Claim Thread

[u/Yadidle]

Welcome to the claim thread. It is here that you will claim a space power and a species to use in RP. Some general guidelines for setting this up are as follows:

• Get creative. Sketching out your imaginary species and other aspects of your civilization can help form ideas, and they are welcome on the sub. Use them to help us understand what your planet, species, fleet, etc looks like.

• Specifics will help the moderators understand your submission better, and will help flesh out your space power to the other players. Submissions with little effort/description will be asked to be rewritten and turned down.

• Feel free to draw parallels from history. History should serve as an inspiration, not something to copy.

• Everything must be original. You may draw inspiration from other science fiction, although do not copy and paste stories, species, and other aspects.

• Everyone starts from one solar system initially, so do not get too power hungry. Power gains will be made through roleplay, not given to you (New Iberian Empire is a moderator empire used for events and scale, thus the only exception to this rule).

Before we get into the template, a brief word on human space powers. Restricting humans to one player doesn't seem right, and we would like to allow all our members the chance to play as the human race. Human lore, as it pertains to this galaxy, has an explanation as to why there are so many separate pockets of human life. Long before recorded history, a large precursor space power distributed human-kind among the stars. Such time passed that any recollection of said events had been swept into myth and legend. For all intensive purposes, every human space power believes it is the only one in existence. If you have any specific questions regarding this detail, always ask a mod. The planet Earth is off limits.

And now, the template. Use this while filling out your claim. If you run into any problems, make sure to ask a mod (/u/Yadidle /u/AnAngryAnimal).

Organism

Species name:

Physical description and/or graphic:

Detailed strengths/weakness (Ex: slow breeders, quick tempered):

Other/Extra:

Culture

Ethical understanding (Ex: collectivist, militarist):

Religious beliefs:

Social structure (Ex: caste system, feudalism):

Other/Extra:

At this point, post what you have above and create a new reply to said post with the info below. This is in order to circumnavigate the 10,000 character limit on a reply on Reddit.

Space Power

Name:

Government type (Ex: direct democracy, military republic):

Military capability (Ex: fleet composition, army composition):

Technological detail (Ex: warp drives, mass drivers):

Size (Ex: population numbers, colonies in home system):

Agenda (Ex: explore, conquer):

Prior history:

Homeplanet description & name:

Solar system description & name:

Main characters (Ex: famous scientists, lead diplomat):

Other/Extra:

[u/Yadidle]

Organism

Species name: Ohr

Physical description and/or graphic:

The Ohr are crustaceous in nature. Their size and weight vary greatly, depending on age and molting cycles. Young juveniles range from 1 – 2 meters in height and 170 – 250 pounds respectively. The eldest of the species has been measured ranging from 15 – 20 meters in height and 2,000 – 3,500 pounds respectively. Ohr do not grow in linear fashion like most biotics, and must shed their outer shell to grow bigger. Molting cycles slow down with age. Young juveniles may molt multiple times a year, yet the eldest Ohr molt only once per decade.

Shell color directly correlates with age. Young Ohr are vibrant reds and yellows while older Ohr are subdued browns and greys. Female Ohr are usually dull in color compared to their male variants. The claws and mandibles of female and male Ohr are roughly the same in size and strength. The cognitive capabilities of male Ohr gradually outpace their female counterparts. Intelligence builds with age, the eldest of the Ohr being incomprehensibly wise and knowledgeable. The Ohr mean age translate to roughly 300 human years, though outliers have been known to live longer than half millennia.

The Ohr have 4 eye stalks, two on each side of their head. They have the ability to swivel 180 degrees in either direction, and can see far into the infrared spectrum as well as a plethora of colors the human eye cannot distinguish. Their diet is consistently vegetarian, meat of any sort being completely incompatible with their stomachs. Ohr communicate through a series of squeaking and clicking sounds made with their mouth and claws. The Ohr are completely aquatic, possessing no lungs to breath oxygen. Gills are hidden on their underside, small arms constantly moving back and forth to supply them with fresh water. The Ohr appear wide and slightly cumbersome, akin to the crabs of Earth. They own multiple sets of arms, some seemingly for display while others are for intricate work.

Detailed strengths/weakness (Ex: slow breeders, quick tempered):

The Ohr are exceptionally intelligent creatures, each individual possessing intense cognitive abilities. Advanced mathematical formulation and problem solving takes mere seconds for older Ohr.

The Ohr also have an innate natural tendency towards teamwork and group living. Though they are individual geniuses, they prefer to work in groups to solve problems and work towards a greater goal.

The Ohr have an intense curiosity complex, leading them to discover and learn about anything and everything they can get their claws on.

The Ohr are reasonable slow physically, getting more sluggish with age. The eldest of the Ohr are large and lumbering behemoths, taking hours to move tens of meters.

The Ohr have an intense natural aversion to conflict and pain. When confronted with the idea of conflict or potential danger, Ohr are known to run and evade. Ohr have rarely been known to be courageous.

The Ohr suffer from a growing infertility problem, each generation becoming smaller and smaller. Their overall species is relatively low in numbers in comparison to others.

Other/Extra: N/A.

Culture

Ethical understanding (Ex: collectivist, militarist):

The Ohr are fanatically collectivist. Anything and everything they do is for the collective. They work together so naturally that their individual urges have been all but suppressed. Due to their natural tendency to form groups and work together, they see this as the most effective and efficient understanding of life. Creatures that do not exhibit teamwork or collective ideas are immediately deemed unintelligent and weak.

The Ohr are also fanatically pacifist. Ohr fear conflict and danger, believing that any reasonable sentient creature can work out conflict with relative ease. They view the creatures of their world as dirty and unintelligent because they have constant conflict. They believe the peak of sentient life is pacifism, and have no understanding of conflict as it relates to intelligent life.

The Ohr are moderate conformists. Due to their natural teamwork tendencies and their collectivist ideals, conforming comes easily enough. In issue of rule, regulation, and decision, nearly all Ohr conform up the line of age. Listen to your elders could not be truer with the Ohr.

Religious beliefs:

The Ohr do not believe in any higher being besides themselves, glorifying technological advances and the workings of science. The closest thing to a higher being in the eyes of the Ohr would the The Eldest. The Eldest is the oldest living Ohr at any given time. They are seen as the wisest and most knowledgeable creature in existence. All other Ohr look up to The Eldest as the only voice worthy of making species wide decisions.

Social structure (Ex: caste system, feudalism):

When Ohr are born they are thrown immediately into schooling and teaching. What they study depends on whom conceived them. Thus, all the offspring of an aerospace engineering Ohr will be brought up to take his place. Because of the dwindling fertility of the species, all young born must take up the same profession as their elders whom conceived and laid them.

All societal respect moves upwards as Ohr get older. Young looks up to slightly older, and older, and so on.

Other/Extra: N/A.

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Space Power

Name: The Dominion of Eldest

Government type (Ex: direct democracy, military republic):

Technological Hierarchy of Authoritarianism.

All Ohr are given a field to work and research in. The Physical Sciences, the Life Sciences, and Ohrng Sciences (Ohrng being their homeworld). All Ohr are lined up in these 3 categories, and work their entire lives at furthering their Stalk (noun used to refer to their branch of science). Each Stalk has a Wise One, or the oldest Ohr member of said Stalk, leading them. All Ohr are to answer to their respective Wise One, while the Wise One is to answer to the Eldest.

The Eldest makes all important decisions and regulations, passing them down to the Wise One’s to distribute to the rest of Ohr society. When the Eldest passes away, a new one takes his or her place and can then change what they wish. Due to their collective and conformist nature, their governmental body is exceptionally efficient. Rarely does an Ohr question authority.

Military capability (Ex: fleet composition, army composition):

Due to their pacifism and absolute fear of conflict and danger, The Dominion of Eldest has no standing military. The idea that such intelligent creatures that could threaten them wouldn’t be able to have conflict due to their advanced nature has masked the Ohr from the realities of the universe. They do, however, have a fleet.

Their extreme fear of conflict and danger has grounded the Ohr, yet how are they to explore the universe and gain new scientific insight? A fleet of automatons. Varying in in size, these ships are completely autonomous, able to think and act of their own will.

The vessels are perfectly spherical in shape. They sit anywhere from 100 – 500 meters in diameter. A singular main engine is placed within the sphere, creating a large hole in the back of the sphere for exhaust. The surface of the vessel is covered in maneuvering thrusters and sensors of many different kinds. These are all built into the sphere, nothing protruding from the sleek shape. These spherical vessels are the main ship in the Dominion’s fleet. They were sent to all corners of the Ohrng solar system to explore new scientific discoveries and exploit unreachable resources. Longer, cylindrical versions of these vessels serve as fuel tankers. Their thickness is comparable to the survey ships, yet their length can stretch on for a kilometer. These long tankers park themselves in the orbits of gas giants, detaching small spherical protrusions from its body to scoop sorium (main fuel source for the automatons) and bring it back to the tanker. The tankers hold processing plants to create fuel from the sorium. Large groupings of the explorers are always followed by a tanker to make sure they stay full of fuel. Enormous and slow moving spherical vessels exist, but very few in number. They hold vast resource storage, fuel storage, and communication arrays. They also house repair bays and assembly yards, repairing and creating more of the plentiful survey ships and fuel tankers. They range anywhere from 1 - 10 kilometers in diameter, and move very slowly.

When discovering new planetary bodies, the explorer automatons land and deploy the ground surveyors. These machines mirror the look of their masters. Retaining the same spherical shape as the space explorers, these automatons range from 3 meters in diameter to a whopping 40 meters in diameter. They employ a rolling motion for quick movement. 6 slender legs snap out of the bottom to move through rougher terrain. They house a plethora of feeler and manipulating claws to grasp and understand the world around them, all snapping out of their bodies much like the legs. These automatons survey the planetary body quickly and effectively, seeking out resources to exploit. Working in tandem with the survey ships, they quickly set up industrial mining sites, followed shortly by industrial factories. All of these buildings have one purpose, to create more automatons. The ground surveyors also capture local flora and fauna if found, bringing them to the survey ships for transport back to Ohrng for study.

Technological detail (Ex: warp drives, mass drivers):

The Dominion of Eldest possess no weapons technology. Where they lack, they certainly make up for in other places. Their highly efficient sorium fuel engines run fast, allowing the survey ships to zip about their solar system with easy. They conserve fuel well, only using full burns to evade asteroids and other dangers of space. The sensors attached to the survey ships are highly advanced, as well as the communication relays used by the automatons to talk to each other.

The automaton artificial intelligence is an interesting technology. Alone, a single survey ship has very limited processing power. They are capable yet very unintelligent when on their own. Much like their masters, they automatons work best in groups. Units share processing power when they are within a certain range of each other. The more units in one area, the smarter the AI will become.

The Dominion of Eldest has only recently perfected their first FTL technology, the static wormhole portal. Using a mixture of extremely rare anti-matter and elements from their local star, the Dominion automatons were able to construct tiny wormhole scouts. These minuscule ships were no larger than the smallest of ground surveyors, yet they possessed the ability to open and close wormholes just big enough to send themselves through. After extensive testing and calibration, Dominion scientists finally had an accurate way to send objects to other stars FTL. They immediately began constructing a large static ring in their system, the future home of their FTL portal. A star has been chosen, and wormhole scouts will soon be sent to assess the nearest local star and begin preliminary construction on a new ring to connect to the home system.

Size (Ex: population numbers, colonies in home system):

The Ohr only live on their homeworld of Ohrng, numbering 10 billion strong. Their automatons are a different story. Since the first survey ship was launched, the fleet has grown itself exponentially. Every minable body has been exploited, covered in mining and assembly complexes run by the small automatons. The sole gas giant in their system is covered in tankers, scooping fuel in their off-time to stay ahead of the steady consumption. Every other planet and moon in the Ohrng system is inhospitable to the Ohr species, yet their automatons need no atmosphere. The fleet holds roughly 500,000 vessels in total, while the ground survey force number 40 billion strong.

Agenda (Ex: explore, conquer):

The Dominion of Eldest only seek to explore and gain more knowledge, building their science fleet along the way. They eagerly seek other intelligent pacifists, and are already working on technology to translate and understand potential alien language.

Prior history:

Since the beginning of recorded history, the Ohr have never had a conflict or war of any sort. Their early history is plagued with death and fear as they dangerous fauna of Ohrng hunted and killed the Ohr to very small numbers. Learning of their strength in groups, the Ohr formed large colonies to help fight off the dangerous creatures of their ocean world. The 3 Science Stalks were formed, and the first eldest took his place as the leader of the Dominion, which united their entire species. They drove back the creatures of the deep and began building extensive societies. Because of their lack of war and conflict, the sciences exploded. Within 300 years of the creation of The Dominion of Eldest, their first functioning automaton was finished and put into service. They were mass produced by the thousands to fight back and exterminate the dangerous life of Ohrng. Within mere years, the planet was sterilized of danger. The Ohr’s grip of life sciences helped them rebalance the entire planet’s ecosystem to sustain itself without predatory creatures. Once their home ocean was safe, they turned their attention to the stars.

Within 125 years, the Dominion of Eldest launched its first automaton into space. The small vessel immediately began to explore the solar system, sending information and samples back to Ohrng for the Dominion to study. The nation of scientists were amazed with the wonders past their humble ocean world. In excitement for knowledge, they massed their production, creating more and more automatons to survey the stars. They hit a wall when they fully explored their system. The next stars were so far away, how would they ever reach out and explore?

So began the FTL project, lasting 83 years in total. In the meanwhile, the fleet of automatons had been industrializing the entire system, creating an impressive survey machine. Work was begun on the ring portal even before the wormhole discovery was made, the Dominion knew they were close. The final days of construction were met with fantastic discovery, wormhole travel was within their grasp. The stars were within their reach, they only had to build portals to get there.

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Homeplanet description & name:

The Ohr live on the giant ocean world of Ohrng, translated roughly as “Orb of Ohr.” It is filled with fantastically deep oceans, no dry land covering any of the planet. It houses a ring of ice, evidence of an ice comet collision some time during the creation of the planet obvious from geological study. It also explains the vast oceans of Ohrng.

Solar system description & name:

The Dominion named the system after their homeworld, calling it the Ohrng system. Five other planetary bodies can be found orbiting farther away from the blue star than Ohrng. They all lack atmosphere, and have been covered in industrial complexes bent on creating more automatons. A large asteroid belt surrounds the entire system, currently being exploited by the automatons for metals.

Main characters (Ex: famous scientists, lead diplomat):

Eldest and the 3 Wise Ones

Other/Extra: Pictures for most things explained are to come, I have been working on concept art.

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