Willy Vereb

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

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I'm game, though it'd be awhile before I could get a post up. They take time, and I'm hanging out with my friends today.

But man, the Simulacrum are gonna be horrified by, like, everyone. It seems like half the nations in the RP have no problem butchering innocent civilians.

@TheSovereignGrave

The Federation frowns at even the mere idea of weapons. Granted, they use "non-weapons" to murder people if needed and pretty much they are gigantic hypocrites.
On the other hand we at least have laws of war and on the surface we try for peace. That's way better than 90% of the factions here.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

Posted.
And here we learn why it's a stupid idea to send a space cowboy like Kirk on a first contact mission.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

@Commodore Robot
Captain's Log, Stardate 3266.724
On its maiden voyage the SFS-1701 Enterprise performed the first manned long range Farcast sequence known in history with the distance of 992.326 lightyears, in what latter became known as the Borgash System. Yet what we discovered at the other side of the hyperspace window surpassed all our expectations. Our mission is to find alien life but we never quite imagined to meet a fully fledged civilization. As we made our observations the Enterprise's crew accidentally became the first humans to make contact with an alien race. The weight of responsibility was almost too much to bear.

"Fascinating."
Noted his first officer, Spike "Spock" Sanders, apparently not a Lord of the Rings cosplayer. They were picking up signs of artificial structures and primitive technology within the Tau-Beta-Theta-20408 system (Borgash), same as what they inhabit now. Was it made less than thousand years ago? According to the original plan they first wanted to get a 20-lightyear distance of the target in order to gather more accurate data after which they were supposed to decide either proceeding with mission or writing it off as an error and return home. Yet here they are, apparently right next to a world with man-made structures and faint life signs of yet unregistered pattern jut 159.92368 astronomical units away. Did they really find alien life? Spock couldn't believe it!
"Looks Is it possible that our sensors are out of alignment? Fold shadows?"
"I estimate there's a 0.001% chance the prolonged exposure to hyperspace affected our hypersensors. While extremely unlikely the plausibility of this is not out of question."
"As I thought. Just to be sure then we should examine this... 'civilization' from up close with our sublight sensors."
"Indeed."
"Astrogator Paris, full impulse. Get us within a lightsecond range to the first planet."
"Aye, Sir. Full impulse reached. Destination is Tau-Beta-Theta-20408-point-one."

The Enterprise had entered the Borgash System at sublight speed. Due to the possibility of misaligned hypersensors they did not rely on Fold Drives which meant it'd take many hours to reach their destination. During that time the news spread to the entire ship and hundreds of scientists engaged in a heated debate over the strange findings. Many were skeptics and were on the Captain's side on citing fold shadows and faulty hypersensors. Other group were of the opinion it has to be people originating from a Solarian seedship during the Last Great War which probably used primitive Fold Drives to get there. Only a small fraction of the people genuinely thought they found traces of an alien civilization. They were only a few hours away from their destination when...

"Captain, we detected a radiation pulse passing us by. Classification is unclear."
Reported Sensory Officer Elaine Nkiru Afua in a hurry.
"Primitive sensors?"
"Yes, it appears to be that way. I lack reference data to confirm but the source of the signal can not possibly be a natural phenomena."
In his mind Kirk felt like cursing a stream. If this were a military practice they'd be rated F on the exam. Getting spotted by some stone age radar is the most humiliating for a starship captain like him. Well, the very least they can be assured there's some sorts of manmade technology out there. Any fears of faulty hypersensors are gone. Yet the troubles of the Enterprise were just beginning...

"Power signals from Object 004! Energy densities in multiple sections surpass the Jon's Law. It's a..."
"... weapon station."
"Indeed. Quick analysis of the sensory data confirms Object 004 is no space debris, no matter how useless it may seem, but a weapon station."
"For a civilization these people sure look uncivilized don't you agree?"
"Captain I do advise against underestimating this...thing. Weapons might be primitive tools and unfit for civilized people to use. Regardless these brutish tools are focused on their purpose to cause harm and nothing else. Remember our history 300 years back. Weapons are bad!"
"I agree with you Spock. All hands, yellow alert! Raise screens! Analyze enemy technology! Prepare for evasive maneuvers!"
The Enterprise's power surged for a microsecond and then its signature turned even fainter on the Dominion's sensors. They might be not aware but this signed the ship was on full alert, ready to defend itself.

"Attention unidentified vessel, identify yourself immediately or be fired upon in accordance with Dominion Navigational Law."

@Commodore Robot

"Uggomgyuem amyujomgyuhyuoja boaisor, yujomgyuhi iealcorh yunnojyuugori el vo hyuloja akem yum usseljumso quyuch Jenyumyuem Mubyutugyuemur Ruqu."

"Spock, can you explain this to me?"
"We have received a short burst of radio transmission data on binary cod-..."
"BINARY?"
"Yes, they seem to use a variation of binary code. Historical records state our reliance on binary code was abandoned several hundred years ago. The reason why they utilize such outdated method mystifies me as much as you, Captain."
"Continue Mr. Spock."
"They seem to have broadcasted a message to us in multiple dialects, perhaps even languages. Unfortunately without proper reference this is the best our technical crew can do."
"I see. How about the context with 'Get out of my star system!'? Cross-check every synonyms and alternative solutions to this meaning."
"Captain I must warn you that even with that the chance of misinterpreting their message completely is about 92.729%."
"Better than a hundred, I say."
"For more accurate translation we need more data with appropriate context."
"Ah, I know how to make them talk..."

The movements of the small Dominion fleet of course didn't evade the Enterprise's sensory grid. Judging from the data they were primitive warships, savage vessels made for killing and causing misery. The sensors of ships had no trouble to track the Enterprise which proceeded to cruise in a straight line. Until this moment.

Within an instant the signature of the Enterprise was gone. No more sensor bleeps. This situation went on for minutes, attempts to find the starship were met with failure. Then suddenly a bright flash approached from a completely different vector, traversing space faster than even light. It was a tachyonic wave, designed to be harmless to anything but the target's non-critical sensors, making the Dominion ships almost blind.
"Captain, this is the most unusual attempt at communication."
"I know Mr. Spock. Neither something we can keep repeating. Adapting to cheap tricks like this shouldn't be beyond even primitive technology. Uhura, are you recording all their outbound communications?"
"Aye, Captain. May I ask a question?"
"Go on."
"We might get plenty of language data but how does the Captai-"
"Just call me Tiberius."
"How does the Captain plan to get the accurate frame of reference?"
"I don't."
"Sir?"
"Regardless of the day and age there are certain actions men commanding starships do. I'll just add lib that context over the voice data. Let's leave the rest to the computers. Would that work, Mr. Spock?"
"This is the first ever time Starfleet contacts an alien civilization. And the first time somebody tries such... eccentric measures. I give it perhaps fifty-fifty."
"That's more like it Spock!"

Legacies of the Exodus (Sci-Fi NRP)

Korea and Japan worked together (I like to bring people who currently aren't to common ground) and had the "pick of the crop" in terms of settlement which they exploited pretty well - the Japanese economy was also pretty, surprisingly, robust. It's also a nice counter having multiple important asian nations rather than just one or two usual suspects.

The Andean Alliance as it stands should be a power of relevance and it was one of the lesser major powers in a previous iteration. Italy.. well, Italy was the one who essentially had to cling to being roman to be relevant, to be fair. I mean, the Andean's had a reasonably comprehensive plan for survival while italy sort of ejected itself from the EU and winged its way out of there like a true Aquila.

Such champs. They probably have the papacy too, now that I think of it.

@Taeryn

As you said we shouldn't be bound by what happened in the old game. If we happen to follow it that's nice and diversity rather than Europe+USA based factions alone is always a refreshing change in these games.
But whether the Andean Alliance will exist here probably depends on whether a player takes it.
Kingdom of Hungary is probably going to be the "Italy" of this game. Their male population are also having a tendency to own huge mustaches. Enough that their warcry is occasionally that: "Our mustached nation shall prevail!"
That aside they're surprisingly reasonable and probably going to be a neutral faction with somewhat fucked up positioning between two major powers.
Doesn't bode them well but makes the NRP for me more exciting to play them as.

Legacies of the Exodus (Sci-Fi NRP)

@TaerynSpace Hungary would be probably a relevant as Space Scandinavia or Italy would be here.
Korea probably has a special place because in the story their war was a major event.
Also I can't see South America being more important than Italy, either.
Even Space Japan can vary depending on what happens to the world in the following centuries but yeah, they can be very important to this NRP and I bet a few people (who already tend to make not-Japans in space NRPs) are going to take that faction anyways.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

But that's not Dominion newspeak/standard/whatever it's called, that's Uryuomoco.

@Arawak

Well, call me racist but for humans that never met aliens the language of one race might as well be the same as the other.
It's a good way to represent how foreign Commodore Robot's alien language is to the Enterprise crew. Also it might not even be the Dominion language just one of the other alien languages the Dominion knows and it's the closest which the Enterprise can get a barely intelligible translation for.

I work under the presumption no stealth in space as a reality is ignored here. If magic can exist I can make physcists want my head.

@Arawak

Stealth in space is very much plausible in the soft sci-fi of energy shields and warp drives. My ships are likely capable of it if they try but there had been little reason to do that for a boring exploration mission.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

@Commodore RobotWell, I don't think my ships are that noticeable but perhaps it can be explained with the Enterprise taking no effort to hide. Although their heat signature isn't that big regardless due to their efficiency of managing it. Still room temperature compared to the temperature of space is a huge difference, I suppose.

Anyways, did the Dominion ever meet humans and learn their language? I assume they don't in which case I used this translator to make it sound alien to my crew:
ookii.org/egs/uryuom
And the result is currently this:
"Uggomgyuem amyujomgyuhyuoja boaisor, yujomgyuhi iealcorh yunnojyuugori el vo hyuloja akem yum usseljumso quyuch Jenyumyuem Mubyutugyuemur Ruqu."

Legacies of the Exodus (Sci-Fi NRP)

Perhaps if you read the post or preferably the thread you'd know.

Legacies of the Exodus (Sci-Fi NRP)

@Monochromatic RainbowIt's a space NRP but styled closer to the cold war with nations of old left Earth and now spread within the Orion Arm of the galaxy.

Legacies of the Exodus (Sci-Fi NRP)

@Willy Vereb I wonder why I didn't get notified that you tagged me?

@Zadubadabu

It said 10 mentions sent so perhap via some bug it only notified half of the people? Or is it a new limitation on the forums?
Anyways, just to be safe:

Welcome to the Legacies of the Exodus game!
This is basically Cold War imported into space. Futuristic but well-grounded and you can probably compare this to the Post-WW3 NRPs last year but now we are spread in the Orion Arm.
There are also alien NPCs who might become more relevant to the plot latter.

Pardon me if anyone felt I am bothering them. I just thought I might as well gather the old crew.
Time to show how great this community could be!

@Willy Vereb

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