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I will be playing an empire of the undead. Highly civilized, polite, aristocratic undead. Details will appear later. Nice to see new faces, and old

Thirdfain wrote:I will be playing an empire of the undead. Highly civilized, polite, aristocratic undead. Details will appear later. Nice to see new faces, and old

Damn, am I going to have to issue my men silver bullets or some other magical weaponry?

Just joking.

Thirdfain wrote:I will be playing an empire of the undead. Highly civilized, polite, aristocratic undead. Details will appear later. Nice to see new faces, and old

Sounds like loads of fun...though I don't think the Guymelusians will be very happy that there are a bunch of people walking around after they've supposedly died without heavy cybernetic modification...rather makes for some cognitive dissonance when there's supposedly eternal life only through The Machine.

I have decided upon rats. In memory of my deceased rat Anixamander (better known as dude).

Fear me, for I shall flee from combat and steal your food!

Rats? It's decided, i'm so taking the Chamarans again just to be able to randomly pounce Hellion's critters as part of the negotiations.

Wait. I recently re-read STGOD4, and it was pretty much the shit. 180 pages, mighty alliances, backstabs, murder, political intrigue, assassinations, mages, vampires, insane death-machines... it had it all.

And seeing that Alyrium is going to be in this one, it would especially perfect.

The Ousters

They have been known by many names- the Void Barbarians. The Star-killers. The White Plague. They call themselves the Unbound, and they call what passes for their society the Diaspora. What is the Diaspora? To understand, you must understand what the Ousters themselves are.

An Ouster seems much like a human- with the notable exceptions of the extensive genemodding which make them suitable for life in zero-gravity. Your average Ouster is tall and lanky- a woman of six feet would be considered somewhat short. Her feet are prehensile, ending in long and dexterous tingers. Her bones regenerate at an astounding rate, to compensate for the ravages of weightlessness. Her body operates with a strength and efficiency significantly greater than the human norm- muscles are more agile and tougher, wounds heal with wondrous rapidity, and disease and radiation poisoning are quickly denied by her superhuman faculties for self repair. Her life is like that of a human's, only compressed and intensified- Her heartrate is twice as fast as a baseline human's would be. If wounded, she would exsanguinate in minutes- were it not for the incredible speed at which wounds clot and mend. She reaches maturity in only eight years, and arrives at old age with a similar speed- an Ouster of fifty would be considered ancient. When she gives birth, it is to a litter- and the children come to term in only four months. When hunger takes her, as it so often does, it is ravenous. The furnaces of such a biological engine are not cheaply stoked.

The Ouster motto is: "A brief life burns brightly."

If you were to compare an Ouster to a human cockroach, you would not be far from the mark. She would appreciate the comparison.

They forsake life on planets- they consider worlds to be nothing more than a resource to be exploited. Home for an Ouster is a Cluster- masses of asteroids tunneled through with twisting warrens. For sustenance, they rape entire oort clusters, converting comets into CHON foodstuffs, air, and the other biological necessities.

The biology of the Ouster drives the society. Constant expansion is not just important- it is literally necessary to their survival. If left without room to expand, they will rapidly fill entire systems, depleting every last usable resource in the production of yet more Ousters.

The constant spread of the Ousters is called The Diaspora. It is chaotic, unplanned, and natural. To assure that their is room for the teeming mass of life that is their society, they rely on the Hajr. The Hajr is the harbinger of the Diaspora- the organized force which allows for the disorganized expansion of Ousterkind. Although not immediately or psychotically violent, they will stop at nothing to ensure that sufficient space is available for the Diaspora to continue it's endless task of seeding systems with their multiplicity.

It is this force which has arrived at the borders of Known Space. Some will see it as a threat. Some will see it as an opportunity. All would be wise to fear it.

Oh sweet monkey christ, not them again.

Oh well. I will have to take some comfort in the fact that I am a lot smarter than I was the last time I faced off against Thirdfain's evil machine.

Aww...

Well at least they're still someone who doesn't jive with the Guymelusians in an interesting way, prime examples of the EVILS OF THE FLESH!!

*Tosses hat into the ring*

The cluster of stars in the bottom left, I think. 5 or so.

I might play. But that depends on whether I can get an OOB up on time.

drunk post didn't make much sense... so deleted.

Sorry I haven't got OOB up yet. Will try to have it done today, but their are some things that need working out.

When you're ready to put up a diplomacy thread, would you like me to repost that backstory I wrote, if its ok?

So let me get this straight: 1000 points for navy, 500 for army? Did the talk about allocating points for each warship to each subsystem go anywhere?

Nope, ships just have base points and either stealth or no stealth. Other than that 1000 ship purchasing points, 500 troop purchasing points, 250 points to distribute amongst your holdings to represent industrial output and free garrisons.

Can you use, say, 300 points on troops and 1200 points on fleets?

Conversions of troops to ships is at a 2 to 1 ratio. so you can use 300 on troops and 1100 on fleets if you wish.

There are actually 2 arms of the 12th Expansion of the Hajr entering Known Space; one from the south and one from the west. How do I pick the stars for my territory?

Ohma is the designated Keeper of the Map. Though there's nothing stopping you borrowing the map and marking your stars yourself.

The 23rd and 9th Expansion Arms have entered Known Space.

Baerne. You're 50 points over budget with your industry allocations. To re iterate for everyone you get.

1000 points of fleet
500 points of ground forces
250 points of industry (which comes with 250 points of free intrinsic garrison tied to the industry)

Whoops. I'll just go and fix that now...

I do believe it's time to jump in on this. Now, what to run, what to run...

EDIT:


OOB and star locations up, poke me if anything needs revision.

Thirdfain wrote:insane death-machines...

Room for more?

It's getting crowded... time to expand the map?

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:It's getting crowded... time to expand the map?

At a glance it doesn't look like more than half of it is taken, if that.