Beyond Alpha Centauri:::: Discussion Thread 4

[Cybergod]

Originally posted by History Guy
Cyber-- Actually, that'd be a load off my back if you could write about the tech exchange, to be honest. Besides, you're a better writer than I am!

OK I'll do as you ask, but I am no way better than anyone in here!

We'll demonstrate you the powers of the psych whip (to which your personnel will find most interesting), give you the knowledge of Biomachinery and how to construct psych whips and then we'll ask you for your knowledge on Nanominiaturization and Advanced Robotics (I dunno about the name but sounds ok... )...

--Nikola

[Sovereign]

A lot has happened in the past two weeks.

My father visited me two weeks ago, for a week, and my B-day was during that week. I'm sure most of you may remember me posting a short reply that week.

However, I was planning to post last week, but stuff came up again. I bet Fate is conspiring aganist me

A lot of work, studying, errands, and a ton of meetings last week.

I pray and hope I'll find the time to post something this week, no promises though. I don't want to keep breaking your expectations or ambition due to my absence due to tons of real life conflicts.


By the way, I've read up on the discussion threads, and I must say I'm getting disheartened with the TAF, TA, MI, and Sparta affair. I've noticed that authors are seeming to become more aggressive and "this is mine!" or "I want this" or "I'm right and you're wrong".

I'm not sure who's the "boss" or "director" or whatever of the BAC universe. Is it LMP (Mellian) or is it Sprayber? It seems to me that both of them seem to be at loggerheads and that doesn't bode well. (Again, no attempts to put down anyone here)



I'm going to keep University away from the messy war, and only become involved in wars that occur when University space is invaded, or its ships being attacked. The rest of the time, I'll be focusing on domestic affairs, plot-lines with Protectorate and Hive, exploration of new areas, finding alien ruins or races, etc.

Don't worry Historyguy and Sprayber, I'll keep supplying Sparta and Morganites with FTL parts, FTL trading, etc. but I won't become involved in the TA-TAF v.s. MI - Sparta - Drone conflict.


But don't worry Franky, I'm not dead I'm still around!

[Mellian]

MAYBE i should abandon this, as I seem to be to work up over this...taking it to serious where it suppose to be a game to have fun. Right now, i don't seem to be having much fun.... and i don't like feeling that I am a stubborn b**ch that cannot collaborate and comprimise, or feel like i am trying to control everything. they are traits i Seriously don't want to have.............and hypocritical to what i am trying to achieve with myself. I already got removed from another game elsewhere for being stubborn and not open to comprise with my Society..............

I am not please with the Terran Alliance, TAF and so on... where they are going and so on... to many faults and missing details...... and wish i was able to participate in the story from the start..... things are not going as they should with the Terran Alliance. Also tired of repeating the same stuff again and again...and then continue having the impression that no one seem to have bothered reading my past posts.

I DO enjoy collaberating in interactive stories.....but for me personally, it is hard to play an unstable and unstructured game. Despite my attempts to achieve, it seem to be for nothing.... like what you can do or not with FTL. The pace of the game... and so on.....

Right now, i just feel like Resetting the Terran Alliance itself.... society and how TA is as to many faults right now, misunderstood and genrally mixed up. Or maybe just have Time warp and along with alterations to past history of the game........ Yes, i am perfectionist and a detail freak..... but i see the game as Art, to create such vibrant societies and then play them out............. I also don't have as much time for it either...well, more like not as much internet time for it...... yet, I am impatient and don't want to wait until August to get back to it again.....which by then my vision of TA, pirates, TAF and Kerensky will be twarted....................................... I also would like the Scions as well, which right now don't have much stuff for them....

I am such a detail freak that i get annoyed to have 20th century culture in the 28th century BAC, along with fashions.... I would think ties would of died out by then have fashions more like babylon 5 EA.

anyway, I am just blabbing on......

[History Guy]

Cyber-- Splendid!

Hello Sovereign, good to see you once again! I apologize if I have been the one to dishearten you, Sovereign. I intend to pull out of this war as soon as possible, in fact, and I trust as soon as Kerensky comes to a halt, we'll be holding some sort of peace conference, and as long as the Terrans go back, they can have their Capella. I trust Sprayber won't be going in for the kill, and Silence may well have to bat around some Earthers, but it shouldn't be too much. I think that a break in war would actually be quite refreshing, and would do service to the story.

Sprayber is the top banana here at BAC.

Sounds good, Sovereign. I too want to deal with some peaceful expansion. I don't think we should have all that many alien races stuffed around in the same area, as there really aren't that many habitable planets that scientists know about today at all. If you do stick in aliens, try doing primative races, like some of Franky's, or like the Sea Peoples, in other words, small groups who haven't event figured out how to get into space. Perhaps a discovery of a race with a group of empires and kingdoms on a single planet would be interesting.

LMP-- That's Okey-Dokey. Just don't go overboard. Some of us do find you a bit intimidating every so often, but it's nothing personal.

I do hope you don't drop out. I also hope Mr. President and Kassiopeia don't drop out either.

But...hey! I like ties!

[Lonestar]

Hey! Hey!


Maybe y'all should just take that nice trip to Nuevo San Antonio and sort things out in a plush Hotel!

[Mr. President]

Let's just remind ourselves of what started my current beef:

If there is to much ganging up and overconfidence on Chironian superiority, I will aggressively bring the Pirates to pounce on all openings, creating havoc within Morganite, Drone and Spartan systems.

This is an outright threat to hijack the story if it does not proceed the way the poster wants it to. Note "I", not "Kane", will "bring" the Pirates to "create havoc", not "become involved" or "participate". This is not discussion of a plotline, this is blackmail. No-one else has done anything approaching this. Such threats are unacceptable, intolerable, and unconscionable, and if they are going to be a part of Beyond Alpha Centauri then I will have no part of this story.

[Frankychan]

*whoa, things are getting crazy in here*

Ok Let's address-

History Guy-Didn't catch that part about the Morgan fleet being wiped out. *sigh* I guess we'll have to work something else out. The HEF is still there, having to make repairs on the command ship before they can leave. As for the comm, could you work it out w/Lonestar?

Cybergod- It might not be an alliance, but maybe a non-aggression pact....still not sure how to fit it in right now.

Lonestar- Good to see you're back. Sorry that I haven't replied to your message yet, but I'm trying to work out the kinks from the Samnos affair. Will get to your message soon. BTW, what do you call your people? For example Spartan Federaton=Spartans, GHE=Hive/Hivers/Hiverians, M.I.=Morgan's, University=University, Believer=Believers, etc. Do they call themselves Protectors, Protectorians, etc?

Sprayber- Ok, I'll keep the Hive colonization idea in mind...never thought about an independent world. Would it be primitive, pre/post industrial, or beginnings of space flight? I think if it is near Protectorate space, we'd have to talk it over w/Lonestar. A Hive colonization effort near Protectorate space might rub him the wrong way.

Sovereign-It's good to hear from ya! Well, it sounds like you've had a busy 2 weeks. Just do what ya gotta do and we'll see ya when ya come back.

Silence- nice to hear from u too. Started drafting a post concerning Believers (reply to loooong overdue message).

Mr. President-Don't leave, man! With you leaving, that would create a power vacuum that only Yang could fill! (joking) Seriously though, I like your unique view of the BAC universe and wanna see what happens to the temple. (maybe Yang and Adam's should hook up? She might make a great concubine!)

As for all the peaceful expansionists=Grrrr! *snooty English voice*To keep w/the spirit of the game, the Hive will remain an aggressive expansionist.*snooty English voice* We will Conquer and Build our way to enlightenment. But if a lush, unpopulated world presents itself, Yang would snatch it b4 those accursed Spartans or Protectorates get to it!

[History Guy]

Lonestar-- Hey, sure, sounds good to me. The CEO can afford that stuff...the lucky crumbag.

Hey we have to talk about the commlink with the Emperor!

Mr. President-- I'm inclined to agree that it is not what's called for. I trust this business can all be sorted out in a jiffy. You are a fine writer, sir, and it would be a shame to loose you.

Franky--

*whoa, things are getting crazy in here*

IT'S A MAD HOUSE!!!

Morganite fleet around Samnos is not totally whiped out, but it is in a very sticky situation, and it's grouped together around the remaining orbital platform. The Terrans have already pretty much bypassed them.

[Frankychan]

Ok, History Guy-

So the remnants of the fleet are there, but grouped around the last orbital platform. The Terrans, instead of attacking the Morganites, went straight to planetary invasion while the Morgan fleet licks its wounds. Are any of the Spartan corvettes still around?

Anyway, can I still post my attack on the remaining Morgan ships, or do you have something else planned? (I still wanna have the readers see the damage done to the Hive Command Ship)

[GeneralTacticus]

Plenty of room? TA isn't to fond of colonizing barren to worser worlds. Not quite the idea places for colonies. the Chironians pretty much already took all of the good habitable planets as they had first dibs.

Well, too bad for them. You cannot say that TA forcibly taking over systems is justified by the fact that the systems they want are already inhabited.

[History Guy]

The Morganites are pretty bad off, Franky. Terrans have a fleet in the area moving on them, but I think you attacking would do just as fine. I'd like to see your post anyway!

[History Guy]

Oh, and by the way, the two wounded Spartan corvettes are also there, Franky. There are four frigates there as well, all Morganite, but 2 are wounded, one can't really even move, it's reactors are so shot up.

[Frankychan]

Nod, ok. So the doo-doo head Spartan's are there along w/Morgan junk-a-lunka ships. (just kiddin').

Post coming up by the end of the day. Samnos attack and Yang's message to the Spartans included.

*Hey, I'm a Prince! now I gotta change my profile!*

[Lonestar]

Since the Homeworld is Beta Hydri 4, they still call themselves "Hydrians".

[Sprayber]

First of all. I'm not in charge of anyone. The thread god title is more of an joke on my part than anything. I merely posted the original thread. You guys have filled in where before there was just "I have been thinking of a new story line"


Mr. President: Don't you dare go. I will get on a plane to Australia and find you I know people in Australia that would help me track you down. I look forward to your posts and I would be very upset to loose such a good writer. That goes for all of you.


Franky: Give me your ideas about this world. The only ones that you cant take are Firaxis and the Cadre planet. A primitave world wouldn't be as interesting as a more advanced one. But it's up to you. And yeah, if it's on the Protectorate border it would be nice to work with Lonestar.

Mellian I want you to continue if you possibly can. Despite our arguments, I do appreaciate all of your contrabutions to BAC. I realize that in the begginning you were forced to limit your time spent to BAC. I understood this. As we all know there was a long period when I didn't post much either. Well none at all actually. I know how life can force you to pay attention to it. I use BAC for pure escapeism. Cause reality without my someone special isn't so great. I'd rather not restart BAC. But we can rap things up a bit and do a leap into the future. Give the TA some years to become what you want it to be. But you will have to remember that Kass and Cyber are responsible for a part of that. Maybe you all have already worked that out, I don't know. But there is no writers conspiracy to keep the TA down. A Spartan conspiracy maybe. Or a hive conspiracy, I wouldn't put it past Yang. But Sprayber, History Guy, Franky, and all the others aren't out to get the TA. But to make it clear, I would like you to stay.