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Post by Veoline Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:31 am

Effectively, very unofficial, since even I didn't know!
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Post by thunderpants Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:45 am

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam!

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We accept the fact that the council needs to have a meeting about the expansion of the trink fleet...
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Post by Aegonian Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:50 am

Message from the Aeginian government:

After having compared all languages known to us, as well as the several manuscripts we received, we have yet to discover who built the Xanafias Dorminicas. No matches were found, so chances of the ship having been built by an unknown empire are increasing.
The language is one that is very hard to decipher, partially because more and more symbols are found by every day that passes. For now 264 symbols have been found, which occured in 'words' of only two to 103 symbols.

We too think a Council Meeting is required in the case of the Trink's fleet expansion. Once all representatives have arrived, the session will begin.

We accept the activation of CyberFusion 2 and the Erikixan X5's. However, once this conflict is over, both must immediately be deactivated again and locked away in a safe place.

On another note, we have finally received word from our spies in the Hooded Aegi's mysterious organization. Currently, the organization is actively placing machines similar to those in our Aeroix in an Aeroix some 54 ly from here, which is inhabited by an to us yet unknown but rapidly growing empire. Our spies seemed to be in a hurry, for the only other thing they send was that the organization seems much larger than we might think. The members we had seen in our Aeroix apparently were the leaders of the organization, who have control over an army of over 7000 'soldiers'. Several other Aegi, Hymid and even some Ntoix were seen by our spies, who, unfortunetely, have yet to mention the organization's rightful name.
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Post by thunderpants Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:11 pm

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By the deactivation of C-F2 you mean the Deactivation of his combat mode? Do remember he is the spiritual and political leader of the Trinks...
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Post by Aegonian Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:10 pm

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By the deactivation of CF2 we obviously mean to deactivate his combat mode, for we would never dare to deprive the Trinks of their leader.

Concerning the Xanafias Dorminicas, we might have found a clue as to where parts of the ship may have been build. Inside some of the ships engines, we found curious crystals of an unknown material, which we believe we have seen before:
During one of our first expeditions on Hyrolia, we found a hollow meteor somewhere in the Hymildian mountains. Inside of the meteor we found enormous crystals of lengths of up to 20 meters, and diameters of almost 2 meters. These crystals, just like the ones found in the Xanafias Dorminicas, were made of an unknown material and had the same basic shapes, colours and thicknesses.
We intend to revisit this Crystal Meteor to collect more samples, which we could then compare to the crystals inside the ship's engines. If they are proven to be the same kind of crystal, all we must do is to find the place where the Crystal Meteor originates from.
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Post by thunderpants Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:06 pm

(Finding the source of a crystal meteor... Sounds familiar)

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If we may, we could try to create a simulation of where roughly the meteor came from if we could expect the site...
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Post by Veoline Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:00 am

Message from the Dremeton government:

Indeed, only the combat mode of Cyber-Fusion 2 is required, for it is the only thing in him which is threatening. It is not our right to deprive a race of its leader.

Pertaining to the Xanafias Dorminicas, this news is enlightening. If we can discover the origin of the meteor, then we might at least know where the ship was built, and thus find some otgher remains of this race. Unless of course this race already spawned the galaxy, in which case they could have built it anywhere.
But this is a good point of departure.
Are there any similarities between gunistinite and these crystals?


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Post by Aegonian Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:37 pm

Message from the Aeginian government:

It seems this new crystal does not share many similarities with guinstinite. These crystals do not emit any kind of radiation unless placed inside an extremely powerful magnetic field, as is the case inside the ship's engines.
Also, all crystals share the same structure: They are hexagonal with sharp points on both ends. Colours variate from white to light blue, and many crystals are slightly transparent.

We have received a second message from our spies, in which they finally mentioned the group's name. The name we were told could teach us a lot about the group's purpose and history, for we have heard similar names before: The Brotherhood of Seghae.
We would not at all be surprised if this Brotherhood is like the Brotherhood of Darghae: One chosen by the Centens as peacekeepers of this or multiple Aerithii.
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Post by JorgasElite Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:09 pm

Message from T.A Government
The Darkness are invading Scii and Athana, again. After there "victory" at Elithia, they have come for revenge. They will there in a matter of days, and our fleet should arrive in about a day befoere they arrive. We are turning on all awaiting ships in the yards and cranking up the defense towers. All civilian personnel are being sent to the underground parts of the cities. We will not fall. Not now! Not ever!
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Post by freddycatking Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:57 am

So how are people? Who's gone? Who's left? I'm just trying to re-orient myself, I can't keep roleplaying yet tho =P
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Post by Aegonian Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:30 pm

@FreddycatkingTaking a look at the memberlist should give you an idea who's still active. I think there are, including you, 11 people who visit the forum at least once in a while, some are new (e.g. JorgasElite and Ryiin), some have been here for a long time.

Did you guys know that the Elithian Alliance is almost a year old, btw? I started the original thread on the sporum on the thirteenth of january in 2010, so that's almostr a year! Should we celebrate it in some way on the thirteenth?
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Post by freddycatking Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:10 pm

Hehe 1 year...

I donno you should make a contest or something =D
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Post by thunderpants Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:02 pm

Lets make a pie...

The cake is a lie....
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Post by _IncoherentRain_ Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:06 am

HEY! I'm back again.

Hi freddycatking!

Yes, something should be done for the aniversary!

And, thunder, was that rhyme intentional?
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Post by _IncoherentRain_ Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:13 am

Message from the Spiritian Gov't
Shadow 1 and Shadow 2 are fully operational now, but cannot be removed from the Gar Aeroix. Two mobile space stations, Shadows 3 and 4, are being designed, but we are trying not to be to rash, in defense of this Darkness.
Since building two would be a big project at once, and potentially time-consuming and dangerous to not only workers, but the presence and size of the finished product may be overwhelming to some, we feel it right to ask for permission to do so. Please respond soon, designs are near finished!!
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Post by thunderpants Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:52 pm

(Maybe so... Maybe No...)

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Why do you feel it necessary to ask permission to build these 2 space stations? Are they particularly large?
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Post by Veoline Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:21 pm

((Hi freddy! Long time no see! Where were you for all this time? And will you start participating more actively again soon?))

Message from the Dremeton government:

We authorize the Spiritian government to build these spacestations.

On another note, we will release the plans of our Super-drednought in the upcoming aera.

And has more been learned on the Brotherhood of Segae?
Concerning the Xanafias Dorminicas, what is the supposed use of the crystals? Would they be some sort of power generators or fuel?
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Post by Aegonian Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:06 pm

Message from the Aeginian government:

We ask the Spiritian government what weapons the spacestations will be carrying, and how large the stations will be when finished.

We know that the Brotherhood of Seghae is still roaming this Aerith, placing their mysterious machines on many, seemingly random, planets. Whatever threat they once spoke of must be one that not only we might come to face.
Also, we have received digital models of the Brotherhood's leaders, but unfortunetely, the data was damaged in some way, so we are still trying to restore the lost parts. We do know that the leaders, surprisingly, all come from the Alliance's territory: One is an Aegi, another a Dremeton, the others a Hymid, a Craton and a Notix.

We have no evidence to support our theory yet, but we assume the crystals are used as a source of power. We have seen that everytime we try to activate the engines using an invalid command, the crystals start spinning, resulting in some of our nearby equipment failing. Scanners and such seem to be affected most.
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Post by Veoline Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:31 pm

Message from the Dremeton government:

As the Aeginian government asked, it would indeed be required to know these, for they cannot be allowed to be too large nor too powerful.

The Bortherhood's actings are very mysterious. Have the covert agents discovered anything new about their goals? And what types of vessels are used by the Brotherhood? Has anything been uncovered on their history? It would appear that the Brotherhood has its roots in the Gar-Aeroix. But then we must ask ourselves why the Centens would have formed such a brotherhood, and why in the Gar-Aeroix, if the Centens are involved in it at all, which its name would suggest.

Concerning the Xanafias Dorminicas, our scientists should have arrived. They will immediatly set to work. Thus they must know what is to be done.
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Post by thunderpants Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:59 pm

Message from the Notix

We are pleased to hear that members have been identified on at least a species based level...

However we are concerned about something, the Notix member must be an Old Notix if this circle has been around for a lengthy period of time, which is pleasing as it proves more children of Noticia may survive...

However if he is a younger new Notix, than it means the circle must of been recruiting recently, perhaps it was formed after the Concordates attack?
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Post by Veoline Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:36 am

Message from the Dremeton government:

Indeed, we must ask how old the Brotherhood of Seghae is. Its age might help us to discover more about it.

And, Notix, how long ago did Noticia fall? It is possible that the group was refounded or regained activity after the Concordate's invasion, although we doubt the Centens would have mandated a group to take care of the Concordate, as they do not seem to wrry the Centens. Not to mention that the Concordate and Centensians allied during the Centen-Thelean war.
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Post by Aegonian Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:07 pm

Message from the Aeginian government:

The Brotherhood's goals are still as vague as they were. They claim to be preventing an ancient thread from destroying civilizations all over the Aerith.
Our spies say that a variety of transportation methods are being used. The five leaders seem to be using small, personal wormholes for travel between building sites and sometimes even between planets that lie within the same Aeroix. for further travel, over 300 models of ships, ranging in size from fighters to what appears to be a dreadnought. We are to believe that these ships have not been designed by the Brotherhood of Seghae, but rather by the empires the members originally came from: Both Aeginian and Hymidian ships were seen. These ships rarely form fleets of significant sizes, though.
Our spies are gathering information on the Brotherhood's history right now, and will hopefully report back soon. For now, the Brotherhood's age can only be guessed.

And Notix, are there any significant differences in appearence between the old and 'new' Notix?

As for the Dremeton scientists, we ask them to investigate the frontal horn-like structures. Their use is still unknown, altough we did manage to activate something in them using the ship's interface. Unfortunetely, we are still investigating what exactly we activated, which is what your scientists will be focusing on.
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Post by thunderpants Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:02 pm

Message from the Notix

Noticia fell Millennia ago... Civil war is what kept us from regaining our strength earlier...


Unfortunately we do not know the difference between us New Notix and the Old Notix, except the language and our increased value of life...
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Post by kingnecromancer Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:37 am

Message from the erikixans:
We have been working on our new planet, we did not have time to send any messages, but now we just got miners break, our Holiday, so we can send more transmissions.
Our colony is thriving, and we barely had to touch anything. It’s almost all desert, but we found a vast network of tunnels underground, and we found some very startling doorways.
We are worried, but we will have to uncover these secret doors, oh, sorry, I am getting a head of myself. The doorways we found are Blocked by huge stones, but we think there are secrets on the other side, if anyone could help us uncover these by sending miners, we would be glad.
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Post by JorgasElite Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:56 am

(my intentions are not of elithian thoughts.....he he)

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The Darkness have arrived at Scii. We are asking immediate assistance via wormhole travel at the Aeroix immediatly. We can give you a reward, just we ask one thing. Help is needed, the whole swarm has come in, and the skies of Scii are blacked completly. If we die, we die together!
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