Klomster

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

@ASTA The point is to create depth in the setting, and to try having fun with an alien mindset.

While it seems indestructible, i have thought of how it can be beaten.
And it's not omnipotent, not at all.

I also created the faction considering that all the other players will have powerful factions of their own, with several worlds filled with denizens whom work in many fields, furthering their races potentials.
They will have massive fleets of warships, large armies and planets filled with industry and defences.

I will be severely outnumbered, and to not risk being annihilated because i wrote an oopsie some time, i created the faction this way.
And most importantly, sure, i have large military potential. The species is not interested in conquest. Since i guess it lacks the concept.

And this is a initial draft, if the gm doesn't approve i'll change it until it works.

And don't worry, i have no intention of going.
-"Mah speehs ship is so massively awesome, it goes to the cat peoplez and PEW PEW PEW. Cat peoplez deadz. Lulz!"
The faction will have some sort of mission within the galaxy. That will need the interaction with the other species.
Sometimes through force, but mostly with diplomacy. Which won't be this factions strong suite.

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

I shall then strive to make my ancient as interesting as possible, so i can play it within the campaign.
Do note that i will not be playing in the same way as the others, which i did plan on beforehand. Just so people aren't confused about how my faction/race works.

Also, i will write the info hidden. So that if you want to as a player, can not know how my race works so it's more of a mystery.
I think it would be more fun that way :)

The ancient

Name of nation: The ancient.
Species: The ancient.
Description of government: Monoteistic meritocracy.

History:The ancient is a being, born of the universe and has existed perhaps as long as the universe itself, it is basically impossible to know since the age of the universe, and how the ancient interacts with reality is impossible to track.

The ancient is a singular being, for large spans of time residing in slumber, only to emerge in regular intervals, or when its current resting place falls apart from the passing of time.
There are no actual reports of the ancient in any official data-banks. And if there is any data on it, the data is vague and often religous or mystic in nature.
The sheer age and difference between how most races contrary to how the ancient works, results in very little understanding about the being.

Description of military: There is the ancient. No more, no less.
Technological Overview: Whether its technology or some sort of natural phenomena naturally present in this life-form is not known. What is the truth however is that the ancient is a being of pure energy, able to take physical form. Change its form at will and as such also compact or spread out its form. Able to change its light spectrum to make it appear as a dark idol, or pure light, to invisible to all but the most sophisticated of scanners.

The ancient is also able to slip in and out of hyperspace as naturally as an human infant swims in water, able to naturally traverse the expanses of hyperspace and leave at any time.
To be able to travel the galaxy like the ancient is a wet dream of most civilizations. If they knew the ancient did exist that is.

Being a lifeform of energy, it can survive in basically any environment. And can in close proximity (within twenty or so meters) manipulate matter with thought.
It can move at immense speeds and can reroute energies directed to it to divert it from harm.
While it is probably not 100% control over matter energy conversion, the concept of at all being able to do it is alien to most species.

In battle, the ancient can project beams of matter energy conversion. Which basically orders the matter it hits to release itself as energy.
Unsurprisingly, if directed at an object like let's say a vessel, would do immense harm to said vessel.
The beam is however ineffective against shield technology, but the ancient can reconfigure the output so it streams energy at the target instead trying to overload the shield emitters, or suck the energy out of the entire vessel.

This makes the ancient devastating to fight with just about anything, so being on the receiving end of its fury would probably spell the doom of said aggressor.
Cultural Overview: The two preferred forms of the ancient is as a very tall (about 4 meters typically) slim humanoid with a triangularly shaped head, or as a roughly six hundred meters long vessel in space. While it can take other shapes, it normally doesn't.
Probably simply because of lack of imagination. And no need for other forms.

The ancient is a contemplative being, preferring to study things and avoid personal contact or interaction with most things. It is also peaceful, unless it is aggravated.
If aggravated it is most likely to try to exit the situation, but if cornered, or in a particular mindset can attack the aggressor.

The ancient has some sort of ulterior motive. Which it focuses most of its active time doing.

Other: The ancient is obviously very powerful. And should be treated with great care.
(Also, its a single ship/person. Flying about figuring out its own problems. It is therefore balanced, since it is not warlike, nor does it hold a great force.)

Please tell me what you think Keyguyperson. If the race lives up to your expectations, and if there is anything that should be tweaked.
I will also Pm you a question.
When/if the race is approved, i will add it to the approved races and try to figure out my introduction.

Also, is there an official update time on this? Like every day, or once a week or something. Just so i know so i don't post too much/too little?

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

I will post my final idea into the character tab. Since i haven't decided if i want to play the bugs in this campaign.

Since i got another idea.

You may decide which one you'd rather see. Bugs, or the ancient.

Babylon 5 spoiler. And comparison.

Have you watched Babylon 5? If you have you would know there are a select few single ships whom travel that space in solitude. They are of immense power but keep to their own affairs.
The idea was to be a single ship, of immense power. But lacking a civilization.

The plan was to be a mysterious entity of space, whom (with difficulty) could become a powerful ally in a war.

The ancient idea enables me to actually interact with other civilizations, and move with a purpose.
This and the bugs are horrendously under-powered compared to the other races.
I mean no spaceships, the hives while efficient at taking over eco-systems have little to bring in a larger conflict with an organised military.

Stellvia [Sci-Fi]

OKi, i'll just copy paste this one.

Stellvia [Sci-Fi]

I will post my final idea into the character tab. Since i haven't decided if i want to play these bugs in this campaign.

Since i got another idea.

You may decide which one you'd rather see. Bugs, or the ancient.

Babylon 5 spoiler. And comparison.

Have you watched Babylon 5? If you have you would know there are a select few single ships whom travel that space in solitude. They are of immense power but keep to their own affairs.
The idea was to be a single ship, of immense power. But lacking a civilization.

The plan was to be a mysterious entity of space, whom (with difficulty) could become a powerful ally in a war.

The ancient idea enables me to actually interact with other civilizations, and move with a purpose.
This and the bugs are horrendously under-powered compared to the other races.
I mean no spaceships, the hives while efficient at taking over eco-systems have little to bring in a larger conflict with an organised military.

Stellvia [Sci-Fi]

Oh, the bugs are the second idea. Grim and all that stuff.

The first idea was the glorious empire of the Trymg, with UFO's (Unexpected Flying Object) and dropships. Whom look as age of sail wooden ships. And are in fact armoured in.... wood.
Trymg are armed with Lazors, and are small peanut shaped things with suction feet, and speak in adorable chirps.

Trust me. They are silly, but perhaps i could enter them into a not so serious rp sometime :P

But fun stuff aside, i'll post up "the hive."
Note that this section is directly copy pasted from the old thread, and as such include an diplomatic leader character, since this was required in the last rp.
While it can perhaps be useful at a later stage, that character will not exist from the beginning.

I will put the text up hidden, so you can check it out, if approved i can modify it to better suit this rp. :)

Oooh, the hive, soch scary name....

Race name: They carry no name, when they speak of themselves the refer to themselves as "us" or "the hives", others mostly call them bugs or some other
degrading name.

Planet of origin: The planet which they originated from is unknown, but a few probable possibilities exist after calculating their spread and
triangulating to the middle.
Planet visuals: A planet in full control by the bugs tend to look barren, since forests and the like tend to be destroyed, but shrubs thrive and the planets are generally kept evenly hydrated and fertilized.
This takes a very long time though. But in the end, the entire planet looks mostly like a forest of large bracken, easily 2-3 meters high.

Average life span: It highly depends on what type of specimen within the hive is at question, but mostly 1 year for the vast majority.
The queens live for several hundreds of years though and the warrior specie lives up to 5 years.
The newly bred ambassadors live for about 30-50 years.

Settled planets: The problem with the bugs is that they have no diplomatic borders, and generally spreads without the consent of anyone else.
They generally appear in a wide radius around their supposed home world, and spread to all worlds within that area.
No matter if someone else was there or not.
This has left the species overlapping borders and without any borders of their own. As they appear more like a menace than an empire.
They don't attack other however unless resources on the planet they have settled is scarce or if the residents wander to close to their hives.

Common features: They are bugs, in all the gross forms imaginable. And they can with some work spawn new types of themselves.
One thing that groups them together is the fact all of them (in one way or another) has six legs situated on their stomach, two mandible arms often shaped like a mantis arms and they have three sections of their bodies.

They are also very resistant to natural hazards, like poison and radiation, and adept at mutating to better survive different climates.

The common specimens are:

Workers: A 2 foot long cockroach with ant like body sections that digs most of its life, other workers collect food and/or builds.

Warriors: these are generally up to 5 foot tall, but grow their entire life, and some reports speak of specimens up to 10 feet tall. But they are rare.
They have a rather high ground clearance compared to the workers and look more elongated, more slim.
They have flaps on their sides which resembles wings (but they cannot fly) which they unfold to appear bigger, this is to scare off trespassers.

Queens: Few have seen one, and they appear mostly as huge larvae.

Ambassadors: To try to blend in with other races, the bugs have tried to spawn a type of ambassador. More similar to bipedal species they walk on only two legs. But otherwise are as horrid and gross as the others.
They stand 7' feet tall. (Think district 9 prawns.)

Other: Variations exist locally. Flying specimens are common to be bred on some planets where flying will be useful.

Spoken languages: Unknown. Linguists are confused over their communication, they believe they use sense, smell and sound as well as some kind of
telepathic communication.

The ambassadors can speak all languages if they spend some time learning it, but they have difficulty with speech and often stutters or speaks slow and clicky.

Written languages: No. The ambassadors can learn to write other languages.

Levels of leadership: All is controlled by the hive mind, and by its extent its queens.
The higher the concentration of bugs the higher their telepathic abilities.
The communication between worlds is difficult, and can only be made with large societies.

Back-story: Wherever they go, they are disliked and feared. As long as is known, they have been around making it perhaps the oldest race in existence.
If they happen to colonize a planet with warlike beings they tend to be in for a conflict. Most never care to realize that the bugs are sentient, and see them only as a pest.

This has left the race disliked at best, since the race have countless of incidents with most other races in existence.
That they have shown interest in the new federation shocks and confuses mostly everyone. Mostly because few knew they were sentient.

Technology: They are biological. When a society is large enough (most commonly when they have taken over an entire eco-system) they are capable of launching space pods. These pods contain everything needed to create one hive.
One hive usually have about 600 workers and take up about one square kilometer under ground.
The hives rarely have large enough entrances for anything larger than workers and as such, warriors are bred inside but move out to live the rest of their lives outside the hives they protect.

Warriors usually fight with close quarter mandibles and or spit a super corrosive acid that can melt most known substances. Not equally fast naturally but its qualities have never really been reproduced by any scientists.

The hives reproduce VERY fast, a hundred new workers can be hatched in just a few days, and that's when they are not speeding up the process.
The specie can (and have been) a great nuisance or even eco-terror several times because of this.

New types of specimen are never spawned unless the hive is large. (About 5'000-12'000)

Allies and enemies: This race doesn't consider itself as being at war with anyone. Several other races complain and say these "bugs" have needlessly attacked and killed dozens, hundreds and even thousands in some stories.
To their defense the bugs always claim it was self defense and/or necessary for the longevity of the hive.

This has most races have a in-built dislike and disgust for the bugs.
Mostly since they appear at random and starts to colonize without any-ones consent. And secondly, they are horrible nasty creepy evil bugs who live to feed on your corpse and to destroy your planet (according to everyone else at least)

That's my race idea, it's a low power space empire race but on a planet they are very hard to deal with. Since they live underground and like bees, most can transform into queens if it is a panicked situation. Of course, only one queen per hive.
They have no space craft except the space pods, which are launched at random. Although they have an uncanny ability/luck to actually hit habitable planets.

Character

Real Name: Unknown, he is a bug. (Get him a suitable nickname in-game, it should be down-looking but he wont mind.)

Title: He carries the title "Ambassador"

Rank in culture: Ambassador primus, since he is for some reason extra smart and telepathically strong, he can with great concentration and solitude contact nearby large hives.
It is although exhausting. Other species able to sense telepathy will hear a constant buzzling and/or clicky mess around large numbers of bugs.
Around only this guy it's not to bad though and can easily be ignored.
A telepathic alien would NOT want to spend time on a massive bug world, they would be mentally exhausted by all the telepathic noise.

Appearance: If closely compared to other bug ambassadors, he will appear smaller and darker, but otherwise he's indistinguishable except the fact he has deep blue markings on his hide.

Backstory: The Zuntrak was going down to inspect another specie when they met him, the specie reported huge problems with bugs and that the bugs were (evil and bad) and destroying their eco-system.

The Zuntrak observed the purification of a hive when this specimen approached, hands raised.

The Zuntrak spotted the obvious surrender, but the locals wanted to execute all bugs so the Zuntrak of simplicity took him prisoner so the locals couldn't harm him.
It became known (for the first time ever) that the bugs were not mindless destroyers, but a sentient race, that now had a voice.

The locals eventually exterminated all bugs on his homeworld. But the ambassador never showed any signs of revenge.

He now lives with the Zuntrak, acting as a diplomatic envoy of the bugs.
Seldom respected by most species, but the Zuntrak believed in everybody having a voice, and a chance to be in this galaxy together.

Age: Now the ambassador is believed to be about 10 years old. Since he refers to himself as "He spawned two warrior lifetimes ago"

Personality: Very respectful, never rash, never angry he is a pacifist in person, but can suggest anything. Almost apathic and his ignorance of everyone except his kind (which in his world is always right)
He can completely rationally and calmly without emotion suggest the annihilation of entire species since they would harm the hives.
He lacks emotions other sentient races has, and this worries many.

Weapon of choice: Woe betide if he ever came in a battle, he is no warrior, he doesn't have blade arms, nor acid spit like the warriors.
He has been given a small energy pistol for self defense, but it took a long time for him to implement its concept to himself.
He has two warriors as bodyguards though, but these are not welcome at all anywhere and mostly only leaves his quarters in dangerous situations.

Small facts: The bugs produce nectar, it's similar to honey in how it's made but contain more kinds of nutrients, it doesn't look to nice but it tastes sweet and is very nutritious to most species.

This can be bought from the bugs, although the payment they want is what resource is lacking in the local hive.
Only large hives has the ability to produce more than they need and an ambassador needs to be present.

Although most consider nectar as vile and disgusting (it's made by the evil bugs after all) by some it's common goods and to some even a delicacy.

My character in a battle is probably another ambassador. They are the only ones who can convey orders from non bugs and try to implement concepts the bugs don't use.
Like march to somewhere, attack and generally anything that is not defending their hives.

Reading this you will notice some things are not fitting. But i imagined a single pod crashing down on my starter planet, the pod having travelled from a distant galaxy (and thus with no hope of contacting them) but begins its natural process of reproduction.
This will result in me having a humble start.

If you don't like this idea though i can remove it. After all, the specie needs to fit the setting.

Interested in hearing what you think.

Edit:I just noted a flaw in this races design in this campaign, since they lack proper technology a lot of things will be negated to them. Like interstellar communication. And i'll have to come up with some reason the pods can travel between planets in a reasonable space scale speed. :/
In the original setting the race was old and established, and as such have been sending out pods for a very long time. Explaining the interstellar "travel" possibility.

The concern i have is that i might miss out on some of the diplomatic action, and should consider another species.
But for now i'm going with this.

Stellvia [Sci-Fi]

Sooo, first post on the site here.

I was considering joining, so i gathered this is where i post my nation idea?

The initial plan was to reuse a species of bugs that i used in a game on heresy online, but which sadly died from disinterest.
So i could simply use it again :D

The race only space capability is seeding pods, so why the empire starts small is logical. Since it starts with a pod landing on an uninhabited planet.
The race is in my mind an ancient race, but isn't overly coherent, so this new world would have nothing to do with any previous planets or expansions. Since the pod might/probably originates from outside the known galaxy.
Or i just modify it and have it newly emergent.

I was considering using my first idea, but since you didn't want silly species i'll keep it to myself.