Create a Planet & Invade Others V9.5 - I know a bar out on Mars...

[Milk]

It's been a while since the last CaPaIO, and me and Greg had been planning for a while to get a new version with cool new stuff to do.

GregmasterX was meant to be the next Host, but he didn't have enough time, and we decided we'll co-host Version 9.5 of CaPaIO.

The Rules are:

[QUOTE]1. Compressed images such as .JPGs or other low quality pictures will be ignored, be warned!

2. Use a reliable image host that doesn't compress the image, doesn't change the format, doesn't re size it, and can be seen by everyone. (I recommend [URL="http://www.cubeupload.com"]www.cubeupload.com[/URL]) [B]DO NOT USE IMGUR OR TINYIMG.[/B] If you use imageshack, make sure to disable picture resizing.

3. If an image looks horrible and/or does not make a contribution to the thread, the users will vote on whether it will be ignored or not. Don't post 2 second shit.
4. Big leaps in technology and Overpowering Weapons/Vehicles are not allowed, you can't start having two giant ships that can erase the universe by pressing a button.

5. You are always allowed to make a planet, no matter who you are. If you've just joined, don't ask if you can join in, make a declare and create your planet!

6. The maximum size of planets is 128x128 pixels, but please try not to make it that big, it kind of looks shit.

7. Always declare. Declaring is when you get in line to post an update on the solar system, you have to do it every time you are about to start editing the solar system.

8. If someone else has declared, do not declare until he/she is finished. This is the point of declaring, we don't want two people editing the same image at once and making parallel universes.

9. Do not declare stack past two.

10. If you're going to declare, make sure that you can actually do it.

11. Do not post a planet and then leave.

12. NAME YOUR PLANET! Seriously, it has to have a name.

13. Always post a brief explanation about what happened in your image somewhere in your post, it really helps.

14. Planets can have moons, but only if you're going to actually use them.

15. Shit like Warp Gates, Black Holes, Worm Holes, or Teleporter Orpheuses are allowed, but you can't just start with them or make them in your second turn.
You first need to research and discover that technology, THEN you build what you want.

16. You are allowed to omit details in your explanation to maintain a stealth technique, but be kind and perhaps leave a clue.

17. Any Player to Player Message sent from planet to planet on this thread IS hackable.

18. Don't make giant moves in a single turn.

19. There is no definite limit to the amount of ships you can have, but try to keep the number REASONABLE.
20. Use common sense in terms of damage weapons take. A small ship would not be able to destroy a large ship in one hit, so don't do that.
21. This is not Create a planet and then create artificial Planets. This is create a planet and INVADE others. Create one planet. If you want to expand, invade another.
22. Ships need fuel to run. Take this into account when travelling across the galaxy.

23. You need materials to build things, so you have to mine asteroids.

24. Ships of factions should be a maximum of a certain size, to prevent clusterfucked battles. If you really have to, make it bigger, but not much bigger. Try to make your standard large-medium-small ships about this big:
Large Ship: Medium Ship: Small Ship:
65x29 pixels 41x21 pixels 21x11

35. You must start in the main system, and you must start in a planet spot or close to one.
26. Re-read the rules often! Things might change and you need to know if this does happen.

27. [B]Delete the planet spot that you replaced with your planet.[/B]

28. Don't make giant leaps unless you've missed a bunch of turns.

29. Define your nation a bit! This is optional, but gives you the chance to really tell others how your faction works, and that can make all the difference when vying for footing in Interstellar affairs.

Faction name:
Population:
Government type:
Leader/Head of State:
Capitol/Home Planet:
Technological Advancement:
Brief description/backstory:
[/QUOTE]

I won't be placing my planet yet.

RESOURCES:

[I]Gas planets[/I] are valuable because of their abundance of noble gases, however they are dangerous to navigate close to in order to harvest the gases.
[I]Crystal planets[/I] contain harder-than-steel diamonds useful from anything to jewelry to diamond drills and everything inbetween.
[I]Lava planets [/I]yield lots of metal, mostly high quality iron which can be made into steel and other noble metals and rare metals that can be found on these planets.
[I]Carbon planets[/I] yield rare gems and fuel deposits useful for fuel and other things such as carbon cored ammunition.
[I]Habitable Planets[/I] yield natural resources commonly found on Earth, however their most productive use is that of collecting animals, microorganisms, and colonizing.

Here's the starting system and subsystem (More will be added):

[QUOTE][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/cCyDkg.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

[editline]14th December 2012[/editline]

Actually, declare.

[editline]14th December 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/VkXS9n.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;H6_r6J0tzBM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_r6J0tzBM[/video]

Decreased map size a bit.

Out of the shadows, or rather in them, appears an obscure civilization at the edge of space. Secluded, they grew on their own, living under the shadows of great civilizations falling and rising.

Today, out of a world-encompassing war spanning several generations, only a few nations have risen from the ashes. Out of them, one's sheer desire to advance their nation into the stars, and beyond doubt to become the top notch in their world's technological and cultural advancement, the Triaxis Federation became the very first to attempt a rocket launch into space, and succeed.

The Triaxis Federation and its people would voyage out into the stars, unbeknownst of the bountiful, unbreakable empires that have sprawled around them since the dawn of the Torbans' evolution into what they are today, in hopes of forging an eternal legacy for all to see, the Triaxis legacy.

[Dmaster]

Hooray, it's back. I'll join in eventually, but not as a planet. I have more fun things in mind.

[Winters]

-snip-

[Psycho8x8]

Declare.

[editline]14th December 2012[/editline]
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[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/RJNbwH.png[/IMG]
[/QUOTE]
[B]Faction name:[/B] Republic of the Emirate

[B]Population:[/B] 368,000,000

[B]Government type:[/B] Republic

[B]Leader/Head of State:[/B] Emir Delevit

[B]Capitol/Home Planet:[/B] Harena

[B]Technological Advancement:[/B] No notable technological advancements, at this point in time. Technology is focused towards military. Harena, upon investigation, would appear to be building a fleet and planetary defenses.

[B]Brief description/backstory:[/B] Harena is a planet that is burdened with extreme heat. It was originally a barren wasteland, however, by a strike of luck, life managed to survive and adapt on this planet. There are few lifeforms who can naturally survive on this planet due to its extreme heat without a spacesuit. The planet is often considered to have nothing of use but sand, but below the surface, there are many rare and valuable minerals to be mined...

[Milk]

You put the quote tags around it

[Psycho8x8]

[QUOTE=Milkdairy;38834836]You put the quote tags around it[/QUOTE]

Thanks, got it.

[Shadow222]

DECLARE BROSKIS.

[B]Faction Name:[/B] TAF (The Aeterian Fist)
[B]Population:[/B] EST. 48,987,000,000
[B]Government Type:[/B] Aristocratic Geniocracy
[B]Leader/Head of State:[/B] N/A (Run by a council)
[B]Capital:[/B] Yannin
[B]Home Planet:[/B] Aetiran
[B]Technological Advancement:[/B] Militaristic Focus
[B]Brief Description:[/B] The planet was torn in war, but in the past decade the planet was brought to "peace" due to a single flag managing to subdue the whole planet. It is a desert and barren planet as it is so close to the galaxy's star, ridden with plague and death due to the many wars. Most of the planet's food and wildlife comes from artificial growth in many biospheres that the cities have grown in. Those outside of these spheres of life are full of desert beasts and death. The planet is vicious and full of sand storms, the only safe havens are within the well defended cities and their "spheres" producing protection from the elements and radiation from the past wars, which obviously went nuclear very quickly.

[quote][img]http://puu.sh/1B0V5[/img]][/quote]

PS: Lerl. .JPG's are not bad files. They only compress as much as you want them to lol. Example: Uncompressed PNG of this file is 70 MB. Compressed PNG is 5 MB. Uncompressed JPEG is 5MB, Compressed JPEG is 2.5MB. Do you really want to be throwing around 5MB per post? You can't even tell the quality difference. Seriously lol. Here, I'll give an example.
Uncompressed: [url]http://puu.sh/1B0X6[/url]
Compressed @50% (Quality 10/12): [url]http://puu.sh/1B0XX[/url]
Also I fixed the map. I didn't like how stars were half on and half off, then I over committed and made more stuff. Any who. All done.

[B]Undeclared[/B]

[Milk]

Declare.

[Winters]

Declare heretics

[Milk]

Shadow, the quality degrades over time is the problem.

[Shadow222]

Well this is a fresh copy, didn't want to save at 70MB :)

[Milk]

Err, you fixed it by removing all the asteroids?

[Shadow222]

I was going to add them, but I didn't want to delay too long.

[Milk]

One more thing, the uncompressed file for the original picture is about 1.5mb.

The two files also look exactly the same, while your declare picture has completely discolored my planet.

[Shadow222]

The colour is actually identical. But if you really care so much, just use your version and put my planet in. I just didn't like how the map had splotches of stars and then nothing. (Squared, so that it looks fake, not just noise.)

[Milk]

You're right about the stars, however.

I'll fix it later once I have the time to replace everything.

[QUOTE][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/ECjKZU.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

edited sun.

As the first mission for the Triaxis Aerospace Advancement Department (TAAD), they are tasked with sending a long-range probe up into deep space, a place no object from Torbos has ever been.

As things are all prepped and ready, a delivery rocket is fired up, taking the payload off the ground. It will soon accelerate and speed up through the atmosphere.

[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/d3FuZy.png[/IMG]

[editline]15th December 2012[/editline]

gimp :v

[IPK]

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/ECjKZU.png[/IMG]

Faction name: Republic of Brygwyerngyle
Population: 9 billion
Government type: Utopianist communism
Leader/Head of State: Friyghryewlgn Sytblnlw
Capitol/Home Planet: MARDERDRIAKWYE
Technological Advancement: AI's,cybernetics,genetics,currently researching antimatter stuff.
Brief description/backstory: The planet of Marderdriakwye has an incredibly strange things on it. The first one is it's ring of pure enriched uranium,a certain harmless chemical that colors it's atmosphere completely red. Due to it's eye-burning color,and the density,landing on this planet is tricky. It orbits at a strange angle that makes it look like it's rolling on something. A asteroid that enered it's gravitational field in a certain way got stuck orbiting it and it serves as a moon.

[Winters]

[quote][img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/29537932/Planets/Space.png[/img][/quote]
Faction name: Order of Man

Population: 53,731,000,000

Government type: Aristocratic Monarchy

Leader/Head of State: Senatorum Imperialis (High Lords of Terra)

Capitol/Home Planet: Terra

Technological Advancement: High Military Focus (Technological Dark Age)

Brief description/backstory:
After a period of 5000 years know as the age of strife, humanity on Terra rose from the brink of extinction on the backs of a collection of rich noblemen. These noblemen would form the first council of Terra and would be referred to as the High Lords of Terra. These men soon became portrayed as gods by the people of Terra and are to be forever immortalized as such. Furthermore, technological advances have allowed these men to exist for several hundred more years than any could have predicted (only furthering their images as gods to the common citizen). And yet despite these advancements many members of this council are on their death beds and as such Terra is once again on the verge of collapse. In a last ditch effort to save the Imperium, the council announced that they're now looking to expand their borders hoping to find the resources required to extend their lives further. And so the high Lords made the call for recruitment, billions of willing troops arrive to service their gods and die for the Imperium. These troops are all poorly equipped and poorly trained, but what they lack in such areas they make up for in numbers. The Imperium is ready for expansion and as such they are ready to go to war.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHBPJGBBA1M[/media]

[Psycho8x8]

[U][B]The Republic of the Emirate[/B][/U]

The Emirate's home planet, Harena, has just successfully made an advancement in technology, and has developed planetary defenses threefold. Threatened by the close proximity of the Order of Man, the planet notably increases production. Upon close inspection of Harena, you would notice many citizens spending almost an entire morning working in the factories or building ships. (Keep in mind that a day on Harena is about 1466 hours.)

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[Zinc]

Guys, this is the PAINT SECTION. MAKE STUFF IN PAINT, NOT GIMP OR PHOTOSHIT.

I make everything I do in paint.

PAINT.

It's not that hard. Seriously, try it some time.

[Dmaster]

[QUOTE=Zombie_2371;38841230]Guys, this is the PAINT SECTION. MAKE STUFF IN PAINT, NOT GIMP OR PHOTOSHIT.

I make everything I do in paint.

PAINT.

It's not that hard. Seriously, try it some time.[/QUOTE]

Why does it matter? People simply use the programs as different mediums for pixel art. Some people prefer gimp or photoshop for the effects that they can pull off with those programs, and touch up their art in some ways. It shouldn't matter, pixel art is pixel art, regardless of the program used.

[Psycho8x8]

All my shit's made in paint. All I know how to use, lol.

[Shadow222]

[U][B]The Aeterian Fist[/B][/U]

> The Aeterian Council has decided that while they have only just completed a war on their own planet, they must ready themselves for an attack from outside planets and take precaution as their space program is slightly lacking in the strength they would want.
> The Aeterian Council launch a scouting ship to the "east", towards Harena.
> They begin production of a orbital planetary defense system.
> They begin production of a orbital stardock.
> They begin production of multiple planetary stardocks.

[quote][img]http://puu.sh/1Bmip[/img][/quote]

[IPK]

Declare
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The republic makes a base on it's moon. A ship goes and marks the large asteroids as their properties. A private company also marks a small asteroid. They mark using dye bombs that dye the rock in a extremely noticeable color.

[SniperComZero]

DECLARE!

EDIT: Unclare.

[Shadow222]

HEED THE WORDS OF SNIPERCOMZERO...

HE "UNCLARED".

[Psycho8x8]

[U][B]The Republic of the Emirate[/B][/U]

[quote][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/EEYjPj.png[/IMG][/quote]

The Republic of the Emirate locks all three planetary defense turrets onto the incoming scout ship, as they become fully charged. A single turret would be capable of blowing a ship twice the size of the scout ship out of the sky. Harena attempts to send communications relay directly to their ship. The following message is relayed by Emir Delevit himself:

[B]"Stand down now or we [U]will[/U] fire! State your business at once!"[/B]

...Meanwhilst, Harena succesfully launches their first starship from their newly completed drydocks. They launch a mining ship equipped with the following:

[B]x2 High-Intensity Mining Laser
x1 Zero-Gravity Material Tractor Beam
x18 Harenian Astronauts
x5 Extra-Vehicular Pressurized Suits
x4 Escape Pods (holding up to 6 people each)[/B]

[IPK]

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The moon colony expands. Ores have been discovered on the large asteroid. A small mine has been started near the Gold.

[Dmaster]

Eh, why not? Declare.

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A strange vortex anomally appears in the middle of space. It appears highly unstable, and radiates energy at an unknown frequency. Further explanation will require research to be conducted upon the rift.

[Milk]

Declare

[editline]16th December 2012[/editline]

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As the probe satellite successfully stabilizes and circularizes its orbit, a new, MANNED mission is commissioned, this time far more ambitious.

A ship containing 2 astronauts is sent toward the moon. As the ship stabilizes its orbit, it burns to escape velocity, shooting toward the moon in a predicted path.

[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/tmB3YJ.png[/IMG]