Towards the Stars!

[The Villa Strangiato]

Internal Affairs
Independence week as Slydavia returns to normalcy. Schools open, people got back to work, the military continue patrols around the world.
Military Affairs
The military opens a Contest to see who can make the best weapons to replace the aging weapons in service. The air force does the same as well, either replacing or outfitting current planes. Anti aircraft defenses are strengthend. Meanwhile, some dude in a laboratory finds a way to theoretically do FTL travel. The government kinda likes it so they give the dude some money to make it a reality.

[LNG257]

Dec 9, 2016 22:12:32 GMT -4 nihilistkoala said:

*Peace as a concept to the Syhelians is basically one of subservience. Offering peace more or less means accepting your weakness. There is very little nuance to it beyond that and as a result giving them a message of peace and offering gifts seems to confirm their view.

Syhelians = Shri confirmed.

Insid = LNG confirmed.

[nihilistkoala]

Confederate Activity
The CSC Pride of Yatan bursts from its gestalt field some distance away from the coordinates and immediately begins active scanning and attempting to initiate contact on the same frequencies as those the satellite was broadcasting. Initial scans seem disappointing, a world even more lightly populated then Karosh with a negligible military presence. Clearly a weak race deserving of subjugation, a message is blasted back to Karosh to request the Halycon and Hyperion.

Meanwhile colonization of Grahm continues, albeit slowly. The Syhelians are unused to the conditions of an arctic world and proceed slowly. Much of the activity is still reliant on the colony ship whilst a few mining posts have been set up. With the flow of minerals soon to begin, the Confederacy releases the most basic version of the psi-drive for civilian use in freighters to better expedite the transportation process to Karosh.

[The Villa Strangiato]

Internal Affairs
Nothing atm.
Military Affairs
Holy crap that dude made a space warp drive and could put it on a plane! But the planes can't stand the pressure of outer space so the air force tries to get some super smexy planes that can go into space. It's gonna take awhile, so the Navy builds some ships, like aircraft carriers, and battleships. Then they find a radio beacon and kind of freak out and tell the citizens and kind of order the military on defcon 3 as they send a response saying "hey let's kinda meet and discuss stuff" or something like that, it looks more professional.

[nihilistkoala]

Confederate Activity
The captain of the Yatan sputters as he listens to the impudence of a lesser species. 
"The only thing to discuss is the immediate disarmament of the Slydavian people. Anything less is an affront to the honor of the Confederacy and her constituents. We give you one rotation of your planet with which to reply." The captain replies smugly, as sensors pick up the Halycon and Hyperion hurtling forth to subjugate these lesser creatures, they would arrive within a day.

[The Villa Strangiato]

Internal Affairs
Everything is great
Military Affairs
Everything is not great
Everyone is kind of freaking out because that means a lot of people aren't gonna be happy when they submit to another dude with a big red button that could end them all
And it kind of means independence week is going to sort of cease to exist because they're gonna get rid of the military
So the military dudes kind of just download all the weapons to a secret computer and lock it away and say "ok we're gonna surrender our military but our people aren't gonna like it and they're gonna riot and you'll have nothing to rule so hope you know what you're doing" and it looks a lot more professional, believe me.

[nihilistkoala]

Confederate Activity
The captain quickly helps to negotiate the disarmament of as much of the Slydavian military as possible, keeping some of it in place merely to help quell rioting and other civil discord. Shortly after the CSC Halycon and Hyperion emerged from their gestalt field in orbit of the planet and immediately began disgorging dropships to deploy occupation soldiers at key strategic locations and further cement Syhelian dominance.

[The Villa Strangiato]

Internal Affairs
Everyone is sort of freaking out not only there are aliens, but they wanna take muh guns away. They kind of start rioting everywhere as the military dismantles itself, setting entire planes out at airfields, ships being hauled into docks, and weapons being disassembled and boxes as they await collection.
There's kind of riots everywhere, and the police are kind of overwhelmed.
Military Affairs
Stuff is quickly carted over to the aliens as the riot police attempt to control the population. Also, this kind of is going to get dismantled soon so the First Minister attempts to negotiate further matter with the reptile dudes.

[nihilistkoala]

Confederacy Activity
Syhelian soldiers began brutally cracking down on protestors and bystanders alike. They'd preferably be only targeting rioters but their situation is unusual and they have very little idea of what's going on. Quite frankly it's chaos but they do seem to be reversing the tide.

[Dex]

[Nation Sheet]


=General=


Nation Name:
Foraiz Federation


Nation Leader(s):
A council of 24 AIs, this might be the thing that saves the Avax. The AIs are incredibly smart and tactical while not changing like the Avax do.


Total Population:
18 Billion Avax


Government Type:
Rule by Council


Capital:
Kenchen Aversen
Moral Alignment (roughly):Constantly changes so generally True Neutral with dips in to evil and good.


Brief history/backstory:
The Foraiz Federation was a effort launched by the continent of Foraiz on a world known as Teker with the other two continents destroyed by nuclear warfare Aeklin and Zeklin. The Aeklin continent strongly supported military efforts whilst the Zeklin continent strongly supported economical efforts during the first five minutes of war and they changed. Several nuclear missiles were launched at each other in 12 minutes essentially destroying both continents however the third smaller continent began researching a way to get off-world. They don't have FTL but they hope to invent it soon.


=Solar System=



Capital (planet):
Teker


Number of habitable planets:
This is in constant flux as the system is very unstable therefore plants have evolved to grow in minutes and adapt to the local landscape. The most stable of these is only Teker and even then it's climate constantly changes.


Number of uninhabitable planets:
There are only two stable uninhabitable planets, the rest are very unstable.


Number of habited planets:
The planet known as Teker is the only one inhabited right now.


There are twenty planets that are constantly changing from habitable to inhabitable and vice versa.


=Stats=


Wealth:
The Avax marketplace is constantly changing with dips into poverty and rising into riches common for almost every Avax due to nothing captivating their interest for long. The government itself is usually 40-60 though sometimes it does dip into the 20s but a rise into the 80s can happen rarely.


Poverty:
Like before the marketplace is never stable with people living in rags for a week and then suddenly rising to a CEO position with a six figure salary with the reverse being true.


Technology:
Due to the ability to transfer and mass produce the skills and knowledge of someone highly gifted some areas of Foraiz can be in the high 80s but the constant changing of minds in Avax means that it can all be burnt down in a sudden Luddite riot or mass insanity which leads quite a lot of areas to be very low with some still in the bronze age.


Corruption:
The varying of governments means that they can be highly moral and then kill without a second thought for anything, even a piece of candy. This is usually in the 40s with a hard dip into the 10s sometimes and 80s in seconds. Once an Avax opposed the use of child labor and then proceeded in the same conference, kick a baby Avax in the face for looking at them funny not suspicious but because they thought the look was hilarious.


Military:
The military largely varies due to the constant changing of the Avax, becoming disciplined sociopaths and then to emotional children. This can range from in the 30s or possibly a very high rise to the 80s.


=Military=



Military Population:
Due to the ability of Avax to be skilled in any area and to be suddenly interested in a line of work, this can ranges from only a thousand to millions.


Major Branches:
The branches of the military constantly change with things that would be very important to have suddenly not existing then popping back. The most constant of these are the Weapons of Mass Destruction Regulators(WMDR) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance(ISR)
departments,


Minor Branches:
These are constantly in flux like the major branches. The biggest of these right now is the Cybercosm Nation Administration(CNA)
that consists of the social attack forces.


Specialist Groups:
Once again it needs to be stated that anybody can do anything, meaning these are often changing as well. The Military Genetic Research Association(MGRA)
is the most famous of these.


Description of weapons/ships/tech:
They change a lot ranging from blunderbusses, swords to lasers and railguns. The current major technology is omnitools that can change to fit the situation with the ability to create tools 50 times their size. About 20% of their spaceships are able to change with the ability to dedicate to and take resources from functions and rooms. 

[Species Sheet]



Species Name:
Avax


Homeworld:
Teker


Physical Description:
Avax are covered by very flexible and resilient skin which protects the gelatinous interior. They lack any internal or external skeleton and instead of muscles they have specialized gels linked to the skin which expand and contract. A rip through the skin can be quite deadly, as the gel inside quickly pours out. To counter this, the interior is divided into flexible compartments not unlike the juice compartments of a citrus fruit. They can change into a large variety of forms with their ability to change color and shape, they can imitate most species or objects quite accurately if allowed to stare for a couple of seconds. Thus fashion is very much on the change with new bodytypes constantly being in and out.

They can see through their light-sensitive skin which essentially gives them 360 vision but this skin can be very easy to blind, to counter this the skin repairs itself in hours so blinding a crowd is a good form of control. They have an excellent sense of touch, temperature and vibration in their skin as well. To communicate they jump up and down producing vibrations in the air, change bodyshape while also changing color which to a human viewer looks absolutely absurd but to an Avax is perfectly natural.

Intellectual/Intelligence Description:
Their personalities are very fluid and an Avax individual will general change personality and preferences in minutes throughout their lives with individuals that don't change considered mentally ill. They can create bits of goo that can be skills, traits and memories out of dead or alive individuals and copy them so an Avax childhood is generally a short one. Most Avax have their own personal libraries of skills and traits so they can change personalities on the fly to suit the situation.
The intelligence of the Avax often changes with a genius suddenly turning animalistic and vice versa.

(Essentially they are in constant change with nothing stable except for change. Their weaknesses are constantly changing but their change means a lot of strengths change as well, essentially making them strong one time and weak another to different civilizations.)

[The Villa Strangiato]

Internal Affairs
Everyone is still sort of freaking out. The aliens are having  success curtailing the riots, but there are riots pretty much everywhere. Their demands are to work out some sort of treaty with the aliens.
Military/police Affairs

As above, the police and the aliens are having some success dealing with the rioters, but they request the aliens form some sort of treaty to stop the rioting.

[llama]

The scouting ship hadn't found a new hospitable planet quite yet, but what it did find is equaling interesting.. the alien satellite from the Earth Alliance. Messages are sent back, giving the coordinates to Brether, and then it is returned to the planet and dismantled to see what technology it uses and if Brether can manipulate it.

News of this satellite triggers a vote for the people of Brether and they immediately retort that they should be welcomed but the Citizen Militia should be on its highest alert.
Military scientists have decided research upon anti-spacecraft weaponry would be the best route to improve upon our Empire's defenses.

[Piment]

Earth Alliance




After receiving a signal from an unknown part of the galaxy, Earthdome goes nuts. The government and the military decides to dispatch a fleet of military vessels equipped with advanced warp drives recently developed by the R&D division. The fleet will consist of two Omega-class destroyers as flagships, three Hyperion-class heavy cruisers and one Explorer-class recon ship to register all events.


Upon entering the unknown system, the ships begin to scan the system and broadcast the same signal the sattelite had transmitted when it received the coordinates.

[Piment]

(also dex has been accepted)

(yo llama go reply pl0x)

[hygenisthygenist]

(Sorry for my lateness in replying)

Aaa Confederacy


INTERNAL AFFAIRS
All is peaceful on N'aaa and its moon. The ritual inter-tribal war-sports have been temporarily halted in observance of Laputa Day, which marks the anniversary of the first landfall on Little N'aaa. Grand Chief Shaabutar, on the advice of Chief Miloon, broadcasts the resulting joyful exuberance on the strongest transmitter available to the N'aaa'n. Perhaps it will reach into the depths of space and tickle the Starmind's fancy.so much that it'll send new things to study, befriend, or spar with. (first contact signal sent out).


MILITARY/DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS
A few members of the Starcast Eye Tribe, in a flight of fancy, have taken it upon themselves to lock themselves in a room until they have discovered a better kind of weapon for mounting on ships. In their own words, they felt a pressing need to "create a weapon to pierce through armor as it were not there at all!"

[llama]

(sorry, was busy all day.)

From communications centers in Marko, the same signal is found. A small, noticeably unarmed carrier is sent to intercept the fleet, with a small diplomatic force on board. If the message can be properly transmitted, the officers and guards of the officers are welcomed to dock in Marko. Due to the odd style of government, no leaders will necessarily be met with, but some of the more intelligent members of society will attempt to make friendly talks with these aliens.

Society has exploded with a demand for a reliable translator for these other worldly beings. New research is being put forward so proper communications can be managed. Brether hasn't had an issue with this due to the tribes using generally the same dialect.

[nihilistkoala]

Confederate Activity
Deliberation on the new territory is slow given the need for translation and the new logistics of interstellar communication and travel. Adding to the troubles is the Confederate Council arguing about which nation will receive the tribute, with the strongest claim belonging to those that own the Hyperion and Halycon. Eventually however, it's agreed that the tribute will go to the Confederacy itself as a fund for further centralized activities. Although the Slydavian's didn't know it, they had helped contribute to the further unification of the Syhelian people under their government. 

The terms for treaty are rather lenient all things considered. The Slydavian government is allowed to continue with no changes in leadership and are virtually autonomous. However their military will be restricted to a maximum .1% of their total population and they will never be permitted to outfit FTL capable ships with weapons. Additionally, some 5% of their annual tax revenue will go towards their new overlords in the form of minerals and whatever foodstuffs can be metabolized by a wildly different race.

[The Villa Strangiato]

Internal Affairs
The people are still kind of pissed off that their military is downgraded kind of a lot, but the rioters accept the treaty and cease rioting as the Syhelians assert their dominance.
Military Affairs
The military kind of downgrades as they hand over their stuff. Air defenses are soon weakened as most of the military is absorbed into the Police. The Grey Ghosts, RRT, and other specialist groups disband due to the treaty. Morale overall is very low and product of anything meaningful to the Syhelians will be little, as the economy sinks every day.

[Dex]

The Avax in Prosperity?

The Avax are finally celebrating a day that was invented then forgotten 44 years ago due to mass memory loss being a fad for 2 minutes, well at least the most prideful or the most humble because 12 minutes ago half of them were giving themselves self-doubt issues in the recently established Jo-Koop Kin Kin area. A day celebrating the recent decisions made by AIs, namely the approval for manned FTL tests towards an alien signal. A temporary genius in the field of FTL said in no uncertain terms that they would begin the tests if the social climate died, he then shocked himself so that his mind would be inspired(the newest in false research which many Avax follow). A new genius with a much more calmer demeanor and also slightly in the Avax's point of view was mentally ill stated "The tests are going to happen in five minutes," he was then kicked in the head by a doctor for being mentally ill.

The 3 brave Avax boarded the ship with one of them having a timer to set off a reaction of paranoia if they said Kukui and a powerful compulsion to say Kukui then spasm(based off an unofficial FoFo poll which then was digitally kicked in the face, this was a feature they added for 20 seconds). The ship gets out of the atmosphere and begins it's journey towards a nearby system where the alien signal originated which many Avax responded on FoFo by asking "YOUR MOM IS A LOVELY OPPOSITE GAME?". The ship entered into the system with many ships that were alien and a world being surrounded by them, the ship sent a signal back to say that there was a seemingly evil alien force. The two brave Avax along with one paranoid, spasming, Kukui saying Avax, approached the alien force curiously with not many intentions.

(Attacking the Avax might not be the best decision, their randomness and insanity are often the things that keep them alive. They're crazy but they're also dangerous.)

[Piment]

Earth Alliance



Task Force Alpha, Uncharted space, 16:45 Earth Standard Time


"Lieutenant, what do we have so far?"


"Sir, I'm picking up something on the radar. It seems to be a single object heading towards the fleet."


"Can you get an image?"


"Yes sir, on the screen."


The entire crew in the bridge looked at the main screen. The object coming towards them seemed like a vessel. Commander Sinclair alerted the fleet. That was the first contact of humanity with alien life.


"Lieutenant, broadcast this message via all possible communication frequencies."


"Aye sir, standing by."


"This is the Earth Alliance destroyer Agamemnon. We received your coordinates and this fleet has been dispatched to look for the source. In our sattelite, we included our language for you to study. Can you understand us?"


The fleet eagerly waits for a response.


Greystone Industries, New York, Earth



Doctor Daniel Graystone was inside his office, waiting for EarthGov officials to arrive. His corporation managed to secure a contract with the government to develop a Cybernetic Lifeform Node, or CYLON. They would replace humans in several areas of work, from military operations to civilian construction. They would not only be cost effective since there would be no need to pay them or ensure them rights, but they would aswell as execute their tasks effectively.

Suddenly, EarthGov representatives open the door.


"Gentleman! Take a seat."


"Doctor Graystone, it's a pleasure to meet you. Anyways, we're short on time. There's a flight to Mars that I don't want to miss, so, have you been reviewing the requirements?"


"Yes, of course. I believe that in six months we could develop one."


"You have two months, doctor."


"What?! I mean, mister, there is no way that..."


"Doctor, if you can't do it, we'll find someone else who can."


"Alright, fine. We'll do our best."


"Good. We'll be sending a representative to review the progress."

[Piment]

(also dex, where is your ship at?)

[llama]

The language information had been found, and like other things Bros get their hands on, they chop it up, analyze it, and put it back together more efficiently. The result is a extremely broken language, just giving the bare necessity of words to communicate.

With the alien's message broadcasted, the diplomatic vessel replies with a message bearing the following words. "Hi. No fire. Peace."

-

Due to the scouting force having been stopped upon finding the alien satellite, a new expedition is set up to find habitable planets in hopes of their distance being close enough to colonization.

[Piment]

Earth Alliance



Upon receiving that response, the fleet stands down. Another message is sent to the alien ship in the simplest way possible:


"No fire. Peace yes. Meet in your ship."


A transport takes off from the Explorer-class ship with an EarthGov diplomat and a team of security officers, all inside special encounter suits in case their atmosphere is not compatible, and to prevent any sort of diseases from spreading. The transporter heads towards the alien ship, attempting to find somewhere to dock.

[llama]

There is indeed a small docking station on the equally small ship, allowing for the aliens to safely entire in the seemingly rankly ship. On board is very cold with interior made of what seems to be junk, but no intrusions from the walls or floors of, say, a jutting piece of scrap metal.
The convoy is met with a smiling Pessos, his three eyes enthusiastically blinking and hair his clumpous goosebumped. With much smiles, the Pessos manages to say to the alien, "Hi."

[Piment]

Earth Alliance

Ambassador Onuko Tanaza, aboard the alien vessel

The ambassador and his security team manage to leave the ship and enter the alien vessel. They are then welcomed by the aliens.


"Hello! We are humans, and we come in peace. Could you take us to your leader?"