Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26273552-20170710103907/@comment-26273552-20170726111244

Phealan1 wrote: Longer days=Orinios can handle, 1 Orinia day is 18 Earth Days. In which case, keep in mind that these are very short days for them. The temperature swings will be happening quite rapidly. No light=Normally this would be a problem but every soldier in the Orinian armed forces carries an extremely powerful light on them at all times. The light emitted is far beyond human capabilities. It isn't that there's no light, just that there is very little. You can see, but it's like it's twilight hours all the time during the day. Less Gravity=Orinia has 0.524Gs. The increase in the gravitational pull will be hard to cope with.

Constant Tectonic Activity=This won't be a problem for them since they will most of the time be in the air. The ash and debris may affect them though. These two points work counter-intuitive to each other. The Orinios will likely find it very hard to stay in the air for extended periods of time due to the increased gravity. They may find themselves walking more than they'd like to. No plant life=Orinios feed on plants to survive, they contain all the nutrients they need. When they don't get the nutrients...they...I won't go into detail here. The majority of the fungi on this planet is edible, at least to most species on the planet. You can decide how your species will react to it. On the bright side, your ship, and some of the other ships may contain rations. [Generally rations for a fighter pilot would last around 10 days for one person. This will vary based on empire though. Some empires might be cold and ruthless, and not supply rations. Some may be super kind and supply rations for up to a month. Some may not have the rations to spare. (looking at the Fudarians)]

Now... Legend... While the idea is interesting, I would prefer to only include biologically feasible and logical species. If you want robots, they'll have to accompany another species, and they themselves must be mechanically feasible and logical. Synths fall into the robots category, and honestly, I dont think you're understanding the purpose of this roleplay. In fact, any of you that have joined just because you saw "space RP in the planning" I don't think you understand the roleplay.

We're trying to keep this reasonable, even though it's gonna be wonky and futuristic and have elements of fantasy. The leader of a race, or even the captain of a battleship would not be joining the front lines of a battle in a small fighter. (This goes for you too, Gold.)

I'll come clean with you guys now, and tell you I'm going to have a medic character instead of a fighter pilot, but I'm going to provide a logical reason. That reason being that while attempting to rescue a fighter pilot from asphyxiating during the battle when he got shot, but was still alive, the medic vessel gets shot down. A leader has no business getting shot out of the sky unless their entire battleship goes down. That's not what the story of this RP is though, so it's not going to happen.

I'd like to also address that the "one of a kind" dynamic has no business in a roleplay about a bunch of mooks either. We're not trying to glorify any individual, we're trying to force the average person of each species to have to work together. Especially when that "one of a kind" thing leads to not having to eat... The only species that shouldn't have to eat are our tree people because of photosynthesis, and they've got a heap of other troubles for them because of the light levels.

But enough of me ranting. I hate to have to kick your ideas in the face like this, but I don't think they'll fit in. I also hate to try to fit everyone in a mold either, but I think I've left the mold pretty loose. You've just gotta be an average mook of a species that is biologically and logically feasible, and isn't a Mary Sue for this planet.