Post by batias on Jan 15, 2012 1:17:32 GMT -5
For those of you wanting to rp with the family tyrants: I am working on this.
Origin: We start this story on the original planet earth. Humanity is at a point in existence where many of the technologies we've dreamed of have been realized. Y'know, the classic point where the difference between technology and magic is no longer discernible. Interstellar travel and terraforming on a large scale is a given.
The idea is that humanity is at its peak, okay? So there is this guy, Hudrick Belena. He wants to make travel between different realities, dimensions, parallel worlds, whatever you like to call it, possible. He decides the best way to do that is to gain complete control of the microscopic world. To enable himself to do so, he gets funding from several sources. One of them being the "family tyrants".
After gaining a good balance of rank A workers and resources, development of the link system cranks into high gear, and a project that would go on for at least twenty more years officially begins. Twenty years or so later, the Link system is currently being debugged and the psyche controls are being programmed to act more fluidly, so that even an idiot could use it. During this however, a worldwide warning is let out. A black hole discharge is reported to appear in the solar system. This threatens to throw dangerous amounts of gamma radiation(?) at planet earth. No amount of deus ex machina can save their life on planet earth.
Thankfully, the gamma (?) has about a week before it reaches and destroys the earth's ability to host life. Those who're willing and able (Which I imagine would be more than half the population of earth) are evacuated. Hudrick and many of his colleagues choose to stay behind. They plan to use their power to save those who were unable to be evacuated, and escape to a parallel world, similar to earth in it's ability to host life.
In order to increase the survival rate of crossover, each participant are given shots that contained nanobots programmed to build the link system in their bodies. This action would help those that formed portals to the other world not to modify the people they were trying to help on accident.
After transporting about a hundred thousand people and goods to the other world, dubbed as Charagin, settlement started. Naturally, as they wouldn't be returning to earth anytime soon. Just a few days after the big transition of things, the "family tyrants" kill Hudrick and anyone closely associated with him. Scientists and people knowledgeable enough to use the link system are either forced to join them or hunted down and killed. The world is now basically under the family tyrants control.
Under the "family tyrants" rule, the people spread over Charagin. Small villages in valleys to large cites on mountain tops. The family tyrants create a police force in order to keep up with the rising population, employing links, flesh mechs, and other futuristic practical methods of enforcing power.
Gravitayak: (Better name required. THIS NAME IS STUPID.) A highly resilient hybrid metal made in the past world. This metal can only be made under intense gravity.
Flesh mechs: Mechanical fleshes are made in glass containment tanks that are monitored by microscopic machines designed to guide the flesh accordingly. They were originally built as gladiatorial weapons to be used in competitions for entertainment as a result of being obsoleted by the days past technology capabilities. A variation on mechanical fleshes are fleshes not built with warring in mind, but living. These are called artificial life. An artificial life is anything that is self aware that would not exist in nature otherwise.
Flesh mecha Grodon IX:
Averaging at 15 feet and 1700lbs without attachments and armor, this monster helped let people know who was in charge during the family tyrant era. (I can use the word era, right? They were in control for about 200 years after all... ) This model in particular was made to resemble a mecha. With that in mind, actual practicalities were thrown out the window. With that, the Grodon became what most little kids draw: A giant head and some limbs.
Its skin oozes a clear, thick, wet, and smooth liquid. This trait keeps the armor from painfully grinding against the Grodon's skin and keeps it cool. The Grodon has weapons of it's own as well, but they're not very effective against Links. The family tyrants started allowing for weapons to be attached to the armor to combat the links. Eventually, even the Grodon was obsoleted, but that's a story for another section.
Without the plates of armor the Grodon is usually had to wear, it's looks are comparable to a larva. As in, pink, pudgy, slimy, and slightly grotesque. It's legs are like pillars, similar to elephants. The arm description varies. It's face consists of a small stout snout and four gelatinous eyes. Roundish head/body, and the pooper between the legs doubling as an entrance to the cockpit. Eew.
Artificial life:
Humanoid machines: Military humanoid machines of the past day are made of a "super" metal. It was placed on the humanoid in such a way that allowed optimal movement speed. Making them nearly the biggest threat on the battle field. Guardian androids, is only a slight variation from that. They wear a artificial skin to let humans associate with them better. Sadly, only a few hundred was able to be put through.
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Machines with a human stature. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, seeing as how it has been played around with so much. These machines were primarily seen being used by big names and military forces. When it comes time for the transition of worlds, humanoid machines are taken as well, courtesy of the "family tyrants". These machines are equipped with the best armor available at the time, gravitayak. Sadly, only a meager amount of these machines are brought through.
A slight variation of the military usage humanoid machine is a type that comes with an ersatz skin that mimics a human beings. This is believed to let people feel more comfortable around them.
Links: There is a link in the every human body the connects them to their past world. It never occurred in people whom weren't born in the paralleled planet. In the next generation however, there were people born who had amazing abilities, all having something to do with matter manipulation.
This power is hindered by the need to obey the laws of physics, chemistry, Any matter spawned or modified by links suffer from an inevitable drain of link energy.
Link abilities/techniques:
Uprising: With new powers do the Links fight back the family. Eventually the family loses its grip upon the world and rather than being killed, they suicide, setting back technology capabilities thousands of years.
Continuing: 68 years later technology lost due to the family is recovered at a snails pace. Anything to due with going back to their home planet is completely gone. Times are chaotic, people are divided. Whether you have link power or not can affect how long you live.
Present day: Almost 500 years after coming into this new world the occurrence of strong links lessen. 1 out of every 60 born is a strong link. Those only with low linkage die mysteriously. Weak links often die at age 50-55. A procedure called "splicing" scrambles the link with them and their old planet, removing the link related illness. People of the "Untouched" are dead set against the idea of "splicing" and threatened war if they legalize it. Despite the threat of war, Genetic Experimentation runs rampant across the face of the world. At first, it was “single-splice” patients who would have some animal’s genetic makeup cross-bred with their own. They fought for years against the world’s legal systems to allow them to do this, but they didn’t stop there. “multi-splicing” began to occur, where humans received the genetic material from multiple animal sources at once. As of today, single-splicing is relatively safe. Upwards of 95% of patients survive the procedure, and give birth to wonderful and powerful children because of it. Multi-splicing is quite a bit less safe, and has not been legalized as of yet. Less than 5% of all multi-splice patients live through the process, and not a single child has been born in the public’s eye who has the actual effects of multi-splicing.
Untouched: A group of fundamentalists who named themselves the “Untouched” brought a large group of humans who have not gone through the splicing effects and are not descended from those who have gone through those effects into a single place, buying a large island to house them all. Building their own fortress, the “Untouched”, raised their own soldiers to one day combat those they deem unworthy to share their planet. They choose to “fight fire with fire” as it stands, but not with animal genetic material. They instead experimented to the point of being able to have humans generate a specific strand of mineral crystal within their bodies, a crystal that does not exist in nature. This crystal adds various pseudo-magical abilities to the person depending on the properties of the crystal, but also render the person extremely weak towards any sort of suggestion-based mind control or hypnosis. The purpose of this final addition is mostly to keep the super-soldiers in line. (I need to rewrite this because it feels out of place. Huuurrrrrrrrr.) The crystal enables for more continuous laser fire because of it’s regenerative properties and can store large amounts of power within the user. Which results in the increase of strength and speed.
Untouched weaponry: The Untouched set themselves apart from the rest of the world as masters of laser technology.
Untouched uniform: The uniform consists of a tailored black three-piece suit. Along the collar, cuffs, and front parting section, there is a gold band sewed in place one quarter of an inch away from the very edge of the jacket. The buttons are also gold. The jacket has the standard bar of military distinctions across its left breast, and the shoulders have the military stars upon them if rank dictates a place. If not, then a section of the left upper-arm is separated from the rest of the jacket by gold bands and the rank is shown upon that section instead. The undershirt is a long-sleeved white button-up with gold buttons. The pants are black, with a single gold band one quarter inch from the end of each pant-leg. The button and zipper are both gold as well. The shoes are black loafers, though they have steel toes.
WG: The world government was formed shortly after the suicide of the family tyrants. This group was originally formed to take advantage of the alliances formed as a result of the family tyrants. Just handing world control from one person to another wasn't an appealing thought to many leaders of the time, and the world government suffered. Without any countries or cities to other than their own, the income they get from taxes doesn't allow them to do much governing. They start depending on donations from independent business leaders.
Things are going peachy for awhile. They are finally enforcing the laws they placed over the world in an effective manner, but they've also bound themselves to chains. They become the dogs of many large organizations. That's fine. Having some men make sure the money keeps rolling in isn't much of a sacrifice.
Some time passes. New people and more branches are added into the world government. Authority was sent into another group of hands, and things get more corrupt. Governing the world and protecting their investors soon turns out to not be the only things they're doing. Somewhere along the line, they've been able to become one of the world's super powers without ever having a real country to reign over.
STUFF TO BE ORGANIZED: While lasers have a significant fire power advantage over bullets, the amount of power needed to fire more then a couple shots at a time needs far to much capacity for even an altered human to carry. Portable-wise guns and bullets are not yet obsolete because of this. Only stationary laser turrets with access to underground energy generators are practical.
Origin: We start this story on the original planet earth. Humanity is at a point in existence where many of the technologies we've dreamed of have been realized. Y'know, the classic point where the difference between technology and magic is no longer discernible. Interstellar travel and terraforming on a large scale is a given.
The idea is that humanity is at its peak, okay? So there is this guy, Hudrick Belena. He wants to make travel between different realities, dimensions, parallel worlds, whatever you like to call it, possible. He decides the best way to do that is to gain complete control of the microscopic world. To enable himself to do so, he gets funding from several sources. One of them being the "family tyrants".
After gaining a good balance of rank A workers and resources, development of the link system cranks into high gear, and a project that would go on for at least twenty more years officially begins. Twenty years or so later, the Link system is currently being debugged and the psyche controls are being programmed to act more fluidly, so that even an idiot could use it. During this however, a worldwide warning is let out. A black hole discharge is reported to appear in the solar system. This threatens to throw dangerous amounts of gamma radiation(?) at planet earth. No amount of deus ex machina can save their life on planet earth.
Thankfully, the gamma (?) has about a week before it reaches and destroys the earth's ability to host life. Those who're willing and able (Which I imagine would be more than half the population of earth) are evacuated. Hudrick and many of his colleagues choose to stay behind. They plan to use their power to save those who were unable to be evacuated, and escape to a parallel world, similar to earth in it's ability to host life.
In order to increase the survival rate of crossover, each participant are given shots that contained nanobots programmed to build the link system in their bodies. This action would help those that formed portals to the other world not to modify the people they were trying to help on accident.
After transporting about a hundred thousand people and goods to the other world, dubbed as Charagin, settlement started. Naturally, as they wouldn't be returning to earth anytime soon. Just a few days after the big transition of things, the "family tyrants" kill Hudrick and anyone closely associated with him. Scientists and people knowledgeable enough to use the link system are either forced to join them or hunted down and killed. The world is now basically under the family tyrants control.
Under the "family tyrants" rule, the people spread over Charagin. Small villages in valleys to large cites on mountain tops. The family tyrants create a police force in order to keep up with the rising population, employing links, flesh mechs, and other futuristic practical methods of enforcing power.
Gravitayak: (Better name required. THIS NAME IS STUPID.) A highly resilient hybrid metal made in the past world. This metal can only be made under intense gravity.
Flesh mechs: Mechanical fleshes are made in glass containment tanks that are monitored by microscopic machines designed to guide the flesh accordingly. They were originally built as gladiatorial weapons to be used in competitions for entertainment as a result of being obsoleted by the days past technology capabilities. A variation on mechanical fleshes are fleshes not built with warring in mind, but living. These are called artificial life. An artificial life is anything that is self aware that would not exist in nature otherwise.
Flesh mecha Grodon IX:
Averaging at 15 feet and 1700lbs without attachments and armor, this monster helped let people know who was in charge during the family tyrant era. (I can use the word era, right? They were in control for about 200 years after all... ) This model in particular was made to resemble a mecha. With that in mind, actual practicalities were thrown out the window. With that, the Grodon became what most little kids draw: A giant head and some limbs.
Its skin oozes a clear, thick, wet, and smooth liquid. This trait keeps the armor from painfully grinding against the Grodon's skin and keeps it cool. The Grodon has weapons of it's own as well, but they're not very effective against Links. The family tyrants started allowing for weapons to be attached to the armor to combat the links. Eventually, even the Grodon was obsoleted, but that's a story for another section.
Without the plates of armor the Grodon is usually had to wear, it's looks are comparable to a larva. As in, pink, pudgy, slimy, and slightly grotesque. It's legs are like pillars, similar to elephants. The arm description varies. It's face consists of a small stout snout and four gelatinous eyes. Roundish head/body, and the pooper between the legs doubling as an entrance to the cockpit. Eew.
Artificial life:
Humanoid machines: Military humanoid machines of the past day are made of a "super" metal. It was placed on the humanoid in such a way that allowed optimal movement speed. Making them nearly the biggest threat on the battle field. Guardian androids, is only a slight variation from that. They wear a artificial skin to let humans associate with them better. Sadly, only a few hundred was able to be put through.
______________________________________________________________________
Machines with a human stature. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, seeing as how it has been played around with so much. These machines were primarily seen being used by big names and military forces. When it comes time for the transition of worlds, humanoid machines are taken as well, courtesy of the "family tyrants". These machines are equipped with the best armor available at the time, gravitayak. Sadly, only a meager amount of these machines are brought through.
A slight variation of the military usage humanoid machine is a type that comes with an ersatz skin that mimics a human beings. This is believed to let people feel more comfortable around them.
Links: There is a link in the every human body the connects them to their past world. It never occurred in people whom weren't born in the paralleled planet. In the next generation however, there were people born who had amazing abilities, all having something to do with matter manipulation.
This power is hindered by the need to obey the laws of physics, chemistry, Any matter spawned or modified by links suffer from an inevitable drain of link energy.
Link abilities/techniques:
Uprising: With new powers do the Links fight back the family. Eventually the family loses its grip upon the world and rather than being killed, they suicide, setting back technology capabilities thousands of years.
Continuing: 68 years later technology lost due to the family is recovered at a snails pace. Anything to due with going back to their home planet is completely gone. Times are chaotic, people are divided. Whether you have link power or not can affect how long you live.
Present day: Almost 500 years after coming into this new world the occurrence of strong links lessen. 1 out of every 60 born is a strong link. Those only with low linkage die mysteriously. Weak links often die at age 50-55. A procedure called "splicing" scrambles the link with them and their old planet, removing the link related illness. People of the "Untouched" are dead set against the idea of "splicing" and threatened war if they legalize it. Despite the threat of war, Genetic Experimentation runs rampant across the face of the world. At first, it was “single-splice” patients who would have some animal’s genetic makeup cross-bred with their own. They fought for years against the world’s legal systems to allow them to do this, but they didn’t stop there. “multi-splicing” began to occur, where humans received the genetic material from multiple animal sources at once. As of today, single-splicing is relatively safe. Upwards of 95% of patients survive the procedure, and give birth to wonderful and powerful children because of it. Multi-splicing is quite a bit less safe, and has not been legalized as of yet. Less than 5% of all multi-splice patients live through the process, and not a single child has been born in the public’s eye who has the actual effects of multi-splicing.
Untouched: A group of fundamentalists who named themselves the “Untouched” brought a large group of humans who have not gone through the splicing effects and are not descended from those who have gone through those effects into a single place, buying a large island to house them all. Building their own fortress, the “Untouched”, raised their own soldiers to one day combat those they deem unworthy to share their planet. They choose to “fight fire with fire” as it stands, but not with animal genetic material. They instead experimented to the point of being able to have humans generate a specific strand of mineral crystal within their bodies, a crystal that does not exist in nature. This crystal adds various pseudo-magical abilities to the person depending on the properties of the crystal, but also render the person extremely weak towards any sort of suggestion-based mind control or hypnosis. The purpose of this final addition is mostly to keep the super-soldiers in line. (I need to rewrite this because it feels out of place. Huuurrrrrrrrr.) The crystal enables for more continuous laser fire because of it’s regenerative properties and can store large amounts of power within the user. Which results in the increase of strength and speed.
Untouched weaponry: The Untouched set themselves apart from the rest of the world as masters of laser technology.
Untouched uniform: The uniform consists of a tailored black three-piece suit. Along the collar, cuffs, and front parting section, there is a gold band sewed in place one quarter of an inch away from the very edge of the jacket. The buttons are also gold. The jacket has the standard bar of military distinctions across its left breast, and the shoulders have the military stars upon them if rank dictates a place. If not, then a section of the left upper-arm is separated from the rest of the jacket by gold bands and the rank is shown upon that section instead. The undershirt is a long-sleeved white button-up with gold buttons. The pants are black, with a single gold band one quarter inch from the end of each pant-leg. The button and zipper are both gold as well. The shoes are black loafers, though they have steel toes.
WG: The world government was formed shortly after the suicide of the family tyrants. This group was originally formed to take advantage of the alliances formed as a result of the family tyrants. Just handing world control from one person to another wasn't an appealing thought to many leaders of the time, and the world government suffered. Without any countries or cities to other than their own, the income they get from taxes doesn't allow them to do much governing. They start depending on donations from independent business leaders.
Things are going peachy for awhile. They are finally enforcing the laws they placed over the world in an effective manner, but they've also bound themselves to chains. They become the dogs of many large organizations. That's fine. Having some men make sure the money keeps rolling in isn't much of a sacrifice.
Some time passes. New people and more branches are added into the world government. Authority was sent into another group of hands, and things get more corrupt. Governing the world and protecting their investors soon turns out to not be the only things they're doing. Somewhere along the line, they've been able to become one of the world's super powers without ever having a real country to reign over.
STUFF TO BE ORGANIZED: While lasers have a significant fire power advantage over bullets, the amount of power needed to fire more then a couple shots at a time needs far to much capacity for even an altered human to carry. Portable-wise guns and bullets are not yet obsolete because of this. Only stationary laser turrets with access to underground energy generators are practical.