(Newbie) Galactic Combat 3 - Story Thread

[Cyrien]

2402.1

The new species had initiated contact once again.
This time their words and thoughts carried even more foreign ideas for the Firsts to consider.

They seemed to desire an establishment of regular trading of materials. This seemed a very strange idea to several of the Firsts that it would affect. Would not all materials be distributed as would best serve the needs of the Alteri?
This lead to many arguments among the Firsts. Some believed the idea was simply to merge the aliens own material shifting networks with the Alteri's and thus unify the two. The thinkers of these thoughts were quickly corrected by First Speaker. The Rorg had no such desire. Their intentions as best could be understood where to aid themselves and avoid "war" with the unknown quantity that they considered the Alteri. Few of the other firsts could understand this. It was the First Speakers and his peoples area to understand and communicate with this alien life form. As such it was decided to leave the dealing of these things to him and his. First Speaker could handle all issues pertaining to matters of new life forms.

They had another matter of great import to consider.

The Alteri where changing. Not yet all of them but enough to still be noticed. They were physically the same. But these few were now able to project their minds with greater strength than before. A few could move small objects with them. Others seemed to be developing a greater understanding to the Alteri memories and connection, while yet others had gained greater perception abilities and could now see farther around themselves than any other Alteri had ever done before and a very few seemed to be gaining a stronger link to the thoughts of the new species. It was decided to monitor this closely and see if such changes could be harnessed for greater betterment. A few proposed new Firsts were in order once again. The majority felt that at present there was no need to go so far as the abilities were not strong enough to warrant that, but perhaps in the future they would.

As the other Firsts considered these new possibilities the First Speaker dealt with the aliens. He was unsure of these Rorg. Yet to engage in these ideas of "trade" and "exchange" might strengthen the Alteri as a whole. First Speaker decided to accept the Rorg proposal, for now at least. It might be an excellent way to gain closer access to alien thoughts and gain a better understanding of them without being bombarded by the minds of millions if those allowed to trade were sufficiently limited in number and scope. The issue was decided.
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Special Notes:
The Alteri story will likely be lacking in dialogue quite abit. I at first thought to go that route but have since decided that that doesn't really fit in with the Alteri method of communication. The Alteri don't speak to each other. They instead put forth their views and thoughts on an issue. All interested review them and other points of view put forward and then a majority vote of interested parties decides the issue. Once an issue is settled it is settled and disputes won't arise over actions.

This is not really something that can be portrayed in dialogue.

Also of note is the dropping of the Zyx and just referring to him as First Speaker. First Speaker and all First titles are honorifics that are bestowed only once upon any Alteri. If any First should ever die then there would never again be a first for that area and thus that area of expertise would cease to exist in Alteri society. No Firsts have ever died.

Maybe I should post the race desc stuff here for a better understanding of the Alteri? Anyone want to see that?

[Ruatha]

2402.1 The Swedish Nation - Peaceful harmonic days.

The foreign minister strolled in to Talman Ruatha's office
-"We have now secured all borders Ruatha.
We have beneficial treaties with all neighbours.
All is really great, still I'm bbb, bored beyond belief!
We really need to start exploring outside our borders!
When will I get those recon ships you've been promising me?
We need to act now before we are shut in and isolated!

-I know! We are doing the best we can.
We can't really send out any ships now. They would run out of supplies and never come back. I can't demand of the crews that they venture forth on a one way trip.
You'll have to be patient. We're researching new technology that will allow the ships to draw supplies from the energy generated by the stars they pass by. But it will still be almost a year before we can implement this into any ships.
But before the end of this year we will have started the construction of a new exploration fleet, if nothing unexpected happens.

Everyone is crying for ships, the defense ministry, the colonization department, the trade organization and the community services.
So know this, you are prioritized and you'll get your ships as soon as it's possible!


--I understand. It's just so frustrating to be stuck in this backwater of the galaxy. I want to know what's out there.
I'll try to be more patient though, but I'll hold you to that statement, before the year is up!

Ruatha put his head between his hands as the minister left.
All these problems, and he was supposed to fix em all!

[ May 10, 2003, 08:30: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Narrew]

Hi guys,

Just a OOC here, I will add something to the story behind my Race. But I notice something, and I cant believe that I didnt see it earlier, I am a Gas race and just noticed my one and only HW is Ice *ugh* how did that happen? haha. Dont get me wrong, I aint whinning (maybe a bit, but that is just me), just wondering how that happend.

Ok, back to working on my turn.

Narrew

[Ruatha]

Darned.
That happened to many before the restart.
We are using Fyrons QM with a good homeworld, so it shouldn't happen but it has.
But I specifically asked everyone to check their HW's after the restart, so you'd better not be whining!

Now you'll have to see it as a challange!

[Narrew]

yea, the sad thing is that I remember you asking us to check it, but I guess it took me a while to get around to it

The only reason I caught it, I was wondering what I could do to get more minerals then noticed that my HW only had 2000 mil pop on it and thought that was wierd for a gas planet then I see that it is an ICE *sobs*

I will kill you all, fear me!!!

[Ruatha]

Actually it shouldn't make any difference.
I belive everyone started with 2 billion people.
So if it got your atmosphere right (And if you've got 2 billion in pop you do) it shouldn't make any difference.
It's a medium sized ice instead of a medium sized gas, and they should both be able to support the same amount of people.

It can be a hassle to explain storywise though....

[Fyron]

Are you using the latest Version of FQM? Are you using a custom map, or a totally random one?