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duck55223 said
Then get BETTER at it. Google one of the probably 1000s of guides scattered across the internet. All I ever seen you do is start war or create it. It becomes stale and boring after a while.Btw Cale accepted. Although I prefer you do something else as we already have a hivemind type thing

I have neither started a war or create one. Someone shot me; I intend to shoot back. Making one seem more powerful than they actually are by having the confidence to immediately counterattack would make it appear as if they have much more military power than what is said. After all, close to a fourth or so of the actual military is being sent on the trip.

And, Duck, All I've ever seen you do is do OP stuff with your magic crap in every Star Empires reboot. Blow up entire stars and instantly translate anything, even destroy an entire race and everything they've ever made with a single character. Rogue had a nation whose very purpose was to war and kill, and evolved naturally to kill, and then enhanced themselves with cybernetic implants and genetic modifications. Things that can be reversed, that can be countered. The Supremes weren't ever in any wars, and just sat around all day killing clones in hideyholes.

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Myth shall return.

Although with the reboot, perhaps there can be magic.

and dragons.

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Cale Tucker said
I side with the fact that we do not require wars for a story. If you want action in your story, no, if you desperately NEED it, don't force me into it. I'm fine with a war or two, but if a roleplay is absolutely nothing but war and more war, than there is no story, it's a skirmish game of RTS styles. A story has beginnings, it has drama and connections to characters. When the shit hits the fan, and only when the shit hits the fan, people by then understand the main characters and sometimes even the enemy characters. A story has depth and understanding. Even with the Hunger Games being nothing but fighting, we still get to know the characters and their struggles.

I'm not good with actual characters. Maybe one interacting with others, in a regular roleplay, or maybe two, but making stories between different people interacting with each other, all under my control, are what I am unable to make believable characters with, or at least that's what I think.

But war can be part of the story, and there are stories that completely revolve around war. If someone finds me and doesn't try to shoot me, then I will not go towards war. But their history has a part in which they were nearly wiped out by a force that attacked first, so when someone else, that is unknown to them, attacks on first sightings, then it's even worse than what happened before, and is cause for war in their minds. And it did end badly for the Valks, more so as time goes on. They'll lose an entire planet, their people forced underground just as before. They wouldn't want it to happen with all their other planets, and would go so far as to destroy the surface of the planet to get rid of whatever the aliens had put on it.

And what you've said isn't necessarily true. There are some stories that doesn't necessarily let you know the character before things get rough. Some start off rough with several possible characters dying, THEN show you the main character and how it gets BETTER, not worse.

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ASTA said
Because three or four pages of illogical warfare is better I guess.

Better than questioning everything and being like you. It's part of the story, ASTA, remember? Being peaceful all the time with everyone isn't good for a story; there has to be SOMETHING. My race just happens to be the first to encounter one of the primary antagonists of the roleplay.

TehAlphaGamer said
WT has a point. I was hoping there would be a way to overcome a language barrier but having things automatically translated ruined the fun a bit.

magic is great and all, but being able to do stuff really quickly does kinda ruin things. Read minds? Communicate instantly? Control the weather? What would take years to develop the technology to do something is done in a heartbeat by a race that has been gifted by the gods. That's no fun. My people have gods, but there is next to no interaction between the two, besides all of them believing in the three.

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TehAlphaGamer said
WT has a point. I was hoping there would be a way to overcome a language barrier but having things automatically translated ruined the fun a bit.

The Draconians were more creative. They would break into all your files, read them like the NSA reading all the weird-ass stuff Americans look up, piece everything together by comparing them from what they know of other races and their own, and then maybe plant a few spywares, a couple adwares, maybe, and then go ahead and say "YOU WILL BE TESTED!" and then they'll shoot you.

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duck55223 said
I have a universal translator.

Which ruins the fun. Wasn't this about the story of everything, not winning or having things super easy? I believe you were the one that continually repeated- no fun if you can't communicate. For example, my first contact with an alien species started a battle which will eventually destroy all living things on one of my planets.

Also, Darkwolf, I'm going to attack you, after bombarding as much as I could. And the sentience disrupter, when you think about it, disrupts the waves and stuff that make something "think," when there is high-traffic. Now, if you're not sentient, or a creature that isn't very smart and won't adapt well, you'll be immune to it have minor effects. Otherwise, you'll have trouble. Confused-y-ness and the like.

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Planet N-1
With the threat of the creatures subsiding, the slightly damaged Explorer shrugs off the scraps trying to cling to the hull with strange lengths of organic mass, and pulls towards the planet. As it put distance between itself and the wreckage, the Explorer fired half a salvo of swarmer missiles, small spears of explosives and penetrative warheads impacting what was left of the burning ship, tearing what little was left into molten slag, and destroying what organic mass was left. Despite the possible repercussions of destroying alien technology, the Hunter-Captain didn't think it wise to let anyone near the things inside.

As the Explorer pulled into a more stable, lower orbit, and began scanning the surface for survivors and what damage was done. As it did so, it beamed communications to the underground bunkers, stating that there had been an alien attack on the planet, and released an unknown biological or biochemical weapon on the planet, and that efforts were taken to contain. "In the meantime, secure yourselves in fortified cryopods, and brace for immienent surface wipe of sentients." Another message was beamed down to all above-ground broadcasting locations, ordering people in the undamaged, not-yet-contaminated cities to reach the evacuation centers or bunkers.

Shortly afterward, another cargoship from a nearby asteroid cluster, and a passenger ship that was already on its way to N-1's orbit. A couple minutes afterwards, two more of the Explorers came out of warp-speed, reporting that two more Explorers were being sent out to conduct investigations on nearby systems for sentient life; if there are hostiles, there can certainly be friendlies. Some will seek help of others to combat outside forces, and that's exactly what they planned to do.

However, the three ships, the slightly damaged one and the two new ones, had received new orders. Follow the enemy, find out where they live, and strike if the opportunity arises. Due to what has been witnessed so far, another two ships was being sent to come with them, more suited with planet bombardment than any Explorer. Two Varrens are being sent to act as escorts and battleships. While Explorers have much heavier armor, the Varrens have seldom-used railgun cannons and more particle beam cannons than Explorers.

They were sending a battlefleet, really.

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xD
Anyways,
I'ma chase after those insolent organic tentacle creature thingies that dared attack my homeworld!

Well...
A world that is home to some...

BUT CLOSE ENOUGH

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Stop dreaming.

I thought I did, but I realized that I had lost inspiration and never finished the post.