The Rebel Faction

Anyone remember the old Rebellion attempt [url="http://therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?p=151741#post151741"]A[/url] [url="http://therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?p=151741#post151741"]Rough Road Leads to the Stars?[/url]


The general idea was to snag an organized group of mon Calamari and ride away in Home One to run off and form a Rebellion, but we never got that far.


Would like to seek approval to completely delete that threat and re-write it from scratch. Would still be taking an organized Calamari group and Home One, but with storyline and characters updated to suit a new version of the Alliance...

I didn't even know Home One was still around...

What is it with everyone and Rebellions?

They aren't rebelling against anyone

Pronunciation: \ri-ˈbel-yən\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century

1 : opposition to one in authority or dominance
2 a : open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government b : an instance of such defiance or resistance.

Source: Mirriam-Webster


That's why we assume your intent is to rebel against someone or something (a person, an ideal, etc) as the implication, when one identifies ones self as a rebel or part of a rebellion, is that you understand the definition of the word. Otherwise you're not really a rebel or part of a rebellion; you're just confused.

So if these characters are not rebelling against anyone, or anything, and they're making off with Home One, wouldn't they just be thieves? Grand Theft Spaceship.

Furthermore, I'm not sure I understand the context...

As I understand it you want to go back and basically retcon the events of an old, unfinished thread and the outcome of that thread would a.) take place in the past and b.) leave some undefined group of Mon Calamari in possession of Home One?

If so, would it be your intention to employ Home One in subsequent and recent threads? Because if so, depending on the gulf between completing the aforementioned thread and the present, I have doubts that such a ship would have survived long considering.

Or is it your intention to re-write and complete the story presently (as in; current with the TRF post-Cataclysm time line) and come away with Home One? I would have questions if that is your intent, such as; how could Home One possibly have survived this long at Mon Calamari given how often that planet has changed hands, been fought over, or otherwise a central location in numerous threads?

I guess, Leia, that (speaking for myself) I just don't quite understand what it is you want to do well enough to throw my vote your way. Correct me where I am mistaken?

Also, I'm not trying to be the usual prick that I am... since you asked, I'm just trying to understand.

lol... Well, I admit that I was being prickish with my question. As you've probably read, I have poked fun at the semantic distinction (the official title of your group is the Alliance to Restore the Republic but you've also been called the Rebellion and I am not sure why because, as you say, you aren't rebelling against anything that I could ever see) that Beff outlined in the post above. Admittedly, I don't think the group finished telling us what they were about.

As for Home One, I am not going to nitpik and say you can't use it. As long as your write a plausible enough acquisition. Remember, the Dragon Imperium blew away orbital facilities and such when they attacked Mon Cal and had the planet enveloped in their Omega Cloud. If the ship was floating in a museum around a moon and it had working engines, then conceivably it would have been used as a ferry for the general evacuation of the world. So, if you find the ship around a moon mothballed in a museum, it very likely would be the shell of the ship with it's military armaments stripped and engine-less..you see?

Or, you may come up with a simpler explanation but you get the picture. Perhaps the formation of the Alliance predated the Dragon attack.. I am not sure off the top of my head.

With regards to rewriting your thread, are you saying that at several pages, your thread is not salvageable? Can't you write taking Home One in that thread still?

If you are just writing an origins thread, where your character meets Marin Faulkner and takes Home One and forms the basis for your Alliance, fine. Couldn't that origin rp be set prior to the rp you want to change? You could add a line or two in a post in that rp referencing an earlier time or earlier adventure where you met Faulkner and his band of merry men and now, this new origin rp is the story of that meeting?

You see what I am getting at?

What we are not going to allow you to do is rewrite your rp by moving the time period of the formation of this Alliance up... such as you rewriting the formation of the Alliance has happening during Cataclysm or something like that because then you interfere with Faulkner's work in planet takeovers and Bandor's work with Inferno Fleet and all the Alliance elements that happen after your formation.

If that is what you want to do, then you should really start a new group.

You know, I missed my chance to have the Reavers infect Admiral Ackbar in his nursing home. Having a zombie Ackbar start chomping his fishy lips into the shoulders of Alliance personnel would have been awesome!