Beyond Alpha Centauri:::: Discussion Thread 4

[Centauri18]

I just need someone to collaborate with, you know, help me get my feet wet,

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Mellian

Cult of Planet is seriously not available, mainly because, they are stuck on Chiron and never done anything off it...except some of their people escaping chiron with the Gaians or as tourists/scholars at Tau Ceti. anyway, their faction will not fit to well in BAC, as they are mainly base on dealing with mindworms

I was jokin' Babe.



How about we give 'im...lesse....the Cybernetic Concisnous?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Centauri18
I just need someone to collaborate with, you know, help me get my feet wet,

Well it won't be me, because the Protectorate is mine, and mine alone!!!

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Lonestar


I was jokin' Babe.



How about we give 'im...lesse....the Cybernetic Concisnous?

rofl...

I don't think we can give him the CC cause they are mainly watchers now.

Hmmmm, collaboration. Might want to talk to the other authors. General Tacticus had an idea about having a dissident faction of Spartans and Sprayber let 'im. What do you have in mind, Centauri?

[Centauri18]

I'm not really sure. I'm kind of go-with-the-flow about this kind of thing. I can work with pretty much whatever you guys decide to give me.

[Frankychan]

ya gotta choose what you want. It won't be enjoyable if you are assigned to some faction and do not want anything to do with them.

What are your idea's?

[Lonestar]

Check your PM's Franky

[Mr. President]

New post indirectly finishes off Menelaus' visit, and directly sets the stage for internal strife and a battle of wills between President Adams and Senator Maxwell.

[Centauri18]

All right. There's just too much you can do with this, and, well.... considering that I'm used to dealing with the factions from the beginning of the game to either conquest or Transcendence... it's hard to imagine what the factions would be like 740 years after they left Earth.
But what I've got so far:
1. I really like the idea of an evolved Cyborg faction, the Algorithm evolved to allow such things as certain emotions and warrior spirit, and cloning technology to allow faster growth - you know, everything they never got to be on Chiron.
2. That Mars idea certainly sound promising. Humanity on Mars would have to figure out how to live with less space (Mars is less than half the size of Earth) and/or modify the planet's gravity so their bones didn't waste away (Martian Gravity is much lower than Earth's) but they'd probably have the hang of it in seven hundred years.
3. Venus. Now that would be a challenge. A planet way too close to the Sun with a runaway greenhouse effect... That would certainly produce a much tougher human race.
Well, that's about it for now. Any other ideas?

[Mr. President]

If I hadn't taken up the Drones in the beginning, I would have been sorely tempted to go with Mars. It's an incredibly interesting planet all-round. I've never been personally sympathetic to the Consciousness, but they're still an interesting faction, as they can be interpreted as the end product of the mechanistic view of humanity (my physiology classes make the function of nerves sound like a treatise on the operation of fiber-optic cables, psychological disorders are the result of chemical imbalances, &c.).

[Centauri18]

I've been getting some great ideas about what to do with Mars - huge populations mining Phobos and Deimos (Mars' two moons, which are actually captured asteroids) and then making them into small-country-sized space stations. I was thinking that it might be the Martians who learn how to modify gravity and use it not only on the space stations, but inside the planet itself.
Also, I've been reading Kim Stanley Robonson's Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) and it sounds like a very interesting idea. Yes, I think I will go with Mars.

[Centauri18]

And I guess that unless a large portion of the Terrans have taken to living underwater, I guess the fact that Mars is thirty-percent the size of Earth evens things out a bit, huh?

[Sprayber]

Welcome Centauri18. Mars sounds just fine with me. You can also do an independent world in another system if you like. It's up to you. I just thought that Sol may be getting a little crowded

[Kassiopeia]

Centauri18:

Oh, wonderful! The more Terrans the merrier!

Hmm. I should prep you some info on the Mars stuff... There's the Mars Combine 'n all. They've had their differences with the Homeworld in their time, and there was that period with the Mars Republic around. I'll get back to you.

Kass-- A TV SERIES??? Ummm...uh...you know, I never noticed the dialogue ever...nope....

*doink*
*thud*

Nah, going on the network would just spoil 'em, come to think of it. Would end up a cartoon, or even more a sitcom ( ! ).

[History Guy]

Centauri 18--

WELCOME!

Lonestar-- Sounds OK to me. Morgan would love the idea of getting in on another trading deal!

I'll get that post up by tonight!