Vibrant: Darkspace

[Hibou]

Thanks for pointing those out. I really need to stop writing this stuff up at 3 am :P

I haven't actually decided on the number of colonies for the UDN yet, but let's just say that it's waxed and waned as some became independent and new ones arose, but there's definitely a few hundred.

The grays do indeed occasionally do that, although it might have also been as a result of their experience with humans and other races that did it...

Ferr-Val is mostly grays but it has seen a small number of human members.

The MOF will get what's coming to it. It's got some contenders... and these written-out statistics don't include the vorovka or the yet-to-be-listed other mysterious factions and species in and around the galaxy.

That should be "slow". There is still a rivalry because the UDN was very aggressive towards them and wanted to finally one-up them, while the MOF upon hearing this has generally thought much less of the UDN. Let's just say that while they are probably permanent allies now and have a good interstellar relationship, the MOF's favorite Alliance buddy is not the UDN.

Generally, if an Alliance member goes to war with another, the first to declare war is considered hostile to all factions and is cut off from all AIS channels until they come to the decision to negotiate a cease fire.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Hey, I haven't forgotten about Vibrant. A wrist injury makes typing bad. After a few weeks I plan to go back to work on Vibrant and Eschaton. I need to let it heal; I keep making it worse.

And I still can't send you PMs. "User not found." Hmmm.

[Hibou]

Hey, I haven't forgotten about Vibrant. A wrist injury makes typing bad. After a few weeks I plan to go back to work on Vibrant and Eschaton. I need to let it heal; I keep making it worse.

And I still can't send you PMs. "User not found." Hmmm.

Pretty much the same here. I've been crazy busy this past week and probably will be for a few more. I'm still trying to look at Eschaton when I can though.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Those That Came Before[/b][/size]
It was once widely believed that humans were not the first intelligent species to inhabit the Earth - they called the ones from before angels, giants, and all manner of other things. When humans finally ventured deep into space and met their would-be alien allies this was expanded upon, and the First and Second Searches for Heaven arose out of proponents suggesting that life may have come from somewhere else. But another question arose - what if we were engineered by a species or multiple species of creatures that were at one time like us, but in the infancy of our intelligent we viewed as gods? This question, too, was answered.

Not all of the ancient artifacts that lie forgotten and abandoned on distant planets and around distant stars belong to the vorovka or the dyen, that is certain. There are landmasses and shapes in the land, sometimes at a very small level, that are cleverly masked, but are obviously far too artificial to be made by nature. The most notable one (one that dwarfs similar structures in both size and visibility on the galactic stage) is what has been remade into the massive space station Unity Nine. A colossal structure that is unmatched by any modern creation, Unity Nine is an enigmatic structure too precious to damage and too important strategically to ignore. The Alliance claimed it from two allied corax factions in a war whose end was never declared; the structure is now divided into many districts that are hostile to one another. However, despite a massive population of soldiers and civilians, much of the structure remains unclaimed simply because no one has found out how to access it - or it belongs to the vorovka. Roughly 70% of the structure (which is three times the size of Jupiter, but looks more like a bizarre spacecraft than a spherical planet) is unclaimed or unreachable, with the remaining amounts controlled by the Alliance, the coraxen factions, and (the largest shareholder) the vorovka. Not even they seem to be able to breach the passageways and chambers that would lead them deeper into the citadel and expose its secrets.
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How does one get enough material to build something of that size?

I'm not an astrophysicist, but wouldn't the weight of all that mass be destructive? Like Jupiter can exist because it's a gas giant, not solid.

It's a cool premise, though. Mixed feelings on the name. DS9 means an space station named "Something Nine" will evoke that initially, and I don't get why it's called Unity. Unless the Alliance was just hoping for some morale-boosting when they named it, rather than worrying about function.

It's a key site for adventures, though. And I like that the vorovka have limited access, too.


Believe I'm all caught up now.