Beyond Alpha Centauri:::::::Discussion Thread 7 - Page 14

Mr. President · November 26, 2002, 01:06

Anybody heard from Sovereign recently?

Frankychan · November 26, 2002, 04:35

He said that he would try to get onto Apolyton when he gets home from school. His computer in his dorm doesn't let him access Apolyton, but would try to come back either after the semester, or when his classes let him.....

.....I just think he's partying it up at his university.

Oh yeah, thanks Mr. Prez! I never thought about your idea. Would it be okay if I did your suggestion?

Kassiopeia · November 26, 2002, 07:08

/me is alive!

Alas, but this is posting from the school...

Therefore, no time to read in depth, but I did pick up the new crew member, so...

I bid welcome to Urban Ranger.

I might make it permanently back before Christmas, maybe not. The connection needs some funding, so I need to grease up the folks.

Sprayber · November 26, 2002, 11:15

Sorry UR for not welcoming you earlier. Lots of things going on. You should make a fine addition to the BAC team.

Folks. Something I have been working on to take my mind far away is a prehistory of BAC. When its done it will be put in a thread as a kind of BAC primer for new readers and writers. As per your suggestions.

Here is a sample of pre history please comment.

http://www.geocities.com/hydro070/BacBackground.html

I will update this from time to time with more info so check back and add your comments, questions and smart remarks here

Mr. President · November 27, 2002, 19:47

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Would it be okay if I did your suggestion?

Of course.

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Here is a sample of pre history please comment.

Looks pretty good so far.

Frankychan · November 27, 2002, 23:27

Thanks, Mr. Prez.

Wow, Kass is checking up here too? Things are pretty out of the ordinary in this thread nowadays...go figure.

Sprayber-looks alright w/me. Do you want me to think up some things for the Bree or nah?

Mr. President · November 28, 2002, 02:06

I like those octopus aliens. On Star Trek and other shows, they tend to make new alien species functionally identical to humans in every way except for different types and degrees of eyebrow ridges. Nice to see a different approach.

Sprayber · November 28, 2002, 05:18

Franky: Sure give us your ideas.

That isnt all of the history just all i got done. I'll finish when i get back on Thanksgiving. My main concern are the dates of the events. any help or suggestions are welcome. The history is meant to be a background but there is plenty of room for other aliens. Just none that are overly powerful.

GeneralTacticus · November 29, 2002, 02:25

I'm Baaaaaaaaack.

And Franky, it wasnm't actually a camping trip, but rather a trip to an adventure resort on Phillip Island, but it was mostly fun (except for our 'canoeing' activity... or should I say survival swimming)

Anyway, can someone give me an update of what's been going on in the world? I just read in the newspaper about some terracts against Israelis, has anything else happened?

As for the prehistory - quite interesting, and it sounds pretty good so far

Mr. President · November 29, 2002, 03:44

State election tomorrow, and I have no idea who to vote for.

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survival swimming

Now you know why I don't go on "outdoors" vacations.

GeneralTacticus · November 29, 2002, 04:19

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Now you know why I don't go on "outdoors" vacations.

Well, it wouldn't have been, except that the other guy in my canoe decided that he just had to stick his knee out in front of another canoe, and as a result he capsized us. I spent most of the rest of the activity dragging the canoe into shore and then dragging it up so we could empty the water out and get going again (by myself, I might add). Not the most pleasant experience.

Sprayber · November 29, 2002, 10:20

What i really need from you guys is some sense of time scale. Does the time frame i have work for everyone.

General: In highschool we went on a float trip to the Buffalo River. We were all like 16-18. Well some were quite intoxicated by the time we got to the put in site. Needless to say some didnt even make it out of the staging area without tipping over. I waited till i was afloat to take a few(only a few

) drinks. A real fun day all in all. Lots of tipping over and lots of lost things. mmmm still remember Jennie Treat on that trip

She was advanced for her age and thats all i need to say. Her current husband works for the goverment and may be watching

GeneralTacticus · November 29, 2002, 19:34

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General: In highschool we went on a float trip to the Buffalo River. We were all like 16-18. Well some were quite intoxicated by the time we got to the put in site. Needless to say some didnt even make it out of the staging area without tipping over. I waited till i was afloat to take a few(only a few ) drinks. A real fun day all in all. Lots of tipping over and lots of lost things. mmmm still remember Jennie Treat on that trip She was advanced for her age and thats all i need to say. Her current husband works for the goverment and may be watching

Only thing was, we weren't drunk and I was hoping not to get very wet as I had to wear the same things for raft-making later in the day (as it turned out, it was cancelled as no-one wanted to do it and we went swimming instead).

Sprayber · December 1, 2002, 07:41

I updated the page with more history. The new stuff is below the divider bar

http://www.geocities.com/hydro070/BacBackground.html

Im interested in any ideas as to what do to with the machines. I'd like them to play a big role in reducing a lot of the galaxy to ruin. Keep in mind that most of this action is taking place near the core of the Galaxy. Earth and the surrounding space is a backwater to the events. eventually the alien powers will begin to fight more and more of thier battles near earth. One of the things I plan for the Spartan homeworld is that it was at one time inhabited but their population was taken away for use in the wars. Good for the Spartans thousands of years later to find a beautiful planet with no intelligent species there to deal with. Think of your planets in these terms for some of your back stories and possilbe future stories. Franky, seeing that the Hive has conquered many species, it might be interesting to find out that they have been used before by others. Maybe the Bree (formerly being used themselves) are looking to use the Hive. who knows.

Mr. President · December 1, 2002, 20:30

Ah, looks good.

Perhaps the Temple and the ruins on Berrik, then, could be explained as Cudra artifacts, or possibly as later weapons or bases for the machine intelligence.

Sprayber · December 2, 2002, 04:14

Just to be sure, i dont want to machines to be the borg or anything. they arent all powerful. Just extremely hard to destroy. In any event they are in the past.

GeneralTacticus · December 2, 2002, 04:21

Something that might also be interesting, if we want to work any of it into the current story, would be to have some artefacts from these ancient races found on unclaimed planets, which might reveal some of their technology, and have this spark a race to grab them first. Obviously we'd have to make sure that the technology wouldn't make the side that got the most invincible, though.

Frankychan · December 2, 2002, 23:59

I like what I see so far...

I was thinking that the Bree was going to use the Hive later on.....are you mind-reading me, Sprayber?

Anyway, things are getting down to the wire over here. Finals are coming up and projects are due. Sorry for my absence, but like I said a while ago, this semester's kicking my butt.

Well then.....peace out!

Sprayber · December 3, 2002, 10:15

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Originally posted by Frankychan

I was thinking that the Bree was going to use the Hive later on.....are you mind-reading me, Sprayber?

You guys don't call me the thread god for nothing you know.

My latest post dealt with the much neglected Pirate threat. Also I thought I'd give Mr. President something to work off of maybe

A fine example of Spartan Drone cooperation I think.

Kind of a side note to the post. When I wrote it out, the original name of the system was System 123.

I thought maybe it was a bit too korny

Mr. President · December 4, 2002, 21:24

Looks cool.

There are certainly plenty of interesting directions not yet explored regarding the Pirate menace.

Sprayber · December 9, 2002, 10:42

Everyone still alive here. I was going to write up another story last night but got caught up in the Sopranos.

Frankychan · December 9, 2002, 22:37

Yeah, I was watching that too.

Was pretty good, but the ending kinda sucked...wasn't a real "cliffhanger" for me.

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You guys don't call me the thread god for nothing you know.

I'm still here!

History Guy · December 10, 2002, 00:32

I'm still here...waiting for Kassiopeia to post...if he's back!!

There's just one name on the tip of my tongue...been bugging me for weeks...it's...Sym.

What did we ever do with that guy? At one point, everybody was thinking about him...then, he seems to have floated off into the sunset in his nasty little Hiverian way...no offense to Sheng-ji. What's going to be done about the poor fellow?

History Guy · December 10, 2002, 00:37

Speaking of KASSIOPEIA, I wish him a very happy birthday today.

Frankychan · December 10, 2002, 00:41

happy berfday Kass

Sorry History Guy, I've taken over him and kinda haven't developed his plot yet. I'll try and reintroduce him in my upcoming posts.

My bad!

History Guy · December 10, 2002, 00:48

To quote Gimli: "Noooooooooooooooooo!!"

It's OK, Franky. Look at what I've been doing...just about...nothing. But Sym will survive!...for a while, at least...