New Sci-Fi Play by Post Game: Vessels of Gold and Silver

[Laveaux]

Ancient civilizations, revolution, civil war, interstellar invasions, exotic technology and the anarchic fringes of the universe collide into a single science fiction experience so unique and immersive it challenges the boundaries of the genre.

Vessels of Gold and Silver is the first roleplaying game using concepts and materials entirely from , a free content worldbuilding community. Be the first to join a roleplaying experience that brings the exhaustive details of the Basilicus Project Prime into a structured online environment. Utilizing both Free Form Play by Post and standard “pen and paper” rules from an open content homebrew system, Vessels of Gold and Silver brings online roleplay to another level of sci-fi storytelling.

Vessels of Gold and Silver focuses on single campaigns that a Game Master conducts. The Game Master is limited in his or her story by not only the confines of the fictional universe, but also by game rules that remove bias and add fair luck to the fate of the characters in the story. Players can join in these campaigns and participate in the story as a whole and while they are in charge of their own decisions they cannot control their fate.

In addition to Campaigns, players can also participate in this game using traditional Freeform roleplaying rules.

This is a game for the tabletop gamers. You know who you are.

If you don’t know what that means, take a look around this community and you’ll be surprised about what you find.

Basilicus is a partner of Dragonmuse Networks at

[tadk]

I skimmed the top level of the site
Looks very nice
Going to register now so I can look around more

[Laveaux]

I'm anxious on getting started on "The Uncharted" campaign. Been itching to roleplay Basilicus content for years now.

[Laveaux]

Looking for players for a new VGS Campaign:



The Uncharted will be a Campaign of indefinite duration. In effort to fill out missing material about the Arrq civilization in Basilicus, I want to run this Campaign to help work out content details.

The genre will be xeno-horror in something of the style of Aliens and Predator. The arching storyline is about a rogue hive of Arrqs taking over various Kelos Sector colonies.

[Laveaux]

Editorial by Edward Wells

It was the day before my son’s twelfth birthday and I was lying under 3 nanopars of debris inhaling glass and concrete while my retinas were bombarded with flashing red spheres. There was a cold trickling coming from my knee and from experience I knew that whatever wound happened down there was severe enough that my nerves didn’t have time to send any messages to my body. My arm, however, felt like it was being pressed with a metrel block of ice. The extremities of my fingers were numb with blueness, while my head pounded various delirious messages from one side of the brain to another like a mental insurrection.

We all remember the events of 3.13.22146. Some of us remember different things. My Aunt Bethesda spent that day at the market in downtown Eve City watching the news from an employee break station. My boss kept by his pho-comm in his office in Benz City . . . well, I was on assignment on Station Adelpha in the Nivall System.

3,329 people died that afternoon. The Daily Congressional reported that 2200 of them were victims of depressurization when the hull of Adelpha was breeched by projectile missiles. The rest were victims of the structural fallout. That very fallout did a remarkable art design of my right leg and left my right arm immobile for seven months (Galactic).

I was drinking tea. There was a boom. I laid in foggy brown musk and remembered my son’s birthday.

The six thousand occupants of Station Adelpha were living a regular day-to-day existence. Many, like myself, were simply en route to Mettion (Nivall II) for business. Others were on their way out of Nivall for business. Even others were sight-seeing, visiting one of the largest megapolis’s in the civilized galaxy. And yes, Adelpha was a military station. The Congress of Crystaldeep listed 950 active members of the Stellar Corps on the station at the time. Twenty-three of them were killed.

Two hours after the explosion that buried me under the rubble of the once popular “Café Buzz”, I asked my rescuer, a middle-aged chap, proudly wearing the Stellar Corps insignia, “Did any of the Arrqs make it on board?”

“Those weren’t Arrqs, mate. They were Rannellans.”

I, among others, had arrogantly assumed that the only species callous enough to attack a station with civilians was the Arrqs. After all, this was the species that invaded Crystaldeep 150 years (Galactic) ago and has been fighting us ever since the Alliance kicked them out. Come to find out, it was our own species that did it. When I heard that, I knew that Kelosians were no longer in a war against just the Aarqs. . . they were in a war with themselves.

It was on that day, I decided to work on a book. In memorandum of the innocent lives lost on Adelpha and the millions that have died since, I find it my journalistic duty to candidly explore the Kelosians and their relations with others. It is time we take a good look at ourselves as a species. Our allies won’t be there to help if we are here just to commit ethnic suicide.

Many events led to the Adelpha attack and most of which were not disclosed until after the fact. The Rannellans targeted Adelpha because, despite the number of civilians, it was a military outpost and the biggest obstacle between them and the Nivall System, quite notably the most coveted Kelosian star system in the galaxy. Nivall’s continuous dealings with the Congress of Crystaldeep pivoted their position against the Rannellans and it was only a matter of time that their door was knocked on.

TerraNet Daily did a very candid article on Nivall’s role in Kelosian politics shortly before the attack, by detailing three summits that took place between Nivall and Kelos regarding their role in the rising conflict. Although TerraNet is the life force of Nivall, it is also notorious for not keeping secrets, so the article exposed both Nivall and Kelos in sometimes unfavorable lighting. TerraNet Daily’s article contained top secret information under Congressional Code. The following is an excerpt from the article, written by Terrance Novli, a regular commentator for TerraNet Daily.

In the early hours of the (second) summit, representatives of the Congress of Crystaldeep wasted no time in telling the executive board of CommPlus exactly what they thought. Tanya Riggs, representative of the UNATA, said, “There is no doubt that your services to mankind are invaluable and are needed by all of the civilized galaxy. We must tell you, that we are prepared to find different means for these services if you continue to provide resources to the Rannella System.”

This created a debate between the two immediately. It has always been known that the Nivall System does not discriminate based on political agenda. The system is not under control of a government, but a company who is interested in profit alone. To subscribe to a political agenda would nullify everything they built their economy on. Riggs, and the Congress of Crystaldeep, was essentially suggesting a political alliance with a private interest . . . and it was less a suggestion than an ultimatum. (Novli, tn.192.394.8679.94860.nivall)

No doubt tensions were high during that summit, and from Novli’s article, the tensions often exploded into all-out verbal abuse. The fact was, without economic relations with the Kelos System the Nivall System would crumble. Their services in Rannella were only 15% of their income and only 10% went to non-Kelosian civilizations. Cutting off the Rannellans would be a tough hit, but not enough to harm the overall system. It was more a matter of policy. The Nivall System seceded from the Congress of Crystaldeep so that they could be politically autonomous and conduct business without regulation or concern for political security. As Novli pointed out, this ultimatum would nullify that.

In the end, money talks louder than ethics and the Nivall System finally agreed to the trade embargo against the Rannella System. All hell broke loose in the media and I was put on a spacecraft to the Nivall System to get the scoop. Three days later, Aldepha was attacked. The Congress of Crystaldeep would try to win Nivall through money, but Rannella would try to win through force.

Fortunately, as per their agreements in the summit, the Nivall System was outfitted with a single patrol of Stellar Corps. Rannella wasn’t expecting a fight and so attacked unprepared. The Stellar Corps repelled the threat in under two hours, sending the Rannellan Fighters into a retreat. Over the next week, however, the Congress of Crystaldeep sent an entire fleet of Stellar Corps to protect the Nivall System and as we speak, the outer stations of the system are completely militarized.

It is only a matter of time before Rannella sends an all-out attack against Nivall. They need the system just as bad as the Congress of Crystaldeep and their imperialistic history has never stopped them from fighting before. The truth about Nivall, however, is that the Congress of Crystaldeep does not have the resources to protect both them and Kelos, while keep the front up against the Arrqs in the outer parts of the sector. If Rannella attacks strong enough, they will win the fight for Nivall.

CommPlus has demanded more troops and the Congress of Crystaldeep has shuffled their feet. They made a commitment they couldn’t entirely support and it would be no surprise if Nivall complies with Rannella to prevent an all-out invasion. There is a lot of pressure now for Tanya Riggs and other representatives to gain support from the Crystaldeep Alliance to help with this threat. As a cartoon in the Daily Congressional so eloquently depicted, Riggs is slapping a band aid on the Nivall System while thinking, “Okay, there’s my mother, Uncle Jerry, Timmy from down the street . . . who else will join the Corps?”

The Crystaldeep Alliance has no intention on sending anyone to Nivall at all. The Grand Seer for the Order of the Spheres announced after the Adelpha attack, “While the Highlord System mourns the loss of the innocent in the Nivall System, the resources we give to the alliance are meant for threats from an imperialistic species. We cannot and will not take sides on a civil war. The Kelosians will need to resolve this on their own grounds.”

Harsh word for allies of the Congress of Crystaldeep, but expected. The Helics, involved in their own civil war, haven’t even sent a formal response to the conflict. Rannellans may dig their own grave on this issue, however. The more imperialistic they become the more the Highlord System, and consequently, the Helis System will have to respond. Many from the Boonas System have supported Kelos’s cause, since they’ve seen some of the trauma Rannellans have caused.

Now seven months (Galactic) later, the standoff remains and battles resume in the skies of Nivall, getting ever closer to penetrating the atmosphere of Mettion itself.

It is a dark time to be Kelosian. Our division of ethics, xenophobia, notions of species supremacy, arrogance and intolerance will cause the ultimate demise of our species. The events around the Nivall System and Adelpha are only symbols of the horror that is to come.

[0523jk]

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[tonilovekelly]

This wasn’t just any island it had crystal clear blue water that allowed you to see the bottom 100 yards off shore, the beaches were pristine and the hut was glorious. It was made of white painted concrete and had large sliding windows that allowed the entire space to be opened up. Geckos could be found on the ceiling fan blades.

[lovefcs09]

The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil producer, planned to cut its workforce by 5 percent in upcoming three years as its profits had been squeezed by heavy refining losses. The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil producer, planned to cut its workforce by 5 percent in upcoming three years as its profits had been squeezed by heavy refining losses. [file] The oil giant had 1.67 million staff last year, which meant more than 80,000 of them would be laid-off within three years, Beijing News reported.The move followed CNPC's earlier announcement to cut non-production spending by 10 percent from a year earlier, the paper said.Related readings: CNPC H1 crude output up 466,700 tons CNPC estimates direct losses of 1.78b yuan from quake Sinopec sees limited benefits from recent oil price declines Sinopec expects H1 profit to fall 50% CNPC's profit before tax dropped by 39 percent year-on-year to 56.4 billion yuan (US$8.3 billion) in the first half year as a result of refining loss and windfall taxes on crude oil sales. To reduce costs, CNPC halted or cut investment in 49 projects in June, saving the company up to 20.72 billion yuan.PetroChina, CNPC's listed arm, announced last month to issue no more than 60 billion yuan to "satisfy the operational needs of the company, further improve its debt structure, reduce financing costs and supplement working capital."

[lovefcs09]

Sixteen policemen were killed when two terrorists drove a truck into an electricity pole and threw two home-made explosives on the cops in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, around 8 am yesterday.Local security bureau officials said the group of 70 policemen were jogging during their regular morning drill in front of Yiquan Hotel, about 100 m from the border armed police division office, when they were attacked.The attack in China's westernmost city, which is close to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, came just four days before the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, prompting security forces across the country to raise the level of alert.Xinhua News Agency said the terrorists, identified as two Uygur men aged 28 and 33, hacked the injured policemen with knives, too. Fourteen policemen died on the spot and two on their way to hospital, and 16 were injured.No civilians were killed or inured, however. The two attackers have been arrested.Police said an arm of one of the attackers was blown off when he ignited a home-made explosive.All the 16 injured cops were treated at Kashgar Prefectural People's Hospital. Four of them were in the ICU, while the rest were out of danger, according to hospital source.

[davidmncc]

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