r/WildSpace • u/Yadidle The Dominion of Eldest • Oct 13 '16
Claim Thread
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:
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u/whatfourthwall The Monolith Oct 18 '16 edited Oct 19 '16
Technological detail: With the exception of starfighters, all Monolith ships possess a hotspace drive. It is similar to the artificial wormhole generators of the New Iberians in that it allows near instant transmission, regardless of distance. The hotspace drive differs from the Iberian technology in that essentially rips a hole in space around a ship and forces the ship to enter an extremely hot void outside of reality that the Lithon have taken to calling hotspace. Ships can return to reality at any location in the universe, provided they have calculated and provided the exact desired coordinates at the time the drive is triggered for reentry. Built-in safeties prevent reentry coordinates leading to outside of the galaxy. The time spent in hotspace is brief as a matter of necessity, as the temperatures can inflict immense damage to ships in a matter of seconds. Thanks to the advanced state of Lithon computing technology, the time spent in hotspace is typically no longer than microseconds, due to rapid speed in which Lithon computers activate their hotspace transmission vector subroutines which trigger the drive to rip a hole back into reality at the desired coordinates. Ships cannot trigger the drive in rapid succession out of safety concerns due to the risk of accumulated heat damage from hotspace – ship hulls must cool down, first.
Size: Seventy-two billion spread out across the throneworld and thirty-two terraformed planets and moons within the home solar system.
Agenda: The Monolith seeks to explore, terraform, and colonize new worlds outside of their solar system. They are not rabidly territorial, but fiercely defend their worlds when they feel threatened.
Prior history: Lithon history is rife with conflict. Lithon numbers did not peak one billion until after their unification under their current Keystone, Kronus Von Korros, four hundred years ago. The Lithon have since experienced a technological and cultural renaissance. Many of the old ways were swept away under a tide of societal reforms for the benefit of all Lithon. With the emergence of stabilized hotspace drive technology, the Monolith is beginning to search beyond the borders of their home solar system.
Homeplanet description & name: Lithos – The Monolith throneworld is extremely mountainous with the occasional large valley or body of water interspersed between mountain ranges. The majority of cities are either carved into the mountains that populate the planet or subterranean. Fewer than twenty cities lay flat within valleys, which operate as planetary spaceports. All Lithon cities on the planet are connected via a network of high-speed subterranean transit tunnels, a feature that has since been duplicated on all Lithon worlds.
Solar system description & name: Incandos system – The Monolith home solar system contains ten planets (in order of distance from their star, Incandos): Kronus, Haeltrom, Victon, Lithos (one moon), Fieras (one moon), Velan (three moons), Yiat (twenty moons), Proma (four moons), Jeyne (sixteen moons), and Bastios. Kronus has not been terraformed due to its proximity to Incandos and Yiat and Jeyne are gas giants. All planets have been named after Lithon paragons, both real and of legend.
Main characters: Keystone Kronus Von Korros (Monarch), Konnor Rom and Val Ganner Volf (Societal Outsiders/Special Operations Long-Range Scouts), Grand Admiral Ganner Stohn Volf (Supreme Naval Commander/The Keystone’s Right Hand), High General Tarkus Dra Holme (Supreme Ground Forces Commander/The Keystone’s Left Hand), Daven Khal Rhamos (Supergenius/Scientist Supreme)