Good points. Let's say it intentional. And i suppose since I keep using both I'll need to decide whether race names are proper nouns or not. They are not so from now on all race names will not be capitalised (unless they would have been anyway obviously).
Your decision not to make race names proper nouns is the correct one, since Earth species don't either: e.g. human, dog, insect, plant etc
What does everyone else think [of Mcpop9's species].
If I'm honest it seems rather unlikely that such an event would occur to make them stuck in "40's tech". Personally I'd think it would make more sense if they independently arrived in such a state, after-all writing, money, trade, kings, slavery, organised religion etc have all arisen independently a number of times in different human civilisations.
I really like the name but I'm not too fond of the race the sheet lacks a lot of detail all round really. While the concept of a race based of 40's technology is pretty cool it doesn't realy make any sense. I want language to be a barrier at least partially so I'd rather we didn't have a race somehow receiving and understanding old earth transitions. Also it's not the easiest sheet to understand, try reading it back and see what you think.
But again great name What does everyone else think.
There is an actual language barrier. Draconic: coi ui vi okh xanalre. coita drekim vehafor harkt jaka.
don't mean to sound insane but dreams, major influence.
the sheet not making any sense is my blame, woke up and started typing.
will flesh out the ideas more, but as with anything that has a sound background: time.
Don't worry take all the time you need. The more depth the better.
While I agree I actually meant what do you think of the name idea?
Do you mean the name "Darastix"? Sure, it's fine for a species name. Also "Life in the 53rd Century" is a functional enough place-holder until we have a proper name.
While I agree I actually meant what do you think of the name idea?
Do you mean the name "Darastix"? Sure, it's fine for a species name. Also "Life in the 53rd Century" is a functional enough place-holder until we have a proper name.
No he came up with "Stars of the 53rd."
And i will be look at the updated sheet very soon.
MC sheet with 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Hope this helps and sorry if I came off as harsh. What do the other people think?
Hope this helps and sorry if I came off as harsh. What do the other people think?
all points made were valid, criticism is a good thing even if its harsh, look at Zero punctuation.
for me its just trial and error. note on the first contact: you encounter a race with warships loaded to the brim with cannons who is upset that you didn't go down a presumed technology path. what do you do? lie. deception is part of human tactics, you lie to them then give a sound reason: they'll bite.
Hope this helps and sorry if I came off as harsh. What do the other people think?
Harsh but mostly justified, especially with the whole satellite business since it would actually be impossible for the satellite to get there before the signals. One point in Mcpop's favour though, since his species is an alien rather than an Earth descended life-form then technically it could be a reptilian-like creature with mammalian glands.
Also, I've got an idea for a small human faction but I'll write it up tomorrow for you to take a look at.
Hope this helps and sorry if I came off as harsh. What do the other people think?
all points made were valid, criticism is a good thing even if its harsh, look at Zero punctuation.
for me its just trial and error. note on the first contact: you encounter a race with warships loaded to the brim with cannons who is upset that you didn't go down a presumed technology path. what do you do? lie. deception is part of human tactics, you lie to them then give a sound reason: they'll bite.
I guess it's a moot point anyway but the humans had some military presence. Not to mention the New Terra is the size of a few planets. So a fleet would be more a case of invasion as opposed to a space battle and the humans and crelm would have some capabilities of offence in the form aggressive terraforming.
Hope this helps and sorry if I came off as harsh. What do the other people think?
Harsh but mostly justified, especially with the whole satellite business since it would actually be impossible for the satellite to get there before the signals. One point in Mcpop's favour though, since his species is an alien rather than an Earth descended life-form then technically it could be a reptilian-like creature with mammalian glands.
Also, I've got an idea for a small human faction but I'll write it up tomorrow for you to take a look at.
Cool can't wait and fine I will accept the breast thing.
I guess it's a moot point anyway but the humans had some military presence. Not to mention the New Terra is the size of a few planets. So a fleet would be more a case of invasion as opposed to a space battle and the humans and crelm would have some capabilities of offence in the form aggressive terraforming.
The Bio section is a little short, I'd recommend breaking it up like it is for the other races. I like the idea but I think it would be better if things were more defined simply because I can see a creature like this becoming op (at least in terms of fighting Solanics).
I do really want to see a creature like that try and colonise the Norg home world however. That could be fun.
Well, I'll get back to work on it as soon as I can
Interesting how they managed to master wormholes. It's a navigational nightmare if you hit the wrong exit, and you can get stuck in the limbo zone for ages.
And a suggestion upon reading Avouleance's critique: keep the 40's aesthetic, but update the technology. I've had an idea in my head regarding Replicator tech that keeps visuals but maintains a modern level of technological advancement. So, for example, their space destroyer maintains the 40's aesthetic, but it's kinetic weaponry has been upgraded to particle beam weaponry.
So it can still carry the 40's style guns, but the guns themselves operate on much more advanced systems.
EDIT. I read the revised version. Much better. As for planets, I'm thinking up a classification system.
Interesting how they managed to master wormholes. It's a navigational nightmare if you hit the wrong exit, and you can get stuck in the limbo zone for ages.
And a suggestion upon reading Avouleance's critique: keep the 40's aesthetic, but update the technology. I've had an idea in my head regarding Replicator tech that keeps visuals but maintains a modern level of technological advancement. So, for example, their space destroyer maintains the 40's aesthetic, but it's kinetic weaponry has been upgraded to particle beam weaponry.
So it can still carry the 40's style guns, but the guns themselves operate on much more advanced systems.
while it sounds enticing, they developed rail-guns, so that 20 inch turret is now firing 20 inch rounds at you faster than most explosion based weaponry.
Interesting how they managed to master wormholes. It's a navigational nightmare if you hit the wrong exit, and you can get stuck in the limbo zone for ages.
And a suggestion upon reading Avouleance's critique: keep the 40's aesthetic, but update the technology. I've had an idea in my head regarding Replicator tech that keeps visuals but maintains a modern level of technological advancement. So, for example, their space destroyer maintains the 40's aesthetic, but it's kinetic weaponry has been upgraded to particle beam weaponry.
So it can still carry the 40's style guns, but the guns themselves operate on much more advanced systems.
while it sounds enticing, they developed rail-guns, so that 20 inch turret is now firing 20 inch rounds at you faster than most explosion based weaponry.
So their rail guns work like Mass Drivers then. Neat. Question about their wormhole workings. The thing about the wormholes is that they can open anywhere. Now, they managed to keep their's open somehow, I'm guessing. Would they be willing to share their method of keeping a wormhole entrance open with other species?
So their rail guns work like Mass Drivers then. Neat. Question about their wormhole workings. The thing about the wormholes is that they can open anywhere. Now, they managed to keep their's open somehow, I'm guessing. Would they be willing to share their method of keeping a wormhole entrance open with other species?
unfortunately no, it is one of their own technologies that they created based on an occurance in their system. they also want to keep as little outside influence as possible from entering their system.
So their rail guns work like Mass Drivers then. Neat. Question about their wormhole workings. The thing about the wormholes is that they can open anywhere. Now, they managed to keep their's open somehow, I'm guessing. Would they be willing to share their method of keeping a wormhole entrance open with other species?
unfortunately no, it is one of their own technologies that they created based on an occurance in their system. they also want to keep as little outside influence as possible from entering their system.
Where are they situated? North of the Frontier, or within the borders of the Solanic Union? There are island regions of The Wasteland that have been discovered through freak occurrences, if you wanted them to be more isolated.
Where are they situated? North of the Frontier, or within the borders of the Solanic Union? There are island regions of The Wasteland that have been discovered through freak occurrences, if you wanted them to be more isolated.
They'd be in the wastes, isolated save for the frequencies.
Where are they situated? North of the Frontier, or within the borders of the Solanic Union? There are island regions of The Wasteland that have been discovered through freak occurrences, if you wanted them to be more isolated.
They'd be in the wastes, isolated save for the frequencies.
You talked about their interactions with the solanics but what about the other races? Also you do Realise if you aren't going to share you tech with the norg you'll really piss them off not to mention if you'll give them terminals they'll know anything the terminals do. Unless you want to try and fight the Norg that is, which could be interesting.
Where are they situated? North of the Frontier, or within the borders of the Solanic Union? There are island regions of The Wasteland that have been discovered through freak occurrences, if you wanted them to be more isolated.
They'd be in the wastes, isolated save for the frequencies.
You talked about their interactions with the solanics but what about the other races? Also you do Realise if you aren't going to share you tech with the norg you'll really piss them off not to mention if you'll give them terminals they'll know anything the terminals do. Unless you want to try and fight the Norg that is, which could be interesting.
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Since that ended up surprisingly long, I'll summarise here: a religious group founded on Mars who hate the crelm and want to drive them off Earth as they believe them to be devils, were crushed over a thousand years ago but within the last fifty years have sprung up again and now are sporadically using terrorism against the Solanic Alliance in an attempt to cause war between the humans and the crelm.
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Since that ended up surprisingly long, I'll summarise here: a religious group founded on Mars who hate the crelm and want to drive them off Earth as they believe them to be devils, were crushed over a thousand years ago but within the last fifty years have sprung up again and now are sporadically using terrorism against the Solanic Alliance in an attempt to cause war between the humans and the crelm.
Thoughts?
Cool I'll add that (humans>Factions and organisations) at least now we know where the tax will come from. Also before I forget
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Firstly, thanks for the acceptance, though I don't get the tax bit...
But anyway, the no-meat on Mars part makes sense though the poor humans seem to have got a bit of a raw deal with this whole alliance, I assume the crelm were quite oppressive initially?
Edit: Forgot to add this earlier, here's the symbol of the Followers of Pi:
Anyone-else think we could do with a map? Sadly I'll be away until Monday evening from now but yeah, something to consider.
Firstly, thanks for the acceptance, though I don't get the tax bit...
But anyway, the no-meat on Mars part makes sense though the poor humans seem to have got a bit of a raw deal with this whole alliance, I assume the crelm were quite oppressive initially?
The tax is the more politically correct term for that thing that happened where someone sold someone as food to someone else in exchange for being able to not go extent. Have you read the humanity under the crelm section in the history section of the humans or crelm cause that gets to the main points? I guess you could call the humans oppressed but they were being given land on planet and protection and the crelm had their own welfare to consider, the crelm needed to eat as well and humans were much safer to eat (and more numerous) than they super shellfish who were more used to and able to fight back. That and it also helped keep the human population manageable I personally think that from a crelm point of view (which is the only one they had) they did the right thing. Thoughts? That and the meat thing makes sense really I mean if there's limited food and one group can only eat a certain type of food then they should have it surely?
Firstly, thanks for the acceptance, though I don't get the tax bit...
But anyway, the no-meat on Mars part makes sense though the poor humans seem to have got a bit of a raw deal with this whole alliance, I assume the crelm were quite oppressive initially?
The tax is the more politically correct term for that thing that happened where someone sold someone as food to someone else in exchange for being able to not go extent. Have you read the humanity under the crelm section in the history section of the humans or crelm cause that gets to the main points? I guess you could call the humans oppressed but they were being given land on planet and protection and the crelm had their own welfare to consider, the crelm needed to eat as well and humans were much safer to eat (and more numerous) than they super shellfish who were more used to and able to fight back. That and it also helped keep the human population manageable I personally think that from a crelm point of view (which is the only one they had) they did the right thing. Thoughts? That and the meat thing makes sense really I mean if there's limited food and one group can only eat a certain type of food then they should have it surely?
I doubt the Followers would make up a significant amount of the crelm's diet considering they need to eat about 10% of the population, I probably should have made it clearer in their description but the Followers aren't a nation or a rebellious territory holder, they probably number in total a few thousand individuals across the entire S.U, many which are non-fighting civilians as they generally have large families. In-fact, I've decided they don't believe in birth-control, mainly so I can post this song from the film I was watching earlier this evening:
A typical Followers family :-DPHA+PGRpdiBzdHlsZT0idGV4dC1hbGlnbjogY2VudGVyOyI+PG9iamVjdCB3aWR0aD0iNDMyIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjI2OCI+PHBhcmFtIG5hbWU9Im1vdmllIiB2YWx1ZT0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbS92L1Uwa0pIUXB2Z0I4JmFwPSUyNTI2Zm10JTNEMTgiPjwvcGFyYW0+PHBhcmFtIG5hbWU9Indtb2RlIiB2YWx1ZT0ib3BhcXVlIj48L3BhcmFtPjxlbWJlZCBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vdi9VMGtKSFFwdmdCOCZhcD0lMjUyNmZtdCUzRDE4IiB0eXBlPSJhcHBsaWNhdGlvbi94LXNob2Nrd2F2ZS1mbGFzaCIgd21vZGU9Im9wYXF1ZSIgd2lkdGg9IjQzMiIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNjgiPjwvZW1iZWQ+PC9vYmplY3Q+PC9kaXY+PC9wPg==
Anyway, one question:
The Humans would be entitled to live in the Crelm cities and be given protection from the wilds and the many creatures in them. But for this the humans had to give 10% of their population as food for the Crelm and had to sterilise a further 15% (the Crelm had no rule in selecting either of these sets and accepted what ever the humans gave as long as it was enough)
The following comes from humanity under the crelm, but it doesn't make clear what 10% actually means. Do 10% of all humans who are born die by being eaten, or do 10% of population per year/decade get eaten?
As for oppressiveness, the reason I mention it is not to judge the crelm morals as good or bad, but for the motivations of humanity joining up with the crelm. I mean which-ever way you look at it, 10% is a hell of a lot of people and pretty soon you're going to run out of murderers and child abusers to feed them. To be honest, even if my people were as weak as hell and just returned from Mars I wouldn't be that inclined to join with a species that demands so many of my friends for food and then treats us like second-class citizens. When it could be my best mate next on the dinner plate, or my little sister in a few years time when she's of-age, I think I'd take my chances in the wilds. At-least there I could fight for and protect my family like a man, rather than being an obedient pet for the slimy's and live in fear that me or my kin might be next.
And on that, I bid you good-night, I'll be visiting relatives over the weekend so I won't be on now until Monday evening, I hope I've given you food for thought and we can discuss this more later ;-)
A Preliminary Report on Biomass 2433 a.k.a the Richgar mass by Dr. 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Firstly, thanks for the acceptance, though I don't get the tax bit...
But anyway, the no-meat on Mars part makes sense though the poor humans seem to have got a bit of a raw deal with this whole alliance, I assume the crelm were quite oppressive initially?
The tax is the more politically correct term for that thing that happened where someone sold someone as food to someone else in exchange for being able to not go extent. Have you read the humanity under the crelm section in the history section of the humans or crelm cause that gets to the main points? I guess you could call the humans oppressed but they were being given land on planet and protection and the crelm had their own welfare to consider, the crelm needed to eat as well and humans were much safer to eat (and more numerous) than they super shellfish who were more used to and able to fight back. That and it also helped keep the human population manageable I personally think that from a crelm point of view (which is the only one they had) they did the right thing. Thoughts? That and the meat thing makes sense really I mean if there's limited food and one group can only eat a certain type of food then they should have it surely?
I doubt the Followers would make up a significant amount of the crelm's diet considering they need to eat about 10% of the population, I probably should have made it clearer in their description but the Followers aren't a nation or a rebellious territory holder, they probably number in total a few thousand individuals across the entire S.U, many which are non-fighting civilians as they generally have large families. In-fact, I've decided they don't believe in birth-control, mainly so I can post this song from the film I was watching earlier this evening:
A typical Followers family :-DPHA+PGRpdiBzdHlsZT0idGV4dC1hbGlnbjogY2VudGVyOyI+PG9iamVjdCB3aWR0aD0iNDMyIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjI2OCI+PHBhcmFtIG5hbWU9Im1vdmllIiB2YWx1ZT0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbS92L1Uwa0pIUXB2Z0I4JmFwPSUyNTI2Zm10JTNEMTgiPjwvcGFyYW0+PHBhcmFtIG5hbWU9Indtb2RlIiB2YWx1ZT0ib3BhcXVlIj48L3BhcmFtPjxlbWJlZCBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vdi9VMGtKSFFwdmdCOCZhcD0lMjUyNmZtdCUzRDE4IiB0eXBlPSJhcHBsaWNhdGlvbi94LXNob2Nrd2F2ZS1mbGFzaCIgd21vZGU9Im9wYXF1ZSIgd2lkdGg9IjQzMiIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNjgiPjwvZW1iZWQ+PC9vYmplY3Q+PC9kaXY+PC9wPg==
Anyway, one question:
The Humans would be entitled to live in the Crelm cities and be given protection from the wilds and the many creatures in them. But for this the humans had to give 10% of their population as food for the Crelm and had to sterilise a further 15% (the Crelm had no rule in selecting either of these sets and accepted what ever the humans gave as long as it was enough)
The following comes from humanity under the crelm, but it doesn't make clear what 10% actually means. Do 10% of all humans who are born die by being eaten, or do 10% of population per year/decade get eaten?
As for oppressiveness, the reason I mention it is not to judge the crelm morals as good or bad, but for the motivations of humanity joining up with the crelm. I mean which-ever way you look at it, 10% is a hell of a lot of people and pretty soon you're going to run out of murderers and child abusers to feed them. To be honest, even if my people were as weak as hell and just returned from Mars I wouldn't be that inclined to join with a species that demands so many of my friends for food and then treats us like second-class citizens. When it could be my best mate next on the dinner plate, or my little sister in a few years time when she's of-age, I think I'd take my chances in the wilds. At-least there I could fight for and protect my family like a man, rather than being an obedient pet for the slimy's and live in fear that me or my kin might be next.
And on that, I bid you good-night, I'll be visiting relatives over the weekend so I won't be on now until Monday evening, I hope I've given you food for thought and we can discuss this more later ;-)
Good point it's a little vague. I suppose the most logical thing would be that at any time 10% of the population need to be registered as free to hunt, this would be checked annually. I guess that was the choice, ensure the survival of 90% of the population or give everyone a chance to survive but have to face the wilds of an alien planet you know so little about not to mention how the crelm would have reacted to the denial they were the larger and more entrenched force probably only making the offer because of convenience and curiosity. I look forward to this debate.
A Preliminary Report on Biomass 2433 a.k.a the Richgar mass by Dr. 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I'm not ignoring you but it's late so I'll look at this in the morning.
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Since that ended up surprisingly long, I'll summarise here: a religious group founded on Mars who hate the crelm and want to drive them off Earth as they believe them to be devils, were crushed over a thousand years ago but within the last fifty years have sprung up again and now are sporadically using terrorism against the Solanic Alliance in an attempt to cause war between the humans and the crelm.
Thoughts?
Thoughts. Might they be in business with the Colonial Opposition League? In one of my history pieces, the C.O.L launched an uprising that had to be put down with violent force, destroying most of the C.O.L members. A few got away, and operate as pirate raiders.
A Preliminary Report on Biomass 2433 a.k.a the Richgar mass by Dr. 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Still seem a little too powerful to me. Being able to feed on anything and survive in the void of space and all. Also I would like to point out a creature living at such low ph (very acidic conditions) could probably be attack with any form of neutralisation agent.
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Still seem a little too powerful to me. Being able to feed on anything and survive in the void of space and all. Also I would like to point out a creature living at such low ph (very acidic conditions) could probably be attack with any form of neutralisation agent.
The fact that they can be defeated by neutralization agents is no oversight. Also, they travel at sublight or at light speed. This means that it will take them a long, long time >1,000 years to actually hit anything.
A Preliminary Report on Biomass 2433 a.k.a the Richgar mass by Dr. 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Still seem a little too powerful to me. Being able to feed on anything and survive in the void of space and all. Also I would like to point out a creature living at such low ph (very acidic conditions) could probably be attack with any form of neutralisation agent.
The fact that they can be defeated by neutralization agents is no oversight. Also, they travel at sublight or at light speed. This means that it will take them a long, long time >1,000 years to actually hit anything.
But still I think they should have a more precise survival requirments that just PH and I think they should have specific dite as opposed to just being able to eat anything so they're is a way to limit their expanion.
Your decision not to make race names proper nouns is the correct one, since Earth species don't either: e.g. human, dog, insect, plant etc
If I'm honest it seems rather unlikely that such an event would occur to make them stuck in "40's tech". Personally I'd think it would make more sense if they independently arrived in such a state, after-all writing, money, trade, kings, slavery, organised religion etc have all arisen independently a number of times in different human civilisations.