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

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Oh. Btw. I'll make a request. Promise me that in some phase, we will have an epic space battle. Like in the scale of entire fleets of two opponents clashing. For now, IMO the best candidates for such an encounter would be the EC and TA... I wonder what happened to Mellian?

I dont mind about the space battle. What do you have in mind

[Kassiopeia]

I'm not too sure yet. Just a thought, like a saying, "every good space opera needs an epic battle" - sorta thing. Several different forces'd be interesting. And it would last long like any self-respecting battle. I'll think more of it.

Re: Mellian - oh. Interesting. That surely does not mean she's addicted to Civ3? Good gracious!

[Mr. President]

If you want the Drones to get medieval on someone, I've got a nice picture in my head of what it looks like when you activate Firebrand Omega.

[Kassiopeia]

Read this (from Elfwood's Wyvern's Library):

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/libr/w/y/wyvern/girty.htm.html

Me likes.

[Frankychan]

*rubs hands together 'Mr. Burn's style'*

Ex-cellent.

A grand space battle would kick start BAC quite nicely. Of course with anything involved with words such as "epic" and "grand", you know the GHE will have its hands in it somewhere.

Seriously though, I wouldn't mind having a space battle someday soon. I could work it in with my plot quite nicely...

Be careful Franky, the Spartans wouldn't mind removing one more gangrene. Especially when the dogs of war are released by a war starved society.

Hmmm, the war-mongering Spartan Federation wants to let loose the dogs of war, ey?

***Transmission Broadcast from Hive Territory***

[Emperor Yang] "It holds true, my dear citizens, that the despicable Colonel Marcus Kessel of the Spartans would like nothing more than to see all of our glorious society wiped clean from the galaxy. I promise you this, my children. The sadistic, bloodthirsty Spartan menace will never see this come to light. I will not let this come to pass! POWER TO THE GREATER HIVE EMPIRE!!!"

Just my little 'Hive-propaganda' again...

On a side note, just watched "Starship Troopers" again on FX. Started thinking how that Earth society sorta reminded me of the Spartans....only less brutal.

[Mr. President]

Don't you mean more brutal?

A war would not only give us a chance to write about massive explosions and cosmic fireballs, but also to ponder some of the questions behind war. It would be ironic to see the Hive against the Drones, societies which were born under the banner of collective good but which (courtesy of me and Franky) took different paths.

I know I was arguing against war a few months (that feel like a few years) ago, but when you've reached a dead end there's often nothing to do but blast the walls down.

[Mr. President]

Me likes.

I liked it too. Even though the ending is rather inane ("Wow, the universe just got a whole lot bigger for me, folks," is exactly how I talk ).

[Sprayber]

General: I apologize for the delay in responding. I'll get it incorporated in my post early tomorrow morning.


Before we go and have a big war, we need to end the first one.

Are there any suggestions as to the fate of the TA. Mellian isn't here to write for them. and Apparently CyberGod is MIA as well.

Do they go into limbo or are the absorbed? Give me your comments and thoughts. Kass what do you think.

[Mr. President]

Limbo. Either that or we go on a hunt looking to hire from outside the company.

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Mr. President
A war would not only give us a chance to write about massive explosions and cosmic fireballs, but also to ponder some of the questions behind war. It would be ironic to see the Hive against the Drones, societies which were born under the banner of collective good but which (courtesy of me and Franky) took different paths.

Yes, I believe with this war, we would let readers not only see the carnage from different viewpoints, but we can also explore the different motivations behind our factions/ideologies/relationship w/other factions/etc.

I forgot how similar the Drones and Hive were! Both striving for the good of society and its people, but our two governments taking polar opposites in the form of government....a republic-democracy and a monarchy-totalitarian regime. Should prove interesting in battle how our two ideologies clash w/each other. I think the Drones ideology and the Spartan's-Hive's rivalry will play out very interesting!

Speaking of the Spartans...

Originally posted by Sprayber
General: I apologize for the delay in responding. I'll get it incorporated in my post early tomorrow morning.


Before we go and have a big war, we need to end the first one.

Are there any suggestions as to the fate of the TA. Mellian isn't here to write for them. and Apparently CyberGod is MIA as well.

Do they go into limbo or are the absorbed? Give me your comments and thoughts. Kass what do you think.

Hmmm, well....the majority of BAC authors (before we all went our separate ways for the 'summer') agreed that we should have a time jump forward. Now that Menelaus has given transmissions to both the Spartan Fed's and the Drone Rep., I think that if we are to warp, it should only be a couple of months. I still am working on building relations between the UCS and the GHE and right now I have them taking place a few months since their arrival on Hive world: Drone Mound.

[Yang's political jab at Kristy Adams and her "Free" Drone Republic ]

But with the Earth Coalition shaking things up in the Sol System, I think Kass has the best idea on what should happen with the 'Earthers'. But I'll remind everyone that the Hive has a so-called secret diplomatic ship in the Sol System.

My thoughts, just in case I can't get in contact w/you guys beforehand------

It seems to me that if we are to have a galactic confrontation, from the Hive's P.O.V. it seems that the Laekdaemon Cadre's system will be the flash point to start the war.

Yang's involvement w/the Cadre is suspected/known by the Spartan's and Drones. Menelaus has asked for help from both these govt's. Kessel has already warned Yang to stay out of Cadre affairs and Yang has rebuffed Marcus in turn. Adams and Sheng-ji haven't had commlinks opened yet, but if you guys think she should talk to Yang, I'm up for it. The internal political strife of the Laekdaemon Cadre seems like our best bet for the reason to begin a galactic war....but if you guys think we should shift it to another reason, I'll go along w/it.

So far, Lonestar and History Guy are both on hiatus (military basic training and vacations IIRC). So we may want to limit the engagement to a few sectors or within existing authors territories for now until they show up.

[Kassiopeia]

I could come up with a plan/plotline of what to do with the TA. I was expecting this to happen...

I think it should dissolve as a faction altogether (and, frankly, save us some trouble in the long run, with only me writing Sol), most of the parts (all there is to divide is the military hardware and the few colonies) of it incorporated to Earth Coalition, some parts to the former member states.
The forthcoming turmoil in Earth internal politics would serve as the best function to clear off the TA.

I'm not sure about Titan. Too bad CG is apparently gone. "Something" might happen to it in the crisis-to-be.

*thinks of what do with all the Battlecruisers*

Kerensky could get a cozy desk job at Earthdome... I'm getting ideas all the time... which is good.

[Kassiopeia]

Ah. I'm starting to whip up a story segment. So, any objections to dissolving the Alliance?

[History Guy]

Well...I'm back. CEO Morgan is back in business, and the Peacekeepers will be jumping on the bandwagon. Ahhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahaha! (insane laughing)

As for dissolving the Alliance, it'd be best for Morgan. He'd love to see the Earthers in as much dis-order as possible.

[Kassiopeia]

A-hem. There will be a little disorder, but after that there shall be nothing but order (and obedience).

[Sovereign]

No objections here at all. Mellian seems like she isn't coming back, and is unlikely to do so.

BAC is starting to dry up, so we need to put up plenty of fresh segments and plots and excitement to rejuvenate it. Giving it new life, ya know?

I had my post all ready and written, but KA-POW, it got corrupted or something. When I opened it, all I saw were these little cube rectangles, and I guess I gotta write the whole post all over again!


But I'm still in the game