Post by Mandalorian on Jan 22, 2008 19:45:28 GMT -5
Novus Universum
New universe
The History:
By the late twentieth century Earth and the Mars and moon colonies had become massively overcrowded with a population density of more then 2 persons to every half acre of useable land. It was at this point in 2098 that the Hyper Drive was invented. It allowed ships to travel a round the galaxy at great speeds allowing colonies to be formed. By 2135 over 100 planets had colonies with 100,000 or more citizens on them and there where countless numbers of smaller colonies spread around Earth’s arm of the galaxy.
The hyper drives still could only go so fast though and the colonies became very disjointed always out of contact. It was also at this point that tensions began to spark between the North American Union (or NAU for short) and the Chinese Hegemony. By 2180 the two where at war the war was fierce with no rules in the process Earth was turned into a ball of radiated rock, and over 10 billion had died. But the NAU came out on top and reformed to become the Galactic Union of Sovereign States (or GUSS for short).
The war did have one advantage though it gave a massive boost to technology and by the end of it two great new advancements where made. The first was the invention of the Tachyon communicator. Using the before hand only theoretical particle the tachyon communicator is capable of sending messages in the form of video or sound at amazing speeds across the galaxy.
The second invention was the creation of the Gates. Two Gates work together, use a massive amount of energy at exact timing to move an open space between the two of them a slight amount in another dimension (even the creator didn’t know exactly which or even if it was constant even though the most agreed upon are 6th and 7th) this space between the two gates makes a stable wormhole. These allow ships to move between any two gates at near instantaneous speeds.
These two advancements allowed the GUSS to control all the colonies that where formed. Another three hundred years passed with little events other then the constant spread of the GUSS across the galaxy. But some chaffed under the GUSS’s rule and rebellions began across the galaxy.
The leader of the largest of these rebellions was only known as Kane, he lead his “brothers” against the GUSS and was able to steal an experimental weapon that the GUSS forces where testing.
Known as an Electra Magnetic Energy Transfer Device, it was capable of changing any energy that came with in its field in to EM energy also the EM energy generated in this reaction held an echo of the original field allowing it to start a chain reaction. But the device’s field only remained stable for less then a millisecond so development had been put on hold by the GUSS, making it possible for Kane to steal it.
What followed was an extra galactic chase across the stars, between jump gates and with hyper drives Kane’s forces slowly managed to get slowly more and more ahead of the pursuing GUSS forces leading them right into there trap.
Eventually Kane’s forces stopped and began to circle the black hole at the center of the universe. Here the GUSS forces met them and without thinking released there entire pay load of weaponry at Kane’s ship in one volley. At the exact moment of detonation Kane activated the Device sending a massive EM pulse through the solar system and right into the gravity of the black hole. The kinetic energy and potential energy that was due to the massive gravity expanded the field even more, starting a massive chain reaction.
This chain reaction released a massive amount of EM energy, luckily however the echo died before it reach any more energy sources but the effect was still massive, shutting down every device within the galaxy, and due to the reaction happening at the center of the galaxy, EM waves continued washing over the galaxy ever few weeks preventing any advanced form of machinery to function. The reaction continued for another 50, but just 2 years ago it stopped. And ships have been repaired and a few gates reopened. The galaxy has been reborn, what will follow in this new future?
Game Play:
This RP focus's on teh players beign inventive, and it really isn't the kind of RPG to ahev a stream of short posts but a couple of well thought out posts. The characters will be allowed to do reallly what ever they want as long as it doesn't ruin play for the others and it doesn't go against the background story (tried to make it very vague about alot of things) I would like it if the players made there own factions for there characters, or sub divisions of the main factions.
Main Factions
The GUSS Remanents-
Lead by a council of six leaders the GUSS remanent dreams of retakeing the power the GUSS once had no matter the cost. They have lost there morals onyl worrying now about power and money, but there are still some people who beleived in teh old GUSS and work for the betterment of mankind.
The GUSS has made a large number of enemies in a short time, they have struck against a large number of recently unified planets and have even in some cases committed genocide on a level never before heard of. "Cleansing" these planets of those who try to fight against them
The GUSS has the strongest military force in teh galaxy but they only haev a few centers of power, most of there territory worlds are at a constant state of rebellion and give no help unless forced.
The Galactic Alliance of Independant Planets (Galatic Alliance)-
a newly formed group the Galactic Alliance is a group devoted to mantaining fair trade and order among there member planets and in portecting them but leavign them there indivuality. It is a noble goal but as the sayign goes "The road to Hell is paved in good intintions"
This has proven to be true. In its shprt time the galactic Alliance has bankrupted a large number of worlds, and due to military ineptitude lost millions of soldiers and a large number of space worthy vessels. But a few people have rose to power in its rnks and although they have brought a better economy and military victories. Some know histopry and wonder wether or not they'll be the next batch of Hitler's or Napolean's.
The Galactic Alliances forces are weak but very diverse, and there sources of supplies and income are spread across a large number of worlds allowign them to function even after a large number of trade routes have been blockaded.
The Shades (unplayable)-
a mysterious group that has sprung up. Very little is known of them other then the fact that they seem to have methods fo getting explosives were ever they want, they haev demonstrated this a couple of times destroying a few GUSS space stations and even assasinating one of the leaders of the galactic Alliance.
no one knows there goals or motives, just that there servants appear to be onyl partially human they blend into any crowd and that they appear to be only half there, liek they are but shadows.
myths haev sopread along the galaxy about them spreading fear everywhere. and has even caused a new sayign to sprign up "No one is safe, every one is a target, when the shades walk"
New universe
The History:
By the late twentieth century Earth and the Mars and moon colonies had become massively overcrowded with a population density of more then 2 persons to every half acre of useable land. It was at this point in 2098 that the Hyper Drive was invented. It allowed ships to travel a round the galaxy at great speeds allowing colonies to be formed. By 2135 over 100 planets had colonies with 100,000 or more citizens on them and there where countless numbers of smaller colonies spread around Earth’s arm of the galaxy.
The hyper drives still could only go so fast though and the colonies became very disjointed always out of contact. It was also at this point that tensions began to spark between the North American Union (or NAU for short) and the Chinese Hegemony. By 2180 the two where at war the war was fierce with no rules in the process Earth was turned into a ball of radiated rock, and over 10 billion had died. But the NAU came out on top and reformed to become the Galactic Union of Sovereign States (or GUSS for short).
The war did have one advantage though it gave a massive boost to technology and by the end of it two great new advancements where made. The first was the invention of the Tachyon communicator. Using the before hand only theoretical particle the tachyon communicator is capable of sending messages in the form of video or sound at amazing speeds across the galaxy.
The second invention was the creation of the Gates. Two Gates work together, use a massive amount of energy at exact timing to move an open space between the two of them a slight amount in another dimension (even the creator didn’t know exactly which or even if it was constant even though the most agreed upon are 6th and 7th) this space between the two gates makes a stable wormhole. These allow ships to move between any two gates at near instantaneous speeds.
These two advancements allowed the GUSS to control all the colonies that where formed. Another three hundred years passed with little events other then the constant spread of the GUSS across the galaxy. But some chaffed under the GUSS’s rule and rebellions began across the galaxy.
The leader of the largest of these rebellions was only known as Kane, he lead his “brothers” against the GUSS and was able to steal an experimental weapon that the GUSS forces where testing.
Known as an Electra Magnetic Energy Transfer Device, it was capable of changing any energy that came with in its field in to EM energy also the EM energy generated in this reaction held an echo of the original field allowing it to start a chain reaction. But the device’s field only remained stable for less then a millisecond so development had been put on hold by the GUSS, making it possible for Kane to steal it.
What followed was an extra galactic chase across the stars, between jump gates and with hyper drives Kane’s forces slowly managed to get slowly more and more ahead of the pursuing GUSS forces leading them right into there trap.
Eventually Kane’s forces stopped and began to circle the black hole at the center of the universe. Here the GUSS forces met them and without thinking released there entire pay load of weaponry at Kane’s ship in one volley. At the exact moment of detonation Kane activated the Device sending a massive EM pulse through the solar system and right into the gravity of the black hole. The kinetic energy and potential energy that was due to the massive gravity expanded the field even more, starting a massive chain reaction.
This chain reaction released a massive amount of EM energy, luckily however the echo died before it reach any more energy sources but the effect was still massive, shutting down every device within the galaxy, and due to the reaction happening at the center of the galaxy, EM waves continued washing over the galaxy ever few weeks preventing any advanced form of machinery to function. The reaction continued for another 50, but just 2 years ago it stopped. And ships have been repaired and a few gates reopened. The galaxy has been reborn, what will follow in this new future?
Game Play:
This RP focus's on teh players beign inventive, and it really isn't the kind of RPG to ahev a stream of short posts but a couple of well thought out posts. The characters will be allowed to do reallly what ever they want as long as it doesn't ruin play for the others and it doesn't go against the background story (tried to make it very vague about alot of things) I would like it if the players made there own factions for there characters, or sub divisions of the main factions.
Main Factions
The GUSS Remanents-
Lead by a council of six leaders the GUSS remanent dreams of retakeing the power the GUSS once had no matter the cost. They have lost there morals onyl worrying now about power and money, but there are still some people who beleived in teh old GUSS and work for the betterment of mankind.
The GUSS has made a large number of enemies in a short time, they have struck against a large number of recently unified planets and have even in some cases committed genocide on a level never before heard of. "Cleansing" these planets of those who try to fight against them
The GUSS has the strongest military force in teh galaxy but they only haev a few centers of power, most of there territory worlds are at a constant state of rebellion and give no help unless forced.
The Galactic Alliance of Independant Planets (Galatic Alliance)-
a newly formed group the Galactic Alliance is a group devoted to mantaining fair trade and order among there member planets and in portecting them but leavign them there indivuality. It is a noble goal but as the sayign goes "The road to Hell is paved in good intintions"
This has proven to be true. In its shprt time the galactic Alliance has bankrupted a large number of worlds, and due to military ineptitude lost millions of soldiers and a large number of space worthy vessels. But a few people have rose to power in its rnks and although they have brought a better economy and military victories. Some know histopry and wonder wether or not they'll be the next batch of Hitler's or Napolean's.
The Galactic Alliances forces are weak but very diverse, and there sources of supplies and income are spread across a large number of worlds allowign them to function even after a large number of trade routes have been blockaded.
The Shades (unplayable)-
a mysterious group that has sprung up. Very little is known of them other then the fact that they seem to have methods fo getting explosives were ever they want, they haev demonstrated this a couple of times destroying a few GUSS space stations and even assasinating one of the leaders of the galactic Alliance.
no one knows there goals or motives, just that there servants appear to be onyl partially human they blend into any crowd and that they appear to be only half there, liek they are but shadows.
myths haev sopread along the galaxy about them spreading fear everywhere. and has even caused a new sayign to sprign up "No one is safe, every one is a target, when the shades walk"
