______________________________________________ The Beginning- "The age of enlightenment has come to us Brothers!" Em'Kin exclaimed to the crowd gathering around him. So long have we looked down when we should have looked up! No longer will our toils in the dirt be rendered useless by plague and disease! The time has come for change to come, and the enlightened people that we are to rise up and float among the stars!" He was on a roll, no one around him could deny that. Em'Kin was born to a huge family, one of 10 children, and had to learn to be "diplomatic" in his approaches to problems with the people around him. Because of his great diplomacy he was not the undisputed leader of Gur-Gunia, the homeworld of the Gur-Gun people. The Gur-Gun race had thrived from millenia on their own, using their astounding economic and scientific minds to further their civilization. But, for that same time, they have been concerned only with the land beneath their feet and not that of the worlds around them.
It is the beginning of the year now, and a new project has begun. The desire to leave their own world and colonize the galaxy around them was too strong to ignore, and so they began to build a propulsion system for their ships that could leave their planet's orbit. They had satellites, but the engines that got them into orbit were one-way, once they started they continued to be active until they broke down. It was the 15th day of the year when they discovered the Hyper Drive. Now they will be able to move from one place to another through space with relative ease. They then began construction of a ship to transport their citizens from planet to planet so that they can be colonized. The result of this design and construction phase is the Sender class of Colony Ships. It can travel to a range of 1.5 parsecs (more then the Gur-Gun even think the diameter of the galaxy is.
Sender Class Colony Ship:
They began construction on a Sender, the Gur-Gun engineers said that it would take 18 weeks to complete. "Now that the ferver for colonization has begun, we cannot even wait that long. Do whatever you have to so that the construction time is cut in half!" Em'Kin said to them. He also had colonization fever, and wanted to see what else is out there in the galaxy. The engineers resolved that they must work much harder, and began to do so. With this new speed that they have, they reported that it would take only 9 weeks to complete the first Sender.
The Ascension- Only a week after the construction of the Hyper Drive, Gur-Gun scientists discovered a way to translate any spoken language into any other instantaneously, they called it a Babel Fish. Now it seemed like things would most assuradly be able to communicate with anything else they encounter, this made everyone very happy. Now only a meer 2 weeks after the discovery of the Babel Fish, a piece of an intersteller battleship fell onto the Gur-Goth town square (Gur-Goth is the capital city of Gur-Gunia), and on this piece was a copy of a galactic map. The Gur-Gun researchers looked over it carefully and decided to trust it, and thus sent it into mass publication with the slogan along the top "Where do you want to live?" The people had a full month and a week to decide on their answer to this question, as the Sender class ship was still not finished. Only a week left until the Sender was finished; a lot was taken to see who would be allowed onto the first inter-planetary voyage. 500 million colonists were chosen out of 8.8 Billion and were sent in search of a new planet. It is currently the second week of the third month. There was a planet in the Gur-Gunia system, it was rated a class 4 planet by Gur-Gun scientists, while Gur-Gunia is a class 10 planet, so the colonists decided they didn't want to go there. They set off towards the next closest planet system, Westerfeld.
A New Dawn- "We have peacefully settled a new colony! Rejoice my Brothers. We still have far to go in our colonization efforts, but we will succeed and thrive because of it!" Em'Kin said joyously to his followers. "A new dawn approaches when we do not just walk across the roads to our neighbors, but across the stars!" Em'Kin was informed that a second Sender would be finished in just under 2 weeks, they would be able to take more of their people from the world and into the stars soon. "The Iconian Ambassador is here to see you," the Gur-Gun Minister of Foreign Affairs told Em'Kin. "Bring him in." The Iconian Ambassador entered with an entourage of lightly armed guards. "I come in the name of the Wise Emperor Iso, to discuss the terms of your survival." "We are not looking for war, we are a peaceful civilization. Please, what would it take for you to be at peace with our survival?" Em'Kin asked the Ambassador. He conversed through a transmitter for a few minutes, and finally replied "We would require 1.6 Trillion Credits to be at peace." And so it was done, 1.6 Trillian credits were transfered from the Gur-Gun coffers to those of the Iconian Empire. This took a great toll on the economy of the Gur-Guns and they would surely feel this soon. "The second Sender is away sir!" The star-tech engineers reported, "It is heading to a planet quite a bit farther away then the last colony, we hope that it makes it there safe." "If it doesn't," Em'Kin says calmly "your heads will be mine..." In the fifth month since Enlightenment, the second Gur-Gun Sender ship colonized the fifth planet in the Xasica system. It is rated a 14 on the Planet Class (PC) scale, and was decided it would make the best possible colony position. They started yet another Sender, it would not be approved in any capacity for the expansion to be halted now. The construction of a Sender is now down to one month. The question was posted on the world bulliten "Should we colonize the rest of the Xasica system before we continue to explore?" and a number of responses were posted, all of them yes. Gur-Gunia was starting to become crowded from increased procreation, everyone was happy in this time, and having a certain place to colonize was better then just randomly searching. To help allieve the need for spacial wandering, a commission for a Reconnaissance vessal was also posted on the bulliten. Quickly it was flooded with blueprints, but the best came from, strangely enough, and Iconian citizen that was visiting the fair Gur-Gunia. And so the Seeker class recon ship was created and 1 Billion credits were paid to the Iconian that created the design.
Seeker Class Scout Ship:
PS. I might be able to post another once I get home, dunno though, would have to actually play tonight, since I don't have any more edited storyline to post...
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