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Timeskippers are traitors to Mars! Timeskippers are traitors to the Space Revolution! War now! I'm actually pro-timeskip but someone's gotta advocate for war now
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Oct 24, 2017 18:34
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Gridlocked posted:
There was a secret Goon running the IC and I assume they or another are running the Terrans... failing that Saros is a Goon. We must be vigilant that the secret goons are just as goony and retarded as us, just not hamstrung by high minded moralizing by Illuminati Pawns.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:35
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Pretty sure the Mystery Goon that ran the IC is now running either the UT or still the IC because when we pestered Saros for their identity he said they were still needed. So yeah, Putin is probably literally a goon, and one not restricted by Gridlocked. E: I'd vote for war now (or in a few months once the next round of newfleet ships come off the line), but the argument would start another 20 page flamewar and I'm just loving burnt out at this point. Timeskip a few years and shoot whatever needs shooting then.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:37
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War LATER
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Oct 24, 2017 18:48
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There's really no good narrative reasons to go to war and to be honest it'd be a losing proposition right now anyway. We can skip ahead a year or two to be sure.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:11
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Peace now, war later! We need the enemy to build up plenty of targets for our sweet new spinal lasers.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:15
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War later, as long as we don't forget to nuke Earth sometime in the future
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Oct 24, 2017 19:50
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It would be a bit unfortunate if an Aurora LP ended with earth and mars nuking each other into glowing piles of crap and that's it. Unless we get to continue as the TFS.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:03
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Honestly there is absolutely no reason for war at this moment. Fascist state is slowly reforming, peace is possible and there are hundreds of new systems to colonize. War = Loss of life on a scale never ever seen before and the eradication of both of our home system. For what? Socialism? Can't build socialism on corpses. And on top of this there is something out there that wants to eat all of us.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:22
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Pharnakes posted:Do you actually have any more coherent or interesting argument than I ain't arguing with people using "taking it up the rear end" as an argument in an lp.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:28
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Crazycryodude posted:Yeah I'm down for a timeskip soon, we're at the point where almost 40% of the LP with "War" in the title has no war. Not that I dislike anything so far, in fact Saros is an amazing writer and I could spend another month just reading exploration reports, but at the end of the day the only actually fun part of Aurora is the combat and I kinda want to get back to it somehow. Agree with Cryo. Time skip fight aliens. Not that I'm not enjoying the cool writing and posting Saros is doing, but I feel its an LP of Aurora not an LP of a CYOA being written on the fly. Sorry for dub post. Using phone at work. Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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Oct 24, 2017 23:33
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You want time skip, you got it. FIVE BILLION YEARS LATER...
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Oct 24, 2017 23:51
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Yeah, go for the timeskip until there is a source of potential conflict. Be that aliens, concrete signs of UT/IC loving with us from the host (not just our +/- fanatics and martian paranoia speculating), or otherwise. Arguing over how soft/hard we want to be in our foreign dealings or trying to find this one special trick to deal with jump sickness and hoodwink those extradimensional aliens ("C'thulu hates it!!") has kind of been done to death at this point.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:01
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Timeskip also means more neat systems to find! I like finding stuff. TBH I might like Aurora better if it had more combat challenges that weren't other empires.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:03
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Yeah, I'm very down for a time skip.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:09
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OwlFancier posted:Timeskip also means more neat systems to find! I like finding stuff. Accounting software can only do so much. The way Saros explained it to me you queue up a buch of commands for every faction and hit go to see what dice do.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:23
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Gridlocked posted:Accounting software can only do so much. I mean if it generated more non-empire hostiles to fight in systems. I've played it but it's mostly empty. The combat is fine, it's just there's not a lot to fight.
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Oct 25, 2017 01:03
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You can have it generate lots of non-player races at the start. That makes it a lot less empty. Unfortunately, it also makes is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Now that Steve's finally interested in doing a C# version for real that might get a lot better soon.
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Oct 25, 2017 03:25
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You can aslo just set race generation to be like 100% for each viable system with a 300% npr production modification. Enjoy getting swamped with hundreds of ships.
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Oct 25, 2017 03:28
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LLSix posted:You can have it generate lots of non-player races at the start. That makes it a lot less empty. Unfortunately, it also makes is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. We talking Blizzards soon?
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Oct 25, 2017 03:29
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Gridlocked posted:We talking Blizzards soon? Dwarf fortress soon, though except for two people making a game essentially as a living its one dude with a family making this game on his off time because he likes having a system to build stories with sometimes. Though the additions he is making look really cool and I cant wait for him to be done. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Oct 25, 2017 03:58
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Although Aurora does only get developed in Steve's free time as a hobby, he's an absolute beast when he actually does sit down to work on it. For context, there was an entire community team working on porting the game just as-is to C#, and they had gotten solidly into it when Steve announced his intention to not only port the game to C# but also entirely rebuild some mechanics from the ground up while he was at it. The community team decided to give up because they were sure they couldn't beat Steve to completion despite him being one dude who does it as a hobby. He's really really good at writing poo poo when he can get around to it.
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Oct 25, 2017 04:07
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Steve sounds like a boss. I wonder if the eldrich horror is steve and out little pixels and numbers will find their universe is eaten by Steve as he makes way for the new vesrion
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Oct 25, 2017 04:11
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I am cool with a timeskip.
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Oct 25, 2017 08:45
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The Sunskimmer The Eclipse departs for Moutere with a mostly fresh crew complement and the addition of several scientists from the Pluto site including the indomitable Dr Lafever and a small Marine detachment headed up by Col. Autoshades. In the small shuttlebay one of the two shuttles has been removed and in it’s place is Facility’s mobile unit and its two silent companions. The approach to the transit point is uneventful. The mobile unit communicates that it is withdrawing from ansible comms and disabling exterior capabilities as a precaution before the jump. The jump itself is as uneventful as they ever are. Col. Arkanterian is making his third jump and he shudders as he feels the watchful gaze of something pass over and through his ship. The Facility unit reports no unusual effects other than the expected temporary disorientation after the jump. Putting the transit behind them The Eclipse heads starward, instruments drinking in the glare of the small orange dwarf and trying to sift information on the black cylinder orbiting inside its corona. Nothing new emerges as the ship slowly makes its way insystem. The cylinder drinks all electromagnetic radiation, emits absolutely nothing and can only be observed indirectly via its silhouette against the star and it's effect on the magnetic fields around it. The ship makes several looping passes each time drawing closer without any response from the cylinder. As they close to 20m km Arkanterian orders a course turning up above the plane of the ecliptic. They rise over the star and for the first time they see what the crew dubs the ‘spiderweb.’ Along the side of the cylinder always facing the sun is a delicate lattice of matter seemingly pressed against the absolute darkness of the cylinder. The fractal patterns it makes look tiny but from the scale against the thousand kilometer length and eighty kilometer diameter of the cylinder of darkness the individual strands must be up to several hundred meters in diameter. The spiderweb is quickly forgotten as the cylinder orbits around the star further and the telescopes of The Eclipse get to view it end on. “It’s full of loving stars!” yells one quick thinker amongst the astronomy team and the rest of the scientists burst into worried sounding laughter.  Arkanterian who has an appreciation for the classics smiles wryly as he views the images now forming on his screen. The interior 'walls' are also light sucking blackness but rather surprisingly the cylinder appears to be open - at least on this end - and it is full of specks of light. The specks at the closest end are brighter and yellower and they slowly fade away to redness then nothing as they get further down the cylinder and appear to be scattered around the interior, not against the walls. Further scans show the procession of specks proceeds away down the cylinder through the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared to microwave to radio before reaching ultra low frequency waves and fading into blackness beyond the ability of The Eclipse’s instruments to measure before the halfway point is reached. The effect is beautiful and Arkanterian orders The Eclipse to close with the cylinder while maintaining the end on aspect. As the distance ticks down the specks of light continue to resolve in the telescopes and the crew watches in rapt silence as the composition of the tens of thousands of specks becomes apparent. First suggestive, then intriguing and finally... incredible. Facility is tied into the data-streams from the science team and breaks its silence to speak directly to Arkanterian and Autoshades. “Colonels, I need you to open the shuttlebay doors and allow me to exit and attempt communication right now.” Saros fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Oct 25, 2017 15:55
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Saros posted:“Colonels, I need you to open the shuttlebay doors and allow me to exit and attempt communication right now.” Yes 
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Oct 25, 2017 15:59
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Facility is going to be eaten by the star monster 
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Oct 25, 2017 15:59
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DO IT
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Oct 25, 2017 16:02
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Lets go! Make that contact!
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Oct 25, 2017 16:03
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Auntie Do it!
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Oct 25, 2017 16:03
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Tango be with you, space robot friend.
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Oct 25, 2017 16:04
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Throw open those doors and let
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Oct 25, 2017 16:11
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If those are indeed stars then it suggests that it's bigger on the inside or some form of transportation If those lights aren't stars then it could be a VR universe. A sort of long term bomb shelter for sapient entities. It'd be a good setup for it
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Oct 25, 2017 16:14
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I mean we brought Facility along for its expertise, there is no reason to deny its (seemingly completely reasonable) request at this point.
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Oct 25, 2017 16:20
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just do it
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Oct 25, 2017 16:23
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“Colonels, I need you to open the shuttlebay doors and allow me to exit and attempt communication right now.” Col. Autoshades pauses for a moment, considering the possibilities as he watches the camera feed from the shuttlebay. "Open the pod bay doors, pal" Autoshades didn't think that particular appendage could wink, until now. He muses about giving Facility access to Earth's cultural archives as he mashes the emergency open button. Saros fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Oct 25, 2017 16:24
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Saros posted:“Colonels, I need you to open the shuttlebay doors and allow me to exit and attempt communication right now.” 
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Oct 25, 2017 16:44
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Saros posted:“Colonels, I need you to open the shuttlebay doors and allow me to exit and attempt communication right now.” 
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Saros posted:“Colonels, I need you to open the shuttlebay doors and allow me to exit and attempt communication right now.” 
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