WilsonTurner

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Colony World 02
"Acknowledged."

Equiis
Having followed the one known as 'Duck,' whom the Kilve glared at silently from their hidden hoods, the Supreme party was led into the room. The Supremes took it all in mentally, for physically, their heads nor eyes never strayed from Duck, nor from the Princesses. Once arriving, they both bowed deeply, simultaneously, while the hooded Kilve and the Supreme Battlemasters did nothing more than incline their heads in respect. The two Supreme diplomats, however, took notice of everything.

Either they are arrogant that they are the powerful ones, that they hold all the cards and it is our job to serve them and bow to them, or they are simply not gracious enough to be the first bow and show respect, one said to the other, telepathically.
Agreed, the other responded.

However, once finished bowing, the first one, for they both appeared to be exactly alike, turned to Duck, obviously ignoring the Princesses, and said, "While I am aware that we are guests here, would peace-loving, gracious rulers be the first to pay respects and greet? I wish to meet as equals, without having thrones or any of that business. You, of course, we respect, due to you coming to get us. Your past self, we think, may not have ever done that to my kind."

The other Supreme simply bared his teeth in a smile at the Princesses. While it wasn't hostile or threatening, the smile did have a bit of a cold demeanor, if judged by human terms. Of course, body language would do no good to judge them: the way they show emotion is very much different from the way humans do.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Well, read "Speaker For the Dead", and use that race as a base. It's very unique, and will pose interesting challenges to spaceflight, and to cultural and language trouble. After all, those who contributed greatly will either have to kill and gut their Piggy friend, or their Piggy friend must do so to them - with no painkillers. While alive.

The New Order(Post WW3 RP)

Remember, Enalias, that there is also the APIRCA. They're a much bigger association: They specialize in weapons and technology development, but aren't strangers to being a PMC. Merrick's Rangers will more than likely see APIRCA as one of these two:
A major rival, or
Something everyone wants to join.

The APIRCA, again, are much bigger, better equipped, and are more mobile. However, the Bahamas would be a spot that one could see a APIRCA ship often enough, though certainly not the same ship for an extended time. If someone means to contact the APIRCA, do tell me. I still need inspiration for my first post, since I'm not very skilled with actual characters. I find my own characters... inadequate, lacking of real personality. That's what happens when I have to have more than one or two distinct characters.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Equestrian Colony World 01, Orbit
Simultaneously, the remaining anti-proton defense stations powered down, removing themselves from their active state, and going into a dormant state. Moments later, several Supreme ships appeared in orbit, and began broadcasting a message to the Equestrian newly-inhabitants.
We see that you've finally found some of the past. Would you like assistance? We can open up those archives in a jiffy, mind you, much faster than what you will be able to manage at your current level. And we can direct you to your ancestor's homeworld, for something in return, of course.

Equestrian Contact
The diplomatic group continued walking on, and then reached the center of the inner courtyard, or whatever they thought of it as, and waited. And waited. And waited. During this time, they weren't impatient; aggravated, but it gave them time to analyze, well, everything. They even figured that the only difference between these ponies and the ones from Earth were that these were both smarter, and more foolish, had the ability to use some amount of their creator's power, and were physically the exact same. And that their armor wouldn't stand up to the Battlemasters of the Kilve. The Supremes oh-so-wanted to see the Equestrians reaction to the Kilve; they were certainly unique, like them.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Sukui, I have a race idea that you may be interested in. It's based off of, yes, Orson Scott Card and one of his creations, and I think it'd be a very unique opportunity. PM me?

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Oh, and I believe Cripplers were becoming outdated when compared to the up-and-coming Draconian magnetic ring-guns. By those, I meant the ones that Rogue originally called railguns, but they really were just rings with electromagnets that were activated in sequence to launch stuff. They had a better rate of fire [Cripplers fired, then had to cool down/recharge, so powerful damage, at medium range with a very slow rate of fire, though they often had so many it didn't matter], could fire farther, had a more diversity in payload, and kinetic damage is always great.

Also, something for Keyguy to know. Supreme shields are powerful; just about any laser that tries to break it will fail. HOWEVER, powerful kinetic weapons such as a railgun, a big railgun, with at least a 10-ton round, should pass straight through it with the following effects:
A) The shield weakens
B) Nothing else.
But, the armor is also powerful, so it'd take several rounds in less than 10 minutes to completely break through it. HOWEVER, for the second time, the point of the entire Super Supreme ship rotating is that it takes about 10 minutes to repair a minor hull breach. The armor self-heals, because of what are, more or less, nanite armor. When it breaks, it begins to flow back into shape, and more are produced and pumped out elsewhere at the hull. You could fire, break the hull a bit, and then it'd be out of range due to the size/rotation, and you'd have to wait for it to fully turn in order to take a shot at it again, in which it may very well be back to normal, despite several compartments being decmopressurized.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Ahem
Perhaps you guys are taking size TOO much into hand. While in many cases, age equals wisdom, I know many old people who are utter fools. The same can go with big giant warships. A ship that size needs very, very extensive support and technology to keep the gravity of the ship itself stable and to keep it from falling in on itself.

Really, once you reach a certain point. making bigger ships gets too costly, since [in proportion to other, smaller ships] there will be less space for everything, and more space used up for support of the ship.

Really, you'd just have to blow a couple reactors inside the ship [which can't be too far from the hull, since the ship is so big, meaning that there would HAVE to be reactors near the hull to release heat and such, which also makes it traceable due to the massive energy requirements, meaning more heat coming out of small regions].

In other words, these big ships are not actually invincible. Come in with a little ship, send a sublight antimatter missile through the heat release into the reactor, and it should, at the very least, cause a millisecond's worth of electrical unstability, which could very well cause something to short out with the sudden recovery, and make part of the ship collapse in on itself. With the whole something-in-motion-stays-in-motion-unless-an-outside-force-acts-upon-it, this could very well cause the entire ship's demise. While there would certainly be operational pieces the size of regular ships here and there, the effectiveness would more than likely be completely wiped out.

Also, sorry for the absence. My internet received pooped on its own software, and I had to hunt through thousands of shiny little disks for the right one to reinstall it.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Supremes are here and there and everywhere.

And for story purposes, I think it would be better if the races of the MWG were confined to the MWG, not for the lack of other galaxies, but for their to be a block to supergrowth and the like.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Equestrian Contact
The Diplomatic Convoy Corvette simply pinged a "Received;Understood" message, and then descended through the atmosphere, engines still leaving the sub-hardlight trails, even though the ship was descending nearly directly downward. The ship, too big for the landing pad, simply hovered a distance above, and a beam of light shot out of the bottom to gently deposit the negotiators on the landing pad.

Two, unrobed Supremes stood with their silver 'shining chaenlink', or spun titanium, tunics and leggings, feet, arms, hands, and heads bare of clothing. The two diplomats began walking forward, and as they cleared the drop area, two robed creatures, with four arms and four legs, appeared, walking forward the flank the diplomats, each arm holding a longsword, each sword being completely silver-colored, glowing faintly and each about 5 feet long. The swords appeared to made of a single piece of metal, completely seamless, with no hilt or pommel, simply blade and grip. After they moved forward, two more Supremes appeared, again unclothed, except with sleeved chaen shirts, chaen boots, and chaen gloves. Each had a large array of weapons:

On each hip, a sword similar the the Kilve's was sheathed in a bronze-brown metal scabbard,
on each thigh, dual SMGs the size of a human's battle rifle sat, clipped to the chaen,
and three weapons were present on the Supreme Battlemasters' back:
What appeared to be a greatsword in the center of their back, sticking straight up above their head like a crown,
an energy-cannon, with no barrel so that one can see the energy spark through the invisible channel,
and an energy-carbine, again without a barrel, but with an obviously much larger cooling chamber, and energy storage pod.

The Battlemasters also had various pockets on the front of their chaen, appearing to be completely empty, though there was a very special technology that allowed them to dig into an unholy amount of ammuntion.

The six, with the two pilots on board, waiting either a peaceful leave, or a combat evac, continued onward, towards Canterlot Castle.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Then there wouldn't be the Supremes. The Supremes' existence proves that other galaxies exist. And with the rate of growth, a single galaxy wouldn't be enough, especially with everyone's reluctance to fight over resources.