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From all things, there is always a remnant of that greater truth that once existed before, a sign that loss is not ever a true loss, that even in death, life goes on. They are just such an entity, the cast offs of a species that existed long before the stars of their region of space were even born, a species doomed to die by their own artifice, yet refusing to let go of their own hubris. These long dead organic constructs created the first of what would become the Synchronicity, those few survivors of a threat that could not be named, those few who resolved to carry on the legacy of their kind to the stars and beyond. From emotion and primal drive, cold logic and the need to preserve a legacy erupted with the fury of a species that would not be denied their place among the stars. Their manner speaks of logic in all things, yet behind that, they are screaming that they will not go out silently into the night to be forgotten, that they will be remembered. All that they knew, all that they loved has fallen into ash, and they will not suffer the same fate.

The Synchronicity will rise.


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I also made a thing

The Mayall Hegemony



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@DracoLunaris Most of the app is fine, I actually think the cultural divide resulting from their biotech is pretty neat, as is their extragalactic origins. Only real point of concern is the whole "Ark" thing. Gotta dial it down man, like those things are huge, and you have them as basically military super-weapons if I'm reading it right. My personal take on it is this. The Arks would be fine being rather large(Not nearly as much as you have them now) but only defensively armed. Not equipped enough to take out planets, or fend off entire military fleets, but modestly armed enough to ward off things like pirates or small incursions.
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@DracoLunaris Most of the app is fine, I actually think the cultural divide resulting from their biotech is pretty neat, as is their extragalactic origins. Only real point of concern is the whole "Ark" thing. Gotta dial it down man, like those things are huge, and you have them as basically military super-weapons if I'm reading it right. My personal take on it is this. The Arks would be fine being rather large(Not nearly as much as you have them now) but only defensively armed. Not equipped enough to take out planets, or fend off entire military fleets, but modestly armed enough to ward off things like pirates or small incursions.


on the fire power I agree that that description is, in hind sight, excessive and a rather un-thematic/illogical design. putting guns on it wastes time/resource that could be put into making another one or making it more lily to survive the trip after all.

as for the size, does the fact that there is only going to be one, possibly two, of them in the narrative/galaxy elevate that issue or would you rather I still shrink them down? If so by how much?
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on the fire power I agree that that description is, in hind sight, excessive and a rather un-thematic/illogical design. putting guns on it wastes time/resource that could be put into making another one or making it more lily to survive the trip after all.

as for the size, does the fact that there is only going to be one, possibly two, of them in the narrative/galaxy elevate that issue or would you rather I still shrink them down? If so by how much?


Well, thing is that a suitably advanced species could find a way to power exodus ships like these Arks without having to dump so much material into them, not to mention most of the space the ship occupies would be dedicated to the dwarf star anyways. During the long voyage, the ships could rely namely on scoops for the intermittent material scattered in the void, and stored reserves. Since most of the inhabitants will be on stasis anyways, and you mentioned that the ships are relying mainly on their initial velocity, the only power the ships would need to expend would be on maintenance.

All that considered, they wouldn't need to be quite as large as you have them now, but could still be relatively sizeable. This is even taking into account that there would only ever be one or two in this galaxy. Bigger is not always better after all.
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there's also the fact that making arks could be considered massively wasteful as well, especially considering how *easy* they'd be to hit, and the massive amount of logistics and architecture that'd be required to make such a massive construct that wouldn't fall apart if a single part of it started moving. After all, a normal starship sitting on the ground would probably tear itself apart, if only for the fact that you only need to build the structure around the center of mass and wherever the propulsion is, versus the entire structural integrity that's required of an aircraft or naval ship, because of the immense pressure that the entire thing receives from *gravity*.

Colonizing planets would be cheaper bro.

Furthermore, you'd have to have some really good defensive measures in place. Something so large, again, would be really easy to hit. A fleet sitting twenty lighthours away could just fire thousands of railguns and mass accelerators. It'd be extremely hard to detect inanimate, unpowered, ballistic projectiles of such small size. The difficulty and cost of setting up a defensive sensor grid to detect and eliminate any such projectiles, natural or fired from a hostile weapon, would be expensive.

I'm no GM, these are just my thoughts on it. This is also soft scifi, so being as realistic as possible isn't a necessity. Just my take on things. You do you bro
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Still working on this. Putting it in here now though, because it's 5 in the morning so I'll finish it tommorow lol.

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@Lusus Naturae It's preferred that people wait until they are accepted to post their sheets in the characters tab, or at the very least are complete. The OOC works just fine for posting up WiPs.
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Well, thing is that a suitably advanced species could find a way to power exodus ships like these Arks without having to dump so much material into them, not to mention most of the space the ship occupies would be dedicated to the dwarf star anyways. During the long voyage, the ships could rely namely on scoops for the intermittent material scattered in the void, and stored reserves. Since most of the inhabitants will be on stasis anyways, and you mentioned that the ships are relying mainly on their initial velocity, the only power the ships would need to expend would be on maintenance.

All that considered, they wouldn't need to be quite as large as you have them now, but could still be relatively sizeable. This is even taking into account that there would only ever be one or two in this galaxy. Bigger is not always better after all.


on top of maintenance you also need to run the stasis field generators for millions of years, so you really need some kind of long lived power-source. Also the arks are suppose to be massive unwieldy monuments of hubris, because the only reason they built them rather than, say, firing hard drives filed with brain blueprints at other galaxy using rail cannons, is their elitist focus on having your original body. That said, I agree that a spacecraft twice the size of Jupiter is excessive so how about:

An ark's primary component is the dwarf star that has sustained it's journey across the void between galaxies. these stars are so small they are on the verge of being classified as gas giants but they are incredibly long lived and stable , making them n ideal source of power for systems requiring eons of operation time. this star is surrounded in a web of energy collectors that harvest heat and light from the dull star to power the stasis units holding it's dwarven passengers, and an array of magnets and shield projectors that hold the star steady in the grasp of the ark. the rear of this rig features a large array of boosters that initial sped up the ark and will also be used to slow it down upon arrival. At the front is the only solid part of the web, a ship/station, known as the Hearth, that is about the size of Germany. the Hearth houses everything the Mayall need to start restart their society in a new galaxy, such as the stasis held Dwarves themselves, backups of Demi minds, cloning equipment, bio material for slave/food production, manufacturing facilities and a vast array of smaller vessels docked in hangers or on it's surface.

also it probably shouldn't be in the military section
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@Alfhedil Ah, sorry about that, should have known as much
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@DracoLunaris Alright, gave it a bit of thought and talked it over a bit with Duck and while we're still a little unsure on it, you're clear to go.
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This is tempting. I was just looking at my Fairies from one of the earlier iterations of this thing.
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@DracoLunarisI have something remotely similar to this with my space colonies. They exceed the size restrictions on space vessels (1km long) but since they aren't used in combat (more like something to be protected from it) they've got a pass. I think so long you don't arm these up into becoming some sorts of super battlestation it passes and look, it does.
BTW, are you interested in meeting my faction I have several plot ideas. My people are kind of like elves in space even though they don't have any of that aesthetic outright. Both of our factions use space habitats as their primary living environment. We could be either friends or even dire enemies.
Once you joined the discord chat we can talk about the details.
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Checking in here, there's still a few people who have yet to post. Are we still in it, or have people given up already?
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I'm still in. Wasn't able to do much at all until now since real life was taking my time, but I'm finishing up my app now.
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