Battlestar Hyperion

[Kyla Monroe]

Once I get the layout switched over and set up all shiny, not to mention rearrange some boards, move out all the old topics into archives we'll set up an activity check and I'll email everyone on the board to see who we can drag back

--also just got up so still haven't read anything, will hop back on after I make breakfast for hubby and get him off to work~

[Kyla Monroe]

Okay so for the sake of ease on my brain which doesn't work well anymore as it is (baby stealing my brainsssss! zombie?!) I'm going to just put replies/thoughts to things as I read through the topic~


I don't mind in the least helping out on the site, especially if I'm not feeling alone in doing things for the site. No offense intended to anyone but that's part of the reason I'm on staff break from here, I need a break from doing pretty much everything alone. No apologies needed also, life happens. Advertising isn't a problem at all nor is affiliations. I'll get to work on the layout change during this week, maybe today but I can't promise that. Got lots of house work to catch up on. I'm glad you're wanting to get the site revived Roger it was a fun place and was sad that it died off when Sid went away, but I'm not familiar enough with the show and such to take over his role.

As far as deciding who to kill off and who not to, well we can let the activity check help with that. If someone doesn't respond to it we can be pretty sure they won't be returning, with the exception of those who hold positions like Sid and James do I think we'd be okay to do a mix of deaths and injuries.

Regarding Roger's first set of ideas:

I think a mixture of the first and second idea might be good, it'd give a new light to focus on with a full site revamp, a time skip could also work with this. While RP'ing out the actual event would be cool, it could also become a bit confusing and time consuming. We'd have to determine what exactly is happening and where and who's involved...ect. Doing some flashback/past dated threads just to highlight some things might be a better route rather than full out RP'ing it. With a mixture of the on-ship happenings with the human-cylons and the battlestars there's plenty of chaos going on to account for losses wherever they may be.



With whoever takes over as the temporary-ish commanding position, I'm not great as far as military type information so as far as chain of command I got no idea who would fit that position.

The resistance was a cool plot, it gave a different aspect of RP'ing as far as enviroments and such. I don't much care for the thought of tossing them aside all together. If we do the time skip and go with an idea that was mentioned, not sure if it was ever decided on. The smaller military vessel that we were going to have come into the picture later on with the whole human-cylon in charge guy who was above Sideny..ect hope that rings a bell....anyway an idea was that was the ship that rescued the resistance that way they would also be joining the fleet and said smaller military ship might be able to get a good idea of where the Hyperion might be with the help of Chris (Sid's char) since he was part of the Hyperion.



I'd love to have James active as well, but like Roger I don't see that happening, at least anytime soon. Until the time that he can officially be back in full swing I'd opt for skipping over him in the change of command

the option 2 for the time skip idea i like also; as I said before about the time skipping. so obviously i am good with a fast forward

the new ships, i like the idea here. at the time we had the hyperion and the star we had for RP'ing options as far as ships went. it would also give folks more options as far as how their character fits into where the story is. I do have thought on adding more ships to the RP'ing locations, perhaps we should put a limited # of positions on each ship that must all be filled before others can be added. That way we can try to avoid having 50 people making chars for the hyperion and only end up with 3 on the civilian ship for example.

i'm good with having one of those ships be a 'hospital' type place that is purely medical. it could come in with the gunstar idea being part of the group of ships they've met up with

also the additional options for people to choose from as far as positions, but i am still for keeping a limit on them like we put in place for the hyperion.


seeing the additional idea for the resistance setting up their own thing on the planet, i kinda like that. but i think the only problem with that might be that if they were able to set up a base and actually make an impact on the cylons they might become too high of a target and end up just getting the planet nuked again just so the cylons dont have to deal with them


as i mentioned azura is the one i'm 99% sure on keeping and while my muse is a bit broken at the moment im sure i can churn out a couple posts just to keep her in the picture with all the changes that could be going on

touching on the mutiny/terrorist ideas from a few posts before, i think we could save this plot for a future happening depending on how far into the future we go, but perhaps it could start after the presidental election for one reason or another -- something to figure out later if it becomes solid


on the new ships i can agree with not having too many open as locations just yet as far as a main RP option. perhaps we can find a place/uninhabitable planet outside the red line a little that the fleet could hide out at/leave the civilian ships when they need repairs or somthing so that they'll be safe. perhaps they find some way to keep themselves off radars using the planet atmosphere or somthing. who knows but it's an idea

if we're going for the story that we want to take our worlds back, i think having a more military-ish style to things would be good also. adding a few more over time would be cool


okay there's my rambling and my head is spinning lol. gonna do a bit of cleaning up and house-work, i'll check in laters <3 i'm on msn [e-mail]
also i have my cell as always so just shoot me a PM or text if you have my #, pm if you want it and if i heart you i'll share

xoxoxo

[Roger Davis]

Alright, Lars had some other suggestions mostly voiced on the cbox that I for one think are over complex at the moment and should be saved for later plots. I'm now feeling that way about a whole load of things we suggested including the gunstar, more civilian ships, and reuniting with the resistence.

The most important thing at this moment is getting the site rolling. To do that we need to have:
1) An open-ish environment to post in for new and returning players. A complicated site-wide plot is a bad time to jump in and develop a character.
2) Structure both IC and OOC. People are going to return/come for the first time and see a site in chaos. Chaos does not encourage people to stay and is only slightly better than inactivity.
3) Defined positions for new characters. If the master-at-arms is planned to die/get removed by injury then that spot should be listed as open for a new character. If the OOD is expected to be promoted at the end of the chaos then his old position is open for a new character. Otherwise people are limited in their choices and also would be applying for characters dropped directly into the metaphorical .

For those reasons (and others) unless I am greatly convinced otherwise, we're going to do our option two (the time skip). Everything will be reordered (with further discussion from all you of course) and the site will skip to a time and place where we are past the chaotic event.



Regarding the event itself, I agree with Kyla above that a skinjob/regular cylon attack will be best. I talked with duck and Lars on the cbox about a basic plan. There were over-the-top jokes and references involved but we have a basic outline of how it is going to go down. I also intend for it to be an interactive plotline.

"Wait, but Roger, you said we were just skipping it." Shut up! I know what I said. We're skipping it and continuing into another "lull" period to get new people in and get back to normalcy but I want us to back date threads and do the event as well. We're already going to know how everything basically turns out (which will help with RPing through it) but the individual stories on contributions by characters will be up to this RP. I plan to run it with the "events" account to make it more of an adventure type plot instead of just character interaction. There will be numerous "groups" that will have limited choose-your-own-adventure control of their actions.

I feel that this is a solid compromise which gives us some action and the ability to RP the event while also have structure and a per-determined future for the site to grow and stabilize once again. New characters will also have the opportunity to make their appearance during the crisis too. Some previously overlooked pilot performs admirably and after the time skip is now CAG or something like that. It might just be as small as building a battlefield friendship by running into someone new during it all and RPing with them as you try to survive it.

[Lars Engström]

I really have only one question. Who gets the monumental task of writing up the chaotic event? I think it is important to have that explained somewhere...

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I would hazard to suggest Roger do it, simply because he has the clearest idea of what everyone wants, but i would love to help.

[Tristram Kelly]

We may want to avoid having too many threads open during the same event as well. That happened with the New Arrivals plot line, and it never really got finished. Also, if anybody, and I mean anybody, gets CAG before Drake, heads will roll ;P

[Roger Davis]

Well someone might get the position and then their head will soon roll. How does that sound?

@lars Yeah, I'll probably be writing most everything up.

As far as RPing it out I really want to limit it to about three groups of people (and threads or continuation threads) for the whole thing. With the nature of the crisis there will also be little communication between groups like with the CIC talking to Vipers in our last event.

[Tristram Kelly]

Haha works for me!