Re: General Discussion

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 17:33

Darkwing wrote:hey, well, I can't keep track of it all

Yeah, sure... Anyway , you did a better job than I would with those words...

by me naam is m 2010-04-28, 17:49

Ohey, that seems like an adequate description.

*backups some stuff*

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 19:10

and part 2 has come to a close. I am now attempting to bring some of the storylines together now as Part 3 will shift direction a little as we have a common enemy now

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 19:29

I've an idea for my character...

A few days later, I'm nearby Earth after the rebels sent me investigating the "disappearence" of several of Sol System Colonies... The refit of my ship was rushed and so I'm using Secondary Engines as stealth engines, since the reprograming of the main drives wasn't finished...

What do you think?

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 19:31

yeah perhaps, i'm gonna be merging the stories for part 3, we'll have a common goal/enemy

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 19:35

What would be the effect of the "Haven" trying to breach into the "Scarlet Fire"? Or that is one of those "things that ain't gonna happening"?

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 19:35

probably rip it to shreds, i dunno, we'll find out as the story unfolds i guess

by **Leach54** 2010-04-28, 19:42

I might be back in part 3. What did i miss? A ton happens in a week!

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 19:43

Darkwing wrote:well, it's been about 10 years since the events of the NO RP, Van Toren was in power, but about 5 years into it, was betrayed by Severus. Van Toren was banished to a moon where he found the hulk of the Nightcrawler. (that is 5 years after being banished) He met up with Addar and powered up the Nightcrawler and escaped. Now in secrecy, the rebellion had been building up support. Van Toren and Addar found Borrego. After getting supplies on the planet with three suns, they meet up with Michael Bayhes, thought to be dead after Severus had left him for dead years ago. They left the three suns planet, only to meet up with Doyle, fleet admiral for the NO and commander of the flagship, the Scarlet Fire. They escaped except Van Toren and Jacquelyn. Van Toren was shot in the head by Doyle and died. In some unfolding plot though, Jacquelyn is working with Doyle and brings Van Toren to life, however, he has brain damage and therefore has no memories. Doyle is getting Jacquelyn to manipulate Van Toren to be used in destroying the rebellion. Meanwhile, Bayhes is on some side mission with this beast known as Haven, some sort of unstoppable creature. Borrego is looking for his GF as Doyle kidnapped her and sent her away in hiding. The Scarlet Fire is now at Earth in a 2 month refit. A character from the past (Destral) is a stowaway on the Scarlet Fire and is now being escorted away by Jacquelyn as her and Destral have some sort of past connections

by Earthdeath 2010-04-28, 19:49

I think it is safe to say this is Rp has caused the most confusion so far.

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 19:50

i dunno, the DW rp was pretty confusing with all of its time travel and alternate timelines and realitites and things

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 19:51

It was the only one were the criativity was left to float free without having people over ubering... Just little ubers, as guessings... nothing more...

Anyway, I reread DW's final post of part 2... It's actually safe to say that the refit would be finished, as installing a cloacking device and reprograming the main drives to dual mode drives would, in my calcs, take a week...

EDIT: This one, not DW's... DW's had a lot of ubering tipical of ST Universe...

by Earthdeath 2010-04-28, 19:53

@DW: Yeah I guess. Plus its going to be somewhat easier now that a few characters are gone and we actually know what we are doing properly now.
@JPB: Yeah, isn't it nice how meganew isn't around to ruin the plots anymore?

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 19:57

Earthdeath wrote:@JPB: Yeah, isn't it nice how meganew isn't around to ruin the plots anymore?

And don't forget glory hoggers like MT!

by me naam is m 2010-04-28, 19:59

Earthdeath wrote:@DW: Yeah I guess. Plus its going to be somewhat easier now that a few characters are gone and we actually know what we are doing properly now.

Oh, no?

Earthdeath wrote:@JPB: Yeah, isn't it nice how meganew isn't around to ruin the plots anymore?

Oh, so that's why!

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 20:01

And I believe DW is gettin affected by drama school... He never got up with a romance between his char and another one (or even a NPC) before...

by Earthdeath 2010-04-28, 20:06

Or maybe Terra did get to him in some way. But I think the drama school idea is more likely.

by me naam is m 2010-04-28, 20:08

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

I think it's both, though, ed.

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 20:10

Nah... more effect had we making jokes about pies than she ever did...

by Earthdeath 2010-04-28, 20:12

Wow this is OT...But since DW isn't on lets roll with it.

by **JPB18** 2010-04-28, 20:15

No we wont...

So, ED... did your char somehow survived or was killed in the blast?

by Earthdeath 2010-04-28, 20:17

Undecided.I have a way to get him back, but I might ditch the character from an old RP for a new one that would be a lot different.

by Insane Crayon 2010-04-28, 20:25

Actually, for all of you, me and him had this pre-planned for the slight romance... but it might head in a direction with Toa after some time as me and him have a backstory between our characters... never know

by me naam is m 2010-04-28, 20:33

Ah, it would seem to be tomorrow. I think I know more.

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 20:33

yeah, what terra said. and i dunno how drama school would effect me, i haven't had drama in almost a year

by Earthdeath 2010-04-28, 20:34

It could have a delayed effect, or you could be taking slow learning to a new level.

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 20:35

hardy har. anyways, i intend o have Van Toren killed for good. The first time he was killed, I didn't exactly expect him to be resurrected so I kind of have no idea what I'm doing with the character

by Earthdeath 2010-04-28, 20:36

Dibs on causing it..with my dead..guy..Oh..right. That makes two of us not knowing where our charcters are going then. Actually, I need a new one altogether now.

by **Destral** 2010-04-28, 20:49

I think I know where mine is headed. Not going to say til later though. Wink

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 20:50

why do i have the feeling this will just turn into an excuse for Terra to flirt with Toa?

by Insane Crayon 2010-04-28, 20:51

Nope...

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-28, 20:52

hmm, we'll see, it's already started to some degree, but as long as it moves the story and is executed in a fashionable manner, it should be ok

by me naam is m 2010-04-28, 21:40

Well, it is tomorrow now, so I think I've decided, John Hunter will be back after a long period, and he will have a bad mood to match. I will still need an explanation of Haven's nature from ED.

Will post more, in 9 hours or so.

by Final Frontier 2010-04-29, 10:53

Sits back in the cell and wait...

I think I will also need another character. Oh, the ships in this rp are like the Daedalus from stargate atlantis, with missiles railguns and beam weapons.

by me naam is m 2010-04-29, 16:24

Kerboo. Anyway, There's my reintroduction.

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-29, 17:07

oh M, with your last post, if you're implying haven attached to our shuttle, I specifically wrote that Haven was out of reach/falling away. I don't really want to go with that over-used plot of the alien gets on the ship and wreaks havoc

by me naam is m 2010-04-29, 17:15

Oh no, I didn't mean to, But Hunter sure as hell wasn't going to take the risk, if it wasn't for that huge ass scarlet fire ship, you would have been toast.

by **Darkwing** 2010-04-29, 17:17

ok, good, just making sure

by me naam is m 2010-04-29, 17:20

Hmmmh, I'm kinda out of idea's what he's going to do now though. He sure as hell won't attack the scarlet fire directly, and contacting them after what he has just done, (and he was a wanted pirate too, at that) is not much of an option either.

by Evil Person 2010-04-30, 02:04

Ok, so i am going to send my charictor back into the game, but, i need to know, were would i be, last time, before the coma, i was on the ship, were would i be now, and what is our current objective, and anything important to the story line. So i dont mess it up, wait, scratch that, tell me, were i am, if i am still alive, or on the ship, whatever, and what would i be doing, like helping repair the ship, also were we are, on an enemy ship, a planet, and also tell me who all i am with, like who is on the ship with me........

by **JPB18** 2010-04-30, 06:14

Final Frontier wrote:Sits back in the cell and wait...

I think I will also need another character. Oh, the ships in this rp are like the Daedalus from stargate atlantis, with missiles railguns and beam weapons.

Not so powerfull... but yeah...

And beam weapons only exist in ship-to-ship speciallized ships (Like the rebel battlecruisers) or huge dreadnoughts (like the 'Scarlet Fire')....

The remaining are limited to railguns, gauss cannons (battleships and battlestation only) and missiles (for both Offence and defence, as seen in use by rebel battleships as Strategic Missile Defences)

by Final Frontier 2010-05-01, 12:30

I'll come up with a new ship. *Goes to workshop*

by me naam is m 2010-05-01, 14:19

You have to remember that this tech is basically non-alternative universe, only 150, or more precise 160 years in the future, so there's only very crude FTL technology, and sublight speeds for any decent ships being long maxed out at factor 0.3.

ED, if you still want to, this is where you would come in handy.

by **Leach54** 2010-05-01, 15:12

Do you realize that this is not a stat based rpg? No body gives a **** about defined speed factor. (at least i don't)

by me naam is m 2010-05-01, 15:16

...

You do realise that I've been here for twice as much time as you do, right.

The number is just to illustrate that speed is extremely low, and to give the noob an idea of where the developments are at.

by **Destral** 2010-05-01, 15:19

OK, how about we stop arguing and focus on having a good time in the game.

by **Leach54** 2010-05-01, 15:20

Sorry* I let the immature side of me go for a moment there.

by me naam is m 2010-05-01, 15:22

But this is of course this is the argue thread! Smile

by **JPB18** 2010-05-01, 16:47

Yeah... Enjoy it, cause there's not so many places were you can argue at will...

Anyway, we can see a decent advance in FTL travel between NO and Insurrection... I mean... my ship crossed the space between the edge of the colonized space and Earth in a month or two...

by me naam is m 2010-05-01, 17:44

That's true. During NO the only option for FTL travel was a hub network of wormholes, (which I then proceeded to destroy near the end) and now it's standalone jump-drives.

At sublight the advancements have been less dramatic, simply due to the nature of the laws of physics, but currently there is only one ship which has reached speeds over half the speed of light, the TundraWolf could reach something up to .9 .
However, it would be completely invisible, and virtually inoperable due to space-time relativity, and it only holds a couple of people, very light weaponry and no armor. The rest of the ship is dedicated to an immensely powerful, unstable nuclear drive. The closest other ships have come is somewhere between .5 and .9 for some experimental unmanned drones, but for any decently large ships at the Puma flagship, reaching up to .5, it beats almost anything, being half ship, half massive unguided missile. Other fast ships are some private-funded rebel ships, most pirate skiffs, (where speed is paramount) and private unarmed yachts.

The reason the pirates are so fast in sublight, but relatively slow in FTL, is that they don't really bother with FTL when tactics are concerned, because activating a FTL drive is like poking a secret service agent in the eyes and say where you are going. FTL travel is very easy to track, so pirates and other subversive elements tend to stick around the outer colony where surveillance is slacked and justice is non-existant, despite the "New Order".

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