You are missing some things; for a start, Vodyani become saints by bonding with a Virtual Endless, at which point they are given the title 'Saint' and take on the Endless' name as their 'saint name'. (Varb St. Zouieina, for example, was a Vodyani named Varb who bonded with an Endless named Zouieina) Every Vodyani hero, the Hierarch Isyara, and the Heretic Iskander are all saints, and they all follow this pattern, but less is known about how the latter two became saints.

Valorum technically isn't a saint by conventional standards, but the specifics don't really matter in the context of the current conversation; Decius doesn't have to know specifically what a Vodyani saint is for Valorum to still cringe at being called 'the fallen saint'.

Alright, Thanks.

RP threat, that sounds dangerous. :3

Kaada wrote:

Do you think it would be a good idea to encounter the Riftborn Faction? or the Unfallen? From what I've red it seems your storie takes place quiete a bit before Endless Space 2. 

First off, I doubt that Amplitude intends for Endless Space 1 and 2 to be in a chronology like, say, Mass Effect 1 and 2 are. 4X games don't really lend themselves to continuing the story, given that the end state is a race having achieved dominance. Rather, they are, as I would see it, two versions covering what is essentially the same time frame in the greater Amplitude chronology, which is about the races that try to achieve dominance in the galaxy after the fall of the Endless.

That being said, yes, the lore of our roleplay in places resembles more ES1 than ES2, simply because by the time it started, Endless Space 2 was not fully revealed yet. We don't have any Riftborn or Unfallen characters because by the time those races were added, the Saviour was already in flight, and nobody has decided to play one of them yet. They might, however, be retroactively gain importance in our galaxy if any player decides they want them part of their backstory.

However, if I might long-time spoiler, I have some funny ideas about the Saviour meeting Riftborn. Whether or not that will happen is of course up in the air, since Tanye might take us most of this year, and who knows what kind of sun we will fly towards then, and if anyone can still remember all those interesting story ideas they all that time ago.

Alien@System wrote:

However, if I might long-time spoiler, I have some funny ideas about the Saviour meeting Riftborn. Whether or not that will happen is of course up in the air, since Tanye might take us most of this year, and who knows what kind of sun we will fly towards then, and if anyone can still remember all those interesting story ideas they all that time ago.

I would love meeting the riftborn , are my favourite faction/race together with sowers . 

To be frank, if the Riftborn had been revealed before I joined the RP, Valorum would be extremely different.

I have a lot of ideas in terms of the 'exotic' races listed in the table on the recruitment thread. Assuming the galaxy the Saviour is in is at maximum size and medium-to-high density, we're probably exploring a constellation or two's worth of unseen stars and planets, at least to the Pilgrim faction. If one of the crew came from another constellation or they're just really well-travelled, then a lot of things may seem less weird to them.

TLDR:

Most of the Crew: "Why are these rocks moving and talking?!"

One of the Crew: "Oh hey, Pulsos."

Zennock wrote:

RP threat, that sounds dangerous. :3

Woops. Wrong letter.

Alien@System wrote:

Kaada wrote:

Do you think it would be a good idea to encounter the Riftborn Faction? or the Unfallen? From what I've red it seems your storie takes place quiete a bit before Endless Space 2. 

That being said, yes, the lore of our roleplay in places resembles more ES1 than ES2, simply because by the time it started, Endless Space 2 was not fully revealed yet. We don't have any Riftborn or Unfallen characters because by the time those races were added, the Saviour was already in flight, and nobody has decided to play one of them yet. They might, however, be retroactively gain importance in our galaxy if any player decides they want them part of their backstory.

However, if I might long-time spoiler, I have some funny ideas about the Saviour meeting Riftborn. Whether or not that will happen is of course up in the air, since Tanye might take us most of this year, and who knows what kind of sun we will fly towards then, and if anyone can still remember all those interesting story ideas they all that time ago.

So you say since Amplitude didn't set any official rules you can basicly create the Galaxy however you want. Nice.

I was also thinking of joining you guys somehow but am not sure if my English Knowledge is good enough to make it feel right. As well that I'm struggling to make a fitting addition. My first idea would be a Craver. But I don't think a Second one is necessary. And if I was to become a Craver I would like to use my Custom Faction Craver. Which, I guess, wouldn't work. Another Idea would be Riftborn, but it should fit with the path you choose. I simply cannot appear out of nowhere right? ;)

Welp. I wish ya'll a good day.

I think this Expedition is the best opportunity for new crewmembers to appear that we'll have for the next few months... So if you want to join you better do it now :D

For starters, no custom factions. If it looks like a Vodyani, it is a Vodyani, and not some Sophon-Looking-Like-Space-Vampire person. Because A) Just because you can't customize factions doesn't mean you can't make diverse individuals. Look at Decius. By Craver standards, he is a weak-willed cowardly wimp who's too indecisive to kill all those tasty humans and rather eat their shit (No offense, Nibot. We all like Decius not eating people). Besides, B) it's unneccessary blowing up the lore. A custom faction would need to be described for a newcomer in detail before they could actually picture it, and we're not doing that for the sake of a single character. And also C) making a faction look like somebody but behave like somebody else is most likely just a way of getting the cool looks but evading the drawbacks. Which in roleplay would be the territory of a munchkin, and I think I speak for most of the others when I say that's not the kind of roleplay style we want.

Secondly, I have to warn you that third column is a lot of responsibility. By their sheer existence, such characters shape the plot, and will require you to fit into a mindset that is not even remotely human. For the Endless, this should be obvious. Amoeba can detach their consciousness from their body, Riftborn have trouble grasping the very concept of time, Bhagaba are avatars of a naturally occurring super computer, and so on. It's a lot of effort.

They also couldn't be just retconned that having always been on board like we did for 741n73d, because people would have acted a lot differently if there'd been an Endless on board. So if so, they'd need to be introduced via the current storyline, which yes, could work, but requires the character to be fitting so that we don't need to suspend our disbelief too far to allow them on board.

Kaada wrote:
So you say since Amplitude didn't set any official rules you can basicly create the Galaxy however you want. Nice.

Every time somebody presses "Launch Game", a new Galaxy for Endless Space 2 is created, and it looks different every time. For the RP, we just have to define something, and that's what we're doing. Amplitude won't, and certainly doesn't need to answer questions that might be relevant to our roleplay, but not to the game they created, so it's up to us to yes, make something up that fits into the overall tone.

In that sense, @Tlaloc: You define yourself as having a cloaking device just so you can make an inobstrusive entrance? What's wrong with just walking in, and why would you consider something so game-changing as perfect camouflage to be so minor that you just define it as existing?

I dunno. Maybe by Craver standards, Decius is playing with his food? :) They gave him protein anyway.

I see your point there. It is quite hard to get into the head of a Craver, and I cannot imagine how it would feel to do something harder. it can be fun to try doing a personality completely different from your own. Just make sure you have a character that you enjoy playing.

Yes. Yes. Assimulate. Become one with us. 

I don't think he has to Assimulate in order to participate, we are no Borg vessel after all... However, it would be nice to have a new person on board...

SHUN THE NON-BELIEVER

Also question i wanted to ask all time , do you think 7-4-1-N-7-3-D can listen to the comms transmittions or not ? It has no direct communicator but you know ...sensors , so if its not really heavily de- and encrypted it can listen and talk in that too without asking someone for a device to do so.

Nice job making a system for the probes, Zen. That's something else.

I had an idea regarding how a Riftborn character could be introduced. Since they can manipulate time, it's possible that a Riftborn could have put itself into a temporal stasis shell to preserve itself, similar to going into cryo-sleep or standby mode. Where it would be is up in the air; in the wreck of a ship, in the Saviour's cargo bay, inside the upcoming Endless ruin, etc. It's not a perfect solution, but it's possible.

7-1-4 could probably tap into comms. Sowers communicate with each-other somehow, and I bet it's not verbally. Radio would be the most reasonable option.