The 'Threat'

[Valiens Nantaris]

So when it comes to dominions, I'm not sure about you, but generic pirates/Sith/slavers are getting a touch dull.

So I wanted to introduce an enemy for SSC to fight in PVE situations.

As I see it we have three main options:

• I can create a species and sub it to act as our antagonist. That works well for the more outer rim situations, but less well for the inner rim ones.
• Mine and [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]'s genocidal droid group Archangel can play opposition with the intent of destroying or enslaving organics.
• We can get some former Primeval forces to oppose us in those areas, discussing with former writers there to make sure we do them justice.

Or we can do a combination of the above depending where our dominions take us.

 

[Matsu Ike]

hmm a new species that is unknown would be interesting to see.

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

To be honest I prefer writers to NPC. It is far more engaging in a thread.

 

[Nima Tann]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

Machine vs Mankind intensifies!

Would be a good change of scenery and I agree with pirates getting a bit dull after a while.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Coci Heavenshield"]
I agree, but which writers are going to volunteer to be our punching bags?

 

[Nima Tann]

Will be a lot of DNA in the battlefield probably

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

 

[Moira Skaldi]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]


The organics can volunteer to be Archangel's punching bags. Especially the Space Elves. They must all be wiped out.


[member="Nima Tann"]


Would you like a clone?

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Moira Skaldi"] [member="Nima Tann"]
We must call it Niima Taann. No one will ever suspect!

 

[Moira Skaldi]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"], [member="Nima Tann"]


Archangel is not a Saturday morning cartoon villain.


* also creates an evil Phylis clone *

 

[Connor Harrison]

As long as it's not monsters or beasts....the last few Faction threads we've done we've had monsters and beasts and I find them harder to imagine writing against than human / android forms. Beasts and monsters are as bad as Trade Federation battle droids as opponents to me.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Connor Harrison"] we could do a dance battle,

 

[Connor Harrison]

[member="Matsu Ike"] What IS it with you and my dancing? I've only got one signature routine.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Connor Harrison"] your dancing is fun and exciting.... not like [member="Jericho"]'s dancing which is violent and cringe worthy when he tries to lift the dollar bills with his cheeks

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

Not beasts, no. Was thinking a race of warriors in the same vein as orks, but smarter.

 

[Maya Carrick]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"] I'm up for about anything and change of pace then having to patch up Mandalorian wounded including my daughter and son

 

[Audren Sykes]

Plenty of fun with orcs. I'll support that.

And [member="Moira Skaldi"], I resent that.

 

[Moira Skaldi]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"], [member="Nima Tann"]


On a more serious level, I believe Archangel could be a good opponent, but only if used sparingly since turning them into ME3 Cerberus would suck. I wouldn't want them to be punching bags.


And they'd probably be better for faction threads than dominions. The outcome is somewhat uncertain in the former, whereas doms only have one outcome unless there's a Rebellion.


Archangel's style would be to perform raids, abduct people from remote worlds for processing, or stage attacks where they say test out bioweapons using proxies and then offer 'healthcare'. Can see them taking control of the droids on a planet if they're feeling audacious. They'd be more of a shadowy menace than a horde of expendable NPC opponents.


They wouldn't directly go to war with a major faction because they don't have the resources for all-out conflict and the whole idea behind Archangel is that it outwardly maintains a facade of respectability and keeps its shadier dealings compartmentalised. Of course, there's a number of people who know about those (e.g. Siobhan to a degree, Sumiko), but not the general public. Intel on the evil stuff it's doing could naturally be gathered via IC work.


Might supply the space orcs with weapons. I like the space orc idea.

 

[Judah Dashiell]

SPACE ORCS! SPACE-CAT ORCS!

 

[Kurayami Bloodborn]

Kurayami used to run a company on another site that was very similar in operation to Archangel, though he never wanted to destroy everyone. He sought to bring about wars of attrition through playing the major factions against one another. He was a real bastard back then. And that doesn't even get into the ships he built...dear god those things were ridiculous, but he had his hands in everything from bacta and kolto to disruptor tech and mining operations. So I can respect wanting to be more the shadowy type. And good luck with it, though Kurayami is a bad punching bag on here, not enough training for it to be fun.

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

If you need writers playing punching bags, i can help. Of course not as Solan as he likes you guys but as some player controlled NPC faces... not alone though.