SysNES 1: A Murky Pool of Light

OOC: Last question dis. Wouldn't a Weapons Station constructed on an orbital habitat technically have a better chance to hit? And yes I am seriously considering sticking a giant death laser on top of my floating space capital. I mean who wouldn't do that?

From: His Thoroughly Enraged Highness, Apollinaire IV, King of the Pirates, Sovereign Tyrant of the Society of the Liberes, Possessor of Many Lasers and Missiles Which He Can Easily Point At Your Planets
To: Lantians


Your transmission has informed us that YOU have chosen to back out of OUR deal. Let's just appreciate the irony of the SPACE PIRATES keeping their word and the "honest merchants" lying through their teeth. We suppose the old legends about the Yews are true, then.

Very well, since you have chosen to lie to us, we will offer you an ultimatum. Turn over your Tianshi Passenger Ship to our control, immediately. This tribute will secure your safety for another three years. Refuse, and my clans will turn your homeworlds into a blasted, molten hell so terrible that your children's children will WEEP as they tell the story of the rape and destruction of all that you hold dear.

Pay up, or reap the bloody whirlwind.
 
Based on the timely Lantian reception of our communique, we have hashed out the following agreement:

1. The Society of the Liberes will sign an official Contract of Protection for the Lantian Republic and all its assets, for the duration of 5 UC years from the signing of this treaty. (OOC: Turns 17-21)

2. The Lantian Republic will construct a Passenger Ship (Tianshi-class) for the use of the Society of the Liberes, to be delivered to the Society no later than 4 UC years from the signing of this treaty. (OOC: Turn 20)

3. The Lantian Republic will sign 20 standard economic units of material over to the Society of the Liberes, three UC years from the signing of this treaty. (OOC: Turn 19)

4. Any non-exclusive starmaps will be shared between the Liberes and the Lantians.

Signed, His Most August and Magnificent Majesty, Apollinaire IV, Supreme Emperor of the Society of the Liberes
 
Thlayli said:
1. The Society of the Liberes will sign an official Contract of Protection for the Lantian Republic and all its assets, for the duration of 5 UC years from the signing of this treaty. (OOC: Turns 17-21)

2. The Lantian Republic will construct a Passenger Ship (Tianshi-class) for the use of the Society of the Liberes, to be delivered to the Society no later than 4 UC years from the signing of this treaty. (OOC: Turn 20)

3. The Lantian Republic will sign 20 standard economic units of material over to the Society of the Liberes, three UC years from the signing of this treaty. (OOC: Turn 19)

4. Any non-exclusive starmaps will be shared between the Liberes and the Lantians.

Signed,

Timothy Mitzu, President of the Lantian Republic.
 
OOC: Last question dis. Wouldn't a Weapons Station constructed on an orbital habitat technically have a better chance to hit? And yes I am seriously considering sticking a giant death laser on top of my floating space capital. I mean who wouldn't do that?

No, as the line of sight issue would still remain.

If we can't have troops on gas giants... how do you go about taking over gas giant habitats?

You don't. Nuke them from orbit and move on/use the threat of that to make them surrender.
 
Damn Hackers!;)


Spoiler System "Azmiech" :
Disenfrancised said:
Azimech Reveal

Spoiler :
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The orange globe of Azimech is rather weaker than the sun Izar, though both shine over quite similar systems. Both have a hot Jovian with seas of molten rock orbiting closely, though Azimech I is so tightly bound to its primary that its surface flares incandescent. Next follow a host of gas giants of similar sizes to Izar but vastly different in composition and retinue. The innermost gas giant of Azimech lies comfortably in the warm zone of the system, and its strata of clouds feature a thousand kilometre deep layer of water vaporous and oxygen. In this pleasant locale carbon based life swarms feeding off photosynthesising floaters and chemosynthetic rain from the upper atmospheres, dirigible herbivores and screaming winged beasts forming a complex ecology where the top organisms may be larger than a human city but their gossamer bodies and struts weighing less than a few tons. The two moons of Azimech II are also warm and watery but lack life of any description, being most balls of silicates layered in slush and toxic nitrogen atmospheres, their surfaces coloured a mouldy green by light reflected from their primary. In inner moon is light with a thin atmosphere, and the outer much larger and heavier with a thick one, and despite their faults their volatiles inventory and warmth make them both excellent targets for terraforming, particularly by ecopoetic models. The next gas giant out is a cool blue globe with a classy ring of water ice, and its three moons are attractive shining orbs of yet more ice, each one cast in subtly different patterns. The outermost moon also has some toxic taint. The third giant is a stormy sphere of dark and valuable gases, though it lacks any companion moons. The last gas giant has moons but its rather pathetic itself in size and volatiles index, having only a few storms to liven up its iron dark sky's. Two of its three moons, oddly for such a distance from the sun, are primarily rock rather than ice, though they a still bereft of the heavier elements so crucial to industry. The last moon is a perfectly average iceball with absolutely no distinguishing features.

Spoiler System "Rotnev" :
Disenfrancised said:
Rotnev Reveal

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The Soulon explorers is three for three on hot Jovians, but unfortunately the bright and mellow yellow star of Rotnev has not a single planet to accompany it other than the burning giant. Clouds of heavy dust lurk at the edge of the system, hinting at the devastation Rotnev I wrought to other forming planetoids as it rolled in from the darkness. Rotnev I is larger and cooler than other Hot Jovians encountered so far in the Tuft, and only a fraction of its surface is open magma, forming rifts between vast continents of basalt and iron. Interestingly it seems the planet is cool enough for at least some earlier visitor to have investigated and exploited it, for the hearts of the dark continents seem awash with artifacts, and traces of the atmosphere indicate that there once was some exotic form of autocatalysising process, perhaps life based on silicon-oxygen structures and metals. Deep under the rafts of rock bobbing on the magma the sensors detect neutrino blocking – the relics of the galaxy striding Priors haunt this world as they do so many others, though the ruins above them appear to be from some other species.

However the vast amounts of rubble in the outer system of Rotnev have significantly degraded the probes functionality – it should return to your shipyard for repairs.

Spoiler System "Wei" :
Disenfrancised said:
Wei Reveal

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Wei is a blazing white sub-giant that can be seen for thousands of light-years in all directions, and indeed guided initial explorers to the Hydra Tuft. It is named after a similar star that could be seen from old Earth by ancient Chinese astronomers, and much like that orb and any good Asian family the star still has its wizened parent living with it. The neutron star that orbits a good hundred AU out from Wei is quiet now after draining the local dust clouds, but its nova billions of years ago almost certainly gave rise to the shock waves that compacted the primordial clouds of the Hydra Tuft into its current stars and enriched them with metals. The Lantian astronomers have named this relic Huángquán, the source of life and death, after one of the ancient Chinese names for hell. Naturally such a binary system and heavy particle flux is not conducive to the formation of planets, with only a single Gas Giant orbiting both bright and dark stars almost at the rim of the system, and an anomalous rocky world perched claustrophobically close to the neutron star. The small moons of the Gas Giant a tremendously cold but rich in metals thanks to the death clouds of Huángquán, with entire continents of iron and gold looming out of frozen seas of nitrogen. What the system lacks in current points of interest is more than made up for its tremendous troves of alien artifacts. The world orbiting Chou is completely entangled in ebon black trees and dendritic structures hundreds of kilometers tall, and indeed their constricting grasp appears to be the only thing preventing the world from breaking apart under the tidal force of its primary. Meanwhile deep under the disquieting forest lurks the neutrino echoes and shades that are the unmistakable calling cards of the Priors. The chilling Gas Giant is also not without its own points of archaeological interest, as tens of thousands of hundred metre long needle-like objects are somehow suspended in its outer atmosphere, and wrecked cities of mirrored surfaces and silver rope litter its innermost moon.

Spoiler System "Subra" :
Disenfrancised said:
Subra Reveal

Spoiler :
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The clotted red dwarf of Subra bathes its planets in the colours of blood and ruin. Normally the planets of a dwarf are chill and still, but Subra's progeny huddle close to their baleful parent and surprisingly hot and dry – unpleasant for humans, but not apparently for everyone. A Jovian planet orbits Subra at a distance not much more than earth did from its Sun, making this system close to a binary and pumping out colossal quantities of electromagnetic radiation to fry nearby carbon life. Its three rocky moons are toasted by the ionising effects of this and all their water has long since sublimated away, the closest in moon being so heavily cooked that it has generated a thin atmosphere of plasma that bends and flickers to the planets electron winds. Unlike many close moons it is not gravitational churned sufficiently to have a molten surface. The other two moons are rather dull red balls of silicates. Next out is a pinkish giant without moons, as can be found littering any planetary system, though the gas giant is rather more interesting. This one gleams a brilliant white discoloured by exotic clouds, and seems to contain all the water that has been leached from the inner system with multiply layered clouds of ice vapour giving it its high albedo. You have heard rumours of carbon life existing in the outer layers of other gas giants, Subra VIII would be a prime place for humans to transplant such organisms too if they were so inclined. Its two moons are a little and large balls of ice, welcome breaks to a traveller seeking to slake their thirst in this system, the outer moon being so light and fluffy that its surface can barely support itself. Inwards of the Jovian crowd five rocky planets, warming themselves against the sun. The fifth is an interesting world, endless dry deserts and black crags, but it already possess a thin nitrogen atmosphere that is surprisingly close to human sustainability, and if volatiles could be mined elsewhere in the system it might be quickly changed to habitability. The third planet is a dull and hot ball of rock, too small to hold an atmosphere even against the weak red rays of Subra, whilst the second and fourth planets are rocky worlds heavily shrouded in blazingly hot acidic clouds, much like Old Venus or Errai III. The fourth is a perfectly average example of its type, but the analysis of the second hints that if workers can reach its surface rich troves of both heavy metals and rare earth atoms await them. The innermost world is perhaps the most interesting of all, for orbital picture reveal a rich ecology, with herbivores eating huge ferns and being preyed on by muscular carnivores. The fact that the ferns photosynthesise using selenium atoms and that all the organisms are built from a silicon-oxygen-metal salt substrate and are operating in a highly ionised five hundred degree atmosphere just makes it even more interesting, the outlines of vast ruined structures and domes being merely icing on the cake. Getting past the salamanders and other monsters to the buried treasures in an environment where a human would not even be able to look at the blazing surroundings will probably prove tricky however.
 
"It appears that a rather insulting report was composed making light of all the failings of the inhabitants of the Tuft,"

"An amusing read from a culture that has done nothing worthy of comment you mean?"

"Yes quite,"

-Section 9 Intelligence, Genesis Project, Leak to the press.


The time had come for greatness, all her plans had come to fruition and the Genesis project had resulted in the first concentrated drive to colonise a new system. There were quite a few parties in political circles celebrating the Kations greatest accomplishments so far. The type of parties where you could get drunk by the heady boasts of the party-goers. An all pervading arrogance was sweeping the Kation people as they felt, for the first time since being abandoned on icy planet of Zavi VIa, secure.

Yes there were dangers out there, but the brilliant minds of Kation engineers and scientists were already designing Warships to protect the Kation Colonisation efforts from the threat of pirates and other such beasts. And from what could be gathered of the other factions none possessed the mystical and probably mythical FTL drives that would have threatened them, secure in their corner of the Tuft. The leaks onto the the Pearl network by the so called 'Soloun League' reinforced this view nearby systems were either empty or embroiled in their own petty disputes.

But PI Aiur was not a happy woman. Being confronted by a cadre of your former political allies, more worried about the next election than the future of a society, more concerned about sating every desire of that most arrogant of peoples, the Kation. Being forced out by that group of former political allies was even more galling.

Having them reap the benefits of her political plans was the end, being offered the job of governor of the Minkar system a small consolation as it entailed further difficult decisions in a fledgeling system that could be blamed on her if things went horribly wrong.

On the Other hand, PI Eldranesh was incredibly pleased. Making a gamble, playing the former PI's allies against each other and even gaining some of them in the fallout. And all on the cusp of the Kations greatest advance forward into the stars!

It remains to be seen whether he can be as pragmatic as the former PI...

OOC: Just because I get critiqued you thought I'd stop?! HAH! Anyway; now I hope to play a bit more arrogant, with a somewhat justified sense of superiority...
 
I have extensively studied the rules the last few days and I am ready to play a tiger: either a farflung new civilization or the 'Al if the former is unavailable.

Homo Superior (+3)
Scholarly (+1)
Technological Affinity for Social (+3)
Extremophilic (+3)
Technological Antipathy for Math (-2)
Horrible Start (-3)

The Order of Sanguine was one of the fastest growing nouveau lifestyle movements before the Second Tumult, experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity based on the teachings of one uber-charismatic psychiatrist, the Venerable Doctor Vishrakpatnum. The VDV's teachings emphasized the release of human faults and fears for a greater future, and he implemented extensive genetic modifications in his many followers. Every Sanguinite would have been a model of a man: an alpha leader, unafraid and naturally collected in any social situations, scholarly and learned beyond imagination, resistant to any elements that God or nature could wield. The Order of Sanguine's clandestine operators were beginning to amass great influence throughout the galaxy just before the Second Tumult, lending credence to fearful interstellar governments banning their existence like the Masonic Orders of old. Then came the Second Tumult, and the Order of Sanguine was wiped from existence, like everything else....

...or was it?
 
Had I known of the utter godliness of charm drives, Kaus would have been the most damn peaceful place in the universe. Oh well....:(
 
OOC:

Homo Superior (+3)
Scholarly (+1)
Technological Affinity for Social (+3)
Extremophilic (+3)
Technological Antipathy for Math (-2)
Horrible Start (-3)

May I ask where you found all of these? I keep looking for a collected place where all the society modifiers are located but the thread searches only turn up the specific ones used by the current players. Surely there are more?

Also hello.
 
Had I known of the utter godliness of charm drives, Kaus would have been the most damn peaceful place in the universe. Oh well....:(

Look at the e cost though!

OOC:

May I ask where you found all of these? I keep looking for a collected place where all the society modifiers are located but the thread searches only turn up the specific ones used by the current players. Surely there are more?

Also hello.

Go search the NES development thread.

EDIT: although those bonus's etc are a bit modified from that for balancing reasons.
 
May I ask where you found all of these? I keep looking for a collected place where all the society modifiers are located but the thread searches only turn up the specific ones used by the current players. Surely there are more?

Also hello.

Welcome. You seem polite and intelligent, there's always room for you in the forum.
 
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