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ineptus astartes wrote:so what about aster-than-light-drives? what new, baffling and completely unfeasible way do we use to travel the galaxy?

love engines the more love happening,the more power

*GLARE*

maybe we use ground up caterpillars!

Most esteemed sir.
I have complied a small file on the world of E’nath for your benefit as you had asked me how suitable the world and surrounding moon system was for a military station.

I am currently on the moon of Dxun (the twentieth moon in the system) writing this report.
Here is as follows, a report on the world of E’nath.


World: E’nath.

Classification: jungle/rainforest

Climate: tropical

Terrain: plains/hills

Features: massive mountains jut from the ground as a relic of the planets watery past. (having been islands.)

History: A former ocean world E’nath’s many aquatic predators moved themselves onto land without changing very much, while some of the beasts still lurk in the deep lakes and oceans. The land is covered in jungles, rainforests, swamps, and a few deserts.



Continents: 5: there are five main continents on the planet. The largest being the southeastern continent, which takes up a third of all land on the planet. covered in jungles the southeastern continent is the evolutionary birthplace of the E’nathi race. it’s main geographical features is it’s massive hills and it’s plains.

The northeastern continent is a massive desert stretching for thousands of miles the only defining features are the huge, dead volcanoes that dot the landscape and razed the jungle into a molten slag with their simultaneous eruption. The solid magma eroded over almost four hundred million years into the desert that it is today.

The south western continent is the second largest with huge rainforests and marshes going on for thousands of miles, unbroken by anything save the occasional belching volcano. the rainforest houses the most deadly avian to exist.

The other two continents are offshoots of the three main ones and are mainly tropical jungles.
From space: E’nath looks like a massive grey/blue/green ball. Due to the fact that at any given time at least 70 percent of the planet is covered by raging storms.


SEASONS:

E’nath is a planet with a partially fixed axis. And as such, has only three seasons, as opposed to the staggering sixty-seven seasons on the planet of Chernax. The seasons are as follows. The monsoon, the summer and the draught.

The monsoon is the longest. Stretching from half a year (Terran time) to three fourths of a year. It is a time when the gravitational pull of E’naths twenty-nine moons sends ocean-borne storms sweeping across the planet. At some times the planet is entirely covered in a single storm. Making it appear a tumultuous gas-world from space.

The summer is the second longest. At this time the planet’s storms slack off to an acceptable level where the thunderstorms are not as prevalent and where the volcanoes begin to erupt.

The draught is the shortest time. A period where the storms all drift to the ocean (this is a byproduct of the magnetic fields that are generated by the intensely magnetic thirteenth moon: Reen)


MOONS:

Moons: a notable detail about E’nath is it’s twenty-nine moons. three of which are inhabitable.

Huk: the verdant moon: Huk is only about the size of Luna. But has a sufficient enough mass to generate its own gravity. The only danger with Huk is the incredibly unstable plates. Resulting in an ever-changing geography.

Drexl: Demon Moon: one of the most hostile envirenmont that is breathable by humans is Drexl. This moon is the largest of all of them and orbits in a mid range. (Further than Luna) several people have lobbied for it being classified as it’s own planet. As it is almost planet-sized (note however, that E’nath is one of the larger planets) the defining features are its divers fauna. Which is almost a mirror of E’naths own. But worse. Life on Drexl is best summed up in the phrase “Nasty, brutish and short.” The most fascinating feature is the primitive carnivorous people, Drug’ray’er in the E’nathi tongue, ‘ghoul’ in the Terran language.

The ghouls are a race of ape-like humanoids who look perpetually starved. They are gaunt, hunched, and would stand at a staggering seven feet tall if not for their hunched backs (developed for a better traversal of the jungle canopy) they have skull-like faces, long pointed ears, and dark red, almost black-brown skin. The most terrifying feature however is their claws. The Ghouls have massive twelve-inch long razor sharp blade like claws on their fingers they developed these to disembowel and eat prey with lighting speed as well as to use to climb the massive trees.
The talons have developed from the metal-fiber-carbon bone structure of the ghouls, making them essentially clawed killing machines with bones like HUMVEE armor (this protects far better against bullets than it does against magnetically accelerated slugs, plasma rounds and close combat.


The ghouls live in loose pack that grow or diminish depending on the leader. (usually the biggest and cleverest) the ghouls behave incredibly like Terran apes (who I digress are Terran no longer as they were moved to the world of Baslamore when their last habitats on terra were destroyed by strip-mining) they move in groups of around five individuals but prefer to hunt alone. Each ghoul tribe has a large territory of about a dozen or so miles. The ghouls themselves are intelligent enough to wear loincloths (though the do not have any form of understandable conversation I believe them to be mildly intelligent) and communicate in screams, howls, hoots, barks and hisses.


I shall send a more detailed report soon but for now I have to collect some plant samples.



Yours truly.

James Downs. Master biologist (human)

the ghouls of Drexl:

Interesting. I was planning on doing a detailed document on notable worlds and tech soon. The Worlds one is in progress, and the tech one needs a lot of info from FITZZ and Mordo.

Also, that is a good format for what I need. Good Job!

thanks. i did a sci-fi planet making befoer as well

If you don't mind, Imma copy and paste that into my document. I'm going to use various authors and researchers.

sure. sure. that'd be fine.

For faster than light, I'm going to ask Mordo about that. I don't want to impose on his universe, and I wouldn't want to be "that guy".

But my personal opinion would either be inertia fields or black hole accelerator gates.

hmmm. I made a sci-fi universe once...they used long rodlike spars to project certain wavelengths into space and opening portalts into a webwy-esqe psudodemeinsion using antimatter collected from black holes...

And Klimino, I'm not sure the Raylid are caterpillars. They sound more like ants.

they have long bodies with no arms and only hairs in their place I think...

If you don't mind, I'd like to switch around and change some parts of your summary. FITZZ said it was a lot like Catachan, so basically I'm going to put various dense environments in place of the desert and plains.

(by plains I meant flatland jungle. should have elaborated. I would prefer if you kept a bit of the dessert though)

1. Dessert, eh? Jungle of cake.

2. Alright, but if Mordo objects, I can't do anything. He wrote and entire report on the world.

Also, I had an idea for another race: Space Wyverns:



Instead of scales, they would be covered in bone plates, and they would have a four part jaw, allowing it to open horizontally like humans, vertical like an insect, or both like an octopus They would differ from other races in that they are silicon based life-forms, and evolved in the rings of a gas giant, allowing them to survive in the vacuum of space and in atmosphere due to the massive pressure of the gas giants. They'd be about eight meters tall standing completely straight, biologically immortal, and only get bigger with age. I'm still formulating a culture, and skill modifiers would be Mordo/FITZZ decision.

I'd like to leave the planets guide to some other. I'm still focusing on the map as of the moment.

I can do the planets guide...

This is what I have for Chelicera:

World: Chilcera

Classification: Forest World

Climate: Temperate

Terrain: Endless Pine-tree like forest/Flatland, large valleys

Features: well spaced massive valleys

History: The world has been coated in trees for all of recorded history. It is suspect that the valleys are from mining in ages past, but the idea of water erosion is certainly out, as the valleys connect to no ocean or body of water.

Continents: One:

The enirety of the world is a single land mass, with large rivers running a single straight path around the cicumfrence of the world. The massive espanses cover the entire world, save for spaces for the valleys where solid rock prevents the growth of trees.

From Space: Celicera resembles a dark green marble, with strands of blue creeping around it's surface as evidence of rivers there.

Seasons: Chilcera has three seasons: Summer, winter, and spring. During summer most animals are active and most plants are growing, as with many other worlds. However, an event where Chilcera shifts itself due to an annual gravitational weakening from any of the three stars causes an instant transformation inro winter, where all life hibernates untill spring, upon which time the natives spend their time waking and feeding to restore themselves for summer ahead.

Moons: Chilcera has no moons.

I would like to thank the director for giving me one of the easier worlds to study:

Sincerely, Y'unoo, Cephran Explorer extrodinaire

great! (earlier yo usay the oceans of chephran arre only a few meteres deep, maybe a dozen meteres?)

ineptus astartes wrote:great! (earlier yo usay the oceans of chephran arre only a few meteres deep, maybe a dozen meteres?)

Imagine them as being a dozen at the deepest but other wise, like this all over:

Kasrkai wrote:If you don't mind, I'd like to switch around and change some parts of your summary. FITZZ said it was a lot like Catachan, so basically I'm going to put various dense environments in place of the desert and plains.

There are also Yahan artifacts on E'nath, but digs have been made impossible by the E'nathi themselves, who consider them sacred.

so they worship the Yahan? *cough*covenant*cough*

Race Sheet: APPROVED BY OUR GMs. ADD IT TO THE LIST MORDO! AAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDD IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

Oriosian (OR-EE-oh-SIGH-AN): Oriosians are massive, wyvern like beings, originating from the rings of the gas giant Usiart, with sizes reaching to at least four meters in height. An Oriosian resembles a wyvern, But rather than a lizard, an Oriosian is more crustacean like, with scales replaced with many thick bone plates, and four way jaw that opens horizontally and vertically. Oriosians are much different from other species in the galaxy, as all other species are carbon based, they are Silicon based. As a result, an Oriosian does not need to breathe any substance for sustaining functions, allowing it to withstand the vacuum of space indefinitely. However, they have a lower tolerance for fluid and physical pressure than any other race. As a final trait to their unique origins, Oriosians are the only sentient species capable of flight. A diet of minerals and metals has led the Oriosians to harbor a love of nature, a long life, and a strong value of opinions and feelings of all creatures. Oriosians are strongly agnostic. Oriosians CANNOT breath fire.
MODIFIERS - +5 Survival -4 Tech skill (Their clawed legs make it difficult to use machinery) , -2 Speech against Humanoids (Does not apply to humans, as Dragons are strongly imbedded in human mythology, -4 VS. Hulhuxi)

Also, the planets sheet is now Ineptus' court.

i'll get started on cephran.

I'll get some tech up shortly.

I've added Usiart and a worm hole (The Maw) to the map so far.

just throwing in my opinion. I like the wyvern idea but can we make them more like an enviromental threat. Like actual dragon, you can't play as one but you can sure as hell fight one

Awww. I like my Oriosians...

you might want to modify them a bit to make them more player-friendly though.

ei. not like an E'nathi's big bro.