STGOD2 OOC Thread

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-02 10:06pm

Stormbringer wrote:Does every one have at least a basic idea what there race/nation will be?

The parts of the SKS that haven't splintered off, of course.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-11-02 10:20pm

The HAB, or rather a modification of it has arrived on the field.

And a quick question, what year was it when the STGOD mk1 ended?

God Emperor · Post by **God Emperor** » 2003-11-02 10:28pm

The Sloth Imperium will rise, very slowly that is.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-11-02 10:30pm

phongn wrote:
SirNitram wrote:Correction: The Lost built and maintained the Intergalactic Exchange. But it was still just there to for 'flavor', and for mocking Deimos.
Bah, you're all Communists anyways, what do you need with an exchange rate?

Because you all are capitalist, and will pay cash-money for the resources we control.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-11-02 10:35pm

Kyle wrote:That's enough for now, I'll add more when I know more about the other powers in the galaxy.

You going to be hanging on to those three pesky Centerpoint IIs, or did they get destroyed by Halite's planetoid forces?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » 2003-11-02 10:38pm

Crayz9000 wrote:
Kyle wrote:That's enough for now, I'll add more when I know more about the other powers in the galaxy.
You going to be hanging on to those three pesky Centerpoint IIs, or did they get destroyed by Halite's planetoid forces?

Destroyed, I don't want to encourage power gaming, and those things would just encourage people to come up with a counter. And we all know how that goes.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-11-02 10:40pm

Kyle wrote:Destroyed, I don't want to encourage power gaming, and those things would just encourage people to come up with a counter. And we all know how that goes.

I understand. Don't think many people will be missing them anyway, giving the amount of chaos that tended to follow them around. Although it was kind of fun to throw planets around at will...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-02 10:43pm

It's more fun being able to field unholy numbers of planetkilling strategic missiles and watching the galaxy quiver in fear when I actually did launch against the Occupied NR

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-11-02 10:45pm

phongn wrote:It's more fun being able to field unholy numbers of planetkilling strategic missiles and watching the galaxy quiver in fear when I actually did launch against the Occupied NR

Yet life goes on... fool you didn't kill them all!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-02 11:07pm

It's not my fault the NRMD managed to shoot a good percentage down!

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-11-02 11:17pm

phongn wrote:It's more fun being able to field unholy numbers of planetkilling strategic missiles and watching the galaxy quiver in fear when I actually did launch against the Occupied NR

I still think it's a bit more intimidating to use a planet as a Newtonian cruise missile. I mean, it's not every day that you see a 12,000 kilometer spheroid hurtling toward you at a significant fraction of lightspeed.

Granted, as projectiles, planets are rather large targets for CIWS.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-02 11:20pm

I'd probably hit the thing with a few strategic missiles well short of the target, but it is rather disconcerting to see it.

So when is this project starting? Who's modding?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-11-02 11:26pm

I think Stormbringer's modding.

At any rate, I think I actually used a friggin' star once as a projectile. It basically bounced off Halite's Yarmuk shield as I recall.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-02 11:30pm

Ah, Yarmuk. Where Setzer tried emulating China, but in space and got his ass handed to him. Of course, part of that was my fault when I dropped something like 10% of my strategic arsenal on the general vicinity.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-11-02 11:34pm

phongn wrote:Ah, Yarmuk. Where Setzer tried emulating China, but in space and got his ass handed to him. Of course, part of that was my fault when I dropped something like 10% of my strategic arsenal on the general vicinity.

He losses had already passed the billion mark by that point though. The ships where basically useless.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-02 11:41pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:He losses had already passed the billion mark by that point though. The ships where basically useless.

In hindsight, I should have let him kept his original fleet just to see how it would do against the RAN. Then I would have blown it up.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-02 11:44pm

And bah. Unfortunately for the SKS there's no way I can do the Eisenhower Doctrine once again to pump cash into my ailing economy, nor am I the Hegemon anymore

OTOH, my principle destroyer design is descended from the ISD, and that will work just nicely

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-11-02 11:58pm

Stormbringer wrote:Does every one have at least a basic idea what there race/nation will be?

I have been working on the specifics since yesterday

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-11-02 11:59pm

OTOH, my principle destroyer design is descended from the ISD, and that will work just nicely

Mine is based off of a squid...

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-11-03 12:17am

phongn wrote:I'd probably hit the thing with a few strategic missiles well short of the target, but it is rather disconcerting to see it.

So when is this project starting? Who's modding?

Hopefully the next day or two really. Basically once people have the basics of their nation and it's fleet.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » 2003-11-03 12:18am

phongn wrote:And bah. Unfortunately for the SKS there's no way I can do the Eisenhower Doctrine once again to pump cash into my ailing economy, nor am I the Hegemon anymore

OTOH, my principle destroyer design is descended from the ISD, and that will work just nicely

What kind of size are you thinking for the remaining SKS? Also where do you plan on locating it? I'd like to know so we could figure out what kind of relationship the UTR and SKS should have.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2003-11-03 12:28am

I don't want to go as low as 20-30 worlds for a notable power, unless we're talking about 20-30 very galactically important worlds. For the Kzin, I was thinking a territory size of about a third or a quarter of what the SKS looked like back in the day. For RP purposes I'll want to be one of the largest powers, but my state will be classic Kzin and thus not too tough.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-03 12:33am

The SKS probably kept the core area around Enigma and Nemesis, but many of the Northern areas splintered off. It's not like the SKS particularly cares, we can't afford to patrol them and as long as we keep our cash cow everything's good.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-11-03 12:35am

All three of my races are aquatic to amphibious, so, if a world has an ocean, it is up for grabs. by us(cosmoplitain, but I plan on being a little on the expansionist side.)

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-11-03 12:36am

My nation:

The Divine Empire of Azegart

After the genocidal Floater War was finally over the Asgard Empire emerged victorious but shattered. Only a handful of outposts remained intact and a scattered remenant of it's war harded people remained. The most important of those worlds was Valeth III, there remained the survivors of the former Imperial house and the remaing vessels of the Imperial Navy.

In the dark centuries that followed the collapse of the Empire House Gustav maintained it's rule with an iron fist and the people fumed at the destruction wrought by the hated alien-devils, the Floaters, the Lizards, and others. Ancient treachery brought about bitter hatred which harded into dogmatic zeal.

Valeth was never the less a harsh world and the people genetically adapted themselves to the high gravity and extremely harsh climates. Little did they know, their modifications would create an even more extreme.... result. That result was the beginnings of a powerful and long lived race of psychics, none more powerful than Alexander Gustav XI. So powerful was he that eventually he was literally worshipped as a god. As the centuries went on though he withdrew to leave rule to his descendants and their chosen lackies.

The Empire conquered and began exploiting the nearby planets. They enslaved the aliens they encountered and ground them into dust beneath them. Their grip tightened and expanded. Now they control thirty one major systems and have a number of other outpost worlds.
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Their military tech is roughly similar to Star Wars, with a little bit of a difference. The doctrine calls for extremely long ranged and heavy missle fire backed up by a heavy energy armament for capital ships. Lighter warships emphasize a longer ranged (for mount size) energy battery and limited missle loading.