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Something just occurred to me. If we are making new subforums for each region of the galaxy in the new Guild, should we just delete the old forums after everyone's gotten the chance to take out the stuff he or she wants to keep?

Please keep up char/Mech, but the RP can go away now unless there is something someone else wants.

As for Morphs, I don't know their origin. Give me detailed information, and I'll OK them

The Plague still exists. Nosferatu are the result of a Protoss virus released on the planet Erebus some thousand years ago. The Nosferatu entered, and conquered the Sith (Rise of Oblivion type stuff)

They can be classified as undead, yes.

Magic is tricky- I see it as an element in similar nature to the Force, but coming from inside of an individual versus through them. People are conduits of the Force, and generators of Magic. The practice of Magic, however is limited, as most people use the Force, and have difficulty using both powers in unison. Since it is easier to harness the Force, most races evolved as to abandon Magic.

Magic use was on the decline during the Protoss Empire (Extra-galactic elders and rivals to the Infinite Empire (or is it Limitless?)). Originating from outside the Galaxy, they started out with the use of Magic, and slowly evolved to accept Midichlorians. There were a few Force/Magic Templar Warriors for centuries, but Magic began to die out, and it was too late to stop the path of evolution.

That's why they created the Nosferatu. The genetically malleable, Force Sensitive race, Humans, proved excellent bases for creating a warrior that could use Magic once more. However, the generally weak race did not have the resilience to stand up to the raw power circulating from having a Magic-generating heart. To solve this, they were gifted with a constantly renewing regenerative cycle (Which also kept them from suffering Mana burn from too much stored Magic)

I'll elaborate some time when I'm more awake. Essentially, Magic is arcane and very unknown. Nosferatu are the only 'young' race that can use it, and as a side-effect from using Nosferatu cells, SOLDIERs can as well. I assume, with the right training, a Human could learn to use Magic, but they would risk killing themselves in the process.

In Fire Emblem, they're artificial humans created by Nergal to do his bidding. There have been a few cases where characters who had been killed were brought back as Morphs, however. They're distinguished (Usually) by their black hair, lack of emotions, and (Always) Golden eyes.

Just wanted to let you guys know, I'm not going to be around much in the next couple of weeks. I've got midterms and papers this week and next, and then a week from Friday I leave for Paris for a week...and I probably won't have much access to the internet, if any. But then I'll be back.

I have a question for the members. For a little while now I've been working up the impetus to start reformatting the forums and subforums in preparation for the start of the new Guild, but I'm still not sure how others feel it should be organized so I'd like to ask.

I favor DA's argument for a subforum for each region of space in the galaxy, but I'm also not certain yet what those regions are (I honestly haven't looked at the map to begin to decide how to divide it up). I would also like to keep everything else, nation descriptions, characters, mechanics, and the like in one place if possible. As such, I am thinking to make a 'Background Information' forum which will have all the stuff that isn't roleplay, general discussion, or ooc. But I also think we should decide how such a forum would be organized. I think it would be best to divide everything by nation first and then by type (such as character, mechanic, uniform, etc.) with multiple threads for nations only when a single thread would be more than a few pages long (say if it won't all fit under one thread).

So those are my thoughts. As far as I know, it is impossible to have a subforum in a subforum, but that might be helpful for clearing things up if it can be done. Other than that I want to know what everyone else thinks. If I don't get any other suggestions I'll just have to do it my way and you'll all have to live with that.

I think it would be better for regions to be based on empirical locations, not by owner, because if a planet is conquered, the thread will have to be moved and I can see that becoming very confusing. Also, if the regions are based on the map, it would be easy to determine the relative power of each of the factions in a particular region by how many planets they control.

And the second part of what you said brings up another point I've been meaning to propose. I think that we should have a formal method for describing systems of planets. Something which lists explicitly the defenses of a system and possibly other things, like production rates or the maximum number of ships that can be in orbit or the number and locations of planets, that kind of stuff.