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Total Members Voted: 20

[Isdar]

A-not-so-gentle-yet-somewhat-gentle-gentleman, also wants to participate in this.

[RulerOfNothing]

Posting to watch.

[Broken]

Joining our glorious senate.

[Lorgath]

Pax Terra!

Sounds like a fun idea, I'm up for being part of the senate.

[Zangi]

I'll watch, not sure if I'll participate.  My track record on that end is horrible anyways.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

updated!

and it begins tonight! I'll be playing for a couple of hours tonight and will post the first update then!

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Updaten #1!

nach oben, nach oben und weg!

Success, we have reached the stars with a small fleet!

Our flag!

Spoiler: Starting Location (click to show/hide)

Our Immediate surroundings, we have immediately dispatched scouts to several systems to beginning charting our local star cluster.


A map of our galaxy, painstakingly recorded over many years of isolation.


Cobi Nothris, our venerable president (remember folks i'm just the Terran senator not the president!) an excellent leader to jump-start our extra-solar economy.


A neighboring planet, excellent for our first experiments in colonization. Not to mention a strong starting base for a highly industrialized home system. (There's also a marshy planet in our system!)


The private sector has been flourishing since we released hyperdrive technology to the public, they have set up significant facilities to Terra's north.

Spoiler: Energy Research (click to show/hide)

Our advisors, have found that we can easily research energy and have put forward several designs for a new space station for R&D purposes.


In the same lieu, one of our scouts has been granted a northward charting expedition to look for valuable gas-mining locations and energy anomalies in a recently discovered nebula.


After completing half of his expedition the scout has submitted the term 'Jirejadur Expanse' to describe the Nebula galactically north of us.

Spoiler: stories of terrifying porportions (click to show/hide)

One of our scouts stumbled upon this station... and this creature. Both have been documented.


A small boarding party from our scout has boarded the station to attempt to identify the origin of it.

A massive step forward in human knowledge, wheels are turning now that non-human life has been confirmed in this galaxy and sentient alien life existed at one time.

Before any significant studies could be made on the station the lights flickered back to life startling the on-board scientists, an impossible screeching then emanated from the outside of the station and alarms began to come to life, in moments to scientists it seemed as if though the station had begun to rock. The orbiting scout radioed in that the space creature had begun to devour the station and that the boarding team had little time to make it off the death-trap. Forced to leave most of their equipment behind, the scientists had no choice but to depressurize an airlock and escape using their suit jetpacks (it's the future we have cool space jetpacks now, Benevolent President demands you deal with it).

A full report has been made and extreme caution is advised when dealing with space creatures in the future.


more signs of intelligent life have been encountered, in the pursuit of science the lucky scout has permitted a large landing party to investigate the ruins.


Although the ruins were largely empty, a small armory was found in near-pristine condition. While most of the technology is still under study, our scientists have managed to reverse-engineer a defense system. While initial weapon testing determined that the system was in-fact damaged a weapon malfunction resulting in several rocket ignitions found the system to be an advanced form of countermeasures already employed on our ancient naval vessels.


Dear God! Our scouts have encountered humanoid life directly outside (and south) of Terra, fortunately they seem to lack many of the technological advancements our society has pioneered. A fierce debate about our foreign policy has ensued.

Spoiler: Contact (click to show/hide)

wait...


IMPOSSIBLE.


My god, the moment is here. We have encountered another space-faring empire. Our top ambassadorial agents are preparing to make official contact with them.

Spoiler: A New Colony (click to show/hide)

Our close neighbor has been colonized, "Esmosuir" it is called. It has been designated a special district by Terra. (I'll be doing that a lot at the start to raise participation, we'll dial it back as we get more colonies.)

END OF UPDATE REPORT:


We have one new colony.

There are no outstanding threats to the Republic. (Bar angry space creatures)

Since the Senate is non-existent, the floor is open to house resolutions (Watchers, you may now suggest some courses of action.)

Directives:
get some colonies for senators.

decide on research.

debate our foreign policy and the question of non-space-faring humanoid colony.

Other Stuff:

Applications for Senator from Special District "Esmosuir" open. Remember: "First come, first serve"

[Taricus]

Hmm, a race of engineers and researchers. Could definitely use those skills to our advantage if we were to assimilate them into the republic.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Yes, we also receive some nice empire-wide bonuses if they form a significant part of our population!

However, we could also be evil overlords. We'll see what happens in the suggestions. Official and Unofficial.

EDIT: Also, as we go along here I'll go back and fix my grammar and try to put some better RP in!

EDITEDIT: Speaking of RP, if someone wants to write a little story for the space-slug encounter I would be very happy with that!

[Knave]

Representative Knave:

"Peaceful integration will be key! We must show the stars that we humans are not a barbaric and war-hungry race."

[Creamcorn]

Representative Creamcorn:

"Turn there spaceships and colonies into stardust! There's not enough room in our local system to support two colonies! And if there is, what do we need competition for? To slow down our own progress?"

[Isdar]

I would like to apply for Senator to the people of the district of Esmosuir.

[ScriptWolf]

i would also like to apply for Esmosuir

[Iituem]

Representative Iituem

Representative Creamcorn has my support for this first contact situation.  We must present an appearance of strength, learn and understand the ways of these spacefarers and then perform the first strike against them with crushing force - it is only a matter of time before they do the same!  We cannot stand by while aliens destroy our homes, our wives, our daughters.  We must take action!

The same applies to these "Kadians".  Earth struggles to support its overburdened population, and here is a world ripe for the taking!  Why terraform, why spend countless trillions preparing an Earth-like world when one exists?  The anthropologists, the intellectuals, claim they are "superior", they are "highly advanced" and "gifted scientists", but they have not even managed to leave their own world!  Would God have created a superior race, then kept them bound while his chosen people ascended to the stars?  I say not!

If we integrate these aliens into our society, what will it mean to be human, to be sapient?  Will we become second class citizens in our own homes?  If these aliens are as advanced as the intellectuals claim, will they settle for second best, or even equality?  I say no!  It is a fundamental of nature to conquer, to master, and they would take our advances and make slaves of us all!

I strongly urge the House to annihilate these abominations with alacrity, and take their resource rich world, perfect for human habitation, to support our own people.  Billions exist in starvation and poverty on Earth, unable to survive due to our limited resources and failing ecosystem.  Are we to doom these poor souls just because of paltry concerns for the sake of a handful of ivory tower intellectuals who want to keep a new toy?  The issue here is no less than the survival of our very species!  Can you live with the knowledge that through your inaction you doomed humanity?  I think not.

Representatives, vote for the eradication of these aliens.  For Hope.  For Earth.  For Humanity.

[Iituem]

And as a standing position, I am applying for a Senatorial role with any newly established positions; especially Kadian once it has been suitably reformed.