First Contact (Ultor & Ampersand)

[Ultor]

First Contact. ( futuristic sci-fi)


Earth, year 2420. Having progressed far in technology, mars and the moon is colonized. Both in the process of being Terraformed. The superpowers that were Russia and USA are now working together as one in the works of creating a Utopia for the human race. there are no more countries, just Earth. Space exploration is just getting underway as a functioning space ship capable of traversing the long distances to new galaxies. Humanity is about to find out if they are truly alone in the vast universe.


at this point the pairings can be made in to either two people on this new ship, or an alien and a human making contact. but that can be discussed.


Copy pasted the idea to here.


Is there anything right off the bat that you're thinking about with this idea? :3


@Ampersand

 

[Ampersand]

I'm at work, so I might not be able to respond often until this evening, but it looks like a good start! Let's go over some ideas for the story's plot.


What's the tone of the RP? Serious, like Mass Effect? Humorous, like Hitchhikers Guide? A little of both, like Guardians?


A few ideas:


-Humans launch their FTL ship and the first planet they reach is an alien race in need--maybe the aliens are being attacked by bigger and badder guys. "We don't know who you are, but we beg for your help"


-(cont.) The story takes place a year after first contact when human and alien battle fleets are preparing the first major counterattack against their mutual enemy


-The humans have a leg up in some way--more warlike, better tech (or a certain kind of tech, e.g. weapons); bigger & stronger, aliens are like 1ft tall.


-A single human crash lands on another world, only to find out that the inhabitants live in a post-industrial "1940s" society.


-Is Earth really a utopia? Or is it utopian on the surface and dark politics are revealed as we go? Actually dystopian.


-Humanity is getting a sense of the larger galaxy for the first time and the main human char is the guy sent to the intergalactic space capital to register Earth as a new world/race. An alien liaison is sent to help the human through the process.


Tell me about this ship. Is it a colony ship with a thousand people? Or the first scout with 5? Or just one? Does the ship even launch or do the aliens find us once we reach FTL tech?

 

[Ultor]

I like the first point you're making with the FTL ship finding a planet with an alien race under attack.


as for the FTL ship, i was thinking that it will be finished and already underway to start exploring the ship would hold around 100 people, scientist and crew members like pilots and engineers mostly, a few soldiers as well, maybe a small number like 10-15 maybe. as for the tech on the ship it's top of the line, the FTL engine/core/drive i don't know which term to use, is the first of its kind and only manages to jump once a day. That's my idea at least.


it was getting close to midnight over here so i went to bed yesterday, hence the late answer

 

[Ampersand]

Gotcha, and for the plot? Flush it out a bit for me so I have a better idea of where you want to take it.

 

[Ultor]

Well as for the plot i first have to ask what you want to RP as, one of the humans or one of the aliens, do you want both of us to be human or one to be alien?

 

[Ampersand]

I'll happily play any character, but I'll have to get an idea for the setting and events leading up to it before I can develop a character.

 

[Ultor]

good point i suppose ^^'


Well as i was thinking. The human FTL ship makes it to the next solar system from their own, Alpha Centauri. As they arrive and explore from planet to planet scanning for life, they come upon a planet which sends out something similar to the signals that the we use on earth between cellphones and computers and the like. The language is foreign but the speaker sounds alarmed and there's an explosion in the background and the message ends. Scout shuttles are prepared and about to be launched to the planets surface as another ship comes flying around the planet towards them. It's big, bigger then the human ship by at least 4 times. it seems to have no logic to it, there's a multitude of red thrusters on its backside and massive cannons along its sides that's firing down on the planet, the massive slugs flow slowly down towards the planet, mostly letting gravity do the work. For a space ship it seems rather primitive in relation to the human one, whit it's FTL drive, the prototype shield and plasma weaponry along with the torpedoes that it can unleash. The signal from the planet i reaching the ship again, it's repeating the same thing over and over again. One of the scientists cracks the signal code and unscrambles it, the language is still foreign to the humans but it's a plea for help and there's no doubt about it.

 

[Ampersand]

Ha, in that case it could be fun to play an alien character. Do you want to GM/moderate or do you want to do a narrative split, where I develop the aliens and their characters, and you develop the humans? Like, I'll act as any alien characters and have them explain their predicament, blah blah, to the humans. The humans react accordingly, the aliens counter-react, etc. Basically, you play humans, I play aliens?

 

[Ultor]

Sure, i can work with that. I'll get to work on my character and then a start for this then :3

 

[Ampersand]

Awesome, I'll think up some stuff for the alien/s. Throw down the first post whenever you're ready.