The Inter-Galactic Alliance Unification, the city-sized capital ship of the IGA fleet. The massive ship is home to nearly 10 million souls including the grand council with room to spare, equal measures flying fortress, city, and source of galactic trade. Home to thousands of people from multiple races from across the stars, the ship is truly one of a kind.
That was what everyone heard about the massive ship before they decided to board the ship, and it is largely true. There are people from the various races living together, mostly in peace, in the domestic levels with members of the navy going to and fro among them, all living out their simple lives. The ship isn't without problems though, being the size of a large city with a matching population, it also has all the same issues and crimes of such a city.
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PM your characters to me, don't just start posting until I give the go-ahead.
You can play up to three characters
No godmodding!
If you have an idea for a major story idea, please contact me with it and I'll let you know if it's cool with anything I may have in the works.
Keep OOC chat separate from IC stuff, alright?
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Available Races:
Human: Originally from planet Earth, humans have spread far and wide, at times too wide, their expansion eventually leading to a civil war between systems closer to earth and those more remote. This has led to two separate human governments, the Sol Republic and the Separatist Union. There is still bad blood between the two governments that have resulted in more than a few border scuffles that nearly blossomed into another full on war, but they both have seating on the council. It's been found that humans who were born and/or grew up far from earth, especially in the SU, have a tendency for mutations, most commonly in
psychic power. These mutations were used in the War for Independence (called the War of Betrayal in the Sol Republic) which led to major advancements in robotics in the Republic with scores of soldiers undergoing
cybernetic augmentations. Since the end of the war, the numbers of psychics in the SU has only increased while augmentation continues to be encouraged to some degree or another among Republic soldiers.
Canis: Though Canis themselves are highly insulted by such a comparison, they physically resemble
anthropomorphic canines ranging in 'species' much like those of canines originating from earth. The Canis Empire was one of the most feared military powers in the entire universe, possessing powerful and fast ships and an understanding of warp technology that allowed them to maneuver their ships with surgical placement of in-system warps, allowing a vastly out-numbered force to drive off or even destroy much larger forces. The Canis have recently been de-militarized though due to their near-genocidal actions in their most recent war, specifically on the Felisian Oligarchy that resulted in their colonies being wiped out and their home planet reduced to a lifeless, glassed, radioactive rock. There are less than 500,000 Felisians still alive throughout the universe. Their former emperor was charged with war crimes, and the Captain who initiated the ordered bombardment when even the admiral hesitated is being hunted for the same crimes. The de-militarization was a willing one, the Canis handing over their emperor, realizing that what they had done was too much. The ships and arms of the Canis were transferred to the authority of the IGA with most of the members of the Canis military joining the peace-keeping military force. They have a voice on the council, but their rights to vote in major decisions has been revoked and they're mainly there to make things run more smoothly as the IGA goes about installing a new government.
Felisians: The endangered species of the destroyed planet Liarel, the Felisian people, what's left of them, very much resemble earth's
felines, something humans found humorously ironic before the tragedy of the Felisian Genocide. Though there isn't much left to their people, they still have a voice on the council under the only leader who was off-world during the destruction of Liarel, General Fanna Dittan. There are still Felisians scattered across the stars as traders and the like, but many have come to live on the Unification for the security, making their home in a section of a domestic deck that's come to be known as New Liarel.
The Curious: The Curious are, well, a curiosity. They're not so much a race as a mass of AI programs numbering in the millions of billions on board an artificial, mechanical planet. The 'planet', known as Harbor, is basically a massive computer home to the Curious who craft
mechanical forms in order to leave. No one knows how they came to be, not even the Curious know, but when a human vessel came upon them, they proved to be nothing if not helpful. Since their first contact with an organic race, many of the Curious have left Harbor in order to explore the universe, learning all they can about what they had never even thought to explore. A member of the curious serves on the council by the name and title, Voice of the Curious. The curious are renowned for their ability with computer systems, revolutionizing computational systems for everything from weapon trajectory calculations to the most efficient way to process the air through star ships and reduce the energy for recycling the air. Many find the Curious quite creepy though given their inability to understand things like personal space, or to not wake someone up in the middle of the night to ask a question. They have no set form, each individual AI creating a form that they find desirable and even returning to the Harbor to forge a new one after exploring the universe, some ranging from the creepily mechanical to the shockingly human-looking. The Curious hold a certain attachment to humans in general since they were the ones to open their eyes to the universe after simply floating through it.
More to be added as I think of them, or as people approach me with their own ideas.
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Skeleton
Name: (Human names can be anything really. Curious names can be proper names to a short phrase, random word, or a sound like 'Gah'... they're an odd bunch. Felisian names are more nordic in nature while Canis names are more in the style of Chinese names)
Appearance: (A picture please, anime or at least not a real person)
Race: (If human, specify if SU or Republic)
Age: (Curious age, put how long they've existed outside of the Harbor, which can't exceed 19 years)
Occupation: (What do you do on the Unification? Teacher? Navy? Criminal? Or maybe just a student?)
Backstory: (Include what kind of neighborhood you live in on the Unification, a general view of other races, that sort of thing. Put some meat in here, don't have a tiny short thing for a backstory.)
Oddity: (If there's something odd about you. Are you a psychic mutant? Do you have augmentations, which any organic could have, even mutants. Are you a curious who always wears a wig for some strange reason?)
Layout of the IGA:
There are many levels and sections to the IGA, including 25 domestic levels, each the size of Rhode Island (roughly) and it's mainly various forms of housing for the populations of the IGA, though most tend to also have restaurants, inns, shopping centers, and the like. The lower levels tend to be more crowded and compact, and usually cheaper and more crime-ridden, while Level 1 is the apex of living and home to a large, beautiful park. There are several other levels where civilians can go freely, the 20th domestic Level also being called the Port Level due to being right next to a dock where traders and merchants come in. There is a financial level where various larger shopping centers and banks are housed. However, the levels that civilians can travel freely don't even consist of half the ship, most being off-limits for military use only.