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A Hive for The Galaxy (Sci-Fi CK2-style Quest)

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Sadly I don't see a option to play as a race of nightmare fuel incarnate creatures. So I'll go with the next best thing.

[X] A Human World in Sol's Shadow
 
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The Hexamani can become nightmare fuel incarnate...
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Can become? Honestly, if you're going for nightmare fuel, @Avoozl , the Hexamari are it. Parasites that infiltrate the water, put there to enter into the bodies of subjects in order to monitor their words for heresy. Giant bio-blimps of grotesque proportions, vast fields of harvesting-beasts moving endlessly. They are based on living creatures, but they have been lobotomized, and now they stumble onward, doing their duties as best they can.

Strange and eerie birds that swoop through the sky that have been seen on no other world. The authorities aren't sure who made them, or what their purpose is, but their tendency to attack Mar has been dubbed "troubling."

Would you like me to go on? But yeah, Avoozi, I had a nightmare-fuel option.


Also, depending on circumstances, the Humans are the ones that start with a pretty good economy, but the Xvorzit have quite a strong one (perhaps even stronger than the Human world...and it can easily get quite a bit stronger), and the Barsa aren't exactly sitting around being poor, either. The Tawasi aren't as rich, but they have more ways to gather taxes and they have a rapidly growing economy which still hasn't gone through the stages where industry gets a bit less red-hot. And the Hexamari have little in the way of trade, but they are also self-sufficient (more so than other polities, that is) and do have the potential for trade in the future.
 
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The Laurent said:
Can become? Honestly, if you're going for nightmare fuel, @Avoozl , the Hexamari are it. Parasites that infiltrate the water, put there to enter into the bodies of subjects in order to monitor their words for heresy. Giant bio-blimps of grotesque proportions, vast fields of harvesting-beasts moving endlessly. They are based on living creatures, but they have been lobotomized, and now they stumble onward, doing their duties as best they can.

Strange and eerie birds that swoop through the sky that have been seen on no other world. The authorities aren't sure who made them, or what their purpose is, but their tendency to attack Mar has been dubbed "troubling."

Would you like me to go on? But yeah, Avoozi, I had a nightmare-fuel option.
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I do believe you have convinced me.

[x] Hexamari

Though I think humans are going to win.
 
I've updated the tally. The Humans have a solid lead, though not an insurmountable one.

Humans: 13
Xvorzit: 12
Hexamari: 10
Barsa: 3
Tawasi: 1

So for the moment they have a plurality, not a majority. Of course, the things that draws a person to the Hexamari and to the Xvorzit are completely different, I'm assuming, mind.

Edit: Updated. Again, 8:48 AM. Updated as of 9:39 AM, am going to go to work now. Updated as of 4:45 PM. Updated as of 5:17 PM Updated as of 5:44 PM. Updated as of 5:52 PM. And updated again as of 5:55 PM.
 
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[X] Xvorzit Hive World

I'd like to try something new compared to all the other civilizations these games usually play as.

Edit: changed vote for second best option
 
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I'll be around while Laurent is off at work- the wonders of being 6 time zones ahead. To echo, feel free to ask away! The next infodump, on other powers and races, will be up sometime before the end of the day.
 
OOC Answers: Hyperspace Ain't a Scary Place
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    • Essentially, hyperspace travel. A vessel projects a a field around itself that allows it to basically drop through the fabric of reality (like a stone through a wet paper bag) and transition into hyperspace. The deeper a vessel 'dives' into hyperspace, the swifter the journey, although there's a certain point that no manned vessel has ever returned from. The current maximum hyperspace speed is approximately three thousand times the speed of light.

    Initially, faster-than-light travel utilized what are now referred to as 'limited field' FTL drives- that is, the unstable field would begin slowly unraveling as soon as it was formed. This reduced any journey to a series of limited-range hops through hyperspace, with breaks to allow the field generators to cycle.

    Later on, the development of the first reactionless propulsion system, the gravitic field drive, allowed the creation of the 'sustained field' FTL drive. Now, the drive field of the sublight engine is used to anchor and stabilize the FTL drive field, which extends the limit on the duration of a jump to, quite simply, as long as the vessel's fuel supplies will allow.
     
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    • What sort of weaponry does the average warship throw around? Nuclear, lasers, kinetic, particle beam, etc. What yields?

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    [x] Hexamari
    Nightmare fuel creatures yes please, plus humans are just boring. the stuff we can do with biological engineering might have the gm be careful with the wording.
     
    The Hexamari and the Hive are too close, if either switches we can beat the humans, but they are too neck-and-neck.
     
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