Lara White

IC: "I like to believe that I'm quite good with it, actually." Atiel said. "I don't believe I've told you about the time that I saved a three Matoran from a crooked Skakdi that had invaded their home." He laughed. "By the time I was done with him, he couldn't even move under his own power!"

IC: Atiel nodded. "I am a gentleman adventurer by trade, and your proposition intrigued me. Now!" He exclaimed. "Where do we begin?"

No, but you can have characters who work for that nation that you can develop. Like I said before, Clancy-esque writing.

OOC: Atiel from Le. IC: Atiel stepped into Ta-Koro, looking around to find this audacious Matoran who wished to solve the mystery of the Toa Mata's disappearance. It didn't take long for him to spot the Matoran (for some reason, the Matoran had decided to put a banner above his head), and Atiel strode toward him. "You're the person I'm looking for, it seems!" He said as a warm greeting. "You're the one who wants to investigate all this hullabaloo about the Toa Mata, yes?"

Atiel chuckled. "Thank you for your kind words--you did quite well yourself. As for who has my services, I am on my way to Ta-Koro to investigate some talk about the old Chronicler. Unfortunately, I am in quite a hurry, as this delightful brawl has delayed my travel. I bid you farewell." He said, slinging the hammer over his back. "If you should find yourself in need of my aid, do not hesitate to seek me out." OOC: Atiel to Ta.

Well, I'm assuming they've glassed your homeworld, so you'd probably start somewhere out in the boondocks of the Orion Arm (you mentioned it would take years to fully colonize, so there'll be some space). Of course, one of the things that drives me up the wall is that I literally have no option when capturing planets except genocide. What I want to do is take over the planet and institute reforms and goodwill projects to make the populace like me, and then assimilate them into my empire. The problem with that is, according to Xom, I'd be giving another race a huge enclave within my empire, and of course the player who controls them is going to make them rebel. Even after I give them all sorts of humanitarian aid and fix all their cities and etc.

Well, I agree that completely obliterating someone else's race into obliterated obliteration is not fair to them, considering all the work, hence my suggestion that we could say that there were survivors who fled elsewhere.

Well, I happen to like politicking. But if you have a problem because you don't want eternal war, but you also think it's boring without war, I'm not seeing a middle ground here. Perhaps this is the wrong RPG? (I'm trying to make it so that an unequivocal end to the wars which will inevitably pop up periodically will be amenable to everyone, including the loser.)

I'd prefer if you didn't use a Turaga, as I don't have a perk set for them and I'd also need an opposite number for the Agori, which there isn't.

Solution: Have something like modern geopolitics. Except for completely off-the-wall nutcases, no one wants to go to war, because that would damage their repute in international relations (Incidentally, Right of Conquest is currently considered one of the worst of all war crimes, but you can't really enforce it as a crime if the conqueror wins). In this case, perhaps there could be something like an international forum for people to air their grievances in before military action becomes an issue. I know that, in the event I go to war, I will be offering peace treaties at regular intervals (unless we run into Space Nazis). In addition, since so many people don't like to have to write up a new profile when they lose, we could exploit the large numbers we'll be dealing with and say that, in the unlikely event that a race gets completely obliterated down to its homeworld, that a few survivors managed to escape the genocide and use what they took with them to make a new homeworld.

Atiel nodded in satisfaction, then turned to the Toa who he had fought with. "Well fought, sir." He said. "I am Atiel, gentleman adventurer. May I have the pleasure of knowing your name?"

@ TPTI and Nihi: Ah, I didn't see that post. My apologies. I'd love to loot him, but I have places to be.

I think it'd depend on the player's writing style. I, for example, will probably have a few select characters in a Clancy-esque technothriller style, whereas some people probably won't even give their nation's chief of state a name.

Still waiting on TPTI to admit defeat, dadblammit. At this rate we might just declare victory and leave for the sake of not wasting time.

I'm impressed. That's quite a stroke of "luck." Personally I think Impulse might be the Ghost, but then again he could be a Mafian pretending to be the Detective. Incidentally, in his saying that he's pretty much made himself the target for the next round, so I suggest that the Doctor cover him.

Well, the more we throw around the more likely we are to hit the truth.

I believe he mentioned that there are two options for starting out. One, that you have a few extra adjacent worlds already colonized, or two, that you start out with a few colonizers ready to run off and pick prime systems for you. That being said, space is big. I mean, you might think it's a long way to the supermarket, but that's peanuts next to space. I expect there will be large uncolonized zones and hotspots where national borders meet. In addition, this gives an interesting question of, since there's a large amount of empty space, where do I fit colony ships into my fleet budget? Especially when there's a war on and you have to wait three weeks just to see any profit from said colony ship.

...I'd actually forgotten about that.

Oh no, not again.

Plant. As in, a tree or a bush. (that being said, I suspect you're kidding.)

Ah, okay. I've provided Xom with a fairly simple banner to use. Not very fancy, but I am of the opinion that simpler is often better.

Sorry if I'm not clear on this, but what's the deal with solar systems? Is each one just a space on the board, or is each planet a space on the board?

That's a logical fallacy. Just because one group could have done it, does not mean they did. It is a perfectly viable option that Makuta could have done it, or some unknown third party could have done it, or it's simply not a question in this canon.

Actually, FT has specifically said, if I recall, that there was a plot explanation for all these new races showing up. And they do bring up a good point--since no one was around to save Mata Nui, is he dead or did the Makuta do something to keep him alive?

I think you're supposed to wait, but if he doesn't show up for a while, then you could probably shoot him a PM with a link to it.