SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread I

[loomer]

Now that it really is too late to change any major elements, I can't help but feel like I've lost a golden opportunity to play Neo-Dixie. Then again, the slavery thing would've made that short lived so as much as I enjoy space rednecks it's probably for the best.

[Simon_Jester]

Now that it really is too late to change any major elements, I can't help but feel like I've lost a golden opportunity to play Neo-Dixie. Then again, the slavery thing would've made that short lived so as much as I enjoy space rednecks it's probably for the best.

What, the Terran Confederacy from Starcraft?

Anyway. Steve, is there anything that stops us from releasing prologue material after game start, so long as it doesn't have any major implications that would interfere with gameplay itself? I mean, if I want to write material set in the past, I'd think I could do so as long as it didn't change anything happening in the present.

[PeZook]

Hey! I, for one, am only almost finished with my first prologue segment! We can't all be tireless, unflinching machines, PeZook.

Well... I hope not, anyway.

But of course you can.

We can give the gift of death to anyone willing!

[Simon_Jester]

Can't sleep... creepy robots with Austrian accents will eat me...
[curls up into ball clutching stuffed toy ion cannon]

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Can't sleep... creepy robots with Austrian accents will eat me...
[curls up into ball clutching stuffed toy ion cannon]

"Rise up from your drunken stupor you man of poor faith! What you should be doing now, is thinking about how best to do your duty for the God Emperor of Man, and to give your utmost fighting against the enemies of Mankind."
Ecumenical Patriarch

[Simon_Jester]

[stands up and salutes]
Yes, your Holiness!

[reverently places stuffed toy ion cannon on shelf in office]
[returns to drawing board, designing real ion cannon]

[loomer]

Well, time to make shit even weirder. Going to add a single world on the very fringe of Outlander space. New Louisiana. It'll take the place of a mining colony or something and just be full of cajuns and stereotypes because the desire is just overwhelming at this point.

[Steve]

Now that it really is too late to change any major elements, I can't help but feel like I've lost a golden opportunity to play Neo-Dixie. Then again, the slavery thing would've made that short lived so as much as I enjoy space rednecks it's probably for the best.

What, the Terran Confederacy from Starcraft?

Anyway. Steve, is there anything that stops us from releasing prologue material after game start, so long as it doesn't have any major implications that would interfere with gameplay itself? I mean, if I want to write material set in the past, I'd think I could do so as long as it didn't change anything happening in the present.

Sure.

[Steve]

Wait for the weekend killer.

Bah! A guy gets a slow day at work for the first time in a month and you tell him to wait for the weekend...

So write your first post and then post it come Saturday when I post the official STGOD thread?

[Akhlut]

Can't sleep... creepy robots with Austrian accents will eat me...
[curls up into ball clutching stuffed toy ion cannon]

"Rise up from your drunken stupor you man of poor faith! What you should be doing now, is thinking about how best to do your duty for the God Emperor of Man, and to give your utmost fighting against the enemies of Mankind."
Ecumenical Patriarch

What can we space dinosaurs do, other than roll over and die for humanity?

[PeZook]

"Rise up from your drunken stupor you man of poor faith! What you should be doing now, is thinking about how best to do your duty for the God Emperor of Man, and to give your utmost fighting against the enemies of Mankind."
Ecumenical Patriarch

Why do you think us as your enemies? Embrace the gift that is offered to you, and learn to savor the sweet order and calm of a lifeless existence. Free from the terror of instinct, forever liberated from the frail, vulnerable shell you call a body.

Bathe in cosmic radiation, stand on the surface of acidic death worlds, observe supernovas as they happen. Experience the universe in its full, magnificient glory!

[Darkevilme]

Pezook, just so i can decide whether the Hierarchy has the slightest inkling of what's occuring with the abductions, where DID those traders get their chamarrans?

[PeZook]

Pezook, just so i can decide whether the Hierarchy has the slightest inkling of what's occuring with the abductions, where DID those traders get their chamarrans?

Ork pirates. You probably suspect something, especially if you manage to get some information from the Sovereignty about what happened at Epsilon Zeta. You'll see what I mean once I finish An Opportunity

[Simon_Jester]

Can't sleep... creepy robots with Austrian accents will eat me...
[curls up into ball clutching stuffed toy ion cannon]

"Rise up from your drunken stupor you man of poor faith! What you should be doing now, is thinking about how best to do your duty for the God Emperor of Man, and to give your utmost fighting against the enemies of Mankind."
Ecumenical Patriarch

What can we space dinosaurs do, other than roll over and die for humanity?

...You can, uh... guard the flank? I mean, if you're not attacking us, that means you're not an enemy of Mankind, right? Stands to reason. You can't be someone's enemy if you're not hurting them...

[gets tackled by all the other people listening to the Patriarch, shouting cries of "HERESY!"]

[Siege]

Oh ho ho, did someone just say "get some information from the Sovereignty"? You better qualify for intelligence exchanges!

[Coyote]

Finally got army & navy points costs down on my Wiki page; here is the excerpt:

Navy Costs for SDNW4:

Aurora-class Cruiser total: $600 (30 in service: $18,000)
Keriah-class Cruiser total: $330 (5 in service: $3300)
Tomarov-class Cruiser total: $450 (10 in service: $4500)

Sheakha-class GM Destroyer Total: $200 (8 in service: $1600)
Tirrex-class Destroyer Total: $200 (45 in service: $9,000)

Kynda-class Frigate: $100 (50 in service: $5000)
Crossbow-class Escort Frigate: $100 (20 in service: $2000)
Serratos-class Torpedo Frigate: $100 (20 in service: $2000)
Archangel-class Command/SPECOPS Frigate: $150 (10 in service: $1500)

Ultra-Light forces:
Raptor Groups (3 Avengers + 1 Corsair) at each major planet listed: $60 (50 Raptor Groups= $3000)
Raptor groups (3 Avengers + 1 Corsair) at Souula Base Moon: $60 (5 Raptors: $300)
Raptor groups (3 Avengers + 1 Corsair) at Sekkoya Anchorage: $60 (5 Raptors: $300)

Central Navy doctrine has found Fighters to be inefficient against heavy warships, and so they are not invested in.


ARMY FORCES: Army Forces are arranged into Planetary Commands, which are subservient to Sector Commands. A Planetary command will typically be arranged around a Corps, however, the total numbe rof troops and units assigned to a Corps can vary depending on the planet. In some cases, especially in spread-out colonial sectors in quiet regions of space, Corps can be stretched out to cover an entire System, or even two or three Systems in extreme cases.

SOF/Elites: 20 million Special Operations Forces soldiers (x3 kit modifier, 10000 soldiers per $, $2000 total) SOF troops are soldiers specially trained for long term, long range and deep-penetration missions. They are as likely to be in civilian clothes and acting as an augmented Intelligence or Spy branch as they are to be in uniforms carrying out missions on a battlefield. SOF has access to pretty esoteric equipment, from powered armor to space-to-surface drop pods, to personal stealth systems that render soldiers invisible on the battlefield.

Regulars: 500 million Central Army regulars (x2 kit modifier, 100000 soldiers per $, $5000 total) Central Army Regular forces are the rank-and-file backbone of the Central military. Infantry ground forces (including Engineers and MPs) will have full body armor. The body armor has hostile environment and individual comfort control for a wide range of climates, as well as integrated communications and sensor systems, but it otherwise not powered in the 'muscle-enhancement' sense. Central Army forces are broken up into Light, Medium and Heavy forces, with anti-gravity and hoverborne support vehicles allocated accordingly. The Central Army also operate air forces that operate in sub-orbital environments, and hoverborne vessels that are designed to operate on water surfaces. Submersible craft are also the purview of the Army as well.

System Militias: 500 million System Militia forces (x1 kit modifier, 200,000 soldiers per $, $2500 total) The Central Alliance has standardized local defense forces into an integrated, modular force that is to be maintained at near-Regular readiness levels. Because of this, and the fact that many system defense militias by themselves would not be able to afford the extensive training and powerful equipment that the Regular Army fields, the Central Senate is required to provide funding to support the maintenance requirements at Reg-Force levels.

Total cost: $9500

Total Army forces: 1.2 billion



My Wiki pages are still kinda chaotic, but I was in a hustle to get raw info down. I'll pretty them up as time goes by.

[Dave]

Well, Vyraeth (United Sectors) and I were working on coordinating an academic, economic and possibly military alliance, and RP'ing it all through the Prologue thread, but he seems to have gone incommunicado. So I'll leave the exact details up in the air until he checks in.

I'll try to post some other stuff in the prologue thread, though.

[Simon_Jester]

My order of battle is up on the wiki.

[Kartr_Kana]

Hey coyote 5*$330=1650 not $3300. Either you didn't post the correct nimber of vessels or you charged yourself twice. The Keriah-class btw.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Why do you think us as your enemies? Embrace the gift that is offered to you, and learn to savor the sweet order and calm of a lifeless existence. Free from the terror of instinct, forever liberated from the frail, vulnerable shell you call a body.

Bathe in cosmic radiation, stand on the surface of acidic death worlds, observe supernovas as they happen. Experience the universe in its full, magnificient glory!

Bathe in radiation? Stand on acidic death worlds? Observe supernovas as they happen? Even a rust bucket such as yourself will break in that environment after extended periods of time. You delusional robot.

[Coyote]

Hey coyote 5*$330=1650 not $3300. Either you didn't post the correct number of vessels or you charged yourself twice. The Keriah-class btw.

Thanks for catching that; I did change my numbers a couple times but probably forgot to do the resultant maths...

[PeZook]

Bathe in radiation? Stand on acidic death worlds? Observe supernovas as they happen? Even a rust bucket such as yourself will break in that environment after extended periods of time. You delusional robot.

A rustbucket, perhaps, but you know little about true power that machine existence gives you

DISCLAIMER: The above exchange does not, in any way, shape or form, display actual Collector attitudes towards life.

...as far as you know, anyway.

[Norade]

Gah, I still have to get some actual story ideas. I've been running 2 D&D campaigns and playing two other games here and my mind feels like mush when I try to tell it I need more creativity.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Bathe in radiation? Stand on acidic death worlds? Observe supernovas as they happen? Even a rust bucket such as yourself will break in that environment after extended periods of time. You delusional robot.

A rustbucket, perhaps, but you know little about true power that machine existence gives you

DISCLAIMER: The above exchange does not, in any way, shape or form, display actual Collector attitudes towards life.

...as far as you know, anyway.

Sure, if I want a blind and deaf existence. (Your photoreceptors and whatever extra-sensory input will simply degrade to death in such an environment regardless how rugged they are!)

[PeZook]

Sure, if I want a blind and deaf existence. (Your photoreceptors and whatever extra-sensory input will simply degrade to death in such an environment regardless how rugged they are!)

You see, that's what I mean when I say you don't really understand

A physical body is but a shell. Only life is shackled by its limits...death knows no such boundaries.

Accept the Gift!