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Foreign Decay; Title is a WIP...
Topic Started: Sep 27 2013, 08:22 PM (373 Views)
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So it’s been a while since I’ve been in any active sci-fi RP, and I know there aren’t many plans for new ones to open up soon. I’ve had an itch to write some scifi though, and the other day I’ve had an RP idea grow on me. After fleshing it out a bit and talking to some people, I want to go ahead and pitch it forward. I know I haven’t managed an RP before, but I promise I’ll try to keep up a reasonable post pace – and you all can berate me in the prodding thread if I don’t.

Now then, the basic premise is that, about a week before the start of the RP, a large space station of an exotic design suddenly appeared in a relatively boring section of space. This sector is outside of any claimed territory, but it’s close enough to the Federation and other powers that they can easily travel there. Those who try to trace the station’s design will find that it doesn’t match anything currently known and is obviously alien in construction.

Now, it would be mildly uninteresting if that was all that happened. Coinciding with the station’s sudden appearance was a very loud outburst on the super-luminal comm networks. This signal is highly unusual, indecipherable, and pretty much detectable on all channels in a wide margin around the station. After this outburst, no more activity would come from the station.

The RP starts off with enough time having passed for people to start investigative missions, using the signal as their inciting event.

The station itself, on top of being of exotic design, has sustained significant damage, and appears abandoned. It does not respond to any communications requests, and scans of it reveal several important points. It has power, but at a level significantly lower than one would expect for a station of its size. Several large sections of it are without life support, but the inner section has fully functioning gravity, air, etc. It has three docking bays of an alien design, though only two are open. Inside those bays are airlocks that won’t interface with standard ships, but they can be opened manually. There is a huge, albeit fading, warp signature around the entire station.

So that’s the station itself. While investigating it will be a big part of the plot, I also want another element in play...inside the station, in a section relatively far away from the docking bays, there is a seemingly boring human named Rey. He looks like a space captain of some sort, and his clothes identify him as being with the Federation, but he has no recollection of how he got on the station or much of anything at all. He only just wakes up as the RP starts. (Okay okay, I know what you’re thinking, an amnesia story-thread isn’t too original, but I have plans to make it interesting.) He won’t be hard to find initially.

That’s the overall premise for the RP. I do want things to be more open ended, as those RPs are the most fun to me, but I know that having the setting be this tied to the plot can make things difficult. I’ll describe the interior of the station as much as I can, but after the initial docking bays and the sections after that, I think people can be free to come up with more specific room details and the like. There are damaged sections without air, some without gravity, and other general hazards that you would expect to find in an abandoned space station. I’ll make a more detailed description of the station that will help with this. I can also come up with a rough design/map of the station if we want to, to help orient things better.

Having said all that, I do have some… events, planned, that will happen so we won’t be without a direction.

The last point I want to mention is the time setting of the RP. I don’t intend to use any of my previous characters, so for me it can happen at essentially any time relative to the other RPs. Twilight has mentioned to me that Vergo Flux is an important one for him; are there any other RPs that we'd want to establish a time order for to make things better for everyone?

That’s all I’ve got. I can start writing up a first post and more details about the station if enough people are interested. (Also, I’m open to better name suggestions.)
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