Space Voyage #1 Chatter

[TheFaithfulStone]

Actually, I can dig aliens, but I think the description needs to be "more alien."

 

The language should not be a simple cipher, for instance. The big thing for me is that they are basically furry orange people. That's a little "Star Trek" for me - "See, I have this thing on my forehead, you can tell I'm an alien..."

 

I want them to be six legged arthropods who don't have a past tense and reproduce by budding or something.

 

I don't know. I could also believe there are no aliens.

 

TFS

[TheBigDog]

Remember, I am passed out. This could all end up being a horrible dream.

 

But I won't do that to you again, Stone. ;)

 

I don't like the FTL idea. The aliens? :(

 

Bill

[Pyrotex]

Okay, no FTL, it is.

 

If you will accept aliens, then I suggest something like the aliens in "Mission Critical" by Hal Clement. Perfect for a world under a brown dwarf: large Infrared eyes, long "hairs" coming out of their head fur that actually comprise an optical interferometer so they can see in almost lightless environments. Etc.

 

Or, a compromise alternate requiring minimum editing: Llanea and Kalesh were two of OUR crew setting up an exploration station on Europa and something went wrong. We went out and rescued them. The "clamshell ships" become just other Prophecy taxis. The dreamsicle appearance becomes just artificial skinjobs 'cause they are into roll-playing games.

 

Choose. I fix.

[TheFaithfulStone]

That first one, I think.

 

I don't mind aliens, but I flippin' hate furries. :shrug:

 

TFS

[Jay-qu]

I dont mind so much.. but we have to keep it 'realistic' (something we abandoned on liftoff :) )

[Pyrotex]

Yeah, I'm not real down with the aliens even. How the HELL do they end up looking like orange people?

....

WEll, just HOW ALIEN do you want them to be?

[TheFaithfulStone]

more.

[Pyrotex]

more.

More?!?!? :) ;)

 

Okay, what about THIS?????????? Personally, I draw the line here.

[Queso]

More?!?!? :) :eek_big:

 

Okay, what about THIS?????????? Personally, I draw the line here.

 

;) :eek:

[Pyrotex]

And this is WAY TOO ALIEN!! So, you better pick something we can all handle.

[Jay-qu]

:lol:

[TheFaithfulStone]

You guys don't watch enough David Lynch movies. :lol:

 

I was thinking something about like Peirsens Puppeteers?

 

Actually, one of my favorites is the Miestersingers from Orions Arm.

 

TFS

[TheFaithfulStone]

OK, I gave it some more thought.

 

Basically, I want the evolution of the aliens to be thought out. If they have orange hair, fine, but how did it get ORANGE? (How did they get all that Pheomelanin in 'em? If they live around a brown dwarf, and melanin production is related to sunlight, how would they have developed it as a response to ultraviolet exposure?)

 

If they have five things poking out their torso (like most critters on this planet) but why are they the same proportion as our limbs, and why is their tail vestigial?

 

I think it's reasonably safe to start with "bilateral symmetry" and "most of the senses are on the "head" (there's a word for that I can't remember.)" that's okay, but I want explanations.

 

If they are solitary creatures who come together only to breed, why is that? And how did they arrive at agriculture, much less spaceships?

 

TFS

[Llanea]

hi guys Kaleshwar has decided not to join so if any one has any idea how to a) kill him off :eek_big: keepup the story line with his carachter without the author or c) i dont have a clue you figure it out ;)

[Jay-qu]

I just moved your post here Llanea, this thread is for the discussing 'out of character' :shrug:

[Pyrotex]

[big sigh]

 

I am grovelling in abject frumptitude. I do the dance of terminal humiliation.

 

I promised to go back and edit the story line. The two "aliens" become redshirts from our crew, and the voyage to Europa becomes a mere rescue mission when their surface module on Europa springs a leak and then they discover that their shuttle buggy has been damaged.

 

Now, I don't have the time. We have a new contract. Life has gotten extremely hectic and busy. You guys may not see much of me for a while, except for weekends.

 

[/big sigh] :evil:

[Llanea]

Ok i just found this place so im gonna answer as much as i can in one post as i read through the ones concerning my character

 

1) A-hi, firstly: thanks jay i didnt have a clue this page even existed until 3 minutes ago, um any questions about 'my people' i may be able to answer.

 

B-Secondly i was just gonna wing it, if this interfears with the main plot too much or if it'll cause too much travesty feel free to kill me off, as i've said before i dont mind.

 

2)

Can I be the grouch who doesn't believe in aliens or FTL drives?

 

Where is Llanea? Can she be weird enough to be a plausible alien?

 

tfs

 

Hunny i am practicaly alien to normal people already, i think i can pull it off.:D

 

3)

Either in a subsurface station on Europa or in orbit, maybe both. She says she is very weird. I trust her. :)

 

BIG mistake, lol, just dont let me near anything that requires brains or more than 8 seconds of attention...or chocolate, you'll never see it again :lol:

 

4)

Exactly the questions I will be asking in the story. :)

 

I will bargain that she is artificial, "man made" if you will. She is a probe, or part of a system of probes. She is running low on energy, and her "survival programming" is kicking in.

 

That is just my guess. I am anxious to find out!

 

Bill

 

What if we make it so she speaks english - because she has been put on Europa to spy on us humans, and has been watching our television transmissions and learnt from that :D

 

Not exactly, just wait and see :D :evil:

 

5)

I don't know where you are going to find me, but I am not capable of command decisions. Let me know what you do with me when you find me. Read stress into my symptoms. I have young children that I left behind, and I have just decided to perhaps never return to earth and see them again. The professional decision was easy, I gave no consideration to the personal side. The promises to my children that I have just broken. That is what I am dealing with. And perhaps some bad mayonaise.

 

Bill

 

Aww that's a shame, haven't gotten to that bit of the story while catch up reading, not the most amout of time in the world/europa.

 

6)

Okay! :) Consider yourself howdydoodied.

 

TFS! Hullo! I suggest that you and I meet at Big Dog's stateroom. You have bumped into Jay-Q and dragged him along. I will tell everyone about LLanea (I like to spell the alien's name with 2 cap L's) and TBD will howdydoody permission for me to heat up one of the pressurized scout craft we have in the hangers and make a dash out to Europa to rescue LLanea (she has 28 hours left). No way we could push Prophecy out there in time. Either one of you may elect to come along if you wish. I promised Llanea (one cap L means the actual person, not the character) that she would be in the thread by Saturday morning. :)

 

If no answer from any of you, then I will howdydoody the lot of you!!!

:evil: :eek: :evil: :doh: :evil: :D :evil:

:hihi:

 

Much appreciated, having a wonderful time.

 

7)

Okay guys, great work! I gotta go home now and take the wife to suffer. Uh... that would be supper. Yeah. I think the plot is working fantastic. Llanea is up to speed by PM with me and is tickled pink to be included in this very dramatic way. I told her not to worry about being an alien. She's young, just a technician, doesn't have to know any science, and if she is always saying the wrong thing or not understanding us -- well, that's perfect.

 

bye--Pyro

Good thing considering i am not what you humans call a genious when it comes to all things even remotely to do with science...art i can do :hihi: biology/physics :eek2:

 

8)

Attention all Prophecy crew!!!

 

I don't know why I or someone else didn't think of this earlier.

:doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh:

 

We want to "do" science on our Space Voyage #1, right? Yet, we can't seem to keep away from "plots", that are frankly uninteresting to some members. And I can understand that.

 

While making my last Space Voyage post, it suddenly occurred to me to PUT the SCIENCE into the plot with Links! As I described what I was seeing, I linked the story to websites with actual Science--the images, the descriptions, the explanations.

 

We can have both. Plot and Science, by generously sprinkling our posts with hard science links. We can make our voyage actually be a voyage of Scientific Discovery for everyone who reads it! Lurkers, noobies, everyone! I feel kinda stupid I didn't think of this earlier. Comments??? Reactions??? Anybody care??? :)

 

Brilliant, help me a lot too :D

 

9)

Thanks Jay-qu for the opportunity.

Background of the alien(me);)

I started out from my home planet about six months ago on a mission. Five months into the mission my ship was attacked by an enemy of our home planet and our long range communication system together with our main (ftl) engine was destroyed beyond recognition. Much of the crew were killed in the fight and the rest were killed when the life support system in 95% of the ship gave away. I happened to be in the 5% that had continued life support and survived. So I'm stranded some 400 light years from my home planet, with no way to contact them. I had put myself into stasis and set the mainframe to bring me out if there was a habitable planet nearby (within 0.2 light years) or a spaceship was close enough.

 

Plot

The mainframe brings me out of stasis after it sights your ship. And it has been running the "first contact decrypter" on all your communications to and from earth and has enough information to enable basic communication. I send a basic rescue message to your ship (in english). Then I set the navigation course to bring my ship near of yours(I still have booster rockets).

Then it depends on your rescue mission.

 

Let me know if this plot is acceptable

 

Regards Kalesh.

 

Really wish i had found this place ages ago, would have created better continuations, especialy in regards to my lovely alien friend, i may edit them to put allowances in my sub-plot.

 

10)

Gosh, I personally would adore having one, but I'm afraid if that would unsettle our plot thread. Maybe, maybe not. Even with the blueprints, we would still have to search around for titanium matrix infinalloy, warp plasma, trihelical fottacites, and monopole flux capacitors. And where are we gonna find that stuff out here? Ganymede WalMart? Titan Hardware?

 

On the other hand, there may be some interest in going to that nearby brown dwarf we discovered, and that's...what? 4 light months away? I forget.

 

Keep the blueprints in your back pocket until we can straighten out what we want to do. Meanwhile, we have four Galilean satellites to explore!!!!!

 

PS: I assume both you 'aliens' want to be revived in our sickbay? Well, anytime you want, write a 'wakeup' post in the sickbay. Go for it. And, uh... don't mess around with the redshirts just outside the door. They're there for your protection. :hihi:

 

lol

 

11)

Yeah, I'm not real down with the aliens even.

 

How the HELL do they end up looking like orange people?

 

I'm gonna need some serious science backflips here.

 

TFS

 

The Gold Standard of fictional aliens, I think.

 

I already had the character written for a fiction i wrote, that's where the phisioliogy and appearance came from. :hyper:

 

 

12)

Okay guys, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

 

This "alien" twist to the plot is my fault. Maybe LLanea suggested she wanted to be an alien, but I was the one who "made it happen". I am sorry.

 

It's not *too* late to fix this. If you want, LLanea and KAlesh can be "redshirts" who just never were mentioned before. After all, we got a crew of several hundred to choose from. They can be specialists in any area they like. I will go back and edit a dozen or so posts and straighten out the "timeline".

 

Show of hands.

 

I am really, really sorry. Sorry.

 

Not your fault, i asked to be here. If you guys want it changed tell me and i'll do some major editing.

 

13)

Actually, I can dig aliens, but I think the description needs to be "more alien."

 

The language should not be a simple cipher, for instance. The big thing for me is that they are basically furry orange people. That's a little "Star Trek" for me - "See, I have this thing on my forehead, you can tell I'm an alien..."

 

I want them to be six legged arthropods who don't have a past tense and reproduce by budding or something.

 

I don't know. I could also believe there are no aliens.

 

TFS

 

As i said, description is from another story that i wrote and like the characters appearance, the way i thought it would be anyway

-as for the look, if i had a scanner i could paint it, but i don't so imagination will be needed,

- the language is solved by the Gersan, i have been using my own language with added translations until i'm rescued/killed off, the Gersan is also a universal translator

- and i really dont want to be a 'buddy reproducer' :eek: , i'm sixteen and my character is the equivelant on her world

- as for belief you can say and think what you want but to me being the only beings in the universe, advaned or primitive, is stupid because of the vastness of the aformentioned universe, the conditions that caused us to exist had to have happened somewhere else or it's just pointless and i don't like pointless/useless things, therefore i do believe in aliens :hihi:

 

14)

 

I don't like the FTL idea. The aliens? :hyper:

 

Bill

 

If i promise i wont eat/kill /maim any of your crew can i stay?

 

15)

OK, I gave it some more thought.

 

Basically, I want the evolution of the aliens to be thought out. If they have orange hair, fine, but how did it get ORANGE? (How did they get all that Pheomelanin in 'em? If they live around a brown dwarf, and melanin production is related to sunlight, how would they have developed it as a response to ultraviolet exposure?)

 

If they have five things poking out their torso (like most critters on this planet) but why are they the same proportion as our limbs, and why is their tail vestigial?

 

I think it's reasonably safe to start with "bilateral symmetry" and "most of the senses are on the "head" (there's a word for that I can't remember.)" that's okay, but I want explanations.

 

If they are solitary creatures who come together only to breed, why is that? And how did they arrive at agriculture, much less spaceships?

 

TFS

 

What!? :eek2: um, ok, i'll give it a go, sorry but this is completely off the top of my head

 

hair-mineral in our planets crust/soil and has then gone into the food which has went through many generations to turn our hair and natural fabrics from my home planet AMBER, not orange, i am picky when it comes to colour, very art orientated.

-sorry but no idea what your talking about with the melanin production /red dwarf and how it relates to ultra violet????? :eek: :eek_big:

-wasen't planning on multiple extremities, was thinking different brain function so my race understands and can manipulate energy for telekineses and the like, but i have been told that's frowned upon:(

-bilateral symmetry-what the hell is that?

-breeding-as i have said breeding won't be an issue as i am not only a minor, but don't have a clue about biology

 

16)

I just moved your post here Llanea, this thread is for the discussing 'out of character' ;)

 

Cheers! :)

 

17)

[big sigh]

 

I am grovelling in abject frumptitude. I do the dance of terminal humiliation.

 

I promised to go back and edit the story line. The two "aliens" become redshirts from our crew, and the voyage to Europa becomes a mere rescue mission when their surface module on Europa springs a leak and then they discover that their shuttle buggy has been damaged.

 

Now, I don't have the time. We have a new contract. Life has gotten extremely hectic and busy. You guys may not see much of me for a while, except for weekends.

 

[/big sigh] :(

 

 

yay, means i get to be alien for a little while longer, hope you don't have too hard a time in real life :)

 

Huge appologies for the really long post but i figured i may as well get it all done in one go