The Year is 3711. The advances of human society has plung us into the settlement of the stars. The Consolidated Earth Union have lead humanity into an era of unprecedented technological development. FTL travel was only the tip of the iceberg backed by intelligent AI, human augmentation able to allow the crippled to become supermen and the blind to see further than any normal man. They all backed a massive new age of exploration by the first colony ships sent out all those years ago in the late 21st century. These first ships acted as the seed the germinated into the great plant that stretched its roots all across the galaxy hungrily eating up planets and planting their mark upon them. Starships the sizes of moons, floating colonies and lush verdant utopias created on cold dead moons without any chances of life. This brand new galaxy was not as dead as some may have thought and was filled with life on planets such as ours and others vastly alien new fauna and flora opening up entire new studies and redefining the classical sciences with their foundings and the ruins found on some of these planets suggest that their was those that came before and yet there was no signs of intelligent life as if all of humanity was alone in its own little sandbox called the Milky Way Galaxy. We were the Apex predator, we were the top dogs it seemed the ones left to make our mark as we saw fit.
Yet left to our own devices it seemed that conflict was inevitable. The CEU was founded in war, war between the Saturnian colonies and Earth known simply as the Sol War. It was this time when the rebels with their experimental technologies attacked Earth and forced its peoples and nations to unify to protect themselves and to restore order in their system. That was in the year 2123 in the one thousand five hundred and eighty eight years that followed not much had really changed except on the scope of scale. They were not just talking about angry rebels on the moons of Saturn in one contained system, they were talking about entire span of the outer colonies thousands of light years wide and filled with enough people to fill up the entire Sol System hundreds of times later. Citizens angry with the CEU which seemed only concerned with the affairs of government security meaning only those within the inner colonies. These angry citizens began to make appeals, when the appeals did not work they began to protest, when the CEU dismissed these protests they began to riot, and when the CEU cracked down to give a sense of peace a security to those trying to live their lives in the outer colonies it became war.
The first known insurgent action against the CEU was in the year 3626 on the small aquatict farming colony of Miodon IV, a gentleman by the name of Charles Liztkvek opened fire with a military grade assault rifle upon the CEU rally post in the area designed to regulate the smooth process of Communications Nodes that allow for quick interstellar communications between the citizens with the CEU. Charles Liztkvek killed two civilians, one security personnel and four CEU communications officers before he was killed by security officers. When his apartment was later raided they found many pamphlets of insurrectionist propaganda for the group known as Humanity's Axe. Humanity's Axe was not the only group of such to form in these times and in the thirty five years following the attack these attacks became more and more frequent. These attacks only served to worsen CEU relations with the outer colonies as the CEU pushed them into what would effectively become an entire military justractied sector as the entire area was put under military control by order of the Department of Colonial Affairs and Relations. Communication Node traffic was restricted as citizens could only view pre approved government sites, calls were monitored and increased raids by CEU Military Police marked the period as the end of any normal relations with the outer colonies. Neither side had the strict moral advantage and so they could not win the battle by public opion but instead it became a long war of attrition as insurrectionist forces attacked primarily from the shadows as Military Police stormed hideouts and took entire cells with brutal efficiency. Though some would later wish for a return to this period of almost peace compared to what would come in the following years.
It all came to a head in the year 3661. In early January following the Earth Standard Calendar things began to heat up rapidly after several months of limited insurrectionist activity in the outer rim. What was originally thought as a simple dwindling of resolve was actually the backdrop for a series of very important delegations and meetings between the various insurrectionist cells in the outer colonies and among other influential Anti-CEU players. Following a massive leak of military information on the exact suppressive techniques used by the CEU to battle the insurrectionists and that they were secretly using upon their own people a significant portion of the outer and middle colonies declared a state of rebellion from the CEU and the formation of what they called the Allied Galactic States or AGS for short. The AGS was a new parliamentary republic formed in defiance to the old galactic senate and CEU policy makers. Immediate action was taken place as soon after as AGS spies destroyed the Earth Union's Main Military Base on Mars with a controlled nuclear detonation. This was no longer an insurgency, it was a full blown civil war.
It has been almost fifty years since Declaration Day as it has been called by the media. The Consolidated Earth Union is fighting a battle to retain supremacy and keep order and structure to the Galaxy and prevent it from falling to ruin. They are losing. The Allied Galactic States are fighting for freedom, the right to choose and not be looked down by the CEU and its biased policies. They are not winning. In the decades followed Declaration Day pushes have been made by both sides but they are stuck in a constant ebb and flow as they fight to gain one more system only to lose it within the month. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost on both sides and more come each day. At the same time scientist on far flung observation posts have detected something in Deep Space, the points are beginning to flash as something, something very big is occurring, something that will change the course of humanity as we know it. This is where our story begins, in the middle of a seemingly endless war as humanity slides from the pinnacle of greatness into depravity once more. This is our story. The story of those fighting in these desperate times
Yet left to our own devices it seemed that conflict was inevitable. The CEU was founded in war, war between the Saturnian colonies and Earth known simply as the Sol War. It was this time when the rebels with their experimental technologies attacked Earth and forced its peoples and nations to unify to protect themselves and to restore order in their system. That was in the year 2123 in the one thousand five hundred and eighty eight years that followed not much had really changed except on the scope of scale. They were not just talking about angry rebels on the moons of Saturn in one contained system, they were talking about entire span of the outer colonies thousands of light years wide and filled with enough people to fill up the entire Sol System hundreds of times later. Citizens angry with the CEU which seemed only concerned with the affairs of government security meaning only those within the inner colonies. These angry citizens began to make appeals, when the appeals did not work they began to protest, when the CEU dismissed these protests they began to riot, and when the CEU cracked down to give a sense of peace a security to those trying to live their lives in the outer colonies it became war.
The first known insurgent action against the CEU was in the year 3626 on the small aquatict farming colony of Miodon IV, a gentleman by the name of Charles Liztkvek opened fire with a military grade assault rifle upon the CEU rally post in the area designed to regulate the smooth process of Communications Nodes that allow for quick interstellar communications between the citizens with the CEU. Charles Liztkvek killed two civilians, one security personnel and four CEU communications officers before he was killed by security officers. When his apartment was later raided they found many pamphlets of insurrectionist propaganda for the group known as Humanity's Axe. Humanity's Axe was not the only group of such to form in these times and in the thirty five years following the attack these attacks became more and more frequent. These attacks only served to worsen CEU relations with the outer colonies as the CEU pushed them into what would effectively become an entire military justractied sector as the entire area was put under military control by order of the Department of Colonial Affairs and Relations. Communication Node traffic was restricted as citizens could only view pre approved government sites, calls were monitored and increased raids by CEU Military Police marked the period as the end of any normal relations with the outer colonies. Neither side had the strict moral advantage and so they could not win the battle by public opion but instead it became a long war of attrition as insurrectionist forces attacked primarily from the shadows as Military Police stormed hideouts and took entire cells with brutal efficiency. Though some would later wish for a return to this period of almost peace compared to what would come in the following years.
It all came to a head in the year 3661. In early January following the Earth Standard Calendar things began to heat up rapidly after several months of limited insurrectionist activity in the outer rim. What was originally thought as a simple dwindling of resolve was actually the backdrop for a series of very important delegations and meetings between the various insurrectionist cells in the outer colonies and among other influential Anti-CEU players. Following a massive leak of military information on the exact suppressive techniques used by the CEU to battle the insurrectionists and that they were secretly using upon their own people a significant portion of the outer and middle colonies declared a state of rebellion from the CEU and the formation of what they called the Allied Galactic States or AGS for short. The AGS was a new parliamentary republic formed in defiance to the old galactic senate and CEU policy makers. Immediate action was taken place as soon after as AGS spies destroyed the Earth Union's Main Military Base on Mars with a controlled nuclear detonation. This was no longer an insurgency, it was a full blown civil war.
It has been almost fifty years since Declaration Day as it has been called by the media. The Consolidated Earth Union is fighting a battle to retain supremacy and keep order and structure to the Galaxy and prevent it from falling to ruin. They are losing. The Allied Galactic States are fighting for freedom, the right to choose and not be looked down by the CEU and its biased policies. They are not winning. In the decades followed Declaration Day pushes have been made by both sides but they are stuck in a constant ebb and flow as they fight to gain one more system only to lose it within the month. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost on both sides and more come each day. At the same time scientist on far flung observation posts have detected something in Deep Space, the points are beginning to flash as something, something very big is occurring, something that will change the course of humanity as we know it. This is where our story begins, in the middle of a seemingly endless war as humanity slides from the pinnacle of greatness into depravity once more. This is our story. The story of those fighting in these desperate times
Hello everybody! If you have made it this far then that means something right? Let me be the first to formally invite you into the world of Tin Soldiers. Tin Soldiers is the tentative name of this little science fiction world I have created. The world of Tin Soldiers is one shaped by the stories that I happen to write about it and have drastic effects on the concurrent history and movement of the galaxy. Back on the Old Guild, I created the first Tin Soldiers Roleplay in which we took part in the shaping events of the war that will be the focal point of this roleplay. Our characters were journalists, scientists, activists and soldiers whose actions helped push the world towards the current state it is in. I feel that is now high time for the New Guild to have its own taste of the world of Tin Soldiers.
In short this story will be about the members of the Consolidated Earth Union's Daedalus Initiative. The Daedalus Initiative is the CEU's Super Soldier program designed to create the best soldiers the galaxy have ever seen from the genetic level up. These "super humans" that we will be playing are tank bred born and raised inside a lab with their DNA meticulously altered and perfected to make them the best soldiers ever seen by this side of humanity. They are shunned by every day society as freaks not even human but without them the CEU would never be able to get anything done. They are inserted deep within enemy territory taking out valuable enemy outposts, performing assassinations and whatever else CEU High Command needs done. But this is just not a story about the war this is an extensive character study of this team tracing their lives. We will begin at the start when they are still children barely thirteen years old still going through active conditioning and training, leading up to their first deployment and beyond. This will give what I intended to allow for us to craft this characters and watch them evolve over time as their relations with one another shape their own views and perspectives. At the same time hints of the greatest story will fall through as reports of activity in Deep Space continue to increase even as they fight AGS forces trying to turn the tide of the war.
This is intended to be more than just a science fiction war story it will deal with heavy themes and actions. I'm looking for people that would be interested in such a roleplay with high casual standards, to tell the story of this squad and to continue shaping this world. So anybody want in?
