Zeta 2 game starting!

Baron Grazic · #1 March 4th, 2004, 06:32 AM

dEEEath...
dEEEstruction...
EEEradication...

just bEEE surEEE to broadcast thEEE rEEEsults...
so that wEEE all can EEEnjoy...

OOC - Always a hard call.

Intimidator · #2 March 4th, 2004, 08:55 AM

Stardate 2400.4

4 months now, the live on this planet for 4 months Xerieel, the High Priestess thought.
She was looking down on the planet from the 'New Hope'. This shipyard was orbitting the planet for 2 years now, it was transported and constructed earlier prior to their arrivel, but only in service for 4 months now.
As soon as they arrived they started the production of another, but smaller, Colony ship.

Xerieel looked to her right and she could still see the 'Rebirth' accelerate into space. It was heading to the second planet of this system, which was also an gas planet with an oxygen atmosphere.

She turned around to go back to her shuttle and Home, because despite of all the deaths the Last few months. The planet below was home now, their Last Hope and home...........

Joachim · #3 March 4th, 2004, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ruatha:
/OOC/
Darned.
The first system I enter has alien presence.
Statisticly this means there are over 200 players in this game!!!
I have a frigate with armour, point defence and level 3 weapons, he seems to have nothing!
Should I glass him or not?
Direct contact isn't allowed, can't talk by mail.

I'll write up a story later and decide what to do, but I'm a bit disappointed at the proximity of players!

If it is me lets be friends! Someone else - kill 'em!

AMF · #4 March 5th, 2004, 02:36 AM

OOC:

Hm. That's trange. Right next door you say? All players were supposed to be evenly distributed, so I don't think that shoul have happened...

Quote:

Originally posted by Joachim:

quote:
Originally posted by Ruatha:
/OOC/
Darned.
The first system I enter has alien presence.
Statisticly this means there are over 200 players in this game!!!
I have a frigate with armour, point defence and level 3 weapons, he seems to have nothing!
Should I glass him or not?
Direct contact isn't allowed, can't talk by mail.

I'll write up a story later and decide what to do, but I'm a bit disappointed at the proximity of players!

If it is me lets be friends! Someone else - kill 'em!

AMF · #5 March 5th, 2004, 02:40 AM

OOC:

Well, the "in-game comms" idea is a House Rule, and un-enforceable at that, so I would suggest you do what you feel is right in this regard...But I am very perplexed by if they were placed in a system RIGHT next to you. That is definitely weird. Can we talk more about this offline (to protect the guilty) so I can try to figure this out?

thanks,

Alarik

Quote:

Originally posted by alarikf:
OOC:

Hm. That's trange. Right next door you say? All players were supposed to be evenly distributed, so I don't think that shoul have happened...

quote:
Originally posted by Joachim:

quote:
Originally posted by Ruatha:
/OOC/
Darned.
The first system I enter has alien presence.
Statisticly this means there are over 200 players in this game!!!
I have a frigate with armour, point defence and level 3 weapons, he seems to have nothing!
Should I glass him or not?
Direct contact isn't allowed, can't talk by mail.

I'll write up a story later and decide what to do, but I'm a bit disappointed at the proximity of players!

If it is me lets be friends! Someone else - kill 'em!

Sabin · #6 March 4th, 2004, 04:09 PM

Sabin was still jittery from the shock that another race was encountered, especially so soon. Too soon, for his liking. He knew if the Escort MK.I was not finished by the end of the month, the Space Empire may very well be destroyed. However, his intentions were not for war.

He and his staff considered the options, and sent a brief message of peace. Hopefully, the creatures they were trying to work with would accept the offer...Or his race may very well be doomed from the start.

Ruatha · #7 March 4th, 2004, 08:36 PM

Zeta Knights First Encounter (3-1) Stardate 2400.4

Knight Captain Alta of the "Searcher" was faicng the hardest task in his life.
He had as ordered traversed the warp point, and exited alive and well. No damage to the ship.
But to his surprise the scanner displays highlighted the instant they came out through the warp point.
At first it was thought they was malfunctioning due to the transition but very quickly it becam appearant that they where working quite wll.

There where aliens in this system.
The Zeta Knights scientists had counted more than 200 systems in this part of the universe, if there where aliens in all of them there would be more than 200 species to meet, the thought was stunning.

But now Knight Captain Alta had more immediate problems, what to do?
He had the recording from Knight Templar Ruatha that they where supposed to send out to any aliens encountered, but no one had expected that encounter to happen this soon!
Should he send the message? It would take a month to reach the aliens and another month for their answer to reach him.
He couldn't communicate with the homeplanet through the wormhole and get an answer back in reasonable time either.
Should he waste two months while the aliens constructed weapons and fell upon him? He was the only thing standing between them and the Home planet!
There was no sign of any capital ship in the system.
The "Searcher" was a powerful ship; it had several anit proton beams of the latest class, able to deliver 20 gigawatts of power 4 sectors away. It had armour for defence and point defence cannons to shield against anything getting to close to her.
If Alta decided to he copuld propably glass that planet and then take out the remaining smaller colonies without much resistance.... but then he would have to act now.. in two months it might be too late!

"-Take us closer to that main planet", he said to his second in command and retired to his quarter to ponder the issue further before making this decision.
A decision that might mean life or death for all the Knights, the responsibility weighted heavily upon his shoulders.