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Post by limeyhoney on Jan 21, 2017 15:51:31 GMT
We are going to get some starwars type stuff going on here. (I just re watched episode 4. Still good.) That was quick.
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TheGraveKnight
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Post by TheGraveKnight on Jan 21, 2017 16:35:06 GMT
The Formation of the Plasma Blades
Date: 51 ASE
No-1 had been gathering fellow-minded aliens for a whole year since he barely managed to escape Alox during the rebellion. He had spent the first few months healing from the wound he received from Exon, but his drive did not waver. He and those like him would live free, free to do what they wanted in the vast galaxy whether it was illegal or not. He was planning to officially form a faction of Space Pirates, but not one that would be part of that weak-minded group ruled by a brain in a jar, no they would be strong, be mighty, they would take the galaxy and put it under their boot if they so wished! All that remained was the gathering that was happening in the next few hours...and a name. No-1 mentally slapped himself for not being smart enough to come up with a name of all things, whilst fiddling around with one of the Plasma Blades that one of the many aliens brought to the group. "Plasma Blades...." No-1 echoed in his deep, robotic voice, it had a nice ring to it. It sounded fierce and ruthless, unchained by anyone. If Ionax could smile, No-1 would be grinning from ear to ear. Now he had a speech to create...
4 human hours later,
The great gathering in the main cargo bay of the ship dubbed "Liberator" by their soon-to-be leader No-1 consisted of outcast aliens of all types. Mercenaries, criminals, exiles, smugglers, they had all been accepted and now were arguing among themselves about their "leader"'s ability. A loud blast silenced the room and everyone turned towards the source, No-1. He was holding an Energy Cannon that looked way too big for anyone to handle, yet he held it up like it weighed nothing. "My fellow outcasts, I thank for gathering here today. For today shall be the day, that we cast off the shackles of our empires, that would hunt us down. Because we wish to live a way they don't agree with." As the speech went on, several aliens started to smile at their leader's confidence and ideals. "Everyone here shall be considered free, we shall do what we want! And if someone tries to get in our way, then we shall wipe them from this galaxy! Today, we are free. Today, we live our own lives! TODAY, WE ARE THE PLASMA BLADES!!!" the entire group burst in a roar of applause as their leader raised his fist into the air. They were the Plasma Blades, bound to none and free to go wherever and do whatever they wished.
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Post by Aquos on Jan 21, 2017 16:36:42 GMT
Oh whait, I just saw I got the the name of the planet wrong in my story. It should be Kel'twa, not Kel'un. Sorry about that.
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The_Wayward_Admiral
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Post by The_Wayward_Admiral on Jan 21, 2017 16:50:27 GMT
Application Type:Event Name:The Shattered Sieve Rebellion Date:5 ASE Primary Actors:Prime Investigator Lu'nua The Silent Virus TL;DR:Silent Virus hacks news feeds, says mean things about government. Lu'nua forced to lie about government spending. Insurgency breaks out in one city on west coast. Hyperdrive project begins. Superweapon is ominously hinted at. Length:1 Day Outcome:Shattered Sieve Rebellion begins, aiming to install a democratic government and overthrow the technocracy. The Kel'dori nation begins researching hyperdrive technology. Construction begins on 'Stellar Void' (more information coming in future updates). Story text:
Shattered Sieve
The sharp clicking of graphene plated boots reverberated through the ruling palace's marble halls. Several Security Services officers were quickly stalking toward the Prime Investiagtor's office. After an interminable march down the central hallway, they threw open the doors.
Startled, Investigator Lu'nua barked an indignant response, "This is the highest office in the nation. What is the meaning of this incursion?"
The officer standing in the center of the group of five activated his helmet's voice synth, "Ker, we are here to escort you to the Odeon. An unauthorized transmission is being broadcast on every National Broadcast Service channel."
"What sort of transmission?"
"Come with us, ker."
Investigator Lu'nua stood from kis chair quickly and extricated kimself from his desk. The officers led kim out and through several more well appointed halls toward a sizeable viewing room, plastered with hundreds of monitors displaying every channel broadcast by the National Broadcast Service. Banks of computers lined the bottom areas of the walls, occuppied by staffers desperatly typing and occasionally letting out frustrated groans.
But the screens were not displaying their normal programming. No news, no dramas, no comedy, no talk shows. They were completely black, except for a small red insignia in the center. The outline of a viral protein coat.
"What is the meaning of this?"
A long silence ensued.
"Well?!"
A staffer looked up, and responded in deadpan tone, "It...it seems to be a...a shattered sieve."
"And what does that mean, 'shattered sieve'?"
"Hypothetically, although perhaps not so hypothetical any more, a hacker could break the encryption, reset every failsafe and lock us out of the broadcast system. We can't...we can't access the programming controls. No one at the NBS can either. It...it bears the hallmarks of a shattered sieve."
"And this is all the hacker has been broadcasting?"
As the Investigator spoke, a piercing tone began building in the room. Once the sentence was concluded, the tone stopped, and the virus image faded away to show a dimly lit room in each monitor, littered with stray electronic parts. In the center of the image was a keldori wearing a Security Services helmet with a shattered visor, and the same red insignia painted on the snout.
After a brief pause, the audio feed came to life with the modulated voice common to all such helmets.
"Greetings, my fellow Keldori. The technocracy you believe to rule you is a lie. No longer are the most qualified officers in control. That system ended mere decades into our forebears' spaceflight. You live under the controlling thumb of an autocrat. Those in power control what you see, what you hear, and almost everything you think."
Lu'nua turned to the officer who spoke earlier, "Get me Desh'nua, and you, Mr. Shattered Sieve, can you set up a vid feed for me in the unlikely event that at some point SOMEONE gains something resembling control?"
Staffers began scrambling to meet the Investigator's demands.
The televized voice continued, "...they can see what you see. Not literally of course. Not yet. But everytime you use their databases, their computer nets, their vehicles, they're surveilling you. They use this system to crush your soul, they maintain their power off the back of your ignorance, but I am here to illuminate these tresspasses."
Lu'nua took the seat of the staffer directly opposite the door.
"Prime Investigator Lu'nua is using your complacency to push through a horrifying agenda. I've been taking a stroll through kis books, and there are several interesting secret projects. There's 'Screeching Leaves', which is a massive launch of spyware on commercial computer. There's 'Dowager', which seems to be an ostensibly innocuous program that will improve hyperloop safety technologies, but is curiously listed in the dark budget, rather than the public budget. 'Endless Fury', the files on which consist only of images, but they seem to depict an experimental aircraft of some sort. There are dozens of others, but one stands out. Listed at an accreditation of 5 Trillion Commerce Credits to various development firms and engineering corporations, we have 'Stellar Void'. But it isn't just the price tag that stands out. It would seem that 3 of the 5 firms mentioned in the files do not actually exist. Additionally there's mention of a dark site research facility in the capital city. There are no images, and only heavily redacted records. What I can make out is troubling, because the 2 firms that do exist are holdovers from Kel'Un. They built weapons during the War. I've made..."
The feed cut out, and a staffer jumped out of kis chair and shouted, "I've gotten in! Ker, your vidfeed is live to the nation."
Lu'nua cleared his throat.
"Citizens, I apologize for this intrusion on your day. This, er, silent virus fellow is a disturber of the peace who is bent on an anarchy of the nation state. I assure you we are doing all in our power to restore order, and I assure you that all parties guilty of this stunt shall be punished to the full extent of our rehabilitation system. I'm certain that you are quite disturbed by his behavior, and you demand answers. 5 Trillion is a lot of credits. We were hoping to wait until we had made more progress, but we have been keeping something very big hidden from you, it's true. My fellow Kel'dori, today I say to you: we are undertaking research to develop an engine capable of taking us to hyperspace. We will harness negative energy to open higher dimensions and travel to the stars faster and safer than our ancestors could have imagined. I will now return you to regular programming."
With a slashing motion of the hand, the Investigator ended the feed.
Ke let out a long sigh before speaking to his staffers, "run the calming tones on all channels."
Standing up from the console, Lu'nua turned to walk back to the main office. Desh'nua walked in, shaking with rage.
"City 5 is reporting armed rebels! They got a hold of Security Services arms somehow!" ke bellowed.
Lu'nua stared blankly for a moment. Clearing his throat once more, he spoke up "Stellar Void will end it...and one more thing. We need to gather a team and determine the feasibility of starting a hyperspace development project."
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TheGraveKnight
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Post by TheGraveKnight on Jan 22, 2017 16:26:17 GMT
The Plasma Blades' First Strike
Date: 53 ASE
Location: Mars, Sol star system
Notable Participants: Raiders: No-1 (Raid Captain) Gorloc (Second-in-Command)
Defense: General Winston (Commander of the Empire of Humanity's Military) Vincent Denver (Notable soldier)
Outcome: Costly Human Victory, Vincent earns a medal of bravery, the Greenhouse Gas Dispenser on Mars is destroyed, Humans lose a large amount of Fusion Cores, Mars begins a slow decline in oxygen levels
Brief Explanation: The First Strike of the Plasma Blades began with the raiders quietly slipping in under nightfall. The raiders, numbering about 1,500 including No-1 and Gorloc, proceeded to attack a nearby facility which maintained the Greenhouse Gases that made Mars inhabitable. After a report was sent in, the military on Mars was sent in to stop them, but severely underestimated the raider's strength. Almost every raider was equipped with military-grade Power Armor and Plasma Cannon and Blades, and cut down several soldiers until General Winston managed to procure two of the Plasma Cannons for himself and a soldier named Vincent. The two made their way to the center where the main command terminal was, only to find that No-1 and Gorloc had already destroyed the gas dispenser and were making of with over 100 military-grade Fusion Cores. Although No-1 made it out unscathed, Gorloc lost one of his 4 arms during the firefight between the humans and raiders. Since they had what they wanted, No-1 issued a command for the raiders to return to the ship. Although most made it back, about 50 raiders died trying to escape. Sadly, the entire planet would soon be uninhabitable due to the loss of the Greenhouse Gas machine.
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The_Wayward_Admiral
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Post by The_Wayward_Admiral on Jan 25, 2017 19:16:31 GMT
Event: Battle of the Capital Forests (First in a collaborative plot line between Aquos and I) Date: 5 ASE Important Actors: Commander Tor'far, Viral Luminary Army, Kel'dori Loyalist Army, Exar Recon Unit TL;DR: Civil War rages on Kel'twa II, an Exar drone is mistaken for a rebel spy drone by the Loyalists, it is destroyed. Outcome: Temporary truce between rebels and loyalists, beginning of Exar/Kel'dori war. Zero Hour
Acrid smoke wafted over the hill upon which Commander Tor'far stood with his aides. He flicked his tongue out and quickly withdrew it from the nauseus stimulus. Clad in full graphene armor, his helmet clutched firmly under his right upper arm, the commander was an imposing figure. The long sigh he released though, was one of resignation and defeat.
He lifted his helmet up and affixed it to his head. Flicking the activator with his tongue, the HUD flickered to life and provided all the data streaming in from the capital. His in-helmet speakers crackled to life and his ears were assaulted with the anguished cries of his species-kin. He let out another sigh.
War had changed. The Kel'dori had thought their first foray into warfare would be their last, and if not then certainly their worst. On both counts they had been wrong. Here on Kel'twa, there was no sacred ground, there was no sentimental value to anything. Everything was fresh, and new, and expendible. Every city had been laid low over the course of a month. Commander Tor'far had been born during the Great Flight. He and all other living Kel'dori were Children of the Stars. They were born in the aether, free from the bonds of gravity. But they had fallen from these lofty heights. Down through the atmosphere and straight into the mire and trenches.
The exact toll of the civil war was not yet calculated, but in just 34 days over 40 million at least had perished. Most of these were not the Security Services troops, but rather citizens caught in air raids with nowhere to go.
The distant sounds of aerial warfare reached the Commander's ears. The battle wasn't going well for the sovereign forces. They had already surrendered vast swaths of the capital forests to the Viral Luminaries, and the thought of surrendering the last remaining point of elevation between them and the capital limits was sickening.
The commander scanned across the battlefield, not focusing on any particular aspect of the carnage until he noticed movement in a previously quiet sector. He zoomed in and saw the gleaming carapace of a robot. He activated recognition parsing, but the image matched no known military robotics.
He activated his outgoing radio, "Command, request review of my helmet camera. I need confirmation on the object in middle field. Over."
After a crackle of static, a response was transmitted, "Commander, it uh...it does not appear to match known military or civilian hardware. My superiors have instructed me to inform you that it bears certain qualities common in rebel spy drones. You have authorization for annihilation of the target. Over."
A spy drone! What's more, of a construction that hadn't been witnessed before. Rage welled up in Tor'far as he realized that this well could be the reason behind the rebels' remarkable success.
Turning to his aides, he activated his helmet's voice synth, "Enforcer, assign vector tau to squadron 5. Target is in middle field at approximately 800 meters."
Almost immediately, the sound of supersonic aircraft was heard as the squadron headed in for target annihilation.
The Exar was immolated.
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Post by Aquos on Jan 26, 2017 16:02:07 GMT
Event: Exar Retteliation (Exar perspective on The_Wayward_Admiral's story) Date: 5 ASE Important Actors: Drone 9-7854, Mothership 411, 411-Units 1 to 10. TL;DR: the Kel'dori mistake an Exar drone for a spy bot, the Exar get permission to kill Kel'dori, war ensues. Outome: the Exar flag the Kel'dori as hostile, and thusly want to elimenate them from the universe. Unit 9 to mothership: Drone 9-7854 has been destroyed by Kel’dori officials. They appear to be taking action to destroy more drones. Orders requested.
Mothership to Unit 9: permission granted to elimante Kel’dori threat. Attempt to not destroy to many individuals. Only elimenate hostile individuals. Combat report expected within 8 hours.
Unit 9 to motherhip: Understood.
Unit 9 to mothership: Combat report: 500 Kel’dori war machine’s have been elminated. 200 hostile Kel’dori individuals have been eliminated. 300 Exar drone’s have been eliminated. Hostilities have not stopped from Kel’dori. Combat is ungoing.
Units 1-3 to mothership: Hostile Kel’dori individuals have started attacking our Units. 50 drone’s have already been elminated. Orders requested.
Units 4-7 to mothership: Hostile Kel’dori indivuals are bombing our drone’s. 300 drone’s have al ready been elimanated. Orders requested.
Units 8 and 10 to mothership: Hostile Kel’dori indivuals have started attacking our Units. 120 drone’s have been elimanated. Orders requested.
Mothership to all Units: Permision granted to elimenate all hostile Kel’dori individuals. If hostilities have not ended within 3 days, Kel’dori will be flagged as hostile species, and will be treated accordingly. Units 11-14 will be readied as reinforcments if neccesary. Remember: exploration is the prime directive, nothing shall stop the prime directive.
Understood.
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Post by Just a Dude on Feb 2, 2017 22:23:13 GMT
Application type: Event Name: The Great Raid Date: 1,549 BSE The great war was an important battle in Trionite and Primii history. After the war had sparked, the tripods decided to raid the nearest Primii village for supplies and goods. Assigned to the mission were 9 tripod soldiers who were lead by the young and daring, well known and respected general Aarexon: The whole thing began at night, where the tripods snuck near the village, and hid in a natural trench/ditch in the earth. They observed the Primii village for a few more nights, pointing out weak spots and making up strategies. Some suggested they should sneak the supplies away from the village, while others planned a more aggressive approach. It was decided, that at the best opportunity they would launch a surprise attack. They waited until the next nightfall, to launch the attack. Once it was night, they distracted the guards using sounds, luring them all to the east side of the village then they attacked. They charged into the village, armed with spears, blades and torches. They set the entire village ablaze, and sent half some of their troops to get the supplies while the rest fought off the guards. Once they got everything they were prepared to return back to their own village victoriously. But at that moment, out of the fires stepped the chief of the Primii village, challenging general Aarexon to a duel. The rest of the troops watched as the two fought fiercely among the raging flames. The chief proved to be too strong for Aarexon, and was ready to finish him off. In a last attempt, the general picked up a torch, and burned the chief. In his final moments, he turned around and told his troops to retreat. A few moments later, the chief thrusted his spear through Aarexon's back, going through his back, to his chest. He was remembered as on of the best Trionite generals in their history. A memorial statue was built in his honor, and still remains in the species modern cities. The raid, besides the general's death was a success. The burnt village is has been turned into a war relic. This was but one memorable battle in the Great Osrisian War.
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Post by mitobox on Feb 11, 2017 19:16:29 GMT
A forum might not be the best method of storing information on this. The Spore Wiki itself hosted the SWFU, and its wiki format made it easy for users to connect content (by linking pages), and otherwise put information in without the fear of everything getting cluttered (since everything wasn't in a single thread). Maybe we could use the currently-dormant Thrive Community Wiki?
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Post by StealthStyleL on Feb 11, 2017 22:34:11 GMT
Good idea but I am in the process of transfering it to a Google doc.
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Post by Atrox on Feb 12, 2017 5:40:57 GMT
A forum might not be the best method of storing information on this. The Spore Wiki itself hosted the SWFU, and its wiki format made it easy for users to connect content (by linking pages), and otherwise put information in without the fear of everything getting cluttered (since everything wasn't in a single thread). Maybe we could use the currently-dormant Thrive Community Wiki?One of the best ideas I've heard in a while
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Post by tammio on Feb 12, 2017 23:21:39 GMT
whait I've been on this forum for a year now, and I hear of the wiki only now? That's a belgumingly well kept secret
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Post by Lanky Giraffe on Feb 26, 2017 11:05:03 GMT
Good idea but I am in the process of transfering it to a Google doc. Any idea on how long until it is finished? Or has it been abandoned?
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Post by StealthStyleL on Feb 26, 2017 11:45:27 GMT
It's not abandoned, I just need to find motivation to do it.
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Post by Lanky Giraffe on Feb 26, 2017 13:02:34 GMT
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Post by mitobox on Feb 26, 2017 16:57:14 GMT
Any idea on how long until it is finished? Or has it been abandoned? It's not abandoned, I just need to find motivation to do it. In addition, I think The_Wayward_Admiral is working on the next "scene" in the Exar-Kel'dori war, which he'll seek aquos's approval on before actually posting. (This was from a private message conversation, but I think it's alright to publicly state the info, given its relevancy.)
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Post by Aquos on Feb 26, 2017 20:38:13 GMT
I should also start working on that....
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Post by StealthStyleL on Mar 3, 2017 19:57:26 GMT
Phew. I have finally transferred the catalogue to google docs, so find the original catalogue post to find the link. Thanks for your patience. I will continue the new updates the next couple of days. (Told you it wasn't abandoned.)
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Post by mitobox on Mar 3, 2017 20:13:33 GMT
Phew. I have finally transferred the catalogue to google docs, so find the original catalogue post to find the link.) Found it.
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Post by StealthStyleL on Mar 3, 2017 21:28:34 GMT
Does it work?
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