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 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:00 pm
Battle Hymn of the Republic is a Sci-fi action RP aimed for literate roleplayers with prior experience. It is intended to have a fluid plot whose outcome is created by it's players. Currently, the plot flips back and forth between a squad of marines and a Squadron of fighter pilots, telling the story of each and how they influence the Battle Hymn and the War itself. Mostly social, there is however a lot of action thrown in to this progressively darkening, epic plot.
Table of contents:
0. Intro
1. Story
2. Rules
3. Races
4. technology
5. Characters
6. Announcements
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:08 pm
STORY:
In the year 4023 A.D. The Terran Republic was formed Most of the planets that were populated by humans, now called Terrans. Ten years later, Most of the Republic's planets, along with 90% of the terran population, were destroyed by an enemy Known as the Drathonians. The Drathonians are a reptillian race that had pretended to be friendly with the Terrans, Only to stab them in the back as hard as possible.
Now, in 4047 A.D. Or 14 P.T. (post-terra) The Last pockets of the terran Republic and their allies the Altresians are in danger of being wiped out, Since they are outnumbered nearly 5,000 to one. But all Hope is not lost, As the brightest Terran engineers and designers have built a weapon capable of fighting back. It is Known as the Terra class Battle cruiser, One of the largest Space ships ever built by the Republic. Armed to the teeth and ready to kick some Drathonian tail, the first ship, the "Battle Hymn" is launched in the fray as Terra's last stand.
Join the epic plot of the Terran's last hope and defend Humanity in it's last, greatest stand against it's most horrible foe, the evil Drathonians, who are trying to quell an uprising in their empire. It will be a fun Hi-tech space adventure of great proportions.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:12 pm
Rules:
1. No God-modding or meta-gaming.
2. keep the language clean or I'll kill your character.
3. Keep the story clean or I'll kill your character.
4. The GM's word is law.
5. follow Gaia's TOS
6. Have fun.
wahmbulance ** DO NOT POST TILL YOU HAVE AN APPROVED CHARACTER!!** wahmbulance
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:14 pm
Main races:
*Note on the races: There are only terrans and Drathonians right now
because the drathonians have wiped out and/or enslaved all other races in the galaxy. Also, only Terrans are currently playable. As the plot
continues more races may become available.
(Main PC race)Terrans: Humans from various backgrounds, They are primarily the same as modern humans, with the most major difference being that they are stronger and faster. Terrans are smarter than drathonians, and terran equipment is far superior, their only problem is that there isn't very much of it. Of course, There aren't many Terrans to use it anyway.
(NPC enemy race)Drathonians: Drathonians are basically lizardmen, standing halfway between erect and quadrupedal. Thay can become quadrupedal to run at their top speed, which is greater than that of humans, but only for short bursts before they overheat and must stop. All Drathonians have a long tail which can be used in close quarters as a weapon. Having scaly skin, they deem it unnecesary to wear any armor of any kind. Their tech is based on the principle of quantity over quality, and ease of mass production.
(NPC/PC helper race)Altresians: The Altresian are from the grand planet Altres. Altresians are athletic-bodied humanoids, with light tan skin, golden blonde hair, and cyan eyes. The planet is governed by the Holy Altresian Empire, which glorifies two ideals: war and religion. Altresian battle tactics are second to none and their faith knows no bounds. However, the Altresians can be over zealous, resulting in countless crusades over its history. The current "abomination" of their god, Altrei, are the Drathonians. The Altresians believe that it is their divine duty to liberate the Terrans, and any other race, from the Drathonian plague. *created by:Solomon Marquis*
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:16 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:19 pm
For all your character needs, including Approved Bios, go Here.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:22 pm
Announcements: (for OOC go Here.) Tuesday, August 21: Officially started. Tuesday, January 13, 2009: I (Kai) plan to start expanding the information on the first few pages of the RP thread.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:26 pm
Prologue
Getting ready
The large Grey Terran ship Known as the Battle Hymn floated in Orbit over Altres, It's only safe haven, a galaxy away from the war it was supposed to be in. The Admiral Ceres paced the bridge, awaiting his captains to line up for the briefing of thier first mission. Captain Kieran "Kai" Nakamura was the first on the bridge, giving a quick salute to Ceres.
"Captain Nakamura reporting for duty" He called out, a tone of excitement in his voice.
The admiral Nodded At this eager captain, as the other captains filed in, reporting much the same as Kai had. "Listen up men!" Ceres shouted, "This is the best ship ever made, and we are gonna take it on it's first, and most dangerous mission." The captains' smiles grew at these words. "And that mission is as simple as it is dangerous. I can now tell you that our mission is to KICK SOME DRATHONIAN TAIL!" The entire bridge erupted into cheers at the shouted statement, they were all eager to do just that.
Gaining launch clearance, the ship darted into another trajectory. Though quite massive, The Battle Hymn was still very agile. As soon as it reached 1,000 miles from it's previous orbit, the Ship Kicked it's warp drive into gear, and shot off toward the distant milky way galaxy. Though the ship traveled 300,000 times the speed of light, it would take a while to get to it's destination.
(OOC: just post introductions for now, all characters are currently on the Battle Hymn)
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:55 pm
Kurohime smiled as the ward drive kicked in. Her flame coloured hair was braided for convenience, but was already stained with oil and grease.
Her overalls were also dirty, this was the reason she rarely wore full uniform.
She went to the Comm system and messaged the Bridge,
"Engineering to Bridge, Warp Drive is fully functioning at maximum efficiency with containment fields at 100%. Life support is working at 10% capacity and at the current consumtion rate, fuel should last, a few million years. All external weapons are fully operational and there will be a test of the emergency alarms at Ten-hundred hours, so in about fifteen minutes. We'll give you another warning right before we begin the test.
One last thing, if you've got any mechanical problems, don't hesitate to get one of the engineering staff to fix it, it's what we do. Engineering out."
She turned off the comm, and went back to the table which she was working at.
She was currently working on changing the sight for a sniper rifle to fot her small pistol. She picked up a small file and continued to file away at the mount of the sight.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:05 pm
The bridge's internal Comms officer replied to Kurohime "Status Acknowledged, Engineering" then quickly sent a courier to Admiral Ceres. When the courior arrived he informed the admiral on the situation. "Good, she's doing exactly what we designed her to" the admiral happily replied. Maybe we'll win this war after all he thought.
***
Kai was down in the Armory by now, making sure all the weapons and body armor were in top condition. he was ready to board a Drathonian ship and show them what Terrans were made of.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:24 pm
Kurohime finished her work and fitted it to the pistol, it fitted perfectly, she tested the sight, it still worked, now all she had to do was make sure it aimed properly.
"I'll be down in the armoury, if you've got any problems you can't fix on your own, I've got my comm. And make sure the alarm test goes ahead as planned, and tell the crew it's just a drill." she put the tools she woul need to adjust the sight and left for the armoury.
When she got down there she saw the captain was there.
"Captain." she saluted awkwardly, still not used to the rank system.
"Just testing something that might improve our hand weapon capability."
She grabbed the safety gear for the target range and stepped into a booth.
She turned the sight on, aimed it at the target, and fired a single shot.
It was a little off.
"Ok, lets get to work." she muttered, taking her tools and adjusting the position on the pistol.
The next shot was closer to the mark, so she adjusted the sight again, this time the shot was dead on.
"Great, now I've got to get the replicators to make them." she muttered putting her things away.
She went to the weapons officer and asked, "How many of this make are on the ship?" showing him her pistol, with the safety lock back in place.
"Not many, they're only assigned to Bridge and Engineering crew as personal weapons, we've got 100 in here and another 50 in personal use."
"Ok, cause if I persuade the replicators to cooperate, you've got 150 of these heading your way." she showed him the sight
"What is that?" the officer asked,
"Modified sniper sight, it now fits on the pistol as an extra attachment, you won't need to fit them all on, just store them and fit them to the guns that people want them fitted to."
Suddenly a message came up on the ships comm.
"This alarm is a drill, do not panic."
Then
The lights changed colour, they were now red, and there was a loud siren accompanied by "Red Alert, Red Alert!"
a minute later it stopped and the lighting went back to normal.
Then the siren started, but no light change, "Alert, Alert!"
The whole system of alarms was tested with success.
Once her hearing had recovered, Kurohime commed engineering, "Good work guys, I'm heading back up." and she left the armoury, and went back to her 'home'.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:47 pm
"That's fine, just don't hurt anyone" Kai said, returning the salute. When the drill started, He looked up at the now red lights, the color reminding him of something in his past. he made a mental note that seeing this color in the ship meant something bad was happening, an easy enough connection for him to make. Satisfied with his squad's weapons and gear, Kai next wandered off to the fighter hangar to check on his baby, the lime green Scimitar starfighter he had lovingly named "Gloria". He would spend a while in the hangar before he left to find his squad.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:05 pm
Meigan walked along one of the ships many corridors. It was full of crew and staff walking along, and some in groups talking amongst themselves. Meigan's head was looking at her blaster as she polished off a bit of dirt from it. Suddenly the lights went red and a voice spoke "Red Alert, Red Aert". Meigan's head shot up so quickly it knocked her off balance and she fell to the ground. Her blaster fell from her hand and hit the ground, accidentily shooting off a small energy burst which narrowly missed a short woman's head and hit a wall, not doing any damage. A few people screamed at the sudden projectile as it zoomed by them, but the woman that was almost hit became pale and stared at Meigan.
"Uh, sorry?" Meigan said, she grabed her blaster and got up quickly. Then she started power walking away from the scene in a randomly picked direction, ignoring all the staring faces.
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:34 pm
Kurohime had been heading for the engineering centre when she came across a strange scene.
People were talking to a crew member, consoling her.
"What happened here?" she asked,
She soon got the story, "Someone accidentally left their safety catch off, great, which way did they go?"
After being pointed in the right direction she said, "Get her to Sick Bay." then shot off, running to catch up.
She realised she had no chance of finding the person and shook her head.
"Just great, well nothing I can do except tell the right people." she moaned before sending a comm to the armoury,
"Ito here, we've got someone running round with a EV-47 Laser pistol with the safety catch off, there was a minor accident, you'll need to check security footage of Sector T, Junction 36 from the period of the alarm test to see who's pistol it was, then just give them a safety lecture, no one got hurt, just shocked."
"Ok, got that." was the reply.
"Right, Ito out."
She shook her head, and headed back towards engineering, when she finally got back, she was glad to see everything was still working.
"Ok, someone get me the replicator specs, I need to try and get them to make something."
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:09 pm
Soon after this, Kai got a message on his Comm teling him that one of his squad members needed some talking to. Apparently a marine named Meigan had forgotten her safety switch on her pistols. Great, now I have to go find her he thought, not really wanting to, seeing as the ship was rather large. Exiting the fighter bay, he brought up a map of the ship on his comm and had it track down meigan for him. "Great, she's all the way on the other side of the ship" he grumbled, beginning to jog in that direction.
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