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As the title would suggest, I think the Guild needs a 'Rebirth.' Frankly, I think we got way too big, and lost focus on the general outline of the point (Star Wars, Political Intrigue, . . . and Mobile Suits.) So, I propose we start again, with a new story, keeping the characters we like, and gutting the superfluous.

Changes I think we need:

The Tech tree on the part of the Mirai and Sith are WAY too advanced. Battles should be fun, and with their manipulation of time, Space, and reality, it's one sided. Unless they're fighting themselves, in which case it's Unstoppable gun versus impenetrable Shield. So, we should prolly go back to something reasonable for 2k ABY (which isn't that much time in SW). Just because we can think of it doesn't mean we should employ it. However, custom ship designs can be kept- we need only return their weapons to Turbolasers and whatnot. Similarly, ZPEW is an acceptable energy source. Soul AI and Void Sciences are pushing it. Temporal and Emergent weapons are way too weighted.

The Story should be consolidated- Pegasus arc should be gutted, as should Leonis- at least for now. I would like to revisit Leonis at some point, however.

Gods should be removed: It's not fair to the Mortal players that DC and I have gods on our side. Oblivion should return to an ancient vampire, Viscious could be, I guess some sort of Cyber-enhanced Force User- I'll leave that up to DC.

With so few people controlling a Galaxy-wide game, I suggest more work be done to make the sides more approachable. For example, I don't understand where the Mirai are coming from well enough to create a character for them, and I'm sure there are other such examples.

We can either go back to the days of the Republic, or keep the shattered Galaxy, but either way, I propose that the Terrans be reconfigured, either as a post-Republic galactic power (part of the former Protectorate), or our name for the Unknown Regions.

I'm sure there are other things we can think of. Thoughts?

I feel Leonis should be resolved in some fashion. It just got to be too involved and some of us (like me) just weren't sure where to go entirely with it.

I am agreeable to reordering the Guild, though with one requirement and one request. If we are going to pretty much start over, I will not take part in the new Guild without a discrete combat system. I am willing to work on devising that system by myself or with others, but I require that we have a system. The system must be scalable so battles between individuals, ships, or fleets all take the approximately the same reasonable real time.

Secondly, I have one request. I've come to realize that for my part, I played the Mirai as a nation more than specific characters. As such, I request to retain the Mirai in some form for the future Guild. By some form I mean that I am willing to rework all Mirai technologies to be Star Wars canon (though I would prefer custom technologies logically derived from current SW canon) and that I am willing to reduce the scale of the Mirai to say, a single star system nation or a space-borne military fleet. What I desire to retain is the culture and the emphasis of science and technology, even if I have to rebuild that technology from Star Wars canon.

That's my bit. Keeping the Mirai is a request, nothing more. So long as we have a combat system that uses numbers, specifically predetermined values we can all agree upon, I will participate in the next incarnation of the Guild in some form.

I think DA would like the nations to be less player specific in general. So, say for example, a player could have one or two characters on each side of a conflict. I agree with that because I think it would go a long way towards avoiding people feeling slighted in a battle because they were on the weaker side or two people arguing over which side would win, simply because they are on one side and not the other (which is also my reason behind requiring a battle system).

As far as the battle system is concerned, I'm fine with importing a preexisting rule system, such as what DL mentioned, so long as it is fully scalable and there is some kind of support for original or custom artifacts (artifacts in this case being anything we can make up to supplement Canon). However, I'm not sure that a scalable system currently exists and I would prefer the system to be as simple as possible, which is not often the case with D&D-based roleplay. That is why I am willing to create my own system. I am even going to go so far as to begin preliminary work on such a system so that at the very least we have an alternative to the official roleplay book.

I wasn't as clear as I could have been when I posted. My idea, in essence is an "OVA" of the Guild. And since we already know the major setup, I think we can avoid the VERY beginning.

Leonis can be the opening incident in "The Guild OVA." In harsher words than I typically use, ******** Inciting Incident.

KOTOR has such canonical tech, that I have no preblem with them being the same.

As for the Mirai, Go right ahead and keep them. THe schism can be something alluded to happening some time ago. Perhaps, instead of a Protestant Sith organization, they could be a System that was able to repel the Sith, and is now engaged in a permanent Cold War. I think they would benefit greatly (Story wise) as a smaller civilization. I kind of seem them as the Swiss for the OVA

And this is a note to everyone: I AM allowing a tech tree, I just want to keep it from getting out of hand. Emission-seeking Plasma = plausible/ Time Bomb = Not Plausible.

Back to Mirai- They were "The Scientists of the Galaxy" and I think they should retain that title, and I think "Single System that blocked the Sith" would cover that. Besides, the "Mirai Technocratic Empire" has a nice ring to it.

A Combat System was originally in play, but the one I borrowed from Letro was too complicated, and we scrapped it. So, if DL can get DC that book, if iy DC sees a way to apply it to Ships, awesome. Otherwise, we could always use the Risk (Board Game) system.


More revisions I thought of:
The Republic, or at least Coruscant has to remain a dead planet. Otherwise the KOTOR wouldn't make sense. So I propose either the Protectorate again (Based on the British Commonwealth), a Galactic Federation, a Confederal Galaxy, or even Splintered and feuding.I would prefer a Centralized Government that we ALL use- no one person will play the Galactic Command.

Each Organization needs a charter and expressed goal. That way, we can more easily adapt to having a character in one of said organizations.

I think what DA is saying about an OVA is something akin to Hellsing and its OVA, same Hellsing, just a different sequence of events.

Also I will e-mail that to you DC when I get a chance, right now computer is not behaving with e-mail

That pretty much answers my question with regards to OVA status. But the mention of Sith technology allows me to raise a question regarding Mirai technology.

Excluding Mirai Temporal technology, I can provide a clear timeline and basis for every technology I've used so far. I can provide a basis for the Temporal technology as well, but that's also something of a stretch for Star Wars. I'm going to be reworking picocytes, as well, but the three technologies that I have clear development timelines for and desire to keep the most are Quantum Compression, Quantum Duality, and Quantum Emergence. The way I am imagining the new Mirai casts them more as experts in subatomic physics (Quantum Mechanics, etc.) and energy transfer. They also stand out among other Star Wars civilizations because they fully understand all the technologies they use because they have developed them all basically independently. So my question is, will the three above Quantum technologies be allowed in the new Guild?

I am fine with that. Also there is a problem with me sending the file that contains the rulebook. Sorry DC.