Discuss Stargate: The Last Outpost [Underground] [PG-VL]

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1][center][b]Though they are but children, they represent the greatest hope of our race...

They will sleep for thousands of years, if we have survived we shall come to find them....

If we should meet out doom then they can be the light of a next generation...[/b]

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[I]Twelve thousand years ago the civilisation of the Ancients was being decimated by a disease of unknown origin, with thousands of seeded worlds across many galaxies it was impossible to save them all, even for the Ancients. In desperation and with little hope left to find a cure, they believed the key to defeating the plague was to place over two dozen of their young adults in cryogenic stasis, to sleep for thousands of years. This would insure that even if the civilisation of the Ancients was to fall there would be some hope left for it's reconstruction, the twenty eight were picked from the most gifted children of the entire Ancient Race. Their keepers were to be a race in whom the Ancients could see potential, [b]the Asgard[/b].

Many of those against the project believed that a cure would be found before such drastic measures were to be taken, they were merely children and as such would not understand the gravity of what they were being asked to do. They argued that if worst came to worst then these children would be left frightened and alone under the supervision of a race who's path was not yet clear, it was to condemn them to a more slow and painful death than the disease which had begun to destroy their civilisation. And so it was given to those precious few chosen that it would be their decision whether or not to accept this mission for their people, to be entrusted with their very survival. Those arguing against it informed the children that they would be the last of their race and would likely not see another of their kind for the rest of eternity.

Amongst themselves the children accepted the task they were being asked to accomplish, it would be long and difficult although the sleeping period would seem as the blinking of an eye. They could not be allowed to stay on Atlantis, if it too fell then there was no telling what would happen to those who remained inside in stasis. A lone scholar suggested placing them on the First World, [b]Terra[/b], where the Ancient civilisation had grown from, though it too has suffered the effects of the virus there was hope in those akin to the Ancients, who seemed unaffected, they too showed potential though not for many thousands of years. Again argument broke out as to where to sent the children, the Asgard although powerful did not have the means to travel throughout the broadness of Ancient territory, and as such may not have been able to protect the children.

The only viable option was to build a completely new home for them, the First Galaxy was chosen, though Terra could not be used for fear another race might encounter the city and use it's technology in the ways of war. With almost daily quarrels breaking out of where to locate this new city the decision was once again left to the children who would be inhabiting it, it was debated that it was the only fair thing to do. Again the children took council among one another, many worlds in the First Galaxy were inhabitable, though few fitted into the required parameters. After many days the youths returned with their choice, the city would be located on the planet of [b]Precalis[/b], a small world far from many of the other gated worlds in the First Galaxy. The decision was theirs, the task begun.

And so they slept for thousands of years, the vast knowledge of the Ancients being introduced to their minds, for every millennium that passed they would age a year, and so when they would awaken they would be as adults. Fourteen males and fourteen females, within each the light of all those who had come before them, from those fourteen the Ancients would rise once again. It was hoped to be enough...[/I]

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Well as you might guess from the title this is the Underground thread that I promised to create about forty-eight hours ago, here you can ask any questions pertaining to the RPG, the plotline, the NPCs, anything. If you have any thoughts or ideas about how to improve the RPG then I give you my full support to post them here and I'll give it my full attention.

To anyone who has any interest in [B]Stargate[/B] and likes the look of the plot then I encourage you to head over to the Adventure Inn and join up, I'll take as many people as are committed to making this a success. Even if you aren't completely sure of yourself or your Stargate knowledge then still sign up, I'm more than willing to help people if they're feeling stuck.

Well that's about it so for now I can only say that I hope you get the same enjoyment from the RPG that I got making it...[/SIZE]

[Corey]

[size=1]Just curious Kane, if you don't get as mahy people as you hoped for are there going to be NPCs as, say second Guardian, or is it going to just be left out?[/size]

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Yeah that was pretty much my idea, I was basically looking for about eight people as role-players but since these children were meant to repopulate the Ancient as a people it would take more than just them. So basically from there I tried to work out what would be a good number and came to the conclusion of twenty-eight, I have no reason why it just seemed like a good choice. I tried to get as many diverse positions as possible while still giving secondary and tertiary positions if they were filled, as well as this it gives some point for having NPCs.[/SIZE]