Academia

[PliantReality]

Well, as I conceive it now this scientific community would probably have to aspects to it.

1) Exploration - Fairly straightforward. Gotta find all those tasty gravitational anomalies and interesting astrogeographic (not a real word) features for...

2) Science stuff - this would be less straightforward. This could be anything from - as Dr. Gregory A. Moore did today - hanging around a well known jumphole theorizing and RPing data collection while spouting off big words to gathering slaves, cardemine, pharmeceuticals, and weapons to RP the unethical testing of drugs on human beings. Seriously. Grab bag, go nuts (as I plan to). Or it could be RPing a good doctor giving medical advice to Liberty Rogues and Liberty Navy alike (another thing Dr. Moore has done.)

The community aspect of factionalizing would be, very simply, having MORE people to do this with. An explorer could tell a scientist where to find a neat jumphole, and then escort him there fore data collection - that's neat RP to me. Or perhaps two scientists co-op to unify their theory of hypercommunication in order to maximize signal strength through jumpgates. Or something else with suitably big words.

Anything I missed?

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