This is an actual press release that should have been done months ago.
Things are going splendedly! The original encounter with the Nephilim at Kilra ended in a crushign defeat for them, and their encurrsion into the Proxima system was decimated! With the alien stellar acretion device undamaged, COnfederation scientists have been able toexamine it and learn much about artificial jump-gate technology. With new, deadlyer variants on the already top-notch fighters being intigrated into the standard models, and supercarriers
today, the Excalibur is almost universally agreed to be "swiftly growing obsolescent and easily replaceable by a Panther. Or a Vampire. Or even a Shryke. Gods, even the wrench that Rachel Coriellis uses to fix a Wasp has better technology in it than the Excalibur these days." This is not incidental.
Far from the public eye, a group opperates in complete secrecy. Their job is to suss out, identify, and destroy any and all burgening threats to the Terren interest before the public at large even know of their existance. They are very good at this job. Their modicum is stealth, and swift but ruthless precision. It is why they are one of the very few groups which use fighters capable of cloak, as well as, whenever viable, capital ships with cloak.
Though many things have changed about the Lance, their unwavering conviction to their task has not, and neither has their effectiveness to carry out their goal. Formed from the few remnants of the original Lance who did not see eye to eye with Tolwyn and Seether's ideals on a Eutopian society, the new Lance have kept the name of their old organization out of spite, and out of a burning desire to redeme themselves in the eyes of the universe.
However, in the seeds of this re-creation is also contained its distruction. From all over the COnfederation and other forces within the galaxy, discontent is rising; far from the eyes of anyone, overlooked and disregarded for far too long, an armada of soldiers is being groolingly trained, for an eppic invasion that will shake the entire galaxy, and bring their hated enemy, the slow, bloated, bureaucratic, obsolete and near useless Confederation.
We're gearing up for a campaign that has the scope to be absolutely *huge*--but I--we--need people. More marines, technicians, Engineers, turret gunners, communications officers, medical staff, cooks--and especially people to play villains. As of now, the Black Lance HQ meets at 9:30 PM eastern standard time on Saturdays, in the #black-lance room of irc2.beyondirc.net.
Now that you know the story, you should also know that the RPG itself has a reward system as the more your character attends sessions they get points toward their rank. This game is also largely about character to character interactions. Flying and Marine battles can take place over several weeks and makes playing that much more fun.
For CZers who like posting the BLHQ uses a chat board for character diaries and casual in and out of character interaction in they days leading up to the next session, this enhances the ability for playing out a story more smoothly or allowing someone who missed a session to catch up on what has taken place.
Earthworm Gms for us and if you'd like to join up, just drop by our room and we'll get you started.#black-lance room of irc2.beyondirc.net.
Many Thanks to ChrisReid for his tireless effort to get us to finally make this announcement.
-Rance-
