I had time to write these days, but I didn't do it. and I want to explain: I have a story related to this world, and instead of thinking about serani here, I thought about serani there. and now it is too late (I barely remember actions).
I feel sorry about this, so I'll torture you with the plot of this story(not that bad, don't worry. I think something good can come out of it.), because I am not sure if I’ll write it, and I don't want to let the idea die without anyone knowing about it.
first, a bit of background:
on the Earth, world war III happens, and it is one of the shortest wars of human kind. the first(and last) act of this war was a nuke hitting London and destroying it, producing the biggest man-made explosion ever seen and leaving only a radioactive wasteland; people in all the world where shocked by this and most of the governments of the nations involved in the war were dismissed; now peace was a important problem to solve, and UN started to get more power to keep peace in the world.
after a decade the UN became a global government, although nations were still called independent, and could leave UN, but this right was used only once and the nation joined again UN few years later.
peace and a more efficient and global government made wonders for science and economy, improving the life of the people of the old poor countries, and even the life of the richest. more diseases could be healed, and new developments in science, unthinkable before that time, became real. the top of the science of this period was the accidental discovery of hyperspace travel during an experiment in a new particle collider, where scientists could see a particle who travelled faster than light.
it is still unknown how hyperspace jumps work, but it works and some years after that particle, the first drives were ready to be tested, and space colonization became a standard topic during elections and even at home with friends. finally, the first ship was sent outside the borders of the solar system, and many other travels were made; but the outside space wasn't empty: a day a human ship found an unknown ship in the space, belonging to an unknown alien race.
attempts to communicate were made with small results, or at least it seemed to be so: they learned English and several other languages soon, managing to know where the earth was without the humans knowing. for unknown reasons they attacked earth, causing millions of deaths before UN could activate again the old nuclear weapons and destroy the few alien ships. knowing that it was only the beginning, a race to build new ships and to use the new technology on weapons began, and the war , that still is being fought, started.
technology:
human space weapons are projectile weapons, where bullets get accelerated to relativistic speeds. other common weapon is a system made of several laser beams that focus on one point of the enemy ship to melt the outer hull.
on land, most used weapons are lasers, since they are the best known weapon to fight animals and aliens.
other than hyperspace drive, another big invention was the regenerator, a machine that could stimulate cell growth to heal even the worst injuries: flesh wounds are healed in few hours to one day, broken bones in 2 to 7 days, and a missing limb can be regrowth in a month or 2. its limits are the brain, that if destroyed cannot b brought back to life as the old person, and cancer, since using it would make cancer grow. cancer is the main reason for death (after old age). only small improvements toward a longer max age were made by genetics. the regenerator, at the time of the story, is new, and used only by the army/navy and in a couple of the biggest and most important hospitals on earth.
FTL (Faster Than Light) TV or similar is impossible, because after a long jump particles decay or are moved away form their path.
to avoid this, ships make hundreds of small jumps per second. in fact, what is called "a hyperspace jump" is made by millions of very small jumps, so small that the ship and the people in it aren't damaged.
communication between solar systems happens by small pods with only a hyperspace drive and a computer to control the drive and store informations
and here the story begins:
a probe travels in space, when it is it from a powerful signal. it makes few jumps, to find the direction from which the signal came, then goes back to earth to report the new informations.
a new probe is sent to the planet, where empty cities could be seen, and only few animals, but without big damage, like it was abandoned.
a team of people is made to be sent to the planet (I’ll try to use only 7 people. long live DF!): there will be a xenoarchaeologist(archaeologist that focus on alien cities. one of the new jobs that spawned form nowhere when humans met the alien race that they are now fighting. it proved quite unwise since at the time of the story there were lots of xeno-jobs and only 1 (hostile) alien race known. well, 1 alien race and robots, but I’ll speak about that later), a xenobiologist (this one already exist), a language expert, a technology expert, somebody from the military and probably a couple more.
while they are on the planet they will face several dangers, new parts of their and world's history will be told, new discoveries will be made. wild animals, the serani temple (because you probably guessed it by now: it is the planet where we are playing[but I had to change something]), the glowing stone, a museum with statues of every animal on the planet, and a special room for sentient beings: serani, xenopross, jottari, bhuur, and robots* (robots are golems. sorry omegaalpha, but if I use humans I can't use monoliths from 2001: space odyssey. also, gods will be no more real entities. no more than the gods we believe in. if they exist, they are out of our world and can't do much).
at the end, they will discover a lab where they find
a tech called soultech. while being there they learn that the planet was attacked by the same enemies that the earth is fighting now; other races where the first ones to fall and soon serani were alone. they had very advanced knowledge of the brain and how it works, and decided to use that as a weapon that would kill only the enemy, but there was no time and they had to use it while unfinished. they also read that the weapon , being unfinished, would kill not only the enemy race, but also all sentient beings left on the planet and most animals
and discover that
there is a nearby room filled with what seems to be a lot of big hard disks(I need to find a better word to use here), and at the centre an hologram of a serani. but it was a real serani: having it explain to the humans that since they begun developing the soultech weapon, they feared that it would harm also themselves, and started building these memory banks, to store all the informations that were in their brain, to be able to survive to their own weapon (soultech was meant to damage the parts of the brain where thoughts happen. not a problem if you no more have a brain) and the last one of them, after starting the countdown for the weapon, send a message into the space, hoping that somebody would find it. the same message that the probe received. in the memory banks there are the minds of most serani, and that is why they could learn English so quickly. (they could hear humans thanks to microphones in the city)
* the robots, called RR-01 (replicator robots 01) are robots found on some planets. their main goal seem to be harvesting all the resources of a planet, using them to build copies of themselves, then sending some of them to other planets, while the other ones just switch off and stay on the depleted planet. their true meaning is yet to be understood, but some people say that they might be harvesting robots sent by another civilization, that is now extinct. that would explain why they mine all resources and then wait on the planet, but nobody comes to claim them.
ok, now I think that I must tell you that I posted it here not only to give a reason about why I didn't write any RP for action, and not only because it is linked to the world we are playing, but mainly because I had to tell it to someone.
maybe I should start a new thread called “project: xenoarcheology (long story)” ?
well, I spent hours to write all that, so I’ll still post and if you think I should remove it, I will do it.
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