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Welcome to the spacebox - your open-universe adventure! This is an RP with a lot of flexibility built in, designed to be an enjoyable space-type experience. It’s also designed a bit as a haven for some of those great ideas you had for an RP that didn’t work out - sometimes a new setting can give them some life. Ideally, Spacebox will draw a lot of people together and many shenanigans can ensue.

There won’t be a plot that you must be involved in, but I will run some events that people can get into. I’ll be putting up something for people to start getting involved with once we get a few CSes.

Links (to be added):
CS Thread
OC Thread
RPF Discord - join us in the #spacebox channel

RP Threads:
-Locations
—Starport Iota

-Tales
—[To Be Added]

Q & A:

Can I be an alien?
Yeah.

Can I create my own race?
Yeah.

Can I be an established race (Vulcans, Jawas, Dark Eldar, etc)?
Sadly, no. Original content only here, please. You can, however, create your own race that draws heavily from something from a book or movie or game. Just make sure to give it a little touch of your own.

Can I be a member of someone else’s OC alien race?
With their permission, yeah.

Can I be a cyborg?
Yeah.

Can I be an alien cyborg?
Yeah.

Can I have a giant mech?
Yeah.

Can I have a spaceship?
Yeah.

Can I be a spaceship?
Yeah.

Can I have more than one spaceship?
Not at the same time and place. I’m drawing the line there - no fleet battles yet.

Can I have more than one character?
Yeah.

Can I re-use a character from another RP?
Yeah.

Is this basically Superhero Sandbox Space Edition?
...What gave you that idea?

Rules?
Yeah.

1. Site rules apply. I mean... we all knew that, right? I don’t want to read your asteroid x supernova (super hot!!!) erotica. Keep it PG-13, be respectful, all the usual.

2. Play fair. If you’re going to fight, no auto-hits (my character punched yours in the face - without giving the opposing writer a chance to evade or defend), no god-moding (my character wins by the power of being powerful and is so powerful that anything you do is powerless because I am powerful), don’t no-sell (nothing you do will ever affect my character). No one has to fight if they don’t want to; ask to engage.

3. Original content only - that was mentioned above, but you need to be your own character, your own race, your own tech. You can certainly draw inspiration from other sources, but make an effort to put your own creative spin on it.

4. Ask permission before tying in to anyone else’s lore. Maybe you want your space empire and someone else’s space empire to have been at war - just ask them first and make sure it’s okay with them! Make sure you read “Human Lore” if you want to play a human character.

5. Character bios must be on the CS thread before you can post with a character in one of the RP threads.

6. Posts should be in the "intermediate-to-advanced" length. No, you don't have to write six pages, but do try for at least a paragraph or two.

RP Threads?
Yeah!

So, like Sandbox, there will be multiple and you can hit up anyone for an interaction. We’ll have a channel in RPF-discord and an OC forum for getting interactions together. Just preface them with [Spacebox] - so it’s something like [Spacebox] Aliens Stole My Pet Rock [Limited].

Threads can be [Open] - anyone can join, [Closed] - only the invited parties can join, [Limited] - there are restrictions on who can join, like maybe “up to 3 people” or “scientists only” or “open for 2 weeks, then closed.” The person creating the thread decides. [Semi-Open] is another tag you’ll see, and pretty much means the same as [Limited].

Location threads are usually considered [Open] unless otherwise specified, but please be polite - if there’s already a scene going on there, don’t start another one so people have to read every other post. You can have an interaction at a place that’s not taking place on the [Location] thread itself. These are good for things like planets and space bases. “Starport Iota” is a good introductory location thread to get started in.

Human Lore?

So, while I have tried not to define too much of the world, humanity needs to be defined at least somewhat. The year is The Future, humans are not exactly sure how far in the future it is from now because there was an Intergalactic Oops that wiped out most records of Earth during their exodus period. It’s probably around the year 4000 or 5000.

Humanity has left Earth and forged their way into the stars, and being humans, promptly decided that they couldn’t stand each other, and have divided themselves up into little pockets of humanity everywhere (look, see, this way you can design your own human world!)

They are, in fact, generally agreed to be the original builders of Starport Iota. A few other human starports remain scattered throughout the galaxy, many of them in ruins. Why did Iota thrive when the others didn’t? Oh, look, another space for more lore to develop!

Whatever else humans have become, they don’t know a whole lot about their origins. They know they came from Earth, and they’re pretty sure they know which ruined hunk of rock used to be earth - that is, rocks, plural. It’s split apart now. No one’s really sure how that happened. At some point early in the human exodus from Earth, there was some sort of glitch that wiped out most of their records. Since it didn’t wipe out the humans, they’ve just sort of moved on. Resilient little critters, aren’t they?

This section will be updated with more human lore as it gets added.

Starport Iota - Astral Crossroads
Humans built it, but even they aren’t really sure how. Maybe they had help, maybe it was a single rogue genius, maybe everything was just better in the good old days. Either way, Starport Iota has been thriving for over 700 years. Time there is measured in standard Earth-years, because humans are stubborn like that.

The starport is at an intergalactic crossroads, right near the exits of some pretty major wormholes. Not all space civilizations use wormholes for travel - there are many other methods available - but some of them do, and the starport makes use of its junction to act as a center for trade and commerce and politics and whatever else people get up to.

The rules are simple: Don’t harm the station, and act in accordance with the area. There are plenty of places on Starport Iota where peoples can settle their differences with as much violence as they want, but doing so in the major shopping areas might end up with sanctions, and no one wants sanctions. The general agreement of these policies makes Starport Iota a hub for diplomacy, since if one is careful about where they go, they can be reasonably assured that they won’t be assassinated - at least, not until they leave.

The station is extremely resilient - and indeed, it manages to rebuild itself and even add on to itself - but it’s still not a good idea to do anything that will end up breaking any large part of the station itself, because that will result in sanctions and possibly expulsion. Orbital platforms exist for those who want to punch each other hard enough to destroy them. The platforms are made up mostly of compacted garbage, so letting them get destroyed in high-level content is just part of Starport Iota’s environmentally friendly recycling program.

No one knows everything about the Starport - even after 700 years, there are new things still being discovered. How and why that happens is one of the universe’s great mysteries.

Aside: While I’m happy to have people contributing to Human Lore, Starport Iota is my baby and I have some ideas for it, so please don’t write lore about the Starport without asking.