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jlauzon Well, you're not wrong. from Loft of the Ponyville Concert Hall and Theatre Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
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#1: Jul 29th 2011 at 7:53:16 AM

Welcome to the future. Enjoy your stay.
Note: This may seem complex, but a lot of this is just adding details that may be overly thought-out, but I LIKE DETAIL, DAMMIT.
Note 2: If this idea garners interest, I will make the thread officially.
The Lone Wanderer, The first ship of its class, has mostly completed construction. The crew was picked from the finest in the Imperial Fleet. Captain Jane Krospy, her Commanding Officer, took the ship on its Shakedown cruise. However, in the process of activating their prototype Phase Shifting Hyperdrive, the ship was suddenly pushed out of time. What took 165 years outside, was mere seconds inside. The crew will find many perilous dangers in a galaxy that had lost the Empire long ago. Earth is a wasteland, and relics of a great civilization remain, but not the civilization.
They will encounter new enemies, and perhaps acquire new allies.
Survival is the goal. Slim are the chances of reaching that goal.
The galaxy quickly became infested with pirates, mercenaries, slavers, genocides, and all manner of horrors the Empire could have stopped.
Now There is nothing left of the empire, except one battleship. But, compared to technology available now, the Lone Wanderer has no advantages if attacked. Weapons are now more powerful, but all Energy based. However, most of these ships do not use thick armor, and have simple Energy Shielding that stops only energy beams. Stealth technology is also widely used.
The Ship, Lone Wanderer

  • An experimental prototype created by the Imperial Fleet Sciences division, The Lone Wanderer is a rather large ship. She was designed to operate for great lengths of time in Dark Space between galaxies Equipped with:
    • 4 individual forward MAC cannons capable of pulverizing a colony. Runs through length of ship. 3 non functional right now.
    • 100 Point-defense turrets. 50 are offline.
    • 8 Mounted Quad-Barrel Plasma Guns for ship-ship combat. only the 2 forward ones are functional for the moment.
    • 2 Quantum Torpedo Launchers. Supply of 100 Torpedoes.
    • Molecular Barrier projectors: projects a shield capable of incinerating anything on contact around the ship. 40% functional.
    • Regenerative Armor: Uses energy-matter replicators to reproduce armor plating at a constant rate. Can be overwhelmed if replicator systems sustain large amounts of damage.
    • Matter replication: One of the pioneering technologies created exclusively for The Ship. Takes electricity, makes it Matter. Can also recycle stuff back into matter.
    • Sensor Suite: Not an Everything Sensor, per se, but can do basic geological scans and EM-spectrum stuff. Also, for you Star Trek fans out there, no, there is no Deflector Dish that can be used as a last-minute Deus ex Machina. Same goes for Tachyons and Transporters... There are none of those. Period. See Rules below.
    • Class X15 Slipstream Drive: Enables FTL travel. Max Speed: x15 c (speed of light). (Engines are rated at their max speed in multiples of lightspeed.)
    • Nuclear-Ion engines: Collides Radioactive particles in a reactor, producing thrust. Said thrust is then ionized and accelerated.) Slower-Than-Light Travel. Max speed: 1/4 Speed of Light
    • Phase Shift Drive: Enables near-instant transportation within 500 light-years. Offline until further inspection of problem.
  • Crew
    • Complement: 550, plus hundreds of repair drones
    • Ancillary Craft (None have weapons unless otherwise noted):
      • Captain's Yacht, used for diplomatic gatherings, etc. rendered mostly superfluous without the Empire
      • 4 (2-Man, cargo or passenger variant) Transport/Cargo Shuttles: can carry 50 people or 30 tons of cargo. x3 Slipstream. Medium Plasma Cannons, Shields.
      • 7 Personal (2-man) Shuttles: 2 people, limited cargo space, x5 Slipstream.
      • 4 Crew (6-Man) Shuttles: 6 people, expanded cargo space, x8 Slipstream. Light plasma cannons.
      • 10 Defense Fighters (1-Man): Carries medium rapid-fire Plasma cannons and homing rockets. No cargo space, x2 Slipstream
      • 5 Defense Bombers (2-Man): Carries heavy plasma cannons and Anti-Proton Bombs
Characters:
Captain Jane Krospy: Human woman. CO. Filled, its Me.
Commander (Unknown): Executive Officer. accepting characters. Preferably an alien.
VALAIA: Female Ship AI, filled, also me
(OPEN)Ex-Admiral Daniel Krospy: Was about to retire, but took one last cruise to see the stars. He's Now trapped with the rest of the ship. Is working in Stellar Cartography on mapping the positions of known planets, stars, and landmarks to find out just where the hell they are.
(OPEN)Lieutenant Dala'Tuu Udekiss: Rodian Communications officer and linguistics expert.
(OPEN)Lieutenants 01/10: Two Binar computer engineers. Paired neurologically, acted as one character. They often complete each other's sentences. Thinks in binary terms. Have little personality, but are brilliant programmers.
(OPEN)Lieutenant Amal Jabel: Tactical/Security officer. Human male of indian descent. Enjoys dancing and calibrating shield emitters.
(OPEN)Helmsman (Character Bio open for writing.)
(OPEN)Science officer (Character Bio open for writing.)
(OPEN)Chief Engineer (Character Bio open for writing. Preferred to be Scottish, to make it awesome.)
(FILLED)Chief Medical Officer (Vapoid)
(OPEN)Nurses
(VERY OPEN)Other (Make your own!)

Rules!!

  • Do not antagonize other players or tell them how they should roleplay.
  • No Godmodding. Seriously.
    • On the other hand, we may have actual gods come in at some point likely via NP Cs. However, if anyone is willing to have a very short role as a Greek god, PM me.
  • No Rape. Onscreen. Ever.
    • Sex is okay as long as it's of the "fade to black, then wake up standing like nothing really actually happened" variety.
  • Species choice can be any species from any fiction work, ever. Just not any characters. I will say this: Make your own gorram characters. or take over one that's open.
    • having Them based on another character is OK, but here we're hopefully trying to create an air of creativity and individuality. I'm not implying that the other forums don't have that, I'm just adding more.
  • Start a flame war, and your character suffers a really bad twist of fate. It could kill them permanently.
  • Start trolling, and your character DIES. Permanently. Oh, and I'll send the mafia to your house to make a massive mess, start a fire, then blame it all on you. I will find you.
  • With that ugliness out of the way, Have Fun! Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny are accepted laws of physics, and Reality Is Unrealistic!
  • playing Multiple characters is allowed, even encouraged, as long as you can handle it.
Last Note reminder: this is mostly an idea. If people express interest, I will make ze thread.

edited 31st Jul '11 9:31:00 PM by jlauzon

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slowzombie Platypus! from Way up North Since: Jan, 2001
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#2: Jul 29th 2011 at 8:47:57 AM

Oooh, I'm interested. Don't really know what character I want to play, but I'm sure I'll get to that. Probably some kind of alien... yeah, aliens are cool evil grin

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win543 Since: Dec, 1969
#3: Jul 29th 2011 at 10:36:46 AM

I'm interested but I never played an Forum RP before is that OK?

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#4: Jul 29th 2011 at 10:46:58 AM

I'm interested.

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jlauzon Well, you're not wrong. from Loft of the Ponyville Concert Hall and Theatre Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
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#5: Jul 29th 2011 at 4:06:52 PM

[up][up][up]Excellent. [up][up]Yeah, just read the forum rules and forum games rules. [up]Very good.

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slowzombie Platypus! from Way up North Since: Jan, 2001
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#6: Jul 29th 2011 at 4:25:03 PM

Oh, question: Will aliens have to be humanoid, or can one go crazy, like "sentient colors" crazy, or something like that? I don't have any plans, I just want to know if there's any limits.

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jlauzon Well, you're not wrong. from Loft of the Ponyville Concert Hall and Theatre Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
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#7: Jul 29th 2011 at 4:52:24 PM

I hadn't really thought about that...
Well, there were like thousands of different species with vastly different evolutionary trees in the Empire, so... Go for it! Sky's the limit (within the other rules, of course)

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Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
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#8: Jul 29th 2011 at 5:03:55 PM

Can we use an original race for our characters?

My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.
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#9: Jul 29th 2011 at 6:11:38 PM

Medusans? Awesome! Just make sure they have their box...

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Kuiper [insert title here] from over to the right. Since: May, 2009
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#10: Jul 29th 2011 at 7:04:24 PM

... REALLY tempted.

Question: Are androids available to play as? As an extrapolation, would an android with a vaguely childlike personality/mind be okay? Tentatively, it would not be a combat robot, but an exploration robot, to go down and see if planets are safe for the field scientists to go on. It would have maybe a built-in gun of some kind, but only for self-defense purposes. It'd also probably have some kind of wireless link to the ship, so that if the planet is hostile and dismantles/destroys the robot, it could upload itself back into the next bot in line.

... Barring that, I'm going to have to try my creative juices again.

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jlauzon Well, you're not wrong. from Loft of the Ponyville Concert Hall and Theatre Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
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#11: Jul 29th 2011 at 8:06:13 PM

Yes. the technology has advanced far enough. Also, custom races are allowed. I thought I mentioned that above.

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#12: Jul 30th 2011 at 8:59:21 AM

Question: Its a battleship, is there a marine detachment?

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Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
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#13: Jul 30th 2011 at 1:02:17 PM

Thinking I might sign up with a charrie from an original race.

My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.
slowzombie Platypus! from Way up North Since: Jan, 2001
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#14: Jul 30th 2011 at 4:16:12 PM

Alright, here's my character. If you feel there's lacking information or need of clarification, please let me know.

Name: Vapoid
Age: N/A
Race: Vapoid
Appearance: A thick fog, faintly green, more often than not contained in a pill-shaped container about the size of a man’s torso. Along the base of the container, there’s several data ports and various instruments for communicating, including speakers. When not in the container, the fog spreads out thinner if it doesn’t make an effort to stay gathered. The gas is potentially lethal to those with human or human-like physiology, but it makes a point out of not being ingested.
Backstory: The Vapoid is a massive sentient cloud covering the otherwise unremarkable planet known as Tyson 4. After learning of the Empire, it set out to learn of it, sending emissaries in increasingly advanced containment units, technological advancement skyrocketing, the Vapoid’s shared mind growing in knowledge and curiosity. Sending a representative to the testing of the Phase Shifting Hyperdrive seemed only natural.
Personality: Claims it doesn’t have one, being merely a part separated from the great Vapoid whole, and that any experience otherwise is merely a side-effect of prolonged separation from the rest of it. Can be somewhat obtuse when it comes to social matters, especially when it comes to interactions between individuals.
Position on board: Chief Medical Officer.
Other: Never uses first person personal pronouns, but uses second and third person normally. On account of long separation from Vapoid Prime, it only posses knowledge only those fields it uses frequently, chiefly medicine and science. Doesn’t have a name per se, and doesn’t seem to feel the need for one.

edited 30th Jul '11 4:17:25 PM by slowzombie

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jlauzon Well, you're not wrong. from Loft of the Ponyville Concert Hall and Theatre Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
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#15: Jul 31st 2011 at 9:24:22 PM

Oops, sorry I haven't replied in a while.
[up][up][up]There is a marine detachment.
[up]Approved. I like the idea. It's like a gaseous version of a Borg that's disconnected from the Collective.
...
Sorry, I'm a big Trekkie.

edited 31st Jul '11 9:36:59 PM by jlauzon

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#16: Jul 31st 2011 at 9:35:00 PM

Okay, I'll get to work on my bio.

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jlauzon Well, you're not wrong. from Loft of the Ponyville Concert Hall and Theatre Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
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#17: Jul 31st 2011 at 9:35:56 PM

Discussion thread created. Waiting to make the actual RP thread.

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win543 Since: Dec, 1969
#18: Aug 1st 2011 at 10:54:38 AM

Hey here my character. Hope it ok
Name Professor James Edwin Johnson
Age 32
Race Human \\ Gender Male
Position Scientific Adviser
Appearance 6 foot tall. Not muscular but not fat. Has a cybernetic right hand ,which he lost in a childhood accident(involing a firework,a cow,some hydrodioxide and a maths book), that can be customised as needed. Has brown hair and blue eyes.
Backstory One of the great Scientists of the era. It was his research into the Space-Subspace-Hyperspace Dynamics System that made the Phase Shifting Hyperdrive possible.The maiden voyage of the Lone Wanderer was meant to be a final test to confrim his theories (so he went abroad the ship personally to supervise it). However it has instead led him to a guilty conscience and a very serious self-doubt about his abilities.
Personality A brillent mind. Johnson always takes time to work things out(when he has it).Metaphors tend to fly over his head and may result in a Deconstruction of it. Has been known to use a Deadpan Snarker in response to plans he sees as stupid (However due to his self-doubt it may be rarer at the start).But in the end he believes strongly in right and wrong cannot turn a blind eye to a person in need.He is also highly loyal to his friends even if he gets him into trouble. His confidence has been shattered and has lost most of his self-belief.Stress can catch up on him and is prone to panic in extreme circumstances.
Ok thats it. Hope it wasn't too bad

edited 1st Aug '11 10:56:33 AM by win543

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#19: Aug 1st 2011 at 1:44:58 PM

Name: Artificial Diametric Exploration Maintainer mk. III (Insists he should be called Adem.)
Age: N/A (He acts around 10-ish, and is probably more like a month or so old, until the time jump anyway.)
Gender: N/A (His AI is closer to male than female, hence the "he.")
Race: Robot (If that can be considered a race.)
Appearance: "Despite being a robot, the appearance of the mk. III is much more human than even the mk. II device. It has a specially-crafted material covering it's mechanics which looks and acts like skin, yet can withstand up to 100 times more damage and heat than human skin. This particular model has a lithe, youthful appearance, allowing it to reach through small areas in order to make exploration easier. Hair color, skin color, and eye color are completely customizable by the buyer!" - from KISMET Laboratories' product description. Colors of hair and eye are both a deep blue, and skin is a pale peach.
Backstory: "The Artifical Diametric Exploration Maintainer was first developed by Dr. Kyle Goodeman in October of 2XXX. His first designs were rather rudimentery, though they opened a new door in android technology. KISMET Laboratories hired Goodeman five years later, in December, to work on their androids. It was five years before the project of the mk. II was even considered, but the initial designs were finished and sold in just two years.
Goodeman died on January 23, 2XXX, nearly seven years after the mk. II's release. In response, the founder of KISMET Laboratories, Micheal Wilke, took Goodeman's designs for mk. III and passed them on to Professor Julie Kalders, who was teaching Engineering in Germany. She undertook the job enthuisastically, and the mk. II was completed just in time for the Lone Wanderer's maiden voyage." - From Kismet Laboratories' product history.
Personality: "The advanced AI of the Artificial Diametric Exploratio Maintainer allows it to adapt and develope exceedingly quickly to the situation, including social situations. The resulting AI has been said to be exceedingly human, if not beyond the capabilities of a human. The Empathy Matrix allows it to act and react with real emotions, though still in it's testing phase, it can result in odd reactions and obsessive behavoir." - From KISMET Laboratories' product description. (Adem has a childlike curiosity, a strange obsession with the feeling of running water, and loves the sound of a piano.)
Position on board: Exploration Bot/Scout
Other: When a terrain is dangerous enough that it destroys Adem's current body, his AI is instantly teleported back to the ship, where another body is waiting. There are roughly one hundred reserve bodies already made. The Matter Replication system has the template for the body, and could easily make more bodies if he runs out. If it occurs that another body cannot be made, his AI will remain in an on-ship computer until such a time that another can be made.

edited 1st Aug '11 1:45:41 PM by Kuiper

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#20: Aug 1st 2011 at 9:57:25 PM

  • Name: Wilhelmina Martin
  • Rank: Captain (acting Major)
  • Age: 197 (31 before time skip)
  • Race: Human
  • Gender: Female
  • Post: Commander, Lone Wanderer Royal Marine detachment
  • Appearance: Around 5'6" but seems even shorter due to a near constant slump, wears her hair graying brown hair short, some burn scarring visible in uniform, lean build. Don't accidentally call her a boy. Almost always wearing battledress in a disheveled manner not fitting a battleship officer when anyone from the ship sees her.
  • Personality: Usually appears disinterested in whatever is going on around her or is honestly bored. Voices that opinion frequently. Enjoys playing subtle (or not so much) jokes on the naval officers. Despite that she is held in awe by her marines, who understand that despite her playfully eccentric nature the Major is dangerously good at her job.
  • Backstory: As far as Wilhelmina is concerned her life began when she enlisted in the Marines at age seventeen. Before that her life was apparently a 'train wreck' that lead her to see military life as a viable alternative. Originally selected as a communications specialist Wilhelmina originally served in a series of infantry battalions and an artillery regiment before being selected to attend the commando course. [REDACTED] deer liver [REDACTED] a thousand million surf ninjas [REDACTED] during the day. To avoid a diplomatic incident, Wilhelmina was sent to OCS before being routed through a series of smaller vessels as detachment commander. The most prominent was the Lydia where she participated in several notable landings under Captain Reauchambeau. Immediately before being assigned to the Lone Wanderer she was on temporary duty with the shipyard's guard battalion.

edited 1st Aug '11 9:58:54 PM by hotelkilo

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jlauzon Well, you're not wrong. from Loft of the Ponyville Concert Hall and Theatre Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
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#21: Aug 2nd 2011 at 4:30:46 PM

[up][up]Very interesting. I am curious as to if his AI is like transmitted from the ship's computer? It is unlikely he could have time to transmit a copy of his AI back in time before he died... Unless he works like a windows restore point? Like it's transmitted back periodically, and if he dies, it reverts to the last save? Whatever. Let's chalk it up to Rule of Funny/Cool.
[up]Just so you know, the characters didn't biologically age. they were trapped in a bubble, frozen, while the universe changed around them. Otherwise, its good.

I like all the submissions and comments so far, guys! Keep 'em coming! I'll make the RP thread in a few minutes.

edited 2nd Aug '11 4:31:06 PM by jlauzon

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#22: Aug 2nd 2011 at 5:14:16 PM

I know, that's just the sort of thing the Major'd go around saying though.

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Kuiper [insert title here] from over to the right. Since: May, 2009
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#23: Aug 2nd 2011 at 6:48:19 PM

^^ Well, you had said that technology had progressed to the point to handle advanced AI and robotics. I just figured that he had a constant, wireless connection to the ship, for ease of communication, which he could then download his systems onto in a split second, through a black box or something. I chalk it up to Rule of Cool. ^_^

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draconiansuperior The Draconic Superior from Home, doing stuff Since: May, 2011
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#24: Aug 7th 2011 at 7:17:57 AM

I wanna join this, so badly, please don't tell me that it's too late I'm such a trekkie

  • Name: Viper
  • Rank: Other- Head of Security
  • Age: 213
  • Race: Reptilian (subspecies)
  • Gender: Female
  • Appearance: she looks like this
  • Personality: An intelligent tactician and a wonderful fighter, she is not without his many flaws, being selfish, unsympathetic, backstabbing and very manipulative, she never the less puts her duties as head of security on top priority
  • Backstory: From a species of alien that were descended from Earthen dinosaurs, Reptilians are natural hunters, having been blessed with a lifeforce they call Essence, which gives them a spidey-sense like ability. Her species is naturally gifted with many combat-worthy abilities, including a soundwave screech, which is Viper's favorite to use.
  • Other: Reptilian, despite being dinosaur, name themselves after earth reptiles, snake, lizard, and the like.

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