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Post by AlmosDug on Sept 29, 2014 20:41:49 GMT -6
Aside from my "YES" reaction, I was more thinking either Jerus contacts him to help deal with the military bearing down, or he reluctantly contacts Jerus after worrying about the military himself (or seeing it as an opportunity to lash out at the Draxan military). Or something something black market. Whatever. |
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Post by HHDeception on Sept 30, 2014 13:40:02 GMT -6
I'll get to replying soon, sorry for the hold up Neo.
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Post by Neo on Sept 30, 2014 14:31:39 GMT -6
I'll get to replying soon, sorry for the hold up Neo. Don't worry about it. There's no need to rush. We're all busy, and the Verse isn't going anywhere. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2014 15:21:09 GMT -6
Please capitalize busy...
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Post by AlmosDug on Sept 30, 2014 16:41:08 GMT -6
No, put it in italics.
We're all busy.
Everything's sexier in italics.
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Post by HHDeception on Oct 1, 2014 0:57:52 GMT -6
I'm trying to reconcile a few travel speed/time things, but I should just MST3K it all. I could say that the colony travels very slow in comparison to single vessels due to the additional mass, but then that really puts a dent into the concept of a travelling colony. If you could move people in individual vessels really quickly from point to point there there's no point in having a colony that can move at warp in the first place. You'd just send scouts to secure a destination to live in and then ship people over bit by bit.
Hm...maybe it's just Omega and Anthea's ship that can move really fast.
I didn't really want this to be a "populated" space either. Planets and star systems are incredibly far apart, to the point that I didn't intend to have any in this RP. Maybe one, eventually, but that's it. I originally wanted three ships instead of one big ship for humans so that fighting could be isolated on one and not affect the others, which gets rid of the need to have a setting outside the colony. Ah well, I'll have to adjust.
And just for the record, there will be no sentient races other than humans and draxans. Dead line here. It's enough of a headache figuring out just two. If there's another space faring race out there everything gets waaaaaaay too convoluted.
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Post by Neo on Oct 1, 2014 1:33:51 GMT -6
Didn't you already decide Anthea's ship was much faster? I thought that's why she asked the Draxans to get the ship ready, because the ship needed adjustments.
Animals and stuff are still fine though, right?
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Post by HHDeception on Oct 1, 2014 1:34:41 GMT -6
I'm still hedging on the details since I'm not sure I want to nail them down yet, but yeah, pretty much. And animals are all fine.
It's basically a tug-of-war for me between having a stable universe, without having a restrictive one. The more I try to put a bit more hard sci-fi into this the less it becomes a setting where a fun RP can happen naturally. I have to figure out where to give concessions without compromising the original ideas, but then again, who says the original ideas were any good from the start? It's an interesting thing to manage.
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Post by AlmosDug on Oct 1, 2014 8:25:29 GMT -6
And the IDGAF award goes to... |
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Post by Neo on Oct 1, 2014 13:24:11 GMT -6
And the IDGAF award goes to... Anthea, apparently. And here I thought I was the king of epic one liners. I guess not. |
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Oct 2, 2014 5:28:17 GMT -6
I finally figured out how to implement my power!
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Post by AlmosDug on Oct 2, 2014 10:13:08 GMT -6
I finally figured out how to implement my power! Alex, I'm gonna go with "what is SMEXily?" You win $500! |
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Oct 2, 2014 20:53:16 GMT -6
Name: Eric Who, "Stoneman"
Gender: Dude
Age: 31
Appearance: Wavy mid length brunette hair and blue eyes with metal plating on his cheeks that extend down to his collarbone. Six black rods are sticking out on both his arms. His skin is a purplish hue with several tubes going along his body to an engine on his back. A complex device is embedded in his gut which looks somewhat sinister. On top of that his body is covered in body forming armor which reduces drag. His boots also have grounding features which absorb some static energy.
Home District: America
Bio: A broke stoner with a BS in applied mathematics who was living off royalties from his brief writing career, Eric Who led a fairly normal life. One he was trying to keep as stress free as possible. But when humans finally made first contact with Aliens, he was one of the few kidnapped by the government to serve as a host for the Lotus experiment. The drugs used to sedate him during the experiments left him in an anxious state when he woke up. He was quickly frozen before he had a chance to use his powers and thus is in an aggressive pose in his drifting pod, but his facial expression is more panicked.
Abilities: His main ability comes from the device in his gut. It manipulates the Higgs Field and the Higgs Bonson allowing him to increase/decrease mass of up to three objects at once. This device powers itself through harnessing and stabilizing vacuum energy, though this only keeps it from fluctuating out of control. For more varied use he needs to consume highly explosive substances like Nitroglycerin. How it works is lost as the Draxan and Human geniuses who built it died carrying the secret. The engine on his back can utilize most fuels to propel him well past escape velocity. The black rods on his arm can open to release excess thermal energy.
Energy Source: Explosives Fuel
Theme Song: Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In
Also, who didn't direct me to the drug discussion? And more importantly, how can we discuss alien drugs without establishing neurology or the chemical elements of said alien brain?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 21:04:31 GMT -6
I have Fennekin as a robotic monkey side kick who uses space cigarettes as a form of weapon. I just wonder what palkia space drugs would do to him.
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Post by AlmosDug on Oct 2, 2014 21:05:12 GMT -6
Lol Higgs Bonson.
Though IIRC humans weren't a part of the original LOTUS experiments.
And sorry, I didn't really know about you at the time, SMEXy one. HHD and I (since it's my character doing it) just decided to not go into the details of the drug(s), and have the Draxan use the excuse of "I don't want to take the time to explain how Draxan neurology works to you, human, so just know that it works like this Earth drug."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 21:06:09 GMT -6
Also glad to see Smexy here. I was just thinking we were missing some Smexy time here.
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Post by AlmosDug on Oct 2, 2014 21:06:51 GMT -6
I have Fennekin as a robotic monkey side kick who uses space cigarettes as a form of weapon. I just wonder what palkia space drugs would do to him. I thought we agreed the cigarettes didn't actually do anything for him, and they were just an aesthetic to supplement Brook's powers. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2014 21:08:56 GMT -6
They do in a way but he can also use them for basic fog and vapor stuff unless that's what we were talking about or I just forgot the original idea.
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Post by HHDeception on Oct 2, 2014 21:23:37 GMT -6
Also, who didn't direct me to the drug discussion? And more importantly, how can we discuss alien drugs without establishing neurology or the chemical elements of said alien brain?
Laziness. I didn't want to invent new biochemistry that would eventually boil down to "midichlorians made of acid" in the end. We just decided that draxans have drugs for them that do the same things as human drugs do to humans, but would probably eat through human flesh first. |
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Oct 2, 2014 21:32:22 GMT -6
Also, who didn't direct me to the drug discussion? And more importantly, how can we discuss alien drugs without establishing neurology or the chemical elements of said alien brain?
Laziness. I didn't want to invent new biochemistry that would eventually boil down to "midichlorians made of acid" in the end. We just decided that draxans have drugs for them that do the same things as human drugs do to humans, but would probably eat through human flesh first. Well there's always salt based compounds like Lithium, unless this acid blood is very potent. And really for the desired affect you only need the brain to take in the active chemical ingredient. And on earth all brains have the same recognizable parts, so just how different are these alien brains? Because if they still rely on all the same neurotransmitters and dendrites and axons and cells, then the only thing that changes in the method of absorption. |
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