/builders/ - Hero and Nation Builders!

>>21415

>Research needs to be shared for lower dice requirement

(Duly noted. Should have clarified intent to directly share/assist with Solarians rather than independent, but will clarify from now on)

>>21040

>Scavenge - Salvage

It appears there was a pirate gang turf war in the wake of the invasion. Seems like a third party, likely the Hegemony forward teams, came in and smashed the pirate fleets. Your crews pull in quite a bit of salvage, but it needs sorting and refining.

>Gain +5 "Salvage Slurry"

>Use 1d100 per unit to break down into material. Chance for artifact/tech discovery.

>>21298

Per PM we'll omit the first dice roll.

>Scavenge: Food/Water

Your crews begin by checking out the nearest water bearing planet. Seems the ice of a non-descrit planet outside the habitable zone contains quite a bit of ice, with a sub-ice algae in the tectonic floes below the ice that replicates quickly. Your crews manage get quite a bit of it before the rumblings in the depths kick them out.

>Gain +2 Food, +1 Water

>Research - Resource Efficiency (1 Success)

The issue with many ships in the fleet is that they were designed to perpetuate the ship manufacturing industry, by being… well flimsy. Short of a military grade frigate, many Liveships, Colony Barges, and even some cruisers suffer from a need of continuous maintenance, and have generally inefficient reclamation and gathering systems. This research is the first step into mitigating this.

> Resource Efficiency (2 Turns, No Prototype)

> Once per three turns, you may ignore a single ship's upkeep.

>Research - Chemical Lasers (1 Success)

Chemical Lasers have been something of a novelty in the past due to the relative expense they incur during operation due to the intense heat generated while firing. To fire more than once in combat requires liquid cooling, which can be expensive in the far reaches of space. However, their ability to penetrate standard shielding makes them quite effective in a pinch. Your researchers begin designing the chemical injection system posthaste.

>Chemical Lasers (3 Turns Remaining, 2 Water, 2 Exotic Metal)

>+4 Damage to Lasers for two rounds

> Ability Cost: 1 Water

>3 Round Cooldown

>>21190

>Racial Bonus - Remnants of the Source

Your crew comes from the homeworld - the first human planet. They've got a lot to live up to, as many humans have never even seen Earth. But what's even better is their resolve to carry on the fight, or live to fight another day.

>If your ship would take fatal damage, you may ignore it till the next turn, unless one of two things occur:

>A) You kill an enemy ship. If this occurs, set your SP to 1.

>B) You succeed a retreat roll. Reset your SP to half, and roll for a critical systems damage. That system suffers -10 for all associated rolls til the next engagement. If it is living quarters, reduce population by 1000.

>Racial Detractor - Mantle of Humanity

Your human fleet-mates look to you for leadership. So when you fail, the whole human race feels it.

>When you retreat from combat, you suffer -10 to all rolls until the next engagement.

Rolled 29, 46, 54 = 129 (3d100)

>>21492

Name: Remnants of Earth

Species/Subrace: Humanity

DCS Member Species Y

Fluff: Earth, is gone. Destroyed in a matter of minutes by the enemy. The only survivors a single cruiser that managed to fold space while still within Earth's atmosphere, fortunately, or unfortunately, they brought a chunk of Earth with them when they did so, the spaceport the Cruiser happened to be hovering above at the time, thankfully due to quick thinking they managed to bring the citizens of the spaceport inside the Ship and began to rebuild the city within the ship so that the civilians would be able to live comfortably. The ship, the SDF-1, which had been renamed the Macross after the spaceport it took with it, is built mostly around a wave motion cannon with secondary and tertiary defenses as well as a compliment of veritech fighters, though there is a distinct lack of pilots for the veritech and resources for the weaponry is scarce. Now they've managed to catch up with the rest of the Hedgemony fleet and intend on defending them as much as they can.

>Racial Bonus - Remnants of the Source

Your crew comes from the homeworld - the first human planet. They've got a lot to live up to, as many humans have never even seen Earth. But what's even better is their resolve to carry on the fight, or live to fight another day.

>If your ship would take fatal damage, you may ignore it till the next turn, unless one of two things occur:

>A) You kill an enemy ship. If this occurs, set your SP to 1.

>B) You succeed a retreat roll. Reset your SP to half, and roll for a critical systems damage. That system suffers -10 for all associated rolls til the next engagement. If it is living quarters, reduce population by 1000.

>Racial Detractor - Mantle of Humanity

Your human fleet-mates look to you for leadership. So when you fail, the whole human race feels it.

>When you retreat from combat, you suffer -10 to all rolls until the next engagement.

Ship stats/fluff

SDF-1 Macross

Cruiser

7 ATK, 3 DEF, 8 PRP

98% Shields

1 Fuel 9 Food 4 Water 4 Raw Metal 5 Exotic Metal

Population 6000

>Your ship has two modes - Cruiser, and Gunship. In Cruiser mode, you gain +2 to PRP, and +10 to Flanking rolls. In Gunship mode, you gain +2 to ATK and your critical hit range is increased by +5, both on rolls you preform, and rolls preformed on you.

You must declare at the start of combat which mode your ship is in, and it takes one round to shift between modes, usable every three turns

1. Take some of the pressure off of the station and begin radar and iff sweeps on any incoming ships

2. trade 3 food for 6 fuel

3. begin research on chemical lasers

>>21506

>Scanning

Your scope is cluttered with the myriad of ships and shuttles wizzing about the station. You now know why the comms crew is so stressed.

>Failure

>Trade

Your trades execute successfully.

>Research - Chemical Lasers (1 Success)

Chemical Lasers have been something of a novelty in the past due to the relative expense they incur during operation due to the intense heat generated while firing. To fire more than once in combat requires liquid cooling, which can be expensive in the far reaches of space. However, their ability to penetrate standard shielding makes them quite effective in a pinch. Your researchers begin designing the chemical injection system posthaste.

>Chemical Lasers (3 Turns Remaining, 2 Water, 2 Exotic Metal)

>+4 Damage to Lasers for two rounds

> Ability Cost: 1 Water

>3 Round Cooldown

>>21509

—IMPORTANT—

We've done upkeep a lot of different ways in the past. However I've arrived at the conclusion that Upkeep is 1 Food/Water/Fuel Per Ship Per Turn during Phase 1 of gameplay.This accurately reflect the difficulty of maintaining ships out in the depths of space with no support services, and I believe lends an intrinsic difficulty level to the game.

Ship Name: ITR-CC #2456

Ship Type: Cruiser

Offense: 9

Defense: 6

Propulsion: 2

Shields:23%

Population: 6000

Food 4

Fuel 6

Water 6

Raw Metal 5

Exotic Metal 7

Racial bonus: Engineers from Beyond the Stars - EWAR is half as effective against ships you build. Ships you build gain +1 to all stats.

Racial detractor: Vagrant Nation - Your race hasn't colonized in so long, that the art is a bit lost on you. You must research each building, including the base colony. (2 Turns, completion cost is equal to the production cost of the colony/building)

Known Technology Starting Paths [Not Yet Reesearched]

>Colony Jumpers - Requires (3 Turns, 4 Water, 2 Exotic Metal) - Gain 1000 population over four turns (+250/turn) on target colony/ship

>Chemical Lasers (3 Turns Remaining, 2 Water, 2 Exotic Metal) - +4 Damage to Lasers for two rounds - Ability Cost: 1 Water - 3 Round Cooldown

Long ago, in a galaxy or perhaps a place far far away, lived a republic of Dwarves known only as the Immortal Technocratic Republic. A mix of living and undead dwarves, as well as sentient machinery they were the masters of technology where they came. Incredibly ambitious, sometimes to the extremes, they were the first to take to the skies in flying ships, and so befitting, the first to set foot upon their moon, establishing a colony thereof.

That was several centuries ago. And it is not them or their galaxy that is the focus of this story.This story is about the crew of the ITR-CC #2456

The ITR-CC #2456 is a specialized “Constructor Cruiser.” Neither a true colony ship or a war vessel, its purpose was that of specialized construction of ITR machines, everything from other ships, orbital bases, weapon modifications, or mining operations. #2456 was supposed to go through a routine “Vyrian-Planephase Portal” towards an ITR planet to pave the way for colonization.

It failed. Not to be unexpected, as such technology was still relatively new. But the ship appeared in a wholly unfamiliar place as far as possible from where it should have been.

But first, a word on its crew. The ITR has two classes, the “Worker Class” and “Management Class” of which #2456’s crew are the former. Long ago, the Management Class deemed that to protect their interest and ensure absolute obedience, all members of “Worker Class” were to be neurologically purged of any sense of political ambition, strictly limited autonomy, and unwavering devotion to orders. The Worker Classes only role would to serve the Republic, building, extracting, designing, or fighting as soldiers.

Thus it was the crew of the ITR-#2456 now found themselves cut-off from central command, leaderless and without a goal, lost. And this might have been the end of them.

That was until their ship discovered the Solarians. The Solarians affinity towards being taskmasters, organizers, and leaders activated something instinctual in the crew of #2456. Seeing them as their lost leaders, they now have unwavering loyalty and fanatical devotion to them, to serve in the capacity they know best. Construction and design.

Weapons, machines, tools, creations, but most of all, their great love that has never left them since their ancient ancestors, that of building ships and massive constructs. Be it on land, air, and in this case, space, the dwarves will build it!

Race:

The crew of #2456 are a varied mix. They have among them, of course, living dwarves. But also in their ranks, and upon death, they have learned a strange art of extending their consciousness beyond the limits of organic function. Short skeletal corpses animated by machinery and electronic intellect. Occasionally found among them, are living, sentient “Machine Men” who were not among those dwarves who died, but were once a part of a race all their own which were assimilated by the ITR

Their dwarven bodies are heavily augmented by cybernetic technology both in life and unlife, all designed to provide them with every possible tool and means to perform their tasks and functions, an art practiced and perfected over ages.

The vast majority of their population however, consists of non-sentient automated drones and robotic workforces. Separated into two casts, “Foremen” consists of those sentient beings (Dwarves and Machine men) who have a degree of intelligent sentience, while “Drones” are all those automatons that hold absolutely no sentient intelligence and rudimentary autonomy. Drones are programmed to be slaved to foremen, who perform the decision making process regarding all things not relating to self-defense, preservation, and completion of ordered tasks. They can follow orders and carry them out alone, but require orders to function.

The Foremen themselves however, are little better off. While they are more than capable and willing to design and build things, their augmented minds require leadership. Without the Solarians, they would be but the head of a lost group of aimless beings.

Rolled 68, 73, 34 = 175 (3d100)

>>21509

Ship Name: SHNS Huntress

Ship Type: Cruiser

Offense: 7

Defense: 7

Propulsion: 8

Shields: 54%

Population: 1000

>Supplies

4 Fuel

6 Food

8 Water

7 Raw materials

8 Exotic materials.

Special Attribute: Battlemaster Control Computer, Your ship can coordinate combat across the fleet with immpecable accuracy. As a combat action, you may designate a single target. Attacks from other ships in the fleet gain +25 to-hit against that target. This has no use restrictions per encounter.

Race Name: Solarians

Nation Name: Solarian Hegemony

Hegemony Membership: Y (for however little they actually use it)

Fluff: Solarians are a retiring race, tall and long limbed they rarely leave their systems for anything, Preferring their own systems and lands to exploration or the chaotic places away from them. In Fact the Huntress is a mothballed cruiser that was retired centuries ago, made during a more savage time. Indeed the only reason that she now moves is because of how desperate the destruction of their homeland has made their race. One would think an ancient Solarian Cruiser would be shoddy and worn, but it's not. Solarians ships while hard to repair were made to last and take lots of abuse. Solarians always did hate shoddy craftsmanship.

The huntress is a Standard Warring Era Cruiser, Armed with full weapon compliment and equipped with the crown jewel of Solarian wartech. The Battlemaster Control computer, Allowing the ship to strike often and with a accuracy against whatever foe it may encounter. The ship is however old and much of the knowledge to repair and maintain it has been lost, from age, neglect and death.

Racial Bonus: Solarian Taskmasters, Once per turn you may specify an action that you wish to "Hire Out" You may expend 2 of any resource to give +20 to that roll.

Racial Detractor: Aging Technology, You cannot repair your ships during combat. Instead spend 1 Action out of combat to repair a ship under your control to full. Repairing costs 5 Raw Metal and 3 Exotic Metal

>Tech- Resource Efficiency (1 Turns, No Prototype)

> Once per three turns, you may ignore a single ship's upkeep

1. Continue to research Resource efficiency. Share data with the ITR.

2.Research Early Warning systems, make it open research and implore any ships that have made headway on it to share progress and coordinate.

3. Search the system of any ships, salvage or relics able to be used or repaired before we leave the system.

Free Action: The High Captain of the Huntress votes to jump to sector 0818 as soon as the fleet can move.

Rolled 51, 28, 78 = 157 (3d100)

Voting to travel to 0919

1. Trading 5 raw metal for 5 water and 5 food.

Twin-Captain Resilla of the Rising Sun shifts uneasily in her small, cozy enveloping chair as the various sensors lay the star system bare to her. She automatically begins to send her findings to the Twin-Captain Orrshin highlighting dangers and points of interest, and watches with slight satisfaction as the ship adjusts course.

"This is Rising Sun. Come in Hegemony Command. We have trade goods we wish to discuss."

With a sharp crackle the voice of the command ship answers her hail. "Hegemony Command reads you loud and clear Rising Sun. Please follow the course laid out for you in the next data burst."

"Aye. Hegemony. Forwarding data burst to our pilots."

Resilla clocks her tongue in irritation as she looks over the data burst in a quick sweeping glance. Inefficient. But then again not all pilots are of the same caliber of her Twin-Captain. She must remember she is no longer part of the Jo Republic where every sdhip was expected to be among the best, but just another refugee.

2. With the error caused by our engineers and scientists learning resource efficiency is even more important then it was before.

We are willing to share and cooperate for all research with anyone else willing to chip in towards finishing this vital piece of technology as it will bring about the survival of every race here.

Meanwhile deep in the primary research labs there is a shouting match going on between two Jo'poin as they argue about filtration systems and waste recycling. Neither of them notice their counterparts in the Jo'tuin section of the labs are studiously ignoring the both of them. It is mating season and neither of the Jo'poin had taken the hormonal suppressants necessary to promoting workplace decency this morning. They are inches away from changing their argument into a vigorous and loud make out session.

3. Before we leave this system we will do one final scouting mission for any interesting artifacts or derelict ships that might remain.

It is long after the trade deal has been negotiated with Hegemony Command and Twin-Captain Orrshiin is anxious to get back to her roots, and that is looking for new and exciting things and bringing them back home. It is the entire reason she joined the Republic Navy. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately for her she proved too good at her job, and that lead to her piloting the pride of the Jo Republic… and how she managed to save what little she could of both their people. Still she felt the thrill of excitement as her sister in all but name forwarded relevant sensor data to her and she adjusted her course. This would be fun.

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Rolled 82, 82, 97 = 261 (3d100)

>>21509

>Name:Helion Confederacy

>Species/Subrace: Humans

>DCS Member Species Y

>Fluff: The Helions used to pride themselves in being the most pacifist of all the planets. They have fleets of Protectorate class ships to help others and heal many. In fact Helion was renowned to be the safest planet out there. But it all changed when the enemy attacked.

>Helion was destroyed not with a whimper but a with a bang. Most Protectorate class ships were either destroyed by the enemy or taken father into the unknown. Some however escaped but they however can't communicate with each other or were taken out early. Pacifism was once their ideal but now it's time to fight back

>Ship name: The Protectorate

>Ship types :Frigate

>Population Cap 3000

>DEF rating: 9

>OFF rating: 3

>Propulsion rating: 4

>Shield Efficiency: 76%

>Fuel:6

>Food:3

>Water:5

>Raw Metals:4

>Exotic Metals:5

Racial Bonus: Legacy of the Protectorate - Your ships gain +2 DEF against Non-Enemy ships, and +1 against Enemy ships.

Racial Detractor: Offensive Novices - Offensive Fleet Tactics are not something widely used by your ships. In engagements where your fleet is the aggressor, you suffer -10 to all weapons rolls.

We'll go to B0919

1-2-3 Try to find any Merchants and try to recruit them to our side to help ourselves

>>21517

>>20934

Send 2 water to the Shiboo ship Ampersand they are assisting early warning and need water. Thus we will cover it for them

Rolled 86, 6, 14 = 106 (3d100)

>>21507

Name: Remnants of Earth

Species/Subrace: Humanity

DCS Member Species Y

Fluff: Earth, is gone. Destroyed in a matter of minutes by the enemy. The only survivors a single cruiser that managed to fold space while still within Earth's atmosphere, fortunately, or unfortunately, they brought a chunk of Earth with them when they did so, the spaceport the Cruiser happened to be hovering above at the time, thankfully due to quick thinking they managed to bring the citizens of the spaceport inside the Ship and began to rebuild the city within the ship so that the civilians would be able to live comfortably. The ship, the SDF-1, which had been renamed the Macross after the spaceport it took with it, is built mostly around a wave motion cannon with secondary and tertiary defenses as well as a compliment of veritech fighters, though there is a distinct lack of pilots for the veritech and resources for the weaponry is scarce. Now they've managed to catch up with the rest of the Hedgemony fleet and intend on defending them as much as they can.

>Racial Bonus - Remnants of the Source

Your crew comes from the homeworld - the first human planet. They've got a lot to live up to, as many humans have never even seen Earth. But what's even better is their resolve to carry on the fight, or live to fight another day.

>If your ship would take fatal damage, you may ignore it till the next turn, unless one of two things occur:

>A) You kill an enemy ship. If this occurs, set your SP to 1.

>B) You succeed a retreat roll. Reset your SP to half, and roll for a critical systems damage. That system suffers -10 for all associated rolls til the next engagement. If it is living quarters, reduce population by 1000.

>Racial Detractor - Mantle of Humanity

Your human fleet-mates look to you for leadership. So when you fail, the whole human race feels it.

>When you retreat from combat, you suffer -10 to all rolls until the next engagement.

Ship stats/fluff

SDF-1 Macross

Cruiser

7 ATK, 3 DEF, 8 PRP

98% Shields

5 Fuel 5 Food 3 Water 4 Raw Metal 5 Exotic Metal

Population 6000

>Your ship has two modes - Cruiser, and Gunship. In Cruiser mode, you gain +2 to PRP, and +10 to Flanking rolls. In Gunship mode, you gain +2 to ATK and your critical hit range is increased by +5, both on rolls you preform, and rolls preformed on you.

You must declare at the start of combat which mode your ship is in, and it takes one round to shift between modes, usable every three turns

Agreed, Sector 0919 would be the best option at this point in time.

1. Find a nearby source of water and begin retrieving it, get as much as we can before we leave

2. Assist whoever is working on the early warning system research if they would allow us to aid them

3. Continue work on the chemical lasers (Do I need to pay prototype costs now? or when I finish the research?)

Rolled 28, 98, 14 = 140 (3d100)

>>21516

>>21517

1.

>Assist in shared research with SHNS towards their open early warning project, along with those others who are actively sharing with them

2. Begin working on completing research and prototype of Chemical lasers.

3. The Solarians are working on Resource efficiency.

It is tangent to their cause to search for additional sources of resource. Primarily our expenditures of Water, Food, and Fuel.

We shall explore for such, in service to the Solarians.

>>21657

3. Clarify, this is an exploration action, not a research action.

Rolled 58, 69, 35 = 162 (3d100)

1. Continue working on that heat laser prototype. (3 Turns remaining before prototype)

>Chemical Lasers (3 Turns Remaining, 2 Water, 2 Exotic Metal)

>+4 Damage to Lasers for two rounds

> Ability Cost: 1 Water

>3 Round Cooldown

2. Continue work on the resource efficiency research as well. We'll need that sooner then later. (2 turns left, no prototype)

3. Lets trade 2 of our Raw Metal for 4 Food. We're going to need food more then metal for now.

VOTE: The Gredon agree with 0919 as the next sector.

Name: Grand Principality of Gredon

Species/Subrace: Gredons, mix of races

DCS Member Species: Y

Fluff: The Grand Principality of Gredon, or simply Gredon as many know it, is a nation not of equals, but of understood divides. While no one likes to talk much about it to outsiders, there is a clear divide between the nobility and everyone else in the nation, but it is a divide that had been agreed on in generations past. The unspoken rule was that the normal citizens of the nation were the muscle, the important circulatory system of the nation, the support structure that kept everything running, and were generally treated well by the nobility. Nobles were expected to not only run their given territory, but fight in defense of it, be it from the command center or on the front lines, earning their keep so the civilians could continue their normal lives. This way, cowardly nobles were routed out and disposed of, and those who were gallant in battle were promoted to the nobility in reward, and as to tell them they were expected to keep up the example they themselves gave.

In a way this philosophy has had great effect on their battle doctrine, a focus on fighter combat and close range combat, adopting the use of close range 'mobile armors', mechanized units that looked like large suits of armor, using smaller laser/plasma weapons to help boarding parties as well as to try and disable weaponry at close range. Several of these models have the ability to shift to a more mobile 'fighter' form for quick getaways. Their defensive technology focuses on shields, and speed, hoping a shower of laser fire will disable or destroy the enemy quickly. As such, they have also tried to focus on point defense units to avoid missile fire, but their results may not have been the best at this time.

Racial Bonus: Strong Military Tradition - Your faction has adopted a ruling class of military elite. As such,they undergo rigorous training making them incredibly effective in combat. Your ships gain the "Veterancy" ability, and gain +1 to combat rolls for every engagement they survive and participate in with a maximum of +10

Racial Detractor: Warrior Barons - While the intense training of the leadership makes for strong military forces, only so many nobles can be deployed at a time. Your Fleet Capacity is reduced by 2

Resources:

Fuel: 9

Food: 4

Water: 8

Raw Metal: 3

Exotic Metal: 10

Main ship: The Regal Dawn

Liveship

Attack 7

Defense: 1

PRP: 3

Shields: 95%

Population Cap: 3000

Bonus: 22 - Your ship was carrying a compliment of mining barges to the Periphery during the Evacuation. You gain +5 to all Mining/Salvage rolls

Rolled 35, 11, 16 = 62 (3d100)

>>21509

>Name: The Taurian Federation

Species/Subspecies: Human

Meridian Hegemony Member Species: Yes

Fluff: Long before the DCS was formed, the Terran government established bases around the galaxy on hospitable planets. To be prepared, they claimed. But what do you do when your entire world, your whole lifestyle is cancelled because some corporate bigwig decided that your world is in the way of his dyson sphere?You stop him, that's what you damn well do. The Taurian Federation, then only designated by a string of numbers, formed from a number of military commanders standing against the megacorps. The planet busters aimed at Paradise probably helped. They were granted freedom from the control of the corrupt Terran States. Led by their military veterans(as they are the only full citizens), the Taurian Federation enjoyed a brief time in the outskirts of politics. They were an isolationist world, preferring to engage in debate on the proper way to assault a oceanic city, rather than trade between a gas giant and it's frozen moon. The destruction of planets far off allowed for a single ship to escape before the seventh planet in the Taur-163 system was destroyed.

Population Cap: 3000

DEF rating: 5

OFF Rating: 4

Propulsion Rating: 3

Shields: 92%

Fuel: 7

Food: 2

Water: 5

Raw Metals: 3

Exotic Metals: 4

Racial Bonus: For the Federation! - If an allied ship is destroyed in combat, your ships gain +10 to all combat rolls for the rest of the engagement. This stacks up to three times.

Racial Detractor: Standing on the Brink of Defeat - Your forces are largely demoralized after losing their colonies and bases. Until you found your first colony, you'll suffer -10 to all resource and manufacturing rolls.

Your ship has a rickety jump drive. As such your ship receives -10 to all retreat rolls

1 ) Continue work on the Chemical Lasers

2 ) Continue work on the Resource Efficiency project

3 ) Raid a nearby planet for proteins or alien life to serve as food.

Name(What name were you bound by before you found your way here?): King Tyrald the Magnificent, second of his name, lord of the house of Jourgald, protector of the realm.

Race(The form of your flame molds to a shape, even as starstuff.): A rather old looking skeleton, dressed in regal robes and ornaments. However, a large sword sticks through his back.

Gender(Are you a male or female? Perhaps your race is without?): Male

Color(As little more than will, you appear a mass of color, roughly holding your form.): Crimson

Character Background(Tell about your time before The Nexus.): King Tyrald the Magnificent was once the king of the mighty nation of Alboros, a proud and splendid country. The son of the king before him, king Yorrick the wise, Tyrald began his rule when his father peacefully died in his slumber. Tyrald however, would not earn the same fate. Beginning his reign rather benevolently, he quickly betrayed himself as a cruel, unmerciful and witty tyrant. Ruling with a mix of madness and fear, he slaughtered any who would go against him, using his surprising oratory skills and charisma to help charm the court to support his illogical decisions. However, he could not talk his way out of everything. After terrible decision after terrible decision, he was soon at war with every neighbor and his kingdom in open revolt.

Unable to match the enemies numbers with humans alone, Tyrald turned to his equally mad royal magicians. Twisted by the magics they held, they taught the king the ability to animate and command large swathes of Golems and other magically controlled beings. However, aa it turned out, simple cloth dummys and dolls proved far more effective when it came to the combat of the day, thanks to their unquestionable(albeit, rude and vulgar nature as war puppets) loyalty. Armed with muskets and cannons, and led by the few loyalists to the king, they successfully turned the tide of the war, pushing out the enemy, and even conquering a few neighbors.

However, on the night of his final victory, Tyrald met his timely end. Poisoned, shot, beaten, stabbed, Drowned then thrown into a inferno. His power gone, the dummy armies fell apart, and the fell mages who taught the king were executed. The loyalists soon followed these fates, as the rebels quickly counter attacked and slaughtered the defenseless citizenry. All mentions and images depicting the king were either vandalized or destroyed, his reign supposedly ended forever..

Planar Background(Surely your world was different as well? Tell about it.): Just a small part of land in comparison to the rest of the vast world, Alboro's was once the premier nation, a jewel like none other. However, because of its strange power, magic was considered twisting and warped, a unnatural ability seen by the people. By the time of Tyrald's death, technology had reached the 1800's, and were quickly approaching another wide scale advance. Although magic was powerful, its dislike and shunning led to most people not wishing to have anything to do with it, its mages only finding service directly to the ruler of the state.

Rolled 5, 7, 2, 9, 9, 8, 10, 4 = 54 (8d10)

>>20855

Name: The Confederate Cluster

Species/Subrace: Human(Augmented)

DCS Member Species: No

Fluff: In the Confederate Cluster, augmented humans who formed in an independent part of space occupied by a quagmire of dark nebulae that have yet to form stars and have captured few planets if any. The nebulae in this sector hold large quantities of heavy and precious materials that allow men to farm the nebulae for generations under their captains and princes. The greater the man the more tools he requires and so it is that while maintaining a monopoly they were now beginning to allow contracts with outside companies such as the Guard Commanders for recruitment of outside manpower to supplement their households, droids and servants from loyal stock. In the face of The Enemy violently harvesting the Cluster's nebulae and the danger to its Capital; Montgomery Station which held the great stock of trade goods from thousands of craftstations. Very protective of the locations of their vested stations the key to their power in the Cluster and ready to come together to oust invaders it was difficult for anyone to complete a contract with representatives from hundreds of influential captains and dozens of Overstation commanders having control of their own spheres within the Cluster when several campaigns worth of skirmishes would be required of a fleet that wishes to penetrate the Cluster and none have been foolhardy or so confident as to test the Confederacy since its founding wars save a few exceptional organizations. They must seek aid against The Enemy and send out a ship to join the DCS fleet where ever it has escaped to and try to marshal what forces we can in support of a free space. The Confederate Ranger Starship 'Nebula Boy' captained by Reginald Marsh Savage IV was once in charge of organizing the scouts and automated gatherers for the nebulae under his family's control. With his would be holdings threatened by The Enemy the only resort left to this proud son was to set sail for distant stars along what survivors they could gather.

1-3 Ship Stats

4-8 Resources

Rolled 2 (1d4)

>>22117

ship type

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>22117

Population Cap

Rolled 71, 7 = 78 (2d100)

>>22117

Shield Eff and Special Attributes

>>21517

>Research: Resource Efficiency (Success)

Thinking outside the box is 90% of what your researchers do, and the novelty ways to reduce usage on your ships is starting to really astound you and your ship crew.

>Research: Early Warning Systems (Success)

Catologuing and analzying the FTL sensor data accrued by your ships and faction is not an easy task, but if it gives you the ability to detect the jump signatures of Enemy ships, it will be worth it.

>Research: Early Warning Systems (2 Turns, no Prototype cost)

>You will have the initiative in most Enemy engagements.

>Exploration & Salvage (Failure)

The derelicts your crew scan down are largely picked clean, and would require proper ship-breaking facilities to gather anything useful from.

>>21520

>Trade (Success)

Regardless of the inefficiencies in the routing of ships the Hegemony may hold, their cargo routing and trade networks, even as ad-hoc as they are at the moment, are excellent. It's not long before your ships are full with their provisions needed.

>Research: Resource Efficiency

After what an external observer might call a "hate-fuck" on the part of a pair of Jo'poin researchers, they manage to actually explain their research to someone other than eachother (and without the rather.. grotesque actions inbetween.) Progress? Nope. They end up describing a process that has been an industry standard since the Solarians were just getting into space. And there's speculation they still hold the patent. Somehow.

(Elaborate Failure)

>Exploration & Salvage

Your reconnaissance actually yields some surprising results, even in the depth of space. Jumping to a previously undetected anomaly, you discover the remnants of a rather large colony ship, with all hands on board lost to the vacuum of space. However, their heavy machinery is still available, giving your crews a leg up when it comes to stripping the ship.

(Gain +1 Fuel, +2 Raw Metal)

>>21521

>Recruitment: Merchants & Traders (2 x Success, 1 Great Critical Success)

Most of your time on the merchant network is trying to find goods. People on the other hand is a bit of a novelty. But it turns out the same system that runs trade is also shuffling people with specialty skills to ships where they're needed. It's amazing what the Hegemony's MeshNet is able to accomplish, but even more amazing how well your search pays off.

A gruff, 5 foot tall Slathi man steps off the shuttle you sent to pick him up. In tow, are several crates of materials he owns, as he apparently has made a tidy profit just facilitating trades between civilian ships. In true Slathi fashion, he snaps to attention as your deck officers come to inspect him and his goods. He introduces himself as "Hans". (The germanic, more notably /human/ connotation is not lost on your crew either.), and then spends the next hour and a half, with your authority, drilling your crew on proper techniques of trading, and how to access the otherwise neglected parts of MeshNet.Before too long, it's clear that he is going to be a huge boon to your fleet.

>Gain: "Hans", Master Slathi Merchant

>When assigned to a ship in your fleet, and executing trade actions, you may select 1 additional resource of any type to receive from the trade.

>When assigned to a colony, all Trade Hubs gain +1 Resource per turn of your choice, in addition to other bonuses.

>>21523

>Mining: Fuel

The detritus of a few comets is all that's left of your initial fuel gathering actions. Much of your crew miss the gas giants in your old racial holdings, as they were abundant in the fuels you're looking for, but these space rocks will have to do. Of course when someone actually calls them space rocks, your more "astro-geologically inclined" lose their shit and proceed to rant for hours on end.

>Research: Early Warning Systems

"Healthy" paranoia? With the state of your analytics team, you'd think there's no such thing. Your researchers have spent the last few days bickering over the validity of using a null hypothesis, combined with the absence of data to find the Enemy. If the quantum computation farms still existed in the core worlds, it's likely this argument could be resolved quickly. Instead the engineering team has to personally shut down their computations three times for fear of overheating the precious components of the ships core computer. Something about "not being able to do things that Dave asks it to do."

>Failure

>Research: Resource Efficiency

A novelty idea in the midst of all the nerds bickering over the right composition of pipe to use, arises when a scientist nearly blinds himself with an arc welder. The flailing Shiboo ends up slicing a set of scoring marks that, when applied to solids waste, actually skims water from the upper portion of the pipe. While it can only properly be used in gravity-enabled portions of the ship, combined with the other methods learned, your researchers are confident the fleet will see these implemented fleet wide within the next few standard periods.

(Success)

>>21524

>Mining: Water

In the Oort cloud of the system, your crews begin tearing apart ice asteroids otherwise neglected by the system owners. Your deck crews are convinced something must be wrong with it because it was neglected, but even a mass spectrometer can't find anything wrong with it. Your deck officers silently hope they won't be substituting water rations for alcohol because of this…

>Research: Early Warning (Critical Failure)

It's gone. All of it. The data brought from Earth and her surrounding colonies. Gone.

Worse so, is that it appears you're not the only one to be experiencing this. Several key elements of data are simply missing throughout the fleet's research effort. Logs point back to a program that apparently doesn't exist anywhere on your computer banks. A virus? A worm? Nobody is sure of what it is, but they seem pretty convinced it came from you.

>+2 Turns to completion on all players.

>Research: Chemical Lasers

Your researchers are too busy attempting to cover their own asses from the hack to really work on this. Most of the research already accumulated is instead backed up on external drives and put into cold storage for now.

(Failure)

>>21533

>Scavenging

Your crew sets out to get ahold of whatever they can. Which turns out to be little more than some scraps, baubles, an a lot of useless junk.

>(Failure)

>Research: Resource Efficiency

Onboard machining is not something that's standard on anything short of military ships. Being able to fabricate your own spare parts was critical during the Periphery Wars, and much of the technology to do so is still relegated to military. At least until the Evacuation. Much of your researcher's work has been based around making this available to the civilians, and it's starting to pay off.

>(Success)

>Mining: Exotic Metals

Cracking asteroids is a good relief work for your crew. It takes the mind off of the situation and forces you to think with all your senses in the vacuum of space. The war so far has been taxing. Keeping your people on point has been a chore, but this work seems to go well.

>Gain +2 Exotic Metal

.>>21536

>Research: LADAR Array

It's not every day a research assistant stands before the Captain of a ship. Often the Chief Science officer delivers updates personally or through one of the officer's adjutants. But the CSO of the ship has decided to bring the assistant to you personally.

"Captain. While we were deconstructing the array components, we started to find a pattern with some of the long range components. During the war in the Periphery, much of the Hegemony fleet started using this," the assistant holds up a chip "a microprocessor developed by a military organization we can't confirm exists. So we did some digging. Turns out this chip is a filter for LADAR results. The kicker? It's the reason most of our ships couldn't properly target the Enemy out in the Periphery, and then subsequently in the homeworlds. It's listed as an IFF filter chip, and it's standard fleet wide."

The assistant goes on to explain the consequences of removing the chip. While general targeting will still be tricky, Enemy fighters, corvettes, and frigates will be easier to target, and their drive signatures can be detected at much further ranges than before.

>Gain: LSPEC/LADAR Modification

>Suffer -5 to all targeting rolls on non Enemy ships.

>Gain +10 to all targeting rolls on Enemy ships Frigate or below.

>This research replaces the LADAR repair research and inherits its requirements and prototype costs.

>Trade

The MeshNet is having a hard time handling the traffic it seems. Most of the trades occurring now are for smaller items, and the prices for resources you're looking for seem to be too high to compete with

>(Failure)

>Research: Resource Efficiency

Experimentation sometimes takes material to do so. The slag heap that was a hydrolysis reactor prototype is written of as waste though, as the Hadmix reacted rather violently to the modification process. So much for that.

>Critical Failure

>-2 Raw Metal

>>21651

Read the tech tree. These researches you're proposing aren't on the tree, and as such require artifacts or samples of technology from exploration/salvage rolls.

>>21657

>Research: Early Warning System

The analytics team is swamped by the potential threat of data loss from the Earth Remnants, and instead of working on theories, has been busy spending their time cataloging their data into external, un-networked computers.

>Research: Chemical Lasers

A fair bit of the process of upgrading your lasers is spent attempting to find the proper lensing material that can handle the joules put behind the laser through the chemical process. Like the inventor of the light bulb on Earth, you've found a lot of ways to /not/ make a laser. But your work has paid of in spades. A quartz crystal, when subjected to intense pressures during the growth process, has exhibited properties that suggest you can achieve high density photon streams without sacrificing accuracy over longer distances. More accurate, and more powerful.

>[Upgrade] Chemical Lasers, when activated, give +10 to all weapons rolls with Lasers as the selected weapon.

>Exploration

Space is vast. Space is empty. Need I say more?

>Failure

>>21672

>Research: Chemical Lasers

Research continues as normal. Chemically the process is straight forward. But imagine trying to mix these chemicals reliably in a combat situation. The edge cases are what your researchers are trying to handle.

>(Success)

>Research: Resource Efficiency

A lot of people in the fleet are working to cut down on resource usage, and your researchers are no different. Taking a page from the others in the fleet, your crews keep up the pace and manage to make some considerable process.

>Trade

Seems the ships that had spare supplies have bought up all they can afford. The prices left on the market are pure gouging.

>(Failure)

>>21729

>Research: Chemical Lasers

A chemical fire has set back the process quite a bit, but more importantly has made your lead researcher, hilariously bald.

>(Failure)

>Research: Resource Efficiency

Apparently more than his hair went in the chemical fire. Your researcher has had to get eye implants to compensate for the loss of vision he's experienced. Of course he didn't tell anyone he was blind before trying to help with a power grid distribution optimization. He's retiring most likely.

>(Failure)

>Scavenge: Food

And then the researcher turns around and attempts to help with a food finding mission. Sure, biological protiens were found, but they killed him shortly after consuming them. Apparently this brand of foodstuffs is for a very much non-human species.

>-1 Population.

>(Failure)

>>22117

Racial Bonus: Dissolute Resolutions - Your ships gain +10 to all combat actions when in combat alone (without other players). Your races gains +2 Fleet Capacity per Drydock in addition to the base bonus.

Racial Detractor: Ships Sail Forever - Your ships cannot be docked to avoid upkeep costs, and instead must be scuttled.

>>22230

1. Chemical Lasers

2,3. Optimized Reactor Injectors

>>22241

>Research - Chemical Lasers (1 Success)

Chemical Lasers have been something of a novelty in the past due to the relative expense they incur during operation due to the intense heat generated while firing. To fire more than once in combat requires liquid cooling, which can be expensive in the far reaches of space. However, their ability to penetrate standard shielding makes them quite effective in a pinch. Your researchers begin designing the chemical injection system posthaste.

>Chemical Lasers (3 Turns Remaining, 2 Water, 2 Exotic Metal)

>+4 Damage to Lasers for two rounds

> Ability Cost: 1 Water

>3 Round Cooldown

>Research: Optimized Reactor Injection

You've had a lot of close calls getting here. Pirates and Enemy Fleets can show up in the blink of an eye. Being able to out maneuver them is critical, and that's what this tech provides.

>Optimized Reactor Injection (1 turn, 4 Exotic Metal)

>Once per 3 rounds, you may pay 1 Fuel. Gain +2 PRP for 2 rounds.

Rolled 30, 10, 25 = 65 (3d100)

1. Try to recruit a scientist who is willing to head the research efforts of the Jo Republic. Our own 'scientists' are not those from the greatest universities, just those with enough training to sort of know what they are doing.

The Twin-Captains were going over the applications of the various scientists who, for small pittances of resources or even the nearly defunct Jo Republic credit, had submitted their applications. They were almost done and were going over the most promising five.

"Absolutely not." Orrshin stated, all 12 of her barbed and sucker covered tentacles lash in agitation as she stared at the file on her PDA her Twin Captain had sent her from the stack of applications.

Jopoin did not typically go outside of the water. They could survive well enough with a re-breather, but most found it deeply disturbing to not be pressed in from all sides by their watery habitat.

Orrshin however liked to lay on warm, warm rocks, which was only possible in Jotuin sections of the ship, a habit she had picked up in her Academy days. One she kept up as it let her be closer to her partner in captaining the ship.

"He is one of the best educated I've seen today, and his accomplishments are impressive." Resillia smiled as she gently pointed out his good qualities. She smiled slightly wider as Orrshin scowled at her, showing off an impressive set of fangs, even as Resillia's tongue flickered, tasting her companions agitation. She shifted her coils around the rock they were sharing languidly, enjoying the warmth just as much as Orrshin was.

"He is a ====Shiboo.====" There was nothing left to be said.

Resillia shrugged and sent the next file over. As the Eyes of the Twin-Captains of the Rising Sun it was her job to retrieve information.

2. Begin research into Early Warning. Continue to offer to share any benefits of a join project with the other members of the fleet. It doesn't matter if they are Hegemony or not. Survival is paramount.

A young, slightly nervous Jotuin slithers back and forth a large vidscreen. "As you all know the Jo Empire is one of the best in regards to sense tech. Detecting new things is our pride and joy. " She gestures to behind her and a schematic pops up on the screen.

With pride she introduced the schematics even as she flipped through the various slides quickly, outlining its capabilities. "This is a Jotuin Sensor Drone, and by the will of the Twin-Captains we are releasing it to this body of scientists. It is the very best. But I believe it can be improved."

Now calmed down she looks too and fro across the depth and breadth of her audience. "My name is Moores. Jotuin sensor tech and enthusiast. Lets get this done."

3. Continue to scout around the fleet for interesting or dangerous things. The more we can find, the more we know, the better off we will be.

Orrshiin whooped as she steered the Rising Sun through a densely packed asteroid field. Her entire body tingled as she felt the sense tech connect to her to the feed that Resillia was sending her in real time. She didn't just see the obstacles in front of her, she felt them on her skin, felt the pressure of incoming asteroids from all sides. And she moved the ship as if it were her own body.

The Rising Sun did not merely move through the void of space, it swam.

http://pastebin.com/1ear7kJY

Resources :

Fuel : 5

Food : 6

Water : 5

Raw : 5

Exotic : 5

Rolled 6, 51, 50 = 107 (3d100)

>>22285

Ship Name: SHNS Huntress

Ship Type: Cruiser

Offense: 7

Defense: 7

Propulsion: 8

Shields: 54%

Population: 1000

>Supplies

3 Fuel

5 Food

5Water

7 Raw materials

8 Exotic materials.

Special Attribute: Battlemaster Control Computer, Your ship can coordinate combat across the fleet with immpecable accuracy. As a combat action, you may designate a single target. Attacks from other ships in the fleet gain +25 to-hit against that target. This has no use restrictions per encounter.

Race Name: Solarians

Nation Name: Solarian Hegemony

Hegemony Membership: Y (for however little they actually use it)

Fluff: Solarians are a retiring race, tall and long limbed they rarely leave their systems for anything, Preferring their own systems and lands to exploration or the chaotic places away from them. In Fact the Huntress is a mothballed cruiser that was retired centuries ago, made during a more savage time. Indeed the only reason that she now moves is because of how desperate the destruction of their homeland has made their race. One would think an ancient Solarian Cruiser would be shoddy and worn, but it's not. Solarians ships while hard to repair were made to last and take lots of abuse. Solarians always did hate shoddy craftsmanship.

The huntress is a Standard Warring Era Cruiser, Armed with full weapon compliment and equipped with the crown jewel of Solarian wartech. The Battlemaster Control computer, Allowing the ship to strike often and with a accuracy against whatever foe it may encounter. The ship is however old and much of the knowledge to repair and maintain it has been lost, from age, neglect and death.

Racial Bonus: Solarian Taskmasters, Once per turn you may specify an action that you wish to "Hire Out" You may expend 2 of any resource to give +20 to that roll.

Racial Detractor: Aging Technology, You cannot repair your ships during combat. Instead spend 1 Action out of combat to repair a ship under your control to full. Repairing costs 5 Raw Metal and 3 Exotic Metal

>Tech- Resource Efficiency

> Once per three turns, you may ignore a single ship's upkeep

1. The Lord captain of the Huntress grimaced. "So you're saying ALL the data got erased by one program? How does that even happen?"

The lead researcher replies, "I do not know sir, but at this juncture I have serious doubts about the other's research capabilities. We should work on this research ourselves. We already have efficiency figured out faster than the rest of the fleet after all."

The captain stopped and considered for a time. "Agreed, proceed on early warning tech alone, we can pass it out after we've finished it."

The lead researcher bowed.

Free: A commander approached the Lordcaptain, "Won't backing out upset the rest of the fleet, sir?"

"We'll release resource efficiency research to mend the bridge."

"As you say sir."

2.The Lord captain continued, "What I am far more worried about is the data loss. Such a thing does not occur by accident. It was deliberate."

The Commnder's shock is apparent, "Who would do such a thing?"

"Enemy sympathizers, Someone trying to isolate it first to make money selling it, a race trying to make a power play in the fleet, who knows? Any leads we may have gotten have been lost by other "investigations" so we need to protect our own research. Commsion an archive."

"Yes, Sir!"

3. "Now Commander Set the ship towards that Gas giant. We need more fuel"

Rolled 5, 92, 20 = 117 (3d100)

>>22285

1. Scavenge for food if possible. We need to find some soon, or we're going to have a bad time. (+5 bonus)

2. Finish up the chemical laser prototype and research. Come on gentlemen, shouldn't be too hard.

>Chemical Lasers (2 Turns Remaining, 2 Water, 2 Exotic Metal)

>+4 Damage to Lasers for two rounds

> Ability Cost: 1 Water

>3 Round Cooldown

3. Also finish up the resource efficiency. That will help us out should things get even shorter. (1 turn left, no prototype)

Vote: Will wait and see what the rest of the Hegemony thinks.

Name: Grand Principality of Gredon

Species/Subrace: Gredons, mix of races

DCS Member Species: Y

Fluff: The Grand Principality of Gredon, or simply Gredon as many know it, is a nation not of equals, but of understood divides. While no one likes to talk much about it to outsiders, there is a clear divide between the nobility and everyone else in the nation, but it is a divide that had been agreed on in generations past. The unspoken rule was that the normal citizens of the nation were the muscle, the important circulatory system of the nation, the support structure that kept everything running, and were generally treated well by the nobility. Nobles were expected to not only run their given territory, but fight in defense of it, be it from the command center or on the front lines, earning their keep so the civilians could continue their normal lives. This way, cowardly nobles were routed out and disposed of, and those who were gallant in battle were promoted to the nobility in reward, and as to tell them they were expected to keep up the example they themselves gave.

In a way this philosophy has had great effect on their battle doctrine, a focus on fighter combat and close range combat, adopting the use of close range 'mobile armors', mechanized units that looked like large suits of armor, using smaller laser/plasma weapons to help boarding parties as well as to try and disable weaponry at close range. Several of these models have the ability to shift to a more mobile 'fighter' form for quick getaways. Their defensive technology focuses on shields, and speed, hoping a shower of laser fire will disable or destroy the enemy quickly. As such, they have also tried to focus on point defense units to avoid missile fire, but their results may not have been the best at this time.

Racial Bonus: Strong Military Tradition - Your faction has adopted a ruling class of military elite. As such,they undergo rigorous training making them incredibly effective in combat. Your ships gain the "Veterancy" ability, and gain +1 to combat rolls for every engagement they survive and participate in with a maximum of +10

Racial Detractor: Warrior Barons - While the intense training of the leadership makes for strong military forces, only so many nobles can be deployed at a time. Your Fleet Capacity is reduced by 2

Resources:

Fuel: 8

Food: 3

Water: 7

Raw Metal: 3

Exotic Metal: 10

Main ship: The Regal Dawn

Liveship

Attack 7

Defense: 1

PRP: 3

Shields: 95%

Population Cap: 3000

Bonus: 22 - Your ship was carrying a compliment of mining barges to the Periphery during the Evacuation. You gain +5 to all Mining/Salvage rolls

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>22333

Correction as Resource Efficiency is already done:

3. Research that there Improved Salvage Tackle. That'll help us a lot.

Rolled 9, 7, 2, 9, 3, 7, 1, 9 = 47 (8d10)

>>20855

Name: The Ingavik Empire

Species/Subrace: Ingrav

DCS Member Species: Y

Fluff:

The Ingrav are a species created through genetic engineering. The look like humanoid lizards with 4 arms and long fingers. They were created to be harmless and masterful engineers and mechanics. Their creators never got off their planet and ended up nuking themselves to oblivion. Over generations the Ingrav began to expand and evolve past their formerly ingrained harmless nature in the face of the nuclear Apocalypse. Unlike many of the other created species, their knack for machinery allowed them to survive and thrive by rebuilding the old technology of their masters and build even greater contraptions. Soon enough they were able to create a space fairing empire, and then the enemy was upon them ending it fairly soon.

Resources:

At Nation creation, roll 5d10. This is the amount of resources you have to start.

Resources are as follows:

Fuel: He3 & Antimatter are the primary fuel sources in this setting. They are interchangeable for the most part.

Food: Foodstuffs, universal unless otherwise specified in fluff.

Water: Both for consumption, and use in its component forms, Hydrogen for power generation & Oxygen for breathing. Unless specified in fluff, I assume your race drinks H2O and breathes O2.

Raw Metals: Iron, Titanium, Nickel, Carbon alloys, Silicon, etc. Anything that could be easily harvested in bulk from asteroids, planets, etc.

Exotic Metals: Uranium, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, etc. Anything that is found in scarce quantities.

Ship:

Population Cap (1d6): How many people you can comfortably support on your ship, in the thousands. Liveships may multiply this number by 1.5, Colony Barges by 2.

Defensive Rating(1d10): How well your ship can tank damage, via armor and hull integrity.

Offensive Rating(1d10): How well your ship can dish out damage. Liveships and Colony barges have this reduced to 3/4ths of the roll (ex: a roll of 8 would be reduced to 6.)

Propulsion Rating(1d10): How well your ship can maneuver. Frigates may multiply this number by 1.5, Colony Barges must reduce this by half.

Shield Efficency(1d100): The percentage of damage mitigated by EM, Point or Hardlight shielding. Incoming damage is reduced by this percentage.

Rolled 1 (1d4)

>>22335

ship size

Rolled 6 (1d6)

>>22336

>>22335

pop cap

Rolled 89, 62 = 151 (2d100)

>>22335

>>22336

>>22337

shield efficiency and special atributes

Ship Name: ITR-CC #2456

Ship Type: Cruiser

Offense: 9

Defense: 6

Propulsion: 2

Shields:23%

Population: 6000

Food 5

Fuel 5

Water 6

Raw Metal 5

Exotic Metal 7

Racial bonus: Engineers from Beyond the Stars - EWAR is half as effective against ships you build. Ships you build gain +1 to all stats.

Racial detractor: Vagrant Nation - Your race hasn't colonized in so long, that the art is a bit lost on you. You must research each building, including the base colony. (2 Turns, completion cost is equal to the production cost of the colony/building)

Give Technology:

[Resource Efficiency ] Once per three turns, you may ignore a single ship's upkeep

Known Technology Starting Paths [Not Yet Reesearched]

>Colony Jumpers - Requires (3 Turns, 4 Water, 2 Exotic Metal) - Gain 1000 population over four turns (+250/turn) on target colony/ship

>Chemical Lasers (2 Turns Remaining, 2 Water, 2 Exotic Metal) - when activated, give +10 to all weapons rolls with Lasers as the selected weapon.

Long ago, in a galaxy or perhaps a place far far away, lived a republic of Dwarves known only as the Immortal Technocratic Republic. A mix of living and undead dwarves, as well as sentient machinery they were the masters of technology where they came. Incredibly ambitious, sometimes to the extremes, they were the first to take to the skies in flying ships, and so befitting, the first to set foot upon their moon, establishing a colony thereof.

That was several centuries ago. And it is not them or their galaxy that is the focus of this story.This story is about the crew of the ITR-CC #2456

The ITR-CC #2456 is a specialized “Constructor Cruiser.” Neither a true colony ship or a war vessel, its purpose was that of specialized construction of ITR machines, everything from other ships, orbital bases, weapon modifications, or mining operations. #2456 was supposed to go through a routine “Vyrian-Planephase Portal” towards an ITR planet to pave the way for colonization.

It failed. Not to be unexpected, as such technology was still relatively new. But the ship appeared in a wholly unfamiliar place as far as possible from where it should have been.

But first, a word on its crew. The ITR has two classes, the “Worker Class” and “Management Class” of which #2456’s crew are the former. Long ago, the Management Class deemed that to protect their interest and ensure absolute obedience, all members of “Worker Class” were to be neurologically purged of any sense of political ambition, strictly limited autonomy, and unwavering devotion to orders. The Worker Classes only role would to serve the Republic, building, extracting, designing, or fighting as soldiers.

Thus it was the crew of the ITR-#2456 now found themselves cut-off from central command, leaderless and without a goal, lost. And this might have been the end of them.

That was until their ship discovered the Solarians. The Solarians affinity towards being taskmasters, organizers, and leaders activated something instinctual in the crew of #2456. Seeing them as their lost leaders, they now have unwavering loyalty and fanatical devotion to them, to serve in the capacity they know best. Construction and design.

Weapons, machines, tools, creations, but most of all, their great love that has never left them since their ancient ancestors, that of building ships and massive constructs. Be it on land, air, and in this case, space, the dwarves will build it!

Race:

http://pastebin.com/2GCqiyuL

Corrected for resource efficiency

Rolled 22, 21, 66 = 109 (3d100)

>>22230

>Name: The Taurian Federation

Species/Subspecies: Human

Meridian Hegemony Member Species: Yes

Fluff: Long before the DCS was formed, the Terran government established bases around the galaxy on hospitable planets. To be prepared, they claimed. But what do you do when your entire world, your whole lifestyle is cancelled because some corporate bigwig decided that your world is in the way of his dyson sphere?You stop him, that's what you damn well do. The Taurian Federation, then only designated by a string of numbers, formed from a number of military commanders standing against the megacorps. The planet busters aimed at Paradise probably helped. They were granted freedom from the control of the corrupt Terran States. Led by their military veterans(as they are the only full citizens), the Taurian Federation enjoyed a brief time in the outskirts of politics. They were an isolationist world, preferring to engage in debate on the proper way to assault a oceanic city, rather than trade between a gas giant and it's frozen moon. The destruction of planets far off allowed for a single ship to escape before the seventh planet in the Taur-163 system was destroyed.

Population Cap: 3000

DEF rating: 5

OFF Rating: 4

Propulsion Rating: 3

Shields: 92%

Fuel: 6

Food: 1

Water: 4

Raw Metals: 3

Exotic Metals: 4

Racial Bonus: For the Federation! - If an allied ship is destroyed in combat, your ships gain +10 to all combat rolls for the rest of the engagement. This stacks up to three times.

Racial Detractor: Standing on the Brink of Defeat - Your forces are largely demoralized after losing their colonies and bases. Until you found your first colony, you'll suffer -10 to all resource and manufacturing rolls.

Your ship has a rickety jump drive. As such your ship receives -10 to all retreat rolls

1 ) Continue work on the Chemical Lasers

2 ) Continue work on the Resource Efficiency project

3 ) Raid a nearby planet for proteins or alien life to serve as food.

Rolled 8, 100, 21 = 129 (3d100)

>>22285

>Name: Remnants of Earth

>Species/Subrace: Humanity

>DCS Member Species Y

>Fluff: Earth, is gone. Destroyed in a matter of minutes by the enemy. The only survivors a single cruiser that managed to fold space while still within Earth's atmosphere, fortunately, or unfortunately, they brought a chunk of Earth with them when they did so, the spaceport the Cruiser happened to be hovering above at the time, thankfully due to quick thinking they managed to bring the citizens of the spaceport inside the Ship and began to rebuild the city within the ship so that the civilians would be able to live comfortably. The ship, the SDF-1, which had been renamed the Macross after the spaceport it took with it, is built mostly around a wave motion cannon with secondary and tertiary defenses as well as a compliment of veritech fighters, though there is a distinct lack of pilots for the veritech and resources for the weaponry is scarce. Now they've managed to catch up with the rest of the Hedgemony fleet and intend on defending them as much as they can.

>>Racial Bonus - Remnants of the Source

>Your crew comes from the homeworld - the first human planet. They've got a lot to live up to, as many humans have never even seen Earth. But what's even better is their resolve to carry on the fight, or live to fight another day.

>>If your ship would take fatal damage, you may ignore it till the next turn, unless one of two things occur:

>>A) You kill an enemy ship. If this occurs, set your SP to 1.

>>B) You succeed a retreat roll. Reset your SP to half, and roll for a critical systems damage. That system suffers -10 for all associated rolls til the next engagement. If it is living quarters, reduce population by 1000.

>>Racial Detractor - Mantle of Humanity

>Your human fleet-mates look to you for leadership. So when you fail, the whole human race feels it.

>>When you retreat from combat, you suffer -10 to all rolls until the next engagement.

>Ship stats/fluff

>SDF-1 Macross

>Cruiser

>7 ATK, 3 DEF, 8 PRP

>98% Shields

>4 Fuel 4 Food 2 Water 4 Raw Metal 5 Exotic Metal

>Population 6000

> >Your ship has two modes - Cruiser, and Gunship. In Cruiser mode, you gain +2 to PRP, and +10 to Flanking rolls. In Gunship mode, you gain +2 to ATK and your critical hit range is increased by +5, both on rolls you preform, and rolls preformed on you.

>You must declare at the start of combat which mode your ship is in, and it takes one round to shift between modes, usable every three turns

1.2. Begin working on the chemical lasers again, we need the techs after it

3. Scan the planetoids for resources or anything else that may be of interest

>>22289

>Recruit: Scientist

Your recruiting efforts are all for naught, as the best scientists and engineers are being cherry picked by the fleet to repair the weathered ships of the Civilian Fleet.

>Failure

>Research: Early Warning

Your scientists find another dimensionality to the algorithm used to track ships. While it would be worth investigating if you had the compute power and the time, it's done little more than add to your research time.

>Light Critical Failure

>+1 Turn to Completion

>Exploration

The system is relatively uninteresting, but a worthy challenge for your piloting skills.

>Failure

>>22290

>Mining: Water

Your ships start cracking the ice asteroids and polar caps of celestial bodies in the system, gathering much needed water. Sharing hotspots that you didn't have time to get to the rest of the fleet has made the process easier. Hopefully keeping this up will help the fleet as a whole.

>+3 Water

>Research: Early Warning

Disaster. While trying to reconstruct the nodes lost to the Virus that previously wiped out the data on the MeshNet, your scientists accidentally trigger a secondary payload in the virus. The ensuing scramble to try to prevent further damage fails, as the virus spreads to other networked systems on the ship.

>Your ship has been infected with a Networked Self Replicating Virus (NSRV).

>You cannot share research progress with other fleet members without rolling 1d100 for infection spread.

>Gain Research: "Falchion" Anti-Virus Systems - Your ship is immune to Tier 3 EWAR

Ill be updating the rules today with EWAR classifications, stay tuned!

>Research: Resource Efficiency

With all the chaos around the ship with the Virus aboard its a miracle your crew manages to make progress on resource efficency techniques. However upgrades to the resource processors aboard your ship should pave the way for fleet wide upgrades, assuming you're able to share them.

>Success