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USS_Parallax
08-26-2009, 09:06 PM
Pretend 3rd playable faction -

The Star Empire main races:
Romulan
Reman
Breen
Tholian
Jem'hadar


A large faction of Romulans launched a successful campaign to declare a new Star Empire and to achieve the power and presence the Romulans once enjoyed. Though not all Romulan factions have joined in this new Star Empire sees success through various means. Though many of the Remans have left to give their loyalties elsewhere, with the promise of equality in this new Empire and their fair share of space many have sworn their loyalty to it.
The Star Empire finds itself short of manpower however and short of soldiers due to the inability to recruit all of the Romulan factions. A Romulan geneticist however has led a program from the beginning of the Dominion War studying the cloning techniques of the Dominion. And without the Remans serving as Shock Troops anymore the new leaders of the empire elect to pour resources into this technology. Soon without the Federation or Klingon Empires realize it the Star Empire has many cloning facilities and hundreds of thousands of these new type of Jem'hadar shock troops genetically engineered to serve the Star Empire instead of the Founders.
To ensure loyalty beyond genetics they even give the most gifted Jem'hadar citizenship and the ability to lead. This strategy has helped even most of the rare "anomalies" which stray from the path stay on the path.

Still outmatched by the Federation and Klingon Empire they made alliances with many civilizations capitalizing on their xenophobia. These included the Breen and Tholians. The Breen never fully recovered from the war and the recent conflicts with both the Federation and Klingon Empire have left them desperate. The Tholians having had conflict with the Klingon Empire go to where they believe they can receive help and maintain their way of life which many Tholians do not see as being compatible with the Federation.
Through treaties and promises of absolute respect for eachother's businesses in almost all regards. Outside of the military and trade regards the civilizations of the Star Empire are still almost completely separate. The Star Empire successfully maintains an alliance that both brings many factions together while simultaneously promoting xenophobia on many levels though now much of it is redirected outward towards anyone without their ideals.

Though still very separate in this alliance the military is opposite. The realization that you cannot go it alone in such a huge universe has hit almost everyone. The ranks in the Star Empire's forces are diverse unlike it's home planets. The militaries work together and share technology and strategy and personnel. However each power maintains it's own shipyards and space stations largely to enforce the view of separate but equal ( :eek: ) in regards to everything outside of the military.
This means you'll still find distinct ships from Romulan War Birds to Tholian ships to Breen warships.

To bolster their numbers even further outside races may join the military and after many long years of service may be given citizenship themselves and possibly even be allowed to live on New Romulus one day!



So I just thought of that while I was typing it. :o
It would be neat to explore xenophobic societies.

MrWhipples
08-26-2009, 09:26 PM
So I just thought of that while I was typing it. :o
It would be neat to explore xenophobic societies.[/QUOTE]
stupid ideas welcome? YAY!!!! i have an idea. The borg don't assimilate people anymore. they travel the universe selling ice cream. sort of an inter-galactic ice cream man. not the pre frozen kind... it is regular homemade ice cream.

that would be AWESOME cpt we've lost power to the main freezer...
cpt says "initiate self destruct sequence for 1 millisecond" !!

SHOOOOPDAWOOOP!!

Cormoran
08-26-2009, 10:11 PM
well for funsies i wouldn't mind seeing something similar to babylon 5's league of non aligned worlds.

i'm not sure which races they'd comprise of exactly, basically they'd be races we've seen in an episode or two who weren't aligned to any of the current big groups. small time lesser known aliens banding together to form a greater whole.

unlike the current groups they'd be more hodge podge, just starting out and utilising everything their member racs have to offer, so they'd have a wide variety of ships from their various member races rather than a standard design philosophy.

i'd see them as banding together for protection but little else, they still trade and such on their own and whatnot. with various disputes among themselves to spice things up, maybe allowing for more species specific plots for pve. IE your particular race may have a dispute with another member race and various specific missions from your homeworld that arent sanctioned by the alliance become available.

their involvement in pvp could be on a more mercenary basis, running cargo through blockades, destroying various targets for a paycheck of which their alliance gets a cut of. basically something that'd allow them to pick a side but not be limitted by it, i'd minimise the griefing problem of that idea by making changing sides a much slower process, something where you cant do a run for one group then turn around and shoot them in the back, or get into a fight and quickly change sides, maybe making the decision as a request to the higher ups for the job that'd take an hour or two to be responed to.

tyler1995
08-26-2009, 10:48 PM
Dinosuarz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

andrewprofit
08-26-2009, 10:53 PM
Create your own faction by convincing the intellegent species you find to join you instead of the federation.

MajorD
08-26-2009, 11:36 PM
Borg, from the 27th century.

http://www.angryflower.com/borg27.gif

maxgrimberger
08-27-2009, 12:02 AM
no stupid idea from me... at least I hope not.

I always hoped (and still hope) that the Cardassians will find back to their former glory and become once again a real threat to Starfleet (as DS9 is my favourite show).
This would also make a great 3rd faction for PvP, by the way!!!

I would also love to see the Ferengi as playable faction (seperate from Federation). Should be something more trader-like, I wonder how you could NOT let them be involved in PvP though...

Rota
08-27-2009, 01:03 AM
Quintaglios

+cool points for you if you know the race.
Best novels I have EVER read.

Sir.Bastage
08-27-2009, 01:03 AM
A massive Tribble uprising!!!:cool:

128hoodmario
08-27-2009, 03:25 AM
The Pararallaxs!!!!!

Wait that is bad oh no I have already said. My God they shall rule the Universe!

Grey2ham
08-27-2009, 05:38 AM
Champions,
A group of interstella super heroes in spandex with fantastical powers that all reside in Detroit...
Oh wait... hang on a sec...

piponolo
08-27-2009, 07:01 AM
Kittens! I think the third faction should be kittens!

There is my stupid idea :D

But seriously I think the Romulans should be the third faction and you go on a mission to help get your planet back. Yep, I said it! Hobus Supernova (??I never liked the SUPER supernova idea) be danged!

It's Star Trek so anything can happen.

andrewprofit
08-27-2009, 07:07 AM
A massive Tribble uprising!!!:cool:

tribbles with devastating weaponry.