I hope they don't use energy blades or anything, that's my only concern other than that I find the idea of making the swarmlets a bunch of insectoid midgets to be a hysterical twist in the typical swarmer idea. The worms I am curious though, are they like "pets" or something more on the lines of a symbiotic type relationship? I'd imagine te worms reproduce separately from the queen and the two swarmer types. Also is there any "drone" equivelant or is the queen like a plant and just self-reproduces?
Overall seems good, though I hope you and evan eventually get to the early history part of your apps. I should note empire and race are separate; you could make a history and split it into early history and the empire of the race you control's history. The reason it's done like this is to make it easier for there to be multiple groups/empires in the same group. Like another brood mother with your guys.
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Evancat will probably fill ya in on how to make it fit in better with the lore of his race (possibly even giving some motive to why he'd be a pirate), but I'd suggest giving more reasoning behind his descent into piracy and even how he got his crew(s).
No tech, just pure evolution, acid, claws, and sheer overwhelming numbers. As for the drone part, I haven't really decided yet, I think that the worm is really filling that role, as it is digging out most of the tunnels, and doing most of the work.
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That's three mass invasions within the same bloody month! I mean, seriously! The UDTU is attacking now, Blue has a sleeper attack coming soon, and now an invasion by space pirates? What is this, Russia if every american-made FPS happened at once?! - MagicallyDwarven
I've been thinking of that. They won't have a strong space presence. I'm thinking that they'll travel in massive biological barges almost. Flying through space via a combination of floating and gases propelling them.
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That's three mass invasions within the same bloody month! I mean, seriously! The UDTU is attacking now, Blue has a sleeper attack coming soon, and now an invasion by space pirates? What is this, Russia if every american-made FPS happened at once?! - MagicallyDwarven
You could give them the ability to "breath" in space. Either through some crude oxygen-providing technology, or through some kind of biological trait that allows them to "breath" in space. I'm pretty sure there's already an insect or germ capable of doing so. I read about it somewhere, maybe I misread but I'm pretty sure. Personally I think it'd be cool if they could fly in space without the need of technology. Imagine them swarming small merchant or exploration vessels, killing off the crew and turning the vessels into space-faring hives. Could be cool. Alternatively you could simply edit them a bit so that they do have some very crude, simple technology to explore soace with. Something not as advanced as what humans have, but enough for them to travel space and attack unfortunate space-travelers. Of course, they'd also need something to resist the radiation without space suits, but that could just be a very thick exoskeleton that acts like a space suit.
One way I can think of them getting to space in the first place is if some empire/faction attempted to set up a colony on the planet only for the swarm to overrun/kill them and take their technology or something. Being hiveminds they probably could figure out and mimic spaceship construction or even spread by launching rockets with queen eggs in them to planets they believe have suitable conditions to spread to or something.
Another possibility is that maybe they are the results of Hyxera biotech experiments (for easy slaves!) gone not as expected or something. I could totally see hyxera with their advanced biotechnology making some artificial slaves.
I was refering to Whiteblade's swarm people. And honestly, I don't know why he didn't give the bug-like wings. They'd be more efficient in swarming if they had wings.
I meant when you said something about some microscopic thing that could survive in space for a while and I recall that being the water bears than I went on a tangent about how the Swarm could be space faring with a couple ideas.
Government/Body: Pirate group, Central pirate captain leader, ship captains "council" has an opinion in most things as well
Soldiers are not wasted in battle but have no authority
History: Main force is Stif'Ka and the group has never ventured far enough to recruit other races. Formed by a lucrative Stif'Ka with a small family fortune who decided he could make more money illegally, his family name was "Tangold" and the group was ceremoniously named after it. Mostly it is referred to by the name of it's fleet though and law forces haven't been able to find solid evidence to connect it to the family name.
Other: They have some pretty cool custom blade weaponry made for infantry combat and killing enemy crew members. The idea is they take ships whole and turn more of a profit for it.
Foot blades: pretty standard lethal boot-wear with blades that extend out, pretty messy sometimes
Forearm shields: Tough metal gauntlets that cover most of the arm and protect the limbs. They deploy short lived energy shields that cover most of the front by sliding forward from the elbow into "activated" configuration.
Breaching pods: Re-fashioned dropship pods that are designed to fire from space into other ships and sometimes used for attacking surface
-Brigades/Fleets-
Name: Blight Firexis
Empire Affiliation: Tangold blades
Notable Individuals: Current pirate captain Nauvos Clau
Content: All ships are small and fast
Two Boarding specialized ships with breach pods and rudimentary systems to suppress giving off thermal signatures, radar ping ect.
A generic skirmishing fighter ship with directional shields and laser weaponry
A.... nother type of ship
Other: tell me if it fits the RP climate and such, comments constructive criticism blargh nagrrnjksfa
I actually am working on Stif'ka linguistics ATM, so maybe you could reformat your names once you're done.
I meant when you said something about some microscopic thing that could survive in space for a while and I recall that being the water bears than I went on a tangent about how the Swarm could be space faring with a couple ideas.
Ironically enough I do hope not every other person who joins makes a new race who has up to the point of the RP start formed completely independently; I do want to see more stuff like Tangoid Blades.
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On another note, I actually am curious what Orions look like and perhaps Orions had some pre-RP start contact with humans, like through their version of SETI or something.
Ozode, is it too late to create a rough draft for an earth based human civilisation? If not, I was thinking they might have a technological level similar to the UTDU(Granted, they'd have much less nuclear-based technology), but I was wondering what that would mean in the way of empire size/fleet size. As in, you know, how big it might be. Also, on the other hand, their government would likely be a technocracy, and their primary method of propulsion would be a transwarp drive, similar to the wormhole drives of the original Sagittarius except that it involves tunnelling through subspace((Similar to Star Trek, except this isn't nearly as fast.)).
I'll need to know a rough estimate of when the RP takes place, first. Also, what should I Dow bout my humans having met aliens before? Should I just be extremely vague about it, or say that the humans ended up going to war with and eradicating those it's met so far? unless someone would be willing to talk over a first contact between their empire and mine.
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."~Winston Churchill
I love first encounters, but the issue is that it seems unrealistic that my empire wouldnt meet a single alien for so long and then suddenly discover a bunch of new races.
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."~Winston Churchill
Then I suggest you mention somewhere in your history that during one of the colonization missions in the outer reaches of human-controlled space, humanity encountered a sentient, yet less advanced (one yet to become space-faring) alien race living on the surface of the planet. From there you can either say a war ensued when the aliens attacked the colonists, or you could say humanity took advantage of the situation to abduct the natives and experiment on them and whatnot (since I imagine a technocracy would be interested in testing alien life forms and whatnot).
My guys for example, will live on a planet that was once inhabited by primative Grunt-like aliens that now live together with humans on the planet.
It'd probably be worth mentioning that initial contact was probably lethal to both species since, you know, alien diseases and whatnot.
Or, if you want them to have encountered other life before without spoiling the opportunity for a goosebump inducing first encounter, you could say that the first time they encountered other life was very brief (like a brief visual, or an isolated attack on military ships that was quickly covered up by the government). That way you've encountered aliens before, but it was so sudden and brief that thhe next time you encounter an alien race you'll still be able to have those aware of the first go "Oh my god.. they're back.." and make an awesome "first" encounter story-arc.
Then I suggest you mention somewhere in your history that during one of the colonization missions in the outer reaches of human-controlled space, humanity encountered a sentient, yet less advanced (one yet to become space-faring) alien race living on the surface of the planet.
You could give them the ability to "breath" in space. Either through some crude oxygen-providing technology, or through some kind of biological trait that allows them to "breath" in space. I'm pretty sure there's already an insect or germ capable of doing so. I read about it somewhere, maybe I misread but I'm pretty sure. Personally I think it'd be cool if they could fly in space without the need of technology. Imagine them swarming small merchant or exploration vessels, killing off the crew and turning the vessels into space-faring hives. Could be cool. Alternatively you could simply edit them a bit so that they do have some very crude, simple technology to explore soace with. Something not as advanced as what humans have, but enough for them to travel space and attack unfortunate space-travelers. Of course, they'd also need something to resist the radiation without space suits, but that could just be a very thick exoskeleton that acts like a space suit.
That would be neat.
The thing about wings, is that I plan on making a strain involving wings. As having the base mutation have wings would be Crazy OP. Think about it, They would simply jump over walls. However the base strain does have good jumping ability.
EDIT: Also Cheesy, if you are making a background, would it be okay if you've encounter d my race before? As in all colonization ships and transports in my region of space have been lost contact with?
That's three mass invasions within the same bloody month! I mean, seriously! The UDTU is attacking now, Blue has a sleeper attack coming soon, and now an invasion by space pirates? What is this, Russia if every american-made FPS happened at once?! - MagicallyDwarven
Will these have some Natalius traits? We need something with a tentacle beard in this RP.
No but they probably will have blubber-ish skin and a protective shell on their back, so close enough. Maybe I'll give them a few small beard-like tenticals around their mouths though.
No tech, just pure evolution, acid, claws, and sheer overwhelming numbers. As for the drone part, I haven't really decided yet, I think that the worm is really filling that role, as it is digging out most of the tunnels, and doing most of the work.
Also how do they get off planets and get to others? Are they just on one planet or do they steal the tech of other races and use that?
One way I can think of them getting to space in the first place is if some empire/faction attempted to set up a colony on the planet only for the swarm to overrun/kill them and take their technology or something. Being hiveminds they probably could figure out and mimic spaceship construction or even spread by launching rockets with queen eggs in them to planets they believe have suitable conditions to spread to or something.
Another possibility is that maybe they are the results of Hyxera biotech experiments (for easy slaves!) gone not as expected or something. I could totally see hyxera with their advanced biotechnology making some artificial slaves.
I actually am working on Stif'ka linguistics ATM, so maybe you could reformat your names once you're done.
Oh.
Yeah, I think that's what I was refering to.
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On another note, I actually am curious what Orions look like and perhaps Orions had some pre-RP start contact with humans, like through their version of SETI or something.
My guys for example, will live on a planet that was once inhabited by primative Grunt-like aliens that now live together with humans on the planet.
It'd probably be worth mentioning that initial contact was probably lethal to both species since, you know, alien diseases and whatnot.
Or, if you want them to have encountered other life before without spoiling the opportunity for a goosebump inducing first encounter, you could say that the first time they encountered other life was very brief (like a brief visual, or an isolated attack on military ships that was quickly covered up by the government). That way you've encountered aliens before, but it was so sudden and brief that thhe next time you encounter an alien race you'll still be able to have those aware of the first go "Oh my god.. they're back.." and make an awesome "first" encounter story-arc.
A homage to Ranis 5, perhaps?
That would be neat.
The thing about wings, is that I plan on making a strain involving wings. As having the base mutation have wings would be Crazy OP. Think about it, They would simply jump over walls. However the base strain does have good jumping ability.
EDIT: Also Cheesy, if you are making a background, would it be okay if you've encounter d my race before? As in all colonization ships and transports in my region of space have been lost contact with?
Will these have some Natalius traits? We need something with a tentacle beard in this RP.
No but they probably will have blubber-ish skin and a protective shell on their back, so close enough. Maybe I'll give them a few small beard-like tenticals around their mouths though.