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[Snyperwulff]

We're just gonna leave the title like that for a moment. So for anyone who likes more sci-fi based RP's I have an idea floating around in my head. And i want other RPer's halp building the world... the universe.. up. This isn't going to be just based on one planet, there will be space exploration, different planets, different solar systems, different galaxies. I need help coming up with species, it's an open house so to speak, anything will be in here from humans to aliens to furry's. My main idea is that humanity has finally taken to the stars as the planet has grown.. a bit over populated. It's not on the brink of extinction, humanity just needs to expand before that can start to happen. So they begin small, their own solar system, and eventually make their way further and further from earth.


There will be a basis in some reality as the date that they began to realize this was this year... 2015, when, if you have read the news lately, scientists my have come up with the workings for an actual warp drive. The rp itself will take place about 150 years in the future. If anyone is actually interested shoot me some ideas, tell me what you think.

 

[dcentral]

You want some Lovecraftian horror kind of species? Some humanoid, not totally unlike humans but slightly unbelievable from a realistic viewpoint aliens? or somewhere in the middle with human but really weird aliens? Also do you want these species to account for the Fermi Paradox (I'm just blindly assuming you are familiar with it)?

 

[Snyperwulff]

I didn't know about the Fermi Paradox but I did look it up. I think that would be an interesting idea to add to the story overall. As for species it can be a mix but I do want some that are more.. villainous that I have ideas for story wise to be more Lovecraftian I believe. My idea is that while I'll run the general plot and overall direction. I want to allow anyone who RP's to be able to really build their own story around it as well.


 
Some idea's so far...


There will be "Powers" So to speak, in the form of Implants. Everyone can if they chose start with one implant, they can range from increasing your reflexes to increasing your intelligence or ability to store information.


Players will be able to build up their characters fleet or ship size as they go if they chose too. They an start out with a Frigate class space ship for transportation which can hold a total of 20 crew members which can also include PC's if they don't want to run their own ship. The GM ship will be a titan style class (Borrowed from EVE online) It'll be a "Hub" so to speak where if players wish to stick close can do so as I'll also be throwing in random events.


Faction's can be created which will allow players to stay in groups if they wish (Both good and bad mind you).


If people want, a nice currency system can be put into place to allow them to feel like their actions are rewarding them in the end.

 

[Waltzcarer]

To what scale do you plan to make this? Can we go as far as building entire nations/empires? How many people are we going to be able to control? I think I can help out with a lot of space sci-fi stuff. Give me something more specific and I'll see what can come up with.

 

[Snyperwulff]

We can indeed go as far as building whole colonial empires. The amount a person can control will depend on the size of the colony or world which they have control over. If it's a small moon (Like our's for example) Then a couple hundred people (NPC wise unless there are a couple of people with PC's who want to join it) To an larger planet with millions of people. I'd love more ideas thrown out to help. In a way I kind of want this RP to feel... alive in it's own way for people.

 

[Waltzcarer]

As much as the broad possibilities this offers is attractive, I think you should narrow down a set of roles people can take.


As for what I can think of, try and see if building an RP where a set amount of factions interact with each other like in some form of space UN. You could have diplomatic drama, military action and anything else anyone can think of. Throw in an antagonist for people to work with or against and you could have a nice little struggle.


This would involve some people taking on the task of building entire empires, but I'm doing that right now somewhere else....It wouldn't be out of the question for certain RP'ers to take on the mantle of a single individual of one specific nation if they don't feel like they can handle RP'ing a space nation.

 

[Snyperwulff]

I have an idea for an Antagonist type that will be the underlying plot of the whole RP. This'll obviously be a long Rp. So it's not like it won't be hard to work things up over time. I suppose what it depends on is how many people really enjoy this.

 

[Waltzcarer]

I'll be watching the thread, as far as I'm concerned I'll hop in if this ever becomes a thing.

 

[Hux]

It's a bit short but i'll take a look~

 

[Snyperwulff]

Well I haven't actually put it all together for a grand long post just yet on everything involving it, I'm mainly just fishing for ideas on what people might find attractive in it.