hm... well that rp's original idea was a group of friends banding together not really mercs, hm... frankly if shikaru is still interested in it then i would start up the IC today or tomorrow, when ever would be convenient, i originally wanted at lest 3 people with variety in characters to join, in end only got 2 people, with 1 being similar to my own in terms of personal skills.. well i may just edit my person to go more science than engineering, sense his race is some of the best Engineers and Scientists that exist. at lest in my idea of the universe. having a nice sci-fi ish rp after so long would be fun. last time i did anything sci-fi was back when i was in a rping group that use to play in rp maps in games such as StarCraft 2. until i introduced them to text base rping which they took to like wild fire because it cuts down prep time and it increased the possibilities. especially sense the maps had a time limit on them before your kicked out which sucked. that and most of the time it was text only anyways and they never realized. The group was last doing it in Steam's chat system but after last rping session (which was like over a year or two ago now) everyone just stopped with the rp for some reason which was confusing. I do accept your advice and that probably would help a lot. i do hope i can get either this, or the space rp to work. or maybe both. This one story wise be easier, the space one will take bit more work full story wise. i got some ideas but only to up to one arc atm i will emit. which i actual had an idea of letting people take turns creating arcs throughout the roleplay. in order to give everyone time to play some villains, come up with some cool side storys/missions, and give everyone time to sign.