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Brave->HeroicThe Hero's Return - Pink Floyd

OOC: I would advise that all parties create their own personal tactical overview document, for keeping track of their faction's IPs, navy, alliances, and available technology.IC(Calinar): The pilot, who had been designated the diplomatic representative on this expedition, stepped forward to greet the Syrrinx - who were, he found, unexpectedly tall, especially compared to the 4-foot Diemawr."Peace - peace and mutual prosperity, would be glorious, would be honorable, will be the branch we seek."---Meanwhile, on Diemwnt-Cwn, engineers were nearing completion on the plans for something that, if built, would be the herald, not of peace, but of bloodshed and conquest.OOC: It's going to take me a while to reach a decision on which ship class to begin construction on. Fortunately, given the "one construction project at a time" rule, I'll have plenty of time to make that choice.

Cirrus Minor - Pink Floyd

Hmm...Overrated: I'm going to have to say Metallica. While their stuff up to the late 80's was good, the 80's are dead, and, to a certain extent, so is Metallica. They've already released their own version of Monopoly, so I suppose the only place for them to sink now is James Hetfield singing a duet with Lil John.Underrated: Jethro Tull. More than 40 continuous years of making music, and yet many people are firmly convinced that Jethro Tull is the name of one of the members of the band, and can name, at most, five songs of theirs. I rather suspect part of it is because of the flute.

Back-Door Angels - Jethro Tull

OOC: Considering how long it's going to take to build up a good industrial base and then get a fleet going, I doubt that. Furthermore, if everyone plays it cool, I'm going to be expecting a lot of playing that's decidedly more clever than launching an all-out attack at the beginning of the conflict.

OOC: Unless you force it like Wrack did, that is going to take an appropriately long time. Long enough for me to have my fun, I think.Also, the mechanics of planet conquest as they've been explained so far have given me interesting ideas for how to run my strategy when it comes to war.IC(Calinar): The Diemawr were impressed with the city, though it was the Space Elevator that made the biggest impression. Based on what could be seen here, the Syrrinx had minds geared more towards the grand gesture than any sort of subtlety.The Golau-a-Gobaith maneuvered in carefully for a landing on a set of sturdy metallic runners, coming down with something of a heavy "thud" next to the Syrrinx ship. A hatch opened on the dorsal surface of the ship, and the crew clambered out, jumping down from the top of their ship to greet the Syrrinx.

Round and Around / Yet Another Movie - Pink Floyd

It Ain't Easy - David Bowie

One of These Days - Pink Floyd

Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin"We come from the land of the ice and snow"

Crossroads - Cream

Good->Polar Opposites->BadBad Company - Bad Company

Black Sunday - Jethro Tull

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

OOC: I just hope that there simply isn't an official, forced end-game. As much as I like conquest, I don't like total extermination.

Medley: We Used to Know / For a Thousand Mothers - Jethro TullFrom the 1970 Isle of Wight concert.

OOC: Well, I'm hoping this doesn't have an actual "end-game" like Interstellar Line did. While the final battles we had were kind of epic, the whole "All but one person has to die" thing, coupled with some people trying to get past that, made it insanely frustrating.Oh, yeah, and the Selachii got kicked in the face by the Wonder Twins. :PIC(Diemwnt-Cwn): The scout-ship had sent back an initial data packet from the first contact with an alien race, and the Lord President was, to understate things just a little, completely taken by surprise. The expectation, affirmed by theoretical physicists, mathematicians, and pretty much everyone else, was that life in the universe was rare - they expected the first scout-ship to travel for at least a year before encountering another alien race.Instead, first contact came fifteen minutes into the mission. The good news, as the Lord President saw it, was that the race they had encountered appeared to be as new to the universe as they were - much easier to handle, he expected, than some galaxy-spanning empire.The bad news was that, despite the statisticians' assertions that intelligent life had to be unimaginably rare, the Lord President rather suspected that the universe was simultaneously much bigger and much more tightly packed than had been previously thought - and something would have to be done to prepare for the possibility of aliens that were more aggressive than these Syrrinx.The Lord President watched the hovering shadow of the incomplete Carreg-dur space-station under construction in orbit as he dictated orders, to be transmitted to the capitol's top engineering institute."Plans are to be drawn up for a full naval force, capable of launching or repelling a full-scale invasion. Implementation and publication of ship classes to be carried out at the will of the Lord President."IC(Golau-a-Gobaith scout vessel): The pilot of the scouting vessel signaled his assent to the Syrrinx request, and angled his ship in to follow the escort down to the planet. Behind him, the two other members of the crew - a biologist and an astronomer - prepared notes for the first official meeting with alien life-forms.

OOC: Dude, if your profile isn't done yet, don't post it. I promise we'll be able to stand the suspense until you have an actual finished profile.

Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

OOC: And now we see the true character of this game.It's going to be a long, difficult, industrial slog-fest. And it will be awesome.

The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie

Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

My favorite recent movie. I especially loved the quick little reference to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

OOC: If you cut down the period of no-negative-modifiers, you might want to have the first post reflect that change.IC: The scoutship followed the Syrrinx into the neighboring system, rather eager to formalize first contact with what, at this point, appeared to be a non-hostile race.