We are Clear House. We are the remnants of what used to be of our planet, Firmia. A long ago, maybe a few hundred years in the past, Humanity was betrayed and annihilated by an alien race called the Yulu. We fought hard and bravely, making the enemy pay 10 lives for every single life they took of ours, but it still wasn’t enough. Once they saw that fighting us on land and space was futile, they released their trump card on us: an artificially engineered genophage, a disease made specifically to target and kill the human race. When the efforts of other laboratories failed, the scientists here at Clear House tried to cure the disease, or at least to develop a vaccine to halt further infection, but their failed experiments, stressed and made difficult by the constant threat of war, only served to make the genophage worse, but they kept it a secret, reporting it as a natural evolution in the virus.
Within weeks, the human races was in shambles, millions had already died, and even more were dying because of the genophage. Once our numbers were small enough, the Yulu came all the way to our planet with the intention of finishing us off, but they failed. After taking another few millions lives in ground wars, the Yulu finally left Firmia, essentially leaving the remainder of the human race to die. Small groups, like those here at Clear House hid for many, many years, never finding a good enough time to rise and face the world how it was. The Scientists of Clear House withdrew their scientists and families to a secluded island facility used for only the largest and most secretive experiments the company took up. Now, it’s used as a safe haven, one of the few bastions for humanity left on Firmia.
When the laboratory closed the island off to any further outsiders, there were roughly 100 families of scientists, 25 families of people of interest, and roughly 10 families of civilians, resulting in a total population of roughly 1,000 people. Through a few droughts, famine and other hardships, 200 years later, the island has maintained a fairly stable population of about the same amount, but the families from long, long ago are still almost as separated today as they were when they first inhabited the island. The scientist families live in and under the facility, studying and teaching mostly within the family, leading to generations of scientists who strayed very little from that path. The non-scientist families, however, melded together more completely, living outside the walls of the laboratory, along the beaches and treelines of the laboratory.
Thanks to the self-sufficient and tech packed laboratory, the island was able to keep a fairly stable amount of farms operating, and was able to draw from the sea for water. For any apocalypse planner, it was the perfect place to hide out, but as time passed, a question was raised: What was left of the rest of the world? The lands of Firmia were mostly destroyed, in some parts, even completely devoid of life, due to the war between the two races, and there was no guarantee that there were any other groups of survivors left. Could Clear House be the last humans on Firmia?
Men and Women of Clear House Colony, it has come time that we silence all the doubts and rumors and answer all the questions that have been floating around Clear House for a long time now. We have questioned too long if there is anything left out there, anything to be found, if we are truly the last men and women of Firmia. It’s been long enough that we have been content to simply ask questions, but never to answer them. We’ve grown too isolated in our ignorance, and it’s time we change that.
Here at Clear House, we are in a position that nobody else is. We have not only the technology, not only the supplies, but the drive, the devotion and the knowledge to re-discover this world that we have inherited. Mankind may have fallen to one knee, but we can help it rise back onto its feet and stand triumphantly in the face of adversity. If there are sick out there, we can cure them. If there are injured, we can heal them. We can reconquer the world in the name of Mankind, and pursue one of the primary goals that Clear House was founded on very long ago: We can learn, teach and discover. Firmia has been reshaped by genophage and genocide, and we alone at Clear House have the means to reverse these changes. If there truly are other people left on Firmia, I can only imagine that they have been waiting for a savior or force of good to come and help them, and we can be the saviors of this planet.
I’m inviting every able bodied man and woman, especially those of you with professional skills, to join me and my team on a trip into the unknown, a trip to the Firmian mainland supercontinent, Primia. We are in a position power that will allow us to better Mankind as a race, to come back from this near extinction and come back stronger than ever before. If we squander this power, we are dooming our race to another 200 years of suffering and death. We’ve been getting lazy, complacent, ignorant even in our place of comfort and safety. For us to be of any worth to our fellow man, we must get down in the dirt with them, suffer with them, and rise with them. We’ve run out of time to imagine and ponder, now we must act. Please, join me on this trip, this ‘convoy’ if you will, into the darkness.
-Ryker Darian
Junior Director of Clear House
The characters of this roleplay will be some of the many different and varied members of Ryker’s Convoy, taking a journey into the unknown lands of Primia, the super continent that makes up a majority of the surface on Firmia. We will be doctors, soldiers, scholars, any range of occupations on a goodwill force to bring a semblance of peace and order back into the leftovers of Humanity. We are many generations down from our ancestors that originally populated the island, and a large amount of you, the families outside of Clear House, have become less and less informed of the world that came before you, the turbulent history of Mankind, life on Firmia, and even the red taped origins of Clear House. Some of you are even somewhat suspicious of Clear House’s true motives in this convoy into the mainland, but a lot of you would grasp any chance to get away from the island, so here we are, getting ready and due to embark soon. Who will join Ryker on his trip to Primia, who will refuse and stay on the island?
Thanks for reading! Feel free to ask any questions or express any interest here on the thread! The complete story and background of Clear House and this version of Mankind is still being written, but it is very possible that we can write it as we play! Again, thanks for reading.
Within weeks, the human races was in shambles, millions had already died, and even more were dying because of the genophage. Once our numbers were small enough, the Yulu came all the way to our planet with the intention of finishing us off, but they failed. After taking another few millions lives in ground wars, the Yulu finally left Firmia, essentially leaving the remainder of the human race to die. Small groups, like those here at Clear House hid for many, many years, never finding a good enough time to rise and face the world how it was. The Scientists of Clear House withdrew their scientists and families to a secluded island facility used for only the largest and most secretive experiments the company took up. Now, it’s used as a safe haven, one of the few bastions for humanity left on Firmia.
When the laboratory closed the island off to any further outsiders, there were roughly 100 families of scientists, 25 families of people of interest, and roughly 10 families of civilians, resulting in a total population of roughly 1,000 people. Through a few droughts, famine and other hardships, 200 years later, the island has maintained a fairly stable population of about the same amount, but the families from long, long ago are still almost as separated today as they were when they first inhabited the island. The scientist families live in and under the facility, studying and teaching mostly within the family, leading to generations of scientists who strayed very little from that path. The non-scientist families, however, melded together more completely, living outside the walls of the laboratory, along the beaches and treelines of the laboratory.
Thanks to the self-sufficient and tech packed laboratory, the island was able to keep a fairly stable amount of farms operating, and was able to draw from the sea for water. For any apocalypse planner, it was the perfect place to hide out, but as time passed, a question was raised: What was left of the rest of the world? The lands of Firmia were mostly destroyed, in some parts, even completely devoid of life, due to the war between the two races, and there was no guarantee that there were any other groups of survivors left. Could Clear House be the last humans on Firmia?
Men and Women of Clear House Colony, it has come time that we silence all the doubts and rumors and answer all the questions that have been floating around Clear House for a long time now. We have questioned too long if there is anything left out there, anything to be found, if we are truly the last men and women of Firmia. It’s been long enough that we have been content to simply ask questions, but never to answer them. We’ve grown too isolated in our ignorance, and it’s time we change that.
Here at Clear House, we are in a position that nobody else is. We have not only the technology, not only the supplies, but the drive, the devotion and the knowledge to re-discover this world that we have inherited. Mankind may have fallen to one knee, but we can help it rise back onto its feet and stand triumphantly in the face of adversity. If there are sick out there, we can cure them. If there are injured, we can heal them. We can reconquer the world in the name of Mankind, and pursue one of the primary goals that Clear House was founded on very long ago: We can learn, teach and discover. Firmia has been reshaped by genophage and genocide, and we alone at Clear House have the means to reverse these changes. If there truly are other people left on Firmia, I can only imagine that they have been waiting for a savior or force of good to come and help them, and we can be the saviors of this planet.
I’m inviting every able bodied man and woman, especially those of you with professional skills, to join me and my team on a trip into the unknown, a trip to the Firmian mainland supercontinent, Primia. We are in a position power that will allow us to better Mankind as a race, to come back from this near extinction and come back stronger than ever before. If we squander this power, we are dooming our race to another 200 years of suffering and death. We’ve been getting lazy, complacent, ignorant even in our place of comfort and safety. For us to be of any worth to our fellow man, we must get down in the dirt with them, suffer with them, and rise with them. We’ve run out of time to imagine and ponder, now we must act. Please, join me on this trip, this ‘convoy’ if you will, into the darkness.
-Ryker Darian
Junior Director of Clear House
The characters of this roleplay will be some of the many different and varied members of Ryker’s Convoy, taking a journey into the unknown lands of Primia, the super continent that makes up a majority of the surface on Firmia. We will be doctors, soldiers, scholars, any range of occupations on a goodwill force to bring a semblance of peace and order back into the leftovers of Humanity. We are many generations down from our ancestors that originally populated the island, and a large amount of you, the families outside of Clear House, have become less and less informed of the world that came before you, the turbulent history of Mankind, life on Firmia, and even the red taped origins of Clear House. Some of you are even somewhat suspicious of Clear House’s true motives in this convoy into the mainland, but a lot of you would grasp any chance to get away from the island, so here we are, getting ready and due to embark soon. Who will join Ryker on his trip to Primia, who will refuse and stay on the island?
Thanks for reading! Feel free to ask any questions or express any interest here on the thread! The complete story and background of Clear House and this version of Mankind is still being written, but it is very possible that we can write it as we play! Again, thanks for reading.