Lucidnonsense

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

EDIT:
Interesting is one way to describe my faction.
Believe it or not they are actually going to represent the "straight man" in this mad-mad galaxy.
Their advanced tech is also sufficiently tempered by their peculiar culture and lack of war experience.

@Willy Vereb

Our nations seem pretty similar, though in general I think yours is a bit higher tech.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

Planets are unfortunately, vulnerable targets, while planetary destroying weapons like the Death Star are probably impractical, a star faring civilization could probably create planetary extinction level events depressingly easily, now if the defender is a star faring civilization they might be able to survive the wasteland but it would surely pay a heavy economic toll.

This makes interplanetary warfare scary, with more Cold War style intrigue than war

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

I might leave as well. I agree with Ophidian about people saying that they are going for the story; but the majority don't keep their word. And I also feel like there's going to be some tension between someone in the near future that would kill the roleplay. I don't want anyone to have a ship that's the size of Cuba, then ensured everyone that they weren't in this roleplay 'to win it'.

If you weren't in to win it, then why have a ship bigger than Cuba? It doesn't make sense.

@The Spectre

Is size necessarily an advantage? I imagine a nuke or a projectile moving at relativistic speed would be capable of doing serious damage

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

BTW, how large are the warships of people?
Mine would be between 200-800m with Vega-class being around 675m.
Although I plan to have my ships being relatively small compared to what everyone else has.

@Willy Vereb

I'm thinking similar sizes 150-1000m on average, but with some larger ships that probably fill a more logistical role.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

Solsys Network

Name of nation: Solsys Network
Species: The Solsys network originated on Earth/Terra and has a large amount of terran derived population.

The Solsys network is a technologically advanced nation that wholly embraces cybernetics, AI and to a lesser extent genetic engineering, The difference between "AI" and "Human" is blurred with the Solsys network as most members are cybernetic lifeforms or fully digital. As the Solsys Network had its beginnings on earth the majority of them are at least based on humans Neurologically.

Description of government: The Solsys network is a sentient social network capable of making decisions based on the will of the people but also not a complete "slave" to mob rule. The Network is distributed throughout Solsys explored space and different "nodes" have some degree of independence. Reputation plays a major role in Network politics and economy, those with a positive reputation tend to get more support and thus greater access to resources. Those who manage to piss enough people off enough might hit rock bottom. Any conceivable thing can gain reputation. Generally, Higher Reputation entities are trusted more so that when they give someone rep the rep means more.

Description of military:
PMC Overwatch: Many Private military Contractors exist throughout Networked space, Protecting employers assets in exchange for sweet sweet reputation. Overwatch exists to police them, those PMCs who join overwatch are given better equipment and are generally better trusted due to the codes they have to follow. PMCs are still largely given freedom of who they work for but "Using force to acquire Reputation" is strictly forbidden. If the need among the network is high enough, Overwatch may organize PMCs into a true military to deal with threats to the Network as a whole.

CommGuard: Commguard is a paramilitary organization who dedicate themselves to defense of Interstellar communication and trade. In a society such as the Solsys network this job is considered of utmost importance. Commguard Security forces defend planetside communications equipment while in space they command fleets of escort ships to protect wormholes and traders.

Technological Overview: The Solsys network shares much in common with the Terran Union technologically, however they tend to have a technological edge over them, especially in Cybernetics. The Network also maintains a vast network of wormholes, most of these wormholes are designed to communicate at faster than light speeds while some are used to transport physical objects from place to place. Recent research suggests the possibility of Moving wormhole nodes faster than light, though this opens up questions about the nature of time. Due to instabilities common in this procedure the Solsys network has been working on "Temporal Containment Fields" which will prevent "Temporal radiation" from destroying the wormhole. Though a shielded wormhole would thus not be a portal through time, only space.

Cultural Overview: The Solsys is fairly multi-cultural however some ideologies have become more common, in general most members of the network are accepting of augmentation technology. Over the years the network has become more focused on information rather than physical objects. Within the network hundreds of subcultures and cliques exist and it would be near impossible to describe them all
History: (WIP till Terran Union posts) The Solsys network traces its routes back to ancient Social media on earth, Early human AIs started to gain some rights through "Legal Shenanigans" one of these AIs was originally tasked with being a social network. This network gained a massive amount of followers becoming the dominant social network in the west. As the old government of the United States began to crumble from corruption and attempts to correct the corruption The Network remained. Under a new reputation based economy the corporate landscape underwent major changes, some old companies could no longer survive while others thrived. Eventually the network spread to the SpaceX mars colony and eventually the entire solar system becoming the "Solsys Network"
While having vast ideological differences with the Terran Union the Solsys network was its ally during the war against Fascism in Europe, The Solsys network and Terran Union still have qualms with one-another but very rarely openly fight, often working with one-another. The Solsys Network created a large interstellar communication network using wormholes that allows FTL communication between Systems close to earth, they plan on expanding coverage whenever possible, The Commguard protects these wormholes to ensure they are not sabotaged by hostile forces.
Other:

Voidhawk

@Lucidnonsense

do they though

do they really make a difference

they can be summed up with "don't be a dick"

@Stekkmen

Depends on how literally and to what extent the laws are to be obeyed. And the intelligence of the machine in question, and information given to the machine

Voidhawk

@Lucidnonsense
who cares

it's a roleplaying game

just roleplay dude

@Stekkmen

You have to understand your character in order to play it, if the laws of robotics are Fundemental I should have a good grasp of how they are defined and how they are applied as these things make a huge difference

Everyone is Jorde [Comedy / Fantasy / Madness!]

Going for one point as well

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

The aristocrats that didnt GTFO and hide in cyberspace with the Network :p

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

Guess I'll have to apply fascist space necromancers to counter

Hider

:^)

@Priscilla

Why do the necromancers gotta be the bad guys? why not like....Doctors who dont take "your dead" for an answer, going around the universe and spitting in the face of death "NO UNIVERSE! FUCK YOU ENTROPY! everyone get some immortality.