OOC:
I've run this game here before, but at Rheinmetall's request, I've decided to start a new game...
For those unfamilar with the system, spacefarers is a forum role-playing system, which originated, in an early simplistic form, nearly three years ago on the Total War boards run by Heaven Games. Since then, I spread the game to a number of other forums and it was at least moderately successful on most. As I said, I have also run more than one game of Spacefarers on this board (under the name "Interplanetary Warfare")...
It's actually quite a simple system...
Instructions...
Basic steps for joining the game...
1: You start off by creating a spacecraft, which could derive from a published work, or could be completely original. It can be pretty much anything that takes your fancy...
2: Post up a link with some basic stats (or write the stats yourself) such as size, weapons compliment, etc...
3: Provide a picture. I have included this as a separate step because it is absolutely essential that you provide a picture. It could be anything from a masterful piece of CGI to a hastily drawn doodle, as long as gives one an idea of what the ship in question looks like...
4: You're done! Just bring your ship into the game!
There are seven basic rules...
1: You are not allowed to destroy another player's vessel. Only a vessel's owner can destroy it (or allow it to be destroyed). You are, however, free to effect another's players vessel within reason for your ship's weaponry and abilities...
Note: This rule is flexible and subject to change, depending on how the story progresses... Making this rule completely inflexible would be counterproductive for the purposes of fleet engagements (particularly large ones), for example...
2: Initially, you may not use too powerful a ship. You can use any kind of ship you like, but it must not be something overwhelmingly powerful, like a massive dreadnought the size of a city, a huge Death Star-esque mobile station or a ship with an insta-kill super weapon. If you're not sure, trying looking for a ship that could be defined as a 'heavy cruiser' (a medium to medium-heavy general purpose ship).
Note: I will have the final say on whether a ship is reasonable or not. Don't bother asking me though, as you can assume I find the ship acceptable unless I actually say otherwise... Also, this easily the least concrete of the rules. For one thing, I'm sure most of you will be able to apply your common sense here...
3: The game is to be played in novel format only. Script format RPers need not apply...
4: Do not play another person's ship or characters for them... The reason I have bolded and underlined this rule is that someone always seems to ignore it no matter how clear I make it that I do not want to see this happening... Any post that contains this may be considered instantly voided!!!
5: You are allowed to use a canon ship from a published work (though I would advise against it).
6: Please don't get overly silly and/or start spamming. It really pains me to see this happen to my forum games...
7: Above all, have fun with it...
Note: Just as a reminder, 'OOC' and 'IC' mean either "out of context" and 'in context", or "out of character" and "in character", respectively... You can bold them and place them on separate lines as I have to make them stand out more if you wish...
With that out of the way, let's begin...
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OOC:
This is my ship, the Akira class Federation starship U.S.S. Adelaide, registry number N.C.C. 81111. Obviously, it derives from the Star Trek universe...
Here are several pictures of the Akira class...
http://www.strekschematics.utvinternet.com/shipgallery/shipgallery1/akira.jpg
http://www.shiporama.org/images/akira/akira51.jpg
http://members.lycos.nl/sovereign001frontier/hpbimg/akira.jpg
Some excellent (albiet long winded) statistics for the ship can be found here...
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/akira.html
VERY IMPORTANT: Ignore all references to the Akira class' 'flight bay' in the above link. The Adelaide does not have a flight bay (it has only a regular shuttle bay) and it does not carry fighters!
Finally, here is the warp table (to give you an idea of what the warp factors mean in terms of real speed) can be found here...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Warptable.gif
IC:
The Adelaide flew fly silently through space. From a humanoid perspective, she was big ship, but she was but the tiniest speck of matter against the vast void she had been sent to explore, with every one of thousands of points of light yet another distant star, if not another galaxy, far, far away... further than the craft could reach in a lifetime, or indeed many lifetimes. That didn't serve to quench the infinite curiosity of the humanoids serving aboard the ship however. Indeed, the distances involved only spurred them on to reach ever further out into the cosmos, to trial new engines that would carry them faster and further, to face and overcome every new challenge they were presented with. They were driven, that was one thing you could say about most all humanoids of the galaxy, not just Terrans...
At the apex of the huge, yet at the same time diminutive vessel, several officers had just reported for bridge duty. Amongst them was captain Henry Baker, a humble man in his early forties, from the Earth continent of Australia. Having just completed his morning log entry, which didn't take long as there was nothing of particular interest to note, he was now taking his morning coffee.
"Thank you," he nodded to the crewman who had brought to him. "Dismissed, crewman."
"Aye sir," the young man replied, before turning on his heel to leave.
The captain took a sip from his cup, then placed it down on the arm rest of his chair before looking up at the view screen. A beautiful golden yellow cloud filled most of the right half of the screen. Henry smiled, his emerald green eyes lighting up slightly. Amazing sights like this were a large part of why he had joined Starfleet. He was an explorer at heart... always curious and never unwilling to strive into the unknown...
"Coming up on class 3 nebula, captain," a voice said from somewhere to Henry's right. "That's, quite the breath taking sight, isn't it?"
"Indeed it is," Henry replied, still smiling.
It was the ship's science officer, Kevin Wilcox, who had spoken, a cheerful yet professional man from the southern part of one of Earth's northern islands, known as Britain. The two gold insignia on the color of the blue trimmed tunic indicated his rank of lieutenant.
As he ran a scan of the nebula, as was standard procedure, pushing some of his hard to manage brown locks out of his equally brown eyes at the same time, the sensor panel beeped as the array made contact with something else.
"That's not all that's out there," he said. "I'm picking up a vessel nearby, unable to identify as yet. Our long range sensors must be being scrambled by the nebula, that's why I didn't read them sooner..."
"I see," said Henry. "Put the ship on screen."
OOC:
Note, the vessel that the Adelaide has come into contact with will be the ship of whomever decides to join first...
So, any takers?
EDIT: I forgot to mention, Perfection is banned from this version of the game. After his shenanigans last time, and his already leaning towards stupidity this time, I cannot allow him to join this game!!! Any of his posts may be considered automatically void for gameplay purposes...
I've run this game here before, but at Rheinmetall's request, I've decided to start a new game...
For those unfamilar with the system, spacefarers is a forum role-playing system, which originated, in an early simplistic form, nearly three years ago on the Total War boards run by Heaven Games. Since then, I spread the game to a number of other forums and it was at least moderately successful on most. As I said, I have also run more than one game of Spacefarers on this board (under the name "Interplanetary Warfare")...
It's actually quite a simple system...
Instructions...
Basic steps for joining the game...
1: You start off by creating a spacecraft, which could derive from a published work, or could be completely original. It can be pretty much anything that takes your fancy...
2: Post up a link with some basic stats (or write the stats yourself) such as size, weapons compliment, etc...
3: Provide a picture. I have included this as a separate step because it is absolutely essential that you provide a picture. It could be anything from a masterful piece of CGI to a hastily drawn doodle, as long as gives one an idea of what the ship in question looks like...
4: You're done! Just bring your ship into the game!
There are seven basic rules...
1: You are not allowed to destroy another player's vessel. Only a vessel's owner can destroy it (or allow it to be destroyed). You are, however, free to effect another's players vessel within reason for your ship's weaponry and abilities...
Note: This rule is flexible and subject to change, depending on how the story progresses... Making this rule completely inflexible would be counterproductive for the purposes of fleet engagements (particularly large ones), for example...
2: Initially, you may not use too powerful a ship. You can use any kind of ship you like, but it must not be something overwhelmingly powerful, like a massive dreadnought the size of a city, a huge Death Star-esque mobile station or a ship with an insta-kill super weapon. If you're not sure, trying looking for a ship that could be defined as a 'heavy cruiser' (a medium to medium-heavy general purpose ship).
Note: I will have the final say on whether a ship is reasonable or not. Don't bother asking me though, as you can assume I find the ship acceptable unless I actually say otherwise... Also, this easily the least concrete of the rules. For one thing, I'm sure most of you will be able to apply your common sense here...
3: The game is to be played in novel format only. Script format RPers need not apply...
4: Do not play another person's ship or characters for them... The reason I have bolded and underlined this rule is that someone always seems to ignore it no matter how clear I make it that I do not want to see this happening... Any post that contains this may be considered instantly voided!!!
5: You are allowed to use a canon ship from a published work (though I would advise against it).
6: Please don't get overly silly and/or start spamming. It really pains me to see this happen to my forum games...
7: Above all, have fun with it...
Note: Just as a reminder, 'OOC' and 'IC' mean either "out of context" and 'in context", or "out of character" and "in character", respectively... You can bold them and place them on separate lines as I have to make them stand out more if you wish...
With that out of the way, let's begin...
_______________________________________________
OOC:
This is my ship, the Akira class Federation starship U.S.S. Adelaide, registry number N.C.C. 81111. Obviously, it derives from the Star Trek universe...
Here are several pictures of the Akira class...
http://www.strekschematics.utvinternet.com/shipgallery/shipgallery1/akira.jpg
http://www.shiporama.org/images/akira/akira51.jpg
http://members.lycos.nl/sovereign001frontier/hpbimg/akira.jpg
Some excellent (albiet long winded) statistics for the ship can be found here...
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/akira.html
VERY IMPORTANT: Ignore all references to the Akira class' 'flight bay' in the above link. The Adelaide does not have a flight bay (it has only a regular shuttle bay) and it does not carry fighters!
Finally, here is the warp table (to give you an idea of what the warp factors mean in terms of real speed) can be found here...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Warptable.gif
IC:
The Adelaide flew fly silently through space. From a humanoid perspective, she was big ship, but she was but the tiniest speck of matter against the vast void she had been sent to explore, with every one of thousands of points of light yet another distant star, if not another galaxy, far, far away... further than the craft could reach in a lifetime, or indeed many lifetimes. That didn't serve to quench the infinite curiosity of the humanoids serving aboard the ship however. Indeed, the distances involved only spurred them on to reach ever further out into the cosmos, to trial new engines that would carry them faster and further, to face and overcome every new challenge they were presented with. They were driven, that was one thing you could say about most all humanoids of the galaxy, not just Terrans...
At the apex of the huge, yet at the same time diminutive vessel, several officers had just reported for bridge duty. Amongst them was captain Henry Baker, a humble man in his early forties, from the Earth continent of Australia. Having just completed his morning log entry, which didn't take long as there was nothing of particular interest to note, he was now taking his morning coffee.
"Thank you," he nodded to the crewman who had brought to him. "Dismissed, crewman."
"Aye sir," the young man replied, before turning on his heel to leave.
The captain took a sip from his cup, then placed it down on the arm rest of his chair before looking up at the view screen. A beautiful golden yellow cloud filled most of the right half of the screen. Henry smiled, his emerald green eyes lighting up slightly. Amazing sights like this were a large part of why he had joined Starfleet. He was an explorer at heart... always curious and never unwilling to strive into the unknown...
"Coming up on class 3 nebula, captain," a voice said from somewhere to Henry's right. "That's, quite the breath taking sight, isn't it?"
"Indeed it is," Henry replied, still smiling.
It was the ship's science officer, Kevin Wilcox, who had spoken, a cheerful yet professional man from the southern part of one of Earth's northern islands, known as Britain. The two gold insignia on the color of the blue trimmed tunic indicated his rank of lieutenant.
As he ran a scan of the nebula, as was standard procedure, pushing some of his hard to manage brown locks out of his equally brown eyes at the same time, the sensor panel beeped as the array made contact with something else.
"That's not all that's out there," he said. "I'm picking up a vessel nearby, unable to identify as yet. Our long range sensors must be being scrambled by the nebula, that's why I didn't read them sooner..."
"I see," said Henry. "Put the ship on screen."
OOC:
Note, the vessel that the Adelaide has come into contact with will be the ship of whomever decides to join first...
So, any takers?
EDIT: I forgot to mention, Perfection is banned from this version of the game. After his shenanigans last time, and his already leaning towards stupidity this time, I cannot allow him to join this game!!! Any of his posts may be considered automatically void for gameplay purposes...
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