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Carl Miller wrote:Do not pump any characters full of roids, please.

Also remember that said loroi raised by humans could be female :P
I do not intend to play this myself. It was interned as an alternative to a male halfbreed. I believe that going out adventuring with a traditional male loroi would be a bit difficult. Halfbreeds are odd. Raised in another culture is a totally different matter. Still even such a person can know a lot of traditional values. In Star Trek Next Generation Worf is a Klingon raised by humans. Worf kom a lot of Klingon culture, probably more then most Klingon and his foster parents are supportive of his quest to learn Klingon ways. This place him "in between" worlds but he is, 100% genetically Klingon.

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Sweforce wrote:
Carl Miller wrote:Do not pump any characters full of roids, please.

Also remember that said loroi raised by humans could be female :P
I do not intend to play this myself. It was interned as an alternative to a male halfbreed. I believe that going out adventuring with a traditional male loroi would be a bit difficult. Halfbreeds are odd. Raised in another culture is a totally different matter. Still even such a person can know a lot of traditional values. In Star Trek Next Generation Worf is a Klingon raised by humans. Worf kom a lot of Klingon culture, probably more then most Klingon and his foster parents are supportive of his quest to learn Klingon ways. This place him "in between" worlds but he is, 100% genetically Klingon.
Yes, but Worf's son, Alexander Rozhenko, is 1/4th human. His mother, K'Ehleyr, is 1/2 Human, 1/2 Klingon.

As for going out adventuring with a male Loroi, it would be kind of a challenge. The same way that, say, going out adventuring with a woman in the group in 1885 would have been.
It can be done. It can especially highlight cultural differences, if you have the Loroiboi raised by humans in the human part of the party, and a bunch of Loroi females who are absolutely terrified at the idea of him coming to harm, and completely dismissive of the idea that he could contribute meaningfully.

And in a fight, unless he's a TK, he can contribute...
Well, frankly, he'd be pretty good in a skirmish, because he'd present the smallest target around, and that wouldn't meaningfully impact his ability to use a rifle.

More importantly, it's entirely likely that Loroiboi, or Lorboi for short, has some kind of skills that are quite useful. After all, the TCA can certainly dig up a whole shitload of rifle-carriers to throw at this kind of thing, and as it's based on meritocratic recruitment and advancement, he'd have to have something really hot in the brainspace going for him to get assigned the post.
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Or, maybe due to a shipboard radiation accident, he's sterile/damaged goods and effectively useless to the others except as some diplomatic token.

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ShadowDragon8685 wrote: Loroiboi, or Lorboi for short,
I've been reading Loriboi for short....
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Sure. I'll play the feisty Loroi male who decided to go against tradition and schemed a way to escape the overprotective Females and seek his fortune and adventure among the stars. After all he is not a SLAVE is he? So if he decides I want to go here .. and do what I want... yes his Loroi sisters will frown on his irresponsibility... but will they actually incarcerate him if he demands his freedom?

So I'll play a young Loroi male named 'Amber-Eyes'... who was part of an evacuation of a boarder world in the Union that human marines aided in helping with while the Union fleet and the earth ships helped fight a Hegemony incursion. And simply due to the chaotic evacuation, misfortunes and the rapid retreat as the main fleet enguaged... Amber-Eyes ended up spending several months on board the marine ship with other refugees and learned that Men could be warriors too! And thus a wonderlust for adventures and action was awaken in him and when the Loroi finally got to them.... he forced the issue asking asylum from the TCU to live as a free independent male!
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sunphoenix wrote:Sure. I'll play the feisty Loroi male who decided to go against tradition and schemed a way to escape the overprotective Females and seek his fortune and adventure among the stars. After all he is not a SLAVE is he? So if he decides I want to go here .. and do what I want... yes his Loroi sisters will frown on his irresponsibility... but will they actually incarcerate him if he demands his freedom?

So I'll play a young Loroi male named 'Amber-Eyes'... who was part of an evacuation of a boarder world in the Union that human marines aided in helping with while the Union fleet and the earth ships helped fight a Hegemony incursion. And simply due to the chaotic evacuation, misfortunes and the rapid retreat as the main fleet enguaged... Amber-Eyes ended up spending several months on board the marine ship with other refugees and learned that Men could be warriors too! And thus a wonderlust for adventures and action was awaken in him and when the Loroi finally got to them.... he forced the issue asking asylum from the TCU to live as a free independent male!
Hooray! Lorai men's emancipation began! :lol:

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Tamri wrote:
Hooray! Lorai men's emancipation began! :lol:
Lol! Their slogan... "I am More than my Gametes!"
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sunphoenix wrote:Sure. I'll play the feisty Loroi male who decided to go against tradition and schemed a way to escape the overprotective Females and seek his fortune and adventure among the stars. After all he is not a SLAVE is he? So if he decides I want to go here .. and do what I want... yes his Loroi sisters will frown on his irresponsibility... but will they actually incarcerate him if he demands his freedom?

So I'll play a young Loroi male named 'Amber-Eyes'... who was part of an evacuation of a boarder world in the Union that human marines aided in helping with while the Union fleet and the earth ships helped fight a Hegemony incursion. And simply due to the chaotic evacuation, misfortunes and the rapid retreat as the main fleet enguaged... Amber-Eyes ended up spending several months on board the marine ship with other refugees and learned that Men could be warriors too! And thus a wonderlust for adventures and action was awaken in him and when the Loroi finally got to them.... he forced the issue asking asylum from the TCU to live as a free independent male!
Given that this would be a major diplomatic incident, he's going to be the local commander's least favorite station resident. People don't tend to like people who bring them trouble, and asylum would only need to be granted if the commander thought that there were legitimate reasons: asylum is not an immigration procedure, it is a balm to genuine and serious mistreatment or danger with an irrevocable political overtone, directly equivalent to accusing those being fled from of committing a crime. For reference, most Iranians, Russians, and Continental Chinese would probably not be granted asylum by the US even if allowed to stay for a while, despite all three theoretically being enemies or rivals, due to a lack of genuine reason: dissatisfaction isn't enough. North Koreans, in comparison, probably would because of the materially different treatment prompted by either the attempt to obtain asylum, or even living in North Korea if not part of the upper ranks.

I advise you to revise this scenario until it actually makes sense, because what you've described would certainly not be compelling grounds for granting asylum, and if the commander dared to grant it anyways then the TCA would strip the commander of their position and send the asylumee back as soon as word got back to Human space: government representatives do not play such large games on the international stage and survive their own side without major legitimate justification, and in the TCA's current state it would have to be very major indeed.

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sunphoenix wrote:Sure. I'll play the feisty Loroi male who decided to go against tradition and schemed a way to escape the overprotective Females and seek his fortune and adventure among the stars. After all he is not a SLAVE is he? So if he decides I want to go here .. and do what I want... yes his Loroi sisters will frown on his irresponsibility... but will they actually incarcerate him if he demands his freedom?

So I'll play a young Loroi male named 'Amber-Eyes'... who was part of an evacuation of a boarder world in the Union that human marines aided in helping with while the Union fleet and the earth ships helped fight a Hegemony incursion. And simply due to the chaotic evacuation, misfortunes and the rapid retreat as the main fleet enguaged... Amber-Eyes ended up spending several months on board the marine ship with other refugees and learned that Men could be warriors too! And thus a wonderlust for adventures and action was awaken in him and when the Loroi finally got to them.... he forced the issue asking asylum from the TCU to live as a free independent male!
According to Humanity in 2160, the TCA has not yet subsumed the sovereign states of Earth, so he would have to forum-shop for asylum.
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So, out of curiosity, is this idea still going, is anyone still interested in it, or what?

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I am interested, depending on the medium.

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ShadowDragon8685 wrote:So, out of curiosity, is this idea still going, is anyone still interested in it, or what?
I hope so. The idea is to have a station similar to to the one in Star Trek Deep Space 9 (thou probably smaller) for social interaction. Some people are taking it to serious thou making it a bit hard getting started.

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Well the only thing I would change about my Loroi male character was that he doesn't have to flee to humanity to find his independence. He's got money and skills of his own.. and he just flat out TOOK his independence! He got about his civilian ship and took a flight to human-space ignoring the protects of the females and asked, "Am I a prisoner? Have I committed a crime? If no then you have no right to control where I go or what I do." Of course No female would expect a male to do something so bold as to leave home and go off on his own to live among strange aliens. He just told them what they thought they wanted to hear and all it took was a little manipulation and a little misinformation for them to assume.. no male has the "guts" to do anything so radical, so BOLD... and before his 'sisters' knew it he was armed, armored and leaving Loroi-space to take up residence on the human station as a independent citizen. As an added safeguard to his independence he enlisting in the TCA Station security as a Loroi-specialist liaison in Security.
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Count me in. I'll give it a try even if my english is far from perfect.

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Sweforce wrote:
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:So, out of curiosity, is this idea still going, is anyone still interested in it, or what?
I hope so. The idea is to have a station similar to to the one in Star Trek Deep Space 9 (thou probably smaller) for social interaction. Some people are taking it to serious thou making it a bit hard getting started.
If you really want to start it, then you already have enough buy-in. The only way to move it further than it has been is to post the first bit of the RP.

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Well for a RP game to sort of begin.. we would have to decide upon a game system to adjudicate the action... we have been using BESM... but it is NOT the only system. That way we also have some means to define... character creation and character capabilities. GURPS could work as Arioch has shown... but the point values between Beryl, Tempo and Fireblade are... significant so some idea of what system and what point values or whatever would be nice to have beforehand.
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sunphoenix wrote:Well for a RP game to sort of begin.. we would have to decide upon a game system to adjudicate the action... we have been using BESM... but it is NOT the only system. That way we also have some means to define... character creation and character capabilities. GURPS could work as Arioch has shown... but the point values between Beryl, Tempo and Fireblade are... significant so some idea of what system and what point values or whatever would be nice to have beforehand.
A simple system could do on the station. Leaving the station to go on an adventure another system could be needed. Unless there is a need for some cloak and dagger on going on on the station a simple storytelling system could work just as well. Star Trek DS9 is a good model of what I have in mind.

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This was directed mostly at sunphoenix, not really at Sweforce. Though that last bit applies regardless.
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Sweforce wrote:
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:Here's a question: Are you planning on this being a PbP style of normal tabletop RPG, or is it freeform RP without any stats?

Here's another question: We have a Discord Server, that could allow for real-time RP and/or real-time OOC discussion. I imagine Carl wouldn't object much to making a Halfway Station RP and Halfway Station OOC channel, if people are interested.
Completely social, no stats. However, if someone want to "go on an adventure" then that is excellent. Consider the station for most parts as the traditional inn the roleplaying characters meet up in at the beginning of an fantasy game. At the station maybe there is a report of something that needs to be investigated in a nearby system. A ship is prepared to scout it out, some players join in as crew members and THAT would be the another RP adventure. After that, eventually, the survivors return to the base. Of this reason there may also be the need to have more then one character if the adventure thread update to slowly for a while. The character I presented in the beginning is part of the stations maintenance crew and as such unlikely to leave at all. It is a almost purely social character.
Probably just as well, actual rp systems on a forum strike me as only being a good idea if the forum has a plug-in that supports the rp system. Forums are free-form, thus most or all RPs for them realistically should be as well.

If you want this RP to happen, then post in-character instead of equivocating.

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I'm not fond of 'free-form' RP... it seems too much like a popularity contest with the rest of the players for the storyteller to adjudicate. For instance... 'my character has computer hacking as a skill.' 'Neat... so does mine!'" Well which one is the more skilled hacker? Mr Storyteller... and how do you determine that without solid stats for skills and abilities?
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*Chuck Norris walks in*
*addressing the puppet players behind the characters he can see:*This ain't a popularity conquest.
This is a place to hang out and socialize while in-character.
No stats, no tasks.
Just talk.
About your character's life, or universe politics.

This is the tavern where your group forms and posibly finds a quest.
Except, there are no quests here.
*Chuck walks out again*
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