Halfway station RP thread.

[Sweforce]

This forum have become to silent lately and thus I suggest a new RP thread. I am not that good at this so we can let the details settle as we go.

Halfway station is joint humanity/loroi union space station located roughly halfway between humanity and union space. It is useful for refuling and loading of trade goods for further transport with other ships and have some military presence. I imagine that it could be an obsolete loroi station temporarily equipped with jump engines for placement in the system or maybe an huge transport ship that made it's last voyage there. It could also be built on place, perhaps it could BE the corporate space station used in another RP thread now taken over and used. Let's start with shaping the environment with suggestions and eventually we can move in with player characters. Do not hesitate to make your own sub RP games branching out of this. This is supposed to be base, adventures can start here.

I am heavily influenced with Star Trek Deep Space nine myself but you can have other suggestions.

Character: Robert Hanson, mid thirties EVA pod pilot. Descent shuttle pilot but excel at pilot in an EVA pod. Works primarily with maintenance on the outer hull and cargo loading/unloading. There is some EVA pods in the 2001 movie and they are my main inspiration. Can take two passengers with ease and double that if need be but it will be cramped and it prohibits the wearing of space suits. There is no airlock in the pod.

[sunphoenix]

Heh. I'm interested... whats the state of the Loroi-Human / Umiak war?

[Hālian]

What's the setting like, for that matter? Is it canon? TdSmR? Something else entirely?

[Sweforce]

Heh. I'm interested... whats the state of the Loroi-Human / Umiak war?

in a design phase not 100% set. I suggest the Umiak have some setbacks due to some breakthrough but not defeated. Compare to early 1944 Germany during WWII. They are broken due to some overextended campaigns but the war is not over. Considering what they are I doubt the war will ever be truly over, there will always be the feeling that they may have some colony out there and are regaining their strength from there. I suspect that they will be able to launch raids for many years, decades even after they lost the capability to launch offensives.

For reason to trade with humanity I have the idea that the loroi live in a region of space that have had spacefaring cultures for countless millennia. Most civilizations reverse engineer ancient artefacts and as such tend to get the same technologies. Thease require the same resources. Maybe humanity space have some precious resources that are still easily mined that are harder to get in the union? Or maybe the union just want to expand it's influence to circumvent the Umiak controlled region? Suggestions are welcome.

[Absalom]

The primary reason from the perspective of the Union would be to support observation missions: trade will exist, and eventually be significant, but will start out as just frosting on the cake. The result would probably be reminiscent of Babylon 5: bringing together a group of races that didn't have that direct of relations before (albeit just the Union & Humanity at first), in a station that also happens to be beneficial to other forms of cross-boundary contact.

As the war nears it's end, Human space will be considered somewhat similar, since it's effectively a stepping stone to the other side of Human space: following the war, the Loroi will probably be eager to get a better view of their surroundings, to better foresee any similar situations.

It might have some military applications too, since it could be the first in a string of waystations leading to the far side of Umiak space: it could very well be the setback that the Umiak suffered, if it's capable of manufacturing usable quantities of Tiamat.

Also, don't forget the mining operations: if there are comets, carbonaceous asteroids, and metal-rich asteroids, then the majority of the bulk-materials needed for station construction & maintenance can be sourced in-system relatively on-demand (the apparatus to e.g. make arbitrary diameters & thread profiles of all-thread should be relatively compact, for instance). The majority of the metal things you would find in a hardware store (e.g. Ace or TrueValue) should be fairly easy to make custom in an on-station machine shop.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Here's a question: Are you planning on this being a PbP style of normal tabletop RPG, or is it freeform RP without any stats?

Here's another question: We have a Discord Server, that could allow for real-time RP and/or real-time OOC discussion. I imagine Carl wouldn't object much to making a Halfway Station RP and Halfway Station OOC channel, if people are interested.

[Hālian]

Here's another question: We have a Discord Server, that could allow for real-time RP and/or real-time OOC discussion. I imagine Carl wouldn't object much to making a Halfway Station RP and Halfway Station OOC channel, if people are interested.

Not at all.

[Sweforce]

Here's a question: Are you planning on this being a PbP style of normal tabletop RPG, or is it freeform RP without any stats?

Here's another question: We have a Discord Server, that could allow for real-time RP and/or real-time OOC discussion. I imagine Carl wouldn't object much to making a Halfway Station RP and Halfway Station OOC channel, if people are interested.

Completely social, no stats. However, if someone want to "go on an adventure" then that is excellent. Consider the station for most parts as the traditional inn the roleplaying characters meet up in at the beginning of an fantasy game. At the station maybe there is a report of something that needs to be investigated in a nearby system. A ship is prepared to scout it out, some players join in as crew members and THAT would be the another RP adventure. After that, eventually, the survivors return to the base. Of this reason there may also be the need to have more then one character if the adventure thread update to slowly for a while. The character I presented in the beginning is part of the stations maintenance crew and as such unlikely to leave at all. It is a almost purely social character.

[Sweforce]

Here's another question: We have a Discord Server, that could allow for real-time RP and/or real-time OOC discussion. I imagine Carl wouldn't object much to making a Halfway Station RP and Halfway Station OOC channel, if people are interested.

Not at all.

The name we are to choose at the login, is that our character name or just a tag like we use here? Sweforce would make me known but that is not a character name.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Here's another question: We have a Discord Server, that could allow for real-time RP and/or real-time OOC discussion. I imagine Carl wouldn't object much to making a Halfway Station RP and Halfway Station OOC channel, if people are interested.

Not at all.

The name we are to choose at the login, is that our character name or just a tag like we use here? Sweforce would make me known but that is not a character name.

It's easy enough to type /nick Sweforce [Character Name]

[Sweforce]

It's easy enough to type /nick Sweforce [Character Name]

OK, thanks. I be off to work soon thou. Afternoon shift week. But this should be interesting.

[sunphoenix]

I think if this is a station that has been moved to this position... likely around about say 2 to 4 years after the initial formal contact with the Loroi..

I think I'll play a, now adult, Kamielle Stormrage-Aldridge, TCA Space Marine... half human/loroi.

[Sweforce]

I think if this is a station that has been moved to this position... likely around about say 2 to 4 years after the initial formal contact with the Loroi..

I think I'll play a, now adult, Kamielle Stormrage-Aldridge, TCA Space Marine... half human/loroi.

Is this the halfbreed from the "What to do with Jardin" thread? If so it would lock the story to that universe, not that that is a problem.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Yeah... To be honest, I'd rather go with the whole "Yo, guys, they may look super-alike, but this isn't Star Trek, Loroi and Human aren't crossfertile without the intervention of some fantastic genetic engineers that don't exist anymore" canon stance.

[sunphoenix]

lols. Ok.. yeah I can see that... I don't want to limit the storyline for others!

[Hālian]

Once the timeframe gets to be about 10-15 years after first contact someone should play a loroi born and raised by humans on Earth

[Sweforce]

Once the timeframe gets to be about 10-15 years after first contact someone should play a loroi born and raised by humans on Earth

I had this idea of an loroi immigrant that pump her son full of varioues growth hormones and testosterone equivelents in order to turn him not only a mere male but a man. He is still a bit short by human standards huge in comparison to other loroi males. He also have a human name and a human foster father that raised him in a manly way. Anyone interested in picking him up?

[Absalom]

Once the timeframe gets to be about 10-15 years after first contact someone should play a loroi born and raised by humans on Earth

I had this idea of an loroi immigrant that pump her son full of varioues growth hormones and testosterone equivelents in order to turn him not only a mere male but a man. He is still a bit short by human standards huge in comparison to other loroi males. He also have a human name and a human foster father that raised him in a manly way. Anyone interested in picking him up?

You haven't specified how long the station has been active in that role, this might be a good time to decide.

[sunphoenix]

Once the timeframe gets to be about 10-15 years after first contact someone should play a loroi born and raised by humans on Earth

I had this idea of an loroi immigrant that pump her son full of varioues growth hormones and testosterone equivelents in order to turn him not only a mere male but a man. He is still a bit short by human standards huge in comparison to other loroi males. He also have a human name and a human foster father that raised him in a manly way. Anyone interested in picking him up?

Sure I'd roll with that.. Though there needs to be a good story-wise reason why she would do this and how she would get away with it... as the Loroi might consider that 'child-abuse'!

[Krulle]

Though there needs to be a good story-wise reason why she would do this

She was friends with a "real male" commander. Or at least knew him. Named Alexander.
And was impressed by what a real man can do.
And wants to raise her son in his image.
Not as a castrated-by-culture male.

She might have served aboard Tempest as a medical nurse, and helped Alexander Jardin along. As Outsider progresses, we will have more opportunities to find a background.

This way you also have a name, at least a Standard name.

As mother from the comic, my favourite pick would be Beryl, but then contradictions between in-comic and here are bound to happen when Outsider gives new action sometime next decade.
Take shoe-girl as mother. Or the shuttle navigator. Or some other side character.