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I want to kick this off with an idea I have been playing around with for a good few weeks, primarily focusing on a very dark and very mysterious sci-fi setting and world taking place in the faaaaaarfuture. My taste has never really included big, eccentric space opera, nor has it really accommodated role-play where the characters only occasionally get fucked up and killed. I want to build a role-play in which a series of extremely powerful characters find themselves in a situation so alien and so dangerous that it is beyond even them to easily survive and explain.

And so I bring you ECHOES, the fruits of my very specific criteria for an unusual and rather unique sci-fi story.

Here's what you need to know:

- The Age of Dominion is a commonly used phrase for the period of time directly after the extinction of Earth. This clocks in at around the year 3500, give or take a few hundred. It is in the Age of Dominion that your standard galactic wars and political intrigue happen. Nations rise and fall, empires conquer and falter, races grow and are extinguished. This goes on for thousands of years, the balance of power is constantly shifting and never really coming to rest upon one empire or another. OOC I can tell you that the Age of Dominion lasts for about 25,000 years.

- You assume the role of the most powerful individual, be it venerated champion or infamous killer that a particular nation in the Age of Dominion had ever produced.

- The catch? Your character has already lived out their life and passed. The Age of Dominion is long behind us. But for some reason unbeknownst to them, they have returned to life, seemingly illogically, inexplicably, and impossibly, a million years after the Age of Dominion has ended.

-You all awaken on the same, mysterious planet, with no idea how or why you have come to be there, especially since it has been so long since your death. Your home empires have long since been turned to ash. You think yourself alone.

...But this notion is fundamentally incorrect.

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I need to get a lot of the details down on paper, but as far as I am aware it should be fairly unique in it's genre. If we get enough interest i'll fire up an OOC and see what we can do with the setting.

Interested. Working on a premise now.

Sounds good to me. Alien races are an option provided said races are distinctly inhuman, if that helps.

EDIT: Distinctly inhuman but not so alien as to be unreliable, of course!

Interesting. Reminds me of Starless, but sci-fi instead of fantasy.

@gcold Ah, now that is an interesting find. I'll have to take a look through the RP and see what I can garner from the style of play. Seems thematically similar though! Would have joined up if I was around at the time.

Very interested.

Interesting. Reminds me of Starless, but sci-fi instead of fantasy.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Mostly because I was in that one. As for this RP it is a distinct maybe. It could have potential but I need more info.

I think this sounds like fun

I had originally stopped working on the OOC for this a day or two ago because of the seeming lack of interest. If it's picking back up i'll pick up back from where I left off.

In terms of differing from this Starless role-play: I read through a lot of their IC to see how they did things; how would you guys like to see it differ in terms of gameplay? Any specific differences you'd be interested in seeing?

I'd love to apply too.
Got an idea for a man named Cere-Bellum, a chrome-headed cyborg murderer supreme.

@Keksalot Sounds like a great concept to have some fun with. I'll get back to work on the OOC seeing as we now have some serious interest.

I should have it up within a couple of days. Feel free to start writing some basic character sheets up, ill provide a skeleton/structure for them with the OOC if anything needs reformatting.
Maybe hold off on any historical background for characters just yet, there will be a few specifics that need to be adhered to in terms of the timeline that will be detailed with the OOC.

Interested. But I'm a little confused with the timeline, its the year 3500 but there has been 25,000 years in the Age of Dominion?

@The Dow Dragon
The new unverse-wide calendar probably took some time to establish after the AoD and they had to count down from some really big and notable event.

Interested. But I'm a little confused with the timeline, its the year 3500 but there has been 25,000 years in the Age of Dominion?

It isn't the year 3500.

The Age of Dominion begins in the year 3500, and lasts until about 25,000. Your character awakens a million years after the end of the AoD.

interested if you're still accepting @Dreamforge

@Crazy Doctor

Indeed. I need some time to get the OOC up but there should be enough space for all.