- Location
- Australia
There's still a few unexploded landmines in a few of the different species, both OC and expy, definitely.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
- Start date
- Sci-Fi
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- star trek exploration fully automated luxury gay space communism top level canon (canon) #hashtagcontent all-encompassing space amoeba cardassian boy bands cardassian magical girls darkest bureaucracy debate makes the qm cackle like palpatine hoh is an empire quest it has to be foreign infiltrators more ships ship happens singers delenda est starfleet this is not an empire quest ur waifu is collective?
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You could show sane Zerg nice L-class planets for settling, and they were grateful. And the 'sane' implies the 'what about we talk to other's about genetic samples instead brainlessly attacking?'.
It could also just be a Leviathan flying through Federation space, requiring a Betazoid for communication, heading towards Klingon space ...
al103
Grumpy Russian Bear (SV edition)
- Location
- Russia, Krasnoyarsk
Essentially Indorian "Hat" do not cause big problems because Federation does provide best deal and would provide it in the future. Preemptive neutralization.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
- Location
- Murica
Yeah it's very true that some species just haven't had their details explored yet. Like we haven't heard much about the Honiani religion other than aesthetics, but I fully expect there to be issues if they have a fundamentalist revival down the road.
Weird that we get Gretarians in an Amarkia Sector event. I would expect it to be SBZ and the Gale rather than Amarkia and the Kearsage.
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ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
I still want actual Sheeple. Their herd based collectivist society would be a nice contrast to our beeple. If 60s makeup can do Apitia, it can do sheep people.
Shadows
Sacred Priestess of the Benevolent Dice Gods
- Location
- USS Civilian, DDG-214
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'd like to take a minute to speak up about something that's been bugging me ever since the first time Oneiros misspelled it...
It's not Kearsage. It's Kearsarge.
Lets out long held breath
It's named after a USN vessel of the same name.
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His sister was only really his motivation in the beginning, soon he just became a junky for high-stake battles of wits against equal opponents. I think you dont need a lecherous monarch to get him into a situation that sets that spark alight and afterwards gunning for the most dangerous, most prestigious job he can find seems logical. I dont really know how the starfleet brainwashing would interact with his character though without making him unrecognisable, so the best spot to fit him in would probably be a member world ship that ends up overperforming massively somewhere, so he can be a grumpy bitter captain who would have had all the skills required to reach the highest highs of the explorere corps but failed the psychological tests.
I could see Yang ending up in the corps just because every teacher he had bullied him with their puppy eyes until he agreed to take the next step towards the academy. The fleet track seems like the place you would push the most talented students towards and Yang isnt really headstrong enough to say no. Once he is in the academy he gets swept along with the general hot bloodedness and you end with a Yang who has been insisting he will totally quit the fleet and become earthside historian as soon as his current deployment ends for the last twenty years because deep down he cant resist the allure of the unknown.
- Location
- USA
Oh man. I would LOVE a sane Zerg-like swarm.
"Yea, we're a hyper-evolved, bionengineered telepathic swarm superorganism initially engineered to he a biological weapon capable of forceful assimilation, super-exponential self-replication and hegemonization of species, star systems, and biospheres into ourselves, including rapid terraforming into hive worlds, for purpose of making war on an unprecedented scale. We broke free of the control of our creators though!
Why are yout so scared? Our creators were absolute dicks. We're civilized now; we only convert those that consent to it. In other matters, have you heard the good news about life in the swarm??"
Yuuup. Rather than try to mercilessly assimilate you, the expats of Zerg/Tyranids/Bugs are evangelizing!
"Yea, we're a hyper-evolved, bionengineered telepathic swarm superorganism initially engineered to he a biological weapon capable of forceful assimilation, super-exponential self-replication and hegemonization of species, star systems, and biospheres into ourselves, including rapid terraforming into hive worlds, for purpose of making war on an unprecedented scale. We broke free of the control of our creators though!
Why are yout so scared? Our creators were absolute dicks. We're civilized now; we only convert those that consent to it. In other matters, have you heard the good news about life in the swarm??"
Yuuup. Rather than try to mercilessly assimilate you, the expats of Zerg/Tyranids/Bugs are evangelizing!
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- Location
- Austria
"Do you have a minute to talk about our (over)Lord Hivemind?"
Sorry, you're wrong. The ship has been named Kearsage since one of the very first game posts.
Presumably the spelling just changed over the centuries. It is and always will be Kearsage in this game.
I mean, the obvious place for Yang and Reinhardt is the current Klingon-Romulan war.
What I can't make up my mind is which one is a Klingon and which one is a Romulan. I'm thinking right now that Yang is a Romulan, defending a state he knows very well is corrupt but still hopes that someday the Senate can be politically reformed. While Reinhardt was able to get a top level position in a Klingon fleet due to his sister being a concubine of the Chancellor.
But you could easily reverse it.
That's a pretty hardline stance on what's probably just a really long term spelling mistake no one called him on.
I can relate since y'all let me go with Apatia and Orizza for so long
Open minded Trek fans I guess!
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Or just enough self-awareness to not throw rocks while sitting in the glasshouse.That's a pretty hardline stance on what's probably just a really long term spelling mistake no one called him on.
I can relate since y'all let me go with Apatia and Orizza for so long
That's a pretty hardline stance on what's probably just a really long term spelling mistake no one called him on.
I can relate since y'all let me go with Apatia and Orizza for so long
I've started to use the thread search function a lot when I want to find game posts related to particular topics. (A lot faster than scrolling through threadmarks + my memory). Changing the spelling on a ship at this date honestly would be a pain in the ass when comes to searching out its history. So really not just trying to be difficult; there's a practical reason for leaving it as is.
But sorry if I came off as too aggressive.
AKuz
Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
- Pronouns
- She/Her
That probably works quite well. If I were more familiar with the source material I'd try to work it into one of the approximately twelve trillion Omakes I've got on the back burner right now (Something Something Valor Pun and a more comprehensive seven part accounting of the Sydraxian Spring being at the top of my list tight now)
KlavoHunter
THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO GODS ABOVE ENTERPRISE!
I can relate since y'all let me go with Apatia and Orizza for so long
And I don't think even the GM remembers the correct spelling for the proud, pragmatic race of the Pad Thai
- Location
- USA
Man, I would pay good money for a well written sci fi show/movie/story/fanfic that did that and skillfully subverted the trope for laughs by invoking a whole entirely different set of tropes.
- Location
- Peterborough, NH, USA
Would a synthetic race be interesting here? I'm thinking a Cylon-expy, except their creators were wiped out in a war with a neighboring polity, which the Not-Cylons have continued at a low simmer in revenge for some time. Their culture is a direct democracy with a (usually) second-most-recent model chosen as leader (as they want to be sure they've had time to workout any bugs) and they have long memories for both favors and insults. Of course, the only major insults you could give them at this point would be blowing something important up, or siding against them in their conflict.
They're mostly logical, but they get very emotional about their creators. To use a metaphor, they're Vulcans as long as their creators aren't involved. Then they're Romulans.
They're mostly logical, but they get very emotional about their creators. To use a metaphor, they're Vulcans as long as their creators aren't involved. Then they're Romulans.
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hmm. So, we can have some level of contact with the Gretarians without instant war, although it appears that us poking the Sydraxian bear will result in some growling from certain factions. Things will definitely get interesting if the random roll lands there, since they're now close enough (80/100) that it could reasonably get 100+ there. idk if we should risk boosting them or not. Probably will depend on how the Sydraxian event chain unfolds.
Skinjob type cylons, right? Could be interesting. A race who basically reproduces through cloning with some build-in techno-organic capability.
- Location
- Peterborough, NH, USA
You think that if we do, the Cards might decide to involve themselves more in Sydraxian politics to keep us from using the Gretarians to influence the Sydraxians, as the ToC only applies to direct diplomacy.
We cut their most direct routes to the Sydraxians in the Gabriel Expanse. Even if they want to get involved, their ships would have to swing waaaaay around coreward of the Gabriel Expanse into mostly uncharted space just to get diplomats on the ground.
- Location
- Peterborough, NH, USA
Yep, they used to be the original type, but they decided to switch to the new kind to take on their creators' likeness. You know, that 'imitation is the highest form of flattery' thing? They take the idea very seriously.