12hr Game Story

[Cyrien]

OOC - This is from a game with 12hr turns that just started. Others from the game might post and might not. Up to them. I myself am going to try and mold this game into a story. Updates on my part will probably only occur with major events. A little background for understanding the race I am playing.

Bio Desc -

The Alteri are a bug like race that evolved on a cold barren planet with no real atmosphere. The Alteri are a rather weak and physically under developed race with overdeveloped brains that may be usefull in psychic manipulation. Some argue that there mental abilities may extend to manipulating time itself. While weak in ground combat they make up for this with a formidable ability to keep track of multiple tasks all at once without any loss of efficiency in any single task, greatly increasing their combat ability in the complicated and high tech arena of space combat. The Alteri are the only species, sentient or otherwise to have evolved on their homeplanet.

Society -

The Alteri are broken up into several clear and distinct castes. Each caste is responsible for a specific sector of Alteri society and has complete control over the specifics of that area. The Speakers are the highest caste and are the voice of the Alteri. They decide what is researched, what ships go where, how the Alteri will deal with alien races, and what actions the military will take, how each caste deals with these directives is upto them. While there are many in the Speaker caste there is only one who holds the title of Grand Speaker at any given time. The Grand Speaker is the equivalent of an Emperor with supreme authority in theory. In practice, all decisions are made by councils of Speakers knowledgeable in the areas necessary for that particular decision with advice being given by top members of other castes that may be affected and the Grand Speaker then putting these decisions into affect. The Society runs well and dissent is not tolerated on any level.

The Alteri are not overtly hostile but do have at the core of their philosphy the idea of survival of the fittest once they realize they are not alone in the universe. They will take advantage of the weak and ally with the strong. This is their basic policy.

[Cyrien]

Somewhere in the depths of space a being has taken its first tentative steps into the great unknown. Undisputed masters of all they survey, they move outward. Outward and onward. Who knows what mysteries await them?

Alteri Homeworld -

The messenger rushed into the room with news he was sure the Grand Speaker would be overjoyed to hear.
"Grand Speaker! Grand Speaker! The council has decided! They have accepted your proposal! We shall extend further into space! These strange worm holes will be investigated!"
The messenger stopped and seemed surprised when the Grand Speaker did not react to his words.

The Grand Speaker was filled with thoughts of the Last time they had ventured into space. They had built massive ships to travel to a nearby star that had been detected with several planets that were suitable for colonization. That had been over 150 years ago. Traveling at sub light speeds it had taken the ships just over 70 years to reach their destination. He reached out and touched their minds with his own and surveyed what was. In such a short time those two planets had become as developed and crowded as the home planet. Now it was time to expand once again. They would expand. They would survive.

It never occurred to him to wonder if other life might be out there. After all, the Alteri had evolved alone and solitary on a desolate ice planet with no atmosphere worth mention. There had never been anyone or anything else alive for them. There was nothing in their experience to suggest there ever would be.

So they moved into space freely without concern never suspecting they might not be alone. Never suspecting the future that awaited them.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

they would have to eat dirt. if they ate each other, there would be none left.

[Cyrien]

The Alteri don't eat or breathe. They are self contained entities. Any breach of their exoskeleton results in death. One of their physical frailties and their primary lack of ground combat ability. Alteri young are born en masse, several dozen per hatching and the parents is killed in the process. IE the parents die mating and the eggs mature in the corpses and then hatch. The rest of the Caste they are born into raises them. Only elderly Alteri are expected to reproduce for what should be obvious reasons.

I had all this down in the original descs for the race but have since lost it when I switched computers so now I have to rebuild it.

[Puke]

what the hell do they run on, cold fusion?

[Cyrien]

The idea is basically the same as a planet. Each one is a self contained eco-system, the basic resources for which are garnered during the egg stage from the leftovers of the dead parents and surrounding environment. Eventually everything that can be used inside is, that is old age for them, and nothing can stop it or extend lifespan. In addition, the secondary source of energy is the sun. They evolved on a planet with no atmosphere composed of ice. This means very low electromagnetic field and high ambient radiation. Their bodies are capable of absorbing and harnessing the radiation. A sort of super photosynthesis that keeps their internal eco-systems running.

They are an very biologically complex species with an evolutionary timeline that when compared with earth would start with the earliest dinosaurs and end... now.

Note the species did not evolve on an airless void world, as the original atmosphere was liquid rich and very thick. The world slowly died due to the lack of an electromagnetic field and all other life was wiped out as the atmosphere was slowly torn away by solar winds and steadily dropping surface temperatures. They managed to evolve in a way to enable survival. Their planets Version of the cockroach.

Please pick them apart freely. I want to try and develop them as much as possible. Finding flaws or making suggestions would be quite helpfull.