ASTA

Bullying. Advice

Beat the blood and piss out of them.

That's really the only way to effectively stop a bully.

Judge Orders Cleveland Schools to Desegrate

I'm not entirely sure what manner of positive outcome this court order is supposed to achieve. The parents of Cleveland's white children will merely duplicate the same exact migratory behaviors that countless others across the US have engaged in over the past six or seven decades: relocating to and establishing themselves in white-majority locales, enrolling their children in white-majority schools, and taking part in white-majority institutions.

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@ASTA

While Hael made herself clear, I would like to point out that even through technological advancements the diseases you fight would evolve to become even stronger so no you couldn't outright get rid of diseases, not to mention diseases from other planets. Your little nano things wouldn't know how to fight against a foreign object that it does not know, in fact it may very well begin attacking the host's own cells.

@Lauder

The modern field of nanomedicine has been moderately successful at employing nanotechnology in the treatment of certain forms of cancer (photodynamic therapy is one such nanotechnological method of isolating a tumor and subsequently destroying it, and has been shown to be a superior option to the traditional mode of cancer treatment: chemotherapy), drug delivery (less collateral damage to the body due to the drug being precisely directed at one specific locale instead of being spread about throughout the body proper), and blood purification. I'd go digging around for research papers for you to take a gander at, but I'm really short on time at the moment, so I hope that these two Wikipedia articles will suffice:

[url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanorobotics#Nan..

[url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomedicine]

Not interested in crawling through those two bowls of word soup? Then think of the issue at hand in this particular way: before the advent of the airplane, the wingsuit, or the glider, mankind could only watch aimlessly as birds soared about in the sky. A substantial number of traditionally biological features (such as memory, eyesight, or bipedal locomotion) have been adequately mimicked--and in many cases even ameliorated dramatically--by both modern and archaic machines.

Why would the immune system be impossible to mechanically replicate? It doesn't make a lot of sense based off of what we've witnessed occurring over the course of the last 6,000 years or so of human civilization.

Remember: it was only roughly 200 years ago (about ten human generations) that the industrial revolution was the height of human technological prowess.

But I don't know. I'm not really sure about this RP anymore. Too many inconsistencies and personal bias for me to remain interested.

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What you need to realize is that there's this thing called "fairness", and it's pretty important in RPs. There's also "reality", which would not allow anything like humanity to develop this technology in three-hundred years. Maybe three thousand.

Having an entire nation of Mary Stu characters sounds enjoyable, until you realize how awful it would be for the 15 other people in this RP. If I allowed you to do this, I may as well rename this RP "ASTA wins everything".

It sounds fun only for you.

@Hael

I was planning on exploring the inner mechanical workings of ring worlder culture by following the lives of several paramount characters of various "professions" and social stations.

Unless someone is deadset on initiating hostilities against my faction (for whatever reason), the military stuff is going to rank phenomenally low on my priorities list because I don't really care about it nor do I particularly care for it.

At the end of the day, a handheld particle cannon is going to splat and fry a 17ft tall space iguana about as easily as it would a 4ft tall space dwarf. A bunch of transhumans (with said transhumans restricted to one gargantuan void installation that's rooted firmly in one planetary system) who don't get the seasonal flu or an STD when they go at it without wrapping it up first aren't going to somehow solo the RP's entire nation cast at any point in time whatsoever.

Also, humanity went from unimpressive subsonic monoplanes to breathtakingly powerful aerospace launch and travel systems capable of making precise outer-Earth-orbit and lunar-based operations within a timespan of circa 60 years.

Tanks went from sluggish boxes with grossly underpowered engines, abysmal transmission and suspension systems, and armor barely capable of weathering a reversed infantrymen's rifle round to hulking goliaths with armor thick enough to effectively shield its crew from a nuclear strike and a gun (with the right ammunition) capable of penetrating over 1,000mm of rolled-homogenous armor within the space of a 100 years.

3,000 years to invent nanoscale medical machines that can effectively target and annihilate cancerous cells within the body? 3,000 years to make someone unphased by the corrosive consequences of natural aging?

Seriously?

I think this is less about fairness and more about your own skewed take on exponential technological growth or how a proper human-esque species *should* be in your eyes.

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You're back!

If you still want to join, I'll allow it sense you expressed interest earlier, and also because I need someone to distract me from all the shit that went down higher up on the page

Still planning on doing the human-like creatures that can do complex mathematics in their minds? I won't allow them to be immortal or disease-immune, as it isn't possible for any organic creature, but I will gladly accept all the rest that you proposed.

EDIT: I'm just calling mine "Shield Interference Emitters" xD

@Hael

A few Earth-native species are biologically immortal. Turritopsis dohrnii, colloquially known as the "immortal jellyfish", is one such creature. Lobsters are technically biologically immortal, but they eventually succumb to pestilence, fold to predation, or die from sheer exhaustion during a molt attempt during the later stages of their adult lives. Other animals like the three-toed box turtle, certain species of sturgeon fish, or the rougheye rockfish do die from old age, but are negligibly senescent: they do not show any declines in locomotive capacity or reproductive capability as the years pack on.

The ring worlder's greatest cultural achievement was finally rendering the Four Horsemen (Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death) effectively null and void by reaching a sufficiently advanced echelon of technological standing. Their nation's fundamental design philosophy was principally predicated on the unorthodox concept of "Gross National Happiness", maximizing this unique measure of national prosperity, and climbing ever forward up the ladder of hedonistic indulgence.

Worrying about the flu or where your next meal is going to come from gets in the way of that hedonistic indulgence.

Still being constrained by the comparatively petty challenges of 21st century human civilization doesn't make much sense for a people who can pump out interstellar fabrication projects at a whim, traverse the stars at frightening velocities, produce artificial gravity, and wield handheld weapons that can turn a modern 60 ton MBT into a heaping pile of molten slag with one pull of a trigger.

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Well, energy shielding is just that, meant to absorb energy, I believe since we don't exactly have true science on this yet. Unless if we're say, a plasma shield, then I think it would be able to negate an EMP missile. As for materials, the EMP just needs to get past the hull unless the entirety of the ship is made of that once substance, not all substances have these kinds of effects against EMP.

Edit: don't quote me on any of this, I'm just relaying what I have learned over the years.

@Lauder

EMP is basically an AoE DEW. Aside from interfering with a spacecraft's sensory equipment for a brief period of time, it's not going to really do much damage (if any at all) to a properly-engineered spacecraft. It's to be assumed that the generality of the spaceships zipping about in this RP are going to be sufficiently proofed against stellar radiation elements (star flares, cosmic rays, ect) and--at least for military-grade starships--heavily resistant to mainstream DEWs that can wreck untold havoc on improperly shielded electronics (in example: particle beam weapons, electrolasers, x-ray lasers, and gamma ray lasers).

They're not useless weapons, but they'd be more effective against civilian targets.

Though, a spacefaring (or non-spacefaring) civilization that's still running mechanical computing technology and vacuum tubes or a nation that has forsaken silicon-based electronic technology in favor of optical fiber cabling and laser-based wireless energy transfer methods is probably going to snub an EMP attack with comparatively little effort.

But that's hard science bullshit. No one wants the fun sucked out of this game with nonsense like that.

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Largest NRPs Ever by post(Top 10)

I think the reason NRP's suffer so much early death is they bring out competitiveness more than other rp's do. It's almost a rule that an NRP must have at least one guy claiming unreasonable powers, fully expecting that he's going to 'Win' and take everything over. The end result is usually bickering in the OOC, which then kills the RP.

@Vilageidiotx

Or they sit in a crippling state of OOC limbo for 25+ pages and never actually start.

World building is fun, but too much of it outside of IC posts can degrade the inspiration of the RP's participants.

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Your race is welcome, and I hope you join the RP, but I won't allow immortality. In fact, I wont allow anyone to live past 1000, and everyone must be able to die of diseases. Super strength is totally fine, long life is totally fine, immortality and disease-immunity is far from it. That's ridiculous.

How do machine "races" abide by those standards?

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Yeah, I might join this. Hopefully it doesn't sputter out after five IC posts have been submitted.

I'll be running a human-esque faction: a 130 billion-strong collective of half-baked transhumans that live on a giant ring installation dedicated to maximizing the personal pleasure and joy experienced by its inhabitants. Think Disney Land and Las Vegas (except bristling with an impressive myriad of weapon emplacements).

They have the usual superhuman fare going for them: incredible physical capabilities and biological immortality. Diseases, both conventional and artificial, don't phase them.

The only difference is that they're a bunch of drop-dead gorgeous featherbrained savants. They're superbly adept at crunching complex equations in their heads and recalling past happenings with photographic detail, but their capacity to engage in abstract thought is severely stunted. They're disgustingly impulsive--very childlike even--and are quite histrionic in their approach to social interaction with one another and with the various alien species of the galaxy. Most folks may find them to be a grade-A addition to any group outing in the beginning, but as the casual flings, rampant gossiping, and pathological obsession with being adored and desired by everyone around them intensifies geometrically, "friends" start dropping off fast.

Some aliens may have learned to manipulate the occasional ring worlder by appealing to their passive narcissism. When applied on a national level, a lone space nation could hypothetically finesse a lot of free stuff out of these airheads if they knew which buttons to appropriately push.

They also have a deep-grained instinct to correct looming disasters in the galaxy (run-away altruism at its finest) but take special pleasure in interacting with very primitive worlds in order to garner their veneration by showcasing their civilization's immense technological prowess.

Wowing Stone Age tribal societies with a pair of molecular disruption claws does wonders for the old ego.

They're an obnoxious lot sure, but the ring worlders have a storied legacy of taking in war refugees by the millions and using planetary engineering technology to reinvigorate the shattered homeworlds of the galaxy's vagrant species when they can get away with it.

I know Sigma picked up humanity a few pages back, so I'm willing to brainstorm with him on how to fit this creation into his faction's history.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

I'm not going to reply to you again. Obviously you are not emotionally mature enough to have these sorts of conversations.