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The Summoner's Labyrinth

Gawd, the time its taking us to get anywhere with this xD

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Several pings are picked up by Nakat, and a few moments later a single electronic message is sent to the planet. It is a basic, single word message followed by a name

Talk? -S'Ark

Meanwhile, a signal is sent in the direction of Planet N-1 from the retreating plasma ship, which is fleeing away from L'Er space

Truce? -S'Din

((S'Din are the minor Hive responsible for the raid on Planet N-1, just to clarify))

The Summoner's Labyrinth

Time to cross my fingers and hope all goes well...

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Sorry Boerd, missed your post

What has happened that I can recall

Conflicts:
Raid on planet N-1 (L'Er vs Valkian)
Assualt on Outpost A-5 (L'Er vs Eternal Union)
Battle above Earth (Terrans vs NPC)
Sol first contact skirmish (Terrans vs Eterneal Union)
Ethereal Gathering search (Ethereal Gathering VS NPC)

Diplomacy

Eternal Union and Terran first contact negotiations
Mandolorian and EU first contact
Sazkatjhit and EU first contact

I may have missed something though, but I think that's pretty much the gist of what's going on

To answer who's the biggest, in terms of planets alone, almost certainly me or the Custodes, but most of my worlds are owned by individual minor hives with little capability, and most of those of the Custodes are basically wild life sanctuaries, I believe. In terms of truly developed planets, Duck's certainly up there.

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duck55223 said
Not without bumbling around and alerting them first.

Not quite true, that major world you have floating around near the station. Presumably it uses a lot of energy, yes?

I assume I at least got the information from one of the infected that this world was "near" to the station, and even if not the quick arrival of the BCU implied that your nation probably had more nearby.

So I have an area to scan for signals and energy readings etc and once they are found I can follow them back to the source and show up on the doorstep.

Edit: Also, should we continue in a PM so we don't continue to drown everyone in our discussion

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So Boerd said
As in, wolf, John Galt types over the history of Humanity from Rome on recieved visitations and invitations as they were about to be jailed or killed by revolutionaries or Communists or what have you. If they refused, their memories of the event was wiped. If they accepted, an exact replica of their body was used to fake their deaths.

Accepted then, unless keyguy has any reservations

That's a shame duck, ah well, good thing I can still find one of your worlds pretty quickly...

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Alright, let's not continue on that line because neither of us will agree and it doesn't matter anymore, we'll talk about that if and when that bridge needs crossing

Are you still entrenched in your position that your people do not know the general area of any of the planets?

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duck55223 said
There is emergency power but Darkwolf assumed there wasn't without asking me.

Just to clarify, I assumed you would activate back up generators in your next post to bring emergency lighting on line.

Right, Boerd, as Duck pointed out the Terrans haven't left Sol yet, I would assume you would have to have found humans from elsewhere (Considering we already have other humans outside of Sol such as the Mando's, just replace any mention of Terran with Human to avoid complications). Unless you mean something other than what I'm thinking when you say invited? Apart from that, I think all's good.

ASTA said
I think it's less about mod powers being abused and more about several individuals in this roleplay having a very poor sense of scale when it comes to weapon yields, weapon performance and the capabilities of military forces and production. For example, I don't know why people are fretting over the cost of things. Once you get into space and start mining asteroids, planets and moons using sophisticated automation technology, generic Earth-like economies (capitalism specifically) cease to be relevant. Everything basically becomes free and fielding truly massive space fleets is possible. The only thing that isn't free is time, I suppose.Additionally, a starship that can fire solid projectiles at .50 percent of c makes me seriously wonder why the Terrans haven't conquered the entire galaxy yet with their version of the SDF-1 or Space Battleship Yamato, because firepower of that magnitude makes several things come to mind:1) The material sciences of the Terrans. A barrel (or a twin-rail system) exposed to the tremendous forces of a projectile flying through it at 0.50 percent of c would have to be forged out of near-godlike materials. 2) The power generation of the Terrans. Accelerating a projectile to 0.50 percent of c is indeed possible using standard starship engines, but this process would demand many years of accelerating to work. To get a shell up to that speed in an instant would require hyper-advanced power generating systems (no, antimatter won't cut it; you're going to need exotic matter for this, or a massive reactor that would spend an ungodly amount of time charging the power-banks for this weapon ), some sort of capacitor that can safely store that amount of energy and discharge it immediately without exploding and some way to deal with the absurd amount of waste heat generated by this thing.3) Some tachyon weapon that can destroy Australia with one shot.4) And a 'cruising' speed that's ten times the speed of light.Basically you've made a ship that can solo every nation in the roleplay with impunity; the engineering and scientific capabilities of the human species makes that of every other nation's in this roleplay literally look like chimps banging two rocks together. I'd hate to see what the FTL speeds of this thing are.Also, worms that can eat through body armor. Alright. Now all we need is Wilson to come in with an impenetrable PD field that makes all missile technology obsolete.EDIT: I'm not asking for people to adhere to Hard Science, but the shit I'm seeing is flat-out ridiculous.

I am assuming ducks armour has joints and aren't solid metal all around. I don't think its unfeasible for an organism to tear a hole in the materials used to cover joints.

Also, yeah, a map sounds good

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duck55223 said
Ever heard of a thing called Martial Law, all police forces(and in this case the stations security force) have a stock of military grade weapons if martial law is ever needed. Quarantine in the Eternal Union is considered Martial law.And even then if it was just small arms the guards are in suits which the parasites can't access, see how well you do charging even just 2 police officers armed with hand-guns. Guards are most likely guarding the power, and being in the maintenance section would have you on the ground quite fast during quarantine.Combine that with the fact that the section of the station the infected guy was in had at most another 2-3 guys and maybe a single guard on patrol you would not be able to build up a large enough force to take on the guards.

So what you are saying is...

Your civilian stations contain more security forces than they do civilians? What is this, some kind of 3 guards per capita system?
Next time, tell me information about the spread of habitation area's and the numbers in them when I ask for "Anything else I need to know" or let me know at the time, because you know, it just makes sense rather than announcing after the fact "No, you only have three people" -.-

Duck, you have to be clearer with designations, "civilian station" implies it is mostly civilian manned and operated. This clearly isn't, or you pulled a 180 (For no reason right now)
Speaking of stations, isn't this an outpost? Wouldn't that be designed in a cost effective manner... Like not allocating every guy and him mother a personal suite which can be fully locked down at a moments notice.
Speaking of which, how big is this outpost, that the section I am in takes me longer than it takes the EU to bring another ship in to cross, and still only to have gotten one small collection of suites because the others are ages away...

As for charging people with handguns, I am lying in wait for them, massive difference. I'm presumably already close enough to grapple with you, even if they get seen. Oh, and considering we're in darkness, would it not be considerably more difficult to exit and immediately find and kill the would be ambushers? They're basically been told there is a disease on the station, yes? I don't know how many diseases you have encountered which lay ambushes, but I feel they probably wouldn't be looking for ambushers right outside the door -.-

Furthermore, are these security or some form of elite unit? You know the burrow rule was made specifically to bypass "I have body armour, you fail bang", why are these specific suits untouchable? Have you forsaken joints which could be used for the worms to create a hole for entry?

And all of this is still irrelevant, why are you bothering to dwell on this specific section when you already blew up the station -.- can we get back to talking about what IS still relevant?

The Summoner's Labyrinth - Recycle your old characters in my new idea.

From my experience, godmodding has generally been defined as making your character godlike and controlling other players characters as in auto hitting

I would assume that being able to dodge everything would fall under godmodding, as it is a godlike attribute.