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<blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 6098191" data-attributes="member: 63746"><p>Hm. Well this is more Drothgery's baby than mine, so I'll let him work out his preferred sequence for his victorians. The victorian aspect doesn't really inspire me, really... Or rather, I think I'd prefer to be one of the 'barbarians'. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Say one of the last system the Victorians "civilized" in their (re)expension? Just to be absolutely un-subtle about it, how about I give my PC a swarthy east indian complexion? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /> (Alright, alright, so maybe that's too much. Keeping the Hindi theme though <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />).</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Hira ki chiriya, "The adamant/diamond bird"]A sparkling system with abundant gas giants and not one but two asteroid belts, both rich in volatiles, hence its name. It's three main habited world were blasted to smithereens during the War (litteraly in two cases: Eka Kavita (<em>One Song</em>) has mostly collapsed back onto itself by now, but a good three-quarters of Deju (<em>Home</em>) was knocked clean off the ecliptic by some sort of gigantic hammer blow and still hasn't fully stabilized into its new orbit; as for Bagica (<em>Garden</em>), it's still technically there, but its surface is a roiling, half-solid sea of wild nanoes and nano-counters busily changing the now triple-quarantined planet into... something). The survivors were mostly all asteroid and gas-giant miners, now stranded in backwaters facilities and a few vacation/refuelling moons... </p><p></p><p>Surprisingly enough, they were almost all the way out when the victorians found them again: They'd lost all types of anti-grav/artificial grav technology (which the victorians have in spades (?)), but as spacers they still had a firm grasp of genetics, advanced material assembly and were still in full control of their specialized medical micro-hives - if not the universal assembler nanoes of their ancestors. Newly-built 'Beanstalk' orbital elevators now sprouted from partially terraformed moons, they were busily harvesting the ressources of their system (including the now-bared cores of both Deju and, more-interestingly, Eka Kavita) to feed and sustain their arithmetically growing population (which outnumbered, and still outnumbers, the victorians four to one) and were even working on trying to re-understand the few remaining FTL drives that they had (none of them in full working order, sadly (*)). This last proved catastrophically detrimental in the carefully orchestrated conflict that followed.</p><p></p><p>*= Historians pointed to evidence of a giant, probably desperate muster of all Flight-capable crafts just prior or possibly just after the final blows to the system, vessels which obviously never returned, but, just as obviously, did what they were suppossed to do (whatever that was), for the Enemy never returned.The lost ships are refered to in the books as Bijano (or Chura) ki Andhara (seeds/daggers of the tempest).[/sblock][Sblock=Rough character concept]Udas Kankara ("Blackstone" on his victorian papers): Heavy-worlder EVA specialist/tech with hands-on experience in industrial blasting. Minor gene optimization (Diminished O2 consumption, efficient digestion/water recycling, 0-gee bone loss, long term rad tolerance, emergency induced coma), welding/metal artiste as a hobby. Comes from a 1.5g gas giant moon. Heavy base substance mining background (mostly ice, O2, N2; some base metal asteroids/micro-moons), furnishing the inner and outer system. Used to bulky suits with combination mag-surface tension gripers. Gear: Mandatory rad detector wrist-band, "Mind-reader" demon implant (micro-grown direct mind-machine interface; which I'm going to guess the victorians disaprove of as "breaking the sanctity of the human body and soul" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) + implanted wireless jack (left cheek-bone), external utility computer at waist (runs augmented reality, sensory filtering/augmentation, mapper, desktop/productivity apps, tech database, ...).[/sblock]</p><p></p><p><em><strong>EDIT= </strong>That could be our link with each other: that we are all the disparate children of Her Majesty's victorian empire?</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Binder Fred, post: 6098191, member: 63746"] Hm. Well this is more Drothgery's baby than mine, so I'll let him work out his preferred sequence for his victorians. The victorian aspect doesn't really inspire me, really... Or rather, I think I'd prefer to be one of the 'barbarians'. :) Say one of the last system the Victorians "civilized" in their (re)expension? Just to be absolutely un-subtle about it, how about I give my PC a swarthy east indian complexion? :devil: (Alright, alright, so maybe that's too much. Keeping the Hindi theme though :)). [sblock=Hira ki chiriya, "The adamant/diamond bird"]A sparkling system with abundant gas giants and not one but two asteroid belts, both rich in volatiles, hence its name. It's three main habited world were blasted to smithereens during the War (litteraly in two cases: Eka Kavita ([I]One Song[/I]) has mostly collapsed back onto itself by now, but a good three-quarters of Deju ([I]Home[/I]) was knocked clean off the ecliptic by some sort of gigantic hammer blow and still hasn't fully stabilized into its new orbit; as for Bagica ([I]Garden[/I]), it's still technically there, but its surface is a roiling, half-solid sea of wild nanoes and nano-counters busily changing the now triple-quarantined planet into... something). The survivors were mostly all asteroid and gas-giant miners, now stranded in backwaters facilities and a few vacation/refuelling moons... Surprisingly enough, they were almost all the way out when the victorians found them again: They'd lost all types of anti-grav/artificial grav technology (which the victorians have in spades (?)), but as spacers they still had a firm grasp of genetics, advanced material assembly and were still in full control of their specialized medical micro-hives - if not the universal assembler nanoes of their ancestors. Newly-built 'Beanstalk' orbital elevators now sprouted from partially terraformed moons, they were busily harvesting the ressources of their system (including the now-bared cores of both Deju and, more-interestingly, Eka Kavita) to feed and sustain their arithmetically growing population (which outnumbered, and still outnumbers, the victorians four to one) and were even working on trying to re-understand the few remaining FTL drives that they had (none of them in full working order, sadly (*)). This last proved catastrophically detrimental in the carefully orchestrated conflict that followed. *= Historians pointed to evidence of a giant, probably desperate muster of all Flight-capable crafts just prior or possibly just after the final blows to the system, vessels which obviously never returned, but, just as obviously, did what they were suppossed to do (whatever that was), for the Enemy never returned.The lost ships are refered to in the books as Bijano (or Chura) ki Andhara (seeds/daggers of the tempest).[/sblock][Sblock=Rough character concept]Udas Kankara ("Blackstone" on his victorian papers): Heavy-worlder EVA specialist/tech with hands-on experience in industrial blasting. Minor gene optimization (Diminished O2 consumption, efficient digestion/water recycling, 0-gee bone loss, long term rad tolerance, emergency induced coma), welding/metal artiste as a hobby. Comes from a 1.5g gas giant moon. Heavy base substance mining background (mostly ice, O2, N2; some base metal asteroids/micro-moons), furnishing the inner and outer system. Used to bulky suits with combination mag-surface tension gripers. Gear: Mandatory rad detector wrist-band, "Mind-reader" demon implant (micro-grown direct mind-machine interface; which I'm going to guess the victorians disaprove of as "breaking the sanctity of the human body and soul" ;)) + implanted wireless jack (left cheek-bone), external utility computer at waist (runs augmented reality, sensory filtering/augmentation, mapper, desktop/productivity apps, tech database, ...).[/sblock] [I][B]EDIT= [/B]That could be our link with each other: that we are all the disparate children of Her Majesty's victorian empire?[/I] [/QUOTE]
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