Legion02

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@6slyboy6 Small question. Do you envision a fleet to be highly important in this RP? Or can rebellions remain confined on one planet? I'm asking because I sort of envisioned most of my guys their fleet got wrecked and the small token fleet around their planet was quickly forced to land and never take off again. Again, I want to do this because I want to focus my rebellion on the surface for now.

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@Sophrus The Ascendant-class guys will either be in hiding or be used as a sort of forced police force. I actually don't know to what extent we are allowed to keep our armies. My guys will start out as underground rebels. In a way I want the rebels to "unlock" more powerful troops and such by liberating sub-orders. Right to the point where they can bring a genocide to the human population. But again, it sort of depends on what the GM has in mind.

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@NecroKnight Just to be clear, not every single one is capable of psychic, psionics or even magnetic manipulation (which they do through tech btw).

They all have latent psychic and psionic abilities. Technically none of these are good enough even to use to they must use implants. Civilian-class implants have no psychic abilities and only minor psionic ones. It's good enough to life your cup. But you're not gonna throw it really hard or anything like that. They are just used to interact with their enviroment (something my guys will love to do).

Then you have Ascendant-class implants. These are the useful ones. However, their potentional is more focused on omnidirectional rather than focused down one lane. IE: they are jack of all trades, master of none. These are the ones that will allow you to throw a rock hard enough to hurt someone, raise magnetic fields and yes, slightly manipulate someones mind. However, any sentient creature can really defend against it. It requires effort to do from the attacking side but if the defensive side takes effort, they'll easily block the attack.

There are various sub-orders (it's detailed in the NS) whom all focus on certain aspects. So yeah, there is a sub-order that focusses on mental attacks. Why are they still alive? This is a fair question. I'm still looking for a good reason to be honest. So far they are obviously confined to a certain space (their monastery) which is under heavy guard. I could say the EOD is interested in these psychic abilities but again, I'd prefer to leave that all open.

So yeah, my basic defense is: there aren't many that can screw with humans, they are currently locked away so my shadowy rebellion force cannot use them. That is, btw, a common theme in my NS. Most of the military sub-orders are locked away or suffered heavy casualties. If @6slyboy6 feels like it, obviously he could say the humans have psychic shields.

I hope that's satisfying for everyone.

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Wait, what?

@6slyboy6

Didn't I say that? I'm fairly sure I did. Well, half maybe. When I saw someone basically going full space magics I thought: well in that case, I can ramp my stuff up! I'll try to apply the rule of cool as much as possible in efforts not to make them appear OP but the basic mindset remains the same: aliens that get really old but very few of 'em are left. If you prefer I switch something up, please do tell me.

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@Ozerath Actually I'm making a race of psychic/psionic creatures that additionally use magnetism to achieve their means.

Castle of the Immortals (Reboot)

Victor
@KimmiNinja
What did bring him home? It certainly wasn’t the allure of meeting his siblings again. Nor did he really have the duty towards his parents. It happened before that he missed a decade of his mother’s birthdays because he was too busy elsewhere. So what brought him home? Today of all days specifically? Well, he long decided to return on a certain point. To catch up a little. He wasn’t soulless. But he truly wanted to see how it was going with his elder siblings. For the past few years, a small voice had formed in his mind. A voice that said that he was better equipped to be heir than any of the others. Of course, he loved his brother and sister. If anything would happen to them, Victor knew he would mourn them deeply. What he really was hoping was that his father would see reason, finally.

Nik wasn’t ready to be heir. He’d never be ready. His softer spoken, less demanding brother wasn’t fit to be heir and most around knew it. Maggie certainly had the grace and intelligence of being heir. But even in her he found something lacking. He always guessed it was ambition. Though, he himself wasn’t perfect. None of his siblings was a stranger to their father’s rule. They had to find a mate before they came of age. It was the one flaw that probably blocked him the most. It was the one demand he’d have to convince his father to scrap.

“Family.. friends.” He answered Sarah’s question with a smile. His mind was screaming to add: you. But again, that would be too obvious. Too dangerous. “So, how are you holding up? With Alice and such?” it was rather straightforward. But he asked the question often. Of course, with Sarah things were different. When he a question like that, those who knew him well knew what he was asking. He was digging for a vulnerability. A weakness. A thing to hold over people’s head. Opinions that could be rather harmful. Or just generally test the waters of the always charged relationships of his siblings. No to so with Sarah. His question to her was genuine. The only ulterior motive he had was that he wanted to see if he could do something. Nothing direct, obviously. But often he tried to do little things to make her life easier.

Castle of the Immortals (Reboot)

Post is in the making. Just churning away at the details.

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@aonly9470 I can't say if your concept gets accepted or not. However, most GMs prefer that you don't post your character sheet in the character tab before it gets accepted.

Further, I'm just taking a guess here but I don't think "stats" are really that much of a thing here. I'm guessing we're mostly going to play by feel. As the first post in the OOC says: you start out with a small task force.

Thirdly, and this is because I'm a bit confused, what kind of corporate group are you talking about? Humans? Why would they somehow rise up against their emperor? Or are they Xenos. In that case, PR would be permanently screwed. What are their plans? Motivations? Why are like they are and why do they like they will?

Again, I'm not GM or Co-GM. Just curious.

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@ClocktowerEchos Oooooh they were MADE by the AI. Must have misread the thing. I thought you were the AI and your creator race was slaughtered by the humans...

I'll keep my idea for now and see that it doesn't come too close to what you guys are doing... I hope you don't mind.

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@6slyboy6 Guess I'll get my concept pass you to see if it's okay. Disclaimer: I try to use a lot of "rule of cool".

So the general idea would be that my guys are really long living (and small, not Yoda small, think about 1.50m in general size). So most of them reach an age between 300 to 350. They live on a rather high-gravity planet with a VERY strong magnetic field that blocks some of the harmful cosmic rays and also holds the atmosphere in place. Which also keeps a lot of those cosmic rays out. Which is rather useful considering they fall outside the goldilocks zone (on the inside way, IE they're too close to the sun). So, despite the magnetosphere and atmosphere, the planet is still very hot but tropical. This, rather unique, situation causes a lot of metals and stuff on their home planet to be strongly magnetic (there are a few metals deep inside their ground that are superconductors at room temperature).

These aliens will be called Relicants (derived from the word Relic) by humans. Generally, because they have a very unique way of thinking. They are master artificers. In other words, whatever they make is of high quality and generally, lasts a lifetime (Relicant lifetime). Because they can grow to an age of 300, most aren't really in a rush so they perfect their skills. Engineers are as much practical inventors as they are artists. No human can really boast that their creations are as good as those of the Relicants. But obviously the production output of humans is near ten-fold versus that of Relicants.

Relicants, further, heavily encompass energy weaponry, magnetic fields, and railgun concepts. They have a low reproduction level so every Relicant is important (which means that there aren't many left, not near being extinct but their home planet will count 70% humans). In essence, Relicants use suits that can project energy fields or certain objects that can be supercharged before thrown (and then they explode in a very nice orb of energy). To give a general idea, I'm aiming to use science to replicate space-magics and I'll try to give a semi-scientific explanation for every tech used.

So what's their general deal? Well for starters, they are absolute zealots. Peaceful ones, luckily. But they believe that in a way they are either seeded on their planet or uplifted by their gods. Which live somewhere in the universe. Human propaganda obviously says they uplifted them. During the human invasion, the Relicants weren't really prepared for a war but still were rather compelled to do so. Which lead to a slaughter of their kind and the immediate pacification of their home world. Now humans mine their precious world for those superconductors. If you got more questions or anything, feel free to ask.

So what do you think?