Imperial Ambitions (OOC Thread)

Mechion HIgh Admiral
Civilization: New Mechion Democratic Republic

Name: Cobalt Razor

Species: Mechion

Gender: Male

Height: 6'4"

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Metallic Silver

Rank: High Admiral

Age: 340

Born: 1838, April 4 on the Earth Calendar

Died: x

Awards: Distinguished Service Medal, Medal of Civilian Excellency, Crest of the High Blade, and The Chivalry Cross

Reputation: Cobalt Razor is very popular among his troops and is a legend in the NMDR. His countless acts of valor, chivalry, and bravery during beginning days of the Civil War won him multiple medals and made him revered by his allies and feared by his enemies.

Bio: According to the Earth calendar, Cobalt Razor was born shortly after the the American Civil War to Maltorse Razor and Netriee Razor. However, he was born into a war of his own. Within hours of his birth, the opening shots of the Mechion Civil war were fired. His family was able to avoid the war for the first few years of the 400 year war, but eventually, it found them. 18 years later on the small planet of Tropiconis 4, a raiding division of Imperial destroyers found the small unprotected colony and laid siege on the small world. The young man was forced to watch his parents be gunned down before him. As this happened, something inside of him snapped and he went of a murderous rampage, killing any Imperial troops he could find. Roughly 3 hours later, the colony was evacuated and the NMDR sent a small cruiser division to the colony to drive off the invaders. This provoked the Empire to send more of their own ships, eventually causing the small skirmish to escalate into one of the largest battles of the war. When the NMDR reinforcements showed up to evacuate the colony, they discovered Cobalt organizing the evac himself. He spent the remainder of the 2 day battle fighting the Imperial troops trying to gain a foothold on the colony. He was eventually asked to board an evac ship full of wounded soldiers, but he responded by saying "This is my home, I'd rather die than leave it to these bastards!" He was drafted on the spot, and was made part of a strike team to infiltrate the enemy's flagship. The operation was a resounding success and he gained the notice of the NMDR admiralty.

2 years later, Cobalt was commanding his own ship, a Nexus-class destroyer which his named after his mother, Netiree. In the ship's first engagement with the enemy, he invented what would later be called the Netiree Maneuver. He commanded the ship for 50 long years, until it was destroyed in it's final engagement with Imperial forces in interstellar space. Cobalt was the only survivor, but he was knocked into a coma until the ship crashed in the neighboring system, Alpha Delta 7A54B, 23.2 years later. The system had a single habitable planet, 7A45B-3. The Netiriee crashed outside the NMDR colony there and he was rescued by Sheath Virtiree, a young mechion woman the same age as him. The young woman nursed him back to health and eventually joined the Navy with him, serving on his next ship, the experimental heavy cruiser Taranita. In her first engagement, the Taranita was faced with a force she wouldn't have been able to fight against normally. But rather than call for back up, Cobalt ordered his ship to charge the enemy and to use a hit and run tactic. The unpredictability of the attacks and the shear speed of the Tranaita-class heavy cruiser allowed them to win the battle, but at a great cost. During her final attack run of the battle, the Tranita took a hit to her main engine. This caused the entire rear half of the vessel to break off. Her final opponent closed in for to board the crippled ship, only to met by the fury of her captain. The Tarnita used her main cannons to blast the enemy battleship at point blank range, detonating its drive core, and nearly finishing of the Taraita. The ship floated in orbit over Strouptious for the next 4 days, with the crew desperately attempting to reattach the rear end of the ship. At the end of the 4th day, they managed to reattach the aft end of the ship at the cost of the ship's entire storage of programmable matter. The crew managed to crash land the ship on the abandoned cargo ship runway on the planet below. After the crew disembarked, the aft end of the ship fell off once more, much to the disappointment and amusement of Cobalt and his crew. The Taranita was repaired and was assigned to the Center Mechion Fleet to take the fight to the Imperials. Being the fastest of her class, the Taranita was used a preemptive strike ship and she excelled under the command of her captain Cobalt, who was promoted to rear-admiral after the indecent over Strouptious. He lead several campaigns to take back captured colonies durring the next 189 years until the war's end. At the end of the war, Cobalt and Sheath married and Cobalt was promoted to High-Admiral. He now leads the Mechion Galactic Exploration Fleet and he commands the Seraph, the fleet's flagship. Though sometimes he remarks about how he wishes he could go back to the days of commanding the Taranita.

Miscellaneous: Often called hard-headed and stubborn. Often jokes about the current situation to keep morale up and for laughs. Is easy to reason with.
 
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And proof I should leave arrives... :(

To be honest, the main problem with Reconguista G is the lack of FTL/slow travel times. If you get rid of that it's not too bad.

Personally I've been going with Sins of a Solar Empire tech myself, which is mostly ballistics anyway.
 
samantha lost her virginity to alphonse when they were seventeen. though the two of them would always vehemently deny that they had ever "fooled around with each other", both alphonse and samantha harbour feelings for each other that still persists to this day.
Heh.
 
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Rani Dossier
Civilization: Lathern Commonwealth

Name: Rani Vivivi

Species: Chibi

Gender: Unisex (looks female)

Rank: Prime Commander

Age: 75

Born: April, 13, 2269

Died: Not dead yet

Awards: Highlander Badge for 500 kills, True Warrior Badge for 1,000 kills, One Chibi Army Badge for 10,000 kills, Unkillable Badge for 50,000 kills, Initiation Badge for surviving first battle, Combatant Badge for surviving 50 battles, Commander badge for surviving 100 battles, High Commander Badge for surviving 500 battles, Prime Commander Badge for surviving 10,000 battles, Veteran Badge for 50 years of service, Annual Spicy Poutine Eating Contest award 356th to 534th.

Reputation: The Demon Marine.

Appearance: 1.8 feet tall, long purple hair, dark skin, purple eyes, and wears glasses.

Bio: From what you read it would seem that it could've been the devil itself incarnated and here to kill you all, but what you didn't know from reading the above is that in real life, Rani is a shy, nerdy, socially akward, Chibi with an obsession with D&D.

Born to a scientist, she wasn't really anything special, good at science and math, etc, she was leading a perfectly normal life, until the Scorpion Invasion happened and things went downhill from there. During the invasion, she was forcefully drafted into the Chibi Marines and fought on the front lines, there she found that she had the uncanny for strategy and killing, more so than other, after they repeled the invaders, Rani was awarded her Initiation Badge and her Highlander Badge.

Her career in the Chibi Marines continued to climb from that point on and she has built a reputation for being the most fear Chibi Marine on the battlefield. What suprised many is at first is her seemingly unthreatening appearance and attitude as well as her survival since most Chibi Marines average at about 2 years.

She continued to climb the ranks until she hit Prime Commander and was given control of the space cruiser S.S. LANDERHELM. Right now she's problably in the Chibi Marines D&D club she founded and eating poutine while she's at it.

Miscellaneous:
Founder of the Chibi Marines D&D club.
Current udefeated champion of the Annual Spicy Poutine Eating Contest.
Closest friends are the High commander Seibah and Tantrum Marine Taiga.
Crushing fear of getting peanut butter stuck at the roof of her mouth on Friday the 13th.
 
Umrazi Dossier
Name: Leeja

Species: Umrazi

Rank: Captain

Age: 25

Reputation: A daring Captain, as eager as any Umrazi to explore the frontiers of space. Famous for pioneering several tactics and strategies during the Civil War. Essentially, an Umrazi War Hero, if they had one.

Appearance: As tall as an Umrazi can grow, light blue skin, slim build, standard Umrazi physical structure. Sharp, analytical gaze, confident posture.

Bio: Born before the Civil War, Leeja was a well-known explorer of the Um wilderness, often discovering and documenting dangerous and hard-to-reach areas. When the war began, Leeja took up arms to fight for the Republic against the rebels. Quickly rising through the ranks due to her natural skill at leadership and combat, she took part in several key battles of the war, playing vital roles in their victories. After the war, she was assigned her own command of the first Horizon-class Battlecruiser, the Undaunted Cartographer. Despite this ship class becoming outmoded and obsolete, Leeja has kept it serviceable through extensive refits. She is friendly and amicable to her friends, family, and acquaintances. When it comes to her enemies, she has been known to display a cold, aloof, merciless attitude that is so uncharacteristic of Umrazi, but allowed her great success during the War. Very analytical.

Miscellaneous: Is romantically involved with her second-in-command, Araei.

Name: Araei

Species: Umrazi

Rank: Commander

Age: 23

Reputation: An aggressive, spitfire individual. Known well for nearly ruining First Contact with the Ulomas Coalition. Unorthodox and insubordinate, and rather aggressive on the personal front as well.

Appearance: Medium-tone blue skin, average height, athletic build, standard Umrazi physical structure. Swagger.

Bio: Araei did not participate in the Civil War, but is still a well-known explorer. Infamous for the destruction of an Ulomas Battleship, while in command of a mere corvette. She is aggressive, not just from a combat standpoint, but a personal one as well. While the Umrazi are rather intimate with each other by other culture's standards, Araei can take her pursuits to the point where they disrupt the workplace, which is rather taboo.

Miscellaneous: Expert on hand-to-hand combat.
 
GLF Army Navy Assault Missile Boat

Length: 230 Meters

Bio: The GLF Army Navy Assault Missile Gunboat is the standard assault gunboat used by the GLF. It is a small, agile, cheap, and quick to produce while at the same time punching above its weight through its weaponry which consist almost entirely of missiles. They are quickly produced at GLF shipyards and though at a slower rate, inferior variants can be produced at various pirate ship yards across the galaxy.

A lesser variant finds common service with the ALF.

Weapons:
16 x Sub-space Jump capable Anti-Ship Missile [Reporting Name: "Shipwreck"] (equipped with anti-matter or gravity warhead)
4 x 30 terawatt laser CIWS
144 x Anti-Air Missile [Reporting Name: "Sendoff"] (equipped with bomb-pumped beamheads)
2 x Sub-space Jump Capable Planetary Attack Ballistic Missile [Reporting Name: "Inferno"] (cluster warhead contains 280 20KT MIRVs)

Defenses:
10 cm Titanium-A

Translight: Sub-space Translight Engine (120 LY L-band jump, 80 LY T-band jump)

Sublight: 4 sublight fusion torch

Crew Compliment: 32

Passengers: 330

Vehicle Compliment: 30 technicals, 15 heavy vehicles, 10 Ballistic Missile TELs

Generator: Civilian-grade Infinite Quantum Energy Generator (Intelitech Type 23 "terrorist reactor")
 
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... Sorry. Im a tad frustrated that I assumed low end space faring and everyone seems to have jumped to Necrons/Tau in 40k levels. I was legitimately at Gundam Age/Reconguista G level...
And exactly what's the problem with being comparatively low tech? This is a freeform narrative based RP, not a competition.
Besides as others said you still need to give a facelift for Gundam tech in order to make sense to them for this game.
For example you can try making that FTL tech mentioned in Gundam: Mission To The Rise much more common.
The funniest part that it was developed during OYW and yes, that short movie is actually canon.:rofl:

Also Reconquista level is actually quite OP since it's even more advanced than Turn-A the previous apex of Gundam tech.
I think the fact Reconquista suddenly introduced Star Trekish terminology was a good giveaway.

I was hoping for low-end too and everyone tried to go so freaking high.
Although this might end up as a case of "Hoisted by own Petard" when Whitecorps inspires the Umrazi to link their Jump Drives/Fold Sensors and weapon systems together.
What are you even trying to say?
 
Not sure anymore. Had a clear idea then, now? Dunno.

I suppose it'll be good for the Umrazi to meet more militaristic races, although I expect the Whitecorps First Contact to be mostly haggling.
Yup, it's going to be mostly about you have X we don't and we can offer something in return.
Until there's no "Hypergate" not even a small one the White Corps can't connect the galaxy into their trade hub. Otherwise they might approach you with the idea of building factories and other installations. Think of this as if an international company would decide to make investments in your country.
 
Yup, it's going to be mostly about you have X we don't and we can offer something in return.
Until there's no "Hypergate" not even a small one the White Corps can't connect the galaxy into their trade hub. Otherwise they might approach you with the idea of building factories and other installations. Think of this as if an international company would decide to make investments in your country.
Yeah.
Trying to come up with a reason for why the Umrazi would establish a colony. They don't have any back in their home galaxy, just a bunch of roaming exploration fleets.
 
@TheBleachDoctor
BTW, can't we have a thread for civilization profiles and everything?
Each player would put their civ app, tech details, ship profiles and character profiles into one place, easier to locate.
This would make things far easier to keep track of.
 
I was hoping for low-end too and everyone tried to go so freaking high.
Although this might end up as a case of "Hoisted by own Petard" when Whitecorps inspires the Umrazi to link their Jump Drives/Fold Sensors and weapon systems together.

Mmmm, I also was thinking more low end, but I tried to leave it squishy so I could fudge things. You can't have scary aliens unless they're scary, but limited in some way. So, we're worse than y'all at almost everything...but "exotic energy" let's us punch above our weight class. *wiggles fingers menacingly*

I'd put up a character profile, but it'd be rather sparse...ah what the heck.

Name: Rhett S. Nom
Species: Uelewa
Gender: Currently, n/a. The one time she had a body with a gender, she was female.
Purpose: Xenodiplomacy, Tactical Simulation Cluster; Xenotactics branch
Age: 187
Biology: Miss Nom started life as mindless herbivore, her only worries were eating plants and not getting eaten by predators. She had not yet reached full maturity when she encountered the [Friendship] on her world, and was convinced to join them. After becoming a [friend], she spent an inordinately long time going from task to task trying to find her true purpose. It was during this period that she participated in a first contact situation with one of the few other civilizations found in the Uelewa's native galaxy, and where she received her name. First contact was jeopardized by how scary the other civilization found her chosen form, but she was greatly impressed with how the diplomat smoothed things over. This soon turned into admiration, and then calling. Miss Nom knew what her purpose was.

Unfortunately, this civilization was one of the last ones outside of the {Friendship] within the Galaxy, and by the time she was deemed ready for her new role, there was no need for diplomats. Undaunted, Miss Nom volunteered to join Serenity in traveling to a new Galaxy so that she might see her purpose fulfilled. She eagerly awaits the day she gets to meet a new species and make new [friends], and whiles away her time in the tactical simulation cluster, running over hypothetical scenarios on how best to defend Serenity against misguided and hostile aliens.

Appearance: Miss Nom currently is a meter long worm like creature part of the primary Tactical Simulation Cluster, but if she gets her opportunity to meet a new species, she will undoubtedly change into a more suitable form.
 
New Mechion Democratic Republic Naval Forces Service Dossier:

MSS Taranita



Length: 135 meters

Width: 45 meters

Height: 75 meters

Armament: 25 GUNGNIR-class positron cannons mounted in 8 turrets, 12 HALBERD-class anti-ship torpedo launchers

Secondary armament: 24 VALKYRIE-class anti-air missile launchers, 70 retractable 40mm Anti Air particle cannons, Retractable Programmable Matter Ramming Blade.

Defenses: 2 meters of Hadium-Polymer armor, PMOS Shield

Fighter Complement: 15 Sirius-class space interceptors

Power plant: Solar Reactor Mk 17

Engine: Titan-class ion-fusion hybrid engine

FTL Drive: Fade FTL Drive Core Mk. 21
 
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New Mechion Democratic Republic Naval Forces Service Dossier:

MSS Taranita



Length: 135 meters

Width: 45 meters

Height: 75 meters

Armament: 25 GUNGNIR-class positron cannons mounted in 8 turrets, HALBERD-class 12 anti-ship torpedo launchers

Secondary armament: 24 VALKYRIE-class anti-air missile launchers, 70 retractable 40mm Anti Air particle cannons, Retractable Programmable Matter Ramming Blade.

Defenses: 2 meters of Hadium-Polymer armor, PMOS Shield

Fighter Complement: 15 Sirius-class space interceptors

Power plant: Solar Reactor Mk 17

Engine: Titan-class ion-fusion hybrid engine

FTL Drive: Fade FTL Drive Core Mk. 21
Wait is this flagship or escort?
 
Funfact: all Asgardian assault carriers have a bunch of Hammerhead-class destroyers docked on them at all times. Phoenix has four, while the two Lion-class that are her escorts have six each.
 
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