TFF Original Space Adventure RPG

[David Alan Abramczyk]

And for some flavouring, here's another class of ship in Earth's fleet:

The CITY-class Heavy Cruiser.

Dimensions:
-Length: 300 meters
-Width: 140 meters
-Height: 52 meters (including tail fins)
Displacement (In one gee): 940,000 tonnes
Compliment:
-250 crew
-50 Espatiers
-Total Capacity: 450
Engines:
-Two Cochrane-Hyuuga FNE-1200 Directed Fusion Drives
-Gremlins Mark 45 Anti-Gravity Drive
-Utopia Planitia Type V Otherspace Faster-than-Light Drive
Weapons:
-Four Raytheon-Proteus 360 TW laser cannons in robotic turrets
-Four 340mm missile tubes x 60 ASSM-86 missiles
-Two 70-cell VLMS, armed with ASSM-92
Defenses:
-25cm polyceramic hull plating
-Otherspace Defensive Shield
Support Units:
-Two TSV-48 Shinigami multi-role gunships
-Two SLV-60 Mustang multi-role shuttles
Endurance:
-24 months

Fresh off the production lines, the City-class heavy cruisers are the new 'big stick' for the Coalition, aside from the Capital Ships. Lessons learned from the Neelaa War mean that these ships are a match for anything in their weight class, and can outpace nearly anything that could outfight it, as well as being able to enter the atmosphere of gas giants

Current members of the class include:

Berlin (after which the 'Cities' are commonly referred to)
London
Cydonia
Ottawa
Kobe
Auckland
Durban

The next 'block', currently under construction, are named

Moscow
Rio De Janeiro
Florence
Miami
Shangri-la
Galleopolis
Barsoom also called New Hue

 

[shibosho]

Well, given the complaints about Seraphim's previous designs... How does this look to everyone?

Ooo, I like it. Looks way better than the other one, more streamline as well. Definitely looks the part of a battle cruiser!

 

[Aarik]

You forget to give the Guns Name's.

 

[zerohour]

Should we just have an information thread? Given how big this could potentially get, I'd like to have a centralized location for the knowledge.

 

[shibosho]

That sounds like a good idea Zero

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Should we just have an information thread? Given how big this could potentially get, I'd like to have a centralized location for the knowledge.

Well, this started out as a general sign up, inform you guys about the whole thing thread. So, I'll include two additional threads once I'm done with the data points for them.

One is the actual game thread, the other the information thread. How does that sound?

 

[zedalb]

good 2 me

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Name: Jii'Ka
Homeworld: Tau Ceti b
Status: Coalition Founding Member
History: Sentient silicone-based lifeforms, the Jii'Ka evolved rather like living computers. They "speak" through the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum, though radio is their primary system, their thoughts are conducted via electronic interactions, and every part of their crystalline body combines small amounts of iron to form living circuitry.

There's just one problem: The Jii'Ka cannot move. The price paid for their abilities to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum and the achievement of sentience was immobility. They were surrounded by smaller, less-intelligent but more flexible silicone-based lifeforms that went about their business, able to move at will.

However, like the Jii'ka, their brains were also composed of iron-silicone constructs, and with a little experimentation, the Jii'Ka learned how to use their mastery of visible and invisible light to turn these creatures into their personal armies of workers and soldiers to do their bidding. They have farmed these creatures and manipulated their development for over fifty thousand years, creating lifeforms for everything from digging, to rudimentary space exploration.

First contact was made in 2190, and the Jii'Ka eagerly ate up the initial data provided by Earth and other worlds and offered their services as living computers in order to continue learning. Knowledge is power to the Jii'Ka, and going to the stars offered a virtually inexhaustible amount. To further facilitate their learning, they created silicone-based constructs of the various species they interacted with, including humans. They offered them as workers and ambassadors to gain further knowledge, with the understanding that they would be recognized as sentient creatures in their own right. However, as the Jii'Ka do not keep any of these constructs on their homeworld and only ask for periodic updates, there is little opposition to this practice save only by the most extreme of rights activists. The majority of these synthetic beings are actually based on fictional characters in the popular cultures of their species. A wide variety of human constructs are based on anime characters as the first human starship to make contact with the Jii'Ka had a large archive of anime onboard.

The Jii'Ka may seem like cold, computer-like creatures, but because of this they also have long memories. The Neelaa's destruction of one of their small colonies alongside a human one during the war has permanently soured their relationship with them. Weighed against the long centuries of protection, information exchange and cooperation with the Coalition, and the Jii'Ka find it only logical to remain with them. A logic the Neelaa have some difficulty grasping.

Physiology: Having developed on a world with only one-eight Earth's gravity, the Jii'Ka have been able to grow to incredible heights. Among the largest Jii'Ka, JTC98556784 Gamma, has reached almost two thousand feet in the air. However, the majority of Jii'Ka keep their heights to that of terrestrial trees for efficiency sake. They can prune and trim off their "branches" with their armies of drone creatures, cutting them off without a second thought.

The Jii'Ka are extremely long lived, lifespans on the order of one thousand years or more, and can live on through others by transmitting their memories to each other. They reproduce entirely by asexual means, breaking off parts of their bodies to plant elsewhere. They do, however, have concepts of family, as every forest began with an individual Jii'Ka and every subsequent Jii'Ka has absorbed different wavelengths of light from the sun and from other Jii'Ka-This is their concept of individuality.

To compensate for the explosion in their sizes due to First Contact's deluge of information, they've accepted invitations to colonize low-gravity worlds throughout the Coalition to preserve their knowledge and prevent it from being lost in the event of planetary catastrophe.

A Jii'Ka transmitting in a variety of wavelengths.

A Jii'Ka drone, conducting a survey around some of the smaller members of a local "forest".

 

[Aarik]

Are these Bio's eventually going to be placed in the reference thread? If so, I could do it. Just go through this thread and copy and paste right?

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Are these Bio's eventually going to be placed in the reference thread? If so, I could do it. Just go through this thread and copy and paste right?

Right, though don't forget the pictures.

 

[Aarik]

If I copy directly from your post that should get the picture's to.

Species Bio's first.

EDIT: Species Bio's are done... What next...

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

If I copy directly from your post that should get the picture's to.

Species Bio's first.

EDIT: Species Bio's are done... What next...

Well, I'm working on a guide to the gear all crewmembers have, and then I'll do a bio on some Dear Little Friends of ours, the Hoppers.

 

[Aarik]

Hmm... How many Species Bio's are left? I'll make some blank post's so They can eventually all be in the same place.

Wait nevermind, I forgot about this:

<s>THE COALITION HOME SYSTEMS AND SPECIES NAMES

(Human star system names used for simplicity)

Sol: Humans (Dolphins, Chimpanzees, Penguins, Octopi)
Gliese 876: "Aghasti"
Delta Pavonis: Birrin
61 Virginis: "Hoppers"
Tau Ceti: Jii'ka
47 Ursae Majoris: Altos, Grendels
Groombridge 1618: Linkara

So about 4 left, I should make about 5 post's then, in case anyone else feel's like adding a species.</s>

EDIT: nevermind.

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Hmm... How many Species Bio's are left? I'll make some blank post's so They can eventually all be in the same place.

Well, we're not going to meet every species in the first arc, so we can wait and later, I'll make an index to the thread in the first post.

 

[shibosho]

That's some pretty nifty space gear we've got there.

So how soon will the game thread be up?

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

That's some pretty nifty space gear we've got there.

So how soon will the game thread be up?

As soon as zerohour says he's ready to go, off we go.

 

[Aarik]

Why do I think the Tur-han's bio is going to be absolutely hilarious?

 

[shibosho]

Why do I think the Tur-han's bio is going to be absolutely hilarious?

They have a warrior prophet, "Tur-Han the Most Awesome at War, Sex and Drinking Contests". They will be hilariously awesome, I reckon.

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

I think I'll wait until tomorrow to start the RP up. Zerohour will probably need some time to recuperate.

 

[zerohour]

That's some pretty nifty space gear we've got there.

So how soon will the game thread be up?

As soon as zerohour says he's ready to go, off we go.

No need to hold back on my account. Finished all of my finals a few hours ago. Might not post rigth away, since I'll be in transit, but ready to go any time.

Edit: So can anyone add in some info on random worlds in the info thread? I've got a world I've been cooking up.

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

That's some pretty nifty space gear we've got there.

So how soon will the game thread be up?

As soon as zerohour says he's ready to go, off we go.

No need to hold back on my account. Finished all of my finals a few hours ago. Might not post rigth away, since I'll be in transit, but ready to go any time.

Edit: So can anyone add in some info on random worlds in the info thread? I've got a world I've been cooking up.

All right zerohour, go for it!

But I'm a little behind on my first post, so I'll delay the first post until tomorrow.

 

[Legacy|iB]

Hold up, one last quick question:

What's the policy on drinking and alcohol on USNS ships? Absolutely no alcohol consumption on-board, or what?

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

[quote="Legacy|]Hold up, one last quick question:

What's the policy on drinking and alcohol on USNS ships? Absolutely no alcohol consumption on-board, or what?[/quote]
Officially the ships are kept dry. Unofficially, all exploration starships have alcohol for "ceremonial and medicinal" purposes, and moonshine can be made by fermenting yeast or other substances in the life support system. ^_^

 

[Rooster455]

Betcha fifty creds we die before the first in-game year is up. ^_^

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Character bio:

Name: Maya Ibuki

Age: 1 (Physically 26)

Birthplace: Tau Ceti b

Physical Description:

Personality: Intelligent, compassionate and curious, as well as very eager and hard working. Sometimes hard working to the exclusion of all else and is not particularly social.

Background: One of several Jii'Ka synthetic humans, Maya is based upon the same character from the classic anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (currently in it's fiftieth rebuild). She and her sisters were created for the purpose of scientific study and exploration, as well as investigation of humanoid relationships. This particular Maya Ibuki is assigned as the Seraphim's sensor operator, able to understand and rapidly analyze a large amount of data which she distributes to the various departments that require it. She also serves as the ship's astrovator, navigating easily in either normal space or Otherspace.

As she is only one year old, she has little real world experience and, true to her character, is not particularly social. Like all Jii'Ka synthetic humans though, she will grow beyond her template as she accumulates more life experience.

Additional Remarks:
Some Synth humans come to despise their template identities. However, this Maya embraces hers, even wearing NERV T-shirts while off-duty.