Beyond Alpha Centauri::::::Discussion Thread 6

[Mr. President]

You'll hear no objections from me, on literary counts or otherwise. A great man once said, "Keep it simple, stupid."

[Kassiopeia]

No prize for guessing what I listened to when writing that story post.

[Sprayber]

Ok guys.

I like the idea of a two month skip.

What we need is to agree with what happens and I will write an intermission type piece saying what happened purely from third party standpoint.

Then we can get on with starting the other war

Everyone needs to think about what they need to happen in the two months to set up whatever they have going.

First and foremost. What should the terms of the treaty be. I assume that this will exclude Sol going to war with the Spartans and Morganites at least for now. Any ideas.

[Kassiopeia]

Umm? This is 2702 and we are skipping two months? Well I guess that's long enough. I think the entire Sol system should turn out a single Police State faction, i.e. the Coalition. Well, Mars etc. could hold nominal independence but would be Coalition's puppets.

So there will be peace between Morgan and Earth. What I've understood, Morganites will pay reparations and return the conquered territories to Earth.

[Mr. President]

In the Drone Republic, Ethan Maxwell and some of his followers incite riots in major cities. The authorities arrest or terminate Maxwell and most of his people. (Possibly tensions rise with the Peacekeepers as a result - I'm thinking of having a contrast between their relations with Domai and their relations with Adams.)

Meanwhile, the Firaxians tend their trees, walk in their parks, and kick their soccer balls.

[Sprayber]

Kass IIRC the only one that really wanted a skip was mellian. The point is we need the peace conference to be over and done with. If you all think we should have a longer jump then thats ok, but some of the stories are not really done. The cadre story is kind of just beginning.

[Mr. President]

I don't like the idea of "jumping" in general, but two months should be short enough so as not to disrupt anything storywise.

[Sprayber]

If we dont jump then we need to get the peace thing done with so we can get our leaders back to their places and on with the story.


Kass: What do you expect Sol to do in the upcomming hostilities? basic stuff. you dont have to tell all your secrets. Our spies will take care of the rest

Kass are you wanting a longer time skip?

[GeneralTacticus]

wrt the time skip, I think that it might be best if we either don't do it or delay it a bit. It might be a bit strange to have nothing concerning the other factions going on in the civil war for two months.

[Sovereign]

I agree with GeneralTacticus

I think we should hold off time skips until some major story-lines are tied up. My Quantum reactor and engine experiments *could* happen during the time skip then I can describe its successes and failures afterwards.


Peace Talks

I think we need to allow the peace conference to occur first. I remember Mellian saying that Morgan will keep Capella, and the Earthers keep the 3 minor systems. Or, Morgan gives back Capella, gives Earth 50 million dollars, and Earthers give back the 3 minor systems in the peace talks.

I think it'd be more equitable if both sides get a fair settlement, rather than a lopsided settlement.


Cadre Civil War

I think the civil war should continue to the point of when the Hive and Sparta ships warp in-system. Then the 2 fleets either make a stand-off, or destroy each other.

Then the fighting can continue for several months on the planet's surface, giving both sides time to condosliate their territory, support, and military. This can happen during the time warp.


Time warp

IIRC, we all agreed that we'd have a 2 year time warp or something, a while ago, just before Mellian, Cybergod, and Silence disappeared.

Should we do a 1 year time-warp, 2 year time-warp, or hold it off until early 2703?

I say we hold it off until 2703, then many major stories would have probably have their loose ends tied up and ready for the time warp. Maybe we could time warp from 2703 to maybe 2705 or so.

Just throwing around suggestions.



Just giving my 2 cents. I think a time warp *right now* is a bad idea, especially with several major stories going on... i.e. civil war, Coalition doing "liquefication" and asserting its authority, and the GHE - UCS alliance talks.

I seriously think a time warp at the beginning of 2703 would be better.


What do you guys think?

[Mr. President]

New post in the house, y'all! This one, I thought afterwards, is a little on the inane side, but it does more or less suggest what Commodore Franco's strategy is. I left the issue of confrontation with the G.H.E. to be resolved explicitly in a later post. For now he just wants a little intelligence on Hiverian assets.

[Mr. President]

I actually agree with you Sovereign. I'd particularly like to tie up my Firaxian travel story. If I can squeeze it in between school, I will.

Additionally, I would suggest mutual return of territory in the Morgan-Terra settlement. The General and myself are figuring out exactly what the Drone involvement in the Cadre's Civil War should be, and we'll let you know what we decide.

[History Guy]

Just as long as we get to the dang peace conference, everything is OK.

[Sovereign]

BAH! History Guy

You took off Morgan's avatar.... shame on you! I guess I gotta use my "trans-reality" relay communications to inform CEO Morgan that you dissed him


Hehe... you prefer Civ3 more than AC? I quit Civ3, since it had too many bugs and the damn corruption crap. I can't build fun and grand empires in Civ3 that I could on Civ2. Hell, I built an Grand Russian Empire that spanned Europe, Asia, India, and Africa, and the puny American civ had their 2 contients.


But Civ3... never gonna happen In AC I can do the same thing. Civ3 has just too much corruption. I got so fed up, I decided to make a "scenario" and ear-mark every damn structure to reduce corruption, and it worked. Too bad I can't do it in a "real" Civ3 game.


Sorry, I just had to vent my anger at Civ3.


Anyways, I'm getting my sorry butt back to re-writing that post.

My computer perhaps got a mind of its own and decided "Hey I'm tired of being abused with the Word Processor, so PHFFFFT I decide to screw it up so you can't post the BAC story post! Bwhahahaha!"


Hehe....

[Kassiopeia]

I do think that we should forget the whole idea of a time skip for the time being, especially since there seems to be no one particularly wanting it. Once we do it, maybe late 2703, it could be a lot longer, like seven years, so that things can develop to produce a new scenario; the Hive-Earth alliance would begin to show up more clearly, Earth would become a devilish Police State, that sort of thing. Those seven years would be peaceful, except for maybe some small skirmishes, and then we could get a new war rolling.

I have no pressures to tie up any storylines; seven years would fit my plans pretty nicely.

What comes to the peace talks, I think that if Morgan offers that territories are returned to the ownership they were in before the whole sordid conflict, and will throw in a decent amount of energy, that 50M, we'll have a deal. All hostilities regarding this conflict should cease, meaning that the Conclave and Pirates and whatnot will stop fooking about for the time being.