Two day bump. I've had a couple people express interest in-game, and at least two sign up at our website, but we're going to be actively looking for role-players who are interested in developing not only active storylines, but a vibrant and active supergroup.
And don't take the limitation above as absolute. While we're interested in interdimensional and extraterrestrial heroes, there have to be some from Primal Earth (or who have been in Primal Earth for a while) in order to get things started. We'd be happy for you to be part of that, as well, not to mention the Zodiac Division. Ultimately, the goal is to become large enough to have regular teaming, constant RP, and intertwining stories flowing all the time.
There's no need to run in a specific supergroup look - unless you're Zodiac Division, of course, which is para-military - and we have a huge base and tons of prestige to fill it up already, so we're not worried about whether you run in SG mode or not. We have an active Ventrilo channel that can, right now, hold 20 members. We're more than willing to pump that up to higher numbers if it becomes necessary.
Send me a PM here, sign up for our boards, or find me in-game as @Hero Prime!
Where do we go from here?
A little over one week later, and Tangent is up to six members. In other words, we're growing, but very slowly. Still, that's fine, as it affords us the opportunity to get to know individual members of the group and lets us all integrate our stories better.
Also, we're starting weekly Task Forces next Monday night, and are looking at setting up our own wiki.
Where do we go from here?
It's been a couple weeks, but I figured I would update this. We're up to 12 unique members, most of whom log on their Tangent characters at least a little each day. We're doing Task Forces on Monday night, starting with the low end and working to the high end. This week we'll be doing Synapse's TF. There's metaplot forming - its in its conceptual stages now - and RP going on at least a couple nights a week. As we get more players signing up, there will be more of everything, of course.
Where do we go from here?
We're up to about 15 individual members, though not many are people's mains, so there aren't always as many people on as there could be. Still, there are nights when we have six or seven on - mostly during prime time for the US (E/C/M/P time zones) - and a storyline is starting to form up.
We're also looking for coalitions with other Heroic RP groups out there, so hit me up here, in-game as @Hero Prime, or on our website at www.tangentstation.com!
Where do we go from here?
((The basic recruitment info in this thread is also in the Supergroup Directory, but I thought it might be fun to do a couple paragraphs of introduction during a lull in the workday.))
Mike floated, his eyes shut, basking in the silence of the nothingness surrounding him. Its good to get away, he thought. Good to have time to relax, to regroup, and reflect. And sometimes its good not to have to be Hero Prime, to just be Mike Mars. Besides, space was one of the few places he could find absolute silence.
The last two years were a maelstrom of activity. After the Zenvious Foundation closed its doors, Mike spent a little time on his own, contracting out as an engineer, working for medical giants like Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic. After six months, Vanguard came knocking, seeking to recruit his help. The Rikti were making in-roads in more places than just Paragon City, it seemed, and Vanguard was building a task force designed to strike where the Rikti Restructurists gained footholds. The job had taken Mike all over the globe and even into other dimensions and while he was disinclined to fight unless it became absolutely necessary, somehow fighting the Rikti, those who sought to reform other worlds to the likeness of their own, made sense. His connection to the Rikti was more than tenuous, of course. The Iradu a religious sect of the Rikti from a far-flung future who revered science as a god travelled fourteen hundred years back in time in order to abduct him. They took him right from his mother's womb, intending to turn him into a planet-busting super-weapon. It was only thanks to the intervention of Sidney Savant that Mike was left untainted by the Iradus brainwashing techniques. It was also Savant who helped Mike escape and return to the 21st Century.
Sometimes things just change, Mike mused. Vanguard was a good place for him, but after working under Mr. Zen for so long, he knew there was more he could do. The Zenvious Foundation existed to use the tools available today to build a better tomorrow. That was the mans mantra that tomorrow could be better, and those with power had a responsibility to make it so, for everyone. Mike believed the same, and it was that belief that eventually pulled him from Vanguard. With a loan from a rather trusting venture capitalist and a newfound cause, he started building Tangent Station, a space station in low geosynchronous orbit around Earth, a mere one hundred fifteen miles from sea level. Still, the station was empty. He had yet to get all systems up and running, and completing the interior work was a job for a whole construction crew being done by one man.
But the station was empty in more ways than one. Tangent Station was the central hub of Tangent, a group he intended to be a home for wayward interdimensional and extraterrestrial heroes willing to bring their abilities to bear for the good of Primal Earth and beyond. Heroes like Lexi Lucus - known as Fiera Arcane - the woman who barely escaped the devastation of Arcane Earth only to become a rising star in Paragon City. So far, there had been little interest shown, but Mike remembered how long it took the Foundation to get off the ground, and wasnt worried. Especially with the recent influx of resistance fighters from Praetoria; he could only imagine many of them would need a safe haven from which to continue their work, both on Primal Earth and their home dimension. More would come from all sorts of worlds, driven by exile or persecution, fleeing a dying world or simply exploring.
Michael. Martins voice rang through his ear bud. Frak. Forgot to turn off my comm.
Yeah, Martin?
Lexi claims to have found a next of Iradu in Paragon City, and thought you might be interested in assisting in her efforts to remove them.
Mike opened his eyes and looked down. The whole Earth spun beneath him like a huge marbled ball. This was his world, the world he swore to protect. Tell her Ill be right down.
It was time to be Hero Prime.
Name: Tangent
Currently Recruiting: Tangent is a brand new supergroup and is looking to bring in members interested in great storytelling.
RP Level: We are a Roleplaying Intensive group intending on creating and maintaining multiple storylines. We have a private OOC channel - Tangent HQ - but expect the Supergroup channel to remain in-character.
PvP Level: There is no PvP focus with Tangent, though we may dip our collective toe in from time to time.
Theme/Concept: Tangent exists to serve as a pseudo-family for wayward interdimensional and extraterrestrial heroes. It is a safe haven and a launching point from which heroes of other dimensions and worlds who have come to Primal Earth because of persecution, exile, exploration, or planetary destruction can do their work. It's focus is very much heroic, which cannot be stressed enough. The group is less interested in avenging angels and more willing to take on good samaritans.
Activity: As we are brand new, we very few members. I cannot stress this enough: we're small. This space will be edited as that number changes.
Requirements for Membership: We're pretty relaxed on membership guidelines. Generally, we ask that you sign up on our website (listed at the bottom of this page). We have a formal application process, but we're not worried about it so much until the ranks fill out a bit. Feel free to talk with a member of our leadership in-game. If you seem like a good fit for Tangent, and we seem like a good fit for you, we'd be more than happy to have you.
Leadership: Hero Prime and Fiera Arcane
In-Game Contact(s): @Hero Prime and @Fiera Arcane
Out-of-Game Contact(s): CoH Virtue Handle: Hero Prime. You can also reach me at the Tangent website.
URL: www.tangentstation.com
Coalitions: Current coalitions include M.E.R.C., The Invictus Foundation, and Novus Legatio.
Other Details: We have a pretty big base which is currently unfinished but coming together slowly. Porters to all zones are available, as is a medical facility. We also run a Ventrilo server for our members.
Of Special Note: The Telestrial League is former U.S. Military project whose funding was cut when the current trend of decreased spending came into vogue. Telestrial members are human-form only Peacebringers. The basic concept is that, like the Council's Galaxy soldiers, raw Peacebringer essence can be bonded to humans making, in essence, Peacebringers who lack shapeshifting capability or the merged persona of a human and Kheldian. Tangent Station, backed by Zen Financial, recently hired former Major Adrian Vantage (a.k.a. Major Advantage) to lead the Telestrial League as a part of Tangent known as Zodiac Division.