General Bulletins

[Roger Davis]

Alright, to clarify for those who have missed parts of the RP, are new members, or simply haven't been following, at the present time it is not common knowledge that Cylons can look like humans. People do not know about skinjobs, they do not know Admiral Castle was a skinjob, etc. The higher ups of course do know.

People who know:
Senior Military (Sidney, Kielen, Roger, soon to be James, Merrick)
Those Military that had a hand in the operation or work the inner most detention areas (Lycurgus, Diaz, a handful of other NPC marines)
Select scientists (Nicolai)
The Quorum and high government (Azura, Clare, Toby, Marcus, Joseph, Alexis, Cammy, Clint)


People who have good reason to be suspicious:
Marines that encountered (and killed) one of the Kyles on Aquaria (Aaron, Lars, Ollie)
Anyone in the party that went out looking for skinjobs (Lars, Tomas, Sam)

People who do not know:
Everyone else. That includes Caprica Resistance. They never ran into any skinjobs (as far as they knew) before leaving.

[Roger Davis]

A quick addendum to this:

Regarding the upcoming mission to Caprica. If your character was not in the planning mission nor has your character been specifically told by someone who was then that character doesn't know about it. Everybody does know that something is being planned and they are training for something which is most definitely another Colony offensive. It is still, however, a guarded operational secret (i.e. people who were there shouldn't go blabbing about it).

A huge part of the plan is surprise and misdirection. Even the very basic knowledge that the target is Caprica and they are attacking on such and such day is enough to ruin the plan. Such things would be kept secret until the last minute anyway, but even more so now that there are Cylon skinjobs within the Fleet.

[Roger Davis]

Cylon Characters
Any player who wants one of their characters to be a Cylon must first clear it with the Staff. You may do this by:
1) Making a profile like Samael Morgan in which it is public knowledge to the membership.
2) Make a profile without mentioning that the character is to be a Cylon while simultaneously PMing the staff. This will result in a hidden skinjob.
3) Send a PM to staff to request one of your existing characters be approved as a hidden skinjob.

Yes, that means it is impossible to have a completely secret Cylon because the staff will know. That's how the application process works, sorry.



Plot Lines
If any player has an idea for a plotline or minor sub-plot then like Cylons, it must be approved by Staff first. We're friendly, we don't bite, and we're willing to work with you. Just PM or chat with one of us about it before it gets rolling.


I say all this because although we want people to have freedom to RP, we don't want chaos and conflicting threads. For example, who remembers Good Hunting? In that thread, the Hyperion ran into a Cylon Basestar out of nowhere, quite a big deal. It also had a nugget on his second day of training put on CAP.

Generally if there is going to be any shooting, you should probably clear it first. That is of course unless this thread mentions otherwise. For example, Viper pilots might be authorized to have minor engagements while on CAP if our current plot is that we are experiencing such harassment.

[James Clark]

Would it be a good idea that maybe only staff members can instigate Cylon attacks on the fleet?

[Roger Davis]

Mar 15, 2013 22:56:43 GMT -5 James Clark said:

Would it be a good idea that maybe only staff members can instigate Cylon attacks on the fleet?

Generally, yes, I'd prefer if only staff would do it, but so long as it is not a relatively minor altercation (e.g. two raiders) then so long as the staff knows it is happening and okays the one thread then I see no reason to completely disallow it.