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Colonial War! - Ashes of Eden (Open FT OOC)

Southfar
11-03-2008, 20:44
Well, first of all, hi there, thanks for dropping by to read my thread!

I have appeared in various incarnations on NS, participating in various RPs in various roles and forms. I think that I now have grasped the basic principles of how setting up an RP works, and thus, I would like to launch my first one. As I said, this will be the first RP I'm starting, so please spare me if you think my setting is stupid, rules are ill-defined etc etc... Constructive criticism is always welcome though!

Okies, so anyways, let's get to the part of interest to all of you who cared to drop by:

The RP will take place on the planet Eden-4, a colony of humanity. The colonists are refugees, which fled Earth for various reasons ranging from being simple criminals to wanting to establish a religious community outside Earth's sphere of power. Several decades prior to the start of the RP, the planet underwent a large-scale terraforming project in the wake of which the colonists discovered a large underground facility the origin of which could not be confirmed. However, it was accidentally activated and had the apparent function of generating a field on the planet which "thinned" reality, effectively giving every consciousness within the field the ability to modify reality, though on a very limited scale, depending upon the mental capacity and training of the respective individual. The government of Earth was very interested in the facility and attempted to retrieve it. One way or the other, war ensues between Earth and Eden-4, and Earth, being lightyears away, luckily doesn't bring in its whole military power, but instead relies on a force of robots - which, being non-conscious, cannot use psionic abilities on the planet - and mercenaries from two nearby colonies, the highly capitalist Magera colony, which uses trickery and WMDs, and the Cormera colony, which is based on a medieval concept of honour and warrior culture, but a very FT concept of weaponry. The war goes on for awhile, but finally, the Edenites win against their opponents. The Cormerans die with honour, but the Magerans, being forced to retreat, pull one last dirty trick: With the last Mageran division leaving the orbit of Eden-4, a delayed-action Full-Spectrum Bomb detonates on the wartorn continent of Southfar (my nation's name...), the population center of the planet. This weapon overloads the entire EM spectrum, causing the death of millions of colonists and turning the green continent into a desert. It also has the long-term effect of disrupting the planet's central government and disabling wireless communication on the planet for the coming decades due to radation lingering in the upper atmosphere. The weapon was originally designed to destroy the psionic field, but that is apparently what it did not do, because people retained their psionic powers on the planet. However, with its technological center collapsed, no government, many production facilities destroyed and no effective means of communication, the remaining colonists organized themselves in different groups, then nations. Communications, at least on the planet, were restored by 20th century-like wire-based communication systems and trained telepaths. However, the nations, once divided, distrustful of one another and are unlikely to be united again the near future.
Now, a more worrying effect kicks in: the male population of the planet is rapidly declining. Scientists have found that this is caused by the rapid deterioration of the Y chromosome, caused by the radiation load on the planet.
Amongst this chaos stands the organization SERAPH (no, this doesn't stand for anything, I just though caps look kinda kewl on this...), which, founded by Angela, a mysterious female super-psionic during the chaotic days after the bomb had devastated the planet, has retained most of the pre-war technology, including powered exoskeletons that are powered by their wearer's psionic powers. These exoskeletons, called Angel Suits, allow superhuman feats, such as flying, if piloted by a strong telepath.
SERAPH has two goals:
1) Find a way to stop the threatening extinction of Eden's inhabitants. The organization goes at length, not excluding cruel human experimentation, to find a cure.
2) Reunite the shattered nations of the planet to form one peaceful community like before the war.

Meanwhile, the Republic of Germanistan, one of the nations, goes on what appears to be a land grab, making use of its superior military power against its neighbours, weakened by the reduction in the male populace. Germanistan has retained a high male percentage because its Chancellor has allowed a group of Cormeran soldiers, who had crashed in the area at the end of the war, to live - in exchange for their military service.

In rapid succession, the nations of Java, Romera and, at the very beginning of the RP, Litovia, fall to the juggernaught. The reasons for Germanistan's sudden aggression, however, are far more complex than simply desire for power and resources - in a way, the Republic attempts to save Eden-4's population - they're just doing it in a totally different way to SERAPH.


Phew, pretty long text, sorry for boring thee...
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Ok, so this is were you kick in: the setting offers plenty of characters to be made. Howabout a Romeran resistance fighter. Romera is a jungle nation, something like Columbia in RL, and a rebel girl with kewl army clothing, dressed in ammo belts from her hips upwards and an RPG or HMG strapped on her back, wouldn't that be sexy :)? Or you can make a SERAPH Knight with his Angel Suit, trying to combat the Germanistan army on locations all over the globe. Or a gifted telepath advancing through the ranks of the Germanistan army, ultimately becoming a fighter ranked high enough to be pittched against any of the previous two in a one-on-one battle. And, and, and...

As for the tech level, although it is FT, please do not use outlandish technology - it should be more like a future alternate tech, not extreme science fiction. You may use androids, but non-humanoid robots are generally preferred. Also, the humans on Eden-4 have lost large parts of their spacefaring technology during the war, thus, all spaceships that can travel beyond orbital ranges are likely relics from before the war or are government projects that require the funding of a whole nation to be constructed.

What's more is the use of psionics. Not everybody on the planet will go heck crazy and lift up trees and houses with willpower and smack them at his or her enemies, nor will they go around and say: Hey, mate, I just read in your mind that your're reading my mind! And the other one goes like: Yeah, I know that you read it, I just read so in yours, so no need to tell me!
No, that's not the idea! The idea of the psionic powers is to enable something like magic in an FT setting, and, like magic, characters with this trait require training and are restricted to a certain set of feats. Though you can become a master telepath, this will require years of training or very good genes...

Also, I would like to make this more a space opera than a science fiction story, so please keep the supply of alien species sparse. Massive amounts of alien technology and influx would perhaps upset the delicate balance of atmosphere I'm trying to create here...

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You could read a more complete concept of the planet Eden-4 on NSwiki, unfortunately, the site appears to be totally down by now, so you have to make do with my post, sorrysorry...

MAP SOON TO COME!
Southfar
11-03-2008, 21:26
Thank you for joining my RP, people!:)
The Shin Ra Corp
11-03-2008, 21:49
Don't worry, man! Nobody ever joins my RPs, at least that I can be sure of. You'll get used to it over time. But, who knows, this is up for some minutes only and has only got 8 views, maybe somebody will join in if you wait a while... so, good luck ;).
Gothicbob
11-03-2008, 22:01
if your happy with a n00b playing i give it a go!
Southfar
11-03-2008, 22:44
Of course, you are very welcome to participate. Please, create your character. And because you're the first to join, you may even create a national leader as character! Please use the following template as basis:


Name (you can be inventive her, but I personally prefer non-fantasy names (names like Ragnar the Readbeard definitely belong into a medieval/pirate-themed RP, not FT) and please keep lovecraftian letter mix in short supply)
Age (up to you, but please consider the character's role when setting the age)
Gender (the Y collapse puts men in short supply on Eden-4)
Personality (a general guideline to how your character behaves and reactsm, this should keep your characters from becoming to identical in their behaviour patterns when you're RPing multiple characters at the same time)
Appearance (that's like: size, body type, hair color, eye color, etc etc etc)
Background story (this is very, very important: where does your character come from? What drives him/her to her/his actions? What is his or her social position?)
Gothicbob
12-03-2008, 11:08
Name Geon Pid
Age (19)
Gender (female)
Personality (very cold but when she lose her temper it explosive and intelligent, has no problem causing the death of men, women or children, hates all people from Germanistan, very loyal to those few she consider family)
Appearance (Average but young looking. Her Appearance change often, it known that her natural eye colour is blue, but often uses contacts to change them she know how to change her appearance)
Background story Geon grew up in the slums of java, after her parent were kill in the earth-eden war when she was 6. On the street she learnt quickly that many were stronger then her and many faster but none were as silent and deadly. She was very non-script looking any way and she soon discovered that she could force people attention away from her effective become invisible at will to living people (but not to machines). She quickly rose to the top of the gangs that invested the slums. By the age of 13, in spite of her tender years she was one of the most feared in the slums partly due to protection ratchets and drug dealing and partly due to assassinating
the leader of the javaen Mathia. Cos of this the goverment sent in a 12 man team to capture her, she killed all but 2 before she was to wounded to fight. In capacitivity they learn that she had massive psionic potential, to much to waste on death row so they move her to a new falicity to teach her how to use to them. For the next 2 years she lived a happy and contented life and saw the other psionic as family, and though she never completely got got over her mental block, she has learnt how to stop her mind being read and to send simple messages to another within eyesight. When she was 15 Germanistan invade, and many of her "family" went to fight the invaders. saddly the Invaders were to powerfull and wiped out almost all her new family. One of her trainers, a man called Leon, (who she saw as a father) came back heaverly wound to help geon and a few other of the trainee to excaspe, though he died after they had gained there freedom. Geon swore an oath to avenge his death on the Germanistan invades. She moved back into the slum and now leads the resistence movement within all java. She is now loved within all Java and has cause the death of most who have came to rule Java in Germanistan name, often using her underdeveloped powers to assassinate them herself. She has made links in with SERAPH but has kept them quite as many javaen's disagree with the humans experiments they do, though Geon has no probs with this herself. She is currently trying to get in contact with the new litvean resistance movement to offer aid and to co-ordinate operation


is this o.k? could you send me a link to the wiki page as i can't seem to find it, i will edit if needed after thanks.
this is also my first r.p so any info on how often i need to be on, rule etc if poss be nice :)
Southfar
12-03-2008, 19:57
Name Geon Pid
Age (19)
Gender (female)
Personality (very cold but when she lose her temper it explosive and intelligent, has no problem causing the death of men, women or children, hates all people from Germanistan, very loyal to those few she consider family)
Appearance (Average but young looking. Her Appearance change often, it known that her natural eye colour is blue, but often uses contacts to change them she know how to change her appearance)
Background story Geon grew up in the slums of java, after her parent were kill in the earth-eden war when she was 6. On the street she learnt quickly that many were stronger then her and many faster but none were as silent and deadly. She was very non-script looking any way and she soon discovered that she could force people attention away from her effective become invisible at will to living people (but not to machines). She quickly rose to the top of the gangs that invested the slums. By the age of 13, in spite of her tender years she was one of the most feared in the slums partly due to protection ratchets and drug dealing and partly due to assassinating
the leader of the javaen Mathia. Cos of this the goverment sent in a 12 man team to capture her, she killed all but 2 before she was to wounded to fight. In capacitivity they learn that she had massive psionic potential, to much to waste on death row so they move her to a new falicity to teach her how to use to them. For the next 2 years she lived a happy and contented life and saw the other psionic as family, and though she never completely got got over her mental block, she has learnt how to stop her mind being read and to send simple messages to another within eyesight. When she was 15 Germanistan invade, and many of her "family" went to fight the invaders. saddly the Invaders were to powerfull and wiped out almost all her new family. One of her trainers, a man called Leon, (who she saw as a father) came back heaverly wound to help geon and a few other of the trainee to excaspe, though he died after they had gained there freedom. Geon swore an oath to avenge his death on the Germanistan invades. She moved back into the slum and now leads the resistence movement within all java. She is now loved within all Java and has cause the death of most who have came to rule Java in Germanistan name, often using her underdeveloped powers to assassinate them herself. She has made links in with SERAPH but has kept them quite as many javaen's disagree with the humans experiments they do, though Geon has no probs with this herself. She is currently trying to get in contact with the new litvean resistance movement to offer aid and to co-ordinate operation


is this o.k? could you send me a link to the wiki page as i can't seem to find it, i will edit if needed after thanks.
this is also my first r.p so any info on how often i need to be on, rule etc if poss be nice :)

That this very VERY much o.k.! This is a very extensive and talented character design. As for the wiki page, I'm currently transferring the data from the NSwiki database to the wiki of my nation's region, which I have permission to use. Once the transfer of data is completed, I will post the link here. As for how often you need to be online, this depends totally on what you want to achieve with your character. Being online once a day is just perfect, but nobody will be mad if Geon only makes a move once a week. Just, of course, the rest of the world won't necessarily stop during your absence.

Let's hope some more players join this!
Gothicbob
12-03-2008, 23:28
cool was planing being on at least once a day and sometimes more! yea for the greatness! join people!
Southfar
13-03-2008, 21:24
Yeah, well, I don't think anybody else will join this, so you really need not loo into the thread anymore. This is on ice for now, but if something happens, I'll contact you (I presume Gothicbob is also your nation's name?)

Oh, and before I forget it:

*bump*;)
Gothicbob
13-03-2008, 21:35
cool let us know< thank man
RevTerr
14-03-2008, 15:04
I'm interested, I'm working at a Eden-4 version of my nation. I wait for your map.
If I may, wait but don't wait too long with this RP. Rather, take those willing to play and start something. A map would be good, at least to establish some borders (as much as those apply) and some badlands. Then, lacking other players, we can stage something using out-of-control mutants or something. Speaking of which, since your nation is "ground 0" of that em blast, what's down there now? And how long after the blast is "now"?
Gothicbob
14-03-2008, 15:37
i be up for that, it give me a change to learn what i doing, (let us know if i power game or anything i try to avoid.)
Kewen
14-03-2008, 19:32
hey if you'all accept another noob i aam in what do i need to do ?
Gothicbob
14-03-2008, 19:52
Name (you can be inventive her, but I personally prefer non-fantasy names (names like Ragnar the Readbeard definitely belong into a medieval/pirate-themed RP, not FT) and please keep lovecraftian letter mix in short supply)
Age (up to you, but please consider the character's role when setting the age)
Gender (the Y collapse puts men in short supply on Eden-4)
Personality (a general guideline to how your character behaves and reactsm, this should keep your characters from becoming to identical in their behaviour patterns when you're RPing multiple characters at the same time)
Appearance (that's like: size, body type, hair color, eye color, etc etc etc)
Background story (this is very, very important: where does your character come from? What drives him/her to her/his actions? What is his or her social position?)

hey if you'all accept another noob i aam in what do i need to do ?

Just fill out the form for now and we start soon (i hope)
Kewen
14-03-2008, 20:04
Name : alexia agreia
Age : 26
Gender : Female

Personality : a King generous person who strives to help others when possilbe but when wronged she will seek out revenge and or retrobution usually mildtempered but can be volotile.Loyal if paid the right amount.

Appearance : the apperance of a young libarian looks very interlectual and frail wears glasses but not for eye sight.(min veiw screens for info !), eye colour light green hair colour brownish black.

Background story : Alexia agreia grew up in Germanistan when she reached consricpition age she and many of her friends were consricpted into the Germanistan army. She took part in Germanistan's land grab and witnessed many atrocities she fled the Germanistan army and became a freelancer usuing her military skills to earn a living. Due in part to what she witnessed in the war Alexia has no shock to violence and wont hesitate to use it she will try to aviod violence if nessesary
Regular squirrels
14-03-2008, 22:52
if the other one I signed up for isn't going soon (like by tomarrow) could I still join this one? Is the below acceptable? or too steriotypical? (I am new, yes)

Name: (known only as) Scrawney
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Personality: Primal. Intelligent, but uneducated. not much he doesn't
notice. very good with animals.
Appearance: Rough, Faded red, well-used T-shirt, with khaki cargo
shorts, and brown tennis shoes. has short, brown,
extremely curly hair. old-style contacts
height: 5' 11"
weight:115 lbs.
Backround: Raised in the wild forests of Eden-4 by his mother until she
was taken by the forest. He continued to survive,
scavenging until he found tools to hunt with. (spear) He
has wandered out of the forests into civilization for the
first time in his life. must now find new way of life, and
survive in this different kind of jungle.
Gothicbob
14-03-2008, 23:24
dang that a cool background and i now know i may have put to much (badly written) background into my character
Regular squirrels
15-03-2008, 18:31
I can't find it on the wiki!
Southfar
16-03-2008, 21:08
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x85/MoonShadow_09/NewEden_map1.jpg

This is the map I've been drawing all along. I know, it's quite messy, if you cannot get along with it, please tell me so and I will try to make a less sloppy one. It may anyway be partially overriden by later versions. There is also a larger, more detailed version with explanations here (http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/nationstates_region_-_sudeki/blast_from_the_past?t), which you would have to copy to your computer for zoom, or you might want to take a look here (http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x85/MoonShadow_09/NewEden_map.jpg). Anyways, here are some explanations:

Red-dotted territory: Romera
Blue-dotted territory: Java
Green-dotted territory: Germanistan
Purple-dotted territory: Nova Roma
Brown-dotted territory: Checkistan
Orange-dotted territory: Southfar (irradiated ruins)
Single yellow dot (peninsula north of Germanistan): Dukedom of Litovia

Everything labeled "???" is unexplored wasteland...

Seperate, more detailed maps for certain regions of this map are still to come, complete with landmarks, railroads, train tracks, terrain, cities, etc etc
Gothicbob
18-03-2008, 15:32
Just thought i add to my characters her history and psionic power of invisabliblty

History:
The crime boss she killed was called Bedard "the plague" Ducain. She is sometime called "the cleric" by criminal element due to this. She killed him after he move into her teroutiry and started killing the local kid known to be working for her. Bedard crime synthic was call " The golden fist". They have a peace with Geon but some still hold a grudge to this day. She control the resistance though it leader, who she will appear to give instruction and disappear again, she brooks no infighting and will punish any that do. (If it any help i see her running the resistance similar to the thifs guild in Raymond E Feist riftwar)

Psionic Power.
Her power to force attention away from her is all or nothing, she can't exclude anyone from it. If anyone has any psionic power and they can form a block from all mental invastion (so cut themself off from using there own psionic powers) they can block this ability. The attention block inclues any soft sounds she make but with be broken Temopary by any load noises she makes . The attention work by making people dismiss her or explan away what they see, E.g if they hear her breathing they think the inmagicing it, due to this she may gently touch people but if she attack them they will break the attention force. To regain the invisabilty she mere has to get out of eyesight

This o.k? Trying to keep her from being overpowered but want her to be cool:cool:
Regular squirrels
19-03-2008, 01:11
two questions.

how many people are supposed to join?
when will this start?
RevTerr
19-03-2008, 10:44
Who's gonna control the nations?
Southfar
19-03-2008, 21:03
two questions.

how many people are supposed to join?
when will this start?



I'd say we're sufficient? Wouldn't you say?
Now.


Who's gonna control the nations?

Well, the nations are just "placeholders" - you may take any of the marked territories, and also territory in the "unexplored wilderness" (...which would however have a downside: it would force me to expand upon the map...). As for Southfar - I'm controlling it. The rest is up to you people, but I have concepts for the local geography of each territory:

Romeran territory - Dominated by rainforests, something like 1930's / 40's Brazil
Java territory - Island state, like, say, Hawaii or something in the Carribean.
Germanistan territory - Continental climate. Large plains dominated by wheat fields. No significant natural resources. Some fortified cities.
Checkistan territory - Actic climate. Coal and iron mining.
Nova Roma territory - Mediterranean climate. Dominated by green meadows. City-state.

You must forgive me for using these preset nation names as placeholders, but this is basically a modified version of a regional map I created for a region I was in a long time ago.
Regular squirrels
19-03-2008, 22:58
Do we get starter story or just run into the fray?
RevTerr
20-03-2008, 13:46
I'll take Germanistan. I have something in mind for it...
Southfar, you have a telegram.
Gothicbob
23-03-2008, 18:02
when we starting?

post a link to other thread if it up elsewhere
Kewen
24-03-2008, 10:43
posting a link would be helpful and i'll take the Java islands if noones wants it
Gothicbob
24-03-2008, 19:23
posting a link would be helpful and i'll take the Java islands if noones wants it

Sorry i head of the javaein resistance so could i have them?
Kewen
24-03-2008, 20:36
ok then could i have the empy space top left of the map seems to be clear
Gothicbob
29-03-2008, 16:57
can i safely say this aint ever going to happen?
Kewen
30-03-2008, 11:40
going to have to agree with bob i think this has died :upyours: err i mean :mad:
RevTerr
30-03-2008, 21:29
In 24 hours I'll post my version of Germanistan history. Bear in mind, though, that we'll be playing by Southfar's original postings and map, so claiming to be the leaders of Java, Romera and Litovia is not quite possible. Germanistan has them. You could, however, mount a resistance movement in any of this country. Actually, anyone of you could mount a resistance movement in the same country (I see no reason for two of you to lead different resistance movement in Java, for instance). There will be plenty of Germanistan soldiers to kill.
I'll ask for you to wait for this day, see what I have in mind, and then figure out whether you want to continue or not.
No, I haven't heard anything from Southfar either. But I would hate to see this die without even trying.
(I have the Germanistan part written; I need these 24 hours to get back to the computer where the story is stored)
Gothicbob
31-03-2008, 13:23
cool, i want to play resistance anyway, though be warn this is my first roleplay so be kind if i play baddly and teach me your L33t skills.
RevTerr
31-03-2008, 18:51
I started the IC thread here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13570695&posted=1#post13570695)

So, basically, this is it. I’ll play Germanistan. Since I already see people interested (hi, Gothicbob!) I'll evolve the story tomorrow.

I didn't create this thread, so I'll give credit to Southfar. He's original first post (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13518860&postcount=1), and his replies will become the thing we will use when creating the stories. Relate to that, rather than my postings, to create your RPes (yes, you can have multiple characters)

Those who want to exercise their fighting RP capability, feel free to get in, be “the leader” of one/two/... factions/rebel movements, whatever. There will be plenty of germanistan born-on-Eden4 soldiers to kill, although you won’t get to kill Cormeran soldiers that easy.
I’ll try to blend each one of you into the story-line, although, the whole idea was for you (well, us) to use the setting and play our own stories.
So, if you want to take part, make your story, chose your role, etc. I'm available via TG for posting. I'm assuming, since most of you want to be resistance of some sort, you'll want to RP my men dying.

For now, let's live the Southfar continent alone, maybe he's sick/busy/something and he'll want to come back.
Gothicbob
01-04-2008, 16:28
good opening, will get my first post in soon.
Gothicbob
02-04-2008, 17:28
oh write more but computer playing up, hope what little i got o.k
The Shin Ra Corp
05-04-2008, 01:19
I think I have now contacted everyone involved in this. Well, I'm in now, though I have to get myself familiar with the "storyboard".

I was also supposed to post you this:

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x85/MoonShadow_09/Kesselring_sample.png

It's some concept art South made for the RP. It's a Germanistani general (named Kesserling or sumthin'). This can also give you impression of Germanistani military uniforms...
Regular squirrels
05-04-2008, 03:47
. . . I thought this truly had died...if it goes i'll still join.
The Shin Ra Corp
06-04-2008, 10:21
Sure. You're welcome. Make yourself a character and head over to the IC thread.
RevTerr
07-04-2008, 18:52
what happened with the germanistan army, and who's behind, is your knowledge, not your characters. For everyone IC, the Germanistan army is just... bad, ugly, on a land grab.