Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)

He's saying that they were responsible for those when they were around on Earth, hence the Illuminati part. Approved. Interestingly enough the concept is similar to that of Empty's.

On top of what you said, I did explain in a PM how flavour and heresay work for the sake of detail. It's like when people say "_____ is the best _____ in the role-play." They may THINK they're the best, they might be known as the best from the groups they've encountered, but that doesn't suddenly make their stuff inherently stronger than others. Just like Earth. I'm not trying to impose on its history. Because I've created something that, IC, people have went wacky and created stories about, doesn't affect the foundation of the canon. Plus, I made sure I wrote the the Earth-relevant stuff in a broad way, so that the specifics don't retcon anything previously established. In fact, that's one of the reasons I made the Origins so vast and versatile, so that I can say "this and blah blah blah" without imposing on anyone else's things. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have let anyone else but me request them, since they've clearly been deformed into a confusing ball of cluster-fuck. Sigh. Oh well. Guess I have more work to do!

May I ask why you're using an older version? Not trying to make that sound condescending, I honestly want to know. I used to use FF but not since I've gotten comfortable with Chrome.

Oh. You're saying that "Sage magic" doesn't exist at all. That their magic is just magic, not Sage magic. I messed up by putting Sage in front of magic. Ya see what we can overcome when we work together as a team? Tell you what: I'll fix that part soon as I get back, and if you feel like giving it a second look-over sometime later, feel free to, then let me know if it works. I'd do it now but I'm seriously about to leave. Legit -- ride should be here soon.

Enlightened Ones
and . . .
True Neutral

Though the culture is mysterious and ever-changing, there is a consistent element of governance that seems to be a standard -- the Tri-Fecta. The Enlightened are led by Holy Father, and the Royal House of Light which consists of an emperor, a king, and a prince. They work alongside the Chamber of Representatives, an entity compromised of 77 elects that represent 1 city each. Then, the equivalent of a military official backed by a technocratic meritocratic party brings it on home to create the third and final piece of the triangle.

The Illuminati military has little to no recorded data about it. What is sure, however, is that there aren't any branches per-se.

Race Name
They have been given many names over the course of the aeons they've been around. They were called Builders, Gods, Light Beings, Ancients, and Enlightened. Call them what you will, but they are truly the Illuminati. Both singular and plural. These far-flung Origin descendants have just recently decided to a legitimate interest in their surroundings . . . but why?

Physical Appearance
An Enlightened's appearance can be anything he or she wishes. There isn't a definite "must" to the appearance. Their most popular has been described as a robe-wearing figure with four arms, and either one or two eye(s) on an otherwise shadowy, non-existent face. They have sensory appendages on their heads which relates to their psionic abilities -- these vary in size, shape, length and texture -- and tails, which also have a great range of diversity. Most seem to have white tails with red tips -- three of these, but numbers may exceed nine. Wings are another attribute, which seem to depend on class, job, rank and skill, like the colours of their robes.

Abilities, Traits
Plasmagiks: A devastating, yet harmful ability known as 'Blood Magik'. It's creators, given the nickname 'Crimson Sages', created this deadly art in secret. The Brothers of Blood were/was a cult that met underground in Groznijy Grad. Membership started out being restricted to military scientists only, but eventually expanded to common-folks. This particular kind of magic was created to be a unique kind -- not even a 'proper' magic -- to compliment the impressive psionic power of the species. By doing that, they've created a weapon along with psionics that, while dangerous and brutal, will ensure their continuity.

Choson Wizard Evolutionary Battle Forms: Created during the Age of Cunning and Guile (1217-1918), in response to the full-scale-war effort against the Arcani, another Origin species, when it was learned that a war with a technological monopoly could not be fought using stealth alone. Using Plamagiks, and the Origin-given ability to mess with genetic material, the Choson Battle Armour Project was brought into its Alpha Phase in 1396 A.W. The Choson Battle System is a hybrid amalgam of Plasmagiks and manipulation of the versatile DNA of all Origin races. When an Illuminati is about to battle, they activate the system to adapt to the situation, and meet their combat needs to ensure they live to see the next day. Currently, there are four levels: Normal, Mega, Champion and Ultimate. There is a fifth level, Hyper, but that's reserved for the Father, His Favourite, the Elite, the Royal Guard, and others as appointed by Him or the Combined Council.

Origin Genetic Adaptation: Like all Origins, Illuminati may manipulate their genetic composition for whatever reason. Acts such as these are executed by the Science Sect after they are approved by the Combined Council of the Enlightened Realm.

Typical Lifespan
The longest recorded lifespan has been a little more than 1,000,000,000 years, but the average is 2/3rds of that.

Public or Private?
Private!

Other information
Temporary request. Figured I'd try participating in the event since it's clearly been packed with hard work and thought. Don't want it to go to waste. Oh yeah! Yes, I'm making fun of conspiracy theories. Let's be honest -- they keep things interesting.

I feel the same way about personality and the biography.

The entire board doesn't need to know the "bible" of every character made. That's boring, and it puts it bit too much pressure to "concrete" the character in question. How I always do it is, I write about how they came to power if they're a leader, what military campaigns they took part in if they're a general or commander -- things like that. I base the biography you all read on something integral to their identity.

Personality, I'm even more-so against. Mainly for reasons previously stated. Role-playing is supposed to be immerse people into its story. You're s'posed to created a reality within fiction; characters are s'posed to feel real. Characters are supposed to act like living, breathing people we spend our day-to-day lives with. People in reality grow and change over time. I can honestly say that I grew as a person since January 1st, 2012 until now -- I've learned things I never thought I'd be on some of about myself. And guess what? I'm STILL growing and changing.

I don't feel like the "breath of creation/life" has been put into a character that is restricted to a cardboard cut-out of how they're supposed to think, feel and interact with the multi-verse. Like Logan said, the best part of character development is . . . well, development. I'd hate to think that members weren't letting their character thrive or reach their developmental potential simply because of a demanding personality section. We aren't supposed to automatically know everything about an IC element; our character interact with it, and they let us know about whatever it is you're curious of. I hate knowing every single thing about something IC, especially when my characters/races didn't find that out, but I did.

To know important shit like loyalty, abilities, race -- yeah. There's no question there. But interpersonal things like their life story or how they interact with their surroundings? That knowledge should come from our characters. This way, our characters can thrive and develop as we, their creators, would want them to.

Yeah. I know. I'll just give 'em psi capabilities and the clairvoyance. I know how it works and how it is explained, I just tried lumping into one category -- I was lazy. Haha. We all have them times, mate.

I really wish there were a way to go about this. It isn't like I'd abuse it or anything -- I mean, if I did, shit wouldn't be fun. The race wouldn't be "real", just weapons with which I use to fuck everyone's day up, which isn't what role-playing is about.

Tell you what -- I'm putting faith in you, mate. I know you don't know me well (or at all), but in your honest opinion, what's the best rate you think I'd be able to handle responsibly?

"Great idea, Declan. Yeah man. Mummur, murmmur." More like muttering, but I digress.

With this race, I really wanted them to go for tech and biology, yeah? Everyone's either far left (all mechanical), or organic that leans on technology. With this one, I wanted to mash everything that could possibly manipulate technology -- both organics and mechanics can do that. Thus, you have the Apparati and SMART (the empire).

Digest: Think of them as a lump sum of every show/series/book/whatever-else that had machines in it. I'm not ripping, but that's the basic scope. Like the Origins, they start from the smallest building block -- nanobots -- and assemble into things that can, how you say, "own shit".

You probably don't need to read this, or care. But I thought some insight would be nice. But yeah, if Gaser is a tech guy (how you described him) then I'm someone he'd want to get in on shit with. For sure.

I reckon Logan made a tonne of good points. One big one that resonated with me is the importance of an integrated community. Sure, staff are important, but without the members, who will you oversee? More importantly, what fun would it be with just 5 staffsmen writing on the site? Things would get stale rather quickly, I reckon.

This is an important step for the future of the site. Unless this "reform" thing is fair dinkum, things'll just stay the same, and maybe, just maybe, the site would actually die.

Empire Name: Self Manufacturing And Reassembling Technologies
Primary Race: *Anything with a mechanical element. Even biomechanical races can be found in SMART.

Empire Description: The mechanical equivalent of the Sovereign -- a giant clusterfuck of different machine species from all over the universe/multi-verse/whatever/verse. It began as the Apparatus Cultus (Machine Cult in Origin), a small sect of technological extremists who broke off from the First Pilgrimage shortly before Arc-En Ciel was populated. The Cult was known for meddling with biotechnology, and carried out cruel experiments in the name of research. When these practices were discovered, they were immediately sent elsewhere.

Because of their biological roots (Origin; Arcani), and their obsession with machines and technologies, they are a serious problem. When they were exiled, they opted  nomadic habits, rather than settling down in one place -- this way, their chances of learning about and finding more technologies were increased. They created a "republic" of sorts, with member-worlds that were technologically extreme also -- that union was called, The Great Technological Pragmatist Republic. It was banded by P. Saigon and Turn 'A'. It ran into some troubles two decades later when the member-worlds fell to an unidentified invader. The TPR was spread, with the union barely surviving by a thread, and what little actual interest it had still invested in itself. P. Saigon then fled to this . . . whatever-it's-called -- taking all of his research and tech with him -- and alerting Turn 'A' of his absence. The duo would later arrive to the . . . uh . . . Shattered Planes(?) and again, rebuild what was destroyed. What began as a small arms-dealing company within a galactic monopoly -- ArmsTech -- would again begin the sick research of its spiritual predecessor (Apparatus Cultus), and re-establish what it saw as what the position of machines should be in every corner of every universe.

Self-Manufacturing Systems was formed first. It spread its influence to several new member-worlds. P. Saigon then changed the name from that to what it is today after a breakthrough in his research, true self-assembly and reassembly. The formal name would then become, Self Manufacturing and Reassembling Technological Systems, but is better known as Self Manufacturing and Reassembling Technologies. Either way, that's how it got to where it is today. Extremism, loyalty, and inherit desires to always get better and acquire more knowledge (thanks to their Origin . . . origins?) makes SMART(s) a force to be reckoned with.

Additional Information:¹"Sui Manufacturing et Reassembling Vitae", in the Origin indigenous tongue literally translates into "Self Manufacturing and Reassembling Technologies".
²There's actually a primary race to go with this (that I'll post in a bit). However, because this is a smooshball of a broad ranger of machines, this "empire" wouldn't be that exclusive, and I am therefore, technically not breaking the rules -- since, again, it's not just the primary race of machines that make up this group. Before I start using them I'll get the race up anyway so that there's no speculation or suspicion.

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