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[Nilocy]

Masters of the Star.
The 4X Bay12games Forum game.

The year is 2100 and the heavens have opened to humanity. The recent invention of ftl units have opened up a universe of possibilities to everyone who is willing to risk everything.

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Situation:There are currently 3 inhabited planets. These are:
Earth
Ecological.
No jungles left. The major ones last were cut down in 2050.
Sea level has risen by 3 meters. Reducing total land mass by 1/50th.
Current Population: approx 10.5 Billion.
Economical.
America still leads as the worlds super power, with China still desperately clinging in second place.
The UEC (United European Commonwealth) is the worlds 3rd largest power.
Japan is currently the leader of technologic progress.
Europe is currently the leader of biological progress.
America is currently the leader of space industry.
China is currently the leader of food products.
Political.
The UEC is a block of early 21st century countries unified into one. (Except Switzerland and Hungary)
Talks of a world government (World Gov) have begun. 
The Moon
Ecological.
It’s the moon. Not much but dust and a few colonies.
Current population: 2 million.
Economical.
A few colonies specialise in low gravity technologies. There is an heavy industrial economy starting up here due to an abundance of raw materials and demand for new space craft.
Political.
Each of the 4 colonies is headed by an Earth bound nation. 2 Colonies belong to America, 1 to Europe and 1 to China/Japan.
Mars
Ecological.
Barren waste land. Ideas of terraforming are in the works with some governments.
Current population: approx 23,500
Economical.
Nothing as of 2100. First colonies support research staff, more are planned.
Political.
2 joint (between all the 4 major powers on earth) research bases, one on the equator and one on the north pole.
Venus
Ecological.
Its venus, it has no ecology other than extremely smooth massive mountains of lava.
Currently 2 inhabited sites. One by Defense Corp and another by Gaia Corp.
Current population: ?
Economical.
Nothing other than these two test Colonies
Political.
Both are own by seperate corps. And the UN has no jurisdiction. As of yet.
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YOU have the power to do good in the world. YOU have the ingenuity to start new worlds. YOU are the deciders. But, your not alone. There are others who will undercut, backstab, ally against you to make it to the top.

This is the game of interstellar exploring, expansion, exploiting and exterminating. Your taking over for the giants that have stood before you. The world is in crisis and the ftl units seem to be the worlds answer to everything. You will have to make sure this happens or there may be no future for humanity. 

What it’s about.
Basically you are playing as a CEO or a head of some family with tendrils in every single pie. You’re an economic and political powerhouse, you represent everything that anyone would want to be. You have money, power and most importantly respect.
Its your job to explore the stars, open up new worlds for the people, allow them to flock to your lands and make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Expand into the unknown, make people want to come to your lands, offer tax havens, jobs, health care and education!
Exploit the exploitable, if its there for the taking, then do so. Nothings worse than a missed opportunity.
And exterminate your opposition. Do this in any way you see fit, whether direct confrontation, or more underhanded ways such as politics and economics.

What I want from this.
Basically I want to see if its possible for people to work together for the benefit of mankind. In this game you’ll be placed into it as a person of direct power and you will attempt to shape mankinds future. I want this to be as serious as possible please. If you can’t handle the heat then get out of the kitchen as they say. People will be allowed to be mean, so long as its in game only, I don’t want people getting annoyed at me for running this.

The rules:

• I want all turns to be taken within a week in real life. I promise you as a GM that if you can all get the turns in by Wednesday of that week, I will have the next turn ready by Saturday.
• Turns will last in game approximately 4 years a piece.
• You can do as little or as much as you want in game.
• I (or my fellow co-gm (to be announced)) will be playing as the general public and their governments.
• You don’t have to worry about the little things in the corporation, it’s assumed that everything is done by itself.
• Emergencies will occur, I will explain them to you in a PM or something. Not everyone will get ones at the same time, but there’s usually going to be one MAJOR emergency per turn. How you handle these will effect the game as a whole.

How it should go
First turn rules only: When the game starts please send your tech bonuses to me or LSTAR as soon as possible.
1. The fate cards will be handed out on a Wednesday (in the form of a link or, if you like an email .jpeg most likely)
2. You make your decision(s) about what to do for this turn
3. Send them back PM/Email or something. (I WILL ACCEPT SPOILERED TURNS BUT IT MEANS OTHER PEOPLE CAN LOOK AT YOUR TURNS/GOALS).
4. I only want one turn per person
5. Once your sent in your turn, no going back.
6. Hopefully you’ll have sent this in by the following Saturday
7. We’ll write out what happens and have it posted by Wednesday if you lot keep your side of the deal and hand in by Saturday.
8. Continue process from 1.

Organisation Creation.
How to go make one.
First I want you to take a serious long hard think about what your corporation does. Don't post these yet, I still have to finalise the rules.
Questions you should ask yourselves.

The name, all organisations MUST have a name.

What is it that your organisations specialise in? Politics or Economics?

Your corporations history. How did they get to where they are now?

Who is currently the CEO? You or some other figure head.

And one to keep to yourself. What are your long term goals? Economic power house through the invention of some really cool gadget? Eventual merger of all world governments? Can you get this through the UN and become its leader? Its up to you.



Public View of the current organistations:

The Public run down on corporations. (These are the publicly known opinions to you lot)

• (Newmartianemperor) GaiaCorp: Not really well known enough yet to have an opinion.
• (Emperor_Jonathan) Defence Corp: Not much good can be said about you.
• (woose1) Terra-form United: Not really well known enough yet to have an opinion.
• (Boksi) Starpower Industries: Not really well known enough yet to have an opinion.
• (Solifuge) Helix Firm:  Views are sliding towards the negative end.
• (inaluct) Australian Colonization Incorporated: Not really well known enough yet to have an opinion.
• (NUKE9.13) LSA: The ones that know of you, are extremely afraid of you.
• (Virex) CAN: Not really well known enough yet to have an opinion.
• (Little) The Bradwell Organization: The media love you for the scandals.

[Nilocy]

Reserved for messages!
Current status of TEST game: Currently on turn one. The X means I'm still waiting on you. Who has yet to post turns:
NME [x ]
Emperor_jonathan [ ]
woose1 [x ]
Boksi [ ]
Solifuge [x ]
inaluct [ ]
NUKE9.13 [ ]
Virex [ ]
Little [ ]


What you should send me > Questions, Espionage actions, suggestions... and anything else you don't want to risk being made public.

Note: Can you please on RP here, there is a seperate thread for other discussions.

[Nilocy]

Turn one

“This is World News with your host Danni Jessops.”

“Good morning West coast! In today’s news. There have been startling developments in the court case of the notorious serial killer gang, the ‘22s’ with the ring leader Brian Maddox appearing in front of the judge today. The controversial faster than light, or ftl, units have opened the heavens to humanity, we have our resident expert Dr. Wilf Henry here to explain what humanity could achieve with it. In other news, the president of the United States will be hosting a peace summit with all the other major powers in the 12th annual G7 summit, with the 7 most powerful nations coming together to discuss world issues. In other news, peace keeping efforts in the African nation of New Congo have finally come to a head, with all nations pulling their forces out with General Stateham saying “We can’t afford to lose any more of our good men, for a cause which is just completely hopeless. We hope to return when the odds of success are better than they are now.” It is known that the terrorist organisation the ‘Jungle Kings’ do possess some for of biological weaponry. It is still unknown who the benefactor was. In other news…”

[NUKE9.13]

...
>Load talkfile
Loading...
File: talkfile Last edited: Today, 3 hours ago.
Viewing page 1/30
What is this file? Operative 345, please review and delete.
//Guys, this file is for talking. Remember to put everything in comments.
//Jump to the last page for the latest news.
//Alright, hey, I made a new talkfile. The protocol is too high for sally 6 to delete, so it should last a while. Um, in other news, looks like CAN is serious about the whole 'genetic mutation thing'...
Viewing page 30/30
//BREAKING NEWS:
//Ok, folks. This is your update, featuring data sieved from the history file.
//In political news: Earth, bla bla bla, nothing of note. See the news channel.
//In economic news: Much todo about FTL. Sally seems optimistic about receiving orders from other corporations for FTL drives.
//In industrial news: Recent review of facilities by Sally shows that, as always, all systems are go to the max. Predictions state that we should surpass all other corporations in manufacturing capability.
//LSA public news: Conspiracy websites remain the only source of public knowledge. Sally is ignoring them as ever.
//LSA private news: New line of spybots is out, apparently.
//LSA super private news: Sally is planning on getting rich by selling other companies goods, I think. Further actions unknown, options include improving infrastructure, researching technology, and investing in our various puppet-companies. More on this later!
//This ends our news summary. For more in depth information, see History_Siftings_January_2100
//
//Does anyone know what SA the new spybots have?
//From scanning the History_Siftings, I think its SA-119 34
//Er, 934 is a space craft operator.
//Quite right, if you check the siftings from last month you'll see that it was about upgrading 934 to use FTL drives better...

Spoiler: super secret turn (click to show/hide)

I would like to wait for other people to respond to my offer(s) before making definitive actions... we have until saturday, right?

[Nilocy]

Nuke. Can you post your turn here please. And super secret stuff should be spoilered as to warn people not to read it for roleplaying reasons. Thanks.

[Virex]

And thus it begins. The schematics are ready, the production lines are set up. All that's left is the actual manufacturing

We'll be starting today and we are on a tight schedule. The core has to be launched within 2 weeks. The week thereafter construction of the shaft will begin, which should take another week. Then there are 2 weeks of testing planed, before humanities first skyhook becomes a reality.
After that we should focus on the production

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Our first aim is to start up the production of our test skyhooks core. I will invest 2 credits in setting up and managing a production line for making skyhook cores. There is a further 1 credit to be invested in a start of the production of the skyhooks' shaft. Seeing that 1 turn equals 4 years, I will probably manage to finish this easely. If it's possible I'll atempt to prodce several more skyhooks, most of which are meant to be brought into orbit around earth.

I'm asuming this counts as 1 action since it's 2 parts of the same project. If not, please say so and I will adjust accordingly.

And last of all, I invest 2 credits in espionage. What I want my spy's to accomplish is to get into LSA's computers and install some subroutines that will enable us to influence the computer data later on. At this point they should not go too far, but only install some hooks we can acces later though.

[Boksi]

So many possibilities, so little time. Humanity stands so tall now, our feet can almost touch the bottom of the pool that is the solar system. But beyond that is the massive depth of the ocean of the universe... Will mankind ever cease it's growth? Probably, but not in our lifetime, or a billion lifetimes later! So many faces, so many hopes, dreams and fantasies... But it all tends to blend into a faceless, uncaring mob when it gets too big. Such a sad thing, isn't it? Starpower Industries has it's aspirations and we have plans on how to reach them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I invest two credits in an up-and-coming new rocketry company(economics). I furthermore loan some of my moon-to-earth rockets to CAN, symbolized by one credit donated to his skyhook project. Finally, my research team is given a credit in extra funds and assigned to the design of the upcoming Jupiter harvesting facility, focusing especially the harvesting devices themselves(research).

Can I do this? I'm pretty sure this is still just two major actions. If not, the first action is the least important.

[Nilocy]

Yup thats fine. Basically major actions are ones that I'll be rolling for, minor ones arn't. I hope everyone will get their turns done by Saturday.

[Little]

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Clips of cars exploding and dangerous men wielding guns flash onto the screen, the final dramatic clip being a burning spaceship plummeting through the atmosphere, camera panning over the rear to show the impact site: a bustling city. The screen fades, then blazing red letters appear with Crimson, then: Download now through Connect!

An official-looking news-anchor appears on the screen, backed by shiny black paneling and sitting behind a mahogany desk. Running a hand through his greying hair and glancing down at the script, he smiles, "Hello, habitants of the solar system! Welcome to Connect news, I'm lead anchor Brian Conners. Tonight, our 'Current Events' reporter Curtis Shelding is back from the escalating situation in New Congo. We'll be handing you off for a special update on the current scenario...

The screen changes to a view of a battered looking man in a white shirt and jeans. He apologzies for his apperance, noting that his armoured departure plane had been hit with a small rocket, and the resulting explosion had caused a few minor in-flight problems. He details the horror spawned by the pulling out of troops, how the rebels were reclaiming territory rapidly, and the formidable threat they pose to world safety and the health of the nearby countries.

The program pauses for a commercial break, and then returns.

"And we're back. Thank you for the good report Curtis, and I'm saddened to hear the situation has declined to that point. Now, for the headlining stories. The President of the United States has called for a global peace summit...

A story or two later and a commercial break later...

"Welcome back. The Baradwell Organization announced today that they are going to build a colony on Mars that will be joint-run by another corporate power, Terra-Forming United. They have announced ambitious plans for the terraforming of Mars, and have expressed intent to turn it into 'a pure Earth'. Development of the colony is expected to be long, but the Baradwell Organization has announced that it is already taking applications for those who would wish to live on the Red Planet. Applications can be e-mailed to the Baradwell Organization through the Applicant link on their website. Now, for a heart-warming story of devotion and love..."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Internal Memo: Baradwell Organization

Great job on the Connect upgrades! Hell, with the upgrades and the new wireless receivers, the colonists on Mars could get a clear fast signal! Now, onto business, I want all available resources diverted onto these two projects until completion:

1) Baradwell Tech will focus on designing an efficient colony, one that can hold a minimum of 15,000 people. I want the colony to have agricultural capabilities, living quarters, the works. I want it to be as efficient as possible, a technological wonder that could put the research bases to shame. I want this thing high-quality, people!((Invest 2 Credits!!))

2) I want selected sections of Baradwell Industries and and all of Baradwell Manufacturing focused on building the colony itself. Cut no corners. Anyone found cutting corners will be shamed, fired, and will never work with anything the Baradwell Organization is mildly associated with, and we have a lot of pull. Don't screw this up, management. Baradwell Financial says we can spare a chunk of money, so I invest it in the building project. Don't screw this up!
((Invest 3 Credits!))

3) As a separate point, Public Relations should be made aware that they will have to enact an advertising campaign after colony completion. Continue to monitor the flow of online applications and review them.

4) Government Relations, see if you can get a representative into the peace-meeting, better yet if they accept me. If I can get in, that'd be fantastic, but if I'm not allowed, try to send a representative.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

Since DefenseCorp was formed, it formed fighting, forever it fought. Now, possibly, could be the last battle it faces. DefenseCorp is still master of the what it formed to be, a mercenary group. Since its formation it spread its tendrils all over, touching all parts of civlisation. Now it was one of the players, players that it never dreamed to become. Now, it is losing that position. On all sides new, upstart corporations are taking over, doing what DefenseCorp does, but for less.

The Boardroom was a plain, spartan, room. It was not adorned with fancy ornaments, it was simple. A large table with chairs around it. At the head of the table was Jonathan, the CEO of DefenseCorp. Board members were seated in the other chairs. It was a long time before anyone spoke. Finally Jonathan stood up.

"I gather you all here to day more as a courtesy then anything. What I'm about to do, you will not have a decision in. It is the best for the company..."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1) DefenseCorp research new weapons for fighting in space. One that can destroy rock, steel and flesh. A weapon that has a good cost-to-power ratio.       2 Credits will be spent to help this along.

2) DefenseCorp buys into opposing companies on the stock market. If possible, to buy out the whole company and merge them with DefenseCorp. 3 Credits will be spent to help this along.

[inaluct]

The screen fades from scrambled white noise to an image of a man sitting at a table, with a map tacked on the wall behind him. The man is wearing a particularly large false mustache and a pith helmet. The map has a conspicuous hole in it where Australaina would normally be. There appears to be a clothesline hanging above him.

"Greetings from Austrailia Space Colonization Corporation, mates! We are proud to announce the commencement of an ambitious mining project focused on bringing humanity forward into a golden age of mineral wealth! We fully intend to-"

The man's fake mustache begins to fall off, and he pauses to readjust it.

"Ahem. We fully intend to make use of these minerals to further colonization of Europa and Mars, to provide new habitable homes for humanity in space. As you all know, many brave souls perished in the Great Sinking of Australalaia. We cannot repeat this tragedy with earth."

The man's eyes begin to water, and he brushes a tear away. As he does this, a small koala wearing a tiny backpack crawls along the clothesline above him. He reaches up, grabs it, and pulls a note out of it's backpack.

"Oi, looks like we got some news here! We are even more proud to announce that our new mining activity will include research efforts to improve efficiency and cleanliness in mining! Space looks bright, comrades! Citizen Inaluct out."

The screen fades to black, and then to an Ausco logo with the slogan "We're lovable," underneath it. It then fades back to black.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1) Ausco will spend 3 credits to begin mining operations on mineral rich moons.

2) Ausco will spend 2 credits to research improved mining techniques, mate.

[Nilocy]

Ok, so we're still looking for Woose, solifuge, Newermartianemperor and nuke to post their turns. And then I can get on with rolling them up. Seems very interesting the different paths everyones taking. Hopefully more so when the other three post. You lot got till midnight saturday to do it!

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

In the News today, industry unknown GaiaCorp has taken a bold action in launching the first extra-solar expedition. The scouting fleet will be led by none other then the companies CEO, Stanley Boone. Many await the expeditions return with great anticipation. They should be back by July, bringing with them the first truly in-depth information on planets outside the solar system.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Alpha Centauri is explored by me, can't quite tell what it will use, though.

2. I ain't gonna tell you.

[NUKE9.13]

Super secret turn (for real this time)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MAIN ACTION ONE: Using technology provided by CAN, LCAMC will produce 4- ahem- high-quality carbon nanotube composite  cables, 2 with a length of 18.000 km and 2 cables with a length of 56.000 km. These will be delivered to CAN for the production of their 'skyhooks' and 'space elevators'. Any questions asked, they were built by StarCables. Use Manufacturing.

MAIN ACTION TWO A: If possible, Counter-espionage. Improve defence against rival espionage actions. Information back-ups, improved firewalls, armed robot guards, bribe informants, ect. Use Espionage and One money unit to aid in bribes and robot construction.

MAIN ACTION TWO B: If 2A is not possible, produce consumer goods, exchanging Manufacturing for cold hard money/resources. Food synthesisers, PCs, hovercars, ect.

SUB-ACTIONS: Minor actions, if possible, are along the lines of scaled-down 2B.

[Nilocy]

Ok right, since everyone but 2 posted their turns I shall go ahead and start to roll them up. Be ready for another update on wednesday with turn happenings.