Uhh, hi.
I just joined because one of my friends reccomended/invited me here, and it seems pretty cool, lurking around, so I thought 'why not' and decided to see if anyone was interested in what I've been thinking about doing.
If you're familiar with any of the following; say, the fallout series, gundam, armored core, or front mission, It's been inspired by bits and pieces of all of those series, along with others.
In detail, basically, it's 2443, and in the 2080's a second cold war started, and shortly thereafter resulted in a nuclear war. However, a good portion of the total population (Let's say around 800,000,000 people) survived by taking refuge in massive underground city-complexes commonly called 'Burrows'. Each Burrow is entirely self sufficient. for the first 200 or so after-war years, each burrow was isolated from each other on the continent, not to mention to burrows across world.
Governments, however, have dissolved over the first 200 years, being taken over by the 'Ruling Companies' which formed. One or two 'Ruling Companies' reside in and control each continent, and fight each other for territory, resources, and knowledge. Ceasefires last weeks at most, and alliances are a thing of the past...
Vast amounts of pre-war miliary facilities, research centers, and superweapons still exist, ready to be repaired and retrofitted... yet, nearly all of them are still trumped by what many agree to be the strongest, yet saddening weapons ever devised: NCM's. 'Neural Combat Mechanoids'. Using technology that was experimental even right before the war, they're extremely advanced fighting machines, able to be called 'gods of war', and not being too far from the truth. To get an idea of their capabilities, imagine a fifteen to twenty meter tall robot. Now give it armor thickness generally beating dedicated battle tanks, with better materials and shaping techniques, thermal turbojets so powerful they can keep up with fighter aircraft, and weapons so deadly and varied they can take on armies, and be reasonably expected to win.
The bad part? Pilots are literally wired into the machine, requiring extremely painful surgery to implant 'Neural Plugs', that dot the spine and butcher the nervous system, reducing life expectancy down to 30, at most. Not to mention the other needs, such as replacing the bones with metal, the eyes with a cybernetic 'visor' able to hook up into the NC's sensor arrays, and replacing the legs entirely with disturbing mechanical equivalents, combined with the other upgrades making them social pariahs. Yet, that's the only fair price to pay for such godly power, isn't it?
Another facet of NC's, they and their weapons can vary extremely widely. From the 'standard' biped fitted with internal, hidden missile launchers, two 'assault rifles', (more like automatic tank cannons), and gauntlet-style plasma blades, to tracked fortress tank-like NCM's with tactical nuclear weapons, and high-energy particle cannons, to permanently flying types, their legs replaced by massive thrusters, and armor stripped down to make them effectively 'jets with arms'.
The players would be part of 'Howling Sands', the only standing anti-corporate group left in the world.
Your mission: Eliminate the Uber-companies one by one.
Anyone interested?
We'll discuss in this thread on characters and stuff. Do post if you're interested and what 'role' you might wish to fulfill in the team. And do note, you're not completely alone, you all have an NPC support team and a small, cheap and cheerful secret hideout somewhere in africa. (planned, anyway)
But yeah, four positions on start, and I'd hope myself if you could be on every other day, preferably every actual day, enough so you can pull a few paragraph reply out of your ass at least.
Additional notes: Just because we're starting in africa (and operating out of there for a while) doesn't mean you have to be from there. Even though the world is fucked, basic intercontinental transportation is available.
Oh, and in the following spoiler is how I personally think your average NCM's might look like. The corporations have many, meaning no two NC's are necessarily just the same. If you want your starting NCM to look a specific way, describe it a bit, or just slap on a spoilered image. Preferably both, really.
Anyway, yeah, post if you're interested, what role(s) you might wish to play, and what sort of NCM you want. Anything reasonable goes!
Yay more edits:
If you are gonna post, I'd prefer it if your NC's details were ordered like:
Body Type: (Available are: biped, tank tracked, quad legs, digitigrade legs ('Dog legs'), and hover)
Appearance:
Weight Class: (Superlight, Light, Medium, Heavy, Superheavy)
Weapons: (Arm-mounted, back-mounted, hip mounted, Internals)
Aaand describe your Pilot like so, please:
Appearance:
Age: (16-22)
Name:
Nicknames:
Personality:
Additional Traits:
If you want more info about 'Howling Sands', or any of the corporations, allies, and others, feel free to ask.
I just joined because one of my friends reccomended/invited me here, and it seems pretty cool, lurking around, so I thought 'why not' and decided to see if anyone was interested in what I've been thinking about doing.
If you're familiar with any of the following; say, the fallout series, gundam, armored core, or front mission, It's been inspired by bits and pieces of all of those series, along with others.
In detail, basically, it's 2443, and in the 2080's a second cold war started, and shortly thereafter resulted in a nuclear war. However, a good portion of the total population (Let's say around 800,000,000 people) survived by taking refuge in massive underground city-complexes commonly called 'Burrows'. Each Burrow is entirely self sufficient. for the first 200 or so after-war years, each burrow was isolated from each other on the continent, not to mention to burrows across world.
Governments, however, have dissolved over the first 200 years, being taken over by the 'Ruling Companies' which formed. One or two 'Ruling Companies' reside in and control each continent, and fight each other for territory, resources, and knowledge. Ceasefires last weeks at most, and alliances are a thing of the past...
Vast amounts of pre-war miliary facilities, research centers, and superweapons still exist, ready to be repaired and retrofitted... yet, nearly all of them are still trumped by what many agree to be the strongest, yet saddening weapons ever devised: NCM's. 'Neural Combat Mechanoids'. Using technology that was experimental even right before the war, they're extremely advanced fighting machines, able to be called 'gods of war', and not being too far from the truth. To get an idea of their capabilities, imagine a fifteen to twenty meter tall robot. Now give it armor thickness generally beating dedicated battle tanks, with better materials and shaping techniques, thermal turbojets so powerful they can keep up with fighter aircraft, and weapons so deadly and varied they can take on armies, and be reasonably expected to win.
The bad part? Pilots are literally wired into the machine, requiring extremely painful surgery to implant 'Neural Plugs', that dot the spine and butcher the nervous system, reducing life expectancy down to 30, at most. Not to mention the other needs, such as replacing the bones with metal, the eyes with a cybernetic 'visor' able to hook up into the NC's sensor arrays, and replacing the legs entirely with disturbing mechanical equivalents, combined with the other upgrades making them social pariahs. Yet, that's the only fair price to pay for such godly power, isn't it?
Another facet of NC's, they and their weapons can vary extremely widely. From the 'standard' biped fitted with internal, hidden missile launchers, two 'assault rifles', (more like automatic tank cannons), and gauntlet-style plasma blades, to tracked fortress tank-like NCM's with tactical nuclear weapons, and high-energy particle cannons, to permanently flying types, their legs replaced by massive thrusters, and armor stripped down to make them effectively 'jets with arms'.
The players would be part of 'Howling Sands', the only standing anti-corporate group left in the world.
Your mission: Eliminate the Uber-companies one by one.
Anyone interested?
We'll discuss in this thread on characters and stuff. Do post if you're interested and what 'role' you might wish to fulfill in the team. And do note, you're not completely alone, you all have an NPC support team and a small, cheap and cheerful secret hideout somewhere in africa. (planned, anyway)
But yeah, four positions on start, and I'd hope myself if you could be on every other day, preferably every actual day, enough so you can pull a few paragraph reply out of your ass at least.
Additional notes: Just because we're starting in africa (and operating out of there for a while) doesn't mean you have to be from there. Even though the world is fucked, basic intercontinental transportation is available.
Oh, and in the following spoiler is how I personally think your average NCM's might look like. The corporations have many, meaning no two NC's are necessarily just the same. If you want your starting NCM to look a specific way, describe it a bit, or just slap on a spoilered image. Preferably both, really.
Anyway, yeah, post if you're interested, what role(s) you might wish to play, and what sort of NCM you want. Anything reasonable goes!
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Yay more edits:
If you are gonna post, I'd prefer it if your NC's details were ordered like:
Body Type: (Available are: biped, tank tracked, quad legs, digitigrade legs ('Dog legs'), and hover)
Appearance:
Weight Class: (Superlight, Light, Medium, Heavy, Superheavy)
Weapons: (Arm-mounted, back-mounted, hip mounted, Internals)
Aaand describe your Pilot like so, please:
Appearance:
Age: (16-22)
Name:
Nicknames:
Personality:
Additional Traits:
If you want more info about 'Howling Sands', or any of the corporations, allies, and others, feel free to ask.
