Beyond Alpha Centauri: Discussion Thread

[History Guy]

Sounds ok to me. Grrrrr....those Peacekeepers!! Starting fights above my homeworld!

[History Guy]

BTW, inspired by Kassiopeia's excellent bios of everyone who holds any keys Terran, I was thinking of doing much the same thing for the Morganites. Also, I've been thinking of planet names for the systems I chose. I'm thinking mythic or ancient leader's names, or something to that effect.

[Sprayber]

Sounds good History Guy. You might have noticed that the Spartans named their planets after historical and mythical people from Spartan history.

[Cybergod]

Originally posted by Sprayber
Cybergod: You can take up an independent planet or another small faction if you want. And I don't know if Alynzia is still playing the Gaians or not.

As I said, I'll be the collony governor of Titan, couple of cycles before the rebellion against the Alliance rule. Here are my suggestions on the Titan people:

They are a multi-ethnic working community, with a low population - couple of millions? (help Kass!) The Titan people support the ideals of the early Drone Republic (before Domai's fall) and the Mars Combine government has strong backing here. The current government was set up by InEn, to organise a mining colony that grew into proper settlement, is still in place only due to the fact that the people have not found a reason to rebel - they get supplies shipped regulary from the Alliance so why starve? This might change if some other influentative faction gives the rebels support and helps them build complexes of bio-plantations, something the T. Alliance stopped building to make the Titans "addicted" and dependant on their supplies, therefore controlling the unhappy citizens (no work - no food). My suggestion is to let me be a new governor for Titan, as appointed by the Alliance, since the former governor is believed to have joined the rebels. Many political games are played until my character (who has good contacts on Mars) also chooses to join the rebels. I think it would be risky to do this but imagine this split in the Sol factions:

Team A:
Terran Alliance
Luna
The Venus Colonies - heavily depend on Earth
Neptun/Uranus Colonies? (these might crumble)

Team B:
The Belters
Mars Combine
Jovians
Saturnians (what do you call them them )

Team C: (Neutral)
The Scions


Is this pheasable?

[Kassiopeia]

First of all, your idea is, like you said, rather feasible. You have my blessing.

But you have slightly misinterpreted me, or maybe I have been too cryptic I write a lot of this stuff in the bios, and maybe some won't pick them up there.

Anyway, Terran Alliance is not a separate faction.

All factions in Sol belong to Terran Alliance.

Think of NATO for instance. Common protection, with added economic interests and the Terran Alliance Joint Task Forces (Primary ship being the powerful Battlecruiser.)

It's a loosely built attempt to create system-wide goverment.

Now, what is the real faction of Earth is the fabled Earth Coalition. So, if you replace TA with EC in your teams, it's correct.
Just reminding, so that people won't mix up them. NATO is not the USA.

Venutian colony is independent, on Earth side. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have only a few colonies, under Coalition and Alliance shared control. No independence there, at least yet.

PS. If I can figure the kicks of it, Alliance/InEn/Coalition specs will have their own page. Only thing I've got so far is some starters of HTML in school.
So please, LordLMP, do put the aforementioned faction stuff up, but when I (possibly) get my page ready, replace with a link there, please.

Sparta finds a nightmare of factions and sub factions.

[Sprayber]

well, that is the impression the spartans got anyway
lol

[Guardian]

Originally posted by History Guy
Sounds ok to me. Grrrrr....those Peacekeepers!! Starting fights above my homeworld!

Hey, don't look at us!
Talk to the Spartans. They were the ones who started making threats and stuff.
Our people were just passing through on their way somewhere else!

(Admittedly, we did bring along a little more firepower than what you might consider "normal", just in case they might try to pull something like that... As it turned out, we were right... )

[Frankychan]

Don't forget the Hive!...acutally, fuggetaboutum

Hello everyone,

I've been thinking, with Sprayber's help, that the Hive faction should be as secretive as possible. The only faction that thinks they know the Hive is the Gaian faction...as they are the only ones inside Hive space.

Keeping with newly crowned Emperor Yang's suspicion of the other factions, his home planet and system would be unknown to the other factions. I was thinking that the Spartan's would know generally where Hive space started, but not know what was in Hive space.....kind of like the Vorlons in Bablyon 5. What do you guys all think?

[Frankychan]

Dang Spartans...

I also like the additional Spartan timeline...wait, no I don't! (joke) I like the way you put up those accursed space stations

Nah, well whoever is the Free Drone Republic, is Foreman Domai still in the picture or is he out of it?

Oh yeah, is anyone the Believers or is the author part-timing like Alynzia is with the Gaians?

[History Guy]

Franky-- Emperor Yang??? Boy, he sure made the leap from Communism to Despotism quick! Secrets, eh? One day, Sheng-ji! One day we'll find ya!

I believe Domai has retired and has been replaced by a more Conservative leader.

[Sprayber]

Someone wanted the belivers but I cant remember who it was. they talked about for a while. ill go back through the old thread and see.

Franky: If you hate the space stations, then youll cry at the fleet being sent.

[Frankychan]

sounds like an impending war...
Hail the Greater Hive Empire!

Long live Emperor Yang!

sounds like this will be ver-r-r-y interesting

[Sprayber]

Not right away. The Spartans are very conservative when it comes to war believe it or not. They only commit when the situation is clear. Like the attack on coventry. They had planned that for decades and waited for the perfect opportunity.

First the Spartans prepared their border. then they move in a fleet. then they scout out the area and collect information. then when everything is seen they strike without mercy. They don't want a repeat of the first hive invasion.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Guardian


Hey, don't look at us!
Talk to the Spartans. They were the ones who started making threats and stuff.
Our people were just passing through on their way somewhere else!

(Admittedly, we did bring along a little more firepower than what you might consider "normal", just in case they might try to pull something like that... As it turned out, we were right... )

Tickle us do we not laugh
Pr*ick us do we not bleed
Wrong us....... shall we not revenge.


Can you ****ing believe that Pr*ick is censored.

Kind of dampens the spirit of the quote.

[Alynzia]

A little off topic.

I remember scan reading that there is going to be a Beyond Alpha Centauri website. I also remember scan reading something Sprayber wrote about factional territories in space and their arrangement.

Is the three dimesional map or some two dimensional approximations going to eventually be on that site. It is just that we are using real stars and will the stars people have picked position's correspond with how Sprayber has lined up the territories?


Alynzia.

I wonder if the word pecker is censored?