RE: Esteem Vissal (a sort of space game) (sign upz)
05-20-2016, 06:06 AM
Username: Scha'dzn
Faction Name: The Instigants
Theme Song:
Color: Ashmapping
Species Name and Description: Pulversailles - referred to by the less charitable as star-slag or dust-devils. An improbable accretion of cosmic dust and the molten remnants of a star sundered by a mysterious superweapon, consciousness starts with a sufficiently large droplet, which gains its own memories and personality. Individuals can merge into a single consciousness, and while uncommon can presumably produce offspring with fragments of their memory via budding.
They cruise through the vacuum of space on sail-like wings spun from extruded stardust, gathering further detritus to feed their plasma cores.
The core (which seems to interface with space dust to produce a neural net, and the psionic field that allows their dust manipulation) is protected by dust-lattice, which holds up well in the void of space but is quickly ripped apart by even thin atmospheres. Diplomats engaging with aerobic species must be housed in protective casing.
Faction History: Not five years prior, the Powderkeg system was known throughout the sector as the Diamond System, a planetary system inhabited and managed by its native Scintinels as an autonomous colony of the Holy Empire. In what will eventually be taught in history books as the Nova-ky-9 Incident, an Autonomous Core espionage outfit was transporting a stolen Preteliete warhead - the titular Nova-ky-9.
Destruction of the AutoCore craft by Scintinel surface-to-space defense systems (launched from Eazin military outposts, per Empire policy for unmarked ships in colonial flightspace). The Nova-ky-9, dismissed as ship rubble, set an automated course for the nearest star - Cullinan - which went supernovae (against all projections for a star of its size) and destroyed all life in the system.
The resulting breakdown in diplomatic relations between Esteem Vissal's major factions can be considered the prelude to the sector-wide war, during which the celestial rubble left in Diamond System/Powderkeg was, for the most part, ignored by all the belligerents.
It wasn't until peace settled over the sector, and invitations to form a Sector-wide council were broadcast through the sector, that the full extent of the Nova-ky-9's power was brought to light...
Home Planet: The PowderKeg Nebula, D3; a dust-strewn system with the first faint accretions of a protostar, and scatterings of asteroid where planets once orbited. A more substantial belt of rocky objects orbits the outer reaches of the system, though it's patrolled by Ice Fishers and thus rather hostile toward unexpected guests. Ice fishers are marvellous, raylike contrivances like a shoal of ice shards, piloted by a Pulversaille attached to the upperside of its oral cavity. They get as big as Pulversaille as capable of building them, and they will quite happily fuck ships up.
Faction Name: The Instigants
Theme Song:
Color: Ashmapping
Species Name and Description: Pulversailles - referred to by the less charitable as star-slag or dust-devils. An improbable accretion of cosmic dust and the molten remnants of a star sundered by a mysterious superweapon, consciousness starts with a sufficiently large droplet, which gains its own memories and personality. Individuals can merge into a single consciousness, and while uncommon can presumably produce offspring with fragments of their memory via budding.
They cruise through the vacuum of space on sail-like wings spun from extruded stardust, gathering further detritus to feed their plasma cores.
The core (which seems to interface with space dust to produce a neural net, and the psionic field that allows their dust manipulation) is protected by dust-lattice, which holds up well in the void of space but is quickly ripped apart by even thin atmospheres. Diplomats engaging with aerobic species must be housed in protective casing.
Faction History: Not five years prior, the Powderkeg system was known throughout the sector as the Diamond System, a planetary system inhabited and managed by its native Scintinels as an autonomous colony of the Holy Empire. In what will eventually be taught in history books as the Nova-ky-9 Incident, an Autonomous Core espionage outfit was transporting a stolen Preteliete warhead - the titular Nova-ky-9.
Destruction of the AutoCore craft by Scintinel surface-to-space defense systems (launched from Eazin military outposts, per Empire policy for unmarked ships in colonial flightspace). The Nova-ky-9, dismissed as ship rubble, set an automated course for the nearest star - Cullinan - which went supernovae (against all projections for a star of its size) and destroyed all life in the system.
The resulting breakdown in diplomatic relations between Esteem Vissal's major factions can be considered the prelude to the sector-wide war, during which the celestial rubble left in Diamond System/Powderkeg was, for the most part, ignored by all the belligerents.
It wasn't until peace settled over the sector, and invitations to form a Sector-wide council were broadcast through the sector, that the full extent of the Nova-ky-9's power was brought to light...
Home Planet: The PowderKeg Nebula, D3; a dust-strewn system with the first faint accretions of a protostar, and scatterings of asteroid where planets once orbited. A more substantial belt of rocky objects orbits the outer reaches of the system, though it's patrolled by Ice Fishers and thus rather hostile toward unexpected guests. Ice fishers are marvellous, raylike contrivances like a shoal of ice shards, piloted by a Pulversaille attached to the upperside of its oral cavity. They get as big as Pulversaille as capable of building them, and they will quite happily fuck ships up.
peace to the unsung peace to the martyrs | i'm johnny rotten appleseed
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow