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Alright here is my idea for the RP feel free to pitch yours or add to mine. Mine is a very rough draft and I can add or change things if you want. As you might be able to tell it is inspired by Battle Star Galactica more than anything else.

The year is 2185 and humans have enjoyed 150 years in space. The human race has recently developed ships that are capable of FTL The United Earth Space Program or UESP has also recently opened its fourth and largest habitation station , this one orbiting Mars. The first was built on the moon in part due to nostalgia of an era when humans dreamt of living there. The final two orbit earth. Humanity’s next goal is to expand habitation to several Class M planets recently found.

Most humans believe themselves to be alone or at least very isolated in the universe, but that is about to change. On March 25th 2185 Earth loses contact with the Mars station when it is tragically destroyed. Minutes later massive ships appear over Earth’s major capitols and open fire. There are no warning or demands, just destruction. Humans attempt to put a fight, but they are not very successful since they have put most of their efforts into exploration rather than the military.

Humanity’s only chance for survival is to evacuate the planet. The government tries their best to get as many people off planet, but they only have so many ships. People are forced to leave on crafts not made for long trips such as luxury ships and normal transports. Most people have given up hope of ever seeing earth again. They are adrift and without a plan. But what they don’t Government has fled to the skies in desperate attempt to find aid. What they haven’t told the public is that on the newly found planets they have found signs of civilization, but a civilization that has appeared to have fled. They want to find this civilization and enlist their help in taking back earth.


I have thought of adding in maybe a small fleet of non humans that have been attacked by this mysterious force that can meet up with the humans so people can play as aliens if they like.



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I'd suggest that earth was not attacked at all, instead ruined from the inside out.
Earthlings themselves destroyed the earth by not doing their part to maintain it. I really don't think they would need much outside help with that. sweatdrop

When the aliens DO show up they realise Earth has nothing for them, nor it's people.

Earthlings would go to space not the flee from invader, but become them instead. They are looking for a new planet.

I recommend Using one ship, instead of multiple, It would help character interaction more. I'd like this to be a space soap opera if that's ok, I always find character interactions the most entertaining.

Since this is the future, they could have abilities, aliens, hybrids, mutations. and things like that. Of course technology would be epic as well. Devices that allow telepathy, and telekinesis. Robotics or Android, Cyborg.... so on.

I kind of feel that's what the last Scifi RP was like, humans trying to find a new home. I wanted to change it up some.

I like the idea of humans finding a civilization. The RP can start like a year or so after the attack and they've only found this new place a few months ago. People are getting used to living in this new society that didn't want to turn them away, but doesn't really seem too interested in helping them either.

I like this because it makes things much easier. Perhaps the group that escaped were a bunch of scientists working undercover. They don't know what's out there or if other lifeforms will accept them or not. They are skeptical of aliens since first first contact did not go well.

Well with Chris' suggestion I was thinking of having the humans restricted to one station. I just don't want to limit what type of characters people can play. I was going to be making a scientist anyway but I don't want everyone to be forced into that role. World building wise I don't want to have only one ship survive, but we can focus on one area or crew to make things easier.

What about a group of people who are picked to basically work together to come up with a plan to discover more about the invaders and take back earth?

Dani's rp had a ship full of millions of people who were all clones of original people. Part of what brought that one to a halt was that it didn't have enough driving force for all of the characters to specifically meet up and interact. I recall Cassie's character barely got a chance to interact with anyone else, and I wound up having to create a bunch of NPCs to try to get my own narrative out there.

A more 'we few are stuck together, like it or not' sort of thing might give us a chance to have storylines that everyone takes part in.

I don't remember why Dani's RP dropped off but I didn't feel the size of the ship and the ship's population were an issue. I like a larger cast to work with for NPC's because I feel it let's people do more with storylines.

But, if this is a problem, does anyone feel like we're having that issue in Skies of Freedom? I know Jack hasn't posted again but she's going through some stuff IRL.

I imagine there will be profiles needed once we get this all sorted. How would we like to set them up?