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Working through the weekend and I'll have more free time by Monday.
Also the title is totally a place holder I suck at titles yo, suggestions welcome.
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Cello, I made a thing, here it is. I also added some information to the IC. Some of it is just paraphrased things we already discussed but I did make a couple additional log pieces that I'd love y'alls opinion on. I had an idea on how we could even the field and represent power armor. I am basically thinking spartan style armor minus all the plot armor.
Terror On Galaga


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Grand Imperial Duchy of Man


The GIDM has been around for centuries. They are solely responsible for the breadth with which humanity has explored the known universe. Their infrastructure links together thousands of known and unknown systems throughout the known universe. Hyperlanes, deep jump gates, transit lanes, anything that contributes to the growth and colonization of discovered space finds roots with the GIDM. Like all things though, the GIDM as it was known eventually had to come to an end. With the death of the previous Holy Monarch the GIDM fell into a perilous civil war that resulted in the fracturing of all known space into a multitude of feudal societies. Various houses now rule systems they’ve carved out of the chaos themselves. Some tend to be more civilized whilst others have practically slid back to the dark ages of man. For centuries man spanned the universe but now the sun sets on a golden age and terrors unknown whisper in the dark fringes of known space.

Holdouts from the GIDM still remain though far too weak to exert any form of authority. Those who remain also tend to disagree between themselves on how the GIDM should exist going forward and thus they remain fractured. An unknown number of GIDM capital-ARK ships remain, entire archaeology ships housing immense numbers of GIDM citizens and personnel. These ships tend to be accompanied by GIDM support cruisers and assault carriers and the fleet tends to exist in a nomadic state. GIDM ARK fleets tend to vary from fleet to fleet, some see themselves as upholders of the law whilst others might seek some form of imperial tithe. GIDM fleets typically attempt to form relationships with local holdings in order to guarantee some sort of save zone to resupply and station the fleet as they travel.

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Taurus

Sector G5 - Galaga System - Galaga 6


Taurus is the capital planet of the Galaga system. House Balam controls Galage as well as the 5 neighboring systems. Taurus itself is still a rough frontier planet undergoing terraforming. As such most of its buildings are pressurized and its major population centers exist under domes.The actual terrain of the planet is windswept and sun-scorched, its current atmosphere strong enough to maintain air pressure but unable to protect from harmful solar radiation. As such the landscape is windswept, varying from flat unending plateaus, deep wind gouged canyons, sprawling salt flats, and deep acidic oceans. The landscape is rough and terraforming has been and shall continue to be a challenge, but out of all of the planets in the Galaga system G6 presents the best opportunity.


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Gotcha, gonna handle that later this evenin.
If I was on vacation or something, I'd knock together full sheets for the fighters and let you all play them out as a combat tutorial but I think I am too tired these days.


All too relatable.
We could do power armor but could we discuss a way to limit it? I wanted the RP to kinda blend in horror elements too so I don't want us to be too indestructible all the time.

Perhaps it's not good for indoor engagements due to bulk? Limited power supply? Idk these are just spit ball ideas, what kind of power armor do you guys feel would fit best?
Well it looks like we got ourselves a lil squad here if @DeadDrop is down, I'll see if I can work up a few documents for world-building and maybe an incident report or some documents that'll give some better insight towards the overall image. In the mean time if y'all have any ideas you'd like to see included I would implore you to share.

I would also like to reiterate, as this is important to me, I am down to put in some groundwork to get things off the ground but I do not want to be the sole fulltime GM here. I am hoping the four of us can all cooperatively build the universe and the story that follows together with equal consideration for each other. I also don't wanna have a lot of work, so yea.

In the meantime here's what I've drafted as an initial character hook.

We are 4 petty officers that formulate a special tactics squad aboard one of the ark colony ships, designated SCAS Mother Theresa, a proud holdout of the Grand Imperial Duchy of Man, or GIDM. the GIDM was the dominant galactic force in the galaxy at the height of it's reign. It's borders stretched from edge to edge and probed beyond the rim into parts unknown. Such a vast size easily grew unwieldy and, as all things do, the GIDM eventually came to an end. With the death of the emperor as well as a mysterious enemy chewing on the outskirts of known space the GIDM fell into a civil war that shattered the empire in the the hundreds of fiefdoms it exists in today. generations have passed and the GIDM is all but lost, several ark ships remain drifting through space as self sustaining holdouts of imperial power but remain far too thinly spread to have any hope of truly reuniting and reforming any sort of authority.

All of these factors have left the known galaxy in a state similar to feudal Europe.

House Balam rules over the Galaga system and 5 of it's neighboring stars. House Balam and the Mother Theresa have had a long standing mutually relationship of trade and military assistance and thus when the capital of their minor holding G6 "Taurus" comes under invasion from an unknown foe the GIDM are contacted for military aid. Our squad in particular will be dispatched on VIP retrieval to the capital city of Taurus which seems to be under the heaviest assault. In universe our enemy is mostly unknown, merely whispers exist amongst the highest echelon. We will be broaching horrors that have yet to be witnessed by the masses and although we shall potentially be high-powered killing machines our tactics and technology will not be prepared for the complete shift in paradigm that our new foes shall bring to the table.

For our characters, and all those others located in this universe to be, things are fixin to get a whole lot worse before there'll even be a thought of things gettin' better. Hope you guys are still interested in tagging along for the ride!
I was also thinking the bugs would be like a mixture of Starship Troopers and Helldivers for inspiration whilst playing off body horror and biological repurposing like in dead space. Also loosely thinking of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis which is that zombie ant fungus as the inspiration for how the bugs repurpose and utilize the corpses of the dead.
While I do have some notes my overall goal was for this to be a collaborative effort between the group as a whole rather than we solely running anything like a GM. With that said these are the ideas I had that I felt sounded kinda cool, but nothing set in stone.

Wide open multi-factional universe, I wanted to have a religious cult fanatically assisting our main antagonist faction as both willing hosts and other methods of cooperation. Think unitologists/dead space vibes. Was thinking that slightly post-apoc inspired with humanity having once stretched the stars before a major event caused a fracturing of human society to the point that many holdings are now independent feudal states spanning anywhere from a single solar system up to 6 at most, many of these fractured factions creating a patchwork quilt of feudal states for the RP to take place in.

Also wanted to include a cyborg-based pseudo-science transhumanist isolationist faction, somehow. Maybe we'll antagonize them ourselves.

Also thought old imperial colony ark ships might be the holdouts for the prior galaxy spanning human empire, so like traveling ark ships of super militaristic gung-ho for the empire type jarheads running around.

No other sentient life forms except for the bug menace and it's progeny. Plenty of weapon variety, plasma, laser, ballistic, anti-matter, experimental shit, making sense isn't a prerequisite.
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