Emergence -My Starsiege campaign

[GameOgre]

Just getting this printed up for my players.

Emergence Starsiege Campaign

This is the game Im working on.I plan to steal as many cool things from the sample setting as I can.The rest I will have to make up.

Emergence is a game set in the Galactic Year of 44,901. Mankind has journeyed out to the stars for tens of thousands of years now and thanks to Trillium( a Tremendous power source only found on Mercury) Humans had the ability travel among the stars at incredible speeds as well as Energy shields and weapons to to spread a armed presence throughout our galaxy.

Mankind created true AIs and over a thousand years birthed a new sentient species created of them. Wars and attitudes were fought long ago so that now AIs are treated as brothers to mankind. There are legends of AIs who retreated from known space eons ago threatening to one day return but those legends are now dismissed as birthing myths.

Robots that lack a true AI are the norm used by Humankind and AI alike.

Powered by Trillium mighty Taraforming engines were created and transformed hundreds if not thousands of worlds into near earthlike planets across the galaxy. Some of them required constant transformations in order to remain habitable but with these engines mankind settled countless worlds.

Energy weapons and defenses were the norm for thousands of years and evolved over time to truly devastating levels.

Ten thousand years ago gigantic artifacts were discovered in space. These gates used an unknown (and judged inferior) method of space travel. They were clearly built all over the galaxy by some highly advanced creators billions of years before man existed. The only proof of intelligent alien life of a non- terrestrial form mankind has ever found.

The government has gone through many changes in the many thousands of years. Eventually splitting into four distinct factions (legends tale of a fifth faction that disappeared) and although there have been many small wars over the years no great wars were fought until the Uplift wars.

Two thousand years ago mankind and AI were engulfed in a tide of blood called the Uplift wars. As AIs created a religion based on lifting other living creatures to the level of true sentience. Human factions sided with one side or another spread this war into every corner of the galaxy. Countless animals both on Terra prime and other worlds were Uplifted (regardless of how suitable those life forms were for Uplifting).

Now thousands of years latter many of those intelligent and sentient races are extinct. Only the few that either had the physical ability to go along with sentience or that mankind/AI rescued are still viable. It is now a crime to Uplift in every corner of the galaxy.

Pilgrims, a new breed of mankind that not only worked in space but lived and preferred it over all other habitats grew in number and spread out into he stars. It was not long before society grew fearful of the Pilgrims. They were deemed strange and unnatural and eventually persecuted. For two hundred years they disappeared from the known galaxy.

One the Night of Long Knives they returned. They used strange tech to slip past the Terra Empires defenses and lay waste to Mercury in one single attack. The only place in the galaxy with Trillium was destroyed and the Pilgrims disappeared once again.

With Trillium gone the galaxy slipped steadily into decline as fewer and fewer ships were able to travel between the stars. For over a two hundred years world after world was evacuated and those left lost contact with one another.

Trillions died on worlds unable to be evacuated and many more suffered hardships not known in thousands of years. The empires and factions faltered and finally shattered as travel came to a halt and the long Night started.

In the Tera Empire Humans, Uplifted and AI working together managed to not only rediscover Nuclear Fusion and other long forgotten means of powering Tech but discovered to not only use the Ancient gates left over from before mans creation but to make (at this point inferior) gates as well.

These new ships armed with dense metal and ceramic armors and wielding old chemical powered weapons now strike out through the Gates.

With these new gates (Subspace) long lost worlds were rediscovered and the Empire of Tera once again started to reclaim lost worlds. Now Huge man made Gates sit on both ends of Vast Subspace Tunnels connecting systems to each other while the daring and perhaps foolish use One way gates and subspace beacons to search out into the darkness.

So far Tera has been able to convince its wayward children to rejoin by negotiation or threat of force.

But Subspace churns with whispers of hidden threats and a growing number of missing ships and haunting Subspace shadows.

Welcome to Emergence!
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I might post this at the sticky once im done but I'm still messing around with this stuff.

The first thing im going to make for the game is some form of healing Item. I want healing in the game(they never play anyone with healing skill sigh) but I want it to be costly and slow. After thinking about it I went with something like the Bacta Tank from Star Wars. Good healing but limited to a large tank located on ship/base.

N.R.Tank(Nanno Rejuvenation Tank)

Size-11(It's a large Tank/computer)

Tech-7(to repair and maintain as well as add Nanno's,anyone can use if dumped in with breather).

Value- 8

Reliability-2(25 uses per Nanno Case)

Durability- 1

Healing 4 Box's wounds,Healing 4 Box's Stress.

Flaws-Fragile(easy to break), Taxing ( Heals 1 Damage Box per Hour)

This Healing Tank is filled with a Nutrient pool and Surgical Nannobots are released into the wounded user. The user is rendered unconscious for the duration of the session. A rebreather is attached to the user on entry.
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