[quote=@Liotrent] Excuse my rude attitude and somewhat violent reaction when I say, DAAAAAMN THAT IS NASTY! That is some pretty potent stuff you're suggesting to use in the RP, it would be interesting and developing tactics against what is essentially a reanimating fungus is going to be difficult, especially since the use of biological weapons would make it hard to confront your race in any head-on assault, any projectile that reaches any of our ships would technically render the entire ship a health risk, especially if the projectile penetrates the hull (Unlikely to happen but it can happen).[/quote] I suppose this is technically true, but even in today's society there are procedures for combating bio-hazardous outbreaks, and rampant bio-weapon pathogens, that are more creative than quarantine and more aggressive than cultivating a herd immunity. If this character were a chess piece I would say it's the knight (moves in weird L shapes) and requires very indirect thinking to both play, and play against. The spore infection is not instantiations, and success is not guaranteed upon first contact, and is as a result is not something that's just carelessly bandied about. The more it's deployed in circumstances outside the Great Web's control, the more likely it is for the humans to capture a sample and begin working on a counter agent (that would require the great web to counter). To date its effectiveness is has been determined more by the care in which it has been used than its innate characteristics. If it comes to the use of a chemical attack (which the Perennials are prone to do) then it wouldn't be the spore infection they'd shot your ship full of. It'd be a neurotoxin, or a paralytic, or any number of other 'conventional' biological weapons. [quote=@Liotrent] Just a question, cause I've seen there is a diplomatic element in your race, would they be open to a diplomatic discussion if approached by any of our alien compatriots, or by the Human resistance which is basically a carbon copy of the Black Knights from Code Geass but with a few changed elements. [/quote] Yes. That's why there are three different types of listed contacts that serve as forms of diplomats. Gretchen (the direct diplomat) Alalia Wallice (Spyamaster), and Myriam 'Mac' Mackenzie (indirect contact). There are several avenues of negotiation available through leaders in this society because it is built heavily upon espionage and reconnaissance. That is because they are very much in a "watch and learn" phase of development. [quote=@Liotrent]Because as I understand it, a continued existence for all races would be in your best interest, if your race works the way I understand it to work, which is consume bio matter and integrate it into the whole as it works with different levels of integration as some sort of caste, if that is how it works, then there could be some arrangement that works for the benefit of the whole of any one of our organizations. (Correct me if I'm wrong)[/quote] This is also true. Consider the extreme (and unlikely) scenario that the species were to consume and integrate everything in the universe. Like any other plague it would, eventually, burn through all its hosts and then fall from ascension (because there's no sentient hosts left propping it up). This is not a desirable outcome, and so it's not a thing that just runs rampant. [quote=@Liotrent] I already have an idea that might seem of interest however it might be somewhat difficult since I still need to read it again and analyze it more than a few times for a deeper understanding of everything. [/quote] It's supposed to be difficult for more for myself than those I'm playing with. For me RP is a matter of challenging myself intellectually. As an unavoidable consequence others will be challenged as well. It's my hope that such an experience may help enrich the players and story I'm involved in. It's a philosophy of tabletop gaming I've developed as DM that I've basically taken with me everywhere else. [quote=@6slyboy6] However I think you need to explain your race better. I don't fully understand them or their ambitions, which is fun for the RP, but a real headache as a GM.[/quote] What specific details would you like me to expand upon? Simply the ambitions, or is there some other aspect of governance you would like to see fleshed out as well? As for ambition I consider the race to be in its infancy. To begin with its core ambition is to carve out a place to call its own while it comes to understand all the very very alien cultures that surround it. There are several ways it can come to understand them but in short it's a non-human race that thinks and behaves in non-human ways trying to understand and exist in a universe mostly dominated by humans. It's difficult to put that in a box. So, instead, I'll try explaining how and why each Perennial Prime is a prime and what affect that they've had on the great web thus far. Aria Summers - The Grand Matron (Priestess) One of the first humans consumed by The Great Web (that does not possess the genetic abnormalities that they have been targeting) became a member by giving herself unto it. She brought with her some very 'hippie' philosophies of live, and let live. To peacefully coexists and be be one with nature. This has given the Great Web an understanding that it can coexist with humans but her willingness to become a part of nature has been a bit misleading for the Great Web as it does not accurately represent the motivations of all humans. Evangelicals proclaim that humans are temporary. Ethereal. And that (individually) their souls are more important than their meat. To an evangelical humans are engines of war, and of peace, depending on what wrong needs righting if any. Alalia Wallice - Marketing Specialist (Spymaster) Rather than being a psychologist, sociologist, or some other student of the mind the Great Web has taken on a Marketing Specialist. Marketing is very much the manner by which humans see other humans and understand them on a way that few others do. Unfortunately for humans the average Marking Specialist takes a fairly grim view of humanity, and the Great Web is not so biased (by being human) as to care how unflattering the picture is. Marketing, and Evangelicals who believe their own doctrine, both possess and train similar skills with two obviously different perspectives. Marketing sees people as commodities and the source of money: engines of industry. Dr. Xaith Calhound Simulating human intelligence is not something the Great Web itself can do and that is the specialty of this Complexity Theorist. Dr. Calhound's experiments and creations require a hard, unemotional, and unbiased look at humanity for what it is and the Great Web could not ask for a better source of information. For as much as the other Human Primes do to interact with the societies of the humans, and their population, this human helps the Great Web postulate on what it means to be human. While the good doctor is not a point of contact for the humans to interact with the Great Web, he is none the less an important link to the humans for the Great Web. Gretchen Gravage - Colonist (Diplomat Prime) A woman of humble beginning, Gretchen has become the fruit of the the other three human's experiences and philosophy. By herself she's an unassuming old woman, and nearly an empty shell. As a Prime she's been filled up with--and built up as--the Perennials' ideal human. While on a galactic scale she's little more than a sock puppet, she serves as a gauge for what the Great Web considers humans to be. When humans interact with her and find her disconcerting that is because there is a discrepancy between what they think they are, and what the Great Web thinks they are. Because the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K1Kd9mZL8g]Uncanny Valley[/url] is a thing, there will always be discrepancies. In short, because the species is so alien, humans are equally alien to them. And since the worlds that have humans so vastly outnumber the worlds with Perennials they need to first understand what it is before they can decide to take action on it. Other than that I expect their motivations to develop more based on what the humans do and how they interact in the RP.