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driftfleet_ooc2017-09-15 08:56 pm
spaceshipit) wrote in driftfleet_ooc2017-09-15 08:56 pm
at the end of everything we had
Ever since the Fleet began raising warnings about some vague, red-tinted, death-themed, horrible planetwide event that would befall the poor planet of Lyuku, natives have been a little touchier than usual. Most are skeptical, but a still significant number of them are not. While some of the wealthier families have the option to board a spaceship and go somewhere else for a while - and a few are doing just that, thanks - most people hearing about this Prophetic Dream of the End are just plain scared and not sure where to go or what to do.
Experts study the planet closer, to make sure they didn't overlook anything they should know. Astronomers look to the skies, checking and double-checking and re-checking every last detail for any hint of danger. Unfortunately... they find it, having just barely moved within a range they're capable of reading. It's coming in fast. And it isn't stopping.
On the night of the 16th, the usual bustling night-life on Lyuku pauses for the first time in ten thousand years. The merrymakers fall silent, the music grinds to a cacophonous halt, and everyone looks upward. There is a rapidly-moving shooting star across the sky, but the problem is that it shouldn’t be there. No one said anything about a comet passing this close. Consult all the palms and tea leaves you want, but the spirits are silent about this.
After a few hours, the authorities send out an announcement over all channels, playing on every communicator able to pick up the signal and the yelling in the streets:
And on less official channels:
For all their technology, foresight, and fortune-telling-- they somehow missed the celestial object now hurtling toward their planet at a billion miles per hour. The only course available to the residents of Lyuku is to leave their planet behind.
CALENDAR:
→ September 16th: A giant meteor is spotted within range of Lyuku, and it is headed on a collision course. Evacuation begins immediately. A mingle post will go up shortly.
→ September 22nd: The meteor collides with Lyuku. There will be an IC post for this event.
→ September 28th: Atroma pulls away from the remnants of the Eyuzi system. Drift begins.
Save Our Ship
In order to facilitate their understanding of the universe, Lyuku has a working space station fluttering loosely around its orbit. Though it’s spacious, it lacks supplies and beds, as it was never really built to house the entire human population of their planet. Right now, it’s the only workable plan they have. It's time to start stocking up on supplies, setting up spaces for everyone, and rounding up everyone who needs evacuating.
Getting Natives to the Space Station
There are scientific, entertainment/tourism, and military organizations on the planet that have ships capable of flight and, more importantly, transporting large numbers of people at one time. They are all willingly and actively cooperating with each other to organize evacuation of all people as best as they can manage in the one week they have to do so, but they're going to need all the help they can get with coordinating efforts, facilitating communication, and picking up any stragglers that can't make their way to their designated station or port. Fleeters may also offer their own ships and shuttles for ferrying purposes as necessary. The goal is simple: get every last person you can possibly find onto a ship, off of the planet, and safely into the space station.
Supply Lines
In addition to helping with evacuation efforts, there’s the whole issue of logistics. Not only will these people need supplies to live on the space station for a while, they’ll also need the means to do it. Equipment of all sorts will need to be transported. Seeds, starter plants, some number of beneficial animals/livestock, non-perishable food, fuel, blankets and pillows, clothes-- the list goes on and on. Everything and anything will need to be transported to the space station. By offering Fleet ships and shuttles for transport, there will be more Lyukite resources to allocate for evacuation. It’s a good thing.
But What About the Planet Itself?
This is a singing planet. Those who have been in the fleet for a while know very well that there is more to these singing planets that meets the eye - and those that received visions this time around are especially aware of that fact. However, a planet is a planet, and a planet cannot simply move itself...
Any attempts to speak with or otherwise contact the planet will not work. Even if characters are capable of reaching out to the planet, its energies and emotions are far, far too great to deal with or comprehend right now. That feeling of panic is of course far, far greater now, but also a sense of relief underneath it all - it's message was received, and something is being done. That's all it could hope for.
Should it come up in conversation, the natives will mention that they know their planet is strong, and that they have hope for a future even after all of this, no matter how dire the situation may seem right now. They won't be shaken from that belief, either - possibly for the best. It's perhaps a good thing to let them have that sort of hope right now.
Inevitable Impact
Some stubborn citizens may attempt to remain. Anyone who is caught on the planet or in the atmosphere when the comet collides will be vaporized. Deaths during this plot do count under typical Atroma death rules: characters will awaken on the Hospitality Deck of the Marsiva with a deep coldness in their bones and may suffer nightmares and other symptoms for a few weeks. However, the NPCs will not be resurrected in this manner. (They’re dead, Jim.)
EMERGENCY OPERATION
The minutes tick down like hours like days like years. There’s one last push of people and animals that need to make it up to the station, the last stragglers who stayed behind to make sure everything went as smoothly as possible.
The engines fail.
Fleeters will need to work fast to see these people saved. Engineers can work on the transport ship, pilots can ferry people off the surface-- it doesn’t matter how it’s done as long as it gets done. Characters will have a scarce sixty minutes to accomplish this miraculous feat using their augments, equipment, skills and wits. And anyone who wants to be a hero... may very well die like one.
There will be a top-level comment on the mingle specifically for this emergency operation, for your convenience, but feel free to make your own threads if you prefer. The time limit is an IC one - there is no time limit OOCly. Additionally: death is, of course, up to player discretion. Still, this rescue will be incredibly dangerous - may even be considered a suicide mission.
What Remains
It isn’t all hopeless. The Lyukites were right about one thing: their planet is incredibly strong. Adaptable. A true survivor. After the dust has settled from the crash of the meteor, despite the absolute destruction of everything on the surface there's a song that remains - faint, but clearly present. It's tired, weak, and hurt, but hopeful and so very grateful. The natives can hear it from their new homes on the space station, and fleet crews can hear it more clearly than they have ever heard any other singing planet they've come across. Even non-magical, non-empathetic types can sense something positive in the air -- or maybe everyone else's hope is just that contagious. Who could say for sure?
Though millions of years of evolution just got totally wiped out, the people of Lyuku may soon return to their planet as it heals itself. However, it’ll take a generation or two in order to be restored to even half of what it used to be. In the meantime, they have their space station, and they can contact other nearby systems and hopefully make homes there. Wherever the diaspora ends up, at least they’re alive. By interfering when they did, the Fleet may have saved an entire civilization.
Experts study the planet closer, to make sure they didn't overlook anything they should know. Astronomers look to the skies, checking and double-checking and re-checking every last detail for any hint of danger. Unfortunately... they find it, having just barely moved within a range they're capable of reading. It's coming in fast. And it isn't stopping.
On the night of the 16th, the usual bustling night-life on Lyuku pauses for the first time in ten thousand years. The merrymakers fall silent, the music grinds to a cacophonous halt, and everyone looks upward. There is a rapidly-moving shooting star across the sky, but the problem is that it shouldn’t be there. No one said anything about a comet passing this close. Consult all the palms and tea leaves you want, but the spirits are silent about this.
After a few hours, the authorities send out an announcement over all channels, playing on every communicator able to pick up the signal and the yelling in the streets:
People of Lyuku, and visitors from elsewhere-- everyone who revels in the Prince’s warmth and life, who lives and explores this beautiful planet… All of us are in danger. A large object from outside our solar system has been caught in our planet’s gravity and it is on a direct collision course with our world.
There is hope as long as we stick together. Gather your belongings and your loved ones and follow the directions of your local authorities at the landing areas. We will need to prepare the Eynewa Space Station, but we are able to accommodate everyone, and sustain them until we find refuge. Supplies and hands are needed. Evacuation begins now.
And on less official channels:
Oh my god. We’re going to fucking die here. Oh my fucking god. … fuck.
For all their technology, foresight, and fortune-telling-- they somehow missed the celestial object now hurtling toward their planet at a billion miles per hour. The only course available to the residents of Lyuku is to leave their planet behind.
CALENDAR:
→ September 16th: A giant meteor is spotted within range of Lyuku, and it is headed on a collision course. Evacuation begins immediately. A mingle post will go up shortly.
→ September 22nd: The meteor collides with Lyuku. There will be an IC post for this event.
→ September 28th: Atroma pulls away from the remnants of the Eyuzi system. Drift begins.
Save Our Ship
In order to facilitate their understanding of the universe, Lyuku has a working space station fluttering loosely around its orbit. Though it’s spacious, it lacks supplies and beds, as it was never really built to house the entire human population of their planet. Right now, it’s the only workable plan they have. It's time to start stocking up on supplies, setting up spaces for everyone, and rounding up everyone who needs evacuating.
Getting Natives to the Space Station
There are scientific, entertainment/tourism, and military organizations on the planet that have ships capable of flight and, more importantly, transporting large numbers of people at one time. They are all willingly and actively cooperating with each other to organize evacuation of all people as best as they can manage in the one week they have to do so, but they're going to need all the help they can get with coordinating efforts, facilitating communication, and picking up any stragglers that can't make their way to their designated station or port. Fleeters may also offer their own ships and shuttles for ferrying purposes as necessary. The goal is simple: get every last person you can possibly find onto a ship, off of the planet, and safely into the space station.
Supply Lines
In addition to helping with evacuation efforts, there’s the whole issue of logistics. Not only will these people need supplies to live on the space station for a while, they’ll also need the means to do it. Equipment of all sorts will need to be transported. Seeds, starter plants, some number of beneficial animals/livestock, non-perishable food, fuel, blankets and pillows, clothes-- the list goes on and on. Everything and anything will need to be transported to the space station. By offering Fleet ships and shuttles for transport, there will be more Lyukite resources to allocate for evacuation. It’s a good thing.
But What About the Planet Itself?
This is a singing planet. Those who have been in the fleet for a while know very well that there is more to these singing planets that meets the eye - and those that received visions this time around are especially aware of that fact. However, a planet is a planet, and a planet cannot simply move itself...
Any attempts to speak with or otherwise contact the planet will not work. Even if characters are capable of reaching out to the planet, its energies and emotions are far, far too great to deal with or comprehend right now. That feeling of panic is of course far, far greater now, but also a sense of relief underneath it all - it's message was received, and something is being done. That's all it could hope for.
Should it come up in conversation, the natives will mention that they know their planet is strong, and that they have hope for a future even after all of this, no matter how dire the situation may seem right now. They won't be shaken from that belief, either - possibly for the best. It's perhaps a good thing to let them have that sort of hope right now.
Inevitable Impact
Some stubborn citizens may attempt to remain. Anyone who is caught on the planet or in the atmosphere when the comet collides will be vaporized. Deaths during this plot do count under typical Atroma death rules: characters will awaken on the Hospitality Deck of the Marsiva with a deep coldness in their bones and may suffer nightmares and other symptoms for a few weeks. However, the NPCs will not be resurrected in this manner. (They’re dead, Jim.)
EMERGENCY OPERATION
The minutes tick down like hours like days like years. There’s one last push of people and animals that need to make it up to the station, the last stragglers who stayed behind to make sure everything went as smoothly as possible.
The engines fail.
Fleeters will need to work fast to see these people saved. Engineers can work on the transport ship, pilots can ferry people off the surface-- it doesn’t matter how it’s done as long as it gets done. Characters will have a scarce sixty minutes to accomplish this miraculous feat using their augments, equipment, skills and wits. And anyone who wants to be a hero... may very well die like one.
There will be a top-level comment on the mingle specifically for this emergency operation, for your convenience, but feel free to make your own threads if you prefer. The time limit is an IC one - there is no time limit OOCly. Additionally: death is, of course, up to player discretion. Still, this rescue will be incredibly dangerous - may even be considered a suicide mission.
What Remains
It isn’t all hopeless. The Lyukites were right about one thing: their planet is incredibly strong. Adaptable. A true survivor. After the dust has settled from the crash of the meteor, despite the absolute destruction of everything on the surface there's a song that remains - faint, but clearly present. It's tired, weak, and hurt, but hopeful and so very grateful. The natives can hear it from their new homes on the space station, and fleet crews can hear it more clearly than they have ever heard any other singing planet they've come across. Even non-magical, non-empathetic types can sense something positive in the air -- or maybe everyone else's hope is just that contagious. Who could say for sure?
Though millions of years of evolution just got totally wiped out, the people of Lyuku may soon return to their planet as it heals itself. However, it’ll take a generation or two in order to be restored to even half of what it used to be. In the meantime, they have their space station, and they can contact other nearby systems and hopefully make homes there. Wherever the diaspora ends up, at least they’re alive. By interfering when they did, the Fleet may have saved an entire civilization.
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Justice is also able to boost magical abilities, so if a mage who's helping people needs help being more powerful or lasting longer, Justice can be useful. This does require allowing Justice 'in', so to speak, which is an intimate process and would leave your character's mind open for him to read and it would leave your character able to bind or hurt Justice very badly if they decided to turn on him for some reason.
Unless someone talks him into saving himself, he will still be doing this by the time the last ship takes off--or fails to.