Centaurus Tolima

[Gelion]

Have you read the NES Help threads Nedim?

 

[Lord of Elves]

Story later once I think of something.

 

[Shadowbound]

Space Leader Kim Jong-Wu announces that every inhabitant of Space Korea must blink between ten and fourteen times a minute. Doing so is the most efficient use of your eyelid muscles, and maximizes your ability to contribute to the great struggle against the western imperialists. All praise the wisdom of the Space Leader!

Anyone found in breach of this standardized practice will be executed by rabid mooses on national television.

Enjoy your day!

 

[Gelion]

Spoiler Space :

The best thing about digital records is that they do not take up much physical space. The bad part is that the emotional contact with the written text is lost. Thus, theoretically, what is written with a keyboard, on board of a spaceship, can be lengthy, but dry. Practically, if we discount the much needed technical data, the personal texts have to be very short – there isn’t time to write anything concrete on a traveling spaceship. Being caught between work and grim thoughts about the fate of your home planet does not help to connect with your texts either.

If a future historian would gain access to the few journals that were written on board the RTS-Explorer he would find very little subjective information, but a relatively complete record of the flight. One of the more notable record keepers of that time was Radko Brulow, a medical officer on board the ship. Monitoring cryogenic capsules and the health of occasionally awake crew members was a tough task for anyone. Radko performed it brilliantly and over the whole course of the voyage there were no serious injuries, fatalities or loss of health. His personal diary of includes laconic, but detailed records of the major events.

Shortly after leaving Earth a call was received from RTS-Vostok. In a video conference it was decided that two ships have as much chance to successfully colonize a planet as one and therefore the ships must split in order to better the chances of the human race. This second separation was the hardest of all. Leaving Earth behind in an unknown state gave some chance of revival and contact being established. Seeing another human ship depart into the darkness that surrounds you, with no friendly blue sphere to give you a sense of direction, brought a feeling of intense melancholy, the kind you never get on Earth. After a short briefing the passengers and most of the crew went to sleep. The skeleton crew has designated the chosen coordinates and the ship started to gain speed.

Radko was part of the “maintenance” crew that had to be woken up regularly in order to check on the ship’s and people’s condition. It was during these sessions that the humans talked to each other after the long shifts. Soon, after the first few planets were considered to be too risky to be settled on, most of the immediate crew slowly began to consider their journey a scientific expedition, the kind that many of them had been on before they became refugees. Exploring a planet after planet, updating navigational charts, analyzing myriads of data soon became a normal and exciting routine. Work. Purpose. Most of the worries came from multiple unsuccessful contacts with Earth and from a simple realization that any mistake could prove to be fatal in their situation. Many of the men had read and were inspired by the stories of the first human explorers in space written when space exploration was much more desired, but much less possible than one and a half centuries later. It was slowly agreed that despite circumstances the flight of RTS-Explorer was, in fact, a tribute and a conclusion to all the work that was done by enthusiasts that lived and toiled at it centuries before. Soon, a matching name was born out of the many conversations. They were not Survivors. They were Pioneers.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Abaddon - Do we have anything in particular to go on as to the climate/topographical features of Centaurus Tolima?

 

[Karalysia]

Sorry don't have time for this.

 

[TheLizardKing]

I'm sorry, I really don't either. I'm already in two other NES's, and am running my own, which is a burden to update weekly, thus I don't have time to give my nation the love it deserves. I hate to drop out, as I was really looking forward to this. Ah well.. maybe in the future?

 

[Omega124]

"The Emigration from Earth... was Hell. The space was cramped, food was horrible, the constant fear of one thing going wrong would kill you, the homesickness. No one enjoyed it, but we're finally here.

However, even then, our spirit was never crushed. We still looked forward, onwards, to the new dawn on Tomilia. Hopefully we won't screw this planet up like we did with Earth. Our scientists say the sea is too toxic for boats, but there is a massive channel of seemingly natural tunnels connecting all the various land masses. What if these weren't natural? What if this was a another doomed planet? It still is better than Earth, so I guess we'll have to deal with the sea.

But I made an executive decision to land on an island, not the mainland. We would stay out of conflicts, and help humanity out in both science and ethics, just like back on Earth. It worked there, the Confederacy was the longest continually running nation on Earth... We found a sizable island in the southwest. It is a size up from the Alps, and strategically unimportant in warfare. Only a fascist warmonger would even want to attack us, and WWII proved that they wouldn't even if we're right next to them.

We're about to make planetfall. The pods are primed, but the citizens want me to land first, because I gave them the opportunity to escape. The final choice I will make on our ship is if the Swiss Confederation will still exist, or if we'll rename our nation like Korea and France did. I'm not. By the grace of our Cantons, we existed since 1291, and I'm not going to let it die now. We're going to have to work on redrawing the Canton borders, but hopefully we can find an agreement."

-Beat, on his last transmission from the Auszug

 

[Abaddon]

This is alive, just v busy IRL...

 

[Immaculate]

I'm sorry, I really don't either. I'm already in two other NES's, and am running my own, which is a burden to update weekly, thus I don't have time to give my nation the love it deserves. I hate to drop out, as I was really looking forward to this. Ah well.. maybe in the future?

Can i take over for TLK?

Spoiler :

and if so, i would like to land here (pink):

 

[Omega124]

PNGs! Dear god, PNGs!

 

[Immaculate]

PNG= persona non-grata?

 

[Abaddon]

.png file type, not .jpeg type. it retains the quality, doesn't blur it

 

[Abaddon]

Ok, I am very confused with who is in, who isn't in, who's is who's country etc.

Can everyone please confirm they are happy with this starting map.

When you do so, please tell me what is your nation, name, colour and location etc.. so i can be sure who is who!

 

[Gelion]

Reporting in.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Lord of Elves representing the Fifth French Republic in yellow.

 

[Haseri]

Reporting in. See the second post on page 3 for what I requested.

 

[merciary]

Tricon Corporation, the North-west green.

 

[Omega124]

I am the Swiss Confederacy, the Red Nation in the SW

 

[Immaculate]

Pink: North American Union