Beyond Alpha Centauri::: Discussion Thread 3

[Silence]

Sovereign I figure this for a plan,

Hammer of God fleet comes out FTL, blasts through your defensive force, orbits one of your planets a couple of times drops planet busters the major cities and starts to occupy the system.

[History Guy]

Probably... Where are those places, again? Could have a little shot at Capella too.

Well, I think this is the closest of my 'yellow dots' on Sprayber's map to Sol. Samnos can fall easily, but I'm not sure about Naxos, which is heavily defended now. As for Capella, maybe, though I am not sure if that could succeed.

Hammer of God fleet comes out FTL, blasts through your defensive force, orbits one of your planets a couple of times drops planet busters the major cities and starts to occupy the system.

Um...Planet Busters, Silence? If you use Planet Busters, which Morgan considers to be an atrocity, then the Soldiers of God will be sent back to Believer space and our pact will have to be cancelled. You can only use conventional payloads, I'm afraid.

[GeneralTacticus]

Um...Planet Busters, Silence? If you use Planet Busters, which Morgan considers to be an atrocity, then the Soldiers of God will be sent back to Believer space and our pact will have to be cancelled. You can only use conventional payloads, I'm afraid.

I was under the impression that the Hammer of God forces were fightin against the ones providing you with the Soldiers of God.

[Silence]

You would blame your kick ass mercarny force for something that a rebel force did?

[History Guy]

Whoops! Sorry, Silence, read that as 'Soldier of God' instead of 'Hammer of God'. We won't hold you guys responsible, then.

But we will speak out against the Hammer of God and call for it's immediate destruction.

[Sovereign]

I think I'll go ahead with the robot civil war sub-plot, seeing that most of you seem to be interested in it.


Silence, lets put your HoG invasion on hold for a bit, while I do the robot civil war, as well as putting a resolution to the Roving Incident with Protectorate and Hive.

To be honest, I can't do 3 sub-plots all at once. But we could discuss this HoG invasion, and if it pans out, we can work it out after the robot and Roving sub-plots settles down a bit?


But I do appreciate you trying to give me ideas, Silence


By the way, I'm usually crazy-busy on Monday thru Wed. for a while, so my story posts will probably pop up on Thursdays, Fridays, or the weekends.College, ya know?

[Lonestar]

Soveriegn

I posted a response to Admral Garland.

Based upon information taken from Chironian transmissions, our pysch unit decided that "Go with God" would be a nice way to tweak the University.

[Sovereign]

Lonestar,

touch'e

[Cybergod]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Based upon information taken from Chironian transmissions, our pysch unit decided that "Go with God" would be a nice way to tweak the University.

History, I was kinda hoping for Earth to reply to our message in a way so that we can send representatives and a "gesture of good will" by sending back the war prisoners (so Sym can jump ships). So, KASS!

Also, Morgan *cough* we send you message *cough* message very very secret *cough* you no reply???
*cough*

And - no, Maria will not be anyone's concubine!!!



--Nikola

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Cybergod
And - no, Maria will not be anyone's concubine!!!



--Nikola

Damn, I guess that's ok...When the Hive comes we'll be sure to drop your 'Queen' a little visit. (just kidding)


Well, things are building up quite nicely....Here's some more Hive introspection

Hive Mid-Level "Politics"

Hive social structure is basically simple, from top to bottom: (in parentheses indicates official title)

Emperor Sheng-ji Yang
(Imperial) Ministers-Cabinet Members
(System) Regent
(Planetary) Governor
Prefect

Explanation of 3 lower tiers-

(System) Regent- A regent is an individual that controls a Hive system. Therefore, planetary governor's report to this individual.

(Planetary) Governor-The planetary governor is in charge of whichever Hive planet he or she is assigned to. This individual is to make sure that the planet runs smoothly and operating a optimum efficiency.

Prefect-A planet's Prefect is in charge of an assigned "zone" on the planet. They act as the "mayor" of each Hive zone. Usually this zone is a single city on a Hive planet. They are in charge of maintaining order within their jurisdiction as well as keeping it running.

*note*-These ranks may be considered "civilian" in nature to today's standards. However, due to the overall nature of the GHE, every single citizen is considered part of Hive military. Therefore, individuals who hold these ranks also have military ranks as well. For instance, a Prefect might have the military rank of Major or Corporal.

Also, this is only taking into account conventional Hive society. Asteroid Bases, Deep-Space Spacestations, Outposts, etc. are considered military-exclusive zones. No "civilians" are present at these locations.

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I don't know how this will help anyone, seeing as no one knows how Hive society is structured, but if any of you were wondering how it ran...here it is.

[Lonestar]

Hey Franky,

I posted a detailed response to the GHE.

One minor note, in case you missed it, Ian mentions your diplomatic mission to earth. You may want to wonder how the hell he knew that.

[Sovereign]

History, when I introduced a friend of mine to read our BAC story, She noticed in your first post you had Zakharov in it, as if he was alive in 2700, but we know that he died in 2409 to Believer's assasination.

You could replace Zakarhov in current events with Randius, and thats pretty much the only obvious discrepancy in our story thread pertaining to UCS.

One other thing, I'm not sure if we should use proper names or just "slang" or abbreviations... like University instead of UCS, Hive instead of GHE, Terrans instead of Earth Coalition and Alliance, SoG and HoG instead of Believers, and so forth.

Should we use slang and abbreviations in tranmissions and background information like "Hive ships enters Morgan territory." instead of "GHE ships entering Morganite territory"

Just wondering whats up with that.


You guys can expect another post by me as reply to Protectorate and Hive, as well as escorting the Skipfire. And I'll introduce the first element of the Robot Civil War with a Yevan (rebel robots) attack.

Cmon, Mr. Time, hurry up and get me to Thursday evening or Friday so that I can have plenty of time to write a good post!!!

[Frankychan]

All kinds of issues to discuss...

Sovereign-

To address your question about the use of slang in BAC...For myself, I use slang to hint to the reader the tone of post. For me, I'll use slang usually if:

1. To summarize events quickly.

2. In informal dialogue. Slang will be used in passing conversations or whatever.

3. For derogatory purposes. If a Hive officer doesn't like a Morgan citizen (sorry History, just using it as an example!) he'll say "Those damn Morganites" instead of "Those damn Morgan's"

But like I said, use of slang is mostly for setting the tone in my posts...although I unintentionally use slang sometimes.

Hope this helps Sovereign! Looking forward to see your next post.

Lonestar-

I did indeed catch that little blurb. I like your post though, it is very inflammatory...will help create tension rather nicely.

I do hope you don't think Protectorate forces are in Hive space or Protectorate agents are in Hive territory, cause I can assure you...they are not. Everyone within the empire is loyal to the Hive lifestyle.

Expect a reaction from Yang later. It should be interesting. I'll also explain Yang's "mood swing".


Well, I'm glad others are posting. Earlier today I visited this site choke times and no one was here and I started to get scared.

[Mellian]

Originally posted by kassiopeia
Btw - Mellian, do you have a character profile on this Admiral Kerensky? I can host it, or even write it (character history etc.) since I do have the Secretary General and the Taskforce Liaison Officer there already.

Name: Alexander something Kerensky
DOB: sometime between the official Scion War and the founding of the Terran Alliance.
Location of Birth: Russia, Earth

History:

-Child of two Scientists who worked at the Research Institute at Moscow.
-Kerensky was considered a Prodigy...rumoured to have been geneticly altered from the start or at some point in his childhood. seem to have quite an interest in history, military, politics, and so on.
-some incident happened which got the Parents to runaway, leaving Earth with the child at around his early adolecents. They escaped to Mars.
-Kerensky finish schooling on Mars and then join the Mars Combine military... where he ended up being the top of his class. In his early military career, he proving himself a lot during some skirmishs... so quickly gain in Rank, and given Longivity, which doesn't seem to really need it much... something to do with the rumoured genetic alterations?
-when the Terran Council decided to create the TAF, they then tried to figure who will take the responsibility to build from the ground up. Almost all members nominated some individuals, resulting in some arguments and so on... someone nominated Commodore Alexander Kerensky, which the Coalition and Combine can agree with... Coalition thought they could influence him their way, since he was born on Earth and so on.... but that didn't happen and becaming too late... and no point complaining in the COuncil has he is doing a great job to bring the TAF together.
-proving himself as one of the best Strategist, Tactician and so on in Sol, if not the best. He was able to mold the TAF perfectly, without to much influence by any members... and now, TAF pretty much considere almost as a seperate Faction, a military organization, within TA.

Description: I mix in various ideas.. like the genetic alteration idea from Bashir in DS9... and end up being quite an awesome fleet Admiral like Grand Admiral Thrawn in Starwars, General Kerensky in Battletech before the Exodus, and etc..... he doesn't seek power, or greedy or whatever... making it to influence him in whatever ways. He has a spotless career. He does have personal dislike of the Coalition, but doesn't alow those feelings to influence his thinking and him leading the TAF, and when dealing with the Coalition and so on. Better to keep his history an psych vague, but the Terran Council is very impress with him, maybe except the Coalition, shrugs.

Note: During gameplay, rather we keep him in the background... unless presonal messages needs to be done.... and keep any posts involving him in third person...... Actually, for now, rather keep all internal TAF stuff vague and in the background... reflecting the idea no one knows what the TAF is up too... while keeping easy to run them until i have better time to play them properlly. like that Pres Clark in Babylon 5... episodes occasionally mention him, but don't seriously focus on him... just some bad leader in the distance no one gets to see

[Mellian]

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