Dawn of the Republic: Border Alliance

[Caine]

Yes, this is the sentiment I am envisioning.

I think it would be wise to have VERY small squads, however. I am talking 2-4 people. That will limit their capabilities, but it would be more manageable for specific roleplays. These could be "assigned" within roleplay, as the Border Alliance prepares and responds to the threat of the Sith. That way everyone can have their backgrounds be whatever, but can still come together and work as a team.

So, while everyone is welcome to work together to make a squad that has been together forever, we can have BA worlds strengthening their relationship in these elite ground forces that blend the strengths and units of the different worlds.... Border Alliance Response Teams... or some such... so that worlds keep their independence but work together in a way that is easy for us to convert into what roleplaying combat will look like next timelines.

Do other folks have thoughts? I'm just coming up with this, and its just me rattling ideas off. I'd love to hear what others think.

Sounds similar to Task Force Trident from a book series I read. It had 4 official personnel then a list of skilled soldiers from all branches and they just pulled in whichever personnel they needed on a mission by mission basis then released them back to there individual assignments after the mission.
So Jira and I would be free to build our squadrons Bossman would be free to work his way up to becoming a General and so on for everyone else then we'd just come together for missions.

 

[Dakota]

I'm really excited to see the interactions between the Sith and the BA, honestly. I'm way too hyped for this timeline to start already.

 

[MasterTyvokka]

Young for a Senator.

Im talking like 30.

He will have served from like 18 to 25. Served as a planatary senator from 25 to 27. Served in the republic senate from 27 to 29, just re-elected for another term at 29.

But both being war heroes and senators from the BA, we can certainly have some sort of background.

Ok. For my character I am thinking more like late forties early fifties. I don't want to go too old because he will be in combat again. I am thinking career military. Retired at around 40 spent 2-3 years retired mans life and then was elected senator. So he will probably be around 50. I want to put him on a small agricultural world, depending on the territories, an everybody knows everybody kind of place. So that will help explain why he is in politics and was elected.

 

[Livgardist]

Planning to use Cobalt under his real name, Nicholas Sherev, as a staff sergeant with COBALT, an ultra top secret special operations group tasked with fighting Force users. The unit will have taken some pretty gruesome casualties and Sherev will have been forced to take on more responsibilities than warranted by his rank, because, frankly, everybody above him in rank are dead, and they aren't receiving the replacements they have requested over and over again. Food and other supplies will also be in short supply wherever they operate, so they're going to be pretty banged up as a unit.

Needless to say, Cobalt while serious in this timeline, is going to be a lot darker in the next timeline, and my roleplays with him will be heavily laden with gritty warfare a la World War 1. He's also going to be both younger and even more jaded than he already is, in the next timeline.

 

[Jira]

I just made the first draft of my BA character in the Workshop. If anybody has the time, please go look over it and tell me what it needs:

http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/index.php?threads/character-workship-dawn-of-the-republic.62914/

 

[Kiro]

@Jira Well, the first thing that leaps to mind is 1) That shade of red is hard on the eyes on that black background. Secondly, when using Book Antiqua as your font, it's a good idea to up the size a bit, since otherwise it's a really small font, which makes it kinda hard to read, especially when you have kinda big blocks of text at certain points.

Check out my Bounty Hunters' Guild write-up as a comparison, as that uses the same font, but in a slightly larger font size.

Also, while your background is good, I wouldn't use it. It presumes far too much about what's going to happen, what the events leading up to the launch of the new timeline will be. We don't even know if the Jedi and the Republic start out knowing that the Sith are still out there, nor if the Sith have access to a large fleet like you described, or if they've done a full scale invasion on a Jedi enclave/temple.

So until we actually know good, solid, hard facts about the events leading up to the exact launch of the new timeline, I'd keep backgrounds and biographies vague and loose enough to be worked with to fit the events the Admins, the yet-to-be-named Faction Leaders, and the other members of the soon-to-be-formed Think Tank will put into place for all of us to enjoy.

 

[Mr.BossMan]

I just made the first draft of my BA character in the Workshop. If anybody has the time, please go look over it and tell me what it needs:

http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/index.php?threads/character-workship-dawn-of-the-republic.62914/

Ya I have to agree with @Kiro On this one. I think you assume to much. Also I don't mean to sound all that harsh, it is your character so the ultimate choice is yours, but I'd scrap the idea of making him force sensitive. Its basically pointless if you give him no powers and make him out of practice.

Instead I'd just say he hates the Jedi and Sith. Also the plan to have him be FS kinda negates how good of a piolet he is. Simply because he can use the force to guide his way, but without the force He becomes that much better of a piolet.

But all in all, good little story. I like the idea of helping the innocent and wanting to protect people.

My guy, he will be just the opposite. My guy will be a cold hearted bastard, he will be the guy that says "The mission comes first" So if I have the choice of saving a cute little innocent boy, or completing the mission, my guy will choose the mission.

He will be "the end justified the means" cold and ruthless. But all for the right reasons. He will care much for his team, or friends, putting their lives far above his own. But ya, very cold hearted.

 

[Arcangel]

Ya I have to agree with @Kiro On this one. I think you assume to much. Also I don't mean to sound all that harsh, it is your character so the ultimate choice is yours, but I'd scrap the idea of making him force sensitive. Its basically pointless if you give him no powers and make him out of practice.

Instead I'd just say he hates the Jedi and Sith. Also the plan to have him be FS kinda negates how good of a piolet he is. Simply because he can use the force to guide his way, but without the force He becomes that much better of a piolet.

But all in all, good little story. I like the idea of helping the innocent and wanting to protect people.

My guy, he will be just the opposite. My guy will be a cold hearted bastard, he will be the guy that says "The mission comes first" So if I have the choice of saving a cute little innocent boy, or completing the mission, my guy will choose the mission.

He will be "the end justified the means" cold and ruthless. But all for the right reasons. He will care much for his team, or friends, putting their lives far above his own. But ya, very cold hearted.

Another reason to not have him be force sensitive if you dont plan on having him learn the ways of the force is that if you ever get into pvp with a force user, his force sensitivity negates the rule that protects non force users from being directly attacked by force abilities that they have no defence against. I.e, force choke, lightning, etc.

 

[Kiro]

Another reason to not have him be force sensitive if you dont plan on having him learn the ways of the force is that if you ever get into pvp with a force user, his force sensitivity negates the rule that protects non force users from being directly attacked by force abilities that they have no defence against. I.e, force choke, lightning, etc.

Yeah, Sisk fell quite epicly into that trap.

 

[Jira]

I appreciate the feedback yall. Still, I like the narrative of a Fallen Jedi who isn't necessarily a Sith by default. I might write up something in his backstory that severed him from the Force, or beef up his Force Powers as a result of independent training. I intend to flesh it out more as we get more details about the new timeline, I just wanted to get the basic idea I had written down.

 

[Kiro]

I'm not entirely sure what the Admins' stance are on independent training these days, but I know that to learn how to use the Force and a Lightsaber, your character must have been part of the Jedi, Sith, or a similar organization. No learning things on your own.

Perhaps @Green Ranger or @Brandon Rhea could shed some light on it.

 

[Mr.BossMan]

So I have a question with all y'all. What if you wanted to make a general? Or commanding officer of sorts? Would you just say he is a general in his Bio or would you have to work him up to that rank?

I could understand if you had to rank him up, simply because making a general seems kind of like your cheating the system.

 

[Calixis]

So I have a question with all y'all. What if you wanted to make a general? Or commanding officer of sorts? Would you just say he is a general in his Bio or would you have to work him up to that rank?

I could understand if you had to rank him up, simply because making a general seems kind of like your cheating the system.

I'm going out on a limb and assuming that officer positions will depend upon being made an FL/AFL of that faction.

Needless to say, I expect there's going to be some, uh, 'discussion' about these Senators who also want to be war heroes of a high ranking in the BA at the same time.

 

[Mr.BossMan]

I'm going out on a limb and assuming that officer positions will depend upon being made an FL/AFL of that faction.

Needless to say, I expect there's going to be some, uh, 'discussion' about these Senators who also want to be war heroes of a high ranking.

Thanks for the answer.

Now personally I think it's okay to be a war hero then go to the Senate. Like @TAC for example.

But being in the Senate, then going to the Border Alliance and fighting I think is a big no no. Like I remember reading that some guy wanted to be in the Senate and fight in the BA at the same time, almost like each thing was a part time job. I had a laugh.

 

[Sin]

For the sake of the story, we're probably just gonna have to come to terms with getting pushed back in the outer rim.

Nothing saying we can't slap the Sith back into the outer rim though.

But if the Sithies didn't make it close to the mid rim it would be pretty disappointing from a storyline perspective.

 

[Mr.BossMan]

@Sin

Dude I want to see us get our asses handed to us.

 

[Calixis]

For the sake of the story, we're probably just gonna have to come to terms with getting pushed back in the outer rim.

Nothing saying we can't slap the Sith back into the outer rim though.

But if the Sithies didn't make it close to the mid rim it would be pretty disappointing from a storyline perspective.

Eh, I'm not sure I'd be too hyped about a regurgitation of the last timeline's plot.

Oh no, a resurgent Sith Empire are pushing the Republic back to the Core Worlds!
Oh no, Coruscant is attacked! The Jedi go independent of the Republic!
Oh yes, the Republic remnants are forming a resistance to drive back the Sith!

Again, and again and again on every site, in every plot, in every roleplay, in every other bit of EU content, just blergh.

 

[Mr.BossMan]

Lol

 

[TAC]

So I have a question with all y'all. What if you wanted to make a general? Or commanding officer of sorts? Would you just say he is a general in his Bio or would you have to work him up to that rank?

I could understand if you had to rank him up, simply because making a general seems kind of like your cheating the system.

I'm going out on a limb and assuming that officer positions will depend upon being made an FL/AFL of that faction.

Needless to say, I expect there's going to be some, uh, 'discussion' about these Senators who also want to be war heroes of a high ranking in the BA at the same time.

Thanks for the answer.

Now personally I think it's okay to be a war hero then go to the Senate. Like @TAC for example.

But being in the Senate, then going to the Border Alliance and fighting I think is a big no no. Like I remember reading that some guy wanted to be in the Senate and fight in the BA at the same time, almost like each thing was a part time job. I had a laugh.

I also think they are also restructuring how promotion/ranking works... so I wouldn't get ahead of ourselves.

Especially if the faction staff/think tank explores the ideas of smaller, more personal PC squads as our base instead of huge divisions of NPCs that we control. Which seemed to be quite popular here. If that's the case, I imagine we will have very few officers - even junior officers, and most of the high ranking leadership would be NPCs.

We'll see how that all turns out, I suppose?

Eh, I'm not sure I'd be too hyped about a regurgitation of the last timeline's plot.

Oh no, a resurgent Sith Empire are pushing the Republic back to the Core Worlds!
Oh no, Coruscant is attacked! The Jedi go independent of the Republic!
Oh yes, the Republic remnants are forming a resistance to drive back the Sith!

Again, and again and again on every site, in every plot, in every roleplay, in every other bit of EU content, just blergh.

 

[Mr.BossMan]

Okay so I totally wanna push for the idea we had earlier about a small elite squad. And we can tell the BA's journey through the eyes of that squad, or team. So if anyone else is interested in that idea, say so and we can flesh out some ideas.

I think PvP for us infantry types, with out force powers, will be more of a 2v2 thing.

So that being said, it would be extremely wise, for us as a faction, to work together as a whole. Have our characters compliment each other's strength and weaknesses. That way when we pull together and get this PvP shit storm next Timeline, we can kick some ass.

So who's with me?