[icespeed]

hey, all that tech stuff sounds cool...
i just had a weird image reading about the energy shields... if humans tried to integrate them into their metal ships, what would happen? 'energy' sounds like they're using electromagnetism. If the ship hulls were somehow magnetised without melting them... well, what would that do? maybe by superconduction (superconductivity is cool!) which would be less difficult to achieve in space than planetside... though expensive as hell, probably...

the mycoids sound like they have it the easiest. just grow your weapons and things.

[Nico]

If you put a shield on a terran ship, it will just... hmm, hard to describe... it will run everywhere in the ship, imagine a huge battery, if you could visualize electricity, well, if you plugged it on a metalic object, it would scatter everywhere. Yeah, voila, it works the same as electricity, basically. Would be very bad for computers and stuff, too, obviously

And yeah, the mycoids have it the easiest, that's why they're the most dangerous of the lot ( disregarding the fact they're also outnumbering everybody by 1/1000000000000000000000000000000000 - exagering, of course, but not that much )

[icespeed]

haha, yeah alright...

what are the mycoids? what are they like?

[Unknown Target]

Good storyline, venom. Despite my best efforts, I can't spot any holes

Thumbs up!

[Nico]

They're mushrooms
In fact, they've evolved so much there's a lot of different "species". Most of them are pretty dumb, in fact, because of the wild evolution thinguy. They're not very original concept-wise I gotta admit, imagine zergs or things like that, but I like the idea of space monsters. There's a lot of different forms, insects, spiders, squids, etc, so I've set up an handful of distinctive features that shows they all come from the same origin ( 6 limbs, two of them being much larger, 6 eyes, etc ). There's a pic of a drone somewhere in this thread, hmm... there you go:

You can guess, this one is of the dumb kind ( ). It's a kind of ground warrior, and tanks are better against those ( oh, yeah, I have tanks, too, of course, there, Reaper tank:

)
This one is about the size of the tank, some are as big as a capship, some a bit bigger than a human.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Good storyline, venom. Despite my best efforts, I can't spot any holes

Thumbs up!

Thanks
For the record, I've been working on:
-Outerspace: I can find concept pics and storyline elements from 1992 ( ouch... the thing as changed an awful lot since then )
-Veil of Darkness: Same deal, stuff back to 92 ( I suspect I could find older stuff for both universes )
-Oleon Wars: 2000 ( that's the most recent of the lot, but I'm sure I started at least one year or two before 2000 actually, just can't find older stuff ).

[icespeed]

??? how does a mushroom evolve into something that looks like a giant praying mantis?

[Nico]

Go wonder
But hey, they're ALIEN mushrooms, those things are Teh w31rd

[Unknown Target]

How about they were simply the evolved forms of indigionous species on the planets, harnessed for war? Or they were all genetic monstrosities, spit out by one giant "Creature factory," and are each inserted with a chemical determining what type of warrior they'll be?

[icespeed]

sure, its no weirder than random fishes and things turning into humans, hey?

[Unknown Target]

Hey, you know, most (if not all) creatures on Earth look the same during pregnancy for about...what, 2 weeks? A month? Something like that.

[Nico]

Well, they sure are evolved forms of indigenous species from a planet . oh, you wanna know how far I can go into useless details? There you go:

Mycoids homeworld ( beware, it's weird, as I said ):
Uriah Secondus:
-Giant gazeous planet
-Dead core, diameter 30000 Km in diameter
-Gazeous sphere: 120000 Km in diameter
-61 oceans ( to date, they seem to often merge and split  )in suspension, trapped in the gaz layer. Gravity and a high revolution speed keeps them mid-air, taking the shape of gigantic drop-shaped water lenses.
- average temperature on sun side: +-50°C
- biomass: important ( mycoids and local vegetals/animals )

Uriah Secondus is the second planet of the Uriah 12 system

Uriah 12 ( star ):
Red giant
Uriah 12 ( system )
3 planets, 21 satelites, very heavy asteroid presence
Located in the External ( Perseus, North on galactic plane ) Arm of our galaxy.

Uriah Prime:
-Rock planet
-diameter: 31000 km
-Biomass: none
-average temperature: 800°C

Uriah Secondus:
-See first entry

Uriah Ters:
-Rocky planet
-Diameter: 17000Km
-Biomass: none
-Average temperature: -120°C

I have no data on atmosphere, coz I have no knowlegde in that.

[icespeed]

what, like little wormy things with limbs? and big bulgy alien-like eyes?
(personally i don't think that really proves anything... why should an animal personally relive evolution during the pre-natal period? there's no reason for it.)

edit: in reply to ut's post

[icespeed]

and nico... those useless facts aren't interesting.

[Nico]

Bleh
That's why they're useless

Anyway, for the mushroom thing, well, they started as mushrooms with some sort of brains, and they evolved, that's it
Don't look too much into details

[icespeed]

okay i wont.

have you any interesting characters to follow yet, in OS i mean?

[Nico]

Yeah, a few. But I gotta confess it's all in my head, I never wrote anything down about them

[icespeed]

so is the story going to be set in that last war you were talking about, between the humans and- oh, i forget the names. grays. and the ones beginning with v.

[Nico]

Main story follows a family, it starts with the Mars independancy war and goes way after what I posted.
There's also a few side stories that have nothing to do with that family, or even with spaceships and stuff. Most of the work there is to have a convincing background where I can place any kind of story I want with a futuristic feeling to it.

[Unknown Target]

Venom, a hint about characters; stay away from the steriotype It can kill a good story to have dull and uninteresting characters

EDIT: Kool! A family story! Lol, that's good

But PLEASE don't have the son be angry at the father for some sibling death that the son thinks the dad's responsible for SO overused, haha