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Kinkaz said
You must be extremely bored to write it on TV Tropes :PHowever, I still have the question of wether I can create and control multiple nations within my area so long as it's balanced.

Sure, I was kind of doing that with the original AIF, though it didn't show all that much.

Also, it's summer and I live in America, where summer is a bajillion years long. Of course I'm bored!
Fun fact: The TVtropes code is absolutely impossible to use. Took me an hour to figure out how to make something bold and italic. Turns out you do this:
'''''This is too complicated'''''
Would become:
This is too complicated

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Kinkaz said
After more than a year of being content with the Star Empires existing but not so much else, I finally got intrested in this. AyaeridYirav:These species are specially adapted to thrive on water, although they can survive on the land (if it's not, say, 2 km above the ground).They have two eyes on their heads, but they don't see very well outside of the water but they do have a good sense of smell in the land due to their large noses. They have small horns across their chests and backs, which allows them to listen to stuff.Their skin is elastic and strong. When they are born, their colours are dark gold, dark orange or dark brown. However, as they grow up, they grow lighter and after they have meno/andropause they also start desaturating. Those who mananged to live the longest either had little traces of their former colour or they simply were very light grey.The males are usually bulkier than their female counter part and their colors are more varied.The females, however, are usually bigger and they have darker colours.The average lifespan of a male is about 45 years and females 47. Their sexual hormones start acting after they are 10 years old and by the time they are 16 they are fully able to breed without any major risks due to the mothers short age. By the time they are 30, they start having their meno/andropause. Theocratic.The major religion of this nation is Yerahaedism and is the official religion of the empire (explained on the other section). Basically the nation is ruled by the Yerahid of the Talkani branch of Yerahaedism. The Yerahid, according to the Talkanis, is literally handpicked by the gods and given demigod abilities. Therefore, any opposition to him is considered blasphemous and can result in prison until the "blasphemer" retracts his former statements. "Blasphemers" are often put into an orwellian regime, in where they can't martyrise themselves and they have to stay there until they are finally convinced. After that, they are put back into society. The second violation means death penality.There is a parlament which supposedly rules along with the Yerahid, but the Yerahid may always expel someone without proper reasons, as supposedly his word is above every single mortal. The Yerahid also has 20 votes on the parlament, thus it's a very corrupt place. Due to the ever-rising threat of secularism and other forms of liberalism, they need to have a strong military. Their fleet rallies about 300 ships (I don't know how many do the other people have but if it's definetily too OP, tone it down to 100 or 50) but after a secularist rebellion, they are planning to expand the fleet. Their fleet is mostly trained for revolt suppresion, anti-guerrilla tactics and it's mostly focused on defense. Automated turrets on the orbit are quite common but there is also a large population of turrets in the asteroids and moons. The Yirav developed in the galaxy in peace for tens of thousands of years until the interdimensional crisis kicked in. Their small nations were destroyed, their species went extinct on almost all the planets they colonized and the few which survived were kicked back into the neolithic. Due to the fact that most of the survivors were in planets where there was little process in terraformation, it took them a lot longer to develop, some even dying out. Eventually though, they mananged to adapt and around the same time their technological developement pace was changing too. By the time they got back in space, though, they already broke into different species, each taking caracteristics of their new homes (some have longer lifespans, increased land tolerance, etc.). The planet of the Ayaerids, known as Choyowei, was the average planet for any of the broken species. It wasn't the most hospitable planet they could have, but it was survivable.Fast foward to the foundation of the Ayaerid nation. The Ayaerid Empire was created by the union of extremist Yerahaedists (circa what we could call the 17-18th centuries) as a response to the ever-popularizing secularization in their lands. The nations of the of Choyowei were very unfortunate, since the new empire was very large and covered areas with strategic resources such as oil, uranium and food. One by one, the nations of Choyowei fell one by one to the sword of the Yerahaedists until the planet was conquered (by the period we could compare to the times of the scrambling of Africa).This conquest caused the planet to develop a lot slower than it would normaly do so and 4 centuries had to pass until the Choyoweian Yiravs emerged into space a la Neil Armstrong and 5 more for actual space colonization (save for a few exiles which mananged, at an enormus risk, to get out earlier. If I'm allowed to make multiple nations on the terms of the Other section, I will expand their history and make a republic for them). However, they developed surprisingly fast, and another century took place before they colonized the whole solar system.(if I'm allowed to have multiple nations) Around the same time, though, they discovered other Yiravids, and they weren't happy at all. The first spaceships outside the solar system were military spaceships created in order to smite the infidels. They expanded very aggresively due to their absolute intolerance to infidels until they were met by a large coallition to halt their aggresive expansionism. They were utterly crushed, reduced to a few core systems and were forced by the Treaty of Sniuatera to recognize other nation's religious rights. However, a few centuries later, they infiltrated the governments that succeded them and had much of it's territory returned.(if I'm not allowed to have multiple nations) After a few centuries, they decided to expand and crushed the still-primitive governments that ruled the planets they conquered. They crushed their native religions mercilessly and assimilited their population rapidly. This caused a major eruption in rebellious secularists, which for a time occupied most of the empire. They were forced to allow certain religious tolerance at local level, but the government structure changed little (save for the creation of the parlament, which continues to this very day unchanged)(in both cases) However, no matter how oppresive or legitimate the government is, eventually liberalism will strike from the shadows. An ever-growing secularization movement is growing among the population and it has been caught despite the people struggling to keep it on secrecy. The amount of arrests show that this rebellion will be quite bigger than the other exponential rebellions the empire suffered. Will the Yerahid keep control of his empire and this one rebellion remain as one of the many rebellions? Will he be forced to quit some of his powers? Or will he be overthrown? Now that my app is nearing completion, may I create another nation and a couple medium/minor nations (all of these with the same species of course)? I'm not going to use it as a bridge to ultimate galaxy blobbing or to make a gigantic alliance (unless everyone wants to exterminate them off the galaxy or something like that). I say this because it feels quite unrealistic that, unless this just happens to follow the same technological timeline of futuretimeline.net, the whole species are part of one nation. In addition, just for general benefit, may I ask that someone draws a map?

Accepted! Nice to see you again.

As for the map, I think it's actually a valid thing in this case. Because we can keep track of the entire area. However, I won't be making it because I've already spent an entire day on a TVtropes article. For the roleplay.
I think I may be addicted to Void of the Stars.

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On the bright side, the Kalle system is 40 light years away from any other system, so they would have something like fifty years to prepare for the Tyranid invasion since they have no FTL. Given the insane adaptiveness my humans have shown in earlier RPs, I think Lakfakalle might just stand a chance.

Of course then there will probably be an extra-universal invasion of doom. Because we can't have anything good happening.

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OH, IT'S ON

"Humanity, a worthless smattering of bigotry and hatred. Every day, thousands die because they dared to say 'No', because they stood up for themselves. I once thought humans could be redeemed, that perhaps one day we could all hold hands as brothers and sisters. On that day we would reach out to the stars, confident that we wouldn't disappoint those twinkling dots of light that have called to so many good people of the centuries. But that was never to be. Instead, the first murder over the word 'No' that made the news caused others to follow in that despicable human's path. They became an accepted part of human society, death over disagreement, murder over refusal! The mindless slaughter never ends, ten million left across the thousand worlds of the Dominion, and more dead every day! Sentient life always ends the same way, in bloodshed! I cannot allow this infection to continue, I will cleanse the multiverse of the plague that is intelligence!"
-Fergus McClain, All series 31513131514 timelines. Unaffected my Multiversal War.

"Stars, twinkling dots of hope in the night sky of my birthworld. They call to me, beckon to me, tell me 'Come home, you don't belong there'. They're right, but I cannot abandon Terra. This world needs me, I will not give up hope on the human species. They have potential, and I won't leave until I unlock that potential! I'll make you proud! I will accomplish the mission I was given so long ago, and not even then shall I return home! I will unite the universe, planet by planet, no matter how diverse the species, we will come together in peace as one great alliance! I don't care that I will have to violate the laws of physics, I don't care if I need to be cursed with truly eternal life, I will enhance the lives of every single being! No... I won't stop at this universe, I will continue onward! The infinite multiverse shall be as one, and nothing will stop my mission of peace!"
-Fergus McClain, all series 85185 timelines. Unaffected by Multiversal War.

"I'm just an explorer, I want to know everything there is to know. It will inevitably have to end in my death, for no living being could ever hope to know the greatest mystery of all; what is beyond the grave. I know it sounds impossible, but I just went faster than light, anything is possible."
Fairlan Miklan, all series Alpha timelines. Affected by Multiversal War.

Oh goody! The Broodmind... hmm, do you think we have room for even more evil?
*appropriately insane laughter*

Colonial Powers NRP (Reboot/New Thread)

For reference, the Bay colony is called Kwedolobhakalleny (Pronounced Kwe-dolob-hakalle-ni), the other one is called Spexhultny (Pronounced Spex-hult-ni, meaning New Spexhult). IN the event that you haven't figured it out already, adding the affix "Ny" is the same as putting "New" in front of a world in Vanjanani.

I was going to give you a picture of a Vanjanan soldier, but I couldn't find any image to edit and I can't draw. So instead you get this excuse.

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That sounds like something the Boskops would do, with a little help from the Abh and humans of course.

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreSpecial
What with alien invaders eating all life, I think this is probably going to come up soon in classic VotS manner (See: Running out of ammo, launching escape pods like missiles, then ramming with warp drive).

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MrFoxNews said
Ships cannot escape, and messages cannot be sent out.

Until I regain Planespace technology, but that'll be after a lot of research. And probably lost ships.

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MrFoxNews said
Name of nation: The TyranidsSpecies: Tyranid GenusDescription of government: There isn't one unless the Ultimate control of the Hive Mind is a GovernmentDescription of military: The Tyranids are an extragalactic composite species of hideous xenos that is actually a space-faring ecosystem comprised of innumerable different bioforms which are all variations on the same genetic theme. The Tyranid race is ultimately dedicated solely to its own survival, propagation and evolutionary advancement. The Tyranids collectively form a monstrous superorganism that travels across the universe in their great Hive Fleets of biomechanical Hive Ships, systematically consuming all other biomatter to enable its own rapid evolution and reproduction. All Tyranid organisms are synaptic (psychically-reactive), and each Tyranid creature within a Hive Fleet shares and contributes to a communal Hive Mind, which allows the trillions of beings comprising the Tyranid Hive Fleets to communicate and organise instantaneously on a staggering scale.The mentality of the Tyranid approach to warfare can be described with the phrase "quantity has a quality all its own". From the "lowly" Ripper, to the deadly Hive Tyrant and beyond, the signature of the Tyranid species is that they overwhelm their foes with sheer numbers, reproducing massive numbers of highly virulent organisms in record time from the biochemical soup that they derive from the biospheres of the worlds that they consume. The components of a Tyranid Hive Fleet travel almost exclusively in large groups known as swarms that possess specialized biomechanical creatures for destroying and consuming a wide variety of prey life forms. Tyranids have evolved sophisticated methods for facilitating genetic transfer across species boundaries. As a result, a significant goal of any Tyranid invasion is acquisition of useful new biological traits from other lifeforms. These are used by the Hive Mind to enhance the Tyranids' effectiveness in consuming new worlds to gain more of the necessary organic raw materials for further reproduction. All Tyranids are reproduced by a single, highly intelligent female bioform known as a Norn-Queen. A Hive Fleet's Norn-Queens are the most important Tyranids within the fleet, for if they are injured or killed the Tyranids cannot reproduce their numbers from the captured bio-mass. As a result, Norn-Queens can be found only at the heart of the largest and most-well defended Tyranid Hive Ships. History: The Tyranids first appeared over the distant Planetary outpost of Tyran thus gaining their name. The Tyranids. The current Hive Fleet is Hive Fleet Chimera a seemingly more advanced fleet actually making contact rather than only destroying everything. Other (Culture and the like): Tyranids fleets have an effect on Warp Travel and communication. If this effect works on other forms of FTL and communication remains to be scene.Once a new race is consumed Tyranids will incorporate useful DNA from said species into further evolving themselves. The Hive Mind controls all aspects of the Tyranids. The Hive Mind is an incredibly powerful Psychic Entity that does not exist in the physical plain. As a result Tyranids cannot be mind controlled in any way. If an attempt is made at reading or controlling a Tyranid it is likely the Hive Mind would actually take control of the Attacker.For a species to communicate with Hive Fleet Chimera a host must be given and incorporated into the Hive.

Disrupts warp travel and communication? This sounds delightfully horrible for me.
ACCEPTED!

Oh yeah, I should probably point out that if you;re playing as a species that will basically never negotiate, I will be much more lax with the your ship numbers. Because it makes for really good story to have a seemingly unbeatable enemy.

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Lakfakalle
'The Rigel system?" Said Admiral Spoor "We detected FTL comms signals from that area, they matched up with intelligently designed broadcasts transmitting information. There's definitely something there. If we take the fact that there seem to be very few civilizations in the galaxy with FTL comms technology into consideration, that increases the change of Sylve being present. As I'm sure Captain Oras already told you, we can't send scout vessels out due to the expense of our FTL drives. However, if the scout mission finds anything, then we have a secret military project nearing completion at the gas giant Hyphelia, where we get most of our sublight fuel from. We discovered an ancient vessel, equipped with a completely new FTL drive that our scientists say created a pocket universe around the vessel. Its weapons are just as advanced as its engines as well, the same antiproton streamers found on our warships and multiple missile launch tubes. We are outfitting it with a warp ring, and luckily it has a neural link system that cam be used by us Abh. If we can complete its refit in time, it could prove valuable in the war on Sylve."

Krugor-4
"We hear you, it certainty is nice to know that the planet wasn't attacked recently. Unfortunately, we cannot turn around due to the nature of our drive systems. We are transmitting the coordinates of our homeworld to you now, in case you wish to make formal contact."