Hyperion: Unlimited (Scifi Upper-Casual RP in unique Multiverse)

[Ehndras]

http://roleplayerguild.com/showthrea...-Unlimited-OOC



Greetings, folks! This is my first RP in the Guild and I am honored to be here.

I've spent the last year working on my multiverse´s lore, hammering out numerous alien species, complex religions, unique technologies, and dynamic factions that dot the Great Expanse. When my buddy Ash had the idea to start a new RP in the multiverse I jumped at the opportunity. Let's see what sort of hell we can raise

Here's a summary so you have an idea what you'll be facing.

Genre: Hard Scifi with Horror-Fantasy leanings (Think Warhammer 40K and Lovecraft)
Time-Period: Y50 H.R. (Approximately 508,350 AD, 50 years since the initial Human colonies were established in this galaxy at the technology level expected of 22nd century Earth - low-tech interstellar vessels, base cybernetics, nascent genetic engineering, ballistic weaponry, and so forth)
Start Location: Docked starship on a human colony world
Playstyle: Casual, leaning toward advanced
Gameplay Focus: Galactic exploration, faction politics, crafting, and survival above all.

Setting:

Within the last 50 years Altarax and other colonies have sprung up across the Large Magellanic Cloud, the final product of an ancient Earthborn seeder fleet set adrift from the Milky Way approximately 500,000 years ago. Project Hyperion is Altarax's first attempt at forging an interstellar empire by contacting its fellow wayward human colonies, building a sensor network and establishing jump beacons to assist in future travellers.

A strange electromagnetic anomaly surrounding our home system has fried the internal circuitry of every sensor probe launched thus far, ensuring Altarax remains unaware of its location or surroundings. We are the galactic equivalent of a newborn child fresh from the womb: incapable of self-defense, our eyes still adjusting to the light of day. Humanity still has much to learn...

You are the crew of the starship Hyperion. Hopelessly cut off from Earth and entirely unaware of its continued existence, Humanity is forced to eke out a meager existence in a vast unexplored galaxy. You will encounter strange worlds, dangerous technologies, and vicious xeno species lusting for human flesh. Your mission is to fight, talk, and think your way out of conflicts that may spell the difference between human superiority and galactic enslavement.

The Hyperion is a ticking time bomb and its up to you to defuse her mysteries. Will you discover the truth and survive the conflagration that follows? Only time will tell...

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Welcome to Hyperion: Unlimited!

Alright, finished my business and got around to editing this thread now that I'm not half-asleep. I hope I managed to express the general feeling of the RP in a concise manner.

The RP will take place in a menagerie of settings: aboard our vessel - the flagship Hyperion; during interstellar transit; in orbit of stellar bodies; aboard any vessel we might dock with; and the surface of multiple planets. There is a vague main plotline and a number of side-plots I'll be running during the RP but this scenario is specifically designed to allow for as much breathing room as possible. I've given you a point of origin and nothing more.

The PCs will be crewmembers aboard the Hyperion. You may claim any number of potential professions of the scientific or military variety that one would expect to find on an interstellar research and diplomatic mission. You may take it a step further and take a specialization such as a scout-sniper/ranger, cyberneticist, xenoarchaeologist, or any number of interesting possibilities. The PCs are only a handful among a very diverse and numerous crew working in the background to ensure Project Hyperion's success. You may reroll a new character upon death and choose a new profession if you wish.

Any questions?

[5D HORSE]

Count me in.

[ashton]

I'm also interested.

[plymoth45]

Sounds interesting to me.

[Shalashaska]

Seems like you really did put a lot of work into this. I'd be honored to be a part.

[Ehndras]

Oh hey, I saw your post in my interest check.

Actually, I'd like to know more about your sci fi multiverse. Do you have any information on it to show us?

Its highly complex and I'm not sure what I can share without spoiling the living hell out of everything, heh. Its a complex multiverse with alternate timelines, travel between universes, monstrous godlike beings that fit the role of daemons and dimensional horrors, and so forth. My RP multiverse is comparable to the universe inhabited by the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40K: A pseudo-dimension of mystical/psychic energy that influences a physical universe where mankind is at the bottom of the foodchain, though I go into far more detail of the mechanics behind such concepts while trying to maintain a level of realism. Not only that but I go the opposite route and make Humanity fractured and incapable of uniting as a singular galactic force, ensuring plenty of insular factions and complex dynamics between human societies vying for control of the galactic goldmine that is the Large Magellanic Cloud, a distant galaxy that is home to some very interesting physics and anomalies.

Suffice to say Humanity has roots among the stars themselves, a little-known fact that flies in the face of everything mankind has been taught in modern times yet echoes the myths of old. In truth the foundation of Humanity was forged long before life had taken hold of Earth's emerald oceans... (our oceans were once green due to the presence of an immense level of green cyanobacteria as well as iron content that formed a rare iron mineral called green rust at a much earlier point in our planet's history. The presence of high iron levels allowed certain microbial lifeforms to flourish and the presence of these cyanobacteria, such as blue-green algae, terraformed Earth by mass-producing oxygen and nearly bringing all life on Earth to extinction. Interesting little-known tidbit.)

Hmm, what can I say without ruining parts of the storyline... alright. Humanity are but one of countless sentient species that roam the Great Expanse. We are among the youngest and least experienced, our technological level just barely above space-age. We have limited cybernetics, space-faring vessels under human command are incapable of leaving the solar system with any hope of a safe return, and the vat-grown gene-modded human beings on our colonies have a fragmented notion of what life was life for Earthborn humans, relying on meager historical accounts found in literature and audiovisual media. Humanity finds itself battling to survive in an unknown galaxy, clinging to the hope that Earth will come to their rescue. Altarax is the most advanced of the newborn colonies and the first to send out ships to contact its brethren. What they find is a hostile galaxy replete with strange anomalies, unknown elements, and xenobiological lifeforms wholly alien to our species.

When we venture into the galaxy we discover a strange prophecy etched in the name of those we call the Precursors, a humanoid species who seeded the Milky Way with the roots of Humanity. The less mindless lifeforms of the LMC tend to fear, despise, or worship Humanity as the chosen sons of the Precursors destined to re-establish the Precursor Creed. In truth, Humanity has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Other facets of my lore are the Primordials and the realm of Primordium, a metaphysical realm akin to the Warp that governs the physical simulation of Space-Time in which we reside, a few hundred different sentient alien species, a dozen of so extremely advanced hostiles who play a big part in the storyline, and a convoluted spoiler-ridden secret storyline that ties Humanity to its roots and far beyond, revealing a forsaken legacy echoed by our ancestors that modern Man has long forgotten. Essentially, Hyperion: Unlimited is the rediscovery of Humanity´s lost potential, its stellar roots, and the first leg of a lengthy conflict that will decide the fate not of this galaxy, no, not of the universe alone, but of an entire Multiverse.

Oh, and did I mention Voidwalkers: unique beings rising from sentience with the innate power to manipulate the physics that govern our universe in a controlled manner, essentially pushing and pulling at the fiber of our reality through an amalgamation of technology, psychic power, and what savages might call magic but the Ascended know as Science.

Eh, we'll get there eventually. I decided to start this RP off early, unlike my to-be-publish Scifi series itself which leaves us smackdab in the middle of an intergalactic war at the hands of beings comparable to Slaanesh, the God-Emperor, and Khorne.

[Erodios]

I am interested in this

[ashton]

Can we start working on character sheets now or is there a specific template you'd like us to follow? Also what kind of characters should we be designing?

[Shalashaska]

Can we start working on character sheets now or is there a specific template you'd like us to follow? Also what kind of characters should we be designing?

"The PCs will be crewmembers aboard the Hyperion. You may claim any number of potential professions of the scientific or military variety that one would expect to find on an interstellar research and diplomatic mission. You may take it a step further and take a specialization such as a scout-sniper/ranger, cyberneticist, xenoarchaeologist, or any number of interesting possibilities. The PCs are only a handful among a very diverse and numerous crew working in the background to ensure Project Hyperion's success. You may reroll a new character upon death and choose a new profession if you wish."

From what I can tell (I'm not the GM, as you may have noticed.. XD) we'll pick either a military type, scientist type, or political type. For example, I'd like to try for an ambassador- maybe someone wants to be a security guard, cyberneticist (Cyberpunk, anyone? ^.~) or biologist? Hope this helps.

[Nytem4re]

would be interested...