in your virulent assault can either be the Tru Antier system, a world hugging the exterior of the Arcadium Nebula or the Karang Kata asteroid complex located a "significant" way out of the Arcadium Nebula.

Tru Antier:

A system of two inner worlds, two gas giants and a small outer rocky ice world. Like most Arcadium systems Tru Antier is cloaked in a smoke screen of stellar dust, it's main world's developed areas consists mostly of sprawling slums and industrial zones and numerous luxerious skyscrapers rising above them; it's moon it littered with small space ports and the system itself is busy with commerce focused vessels coming from withen and out of the Arcadium Nebula.

Karang Kata:

Located a significant distance from everywhere it is a stationary asteroid nearing planatoid status; it is riddled with tunnels from previous mining expeditions but has been expanded by generations of mercaneries, pirates and smugglers using it as their hideaway. The M.R.A placed it under it's unofficial sphere of influence, classified it as an economic free zone and chased the pirates out of the area whilst classifying smugglers and mercaneris as legitimate buissnessmen; it has become a bustling center of economy.

Everyone may now post, I have set the RP off and got the Shivans where I needed them to be on the Subspace chart.

Utopian Soviet Union, just so you know, the Shivans are only engaging your civilian traffic right now, they are emerging from a subspace node between your two populated worlds. they are not going after anything military, and a new Shivan warship is coming out of hyperspace once every minute. This will continue for an hour or so in game time.

OOC: Tag. I'll be joining once the all hands on deck goes up for ESUS.

OOC: Tag. I'll be joining once the all hands on deck goes up for ESUS.

Not wanting ESUS to get involved collectively, not for some time if at all. I'm hoping the younger races will be able to take the lead, so I'm distilling ESUS involvement. Please pass it all before me first.

I have Telros and Mentalinauts involved, I'm keeping it at that level for now, thanks.

Tagged.
Too late to get involved?

Between the contact fleets of the Boundless Empire and the civilian ship envoys of Veneficus Regnum, it's not only not too late to get involved, but the easiest time to do so.

Everyone may now post, I have set the RP off and got the Shivans where I needed them to be on the Subspace chart.

Utopian Soviet Union, just so you know, the Shivans are only engaging your civilian traffic right now, they are emerging from a subspace node between your two populated worlds. they are not going after anything military, and a new Shivan warship is coming out of hyperspace once every minute. This will continue for an hour or so in game time.

*nods*

Understood, and for clarification Karang Kata is an asteroid literally sitting in the depths of space, not in a system, just the interstellar void; although it's noticable due to the assortment of FTL drives sparking off around it continually. I'll post info on the other systems of the Arcadium Nebula as the exterior ones are gradually dealt with; unless you ask for something specific.

The M.R.A and the other races will become aware mostly via the abrupt cutting off of communications, and most importantly the late delivery of goods :eek: Oh the horror in their effective market systems!

Hey, is it too late to get in on this? I wouldn't mind fighting off an attack on one of my Outer Rim Planets, such as Antoben (this would be best as it is savage terrain and has seen war before, and is only partially inhabited)

I will get my post up ASAP, just trying to asertain, have I been attacked yet?

Also, Ruthless, VR's post had his ship in MY system, so he would be in my space.

OK my bad, editing.

Well, I suppose I should post some info here:

The Veneficus Regnum claims control of seven stars, although they only inhabit the center star, Phoebus, seen here (http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c98/kentrien/PhoebusStarMap_edited-1.jpg?t=1236720687). The other six systems are uninhabited, but Regnum ships frequently travel through them for a variety of purposes.

The Regnum military is horribly outmatched, currently their own combat vessels are around 100 fighters. However, as I stated in my last post, plans are under way to double their number of fighters as well as modify 9 ships for combat (which would be around the size of a corvette/frigate, haven't decided yet), but that will take time.

Well, I suppose I should post some info here:

The Veneficus Regnum claims control of seven stars, although they only inhabit the center star, Phoebus, seen here (http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c98/kentrien/PhoebusStarMap_edited-1.jpg?t=1236720687). The other six systems are uninhabited, but Regnum ships frequently travel through them for a variety of purposes.

The Regnum military is horribly outmatched, currently their own combat vessels are around 100 fighters. However, as I stated in my last post, plans are under way to double their number of fighters as well as modify 9 ships for combat (which would be around the size of a corvette/frigate, haven't decided yet), but that will take time.

If you get attacked by the Shivans before I do, my forces would be willing to engage in some sort of lend-lease agreement or exchange if you need some lighter dedicated military ships, if for nothing else than as a foundation for the moment.

Of course, if I get attacked first, lending out ships may not be as welcomed an idea by my people unless it was like corvettes or light frigates...

OK my bad, editing.

You are more than welcome to take part RL. But, I am going to ask you to make sure all of your posts in this thread are at least one page of Microsoft Word long if you want to take part.

I feel, that it is a good stretch for your capabilities, and I know you can do it. Also, any questions OOCly, as long as you know that really on OOC matters, my word for this RP is final. :wink:

Can I please ask all people to post ALL of their systems in an easy post for me to read. We have over ten players taking part, so I would love a very simple list, or each player just giving their nations name and list of systems. For example.

Unified Sith -

Coruscant - Capital
Corellia - Large System
Telos - Colony
Kaminos - Military System

I'm sure you all realise that for me to go delving in to everyones fact books, is a significant time drain, I would love some help from you guys in this matter.

- Sith.

P.S GREAT POSTS SO FAR!

Amazonian Beasts, can you go on MSN please?

Alright, here ya go.

Veneficus Regnum (http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c98/kentrien/PhoebusStarMap_edited-1.jpg?t=1236720687)

Phoebus (Phoebus II) - Homeworld and capital
Primoris - Closest planet, slotted to be an industrial and research system
Solaras - Slotted for future colonization
Illumino - Large binary system, no current plans
Geonovas - Planed to be a trade system
Neferon - No current plans
Auruma - No current plans

Telrosian Union:
16 Systems, nine NPC protectorate nations.

Those taking part:
Five Systems-
- Celton System
- Jusei System
- Genghi System
- Chi Ceti System
- Normani System

All nine protectorates:
- The Ss'hess Hegemony
- The Dakarc Empire
- The Republic of Katharn
- The Shi'ori-Nalar Alliance
- The Kalah Imperium
- The Chosen of Valas
- The United Colonies
- The Yjrak Remnant
- The Salari

Boundless Empire:

Central System:
Golugan System, Single Star, 22 planets, all inhabited either naturally or through terraforming. Any military force not in the following locations is securing this system.

Inner Systems:
12 Uninhabited Star Systems where automated terraforming projects are underway for future colonization, each such system is secured by the above force of three each Gandongliz, Dalgorak, and Gilithrong capital vessels, each of which is escorted by a Drengi battlegroup of lighter support craft. The star systems are named numerically: Ong, Tuk, Dwe, Fut, Sak, Siz, Set, Odro, Nuk, Don, Donunong, and Duz. This twelve stars from a natural gravity well array around the Central System, allowing for forewarning against intrusion by enemies that are inhibited by such gravitational forces.

Outer Systems: Those outside and adjacent the Inner Systems. Due to a conflict in another thread, there is a slight overlap between this area and Amazonian's probed territory. As stated in my IC post, our forces are withdrawn from this area while the Shivans are active and thus they won't have an impact on the current conflict. Well, other than a black hole that is believed to have formerly been the central star to an NPC race associated with the Boundless Empire I didn't plan to introduce until later, but the khazukani hate Them, and still have a fair number of hostages in suspension.

Vene, mind sending one of those civilian ships into the Inner Systems?

If you get attacked by the Shivans before I do, my forces would be willing to engage in some sort of lend-lease agreement or exchange if you need some lighter dedicated military ships, if for nothing else than as a foundation for the moment.

Of course, if I get attacked first, lending out ships may not be as welcomed an idea by my people unless it was like corvettes or light frigates...

I don't know how well the Regnus would be to lease out one of their claimed worlds, even through three are currently bereft of any plans to colonize or place assets in.

As for assistance, I believe the Regnum will want to keep it's nine corvettes currently under retrofitting on defense of it's seven worlds (specifically six on the outer worlds, three defending Phoebus). However, the Regnum will soon have a rather decent fleet of pretty strong fighters, if they could only find a space vessel capable of transporting them to other worlds.

If it is not too late and one more nation is not too much of a burden, I would also like to get involved. I could use a little something extra while I wait for other story lines to pick back up.

The Kingdom of Mythrandir:
Mythrandir System - Mythrandir: homeworld to 4 of the 5 races that comprise the Kingdom

Aero System - Thralk: homeworld to the griffon race (the other one-fifth) which is largely jungle environment but also used for manufacturing certain rare materials that go into construction of structures and space born craft.

Draco System - Inferno: I acquired this world through an RP with the Rangers that involved several nations like Abh, ND, OG, NB, Ganoxa, and probably others that I apologize for not remembering. If this world or system was destroyed, you would be doing me a favor since I have it but nothing to use it for storywise.

Loki System- Mirn: A world turned into a stronghold by the dwarves. Very mountainous terrain with spots of thick forests.

As far as technology in Mythrandir goes, it is very low compared to practically every other writer on these forums. I do not often describe the exact specifics of my technology since I believe it can at times interfere with the overall story. If such description is needed, I will provide it at times though.

If anything else is needed, I will happily answer any questions. I just added your address to my MSN as well.

First, like I mentioned all systems were colonized simultaneously, and thus there is no "soft underbelly" in Polish Worlds. Second, this is Soft Sci-fi retro-futurism. So expect World War Two planes In Space, jetpacks and atomic rayguns as the only energy weapons(forget my mention on lasers, this is pew pew atomic raygun stuff, not lasers), besides Amazing Stories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Stories) grade pulp Sci-fi stuff and some things taken from Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.

The only inhabitable planet of each system also names the system

Warsaw: Capital. Trantor-styled Earth-like planet with no seas and very little and usually small mountains and hills due to its age and higher erosive activity than Earth's. It is packed with 1940s-1960s Art Deco buildings and skyscrapers instead of the usual shiny Coruscant future stuff.

Krakow: Young inhabitable planet with high seismic activity and a single, Pangaea type continent, featured by the abundance of mountains and cliffs due to its age not favoring erosion. Also, due to a nearly nonexistent axial tilt, Krakow lacks seasons.

Danzig: Highly Industrialized planet(like every other) that resembles Earth during the Cretaceous: warm, with large shifts of sea level and many more jungles than today, as consequence. Besides, of course, alien dinosaurs.

Brest-Litovsk: Temperate planet at the edge of the habitability zone of its system, where the weather past the tropics is inhospitable to humans and require specialized settlements. Its autumns are featured by muddy seasons.

Lodz: Lodz is an extremely young planet where life has just emerged, in a similar stage of development to Earth in the Paleoproterozoic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoproterozoic) Era. Seeing its potential after many studies, Polish Worlds has settled it with the goal of accelerating the couple of billions of years a planet at such stage would need to become close to Earth. Its atmosphere has enough oxygen, but is unbreathable due to excess of Nitrogen and Methane, and thus oxygen must be filtered inside domed Art Déco megalopolises, and generated from Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide through bacteria and plants taken from Earth. It was the first terraforming project of the Autocratic Federation

Wilno: Wilno was the second terraforming project of Polish Worlds: another young planet with potential to develop complex lifeforms as it is similar to how Earth was believed to be hundreds of millions of years ago, a "snowball Earth", and also comparable to the Moon Europa in Sol, as it is currently under a major glaciation like one Earth was predicted to have gone through from eight hundred to six hundred millions of years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenian). Its mineral wealth is incredible, and one of the primary motivations for people to brave its harsh climate, where only extremophile alien lifeforms are able to live above the oceans covered in a thick permafrost. Many of its cities were built beneath the seas due to the more hospitable conditions such environment offered in comparison to its surface.

I don't know how well the Regnus would be to lease out one of their claimed worlds, even through three are currently bereft of any plans to colonize or place assets in.

As for assistance, I believe the Regnum will want to keep it's nine corvettes currently under retrofitting on defense of it's seven worlds (specifically six on the outer worlds, three defending Phoebus). However, the Regnum will soon have a rather decent fleet of pretty strong fighters, if they could only find a space vessel capable of transporting them to other worlds.

My bad US, I was online but I was runnin around the dorms...college crap and all. Ah well, Spring Break in 3 days...

Er...about the systems...do you want me to list like a few of the really important systems, or the systems lying outside the big stormy nebulous sack that makes up a big portion of my nation? There's a lot of systems in my nation...granted, certainly not all are settled, but nonetheless...

Here's some more important systems:

Amazonia System: The capital, the heart and soul if not necessarily all that important due to the spread out system of droid systems and bioengineered constructs dealing with a good amount of the Dominion's infrastructure, keeping populations down. Amazonia itself as an ecumenopolis, a city-world, covered by a complete and thick urban landscape though not overcrowded by the thick dense stench of overpopulation. Much of the world is automated. Droid-operated and AI-managed mining stations further out harness the power of the gas giants for conversion of their atmospheric elements into raw materials at orbital AI-maintained factories. Amazonia is layered by a triple-layered planetary physical and ray shield, bolstered by a vast defensive grid of AI constructs ruling over turrets, automated stations, and weapons platforms, as well as the Home Fleet patrolling the Dominion Core.

Polus System: The military hub of the Dominion and a mere two systems from Amazonia. Polus itself is a snowy, glacial world, but its land is covered by barracks, training centers, ops stations, intelligence hubs, and garages for vehicles. Massive orbital stations house ships and fighters as well as giant space factories in the system that convert raw materials into the finished products of new weapons of war for the Dominion.

Pugnor: The rocky desert hub of Dominion-controlled space outside of the volatile Shroud nebula, Pugnor is an ancient world that has seen more than its share of fighting. After the Dominion took power in the Amazonian regions, Pugnor was converted into the regional governing apex for the entire sector of space designated under Dominion reign outside of the home gas cloud. Defended by strong static defenses and a fleet of ships on patrol through the area, as well as countless droid and biotic war vessels, Pugnor is a world rivalling Amazonia on sheer power and control.

Oovo: The rocky tomb world near Pugnor, Oovo is a world with little importance for those outside the Force Order of Amazonia. The Amazonian Sith cherish the world as a resting place for the greats of the Dark Side, while even the light-side dwellers existing still in Amazonia recognize the planet for its vibrant conditions of life, even though a desert world and from space, somewhat dead. It is not the most well-defended world, but the modest interaction and population keeps Oovo cloaked in somewhat of a mystery for the commoner.

Qualas: Another important world outside the lethal yet protective confines of the Shroud, Qualas is a major exporter of the less-potent but more plentiful medical healing solution of kolto. Qualas is also a great tourism hub, with minimal defenses being well inside the outermost systems of the Outer sector. It gets a good amount of civilian traffic, however, throughout all seasons due to its low rotation and close proximity to its star. Qualas is one of the Dominion's "Paradise Worlds," and the only one outside the Shroud. The planet is completely covered by a planet-wide ocean that sees little stormy activity - in fact, the planet is generally cast in tropical sunlight and balmy conditions, making it an ideal tourist destination for those outside the Shroud.

Lemort System: The Lemort System is named for something long in the past, as the dark system and its curious natural interdiction fields have stymied Amazonian and otherwise FTL travel past the world for millenia. It is the "gatekeeper" of the Shroud and the systems within it, and hence fortified with a defensive grid to mark its status. The one habitable world out of three of the Lemort System is Styx, a broken rocky planetisimal stressed under curious intense gravity pits and racked with electricity and the stench of the Dark Side. Pockets of atmosphere exist in low-lying canyons and valleys, allowing for breathable air. Styx is not unbeatable by any means, and ships or a fleet could pass through the system if they so chose - though the Dominion likes to market the system and its effects as certain doom if lacking authorization, due to the system's defenses.

Those are the most important I can think of off the top of my head...I can list some more of you like, or whatever info you need.


VR: I don't mean leasing out a ship; it's like a player to be named later - me lease you a ship now, in exchange for you paying me back after the war finishes. Or, if you want I can provide a crewed fighter carrier of my own if you want to get your fighters around in one or two ships...depending on how many you have, hundreds, thousands, etc.

Warsaw: Capital. Trantor-styled Earth-like planet with no seas and very little and usually small mountains and hills due to its age and higher erosive activity than Earth's. It is packed with 1940s-1960s Art Deco buildings and skyscrapers instead of the usual shiny Coruscant future stuff.


I'm just gonna nit pick because I actually like the series, there weren't any real skyscrapers on Trantor. The entire planet was just one city constructed under a variety of domes that meshed together. But nit picking over, good luck. XD

Hmm... I'm thinking that the initial Contact Fleets of the Golugani would probably make for Phoebus and Lemort, as well as one of Telros' systems that is yet to be determined. Tell me, Telros, are any of your systems more likely to attract a contact group than others?

Dominion Space

Epsilon System- 14 planets
Epsilon Prime- Capital
Antares- Home to the Fleet Yards of the same name
Tarsera- Primary trade hub and principle planet that foreign merchants and travelers come to; commonly called 'The Dominion's Gateway'
Altair- Headquarters of the Dominion Defense Forces (Army/land-based military)
Radiance- Home of the New Forge Naval Base (HQ for the Navy)
9 population centers



Gamma System- 8 planets
Kuat- Home to the Drive Yards of the same name (R&D as opposed to construction at Antares)
Darkold I-IV- industrial planets where raw materials have been found and are being mined; light terraforming operations underway by region as resources are being stripped
3 population centers:
Tropica- home to a naval base
Yanzar- Dominion Defense Force barracks
Felstead

Considering the sudden spike of communication and sales of items commonly seen when people are preparing for a crisis, as well as a downturn in purchases, and the shift in economy to military stuffs, yeah, I could see plenty of reasons for you to come and see whats going on.

Hmm... I'm thinking that the initial Contact Fleets of the Golugani would probably make for Phoebus and Lemort, as well as one of Telros' systems that is yet to be determined. Tell me, Telros, are any of your systems more likely to attract a contact group than others?

Phoebus would definitely have a wide variety of energy signatures for your ships to find, then again there are also civilian contract ships patrolling the pentagram aorund Phoebus as well (the lines indicate a Space Line/Jump Route for their FTL) so either works. Jumping to Pheobus though reveals just how piss poor their defenses are. x3

Aayah-Largest STC holding, heavily fortified, large industrial and residential centers
Ophyn-Scattered Mining System
Void Space- Vast blackness, only population is around an artificial star in large space stations

Tech Base: Hyper-advanced Temporal, Gravametric and Kinetic weaponry
Fleet size: 36 warships

Questions?

Phoebus would definitely have a wide variety of energy signatures for your ships to find, then again there are also civilian contract ships patrolling the pentagram aorund Phoebus as well (the lines indicate a Space Line/Jump Route for their FTL) so either works. Jumping to Pheobus though reveals just how piss poor their defenses are. x3In that case... Boo.

Now, my folks have bad history with Amazonian, so I'll have to plan that particular approach more carefully.

http://blog.miragestudio7.com/wp-content/uploads2/2007/07/nazi_star_wars_stormtrooper.jpg

My spacefighters are as epic like the following

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Lim6bis_MLP.jpg

http://fc61.deviantart.com/fs8/i/2005/272/5/c/1940s_Space_Fighter_by_Malaveldt.jpg

http://malaveldt.deviantart.com/art/Space-Stuka-78878364

Battleships are close to this

http://fc59.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/087/d/7/The___Espana___by_Malaveldt.jpg

Give or take the Volition Bravos

I just really want to take the "World War Two in Space!" trope literally rather than through Space Opera shinies and lazerz...

And literally including Blitzkrieg, of course.

PS: Damn realism, I'm going to have applied phlebotinum in Handwavium propellers for a Supermarine Spitfire in Space too.

In that case... Boo.

Now, my folks have bad history with Amazonian, so I'll have to plan that particular approach more carefully.

Whatever happened to that thread anyway, lol? I was wondering where Sertian went...

Of course, if it's the Lemort System/Styx you want to make contact with, you may want to be a bit more careful there than the three outer systems because the guys around Styx are a little...trigger happy? Crazy? When it's your job to blow up stuff that threatens entry to the Dominion's inner sanctum of space, that's what you devolve into...

Most people in my nation are reasonable enough not to go nuts with the graviton warheads ;)

oh yeah and my MSN handle is metallinauts@hotmail.com feel free to add me

Whatever happened to that thread anyway, lol? I was wondering where Sertian went...

Of course, if it's the Lemort System/Styx you want to make contact with, you may want to be a bit more careful there than the three outer systems because the guys around Styx are a little...trigger happy? Crazy? When it's your job to blow up stuff that threatens entry to the Dominion's inner sanctum of space, that's what you devolve into...

Most people in my nation are reasonable enough not to go nuts with the graviton warheads ;)

<___< >___> *Whispers* He's right here. o.o

Seriously though, I'll post in a few days. D:

<___< >___> *Whispers* He's right here. o.o

Seriously though, I'll post in a few days. D:

:eek: My bad lol. I'm actually in a big thread with Tarsonis along with this one so feel free to take your time on it.


http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/selusa2/awkward.jpg

Whatever happened to that thread anyway, lol? I was wondering where Sertian went...

Of course, if it's the Lemort System/Styx you want to make contact with, you may want to be a bit more careful there than the three outer systems because the guys around Styx are a little...trigger happy? Crazy? When it's your job to blow up stuff that threatens entry to the Dominion's inner sanctum of space, that's what you devolve into...

Most people in my nation are reasonable enough not to go nuts with the graviton warheads ;)"Hey, some jerks that are bigger than either of us are looking for trouble. Let us sit here, and if they show up, you'll be able to get reinforcements from us. Let us sit on other planets of yours, and you'll be informed if one of your planets is being hit so you can send reinforcements along with ours. All we want in exchange are salvage rights on the bad guys."

Well this took me buggers to do, well I suppose it had to be done some time.

Notes: These are the known habited worlds of the Arcadium Nebula, it has a highly mixed multi species population excluding Adytum and Traai' Haai' Heei' zet. All worlds are densly cloaked by the interstellar cloud of dust and are subject to the dangers of the dozens of surrounding stars in the nebula from white dwarfs to red giants. An associate world is a planet now governed by the M.R.A; and an "umbrella" world is a planet which exchanges monetary finance for military protection from the M.R.A; the Phale A'Theins aren't interested in colonising worlds, just profiting from them. And as i'm sure most of you will know for the more obvious ones the majority of worlds are named after havens of some sort; well theres a history to that ;)


Outer:

Karang Kata: Deep space asteroid complex; merchant, smuggler and mercanery haven. "Umbrella" facility of the M.R.A.
Tru Antier: System on the verge of the Arcadium, densly populated; temperate. "Umbrella" world of the M.R.A
Xandu: A beautiful verdent world, temperate and tropical, it has a light population. An associate world of the M.R.A.
Eutopia: Critically populated, heavily industralised, mostly temperate but suffering from inclimate weather due to radical climate change. An associate world of the M.R.A.

Middle:

Vorstellung: Economically strong world ruled by a conglomerate of corporations and powerful merchants; an "umbrella" world of the M.R.A.
Ahhieatzitz Zaiietz: In system partially constructed space station seven KM wide and sixteen KM long, a military hub and trade center of the M.R.A.
Gulch: Once a highly forested world with a temperate climate it is now a heavily deforested world suffering from global warming. An official "umbrella" world of the M.R.A.
Foutainhead: A cold snowy world it is heavily populated by all manner of tradesman and entrepeneurs; an associate world of the M.R.A.
Traai' Haai' Heei' zet: Homeworld of the Phale A'Theins and the M.R.A, 86% of it's surface ranges from shallow to deep ocean. A tropical climate it's land surface is virtually unexplored and mostly covered by rain forest; the Phale A'Theins dwell under water and as such no indication of their presence is apparent upon examination.

Inner:

Rapture: An ecumenopolis and subsequent associate world of the M.R.A.
Xystus: Beautiful world of varying climate; a popular holiday resort world for species of the Arcadium; also home to unidentified alien ruins. An "umbrella" world of the M.R.A.
Adytum: Exclusivly populated by the "Fiani", is a world of varying climate; an "umbrella" world of the M.R.A.

Finnaly having done this. After I don't know how many days.

Empire of Tanith
Lupus System

Tanith- Capital of the Empire of Tanith, Mostly Military planet with only enough civillians to support Central Command
Khaz- Home of the Tanith Centeral Armed Forces High Command, Always has a Fleet in permenant orbit
Palla- Mostly an urban planet, large civillian populace
Huttser- Another Civillian plannet, but is considered the economic centre of the Empire. Large cities dot the planet with large grassland and ocean in-between them.
Morgara- Home of the TCAF Capital and light Military shipyards. Producing everything from the Mercury Class Battlestar to the Cobra class escort.
TCAF Larka- System Defence Station, The size of a very large city. A large defence platform, with limited mobility, ship production capabilites and Emergency FTL.

Multiple Orbital Defence stations and satalites in orbit around the planets


Magellan system
Dercius- System Capital, Fortress world, multiple military bases on surface, with defence stations in orbit.
Unity- Metropolis, a planet of skyscrapers, factorys and other large buildings.
Harven- Home of the 4th Fleet, Magellan Defence Centre
Varden- Military Centre of the Empire, large production and training facilites.
TCAF Fell-System Defence Station, The size of a very large city. A large defence platform, with limited mobility, ship production capabilites and Emergency FTL.

Multiple Orbital Defence stations and satalites in orbit around the planets

Fountainhead? Rapture? Oh, bloody hell, this'll be interesting.

I have updated the SUBSPACE MAP thread with everyones planets which will be struck.

Enjoy, remember it's OOC!

The Shivans have FTL inhibiters? Does it inhibit incoming as well, or just outgoing?

Fountainhead? Rapture? Oh, bloody hell, this'll be interesting.

My tag may read A Utopian Soviet Union but I find market forces far more interesting than communism :D Objectism, would be perfect if every citizen on the planet wasn't an ignorant idiot. Utopia is but a dream.

And nice map Sith, are those the only worlds to be attacked throughout the entire RP?

And FTL Inhibitors, will stop FTL travel withen it's range, but you can go in system via normal means.

When the Shivans are in system, for some reason, which can only be attributed to "subspace interference" leaving with any other FTL other than subspace, is impossible when the Shivans are within a star system.

Arriving is messier. Ships will fall out of whatever speed they're moving at, and the sudden change in velocity will destroy whatevers inside, or the ship itself. Dimensional FTL, simply won't be able to travel in or out.

You need to drop out and fight in system with the Shivans, so battles could be long, protracted, last weeks even days, and they have a terrible subspace advantage with micro jumps in system.

It's unfair, but hey, they're Shivans.

That is all you will be able to salvage from the Shivans subspace network data from Shivan fighter wreckage, if you pick it up and rp doing it you can use it ICly. The network is much larger, but this is what you get for now.

- Sith.

Grr... This is what we get for basing our FTL on human technology. At least we use dimensional, though.

For those who have no idea what the Shivans may look like, here is a trailer from You Tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qRJDv5UcRc

My tag may read A Utopian Soviet Union but I find market forces far more interesting than communism :D Objectism, would be perfect if every citizen on the planet wasn't an ignorant idiot. Utopia is but a dream.

Bioshock is like the best argument against Randian philosophies ever. :D

"Plasmids are rediculously dangerous. And-"

"No! We will not regulate them! The free market will save us!"

"What? Sir, you're crazy. People will-"

"CAPITALIST SMASH!"

:p

And FTL Inhibitors, will stop FTL travel withen it's range, but you can go in system via normal means.

So a sort of "you can arrive, but once you're here, no running away or FTLing to gain a tactical advantage?"

Makes sense.

Also, tag for curious interest.

Grr... This is what we get for basing our FTL on human technology. At least we use dimensional, though.

On the contrary the Phale A'Theins brand of FTL travel is a completely different mechanism to the majority of FTL drives out there. Phale A'Theins use Immersive drives which allows them to gradually "plough" through trans-diemensional barriers picking up speed as they slowly submerge into another diemension. Eventually they are just mirage like blurs streaking throughout the interstellar void.

So for me I can in fact plough through the Shivans FTL field at speeds slower than normal by cranking up my Immersive field. Slip-space Shaw-Fukijaw drives are still the norm in the Arcadium though. And entering a FTLi system is guarenteed to give a bumpy ride.

And yes Bioshock is brilliant Facehugeria :D The problem with Utopian ideals is that it only works in the ideal conditions the author had in mind. And in Rands case it was everyones industrious and intelligent; which they're not. Same for communism, most are selfish and greedy lol.

I like how Warsaw seems to be positioned as a subspace chokepoint of extreme strategic importance...

If only there were Space Nazis on the other end of such subspace nodes, to sandwich Polish Worlds between Shivans and Nazis...

Also, I ask to face at least 40 Shivan fighters for each Polish one

For my somewhat unclear last IC post - my leader is calling for a conclave of everybody (yes, everybody) at an ancient space station at the border of Dominion space, after reports come in to Amazonia about the Shivans.

You can obviously ignore, of course, but my guys are offering the absolute possibility of one united front for a clear strategic plan.

The Autocratic Federation doesn't even know that Amazonia exists.

Hopefully Polish Worlds won't have to face a two-front war again.

Eh, I could argue that the Linear Transmission Drive would break through the Shivan field, but given the delicate nature of turning a living person as well as hundreds of pounds of explosive fuel into Potential Energy and then send it hurtling through space and time along Space Lines - I'd say even the small wrench of a Shivan FTLi field would make that a very, dangerous venture.

Conversely, I'm making it that the Rift Drives would still work, but they'd have no control over the exit Rift. They still make excellent poor mans Rift Missiles. x3

The Autocratic Federation doesn't even know that Amazonia exists.

Hopefully Polish Worlds won't have to face a two-front war again.

You will now, seeing that I sent thousands of probes in every possible direction.

You say you want to bring in as many nations as possible, my only question is; How much will I have missed if I sign up now?

In any case my MSN is [alecyounge@MSN.com]

some info on Toopoxia:

Home System worlds: New Volitaia
Aitus System worlds: Nbimbe, Kushwe
Gallian System worlds: St Gallia's Post

if you need more tell/TG/MSN me.

Eh, I could argue that the Linear Transmission Drive would break through the Shivan field, but given the delicate nature of turning a living person as well as hundreds of pounds of explosive fuel into Potential Energy and then send it hurtling through space and time along Space Lines - I'd say even the small wrench of a Shivan FTLi field would make that a very, dangerous venture.

Conversely, I'm making it that the Rift Drives would still work, but they'd have no control over the exit Rift. They still make excellent poor mans Rift Missiles. x3

*coughs* The concept is, that these bad guys are more powerful than whatever you have. I'm afraid your FTL will not function in their zone of effect. If I were you, I would try and aim for their sub-systems and knock out their FTLi systems on their ships. It can be done.

You say you want to bring in as many nations as possible, my only question is; How much will I have missed if I sign up now?

In any case my MSN is [alecyounge@MSN.com]

some info on Toopoxia:

Homeworld: New Volitaia
Colonial Worlds: Nbimbe, Kushwe, St Gallia's Post

if you need more tell/TG/MSN me.


You are very welcome to enter, as long as you have a decent, as in better than basic writing quality. Also you must be prepared to accept loss, and pretty much what I say on the OOC thread is law.

But you are more than welcome to join in :-)

*coughs* The concept is, that these bad guys are more powerful than whatever you have. I'm afraid your FTL will not function in their zone of effect. If I were you, I would try and aim for their sub-systems and knock out their FTLi systems on their ships. It can be done.

I am agreeing with you; both FTL systems wouldn't work (the first one won't activated as a safety measure, because they'll likely go boom). I was just planning for the second one to, instead of taking the ship a few million miles away, to create a Rift that either sends them to a hell dimension or get torn apart by space-time distortion. I don't mind the Rift drives being rendered totally inoperable either (means that a lot of civie ships won't get lost in the multiverse when the Shivans attack), I just won't be able to martyr a corvette that rams a Shivan ship in the hope of sending both of them to some hell dimension. XD

For my somewhat unclear last IC post - my leader is calling for a conclave of everybody (yes, everybody) at an ancient space station at the border of Dominion space, after reports come in to Amazonia about the Shivans.

You can obviously ignore, of course, but my guys are offering the absolute possibility of one united front for a clear strategic plan.

I'll most likely have a response ready for you some time tomorrow. I've spent most of my time working on my end of a story for other threads so I want to have something fresh for this.

I'll most likely have a response ready for you some time tomorrow. I've spent most of my time working on my end of a story for other threads so I want to have something fresh for this.

That's cool, I'm gonna spend the next like...hours...crunked out from the best basketball game I've like...ever seen...

yea i'm kinda not focused right now so take your time

The benefit of basing a FT Background in a certain Harry Turtledove's book is that you can have a Battle of Britain ace commanding your Space Navy, and Lee-Enfields with bayonets instead of lightsabers as honor guard standard equipment without someone posting an OOC comment like "LOL".

Think something like a civilization that leaped from WW2 Tech to Near Future Tech in two decades

Too late for a "newbie" to get on this? I'm the brain prodigy of the far older Rea Dan nation.

Rannoz is an ork freeboota infested Space Hulk with a Kaptain of the same name. I'm sure there will be at least a few vultures in the Shivan's wake of destruction, surely these scavengers can get mixed up in this mess somehow.

EDIT: I am currently attempting to setup an msn messenger account but at some point screwed it up. A private message would be the best way to communicate with me out of thread for now.

The benefit of basing a FT Background in a certain Harry Turtledove's book is that you can have a Battle of Britain ace commanding your Space Navy, and Lee-Enfields with bayonets instead of lightsabers as honor guard standard equipment without someone posting an OOC comment like "LOL".

Think something like a civilization that leaped from WW2 Tech to Near Future Tech in two decades


In this we have something in common. My race went from a technological "capability" of 1960's America to the inter stellar space age in under one hundred and fifty years.

Given however that my people are an aquatic race and have merely one military conflict of significant scale in their histroy their technology is different to Terrans. The more commercial areas of my races technology is Victorian Steampunk ;) aethestically pleasing and simplistically able.

So you know Amazonia I can't respond ICly to your mass-probe-message service untill after Sith has progressed further with the razing of Tru Antier, continuity and all that I suppose ;)

It shall be done post haste.

Sith by any chance the planet of Talla ment to be Palla? as I was looking through the thread and I can't find mention of a Talla, whilst I can find my planet of Palla.

Just out of curiosity (since I appear to be ignored) am I in or not?

Just out of curiosity (since I appear to be ignored) am I in or not?Well, it's open, so I don't see why not.

Bear in mind, however, these are Shivans. They are a foe that have far more established FT nations quaking in their boots, horseshoes, tentacle covers, what have you. There are no promises of a happy ending, and planets are very likely to be lost.

*reads Rannoz's plan*

I'm dwarves in space, and I have plans for that salvage.

Bah, they're only a couple more years older than my inconsistent lurking here. And I was somewhat under the impression that I needed some sorta approval from US before making a move.

An' dat dere shiny bitz and gubbinz is mine, stuntie!

Bah, they're only a couple more years older than my inconsistent lurking here. And I was somewhat under the impression that I needed some sorta approval from US before making a move.

An' dat dere shiny bitz and gubbinz is mine, stuntie!

You may enter the RP no problem, however to make sure this thread goes well without any form of conflict, we have some ground rules.

Loss is the RP, you must be ready to roleplay it.
The Shvians are stronger, and what I say goes on the OOC thread, though discussion and challenge is certainly welcome on issues. I'm not always right, but there must be a certain point so it does not degenerate.

You must be prepared to work together with other races, with decent quality writing, IE- No two paragraph posts.

I think that's what I've posted on page one of the OOC thread, but yes, you are more than welcome.

Hop on board.

Well, i've set a standard for myself now. My last post was EPIC! You would not believe how long it took me to write lol, then again sometimes I think i'm rather slow.

Count me in, i've been wanting to participate in this since i heard about it ages ago.

Count me in, i've been wanting to participate in this since i heard about it ages ago.

No problem, please post an OOC list of your star systems in the format the rest of the players have provided. I'm sure you have read page one, and understand the nature of this RP, but I'm just copying and pasting this out for latecomers.

You may enter the RP no problem, however to make sure this thread goes well without any form of conflict, we have some ground rules.

Loss is the RP, you must be ready to roleplay it.
The Shvians are stronger, and what I say goes on the OOC thread, though discussion and challenge is certainly welcome on issues. I'm not always right, but there must be a certain point so it does not degenerate.

You must be prepared to work together with other races, with decent quality writing, IE- No two paragraph posts.

I think that's what I've posted on page one of the OOC thread, but yes, you are more than welcome.

Hop on board.

Well, my people are nomadic, so i guess just let me know, and i can get caught at a waypoint while the shivan are going from one area to another, seeing as my nation are nomadic mercs/miners

So I suppose the dark red dot at the far-right edge of the map is Capella? XD

So I suppose the dark red dot at the far-right edge of the map is Capella? XD

Who knows ;)

So Sith, i'm taking it that in your recent post that's the intro for your actual nation yes?

So Sith, i'm taking it that in your recent post that's the intro for your actual nation yes?

Possibly, or it may be another NPC faction. I've not decided what I'm doing yet, but I may just go GTVA. We will see, but it is a part of the thread.

You guys need to have your meeting about now. The Shivans are not moving on for a little bit.

It's up to our benevolant host Amazonia now.

Eh, screw it. I'll just have Arsule and his apprentice show up despite the fact that they don't have their FTL routes mapped out to that area and they were supposed to be taken their by dwarves (I blame you Golugan! :P). Post incoming.

I've been waiting for Amazonian so I could get two responses in one post!

I've been waiting for Amazonian so I could get two responses in one post!

Just like a dwarf, you economical bastards! :P

Oi! We track our family trees for more generations back than the existence of your entire species, and there ain't a bastard among us!

I don't think Amazonian Beasts would mind if you all posted your arrival and entry into the conference chamber.

I advise to keep the RP moving you all do just that, and mingle amongst each other while you wait for you reclusive host.

Grrr, that will teach me for not posting, looks like I will have to miss the conference

Very well, i'll just assume i've been whisked along to the conference chamber and engage in tit a tat whith anyone else.

Sorry for lateness y'all, Spring Break shenanigans. I'll get on the jank here...

so whats going on exactly?

so whats going on exactly?

We're meeting to discuss the invasion?

Hey. I've decided it's time I jumped in (mainly because I'm bored to tears T_T)!

I'm writing up a post, but I would like to ask if it's ok for me to slip into the conference, Amazonia. Oh yes, I've just got your MSN, Amazonia.

I would just like to say to Utopian Soviet Union, that your last post was excellent, I enjoyed it a lot. Very realistic. Thanks for the good read.

GAMMA ONE: Command we’re being eaten alive out here

That reminds me of this (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Just_Another_Day_3:_Shivans_on_a_Plane)

*Edit: and I can't really make a FT NS that isn't Xenophobic and keen on EXTERMINATUS**

**And twice as vicious when involving furries

Hey. I've decided it's time I jumped in (mainly because I'm bored to tears T_T)!

I'm writing up a post, but I would like to ask if it's ok for me to slip into the conference, Amazonia. Oh yes, I've just got your MSN, Amazonia.

It's US's thread technically so everything falls to him, but if he's down I'm down.

Hey. I've decided it's time I jumped in (mainly because I'm bored to tears T_T)!

I'm writing up a post, but I would like to ask if it's ok for me to slip into the conference, Amazonia. Oh yes, I've just got your MSN, Amazonia.

Right after this whole Shivan incident, your leaders getting a Truth Spell up his arse. =D

I would just like to say to Utopian Soviet Union, that your last post was excellent, I enjoyed it a lot. Very realistic. Thanks for the good read.

*Bows*

I thank you, I two must say the same of all the others and yourself, has been a dam good read going through all the responses which cropped up so quickly.

Also Unified Sith, In my next post i'm intending for an xpedition fleet to arrive at Tru Antier to investiate; i'd like to know i theres still a FTLi up in there so I can judge where I will exit with regard to the system.

Also i'm going to add your MSN contact and try and have convo with you if the oppertunity arises. Theres a few things you should know about one of my relevant worlds... Unless of course you have a NS nation I can telegram to?

Oh bloody hell. I'm just now catching this?

Would be interesting to see how a harder sci-fi nation with relativistic interplanetary artillery platforms as capital ships (along with tactics that it seems most of NS FT would consider unorthodox) would do against the Shivans.

But I'm very interested. The Second Shivan War is what got me into NS FT RP in the first place. I have, of course, learned a good deal since then.

If you'll have me, my worlds in the Milky Way galaxy are located on the outer edge of the Cygnus Arm, with a FTL anchor connecting my handful of habitable systems in the Milky Way (Coruc-tel, Corr-farr, Sojent-ra, Anta-re) with the handful of habitable systems (total of 32 sparsely populated worlds) in the Fornax dwarf galaxy (known to them as the Cetra galaxy).

They're human (mostly), technology hungry, and paranoid.

I have very few (if any) friendly contacts ICly, so I'd probably end up entering this as a third party. Fighting the Shivans on my own terms, but not exactly aiding the "allies" either.

Right after this whole Shivan incident, your leaders getting a Truth Spell up his arse. =D
*squeak*

What for? I did not steal that last cheesecake from the dining table!

Also Unified Sith, In my next post i'm intending for an xpedition fleet to arrive at Tru Antier to investiate; i'd like to know i theres still a FTLi up in there so I can judge where I will exit with regard to the system.

Also i'm going to add your MSN contact and try and have convo with you if the oppertunity arises. Theres a few things you should know about one of my relevant worlds... Unless of course you have a NS nation I can telegram to?

I am on MSN now. Please log on and we can chat.

Hope my post's satisfactory, Sithy. I originally wanted to leave the delegation wanting, but I just can't resist a little exposition. :tongue:

Besides, I did fight them and I would not be Coredia if I didn't impart a little of my knowledge on the bastards. Even so, I know little else so I'm pretty much in the same boat as everyone else as far as the Shivans are concerned.

Oh, and remember the time you had Bosch be an expy of that guy just so he can fight the Jedi? Now that I've re-read that old thread of ours, it's kinda cheesy now. :tongue:

Impressive bunch. I may need to crack open the Reliquary of the Zonankori if we go with the Regnum idea.

Playing Freespace 2 user made missions is a conveniently less time-consuming entertainment for me considering the greater fun/hour it provides. RL comes first and the Fun/time and Fun/effort ratios of NS are far below those of playing a good computer game or RL Sports I enjoy.

In brief, I'm gradually leaving NS. Starting with secondary puppets like this, because otherwise it'll interfere with personal goals I've set in reality, and not provide sufficient entertainment for the time I have available..

Great...

What about you other guys? GET POSTING!

Great...

What about you other guys? GET POSTING!

I had a post! It got lost. ;-;

So did mine... three times l0l

Still unsure if I'm welcome...

...if I am, I'm looking for a meaningful way to come in contact with the Shivans. Unless of course they want to pop out at me and say "boo".

Sorry for the delay, been busy at school. I should have a post up soon.

Sorry too, I have been utterly overwhelmed by work this week, however I will be posting tonight or tomorrow morning.

It will be worth the wait.

Feaz, you can come in any way you wish, but I would suggest, you let me make your entry for you.

Grab me on MSN, suppose would be a good way to go about it.

US, due to the recent revelation that Polish Worlds, whom I had formed an IC battle agreement with, has left, would you please do me the favour of razing his capital to the ground to provide a reason as to why he dissapeared. Would be handy:D

provide a reason as to why he dissapeared.

They never came there. They exist in another universe. Anything else, if done without consulting me first, will be considered as much of godmodding and Fail as claiming to invade and annex a NS that doesn't RP.

Regardless, I hope this RP keeps up without me.

=|:D

They never came there. They exist in another universe. Anything else, if done without consulting me first, will be considered as much of godmodding and Fail as claiming to invade and annex a NS that doesn't RP.

Regardless, I hope this RP keeps up without me.

=|:D

:L

I'm simply going to have my people assume that you never joined our battle group.

Cowards :P