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[SoHowAreYou]

Blah Blah Exposition Blah Blah

O.K. Precursors? I don't know, I'm making this up a I go along.

You are leader of a race here is the sheet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:
Recent History:
Description:

Yes all three of those are mandatory though you don't have to give a massive description for them

Suggestions (Optional but they have to line up with the things above if given.):

Society Traits:
Racial Traits:
Starting facilities on the planet:

You are about to embark on journey to the stars so you will need tech, but also a society ready to ascend to the heavens.

Here are some possible suggestions:

Police state, lots of crackdown facilities (prisons, barracks etc.) Probably will have major advantages in loyalty and industry, but will suck at science.

Feudalism, embrace the nobles, set up a group with near or even total religious support from the masses, similar to police state, though less internally brutal but still there are flaws.

Transcendence, Super people and rainbow kittens, heavy science and all that stuff slower start but there will be mechanics to make it worth it.

Democracy, well it's democracy.

So here are a few things to be aware of, your people have traits and quality levels so transcendence may look a little better, bear in mind police states raise loyal but uncreative citizens generally (you can run a research police state if you want). Another thing is unless you can come up with a justification in battle your race will see space as 2-D, though this can be changed.

Finally science, I hold the end vote as too what it will do but feel free to suggest.

[RulerOfNothing]

Alright, this looks interesting, but I have a few questions before I put up a race:

• What is the tech level we are starting at?
• Do we start off with a unified planet?

[Dariush]

Blah Blah Exposition Blah Blah

O.K. Precursors? I don't know, I'm making this up a I go along.

Lazyass mod? Kthxnobye.

[SoHowAreYou]

You start off on your own little planet, tech level, well you research your own individual techs but, in the recent history you can make mention of the newest techs, if you don't I have a set for you. No you don't start with Ftl though you research it immediately. Please also note building a ship, at least in the begging will be done in space and 15000 rockets will destroy your economy.

[SoHowAreYou]

Blah Blah Exposition Blah Blah

O.K. Precursors? I don't know, I'm making this up a I go along.

Lazyass mod? Kthxnobye.

Thank you for your input sir, sorry I was on my phone earlier, if you ever come back you may gain the right to complain but seriously don't walk in say I won't play and walk out without I don't know telling me what else to do, plus I was tired and things would be figured out as I moved along.

[Strife26]

Blah Blah Exposition Blah Blah

O.K. Precursors? I don't know, I'm making this up a I go along.

Lazyass mod? Kthxnobye.

Thank you for your input sir, sorry I was on my phone earlier, if you ever come back you may gain the right to complain but seriously don't walk in say I won't play and walk out without I don't know telling me what else to do, plus I was tired and things would be figured out as I moved along.

That's generally a reaaaaally bad way to run something, just so you know. Stuff rarely gets figured out in time. In any case, I'm willing to put something in, I think, possibly with some Classical Republic/ David Drake's Cinnabar like society, so lots of oligarchical fun, with an independent military

[SoHowAreYou]

Yeah I know pre-planning is not going to work out but I now do have some possibilities in mind for things, solar systems I will make up as we go along, if only because it adds some suspense for me as well, also hey strife, how is the military going? By the way now we need a name and race for your guys and we're set.

[Deny]

I'll probably join, if I can think of a race

[Strife26]

The Republic of Bauxite

Oligarchical Republic
     Decisions are made by a Senate, which tends to be filled with the families of rich and famous. However, there are enough disparate groups and loyalties to prevent any one family from overly abusing the system or the populace over much. The armed forces are unified and mostly independent of the political system.

[SoHowAreYou]

O.K. the republic of Bauxite.

How does this sound:

Human

Racial abilities: Determination, where as most would surrender in the face of unbreakable odds, humans will stand and fight. Morale bonus to society, and increased defense, if massive losses or attacks are made you will gain, a temporary perk called, United we Stand, which gives massive bonuses, to your society and effectiveness in all fields.

Other ability: Humans are practically insane and what we would consider sane, to most other races of aliens would be insanity. Perks name is stable insanity, giving massive bonuses to first time mega projects and an increased chance to make research breakthroughs.


Society Bonus: Rich controlled society: This society is practically begging to go to the stars to trade, massive bonus to trade with aliens, also this society gives a target to aim for and has a 1 in 5 chance to produce a higher grade citizen than normal circumstances would dictate.


Starting techs: Thorium reactors gives you a +1 industrial output to a production facility.
Neuro-mastery: The secrets of the brain our no longer secrets to you, gives you a bonus to science and, enables several techs, on the conscious tree.
Railguns: gives your troops and ships +3 kinetic damage.


Starting facilities: 3 factories each gives 2 IO + 1 extra IO from Thorium reactors

Research Lab: gives 4 science plus 2 from neuromastery.


Independent military has a barracks complex, in order to have their support you must earn or buy it.



is this acceptable Strife?

[Terra162]

Do you mind if a complete newbie that has no idea what is going on here tries to join?
By the way I have a faint idea of what we are doing.

I will post my race here when I am finished.

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Name: Geldarians
Recent History: The Geldarians were bent on war before the planet was unified, there was a massive war that blacked out the sun.

But before the war there was a small group of them that was set on peace, they started researching ways to use nanites for industrial use,
they mastered it before the war and used them to build hundreds of medium sized underground complexes all across the planet.
Sadly the Planetary cost of the Great War was devastating, the lack of the sun killed almost all animal and
plant life, they have a large data bank with the Genetics of the animals and planets before the war.

After the war in some hundreds of medium size underground complexes they started digging tunnels and connecting to each other.

With this underground cites started to appear and the need of technology to keep them alive kept growing, they did a lot of research on Industrial
Efficiency, Power Sources, Agriculture, and Nano-Technology.

This also cause them to neglect weapon research, although they developed great Shield/Dome technology in pursuit of returning to the surface.

They are heavy Industrial/Research based because of the war. it's is a Technocracy government, with a council of all the lead scientists in there
respected fields descending and debating about how to do things, if there is a conflict in interest the elected head of government will pick which
path to take, on with he would have been voted head by the council.

Although they are a peaceful race they still have volunteers for there standing army of about 250,000 and they can draft 10,000-40,000,000 more if need be. (I don't know what kind of military you would call that.

Description: They are very similar to the humans in the ways of Physiology, they both breath Oxygen, the only slight differences.
They have pale skin, Great Hearing, Average Eye Site, Hard skin.

Society Traits: Peaceful, United, Love of technology. Dislikes: War, Disunity, Lack of Technology and bright places.
Racial Traits: Subterranean, Strong, Dislike of large open spaces. (from being used to closed conditions)
Starting Technology:
Starting facilities on the planet:

I would like you to pick what my starting tech and buildings are. I don't know what you would call the military.

[SoHowAreYou]

O.K. I will write up something for your traits and tech when I get home

[Strife26]

It looks good to me.

[Tellemurius]

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Name: Claldites

Recent History
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 The Claldites are a ancient race of sentient AI that recently been activated for long years. Their creators have been long gone leaving a legacy behind in ruins along with their creations. The Claldites are determined to rebuild the forgotten world and hopefully entice their creators back to them.

Description
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 They are separated into different castes in their society for the order of logic in the system.
The Hive caste ranging from scouting drones to the large Hauler Walkers to the behemoth mobile battle cluster, they maintain, secure, and build the Society. They also include the Constructors for producing new units and thus are highly valued for a low end of a caste. Intelligence is limited to them as they are not designed for intense processes. They are considered as the same level as a 12 year old for thinking.

Next caste is the NightWalkers. They are spitting image of their creators. A biped unit with a smooth outer shell, two arms each with 7 finger hands, they have some sort of a face thats emotionless and has all of the necessary sensors for the unit to survive. They are the explorers and the warriors of the society. While all of the castes do contain combat units, the Nightwalkers were designed to be placed in a hostile zone with the ability to execute commands while estranged from the cluster connection with considerable force. Their bodies are constructed for extreme environments and able to withstand exponential levels of gravity. They contain many redundant systems in their bodies to keep the unit operating at least 70% combat ready. That being said, the intelligence levels with these units are immensely high, even some are designed/upgrade to become miniature clusters as a mobile strategist in battles. They can be compared with the determined spy or a wise general.

The last caste is the Cluster Mind. These are large constructs containing multitude of processing and storage units. They are the leaders of the Society providing the daily orders to the Hive caste and objectives to the Nightwalkers. Throughout the day the Cluster mind examines all of the data the lower castes collects adapting new coding for the Society. They operate on a strange radio channel that while requires building large broadcasting bridges to transport the data stream, the data connection only requires a few seconds to transmit orders to the unit. They are considered the leaders, the scientists, and the engineers of the Society leaving the strategy thinking to the Nightwalkers. Due to their importance, the Hive Mind is hidden throughout the territories with many redundant systems to keep the stream up temporarily in case a cluster goes down.

The Society survives by collecting energy to operate their system. Their main utilization is their sun which outputs immense amounts of energy they convert from solar farms. They put much research in energy to find ways to continue operating at larger distances from their sun ranging from 3D batteries and nuclear units. Weaponry are assorted from the usual particle beams to the intense railcannons. Emotions is a strange concept to the Hive but under close study they seem to grasp some of the concepts behind the idea.

Society Traits
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Adaptable - with their constant data collection and feedback, the hive minds are able to continuously update the Society to maintain their advanced status. With that comes to a cost of constantly upgrading obsolete units. + bonus to research - bonus to maintenance cost.
 
Cluster Presence - a example of a million eyes watching you. The Society is able to ward off most intrusions from spy networks to fringe hacking. ++ bonus to counterespionage

Starting Techs
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High Density Alloys - materials able to withstand massive amounts of damage. bonus to structural and unit integrity.

Solar Energy - The Society has figure out a way to utilize their sun to provide energy instead of searching for rare radioactive materials on planets to continue fueling their old reactors. This currently limits them though to powerful large star systems and they cannot astray that far from the control zone.


Starting Facilities
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Solar Farm - a large construct designed to collect energy from the star.

Hive Mind Cluster - a massive building considered as a capital for the territories.

Yea tell me if you need more information

[SoHowAreYou]

I'll do writing tomorrow right, tonight have marching band