<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=260005.msg12851155#msg12851155">Quote from: Mac84 on 20-12-2016, 02:38:19</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">(Places random Macross Gif....<strong>HERE</strong>!)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>??? Words fail me.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=260005.msg12851568#msg12851568">Quote from: Sessha on 20-12-2016, 06:27:59</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> Alright so then what is the new timeline we are looking at here? Since the Megaroad 1 left a few years after the events of the end of the first series which ended in 2012. Or just how much have been changed I guess is my real question. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Good question, and I must confess that I haven't thought about it all that hard, yet. But lets say the timeline of space colonization goes something like this:<br/>2012: Megaroad 01 leaves Earth and vanishes a few years later.<br/>2016: Megaroad 02 leaves Earth and settles the planet Eden.<br/>2019: Megaroad 03 launched<br/>2029: Megaroad 04 launched<br/>2034: Projected launch date for the Megaroad 05<br/><br/>In the 2020s space colonization slows down. With the colony on Eden established and another colonization effort under way with the Megaroad 03 fleet, sending out more colonists might no longer be a priority. I think there would also be a shortage of personnel. While there might be enough people willing to venture into space, qualified crew members for these ships would still be needed, and after three colonization fleets you'd probably run out of crew members by now. Training the next generation of pilots and such will take time. Without major threats to Earth, the public might also no longer see a pressing need for space colonization, calling for more resources devoted to the rebuilding of Earth, and the colony on Eden gives everyone who wants to leave Earth a destination to head for.<br/><br/>But while there might only be a small number of colonization fleets, during all the last 20 years scouting fleets have been sent out to search for habitable planets. Those fleets would be mostly crewed by Zentraedi, with some human scientists and engineers too. Each of those scouting groups would be in space for a few years, before returning to Earth for routine repairs and crew rotation, each group exploring perhaps a dozen systems a year, sometimes spending only a few days in one system, sometimes studying a planet for several months. (And while I use the word "fleet" here, by Zentraedi standards, these are just small groups. Say maybe 10 or 12 ships in each "fleet".)<br/><br/>Meanwhile, on Earth...<br/><br/>I'd say that at least several tens of millions survived the Zentraedi onslaught, perhaps even a few hundred million. The death toll would still be extremely high, but put the number any lower and you might not have enough of a population to rebuild civilization. (I also want to avoid a situation where humanity is just one medium-sized city and nothing more. That could be interesting, but it offers too few options for player characters.)<br/><br/>Most Zentraedi living on Earth would be micronized by now, with most giant-sized Zentraedi living in space, either on ships or on the factory satelite.<br/><br/>There will be rogue Zentraedi around, mostly in the outer solar system, around Jupiter and Saturn, sometimes probing the Mars and Moon perimeter, but as long as they leave Humanity alone, mankind leaves them alone too. They are considered more a nuisance than a real threat.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=260005.msg12851634#msg12851634">Quote from: ThisOneGal on 20-12-2016, 07:26:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Name:</strong> Kathryn Foss<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong> Dwarf/Dorf, 'Vibe' (unofficial) ...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Approved.  :-)<br/><br/>Post her in the character thread whenever you like, and if you don't want to add any details about her personality (beyond what can be gleaned from the rest of her profile), just leave that out. That part is optional, after all.