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appleide
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: Story... MUST READ (long) |
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I got an idea for a story, but it would mean that the current galaxy would need to be scrubbed.
Maybe as a plugin?
I think this would fit in the 4th ot 5th millenium of the earth.
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Humans have just recently been able to research hyperspace tech (like within 2-3 earth decades). The humans have occupied their own system long before that though, with the invention of the fusion engines. It works by making giant explosions in the back of the ship to propel it further. The tremendous power it provides mean that the space craft is able to go up to 30% of the speed of light. However, their hyperspace tech, compared to other races, is horrible. It takes weeks to months just to travel between systems, while other races take only hours, at most a couple of days.
The humans, uses huge slabs of armour to build their ships, while the aliens uses somekind of shield to hold the ship together. When their shields are destroyed, the ship would crumble into itself. But the advantage is that shields can repair itself, but metal cant.
Human ships are typically very tough, high top speed, average acceleration, their weapons are either extremely highpowered, but takes a lot of time to reload (only good vs other capital ships)(a linear accelerator of sorts). or too puny but rapid firing that it would only be able to harm men in space suits. (chain guns).
Inside their own systems, humans have occupied as far as the atmospheric bubbles on pluto, to the methane and ice mines on jupiter's moons. There's even orbital stations that orbit so low and fast on jupiter to be able to collect its hydrogen. Mars, although, of all planets beside earth, have an atmoshere closest to earth, is not a large colony, the government has decided that it had sunk too much resources to terraform it, so only the iron oxide collecting stations are left. When refined, these 'rust dust' provide a large source of Earth's metal supply.
Within the decades earth had discovered the hyperspace, colonists flocked to neighboring systems, then as soon as they get there, not many of them want to colonise, and they move further and further away. What ends up is an average sized empire that is very weak, with only a few hundred colonists in each system, you couldn't expect they will be able to defend much.
some planets that have managed to develop well, away from the reaches of the central government, have taken to piracy, interupting colony convoys, and making their own raids on aliens and on neighboring human systems.
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The aliens (main enemy of the terran govt) (find a name), still uses hydrogen propellers, but it is refined to a degree that it can achieve up to 3% of the speed of light. Their accelleration is also comparable to earth's fusion engines. But This race has superior hyperspace tech. They can travel between system within seconds or minutes, at most a couple of hours. They are able to jump closer to planets better than anyother. This more than makes up for the ships slow in-system travel. They would simply transport themselves 30 minutes drive from the planet they attack, in a formation that each ship not more than severla hundred metres apart, and use with their superior shields tech, take out enemy vessals in the surprise attack with relatively no harm to themselves. Their weapons, compared to the other aspects of technology, are very low-tech. The main weapons are simply guided antimatter torpedoes that can easily penetrate sheilds, and make a serious dent in an armoured vessal (fired in salvos). Their secondary weapons are ion cannons that fire a huge ionic charge, they fire slowly, but can usually destroy fighters in a couple of hits.
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And the other alien race. Once upon of time these two races lived in the same system (different planets). One race was innovative, invented all sorts of tech (like shields for example), and antimatter bombs. The other race, are pretty primitive, that is until they were invaded by the innovative race. The invaders thought that they could make the natives slaves, because they seem to be pretty dumb, yet still smart enough. But The natives had larger numbers. Their life span is short, but they reproduce quickly, and they learn(imitate) quickly too. One day, a group of them (like a thousand), hijacked one of the innovative race's colony space crafts, stole all their technologies (they know how it works because they had worked with it for so long), and left. At that time the innovative race had developed primitive hyperspace engines (takes severla years to go between systems), their empire spanning only several systems wide. Their communication was slow (think mail). And so the imitative race escaped, (very good at logical thinking, but have almost know creativity) carefully plotting their new home many light years away, and set up a new home planet. On that new planet, they simply reproduced like rabbits. =D
Their tech was always a little behind, however, and once in a while they send a spy probe to their once-masters and steal new technologies. So their ships, compared to other races, are substandard, but their fleet is much bigger. Yet, they stayed in only 2-3 systems, because they were so keen on hiding, and are extremely paranoid, eliminating all visitors to their systems.
Now, several centuries later, the innovative race had once again found them and decided to make them slaves once again, and declared open war upon them.
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The last alien race. The most supreior of all. They had finally been able to research extremely fast (but unstable) hyperspace drives, capable of travelling between galaxies in less than a year. In their own galaxy, they had destroyed all other inteligent races, and in the milleniums after, numerous large scale civil wars, had shaped their attitude to that of killing all who appear suspicious, and adapted an expansionist policy. They live several galaxies away from this one, but are sending "scout" forces consisting of colony ships. Although the force didn't expect their were any intelligent races in this galaxy, their armaments are still superior. On this galaxy edge where the borders of the innovative, imitative and human empires meet, they have managed to capture several planets, wrecking havoc and killing everyone. The local governors of the planets on the borders near this new threat have agreed to cease hostilities and not tell their superiors, because they are afraid they will be taken over. This new race has faster hyperspace, better shields, better armour and better secondary weapons and their manoverability is on par with the humans. No main weapons, however.
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That last one I don't like... I don't know why I made it up, though.
Thats all for now. I really hope you've got enough patience to read to this sentence, so my post isn't a waste. 
So what do you think? =D |
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Paul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I did indeed read it all. 
I think you have some good ideas, but not enough to scrap what we've got so far. I'm sure it can be incorporated/mixed, though.
Actually, the whole story thing is still rather embryonic. I've mostly been working on the coding. But I think at this point enough basics are present to make it appropriate to start thinking seriously about the story and developing plots. I can add needed features to the engine as we go to make it work as desired, including features currently in EV but missing and EH, and features beyond the wildest dreams of EV.
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appleide
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| I 'd like to see BIGGER capital ships.... I imagined the freighters would be ten times or more as big as that dolphin, or scorpion, or that other heavy courier thing.... |
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Paul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, we can get some bigger stuff in there.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| I tried to set the size of the freighters and hvy freighters to really large, but when ever they bump on each other, either they disappear, or I do... |
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Paul
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: |
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Interesting. I know there's some problems with the collision code, so I'll look into this.
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