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Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Yeah, alternate universe. If we kept the name Star Empires and just increased the number, this would be Star Empires 4. There was a reboot that wiped away the events of the original, it's been about 53,000 years in-universe since that RP began.

Colonial Powers NRP (Reboot/New Thread)

Kwedolobhakalle, United Vanjanan Empire
"A name?"
Sigfrid and one of his closest advisers were meeting in the capital's square, which functioned as a community garden. As such, people from all walks of life ended up talking to each other. In fact, right next to the two was a man wearing the simplest clothes money could buy speaking to a woman wearing an elegant green dress, both of them holding potted plants. In most free market states this would never be seen, but Vanjana's history made it possible. Being a nation made up of of immigrants and refugees, all with differing views, tolerance was somewhat necessary to survive. Somehow, the Ancient Vanjanans figured that out and worked together despite their differences, resulting in the highest GDP in the known world. Probably where their 'Diversity equals stregnth' doctrine comes from.

"Yes, Jade. They're naming it." Said Sigfrid's adviser, clothed in formal wear in contrast to Sigfrid, whom was wearing what appeared to be an unfinished naval uniform.

"What names have been suggested so far?"

"New Germania and Vivayah, you know what the first one is and the latter seems to just sound pretty."
Sigfrid began to laugh in his own signature way that sounded like he was about to suffocate, and the others nearby also laughed.

"Oh, that's a good one my friend! Now, what are the actual names?" Sigfrid asked, misunderstanding his adviser's statement.

"Those are, Jade. They actually put those forwards."
The laughter in the square only got louder, especially Sigfrid's. The fact that they actually expected those names to win the bid deeply amused the crowd.

"HAH! Send in the name Ithembany (Ee-temban-ni,New Hope in Ancient Vanjanani), It'll be the only name with any meaning! They'll have to accept it! Give them a bid of ten billion Fryas, nobody could resist that!"

"Understood, Jade. But there is also our colonial expansion to worry about. One of our vessels was attacked for no logical reason in the area our colonists refer to as 'Nataljiah Bay'. The battle apparently stopped when both sides retreated and we solved the land dispute by moving our colony over a bit. Both sides sustained minor damage that can be repaired at the colony. The Representative House has granted the colonies full command over the ships sent with them. They have kept the damaged Brig and another Brig, and sent the rest of the ships back to pick up new colonists to be deposited in the same areas. They have requested 700 new Colonists, Ten Cows, ten Pigs, ten Chickens, new ploughs, twenty-five horses, a years supply of food (Rationed, preserved) new axes, new farming equipment, more Fryas, new Cloth, and the fleet will of course carry the belongings of the new colonists."

"Very well, they may have that. Prepare for their fleet's arrival. If you need me, I shall be writing a letter to Lord Finch."

"To Lord Finch? What could you possibly have to talk about with him?"

"Nothing you should concern yourself with."

Letter to Lord Finch of Numburg from Jade Sigfriv Halvar
Dear honorable Lord Finch, I have recieved your message regarding your recent scientific endeavors. I have wished such a thing were possible for many years now, as has a close friend of mine in the literary community. He has come up with multiple theories on the subject of flight, but neither of us was ever able to figure out exactly how to build a flying machine. Instead he took his ideas to pen and paper, he now writes novels in a genre he calls science fiction, about ships floating in the air using what he calls a 'burner drive'. He got the idea while starting a fire, the flames rose, so he decided to put a cloth bag just above them. It flew upwards, thus he got the idea of manned flight using such a device. As you seem to be quite interested in flight, you may have heard of his works before, the book is called 'VSS Pandora: The First Skyship'. Anyways, the United Vanjanan Empire is willing to assist in your research project. I have ordered posters to be put up asking for engineers and scientists to apply for the project, and I am willing to donate money to the project. I do hope we can accomplish flight, it would mark a great advancement for the human species.
-Jade Sigfrid Halvar, Vanjanan Royal Office

Outside of Kwedolobhakalleny (New Kwedolobhakalle), New World
It was a wonderful day, the sun was shining, birds were flying in a cloudless blue sky. Yes, they were birds never before cataloged by any Vanjanan in history, but they flew just like the birds on Edoniras. Close enough for the colonists to eat. Even the land animals seemed similar to those back on Edoniras, most of them having four legs. A clearing on the outskirts of the colony had been used as a place to build an outpost to allow for further exploration of the area, perhaps the explorers would even discover natives. Such an event could occur sooner or later than thought, but either way, the United Vanjanan Empire was determined to be the first.

A young soldier ran though the jungle, separated from his exploration partner. He looked behind him every few moments, incredibly frightened by the creature that separated him from his partner. Cutting through the jungle plants frantically with his detached bayonet, he eventually came to a clearing. Running through it, he realized his boots were leaving footprints beside others, left by bare feet. His mouth dropped open, but he kept running as his instincts demanded. The spotted orange creature grew closer to him, much better adapted and used to the jungle environment than the soldier. His musket was loaded, but he had to keep it inside its sheath-holster (Vanjanan soldiers carry their rifles like swords) to allow him to use the bayonet to cut through the plants.

He saw a clear path, and turned to use it, completely unaware of the fact that the path was covered in bare footprints and that the dirt had been packed in by heavy use. He looked behind him once more, and saw the face of the savage beast just feet away from him. He yelped loudly, and picked up his pace even more. At this point, his elegant uniform was torn and blood from his various small cuts contrasted the white coat worn by all soldiers. While his uniform was making him hot, he refused to take it off. Not only was his musket in a sheath-holster attached to his pants, but his upper uniform had his name written on the inside. If he died, he wanted to make sure everyone else knew who he was.

The path soon faded away, and he had to continue cutting the flora with his bayonet. He soon found that there was a reason for this, as he fell into an incredibly fast-moving river a few moments after he left the path. He was hitting rocks in the shallow river, but he couldn't feel any of it. All he could focus on was the orange, feline face stating at him. Unfortunately for him, this feline wasn't afraid of water like the ones back at home. It jumped in after him, growling menacingly as it swam closer and closer, expertly dodging the rocks. Having nothing else to do, the soldier took the musket out of its sheath-holster, and fired at the predator, creating a deafening noise that could undoubtedly be heard anywhere in the area. Being so close, the musket ball hit the savage creature right in the head. It became limp, but with the threat gone his mind returned to the sensations of its own body. The pain overtook him, and he blacked out.

My leg doesn't work
It was the only thought the soldier could muster, staring up at the blue sky. At least he was out of the river and alive. He used his other leg and his arms to roll himself onto his stomach. He was on the sand next to a huge lake, with multiple waterfalls and rivers entering into it, and one leaving it, undoubtedly towards the ocean. He curled up to look down at his leg to see what had happened, and that was his mistake. When he looked at it he saw it just within the lake, torn to shreds with blood streaming from it. His uniform was ripped and bloody as well, but the image of his leg overtook him. Vanjana hadn't fought in a war for decades, and he had never seen an actual injury, much less such a savage one. He let out a bloodcurdling scream as the sensation of pain came to him. He returned to his former position, looking up at the sky. He began to silently pray, no, it was more of him calling out to the universe in a desperate attempt to be saved. Besides, he had been agnostic all his life, so its not like he had any specific god he believed in.

If there's anyone out there, watching over us, don't let me die like this! I'm only twenty six years old, let me see the world! Let me accomplish my dreams! Don't let me die at the side of a lake seven thousand kilometers from home! I'll do anything you ask of me, just don't let me die here in this unknown and unnamed land!
The water around his leg became progressively more and more red with his blood, and he began to give up all hope of surviving. But perhaps he would, perhaps someone would find him and rescue him.
Or something would find him. At this point he would look welcome such an event.

Xbox One

I would buy a PC instead, you get a lot more power (sometimes for less) if you can take the time to figure out what you need. I managed to get my computer for $750, and it is infinitely more powerful than an Xbox 1. Of course, if you build it yourself, then you could get a PC of equal power to the Xbox 1 for a lower price. PC exclusives (like EVERY 4X EVER), multi-platform games, and even mere console ports usually have better graphics coded into them than console games do. Why? Because you can change a PC, PC graphics can be as insane as developers want, because they know the people who will buy the game can upgrade to handle it at any time. Consoles, on the other hand, cannot be upgraded. That's really why you should get a PC, because you can always upgrade it at the pace of hardware development, instead of needing to wait years for the next console to come out. If you look at this image, you'll see what I mean:



While a console may be easier to set up, you'll get new games first, and will appear to be perfectly fine, after just a few years your console will be horribly outdated. Illustrating this idea as well is this picture, comparing GTA V scenes from PC and Xbox 360.



That's why I would choose a PC over any console, because they are capable of adapting. If you already have a PC, then upgrading it for gaming isn't that hard unless it's positively ancient. It really is as simple as inserting Tab A into Slot B, then downloading the right programs. While upgrading independently is theoretically possible with a console, I suspect it would require an expert. With a PC, anyone capable of lifting the part can do it. As well as all that, the PC has entire genres of games that are nigh impossible to play with a controller, like the 4X genre. In fact, I would say that games are easier to play on the PC because the controls make quite a lot of sense, but that's probably just because I've been playing on the PC ever since my family got one. I'm pretty used to keyboard and mouse. Most indie games are also PC exclusives, and if you don't play indie games, then you;re missing out on amazing things. Along with those indie games, a lot of great classics are PC exclusive. Sure, you need to run them in comparability mode or buy them off of GOG.com, but there are some genre-defining games there, mostly in things like 4X and RTS, because as I have mentioned before, controllers are atrocious for those kinds of games.

In short, Consoles of all types are perfectly fine for short-term activities. If you want something that will last, go PC. If you really, really want a Console, I would wait for SteamOS, because seriously, Steam discounts. In the end, it's all up to you, but I honestly think PC is your best choice. You can disregard that if you want, but I cannot see a logical reason to do so.

Various Scifi Weaponry and Destructive Potential

So Boerd said
Firing at the speed of light would require infinite energy, and firing over is similarly impossible.

Exactly, the railgun weapon is completely impossible (unless you equip every projectile with an FTL drive). Honestly, in a far future setting where corvette class ships have the power to violate the laws of physics simply using the "MOAR POWAH" philosophy, we would see nuclear bombs as primitive devices. Antimatter weapons would rule the battlefield, a single bomb taking out an entire continent. There would be railguns that fire projectiles that contain antimatter within them, taking out starships with a single hit. To take out the shields though? Just good old railguns (provided the shields are at least somewhat similar to literally every other sci-fi energy shield). Just a thought here, what if the shields took the mass of physical attacks and the energy of, well, energy attacks and used that to power the system? There wouldn't be any "Shields at 20%!" the shield core would simply short out after a sufficient number of attacks were thrown at it. You could even take it a step further and have the attacks used to power the entire ship, so when the shield goes down, the entire vessel is disabled or destroyed, depending on how dramatic you want it to be. Going with that would give you an excuse to use projectile weapons over energy weapons, as mass converts to absolutely ludicrous amounts of energy. That's why we won't get teleporters for millions of years, converting a human body into energy would probably blow up the entire planet.

Also, it would be nice if you would keep me updated, I am most certainly interested in this!

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Sukui said
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Accepted!

Colonial Powers NRP (Reboot/New Thread)

gowia said
Vinsanity was accepted a while ago he has just struggled to get a sheet up.

Ah, okay. Sorry about that, I didn't remember the name.

As for the skip, I'm ready.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

You can reply, the ships did just now leave the system, and are still in realspace and capable of picking up messages.

Colonial Powers NRP (Reboot/New Thread)

Vinsanity said
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I don't think we're accepting anymore.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

duck55223 said
Few thing things to say if you do do that1.They wouldn't have any magic what so ever, Faust is not letting anything Draconian in origin get there hands on magic unless she really trusts them.2. Because a majority of Pegasus's flight ability relies on there magic, if this race had wings from a Pegasus they be restricted to short leaps and dashing with there wings.Stick those two things and Im fine with you doing that, otherwise no.

I think we have established that Faust isn't the only deity out there who has magic, she only controls Faustian magic. Perhaps another deity gave their own magic to them... or perhaps someone else did.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Ortels System
Having recieved no response, the LCF fleet jumped out of the system, believing the distress call to be the remnant of some ancient civilization going through its death throes. On the way back to Lakfakalle, the crews mourned those who had died fifty thousand years ago, having no idea who they had been or who they were fighting.

Negative Mass Production
A new negative mass factory has been completed on Lakfakalle, along with part of the moon that is being converted into one huge factory. This will allow the LCF to support twenty new standard size space vessels.

Lakfakalle, Exploratory Command
"Welcome to Lakfakalle." Said an Abh woman, wearing blue and purple military uniform much different than that worn by the crew of the Terminator "I am Admiral Spoor of the Abh Imperial Space Force. That might sound official, but we don't have any vessels dedicated to it, since we're a military organization. I was assigned here as director of military operations. I hear that you are here to discuss the Sylve threat, and also that you believe you have found their HQ."

Kalle System, Hyphelia
A Delphan clad in foreboding dark black uniform looked out into the turbulent orange expanse below him, the atmosphere of Hyphelia. The planet was a gas giant, but even in its turbulent and inhospitable atmosphere life survived. Its atmosphere was made up of heavy elements, allowing oxygen and carbon dioxide to float above the thicker part of the atmosphere. In that oxygen lived alien creatures, huge biological blimps floating in the heavy gravity of Hyphelia. Algae covered the thick clouds below that tiny pocket of atmosphere suitable for life as we know it, floating on top of nothing but thick gases. All life was somewhat photosynthetic, as creatures could spend weeks without meeting any other being due to the sheer size of the planet. However, most of the time small groups of about a dozen creatures floated through the air in search of brighter areas and other creatures to eat. There were rumors of beings with hands, using the hollow bones of dead creatures as weapons for hunting and tools for building. However, any construction would require a flotation device or else it would pierce the cloud/algae layer and sink to the bottom of the planet, where it would be compressed to become part of its super dense core suspected to be made of diamond. And such a flotation device would require gas from a living being, and one close by... the implications were not something anybody wished to discuss.

The facility floating through the alien atmosphere, ancient symbols confirming it to be a construction of the Aif Empire. It was one of thousands of Aif building found on the planet, kept afloat by negative mass. The creation somehow manipulated the gravity within its walls, allowing species from lower gravity planets to survive. It was a little known fact that Hyphelia was the center of all fuel collection. Massive scoops protruded from the bottom and top of the floating stations, descending and ascending into the other levels of atmosphere to collect gases such as xenon, hydrogen, and even oxygen. There was simply so much there that taking it away for rocket fuel had no effect on the local life. However, along with all of this fuel was a much more exotic substance collected at certain points in the planet's magnetic field; antimatter. Hyphelia had extreme amounts of the substance trapped in its magnetic field, perhaps caused by the arrivals of ancient Aif Empire starships slowing from FTL velocities using antimatter engines with slight leaks just like all other antimatter propulsion devices. Whatever the case, due to the dynamics of Hyphelia's gravity field the antimatter settled above the poles in a geostationary orbit, allowing easily collection using specialized vessels.

However, this facility had been built with something other than fuel collection in mind. Instead of huge collection spires, it had a massive drydock attacked to it. Inside was an interstellar vessel, rusted over the thousands of years it had laid inside the drydock. Markings identified it as Aif, but the design was completely different. It was completely grey, and had a long spire protruding from the stern. The vessel also had a central rod running the length of the ship, connected to it were four modular constructions that continued up until the engines and the spire. It had ten antiproton streamers, and dozens of missile launch ports. In the place of a warp drive it had two cores similar to the device used to keep the gravity inside the facility at reasonable levels. After many years of study, it had been determined that the device was capable of generating a space-time bubble, a mini-universe that encased the structure it was installed on. One of the cores was most definitely for use as a gravity generator, but the other generated a much more intense field. Since it had no apparent FTL propulsion system, the scientists assigned to study it came to the conclusion that the vessel used another universe with compressed distances and a higher speed of light for interstellar travel. The universe must have been inhospitable for life from our own universe, and thus the vessel required its own universe within a universe.

The only question was, how did the vessel enter this alien universe? It had no device that could be used for such a measure. The only theory that the scientists could come up with was that there was once some sort of gate system, allowing passage between the two universes for the purpose of interstellar travel. They seem to believe that this form of FTL would be much faster than warp drive, but just like the defense platforms, nobody has been able to cut into either of the cores to figure out how they operate. Unless the Equestrians figure out a way to break the protective material, the secrets of the ancient Aif Empire interstellar transport system will never be revealed.