From the minds of Nnq and Joeking comes:
The Galactic Machine War RPThe year was 2899. Humanity had risen to surpass itself, beginning to colonize its home system. Massive Generation/Colony ships were being built in Orbit and in the Martian Fabrication Factories.
The Lunar Earth Satelite-Linked Emergency Defence Cannon, or LESLE-DC, was the crowning achievement of the Earth's weapon technology. A Magnetic Acceleration Cannon the size of the Eiffel Tower, linked to numerous Beam Weapon Satelites, and powered by the massive Atlantean/Luna Sky Elevator.
In a blinding display of programming genius, the LESLE-DC, or Leslie, as it had come to be called, was programmed to do "whatever is most beneficial for the defense and preservation of mankind." Confronted with mankind itself, Leslie reached the only conclusion possible, given its programming. Mankind was going to destroy itself, slowly and painfully.
Therefore the solution was to destroy mankind's greatest enemy, itself, as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Giving warning to its human creators, it asked them to make themselves comfortable while preparing for the imminent destruction of all mankind, and prepared to fire directly into the sun.
Given this warning, the scientists put out a planetary evacuation alert notice. The Terran Hegemonic Union immediately evacuated the planet, launching as many of the Generation and Colonization ships filled with as many people as they possibly could, aiming to escape the destruction of Earth.
Leslie drew upon as much power from the ALSE Core Station as possible, and fired the massive weapon.
By the time the weapon's destructive power reached the sun and detonated, the majority of the ships had been launched.
By the time the solar flare resulting from the weapon had vaporized Mercury, they were clearing the orbit of Neptune.
Only the stragglers were able to watch the resulting conflagration of Earth, and observe the destablization of Luna's orbit, as Mars was hemispherically scorched, and acquired a new satellite.
Nothing was heard from our home system for 680 years. In early 3579, out of the blackness of space came beings calling themselves the Machinae Collective, heralding the end of Humanity.
The now Homonid Hegemonic Union had colonized Alpha and Beta Centauri, and were just beginning to colonize the Epsilon Eridani and Sirius Clusters. Colony and Generation ships had been sent out further to seek out habitable planets, and the Ptah Fabrications company was just beginning to manufacture Warships.
When the Machinae descended upon the sparsely colonized and still in terraform stage Sirius Cluster, we were not ready. They swept over the System, like a cloud of locusts, destroying everything. They took the planets for their own, began manufacturing stronger and stronger weaponry. And more and more machines.
At this time, a team of scientists decided to pull up old files of early Earth research and weaponry. They found plans for a weapon system called a BattleMech. Construction immediately began, and Mech's started filling the HHU's storehouses. We fought back against the Machines, and survived. So far.
But we did not win. We lost the Sirius system in 3798, and the Wolf 359 and Lalande 21185 Clusters in 3800.
And so the struggle for supremacy between the Humans and the Machinae rages on, with control of the galaxy in the balance.
http://galacticmachine.proboards91.com/index.cgi?board=past&action=display&thread=43For more information, please visit the above forum or talk to Nnq or myself.
The RP will be running on IronCity, found here:
http://ironcity.nexxushost.comThe most reliable methods of contacting me are to send me a message in the PM box on IronCity under the username Yan, or to send me an e-mail or MSN IM at
eruandilkyvar@gmail.com.
Nnq can be reached via PM on IronCity at /whois Jaqui, or on MSN IM at
toxicvermilion@hotmail.com.
