houseofjones

Planetary Description - Size (Earth = 1): 0.83 Diameter At Equator: 6580.24 miles Distance From Main Star: 88.3 million miles Surface Temperature: - 173 degrees Fahrenheit (poles) to 143 degrees Fahrenheit (the innermost of the deep desert) Orbital Velocity: 17 miles/second. Continental - 72% Oceanic - 28% Continental layout is similar to pangaea of ancient Earth. Coastal marshland/beaches - 3% Savannah (adjacent to marshland/beaches, more inland) - 35% Desert (deep in-land) - 53% Tundra and ice (isolated to the poles) - 9% This planet has 2 moons.

In the year 2027, the entirety of the Earth was unified into a single entity, collectively ruled by a superior and efficient welfare-state government known as the United Earth Directorate (UED). Under this new leadership, mankind quickly expanded their realm throughout the Milky Way, and soon to other galaxies with the invention of star gates. The UED did not falter, however, and continued to provide a center of prosperity and unity for humans. However, in order to stabilize UED territories and making it easier for the UED to establish provincial governments in these massive territories, the UED began purifying itself of greedy and savage pirates, drifters, and criminals. This unwanted population of the newly purified and even more prosperous human society were banished into deep, lonesome space. Without terraforming technologies, these banished humans drifted long into space until they discovered a desert-like planet. As they settled down, they also banded up into groups and went their own ways. Their new home, though somewhat adequate in terms of mineral resources, was a harsh, violent land. Although the atmosphere of their new planet was similar to that of their ancestral home, the land was dry, and was mostly a hot savannah with almost no rain, similar to the Kalahari Desert of Africa. It will certainly be difficult for these banished people to survive.

just for your information im going to start a new thread like this one but with a different atmosphere and scenario. i dunno about everyone but im starting to get kinda bored with being a house with immense productive resources in terms of firepower. the one im starting will have a stronger limit to power thus power will be more balanced in the new one. nonetheless, there will still be a lot of choices and options pending on ur imagination.

"Sir, we have just came out of hyperspace, we will be on Arrakis in approximately 50 minutes." said Newman. "Good," I said, "any other news?" "Yes, sire. About all of the other major houses have arrived on Arrakis as well. The elders of the spacing guild has included them in the upcoming summit." "Interesting. I wonder what the elders of the spacing guild has to say to all of them..." 50 minutes later... "Newman, we shall stay on board until the location of the summit is announced. In the meantime, signal our smugglers that we are onplanet, and tell them we will rendezvous with them at the smuggler camps." "Yes, sir."

"JEEZ...4 legions of Fremen. House KYA must really want to kill something..." I said. "Well, Fremen are only good on Arrakis, and potentially other desert planets sire," commented Newman, "we are still heading towards Arrakis, sire?" "Yes, indeed. We must greet our smuggler comrades there. Our visit to Gurney Halleck the III will strengthen our ties with the current Muad'dib, thus also with House KYA. We will certainly be safe there." "I reckon, sire." Our janky flotilla of 3 mid-sized cruisers continued towards Arrakis. It was a fearsome journey, as our fleet was quite weak, even compared to the band of striking space trash haulers.

i may be a pirate, but im not that savage to annihilate an entire planet. that would not only be unethical, but also economically unpractical. thats like killing off an entire planet of customers and clients. i am a pirate, which means i smuggle/rob stuff and sell them.

oh. oops. but the sanitarium plague isnt supposed to destroy your planet. the point of the sanitarium plague was to delay your forces for a bit so i can pressure you into signing an unfair trade agreement. but oh well whatever.

"Sire, it has seem that House Setaras and House KYA are both on Arrakis in trying to become the main supplier of spice." said Newman. "Interesting...spice. Perfect, I will go to Dune to meet my smuggler comrades, I think I will be safe there for the time being." "Sire, you do realize we have an alternative to spice melange? Our Tleilaxu factories have biologically engineered a new substance as they isolated genes from both the sandworm and an ancient plant known as marijuana. They then chemically engineered this substance and bonded it with MDMA, also an ancient substance known as ecstasy." "Whoa, I'm not sure our customers will be able to handle that, cerebrally speaking that is. Are you sure it's safe?" "We are still running tests on it. It seems the elders of the spacing guild are interested in this alternative. However, we need to conduct more testing to find if there is any side effects." "Maybe...it sounds extremely expensive to produce. But yeah, keep them working on it." A new alternative to spice...mind-blowing...but still, I am uncertain. It is probably too expensive to produce. It will be a while until it becomes a profitable market.

"Johnson, how is our fleet building again?" I asked again for the thousandth time. "Sire, we are now at 72%. Sorry sir, but uhh, a large group of welders and nanotech constructors, they uh...they tripped and fell off one of the smaller ships as they were working on it." Johnson replied wearily. "Dam. Hmm...when we they get back to work?" "In about 3 1/2 week sir. No major injuries, just a bunch of sprained legs, ankles, and some broken arms and legs." "Dam. Hmm...oh well, nothing we can do, just keep up progress. Oh, provide every worker with gifts appropriate according to Ixian culture. I don't want bad morale to get in the way." "Will do, sir." The elders of the spacing guild have not responded, but I guess I will calmly wait. As of now, I must seek protection at an unknown place. With only 3 mid-sized ships with outdated weapons, ahhh gotta hide! Can't wait when Ix finishes my new fleet. I feel bad about Alex's planet being hit by the mutation of the cold virus right after the Sanitarium Plague's failure. Hmm, maybe I will utilize Tleilaxu biological technology to cure the newly established delirium, then maybe House Picara may resettle in Burlador.

lol. "water-fat"

u know what, im just gonna forget this happened. its too tiresome. im just gonna go on w/ the thread.

ok so there wouldnt a need to clarify that if you spoke in english. all ur doing when ur speaking latin is causing a lot of misunderstandings and excessive trouble.

yeah i agree we should get back to the war. on another point, ok alex if you grown past the stage of "psycho teenager", and perceive us to be a group of "psycho teenagers", why do you still remain? thats kinda contradictory isnt it?

ok i perceive you are mocking ex. apparently, he doesnt have any grammarical errors aside from punctuation, only spelling errors. and yeah, thats what I assumed diccarionos or whatever would be. so what're you talking about?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...if we are psycho teenagers, why do you continue to remain in this thread? Dang, that's an awfully good question...

Alright Alex, I guess all of this was a giantic misunderstanding. I thought Ordos45 had said a vaccine, but you thought he had a cure. Lets see what happenes in the future Also, speak English. Do you get a kick out of seeing people making mistakes in trying to understand and perceive a language that they obviously don't understand? Because if you do, that's sad, I'm sorry. I still don't believe its 5 hours to cure the whole planet, more like 5 months.

To the leader of the elders of the spacing guild - "I think my identity as obvious to you. This message is to prevent any misunderstandings that I fear will result as I am afraid that my peace offering is too brief. I am very interested to establish cordial relations with the spacing guild, and I think both of us, the spacing guild and the established coalition of pirates and smugglers can profit and prosper from this."

"Sire, apparently we have receive a message from the leader of the elders of the spacing guild, Fedaykin-Sandwalker, what would you like us to do?" said Newman. "Hmm...interesting...Newman, dispatch a message of peace and prosperity, and tell the spacing guild I would like to establish cordial relations with them." The spacing guild, man I would definitely not want to mess with them. - Gotta set some things straight, sorry Fedakyin, but it looks like ur gonna have to get medival - Okay, Alex, first of all, the only reason why Ex is supposedly "INSANE" is because everyone isn't really fond of your spectacular accomplishments, which are actually as impossible as they can get. You can't cure an entire planet of people in 5 hours. Its more complicated than a "geometric pattern." Your supposed cure is different from the virus, which spreads by air. Your cure would have to be applied by a physician of some sort to each individual, separately. Yeah, 5 hours might do it, for a 100 people sure. Also, again you stole the VACCINE. Let me say again, VACCINE. There's a difference between a CURE and a VACCINE. As Ordos45 has repeatedly stated, you stole the VACCINE, not the cure. In addition to this, you said if you didn't steal it, you could've develop the cure yourself. Yeah sure that's possible, but not in freaking 5 hours, even if you had underground facilities. The virus spreads by air, and it was a surprise attack. Why would the underground facilities shut it self off if the underground staff did not expect a biological attack? Obviously they would not. Thus, the virus would've spread to the underground as wll. Ex, Ordos45, and the rest here would have found it reasonable if you instead went down to orbit to collect samples of the virus then found a cure in your fleet later. That is a lot more reasonable in 5 hours. Supposedly, according to the story so far, it's been about 4 weeks now, and I still haven't finished my new fleet yet. If I was like you, I would've said something bullshit like "yeah...I have some secret nanotech machines, I can build 100000 ships in 5 hours." Second of all, the thing about the mirror image, that was an IDEA (thanks ex for clearing that up). Didn't I admit my fleet was destroyed by yours? Maybe you should check again, might be helpful. I don't have to explain jack to you, because my fleet was destroyed. Last but not least, I think you know what Ex is trying to say, so STOP bitching about his typos. "diccionario" is enough for me to figure it out what you were trying to say. Stop calling us "kids" while ur bitching about petty things.

"Just what in the world are you???" said I, Mr. Jones, of House Jones, from a far-ranged transmittor.

"Johnson, how is the fleet-building going?" I asked. "It is now at 70%, sire." replied Johnson as a hologram. DAM. Too freaking slow. I said to myself. "We actually have a secret project going, sire, and this explains why the slowness." "It's already been 2 weeks Johnson, I thought the Ixian constructors were ultra-fast. Your secret project better be good." "It is, sire. I am betting my 20-year service to you on it." "Oh, excellent then. I look forward to seeing this secret project of yours..." I think to myself, I will make allies by creating a common enemy, that which shall be House Picara. "Newman, send out a message to GNN. I wish to eliminate the price barrier on Ixian and Tleilaxuan goods, and yet still lower the price by 50% to all except House Picara. Also, triple security on Ix and Tleilaxu." "Yes, sire." It is a truly a good thing us pirates have no homes, no designated realm. We are the bedouins of space.

"Johnson, how is our fleet-building going?" I asked. "Moderately good, the fleet is 47% completed." Johnson replied. "I guess that is okay..." An hour later, Newman comes along with awesome news. "A majority of the Picaran fleet has been smashed by a surprise strike commensed by House KYA." "Phew, now we don't have to worry about being hunted down right now. But why would KYA do such a thing...very interesting..." "Yes, sire. We are at a someone fragile point right now, considering our original fleet was annihilated, and the rest of them are scattered in various areas of the universe conducting petty pirating." "Right, right. Hey Newman, I have mission for you." I hand him an envelope...

riiiigghhtt alex. this is exactly why klobbersaurus quit, we could make ourselves as powerful as we want. i might as well say you DIDNT destroy my pirate fleet, yet, you only destroyed a mirror image of my fleet created by an ixian projector. but, im not gonna say that, instead, i admitted my fleet was destroyed by your fleet, cuz im not a cheap scumbag.

"Sir, how would you like us to deal with the uprising of the Space Trash Haulers?" asked Newman, my substitute advisor as Johnson is currently in Ix as of now. "We don't really have to deal with them at all, do we? Most of our soldiers are in scattered pirate flotillas, and they hardly produce any trash." "I am saying this in a point of view that we should utilize this uprising..." "Interesting. This uprising will result in one of two things: Planetary pollution/wasting or space pollution. So much trash in space it might even disrupt space travel. I think you are onto something Newman. Dispatch a message to the union of space trash haulers, tell them I would like to make a deal with them."

I just wanted to say that this thread has been awesome, and when we finished this galatic conflict it'd be cool to have something else like this in a different atmosphere and scenario, such as surviving in a post-nuke u.s. or stranded on a designated trash planet.

"Dam Picaran treachery," I said, "but it seems my attempts in trying to create galatic chaos in order to boost my business operations have caused some unwanted side effects." "So why did you do it? Why did you attack Kaitain and slay Shaddam IV?" asked Johnson. "As pirates, we are also mercenaries. When there is peace, weaponry sales go down, and we lose business." "Right, right. I understand." "So, how are our fleet building operations in Ix?" "Good, 35% of them have been completed." "Man, a long way to go. Isn't it?" "I guess so, sire." "Anyways, we must deal with the Guild, I must uncover their goals in their aggressions. Gotta see what is in it for them."