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[Glacies]

So, yes. I’m running this let’s play. It’s about SPACE EMPIRES V, believe it or not. Hopefully, I have the follow-through enough to actually bring this game to a finish, but we’ll see. Anyways, this LP runs on player involvement. So, feel free to join up. You pick what kind of thing you want to do and control your in-game stuff through PM’s, mostly. Here are some suggestions for stuff you can do inside this let’s play.

SPACESHIP OPTIONS:
Explorer captain: Someone makes a spaceship designed to explore the galaxy and you get to captain it.
Mercenary captain: Someone builds a military-type spaceship. You get to captain it and work for the highest bidder. Probably not very interesting until players start fighting with each other.
Government sponsored captain: The government builds you a frigate geared towards utilitarian functions. Deal with the various problems of the galaxy. Deliver mail. Fix broken down ships and refuel vessels.
Pirate captain: As silly as the concept is, steal a ship from somebody or convince them to give you a ship for another purpose, sail the seven solar winds, rob people, and steal money from other players.
Colony captain: Someone builds you a colony ship. You steer it to the planet it needs to go to, and then found a new colony. If  it’s self financed venture, become the governor of the planet afterwards.

ORGANIZATION OPTIONS:
Mining/Farming/Refining company: The three major resources of the game are pretty important, and governors have to make deals with you to build resource facilities on their planets. Also, you get to be pretty wealthy.
Dissidents: An organization dedicated to causing trouble for the government or the organization or governor in charge. Capable of some pretty nasty stuff, like sabotaging production and blowing facilities up. And yelling cool catch-phrases and playing guitars at people.
Research companies: What drives the empire forward is technology. Choose which path the empire follows and bring better toys to the boys and girls of the empire. Also, get to play with prototypes. Basically, you get to pick research options and get prototype crafts and units with your new technology built into them.

GOVERNOR OPTION
Rule a planet. Build stuff on it, facilities and craft. Choose to build stuff for people, defend your planet and…sorry, I sound like an Evony ad. But you get the idea.

[ToonyMan]

I'm in.  I like this game.

[woose1]

Ditto. But with more awesome. 

[ToonyMan]

I've never actually won a game, but....

[Glacies]

All right, guys. I have set up the Galaxy. You guys want planets, or just want to be captains of a ship, or what? I'll PM you with ship specs later if you're interested in ships, or planet specs if you wanna rule one of the little rocks in this system. As for the whole role-playish aspect, I have writers block. I might go over the updates and re-write them to be more epic later, but for now they're gonna be pretty lame. I'm writing the update now.

[Nirur Torir]

May I be the captain of a scout frigate, later to be promoted to admiral of a carrier taskforce?

[woose1]

I have no idea what you just said. PM me a list of ships a possible planets pl0x?

[andrea]

lets try. i am in, and i wil run a raw resources collecting corporation.

i'll call it "double RC" ( if i can take that as a start. if not, then i will be happy as captain, maybe lone pilot, of a small ship, and then build my own economic empire.)

i haven't seen the other space empires, so forgive my ignorance

[Boksi]

I'm so in this. I'll be known as "Honest Boksi", the runner of "Honest Boksi's Honest Spaceships"

[ToonyMan]

I call captain of a fleet.

Captain Toon.

[Nirur Torir]

I think the titles in this series are completely independent of each other. Each one is an improvement in certain gameplay areas and engine, but not really a new story.

Like Civilization 3 and 4.

[Glacies]

Whelp, here goes.

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This is our new flag. The symbol of our nation. A lion. Like the lions, marble, that protect libraries and old temples, I will be as the lion to the empire, standing alert to any threat, any danger. Yet, I will not sit idle as many emperor before me. I have a plan. A grand, terrible plan.

And you will help me realize my dreams.

Today marks the day when we have finally finished construction of the colony ship, Lion. The ship will be sent to our new home, the beautiful, red star. It will be the seat of power for the coming empire, the utopia upon which I will rule.


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This is the technical report for the Lion, and all colony ship models like it.



A= The bridge. Captain Woose will run the ship from within this hub, and make sure that nothing goes amiss during this mostly automated trip.
B=The crew quarters. All men and women under the captain sleep here when not on duty babysitting the civilians in the colony module or looking around space with the scanners.
C= This is the most state of the art censor package currently available. We can see out to three hexes with it.
D= This is the crew life support. The colony module is self contained and can support the colonists, but, for some reason, the crew has to use a much inferior set.
E= This is the armor for the ship, in case of collision with meteorites.
F= This is the actual colony module. A 200kt spherical designed to pop right out of the ship and begin the colonization process minutes after landing. It’s a self contained city.
G= This is a state of the art Mouse pointer, complete with porthole defoggers and a retractable, vibrating bone-saw.
H= The engines, designed to haul a multi-million ton spacecraft at high, controlled speeds. They’re pretty neat.
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The ship itself will be done in two short months, and then we will embark on a journey of discovery, joy, and hopefully, new life. A lottery will be held to see who will come with me to the new world.

But it will not be the only planet colonized. There are a half-dozen planets within our system eligible for colonization, and each and every one will be.
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This is what our planet looks like. We’re going to refit it later to do more refining and farming, but for now it’s fine like it is.



Next time, I’ll give you guys options for research and then we truly, properly get started. Also, Woose, don’t worry. You’ll be able to go on to do other stuff after being captain of the lion. As for you, Toonyman…You want to become ruler of our current capital once the new colonies are established? You’ll get to control what it produces in the off season, and you’ll have a fair bit of political clout, to boot.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

Can I be the guy in charge of colonizing the galaxy?

[woose1]

Sweet! I'm a captain!
Set sail! Er... I mean, start the plasma-fusion engines! Yeah.

[ToonyMan]

Fine, I'm the Governator!  Tremble under the power of my feet!