Pax: the discussion thread

Oh captain my captain wherefor art thou my cap... I mean, Lieutenant?

 

I know, its a buggery when the GM has a life
Hehehe, just messing, nice character developments we have here tho

 

Head Roller, why'd u deletes ur post?

 

He's modifying it at the moment.

 

Oh I get it

 

Damn you kids and your fast posting...!

on another note, I'm hearing "More than you know" alot, starting to wonder if Trin has a not so legit agenda...

 

She has a legit agenda, it's just completely her own. =D

 

FYI to all, I'm going to be going to Hawaii in a couple weeks, so sorry in advance for my post count falling off... I don't even know if I'll get internet there. O_O

 

That's alright, we'll probably have you go on leave or something for a bit then. How long will you be gone for?

 

from the 16th till the 28th... I think. I can just catch a fistful of shrapnel and call it a day before leaving. lol

Are you guys planning on doing this all night because I'm at the decision point, get coffee or go to sleep. *yawn*

 

I was debating the same thing. Of course, it's only the evening for Lebby...

I'm kind of leaning towards sleep though.

 

Same, but I'll leave it up to Lebby... what say you?

(going to sleep if you don't answer in 10 min)

 

Well I think NGR basically gave the perfect lead in for Jon to post. SO in other words, I'm off to bed.

 

I feel like i keep falling behind, lol.
My post count might also be dropping the 16th to the 23rd. I have people coming to visit me so i'm not sure what exactly will be going on.

 

That's an excellent idea Mingo.

Headroller, you're going to Hawaii and actually entertaining the notion of trying to play? Wow, that's dedication right there. Lucky dog.

edit: now that I think about it, the space station might be a bad place to hunt for spies, but I wanted to throw a mission at you guys quick before you start getting bored again. Let me figure this one out, I'll try to keep it entertaining at the least.

Just so that you guys know, the Martians in Pax are not little green men, they are descendants of the humans that colonized Mars in the twenty-first century. One player made a reference to them being alien, they're quite human 0__0

They're warlike because they had a military coup within the lifetime of Pappy and have had a militaristic totalitarian dictator since. They have a major inferiority complex when it comes to Earth, and being close neighbors with the most powerful world in the Commonwealth, have insecure feelings of inadequacy

 

lol, well there probably wont be much to do at night... if im unlucky

thanks for the martian tidbit, i think i made the alien reference but since theyre not from earth directly... *shrug* so it seems that mars is earth's spiteful and unthankful son? lol

 

yep, pretty much

 

As for the spy in the station issue, why don't you make him an especially aggressive and destructive spy. In a war, especially between full planets, hundreds or maybe a thousand spies would be completely relevant. Just make this one an especially harmful one towards our cause, such as being in the space flight control area where our choice ship will be, thus causing it to be our problem. Searching for one spy in a station of millions, maybe even a billion people would be inane.

And the fact that there are multiple spies concerned with our group's failure, that are clearly due to the martians, maybe this is evidence to total war opening up between the planets. =/

Just throwing my two sense out there. You could always throw us a pile of curveballs. haha

 

oh dear, that does sound like a promising direction...

I completely forgot about the sabotaging angle to the spy and took it in a different direction

maybe it's not too late to save that plot element

 

"The woman has a point. Who's in charge of the investigation? Lt, Sarge, maybe we can help out once we speak to Commander Littleman." The tall and rugged one said.

"It's Littlefield son, Lieutenant Commander Littlefield. And do you see three chevrons going up anywhere on my uniform, boy? I'm a dang Master Chief, for love's sake, these midshipmen..." Pappy said, a little annoyed.


whups... i was thinking marine ranks: master sgt. lol

btw, i love the Commander's nickname

 

lololol, I like it too, it's catchy

 

UESS Athena

Class: Achilles

Length: 467 meters

Mass: +200,000 metric tons (fully armed and fuelled)

Crew Complement:

- 328 personnel (67 officers, 12 Warrant Officers, 7 civilian crew specialist, 242 enlisted)

- 1 x Aerospace Marine Infantry company (Kilo company), 3 x Aerospace Marine platoons (Reconaissance, heavy weapons, special weapons)

Powerplant:

- 1 OmniCorp Muon catalytic fusion reactor

- 6 OmniCorp magnetic confinement fusion reactors

Fuel Type: Deuterium

Propulsion:

-5 x magnetically propelled plasma (torch ship) type drives for system and interstellar travel

-10 x Electro-thermal Magnetoplasma thrusters for orbital maneuvering and reaction control

Armament:

-12 x Multiple launch anti-sattelite missile MLAS batteries (8 x 350mm batteries, 4 x 420mm batteries, with 6 tubes for each battery)

- 224 x MLAS missilies (32 x ASM-12 420mm Python heavy missiles, 192 x ASM-24 350mm viper missiles)

-10 x 2.34 Megawatt /hour point defense laser batteries

-3 x 20.2 Megajoule Dual barrel Rail Cannons

-1 x 1.24 Terrawatt/hour Laser Cannon

-2 x TeV Particle acceleration cannons

-100 x Unmanned aerospace vehicle pods (25 x Cobra tactical pods, 25 x Bushmaster sensor probes, 25 x Asp electronic warfare pods)

-500 Orbital mines (275 x High explosive, 100 x submunitions, 100 x homing, EMP, 25 x tactical nuclear)

-14 x Shuttles (5 x Hammerhead assault shuttles, 5 x Sturgeon attack shuttles, 4 x Barracuda tactical transport shuttles)


Upgrades: (Classified)

-Code name "Aegis" defensive system, manufactured by OmniCorp Aerospace. Specifications unknown.

-Code name "Excalibur" offensive strike directed energy beam weapon, manufactured by Alpha Centauri Dynamic Industries Corporation. Specifications unknown.

Mission: (Classified) Counter-intelligence

Destination: Dwarf world Ceres, belt subsystem



I imagined the Athena as kind of looking like Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's INSS MacArthur from "Mote in God's Eye" as imagined and built from scratch by series fan Christopher Doll. She's got a huge rotating mid-section to simulate gravity, a nose containing the sensor packages, bridge, Communications tower, etc. The crew lives mostly in the center, the reactors are at the rear of the ship to minimize radiation exposure, and the scorching torch engines are dead last.

 

Wait so the first mission is going onto this experimental ship with the spy onboard, going to a meteor belt and then nabbing him? Why don't we do it now? They seem to know who it is.
Sorry im confuzzled :S

 

get the rest of the spies too instead of just one

 

Why couldnt the first spy just be interorgated?
Ah well sorry for the stupidness on my part