Channelknight Fadran

"Are there any other contestants yet?" Fadran asked.

Fadran signed his name down, but... honestly it was just because Ayia dared him to. She signed hers down with significantly more pizazz beneath his. "Ready to get your tweedlekonks kicked in?" "I don't know what that means."

Do tied votes go to RNGesus or...?

indeed!

*sigh* Wasing the want of nipping the clear. Notting the want of wind the shining only. Wasing the want of winding the shine, but wasing the need of liking. Having the joy of nips; notting the want of nips notting the saying their say. Wanting the brighting the spread.

yeesh, I haven't tried translating high imperial in awhile...

But it almost seems like the Researchers are the effective elims here because they have to kill everyone else to win, whereas the other three factions just have to keep their numbers up.

there... aren't any traditional elims here, right? What metric have people been voting on?

Humanity was far from the first spacefaring race. In the year 2057, they'd first received transmission from another species congratulating them on the full colonization of Mars, but tracing the signal yielded nothing - it almost seemed as though it had come from empty space. In the year 2062, upon beginning to project to terraform Venus, the same species sent them another message congratulating them on their ingenuity. 2101 marked the founding of the first settlement on the once hellish world, and subsequently another message - this one decoding as some idiom that they couldn't quite make out. 2160 marked the completion of humanity's Dyson swarm, and a year later they received a message informing them that the aliens were coming to visit. The last thing they expected of these creatures was for them to be dragons. The dragons had made their offer a year ago tomorrow - and in just sixteen hours, they'd be back on Earth to receive their decision Join the Draconic Grand Empire. Prove your value to our cause. Join the Culling War, and come out on top if you wish to survive.

somehow I missed my summons here HI what's goin on

MAGIC. SYSTEM. It’s a magic system that basically just lets v intelligent beings (like dragons and peoples) control reality with their mcbrains. A powerful magical energy permeates the entire universe, driving every force of nature along in its path of creation and destruction. Dragons were the first beings to harness this energy, calling it Magic and using it to conquer the galaxy. By expanding your mind brain and tapping into this energy field, you can learn to manipulate the most fundamental aspects of nature. After much debate we’ve (kinda) settled on these categories of manipulation: Spaceshaping: Space, time, spacetime, and all that jazz (obv not time travel - or I guess maybe time travel but it’s outside the bounds of anyone’s abilities) Waveshaping: Light and sound and such Powershaping: Chemical, Nuclear, and maybe some quark stuff idk Notably, heat overlaps all these sections as Le Entropy.

dude, I made a public google doc. Go ham.

go for it

"Have you ever met a Stardragon?"

"Stardragon... stardragon..." Ayia was mumbling to herself, running her finger across the shaft of her staff.

W E L L we did some things (check the doc if you want the debate, but here's the gist so far): The gist: Dragons are the god-emperors of the local cluster, and have finally decided that the humans of earth are worthy of joining le evil empire. The dragons were the first species to evolve to intelligence in the local cluster, and took over their galaxy and then the neighboring ones because they’re super stronk. Dragons are incredibly powerful by default, wielding powerful magic and also just… y’know. Being dragons. But then they also meld their incredible power with technology to effectively become gods. Rather than wiping out all other intelligent life, the Dragon Government™ will incorporate them into a little fraction of their empire. Once a society becomes powerful enough, they are approached and appropriated via whatever means the dragons need. If a society does fight back, they are very quickly subjugated - y’know. Power armor magic supermonsters. The dragons will often invest early on in races with potential, pushing them along to becoming significantly advanced enough to serve Le Dragons’ needs. Humans have pretty much taken over their entire system by now, so the dragons recognize them as profitable. There is a caste system within dragon society, because of course there is: Dragon God-Emperors: It’s a royal court of only the most powerful dragons (politically and magically), who all play off each other in obvious power struggles but ultimately just maintain the status quo of “dragons subjugate the lower dragons and lower races.” They don’t have their scales, because that would impede their magic. The semi-royal court: kind of like the barons and earls and such of dragon society. Representatives of entire dragon worlds or system, but in the grand scheme of several galaxies are far less influential than the god-emperors. Most don’t have their scales either (for the same reasons), but some do. General dragon upper-class: just sort of reputable families and dynasties. They’d be influential in their respective systems/planets. About even on scaleless (going for magical prowess) or scaled (feels they’re less magically-talented or whatever) A lot will provide elite warriors to the Royal Grand Army. Regular dragon “middle”-class: still very much dragons living in a perfect utopian society. They can pursue their dreams, rise in the system, never be in want… they aren’t genetically-engineered to be anything specific in most cases, but often are enhanced as an egg to be generally better at most things. Dragon Blue Collars (for lack of a better term): These dragons are the workers, and are bred from birth to be one very specific kind of worker. In Plato’s Republic these would be the “Guardians,” who are given a specific role at birth and expected to maintain it. Includes the soldier class, who are objectively more powerful than their other blue collar brethren but are also kinda sorta bred and taught to obey soooo Dragon Peasants With Benefits: Dragon peasants who get to keep their scales Dragon Peasants Without Benefits: Dragon peasants who do not get to keep their scales (because r a c i s m). Obv they do the nasty manual labor jobs (the kinds with high danger that the dragons can’t send their wimpy alien slaves to do. Star mining and black hole maintenance and whatnot) So some things we still need to decide: The magic system (note that the dragons are very powerful magically) everything else

yes please! Cause our hijinks to hijink more

Update: there be dragons (blame Pancake Boi)

okeyday we're good now