am having second thoughts. The PBFs I've played all fell apart. Partly because the was very involvement on player's part. You are tossing the characters into an alien, hostile environment. They are not tied to the place, events, or other players. Somehow, I really doubt this game will last. Unless you have some truly amazing ideas to tie players into the events unfolding around them- this will not work out well. The information about setting and history is so sparse, I cannot think of interesting character.
Can you convince me you have some radical idea to make this game run?

There will be plenty of involvement on the players part, I can assure you now.

As to tossing them into an alien, hostile environment.. Would a RP be any fun if I had them in a safe, comfortable area? Some may find that fun I guess. I dont.

As to tying the players to the events, Each player's character will, hopefully, have some sort of necessary role towards surviving. As I stated in the information, People picked for this project were picked for specific skills that would be helpful towards setting up a new colony on a distant world.

The information about setting and history is sparse for a reason, aswell; One, To give the player some room to breath. We are humans. This is several thousand years in the future. I dont want to be bothered going through and making a huge list of jobs for things that arent even evented yet, let alone start explaining technology right off the bat.

If it pleases you, Know that there are no transporters, which is evident by the need for space-to-ground intermediary vehicles. Our 'lasers' are just waves of superheated plasma flung at a good fraction of the speed of light. The 'shields' are simply a wall of super-chilled plasma that is magnetically held in place by the hull.

If you have a good idea for any more technologies, just post! If I think they'd fit, I'll approve it. I dont watn to be the only damn one making stuff up. Other people are involved.

As for the 'radical idea'.. Lets just say that the story posted in the files available to you character may or may not have been tampered with. I wont say any more, but needless to say, We all will have to rely upon one another.

PM me if you have any more questions or concerns. I hope this helps.

I am deeply interested in this. You seem to have a good feel for realism, and the premise is something I've been looking for. PBFs I have participated in so far were filled with angsty teens that- while intelligent and literate- were displaying all signs of anime overdose.
I see your acceptance of swords risky at best (you shouldn't encourage anime crowd) but as I said, the way you constructed logs (among other things) shows that you won't let this game degrade into teens-with-swords c**p.

Await my character. I want to ask though, what kind of role would be associated with being a lieutenant? How many players will you accept?

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I am having second thoughts. The PBFs I've played all fell apart. Partly because the was very involvement on player's part. You are tossing the characters into an alien, hostile environment. They are not tied to the place, events, or other players. Somehow, I really doubt this game will last. Unless you have some truly amazing ideas to tie players into the events unfolding around them- this will not work out well. The information about setting and history is so sparse, I cannot think of interesting character.
Can you convince me you have some radical idea to make this game run?

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Seems like this died out..

I'll be posting more information and starting the IC thread without anyone, then. I really like the idea of this RP, and I dont want to let people's disinterest ruin it for me.

We will be waking up for the first time.

The information that is posted above would be readily available to your character via their personal, hand-held computers that would be in the desk in they're room.

You would not recall anything. This information is all you would have to tell you what would happen.

Everyone your character knows is probably dead. No one is related on the ships.

Post if you have more questions!

When we start this rp is it were waking up that second or is it like a few days later and everyones still confused and like what the hells going on?