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Stardust [Sci-Fi Political Nation RPG]

Awesome! Just one last question, do you want me to tell you where the Void Children are currently or just leave them as a nebulous entity off the map?

The Dark Ages [ALWAYS OPEN]

Behind his mask Petruccio grimace, he recognized the smell even through the herbs that were stuffed in the beak. Opening the door he strode into the dimly lit room, his eyes darting this way and that looking for his patient. The man, a retainer for a local lord, had not been seen for two days after being excused from court on account of chest pain. That was when Petruccio had been called, all feared the black death, but none were brave enough to enter into the home without the doctor. And, as it turned out, they were right to do so. Sitting at his table, head down and face contorted in pain was the retainer. Sighing Petruccio drew out his cane and tilted the mans head back, dried blood was caked beneath his nose and along the corners of his mouth, the black bubos standing out as well. Reaching into the pocket of his robe, the doctor drew out a wooden rosary and laid it in the mains clenched hands, and after saying a few hushed prayers removed himself from the dwelling. Outside waited a small cart and two assistants the lord had sent to help with the matter, each was hunched over their horse, the hoods of their cloaks drawn in an attempt to keep the rain out. Walking over to the cart Petruccio reached in and grabbed a small book, pen and ink, and a large cloth, the noise drawing the attention of the two "You two go back to the castle. Tell the lord I recommend a full two day quarantine of anyone who came in contact with this man in the past four days." He ordered in a stern voice as he turned back to the dwelling

"But sir that is most of the lower court and-" One of two began to complain, causing Petruccio to pivot on his feet

"I know, and I don't care. If he wants the majority of his people alive, he will listen to me."Turning back he entered into the house. After laying out the cloth flat, Petruccio recorded the mans name, what his symptoms were and the date of his death and the date his symptoms emerged. Putting the book away he grabbed the body and dragged him over to the cloth and laid it down flat, straightening out the stiff joints. After wrapping it tightly he once more picked it up and carried it out to the cart, putting it in the back. Walking back around front he climbed into the front seat and spurred the horse on and out of the city, towards a pit far off in the distance, lined with wood and brush. Stopping at the piles and pit he got back down and once more heaved the body out and laid it in the pit, alongside a few others. As he did this an old priest came to the edge and preformed last rights over the bodies, giving the deceased one last measure of peace. As he did this Petruccio and another placed more brush in between the bodies, which were also getting drizzled with oil. As soon as the rights were given a torch was tossed into the pit, causing the oil to erupt, despite the rain, which eventually caught in the brush and then the logs. Petruccio turned, done with the whole affair and once more mounted his cart and spurred the horse back into the city, towards his home. Looking back from the gates he could see the glow of the distant blaze, the light cutting through the dreary night.

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Elementals: Void Assault

You know it :P

Elementals: Void Assault

^ yes, simply yes

Stardust [Sci-Fi Political Nation RPG]

Civilization Name: The Children of the Void (Void Children for short)
Civilization Homeworld: The City of Fire (Political center)
Civilization Creation: (50 Points to spend. You start with 1 System for free.)
- City Ships : 2 (-10 inf)
- System: 0 (-0 inf)
- Fleet: 6 (-18 inf)
- Army: 3 (-6 inf) (
- Agent: 2 (-8 inf)
- Commander: 8 (-8 inf)
- Alliance: 12 Influence (Will start your own alliance, or join an existing one).

Species Description: The typical void child stands around 6'4''-6'8''. Physically speaking they look similar to humans, save for the fact that unlike humans they have extended hocks, sharp bone spurs that rise out of the back of the hock, smaller/duller ones that rise out of the elbow and and about every two along the jaw line (The elbow spurs are only a few centimeters shorter than the hock ones, that jet our around an inch, while the jaw ones never rise more than three centimeters. Their eyes also differ from that of a human, as their pupils are thin crescent shape and the rest of the eye is a very pale gold.they also. The atmosphere they breath is very high in nitrogen (the composition is around 90% nitrogen, 8% oxygen, 1% Co2 and 1% other gasses, though like all atmospheres this may very slightly), as such they require breathing masks, or sealed hard armor, when not on a Void Child ship. They can breath normal human atmosphere, but this causes severe discomfort and heavy respiratory irritation.

Brief History: Any self respecting scholar will tell you that the Void Children are a myth, a fairy tail spacers tell their children to help them sleep in the dark of FTL, but some explorers and spacers will tell you differently, they will tell you tails of huge, formidable fleets of warships of a forgotten race, of massive structures, thought too large to be ships, that stood at the center of these fleets, and how all of this would disappear the moment you jumped away, never to be seen again.
The truth is that the Void Children are old, very old. Few know how long exactly they have lived among the stars, some say it has been thousands of years, but only the Void Children know exactly how long. They were at one point a terrestrial race, tied to their homeworld and it's solar system. Though they were and advanced race, they tended to shy away from the other empires, whither this was because of some great distance between them or some other influence no-one can say. But because of this, they began to develop and build the City Ships, hollowing out the small, metal rich, moons of a neighboring dead world to provide the necessary materials. Each was built with self sufficiency in mind, dry docks, hydroponics, even limited foundries. They were built to house millions among the stars. They were completed none too soon as a cataclysm ripped through the Void Children's home, destroying it, but the city ships and the remnants of the military and civilian fleets were able to jump away to parts unknown.
It is now common practice for each city to inhabit a different star system (usually a Protostar system due to the raw material available), and to maintain an aloofness from other Nations, resulting in their mythological status. But they have not spent their time idle, they from near the beginning have built, build cruisers, battleships, light carriers, and even dreadnoughts. This has resulted with them having amassed huge armadas, not only for defense, but for simple living space. This means that the Void Children who inhabit these ships know them like the back of their hand, this coupled with their marine force has made them a very effective armada. But throughout the myth and legends surrounding them there are periods where they seem more active in the galaxy, and as of late it appears that one of those periods is coming about.

Member of Galactic Conclave: Yes, but tentatively. While the representative may show up to some meetings, they try to take on a more advisership role.

Notes:
I didn't know what to do with the free system, so is it alright if it's just the City of Fire, hence the higher value?
Also this is the closest I could find to what one of their breathing masks looks like (but they aren't bald)

Stardust [Sci-Fi Political Nation RPG]

Alright, thank you!

Stardust [Sci-Fi Political Nation RPG]

Hi, 2 quick questions.

1.Are you still accepting interest?
2.If so, could a fleet based race/civilization (one that operates out of a small handful of city ships, and large fleets) possibly work, if they have satisfactory explanations for where they get materials?