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1/1/2300

The Black January Crash


In the year 2020, Interorbital Systems in collaboration with various Chinese, Russian, and American corporations established Armstrong City in Copernicus crater on the Moon. In the following years, the lunar surface exploded with countless different private companies claiming land to get at the abundant helium-3 on the body. Which, with the advent of efficient fusion technology, fetched a high price. The moon became like the eastern coast of America during the colonial era, with new spacecraft from Earth arriving periodically to bring new colonists and supplies. A permanent interorbital vessel was built to do never-ending laps around Earth and the Moon to provide cheap, bulk transport between Earth and her new colonies.

It wasn't long, of course, before humans started popping up on Mars. Just four years later, SpaceX founded the first permanent settlement on Mars. And then, as Mars grew, humanity decided to look out just a bit further. Mining ships were sent out to asteroids, and were soon replaced with mining towns. If the Moon was the east coast, then Mars and the asteroids were the wild west. Entire towns with hundreds of residents popped up in nights to tap the resources of the belt. By 2050, the Moon had sprawling metropolises populated with the many millions of people that simply couldn't fit on Earth anymore. Corporations moved production into space, where there was technically no actual law. Since no countries could claim land in space, the corporations did it instead.

The world became a radically different place. Areas one considered undeveloped jumped directly to a post-industrial society in a second scramble for Africa, this time with the corporations being the players rather than European empires. Corporate armies acting on behalf of various governments suppressed rebellions, ended civil wars, and turned entire countries into their puppets. With the riches of space they turned these once impoverished nations into economic powerhouses. Space elevators began to pop up in equatorial Africa, the Sahara became a massive field of solar panels, and villages that once didn't even have a well turned into cities. The population exploded, and even more colonists were provided for the corporations and their ambitions.

In 2107, we invented biological immortality. It only added fuel to the fire. As it became easier and easier to get the necessary genetic modifications, the human population just grew larger and larger. Nobody bothered to stop it. No one child laws were introduced, no attempts to curb the population boom. When there wasn't room, people just left Earth for the colonies. In 2150 or so, people started to leave the Moon. The total human population by then was somewhere around 350 billion. We didn't stop.

Now, the year is 2300. We passed a trillion a while back, and now humanity numbers in the hundreds of trillions. The moons of Jupiter have been colonized long ago, countless billions live in aerostat habitats floating in the atmosphere of Venus, and the older asteroid colonies are now hollowed-out, spinning worlds with their own internal atmosphere and weather. Many wars have been fought, and many colonies have earned their freedom.

Corporations operate interplanetary navies, now-independent nations have taken up countless different ideologies. In many asteroids, society is a free-for-all competition to generate the most profit. Across the solar system corporations hold total sway. Humanity is entering a stage in its existence wherein inequality is artificially ensured by law. Capitalism as we once knew it no longer holds total sway, in many places being replaced with a strange system of universal basic incomes for the "unemployed middle class" to keep them participating in a monetary economy while the poor underclasses live in slums at best and slave shacks at worst. Where pure capitalism still exists, there are a few ultrarich individuals surrounded by billions of barely surviving near-slaves stepping on each other's heads in an attempt to get to the top.

But all that might be about to change.

On the first of January of this year, something unprecedented happened. The bubble burst. With the resources to support ten quadrillion being mined in the asteroid belt, the entire human economy was based upon a false scarcity kept in place with the economic equivalent of the liberal application of duct tape. And that tape has given way. The stock market has crashed in an event that has become known simply by the date it occurred on: 1/1/2300 (usually shortened to 1/1/23). The new world has become old, replaced by an uncertain future where anything is possible.

Humanity's future is no longer the bright utopia proposed to the masses for centuries. And the masses will not be happy.


















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Interesting
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Interest from my side as well!
I was thinking about a re-worked version of my Jötunn Global company, from another rp, which has turned from a "normal Cooperation" into a Neo-feudal Dictatorship!
Gonna call dips on Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia, Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard! For space...Titan and a few small colonies elsewhere, also an small, but good developed chunk of the moon
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Hmmm, I've run into a bit of a problem. I'm actually no sure how many people would feasibly be able to live in a single aerostat colony floating in Venus' atmosphere, or how large it could be. Does anyone have any idea? Since some of you seem to have a far better grasp of this kind of stuff than most people.
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Someone better discover space whales or else

P.S Does terraforming tech exist yet?
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Would having a two or three trillion people as the population total be adequate? I'm thinking there would be about three hundred million active personnel and a couple billion in reserves.
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Since no one has taken up the idea publically, I would be willing to build an Artifical Intelligence faction that would (hopefully) fit into this interesting roleplay. Of course, that is if you are willing to accept me joining~

(On the side note, is Virtual Reality achieved by now? As currently in 2300, we have the capabilities of developing superhuman AIs at this rate which is a testament of how far our technology has developed. So can I assume the technology for VR has been around for quite a while now? )
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Since no one has taken up the idea publically, I would be willing to build an Artifical Intelligence faction that would (hopefully) fit into this interesting roleplay. Of course, that is if you are willing to accept me joining~

(On the side note, is Virtual Reality achieved by now? As currently in 2300, we have the capabilities of developing superhuman AIs at this rate which is a testament of how far our technology has developed. So can I assume the technology for VR has been around for quite a while now? )


VR is actually a fairly integral part of 24th century society. There's an odd sort of middle class that's been created in most places to keep a system still recognizable as capitalism going, and none of these middle class people have practical jobs (some act as administrators for office work performed by simple AIs, some are artists, etc). VR is, aside from being a huge phenomenon in this class that lets them feel like something is happening in their lives, necessary to keep the lower classes from revolting. If someone plays some VR MMO in their spare time, they won't be organizing against corporate or the government.

As for your question about an AI faction, while not at all impossible (one of my major characters is an AI), AIs in this society are considered subhuman and used as slaves of all types. This has been the case since essentially the initial creation of sapient AI. So that fact might mess up your plans, but if it doesn't or you can work around it then by all means go for it.



Someone better discover space whales or else

P.S Does terraforming tech exist yet?


Yes, but nothing's been terraformed since the lowest estimate for terraforming Mars is 1,000 years (the actual realistic estimate is 100,000). There's no magical genesis device or vaugely-explained nanobots yet, it's all throwing comets and bombing stuff with algae. Realistically, nothing is ever going to be terraformed in this RP. Unless I go mad or something.
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Since the whole rp seems quite crowded with godless commies, it is time to bring in some Prussian Space Capitalists!

WIP,

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Still a WIP. I have taken the liberty of claimed North America, just to show it a little love.



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Would this rp start on the first of January, or take place sometime later?
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Still a WIP, but it's a start.

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@Sadko

Morgan Freeman leads your people? Well shit.
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I'm horrible at writing Histories. Its also my least favorite but more important (to me) part of the CS.
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