Here's my two cents: If a faction has the power to do so, why not have a mini-event that involves them gaining such power? I like to think back to an event, that although it didn't involve a planet being destroyed, it did involve that idea in mind and gained a lot of community backing. I'm referring to the mini-event of Roche. If we all remember correctly
, unless I'm wrong though I know I'm not as I was a member of the Empire at the time and remember being apart
of the faction discussion regarding it, this event was built so the Empire had the chance to build a super weapon.
It started as an idea that the Empire would use the Roche asteroids (forget exactly how, been a two years) to obtain the power to build a super weapon. It was about the Sith and their allies trying to gain such a power while the Republic and their allies fought to stop them.
I honestly don't remember the aftermath or anything, I was only involved in it for so long before opting out because it took up so much of my posting time. Anyways, that was such a awesome idea and built such an epic story, as well as many potential aftermath stories.
Now, this relates to this post by what I stated at the start: if a faction has the backing and power to attempt the feat of building a super weapon, which includes a lot of threading regarding the keeping it a secret, gathering the resources, the enemy factions spying and infiltrating to eventually find out its existence
, and all that. It would be a epic and large community event that, I think, would be a lot of fun.
Obviously the ultimate final outcome would have to be announced before the final thread was posted and each side would have major IC stuff to deal with before and after said finale. But it would be fun. It would include a lot of threads, it would require good and active
posting, and it brings the community together on a major scale that actually holds a major outcome and impact.
Every now and then when I write Onyx, I mention that he has made so many mistakes and impacted a lot of people. In reality, I feel like my character is so minor compared to others. Comparing me to someone like Fatty is like comparing the intelligence of Jar Jar (me) and Palpatine (Fatty). So I do admit, honestly I feel like, although this is a role-playing site where we all make decisions with impact, I feel like I don't make such a big impact and I don't feel like an important character.
Now if I was someone who was leading the One Sith and said,
"Hey, let's blow up Coruscant. Let's build a super weapon and blow up Corsucant and then we'll blow up another planet. But before we have the chance to their is an epic space battle that results in our defeat and the loss of some terratory, as well as other IC related punishments," I'd be a infamous character! I'd be the one who was responsible for leading the complete and utter destruction of Coruscant! That is impact, and everyone who was involved would have played a part, whether helping me or trying to stop me. And everyone, even those who weren't apart of it, would be impacted because Coruscant was destroyed.
That is impact. That is true story impact and true role-playing. That, to me, would make the site all the better. Now I should clarify; we shouldn't do it all the time. This is like a galactic event, it's a one time thing. Or at least rarity. If every faction came out wanting to build a super weapon, that would be unethical and be ridiculous. Now if we did something along the lines of Roche and had factions fighting over resources, and one faction won and used said resources to build such a weapon, that is cool. But if we were to have factions just want to build them, I'd say we limit it to every few months to allow it. I mean if one faction does destroy a planet and then, a week later, another faction destroys another; it would be a little intense.
TL;DR- Having super weapons would be awesome and would bring the community together for some epic level story telling, it would also leave an actual impact on everyone in some way, shape, or form. However, we should limit such an event to every few months, so to save from every faction rising up with super weapons.
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