<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Carbon Block;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;">PRISON PLANET</span></span></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;"><strong>Hell Frozen Over</strong></span></span></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;"><strong>Out Of Character Discussion Thread</strong></span></span></div><br/><div align="center">(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--5R_wRtNaNE/T_J24GiGnQI/AAAAAAAADX0/Uuq6QUtRsYs/s1600/Ice+World+%25284%2529.jpg)</div><br/>The Galactic Empire spans may worlds and many cultures, most of them human or humanoid. In such a vast civilization, of course there are criminals. Those considered worth saving are given "rehabilitation treatment" and released as useful (if somewhat uncommunicative) members of society.<br/><br/>However, character restructuring (as the scientists like to call it) can only do so much and only works on those who have the right sort of personality to begin with. Plus, of course, the individual must give consent to be so "restructured". This means, of course, only those who plead guilty get to undergo Character Restructuring.<br/><br/>The Galactic empire is (allegedly) humane and does not have a death penalty. But prisons are expensive places to run and no-one really wants a prison in their back yard. but with all those planets out there, many of them uninhabitable and even more of them just barely inhabitable, the solution of what to do with the criminals who are found guilty is fairly obvious.<br/><br/>However, the earliest experiments with penal colonies revealed a flaw in the system. Put men and women together on the same world, and even if they are separated by a vast ocean they will find each other eventually. And of course this will inevitably result in a new generation who's only crime is that their parents were criminals.<br/><br/>Again, the solution is obvious: put the male prisoners on one planet on one side of the empire, and put the female prisoners on a different world on the other side of the empire.<br/><br/>And so, we come to the planet HZ1128, or as it's inhabitants call it, "The Cooler".<br/><br/>The Cooler is a world covered almost entirely in ice. The temperature never rises above -10°c and can go as low as -75°c (14°F to -103°F, but as this is sci-fi I would prefer we use the Celsius scale). The world is approximately 200 million Km away from the closest of the three primaries, a blue dwarf star. This star orbits a binary system of a blue giant and a yellow dwarf at a distance of around a quarter of a light year, once every five thousand years.<br/><br/>There is indigenous life on the planet, mostly some edible lichens and fungi and a few non-sentient creatures that are edible and appear like giant millipedes, each being something around a metre long with more legs that anyone has bothered to count. There are rumours - but only rumours - that somewhere in the deep ice fields there are other things that live, and that some of them may even be intelligent.<br/><br/>There are no guards on the world. There is no possibility of escape after all. Newly convicted inmates are transported in suspended animation in special shuttles. The shuttles are heavily armed and armoured and are impregnable to anyone forcing their way in. Each prisoner is revived on the descent to the planet and placed in a rotating chamber. Once the shuttle lands the chambers will rotate, allowing the prisoners to exit. They have ten minutes to do so and get clear, and then the shuttle lifts off again. The chambers do not rotate back until the shuttle is back aboard the main transport, thus anyone attempting to escape that way will die of asphyxiation and/or fall to their death.<br/><br/>Food and replacement clothing are brought down by the shuttles in metal containers that are not airtight. Minerals mined by the inmates are loaded into the same containers that are returned to orbit slung underneath the shuttles. Not being air tight, anyone attempting to escape in one will, of course, suffocate. In fact, the containers start their journey empty on the planet's surface. Once full, they are taken to orbit by the shuttles and returned on the next scheduled visit full of food and supplies. If the prisoners don't supply the minerals, they don't get the supplies from outside.<br/><br/>The only clothing provided for inmates is a transparent body suit made of a material that is a super-insulator. It will keep 95% of the wearer's body heat inside it. The suits are skin-tight, with an opening at the neck, or at the face when the hood is pulled up, also at wrists and ankles. There is also a seal-able opening at the crotch.<br/><br/>The suits look something like this, only transparent:<br/>(http://img.alibaba.com/photo/496019911/Pearly_golden_Latex_catsuit_zentai_latex_clothes.jpg)<br/><br/>Inmates are provided with a variety of different gloves from thin transparent ones the same as the suit to thick, heavy protective ones. The same applies to footwear.<br/><br/>Inmates are expected to provide a certain quota of various rare minerals, some of which can simply be picked up on the planet's surface, and others need to be dug out of the ice.<br/><br/>It is in the deeper mines that some have claimed to have come across signs of intelligent life, but no one has ever successfully proved this. Mining The Cooler is a dangerous bisiness and people disappear anyway, even if one's companions are not all murderers and thieves. For one thing, the planet may not be solid all the way through...<br/><br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Moraline's List Of topics</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Game:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>The game is going to be Freeform, and will be placed in Extreme</li><li>The RP is open to all female players and also to male players who wish to play female characters  </li><li>Players will all be female convicts. They can be guilty as charged, or they can be innocent and wrongly convicted, however they all pleaded not-guilty at trial and were convicted by jury.  </li><li>Setting is the Ice planet HZ1128, known as "The Cooler" </li><li>The game will be a freeform sandbox (or should that be Ice Box? *snigger*)  </li><li>Character Sheet will follow if i get sufficient interest. All characters are to be female (no futa, hermaphrodites or trans-gender, please, also no neuter characters. They would be on a different world). All characters are to be at least recognisably humanoid - i.e., two arms two legs, walks upright with a head at the top and genitals between the legs. No shape shifters either. Other than that, pick a species. Humans are of course going to be the most prevalent.  </li><li>Game Pacing: I would prefer a minimum of one post per week, please. Anyone not posting for two weeks without saying why will be nudged twice by PM and then assumed to have left the game. Players who drop out with their character "in play" will be taken over by myself or another player.  </li><li>This is going to be a principally smut based RP. If you're looking for hot F/F action in a cold place, this could be for you. There will be side plots and stories, too, which may or may not include the mysterious indigenous creatures alluded to above!   </li><li>Post tagging will be required. The code to tag posts will be specified in the OOC thread as and when.   </li><li>NPCs will mostly be handled by myself and/or any Co-GMs I may appoint. However, players may feel free to create NPCs "on the fly" in ordser to move their plots along.   </li></ul><strong>Game Master Info / GM(s) Participation Level (If/where applicable)</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>If interest in the game exceeds a certain level i will appoint a Co-GM from among the players, at my discression.</li><li>The play will be sandbox - in other words you make your own plots. I may, from time to time, throw in a side plot.</li><li>NPCs may be created on the fly by players and then discarded when they are no-longer required.This is an entire world, after all. However all NPCs created in this way must be fellow inmates. I and any Co-GMs will also create NPCs for players to interact with as required. If a NPC is used repeatedly by the same player, I will deem her to be a player character and require a character sheet to be submitted.</li><li>As GM I will control the environment (the weather, the stability of the planet's surface, etc) and many of the NPCs. I may, also, have a "player character" of my own. </li><li>There will be an OOC thread. Players may use it for out of character discussion of the game, planning sub plots, choosing IC partners, raising issues with the GM or other players, letting everyone know of an upcoming absence, discussing sporting results, leaving random messages and general goofiness. The more players use the OOC the better they are getting on and the better the game goes.</li><li>Anyone wishing to contact me about the game may do so (initially) in this thread. Once the OOC thread is open, posting there willalso get my attention. If you wish to discuss something privately, you may also send me a PM. <strong>PLEASE DO NOT USE MY YIM ADDRESS TO CONTACT ME!</strong></li><li>If you have an issue with another player, or with their post, take it up with them first, by PM. If that doesn't work, bring it to me, I will hear both sides of the issue and make a decision. I do try and be fair, but equally i expect my decisions to be abided by, please. If I cannot resolve the issue, i will take it up with staff. IC issues should be resolved IC and OOC issues resolved OOC.</li><li>PVP will be allowed, by mutual consent between players, but please clear it with me first and respect each other's offs. </li></ul><strong>Additional:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>Player Oath "Oath of the Drake (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=54576.0)" - this is mostly common sense, but it gives players some good guidelines on how to behave in a group game. </li><li>My golden rule for non-consensual RP is that non-consent applies to the CHARACTER, and <strong>not</strong> to the PLAYER. In other words, if my character is screaming "NO! PLEASE DONT!" at the top of her voice, you carry on! But if <em>I</em> say, "Please don't do that", I expect you not to do it! Before interacting with another player please read their ons and offs, and abide by them. If the player does not have an O/O page published, do not assume. ask them! </li><li>Players are required to post at least once per 7-day week, unless tyhey have indicated that they will be away or unable to post. Any player not posting for two weeks will be PMed. If I see they have been active since the PM was sent and they have still not posted or replied, i will PM them again, and if I still get no response they will be assumed to have dropped out. Characters that drop out will simply be ignored for the duration. If the player returns, they may (if appropriate) pick up where they left off, or bring their character back into the action in some other way.  </li><li>New player characters may simply appear - having bee there all along but not having taken any part yet, or they may arrive on a prison shuttle    </li><li>Players may post in first person or third person as they see fit. I would prefer all posts to be in past tense, but i will not insist on this if you prefer to post in present. All i ask is that you try to be consistent within a post and preferably throughout the RP, but again, I'm not going to enforce the latter.      </li></ul></div></div><hr/><hr/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">THREADS</span></strong><br/><br/>Recruitment Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173322.0)<br/>OOC Thread (This one)<br/>Character Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.0)<br/><br/><strong>IC Threads</strong><br/><br/>The landing Pad (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175104.0)<br/>The Settlement (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175103.0)<br/>The Mine - Above Ground (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175039.0)<br/>The Mine - Below Ground (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175028.0)