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Galaxiki Community BlogSubscribe via RSS Happy Birthday, Galaxiki!July 01, 2008by joskirps Exactly one year ago a very special community website was officially launched. On July 1st 2007, Galaxiki started as something really new: it's a wiki based science fiction galaxy consisting of millions of stars, planets and moons that can be edited by its community. Each star, each planet and each moon is represented by an editable wiki page, and the solar systems are all part of an online galaxy that can be explored using a galactical map. Galaxiki instantly got a lot of positive reviews. It was "website of the day" on Yahoo, About.com, Pocketlint and RedOrbit. It was also community website of the week in Linux Journal. Today the Galaxiki community consists of more than 2700 users, there are thousands of stars, planets and moons that have been edited, creating an entire new online world. Community members are writing sci-fi stories and publish them as part of stellar histories or they get posted in the community blog. In April 2008 Galaxiki also published an exclusive interview with british actor David Prowse, who is best known for his role as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy. A lot of improvements and new features are planned to become available within the next few months, and the Galaxiki community is looking forward to continue expanding this amazing fictional universe. Bookmark This 
permalink | 1 comments The Origin of the ImmortalsJune 30, 2008by danansan Back in the mists of time, a great war was fought. It saw the forces of Arr^yak fight against the Rakkashat of Akklomaon. The war was fought over the star cluster of Allboa Dervin and the Six Lands of aRandwe. Also fighting were the Infinites (on the side of those of Arr^yak), and the Starburners of Kluan (who fought along side the Rakkashat). Such was the technology of the races that entire star systems were destroyed in the fighting. First there was the star of Yahhada, which was turned supernova by the Starburners as the retreated from the forces Arr^yak. Next came Akklomaon of the Rakkashat, which was destroyed by the Infinites during the battle of the Arweran Gate. Incensed with rage the Rakkashat turned their entire forces on great Arr^yak itself which was destroyed after a century of fighting. This led to a counter attack by the navy of Arr^yak against the surviving worlds of the Rakkashat, which were all destroyed. But those Arr^yak did not realise that they had left their own worlds open to attack - the Starburners broke through the Infinites and slaughtered every last of Arr^yak they found. Upon this, the two opposing armies prepared for the final battles. But little did any of the races realise that the last great power of the Galaxiki, the Dark of Catharlon, the ancient enemies of the Infinites, were manipulating them. They had tricked the four others into fighting, in an attempt to take control of the Galaxiki themselves. And so they pushed the final pieces, as their armies prepared to fight the other, weaker races of Mahkyat and Hollbron. The war ended in three final battles, the battle of Kluan, the first battle of Endings and the battle of the Six Lands. The Six Lands saw the victory of the Arr^yak over the Rakkashat, who were made extinct upon their defeat. Without their allies, the Starburners withdrew to their homeland to try and defend. And thus the great battle of Kluan began. After 20 years of battle the Arr^yak and Infinites seemed on the verge of victory, but then the Starburners released the Thunder Child. This was a doom entity created from the joining of advanced biological engineering, an entity of enormous power from a different dimension, and the ruined remains of their homeworld. With this at the head of their forces, the Starburners pushed their enemies right out of Kluan, and chased them all the way to Eternia, the Infinites's capital. There the Thunder Child consumed the planet, and the Starburners had victory in their grasp. But they were undone by the Arr^yak. As the Thunder Child approached the Endings Fort, the last stronghold of the Infinites, the last of the Arr^yak warships dived into the gaping maw of the monster, and realised their power. The Thunder Child was destroyed, but at the cost of the last of the Arr^yak race. The remaining Starburners were overcome with anger at the destruction of their greatest weapon, and attacked the remaining Infinites with all their might. But it was all for nought. The Starburners were defeated, and the few survivors fled away into the outer expanses of the galaxy. The end of the war, the extinction of the Arr^yak and Rakkashat, as well as the virtual annihilation of the Starburners and Infinites, left a massive power gap in the Galaxiki, that both the Mahkyat and Hollbron tried to fill. But the events of the last war led to them doing this in peace, something that was intolerable to the Dark of Catharlon. Thus the Dark finally made their move. Their attack on the Mahkyat and Hollbron was devastating. Both the races homeworlds were destroyed in the first decades of the war, and defeat seemed close the two races when their last inhabited planets fell. The Infinites, shocked by the re-emergence of their old enemies, attacked the Darks, and pushed them back, saving the few remaining Mahkyat and Hollbron from extinction. They gathered up the survivors of the two races, and took them to Endings, where they prepared to make a stand. The Second Battle of Endings was one of the bloodiest. The entire armies of the Dark attacked the small fortress. Despite the heroics of the defenders, the Dark eventually began to win through. Their great war-leader Skatharog was able to destroy the Dome of Endings, which had stood since the beginning of the Infinites. At the end, it seemed the Infinites and their allies were about to be defeated, with only a few hundred warriors left. But suddenly, the Starburners came unlooked for. Their surprise attack broke the Dark, and bought the Infinites a little time to put their last resort plan into action. The plan was thus: a few individuals would be charged with a huge amount of the inter-dimensional power that gave the Infinites their special powers. These individuals would be so powerful they could crush the Dark, and save the Galaxiki. It was decided to imbue 4 individuals from each of the races that fought the Dark. As the power built and the 16 were charged, the Dark attacked again. The surviving Infinites and their allies made the Dark pay for every step with the blood of a thousand of their warriors, buying time for the power to charge. Eventually, however, the last Infinite fell, and the way to the 16 was open. But it was too late for the dark. Even as Skatharog was climbing up to the first of the 16, the Mahkyat became fully charged, and stuck the Dark warrior down. The 16 led the charge against the Dark, and after a thousand years of war, imprisoned the last of them in the great black hole at the centre of the Galaxiki. At this point, the 12 (for 4 had been slain by the Dark) considered what to do. The majority of their powers had receded, but they were still phenomenally powerful. They decided to live on (as it seemed that they had been granted with eternal life) and observe the other races of the Galaxiki as they grew, and to play about a bit, if the fancy took them. These 12 became the Immortals. They watched the rise of the 89643, and their eventual defeat by the People from Beyond. They watched the fall of the Line people. They watched as the Arrow People fought with the Minispecs. They watched as a bloody genocide was committed over the very black hole in which they had imprisoned the Dark. They watched as a desire for vengeance ripped the Galaxiki apart again. They watched as Thant brought tales of doom and plague. They watched, and laughed, and sometimes interfered. Powers of the Immortals: The Immortals are all extremely powerful Telepaths and Telekinetics. They can also create and manipulate fire and water. They can be killed by weapons (as seen in the only Immortal death since the end of the war with the Dark), but are a good deal more resilient than an ordinary being. They will not die of old age. They can survive in space, and travel at speeds of FTL 5 without a space craft. They also have a large store of electrical power inside of them, which they can realise at any time. They can gain energy from sunlight, and can also shape shift into the form of any race. They also have the ability to create force-fields similar to those on a space craft. The 11 surviving Immortals, grouped by race: Mahkyat: Saffron, Pewter, Indigo and Grey Infinites: Violet, Rainbow and Marine Hollbron: Sapphire Starburners: Bronze, Fuchsia and Vermillion Bookmark This
permalink | 0 comments The commando raidJune 30, 2008by glencoe It was the night of the 54th of zank, six hundred men were lined up with an officer facing them “Any man here can step down now, with no stain on their character.” Not one of them did. They were going on a mission to destroyed the Dacor fuel station at Selos. The plan was risky and bold, they would board a battleship to get them to the system then they would land on the planet destroyed the fuel dump, then go around blowing anything of importance up, meet back at the space port where a fleet of rusting ships would get them back out. As the ships took of the men were decidedly happy, they played games and joked about the plan, saying it would be a walk through. but in fact the six hundred Mananin commandos were out numbered fifty to one by the Dacor marines. As they approached the system they started to broadcast a captured Dacor code, this meant they got to the planet’s atmosphere before the Dacor opened fire. When they did though all hell broke loose, plasma fire, ripped the deck to bits, laser bursts killed the captain and one of the commandos had to take the bridge, missiles, and bits of shrapnel went flying over the deck. One gunner of the ship had been hit sixteen times and was still firing his gun at the enemy. When they finally landed a maze of plasma and lasers crisscrossed the air, the ship was ablaze and the commandos had to jump of on to the ground before she exploded. The Mananin commandos split into ground of twenty and went after their objectives, the primary objective was the fuel dump, it was heavily defended and the commandoes took almost three hours before they captured it and laid the explosives. The men got out with only seconds to spare and the fuel exploded in a huge fire ball, lighting up the night sky. Several other targets were taken out with success. The commandos, now only four hundred and fifty strong met up at a bridge and found to their dismay, that it was the only route back to the ships that would extract them. On the other side were five hundred Dacor marines all armed with auto laser rifles. The Mananin commandos formed into a bunch and ran across the bridge firing in a mass, the Dacor on the other side had not been expecting this and had little time to fire, and were soon cut down. When the commandos reached the extraction point they watched in horror as they saw the burning ships that should have taken them home. One of the men said, “well we can’t get out so lets do some damage while we’re here.” The commandos fought on for four more days before giving up to the Dacor. Every last man who fought on that day received the Mananins highest honour, the steel claw, of the sixhundred marines who fought that day three hundred died, forty four, stole a Dacor ship and managed to slip away, the rest were taken into captivity by the Dacor until the end of the war. Bookmark This
permalink | 0 comments Great EscapeJune 29, 2008by thegreatpl Growlin immediately went down the corridor to his office, where he asked his research heads to meet him. The first one to arrive was Treeowin Freeos. “Treeowin, what a coincidence, I wanted to talk to you. I had been informed that you had been pressing to resurrect a Flayer, is that correct?” said Growlin without waiting for the other to arrive. “Yes sir. I have. As head of the Resurrection division it is my job to investigate the animals of the old Homeworld, and we know from the records that the Flayer was one of closest evolutionary cousins, and it is also my belief that we will find out a lot about the mental powers of us when we resurrect it, as you already know sir” came the deep, almost growling voice of Treeowin. If Growlin didn’t know Treeowin he would have said the Resurrection head was angry, but he always sounded like that. “Well then I have good news for you then. In an effort to stop this monster Thant the Council have authorised the resurrection of one, and only one, Flayer” “Excellent sir, I will get right on it” Treeowin replied emotionlessly, and then he turned and left the room. Growlin frowned somewhat, and his ears twitched slightly, but he then shook his head and returned to his work. He stood and greeted the next of the Research section heads. * * * Treeowin had never really disobeyed orders directly, unless you counted guidelines that said to resurrect anything you needed permission, but they were only guidelines. He walked along and turned towards the least used section of the base upon the moon. He walked briskly towards the area which he had got for his own use. And then he turned into a high security lab. “Anything been happening while I’ve been gone?” he growled to the tech sitting at a bunch of surveillance consoles. “Nope, they’ve been just prowling around in there” the tech replied indicating the massive glass wall that separated the control room from an animal enclosure. Inside a big cat had just walked up to the wall and was looking at it. Treeowin knew it could not see through the glass, which was one way. The cat was big, about the size as a Canthin, only it was on all fours. It had a midnight black pelt. The only real difference between it and a Canthin was the fact that it was on all fours, and thus the leg arrangement was different, and the fact that its head was set more like a sabre tooth tiger’s that any Terran would have recognised. “Well, you can go now anyway. I’ll keep an eye on things here” growled Treeowin. The tech nodded and turned to go, then hesitated, “do you…do you think it was wise to resurrect 4 of them?” he asked his boss. “We know they had a pack structure, so I’ve resurrected a pack. Don’t worry, we are perfectly safe. We are the best lifeform our world ever came up with, after all” The tech didn’t seem all that reassured, but nodded and left. Treeowin turned towards the creatures that the ancients called Flayers. He’d always wondered why they were called Flayers. He found out when he went top feed them. The tech that was coming to see where Treeowin had got to found him, halfway between the 2 doors that opened onto the habitat. He immediately called security who interviewed everyone that was involved in this illicit operation. Of the Flayers there was no trace. The Forensic department of the council determined as far as they could tell that the remains were those of Treeowin, although it was hard; most of the flesh had been eaten and many of the bones had been broken. They were confident that they were still on the base though. That was until news reached them from Truce that there had been series of deaths across all races in one small section of the spaceport. Several of the bodies had been eaten. The others appeared to have just dropped dead upon the spot. A report indicated that an agricultural ship had left port with a cargo of livestock. It appeared to be the most likely ship which the missing predators could have left on. They certainly were not in the Peace system anymore. Now the only question was where the ships had been bound. where will those animals end up? >D Bookmark This
permalink | 0 comments Authorisation VermillionJune 28, 2008by danansan Marrton Farak was an expert computer scientist, and even he had never seen a virus like this. Where Thant had got it, he had no idea. No one had. But he, and a team of thirty of the best computer scientists in the Alliance were working on removing it. And they were close. They had made a perfect anti-virus, and all they had to do was to put it into the computers, and the virus would be gone. Marrton walked towards the main computer console, the chip containing the anti-virus in his hand, the taste of victory in his mouth. "Stop!" Marrton wheeled around. It was a messenger. "We just received this over the phyco-graph." Marrton blinked. The phyco-graph was the telepathic communication system used only for top priority messages. He picked up the piece of paper that the message had been copied onto. He unfolded it. It read: 'All work on Anti-Virus to be ceased. Virus to be allowed to continue work. Messages on lack of progress to be sent to proper authorities. This message will be destroyed, and not mentioned to anyone. Authorisation VERMILLION.' Marrton crumbled the piece of paper. Work had to be ceased. There was no disobeying Authorisation VERMILLION. Asstinis Aqulin of the Allied Psychic corps glanced round the room. The others had obviously received the order too. With a flick of his will, he withdrew the mental probe that had been scouring the galaxy for Thant. Then he began to consider the message he had just received. When it had just started, he had considered that it could have been a ploy from Thant. But how could Thant know about Authorisation VERMILLION? He couldn't. Thus the orders must have been genuine. He couldn't see any sense in them though. But it wasn't his place to question orders. 'It was none of us Psychics place', he thought, looking round the room filled mainly with Wonderlanders (the most Psycicly active Ale-Turan race). After all, you couldn't argue with Authorisation VERMILLION. Reena Freedan looked angrily at the piece of paper that had been presented to her. She was the bloody de facto leader of the entire Alliance. When she asked not to be disturbed, she shouldn't be bloody disturbed. Her deputy was perfectly capable of handling everything that came up. Why he had insisted that she see this she didn't know. She looked at the gibberish orders about giving up the search for Thant, and skipped right to the end. She wanted to see what idiot had sent this stupid phyco-graph. There was no name. There was only 'Authorisation VERMILLION'. Reena sat down heavily at her desk. After a moment she flicked on her computer, and began to send the order. Authorisation VERMILLION. Even she couldn't overrule that. In his hideaway, Thant listend to the mental communication. Then he smiled, and let out one of his crazy laughs. It was good to know that Vermillion was on his side. Bookmark This
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