The OOC discussion and planning thread for "An Empire, Without Equal" RP, a.k.a. Operation: "The Empire Strikes Back".
I trust that this will be the interest of all active factions in due time.
I am willing to answer any questions or queries.
To Sal: Sorry for the delay, as promised, Thursday has come.
Ignes Natura Renovatur Integra
Top: Azurael Roktar, Lord Rahven of House Cromwell, Moonstone
Middle: Izaak von Schwartzkrieg the Obsidian Lord
Bottom Left: Duke Geherin Zenos the Last Noble of Commenor, Otto von Reuentahl,
Bottom Right: Benjamin Cromwell, Schultz Sarath, The Twins Tiferet and Chesed
Doctor Varz is Shy. He did not want to participate in the Group Montage.
Due time? It's interesting now well now that I posted. :P God knows my post is far more entertaining than yours. Well as entertaining as I could make it
without flat out... well. I'll go eat my cookie.
The Corporate Sector is thousands of worlds. The Shuttle was rped at the edge of our space, no where near Etti IV. Why I mention this? Coz most people
don't know jack about hte CSA or its space. This leads me to the main thingy.
Probe droids are a terrible idea. They are 100% detectable via the Picket Fleet and every other fleet/ship in Corporate Space. This isn't some back water
system. This is the financial capital of the Corporate Sector. Super high security and traffic. Droid fighters patrolling along with IRD-A and stuff. :P
Someone is going to notice and request permission to either destroy them or disable them and find out who sent them. Then it'd get fun. :P
I assume you want to be around the Imp shuttle. So I suggest relocating to the vague area known as the edge of Corporate Space and find it. Otherwise,
I'd be more than happy to tell you where Fenner is transmitting from so you can be in that general area, but you may not like where he is. xD He has a good
view right now.
eh? his post says "within the boundaries." that could be anywhere in corporate space, but it's your space so I'll cede the point. The Edge,
it is. My ship will still remain in the Etti system, however, since that's his point of interest. I'll go make the appropriate editing.
Edit: Okay. Done making the changes I wanted to make. Do whatever it is that Corporates do with unregistered probe droids. If something is trying to capture
one it will self destruct after transmitting a short burst of high frequency, encrypted information. If the encryption is somehow broken it just contains
whatever information the droid had gathered and the last entry: initiation of self destruct. If one is somehow
captured, which is unlikely, it is registered to one Mirror Corp., which was listed as being owned by a Mr. Smoke out of the Alderaan System. Thanks for the
corrections.
Last Edited By: Naeus
03/12/09 21:46:18.
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hehe. I'd destroy them but that would be "godmoding." Etti IV has too much traffic, large and small, to notice little tiny probe droids to be
honest. Since I'm pretending you have maybe ten or so out there to avoid detection. Otherwise I would have enjoyed the target practice.
Don't know where Kalan and Titus are at the moment, but just in case anyone was wondering, we are not heading anywhere near action for another two posts or
so of mine so that we give everyone enough time to prepare. Its not every day that a small task force or two sits outside a planet on a trade route that takes
them directly to the souther borders of Sith Space...
Ignes Natura Renovatur Integra
Top: Azurael Roktar, Lord Rahven of House Cromwell, Moonstone
Middle: Izaak von Schwartzkrieg the Obsidian Lord
Bottom Left: Duke Geherin Zenos the Last Noble of Commenor, Otto von Reuentahl,
Bottom Right: Benjamin Cromwell, Schultz Sarath, The Twins Tiferet and Chesed
Doctor Varz is Shy. He did not want to participate in the Group Montage.
Who do I have the pleasure of futher rping with this "Advisor" dude. :P Forgot his name already. Coz the welcoming ceremony would be far nice counter
weight to battles raging and all that bloody mess. :P
Izzy, you are borderline godmoding here. You can't know where every CSA thingy is. Nor can you just suddenly have ISB people all over CSA space, even
though your post implies you are preparing to dispatch them. CSA has its own intel people and they aren'y slackers. Not saying there aren't ways!
Informants on IMperial payroll and all, but just saying you know or making minor little parts in your massive posts aren't going to cut it.
CIA, ESPO, CSF, AG, Then each and every Corporations own measures.
Sorry, not going to float. If you want to know where CSA stuff is and all that jazz, you're gonig to have to rp it giving CSA PC/NPCs a chance to rp
"noticing" it. Of course, I don't demand each and everyone, because you are no idiot and know that for every agent that tries to crack into say
military or some corporations systems, a majority are likely to be discovered while said groups are on high alert as they are. Afterall, the CSA isn't a
military power, but an information power. Knowing this and that to cut costs and ensuring your trade secrets stay secret. If anyone can trip up the ISB,
it's high motivated and highly paid Corporates! I'm not going to let anyone slip into their massive posts things like just knowing stuff with 0 history
of rp of seeding these informants and stuff. Gotta do the leg work before you just know stuff, especially when YOU do not control the NPC/PCs of another
faction.
Just thought I'd make the point now before you rp them being there and "relaying all this magical information they've learned within 10 seconds of
arriving."
I'd also ask the Imps to watch the size of their posts and try to cut down on the massive amount of pure worthless details and junk in your posts. :P If
you wnat to rp with other people and not get 100% ignored, then be kind to everyone who has to read it. You can't expect everyone to master the art of
reading through your "posts." :P Laz's last post was perfect. It was direct and compact. Don't need 5 pages of "Blah blah blah" to
get to a little part about making some info known.
We don't care what you ate for breakfast or what color your pants are unless its actually important.
I do apologize for the rather lengthy post and the multiple of major actions within it, but I alas rp for an Entire faction and do not have 4 people to spread
things over and since they are all major acts that happened at teh same time 10 minutes or so, I felt it justified since no one else can rp for the Direx or
anyone. xD
Short version:
Vulture droids fired on the shuttle. It goes boom.
Thrion is rebelling. Half his force destroyed the Authority Data Center. All ships jumped away on a long course towards a "staging ground."
The Direx and ExO are calling on the Empire for help in return for their full support and allegiance.. (THis is the last paragraph. I suggest reading it since
it is short and full of info.) Furthor more, the ExO thinks the Sith were behind it because the Smurf couldn't do it himself. He's not that smart. I
think the ExO worked for Palpy.
I think one major action in answer to each major action thrown at you is more than fair. I'd hope people try to keep their posts fair to the RPers they are
playing against. This includes giving people proper opportunity to respond to the actions of your posts before you move on to the next action, and of course,
giving people ample time to respond before posting again.
Four versus one is fine, but in that situation it should be the single person combating numerous participants who makes multiple actions during a single post,
in order to fairly deal with and answer what has been thrown their way. Please be mindful of not drowning your opponent in so much action they don't have
the time or energy to concoct a response!!
Just so you lot know, if you are happy remaining in the dark about what happens in my and Izzy's mind, then this post is completely irrelevant. I shall
copy this line at the top as well.
Ohhh...Sorry, I wasn't clear...
Thats what the ISB thinks where everything in the CSA is... if it was real life actually...
bad habit of mine, I tend to write as if its the PoV of the characters rather than the actual overall OOC knowledge involved. The point behind the post was
that the ISB got so used to knowing everything in the Empire (and trust me, they don't. Far from it whether people believe me or no. They think they do, so
I write it as if they do. The point is to make them look all high and mighty and when things do come to pushing and shoving...Well, have I ever told anyone of
my Banana Peel plan? I will inform you later in this thread. Its quite funny until you hear it two times...the third time is not so funny.)
Nonetheless, The ISB are hardly in Corporate Space...no, all the guys thats due to be "dispatched" to Corporate Space (and for once I literally mean
all when I say all) is actually in the flotilla that I mentioned escorting the Admiral's flagship. No way they will know where Corporate stuff are. Never
intended to know. They know of Etti IV, maybe a few centres of communication through tapping into how much wavelength goes where from the times they might
bother to look, but no. If you want OOC knowledge (Considering Laz boy got a bit concerned about a certain wording previous night, and I fixed realising I had
mixed up the second to last real paragraph with the last real paragraph in my little haste to write up the basis of the post so as to speed things along to
ensure no one got bored waiting to enter on the side lines, so I best make it an open statement rather than keep things on a cliff hanger-like scenario...) on
the matter, here is the plan I had on that string of so-called plotting the flooding of CSA space with ISB agents.
They be playing the Star Wars Risk board game.
well, not exactly, but they are basically wasting time doing random stuff. The Empire has yet to consider Hapans nor the Hutts as a target for any campaign
anytime soon. Change of pace was requested and I decided it shall be so (considering We are the aggressors here with the big navy and army and all, please
forgive me if I decide to take the initiative on the matter...or a lack there of). But they be going through a huge what if scenario.
Of course, as it is my proud creation for recreation for the top brass, nothing comes without my poor attempts at humour.
Like the time when I stuck Izzy's forearm back on in one sentence after being cut (Please forgive me, that really sounds godmodish considering it out of
context, it has to do with a Sith Spirit's connections to the force aka Izzy's former mentor assisting in controlling the nanomachine inside Izzy's
blood which is being pumped on a periodic basis with midichlorians...
Allow me to start from the beginning.
Izaak von Schwartzkrieg is a two thousand year old clone with a permanent growth decelerator put on him to calculate at a biological year per galactic century.
The effects of having such outlandish concept is an 8000 year natural lifespan, but also the instability of the physical body, an unstable mind, and an utter
penchant and tendency for boredom. Boredom aside, he is without a shadow of a doubt, insane. Unlike most insane people, though, his insanity is a dangerous
type where one's intellect and knowledge is not discarded but instead utilised to its maximum potential. Putting even that aside, the most important is his
unstable body. The midi-chlorian population fluctuates and his body is in constant need for replacement parts. Organs, muscles, tissue, etc. The only people
who know this is Izzy himself and his doctor, currently Doctor Varz, and a handful of others privy of the lab. One of the ways they have managed to stave off
this constant decay and replacement is by stabilising his midi-chlorian count by effectively transfusing the organisms from his own biological clones (I count
about one to three hundred of these expendable copies per transfusion thus far) bred specifically to be injected with Nanomachine since birth until their death
a few days later, by collecting as many of the nanomachines which force the midi-chlorians off to the blood stream and then commence a forceful blood
transfusion.
This is not very successful at first, only working to the point of replenishing dead midi-chlorians. This in turn gives the doctor an idea to modify the
nanomachines to just help regulate Izzy's body and then keep adding midis as well for good measure. The Nanomachines effectively become a controlled cancer
cell that regenerates cells of a given type where needed, regenerating any organ within his body and thus the need for the patchwork jobs of the past has been
eschewed for a continuous intake of nanomachines which is done through the black tablets that Izzy keeps drinking down with his drinks or recently, just
munching them straight off the bat.
This, controlled with the Sith Spirit's presence, created a situation where instant regeneration was possible so long as the Sith Spirit's own force
energy did not run out. When it did, however, it was due to have comical consequences. But Kal and co were concerned that I was effectively god moding and thus
I explained the situation and my future plan. The plan was for him to continue the thread as if nothing was wrong and then as the fight continued and the Sith
faltered, Izzy's arm, and anything else that would have been cut between then and now, would fall apart. Of course, since the novelty of amusement was gone
now that I announced it in OOC, I naturally just immediatelly put it in the next post and cut the expected plans of what I had guessed would have taken two
posts or three per player more to fruition.
This case is the same, but this time I was due to mention it in my next post, as perhaps the Admiral would come in and notice they were playing games with
random number generators (dice), and moving 'Armies' along to different sectors of the maps that they had decided would be good replacement board to
play a children's game on.
Well, if you don't think its funny, I don't mind. I do sometimes have a strange sense of humour.
Ah yes, almost forgot!
The Banana Peel plan!
The Plan was for Izzy to someday stand to make a glorious speech of something very serious. I think Kalan heard this one, so feel free to look and see how
funny it sounds now a second time. I was thinking perhaps a speech to the ISB recruits, or perhaps a class of graduates from the local Imperial academy.
Nonetheless, it would be long, boring, and above all serious to the point where some of the audience was snoring. Then Varz off to the side is eating a banana
and then throws the banana peel away as he finishes eating the fruit. Without realising he missed the trash chute, he walks off and off comes running the twins
playing another sick game, and the boy, Tiferet slips on the banana peel as per standard given of cliche. The Banana peel flies further than the boy and lands
on the stage where Izzy is giving a speech. As he never stands still when he gives speeches, he would naturally, as the law of Cliche demands, he will step on
it and slip, he would land face first and profanities escape his lips as the audience stands there for a moment in shock then breaks out into a huge laughter.
The other plan that I came up with a week or two ago while doing the Kuat post was that with variations and Admiral Megalo Boxers on the stage. Just the stage
floor breaks and there is a shape of a very muscular man as per cliche demands.
If you would rather I still change it, I shall do so once I get the word to do so. I apologise for the unclear post, but thats how I post, you never know when
someone will willingly take my posts and use OOC knowledge against me, happened too many times, and can never hatch master plans that way. No worries though,
In this thread, I have promised to Sal that there will be very little overall change between the beginning and the end of the thread as to the balance of power
within each faction as well as within galactic politics as a whole without the consent and proper RP of it by the FLs. The Empire's incursion is designed
to fail unless the opposition fail miserably in what they should be doing, aka resisting, (looks to the Sith), so that people get back to posting a bit if
their posessions are under threat. Meh, its not everyday I indulge myself in the good of the board. Its hard doing it for the good of the board. Too many
factors to consider!
As to the shorten our posts?
Well, I do by splitting them up to who is most appropriate to what. Most FLs I expect them to read me stuff because they should know by now I hide future seeds
behind dummies both OOC and IC. Thrion stepped on one of em, unfortunately, it was a dummie...and an experimentational type at that. One that requires a second
post to actually complete... Its nice to see someone is paying attention. But its also unfortunate I will have to consider this experiment a failure. If it
gets close to Godmoding by misinformation, which I can see it does look like it can look like what Thrion said...Yes, I will go develop some more ideas for
hiding the plans behind plans of plans behind those plans of behind plans.
Thank ye for the feedback though.
Also,
Apologies for the long post, but really I know Thrion can handle this length easy.
Just so you lot know, if you are happy remaining in the dark about what happens in my and Izzy's mind, then this post is completely irrelevant. I shall
copy this line at the top as well.
Ignes Natura Renovatur Integra
Top: Azurael Roktar, Lord Rahven of House Cromwell, Moonstone
Middle: Izaak von Schwartzkrieg the Obsidian Lord
Bottom Left: Duke Geherin Zenos the Last Noble of Commenor, Otto von Reuentahl,
Bottom Right: Benjamin Cromwell, Schultz Sarath, The Twins Tiferet and Chesed
Doctor Varz is Shy. He did not want to participate in the Group Montage.
I realized that you were inferring where they would be going and all that stuff AFTER I posted that when I was in tax class. It was a earyl morning and late
night last night. so reading anything was a lot of work. T-T Taxes are soooo boring. Gave me lots of time and that "to be dispatched" part clicked.
My brain finally woke up.
Honestly, I really do want to know what's going on in those two imperial-focused minds, but i couldn't bring myself to read beyond the first line of
the history of your character. That had nothing to do with anything.
Mesa thinkss that Izzy being something some people could call a smart something. AKA mega sarcastic.
TO hide your real plans, you just don't say your plans. :P No Admiral would tell a Captain the big plan. THey'd tell them what they need to know nad
when. Or they'd tell them Plan A but have no intention of doig plan A but plan D. But some of the beginning of Plan a is Plan D.
Massive loads of junk isn't needed to hide anything. You don't have to hide anything. Other rpers can't know anything that they don't know. Any
act they do is guess work off the actions you take that they can notice. If they just "happen" to be wehre your plan is going, then that is an issue
for discussion. But if you don't mention where you are going, they can only guess, odds are wrongly. ^-*
I actually never tell lies, I just usually never tell everything. So you can rest assured I will not try and mislead by lies when its written. Its a rule I
have for myself since I came of age two and a half years ago. You can also rest assured I do not take back written declarations. I may forget them but if
reminded with proof, I will make amends.
Ignes Natura Renovatur Integra
Top: Azurael Roktar, Lord Rahven of House Cromwell, Moonstone
Middle: Izaak von Schwartzkrieg the Obsidian Lord
Bottom Left: Duke Geherin Zenos the Last Noble of Commenor, Otto von Reuentahl,
Bottom Right: Benjamin Cromwell, Schultz Sarath, The Twins Tiferet and Chesed
Doctor Varz is Shy. He did not want to participate in the Group Montage.
Shifted Thrion's rp out of this. He's not stupid. He doesn't have forces to launch a full scale war or the supplies too. Though I will keep in it
as the CSA trying to figure things out. xD