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Crossroads Inc. wrote:Yeah you are correct. I hate to say it but I may have to wait to see where more people are placed before picking a spot.

Really I wanted to be 'somewhat" out of the way from everyone else, not really in the middle of things. I did want to be next to Either Darkevilme, Skywalker or cadbrowser... But that may have to wait or take a back seat to what would be a good spot for me.

Akhlut wrote:I know you want your nation to be relatively new on the scene, so you don't want too many close neighbors, but that's what makes the Grays great for being your neighbors! We'd never try to uplift you or even interact with your nation in a manner that doesn't paralyze you with self-doubt!

Panzersharkcat wrote:So the cause of the Cold War is a conflict between people who want to uplift humanity and people who want to probe humanity up the butt?

This time, I think craziness will be allowed from the beginning- with the exception that no one person is allowed to write their backstory as being uniquely important and privileged.

For example, let's take some examples from what was allowed in SDNW4...

If Dark Hellion wants the multiverse to be dominated by the uncaring XylyX, that is not okay- there can be XylyX, who are incredibly powerful and whatnot, but they cannot explicitly be said to really, in truth dominate the multiverse. Because that would be prejudicial to anyone who wants to write a story in which the multiverse has properties A, B, C, ... including "is not in fact dominated by the XylyX." The XylyX might be very powerful, but not as powerful as DH's emissaries believe, because they can't be all-powerful. Because by definition there can be only one omnipotent force and DH doesn't have a special right to say what it is.

Ditto for the creators of the Chamarrans, or the warring parties in the ancient conflict the Lost participated in, or the "evil gods" the Refuge is running from- any of them might have been real and extremely powerful, but there's no reason to suppose that they were almighty.

Do you have any objections to that? Again, the basic idea is that I'm fine with people saying "there are always bigger fish in the sea, and my nation is in some way related to a really big fish." But I don't want people saying "my fish is the BIGGEST EVER!"

Panzersharkcat wrote:The Bastians never got around to doing it, as the Greys interfered with their efforts. Some remnants do remain in ancient myths and things like the "UFO battle" over Nuremberg in 1561 and the Tunguska event. If not for the Greys, humanity could have been cruising the galaxy thousands of years earlier. Instead, they developed on their own, and probably for the better.

Bal Gand is an ancestor of Lar Gand, and thus the entire Gand family. A pilot-constable in the spacefaring age of Krypton, she was given the task of finding new planets and establish peaceful relationships with Krypton. After traveling to several inhabited planets in the universe, she landed in Central America, during the years of the Maya civilization. While the Maya believed that the Krytponian visitors were the gods of their legends (thus starting their renowned practice of human sacrifices in their honor), Bal Gand fell in love with a Mayan soldier, bearing his son. Having broken her role of impartial observer, out of fear of the disruptions a human-born Krytponian could have brought in the nascent Maya society, she decided to return to Krypton.

Skywalker_T-65 wrote:And of course the first one doesn't get me sandwiched between other nations (which gives Crossroads space to still be next to the Space Swedes...if of course Crossroads still wants to be next to me). Of course though, the later one doesn't work quite as well in that regard, unless Crossroadia (or whatever the dual-sectors are named) would have to be 'above' me. Relatively speaking.

Karmic Knight wrote:Simon, would I be able to be placed in a 3 block across cross centered on point Q14?

Skywalker_T-65 wrote:Simon: Yeah, we can move Arcadia closer to the rest of the nations. I just put it way out in the middle of nowhere so I could get a shape worked out without trampling on other people. I want to keep said shape though...so maybe H12 as the center (center being the equivalent to H7 in the old one). The other choice would be Q13 as the H7 equivalent. That keeps me close to both Sol and the Holy Empire.

Crossroads Inc. wrote:Ok, one, I guess I should be "offical" about this, since this STGOD is about the only time I am NOT using "Crossroadia"
It's "UISC or Union of Inter-Steller Civilizations ((yes intersteller is one word, chalk it up to translation error between races ))

You know I wonder if this may end up looking like the very first SD-World map, where all the huge players were clustered in the center, since they "wnet first" and all the smaller players ended up all being around the edged :/

Panzersharkcat wrote:Thinking about it, the timeline for that doesn't quite work out. Assuming 3000 AD or so is when we're starting off, the incorporation of the Bastians 3400 to 3600 years ago would be too far ahead for them to influence Egyptian mythology too much. I suppose they could just be assumed to be emissaries of Bastet rather than the source of Bastet worship itself. Doesn't quite hit the recursive naming of the species but close enough.

Simon_Jester wrote:(the Hub is the one of Rabid's three sectors that is farthest to antispinward, closest to Earth, right?)