Hello. I initially started this thread with the OP of the RP I initially had, but realize that perhaps I am overwhelming people.

So instead let us have it be a brief check for interest instead of the reposting of the first iteration of this RP.

Premise

Set in a unknown point in the future, humans come back from extinction on a tropical alien world.

See, the human species after having been extinct for so long is alive once more thanks to a unmanned colony ship carrying a crew not of full sized humans, but of genetic code.

Born once more upon landing, the earliest generation would be raised by the Damara AI instead of any human parents once the first children on this alien world were born adapted from the womb.

The efforts of the Damara AI would prove fruitless, as while successful in giving birth to the humans who would come to colony the new world it proved a horrible parent, as by the second generation of humans the whole initiative simply collapsed. The first tribe was lost and the troubles that plague the human species would continue to plague it still.

Humans fell back to tribalism once more, fighting aliens among ancient ruins and contenting with a environment that proved itself progressively more different than anything on Earth. New societies and systems arose as the knowledge of the old humans were recovered and the technology of the ancient aliens who once reigned supreme on these worlds was studied.

Centuries would ensue before any civilization would make itself on this moon once again. Centuries more just to regain interplanetary space travel. Interstellar space travel however, remains deeply out of reach.

Now it is current times and the moon system as a whole has proven remarkably complex- for it was not just the moon humans colonized that was actually habitable. The icy moon and desert moon both proved to be hot beds of life in their own right, with even the planet which all these worlds orbit having massive life forms within its cloudscapes.

More interesting still, these worlds also have intelligent life. Beings of alien form among these worlds who have been here much longer than we ever have that humans find themselves in constant odds with to this day.

But humans are not the most advanced beings here. There is the intelligent life that is the ancient custodians of this place, whose motives are cryptic as ever in why they even allowed us to develop space travel once more. What is known as that these advanced entities the inhabits of the moon system are dealing with are not the actual ancients, but the degenerative descendants of them.

And the secrets this world holds- all the ancient technologies lying around proving of great opportunity for those seeking fortune, prosperity, knowledge, a reputation, power or something else entirely. Such scavenging is the lifeblood of civilization, as with every studied artifact comes the potential for new advancements for society.

In this RP, you can also be a alien society seemingly native to any of the worlds which this moon system holds or even a custodian among the ruins dealing with a whole different situation altogether.

In short,

-This is a sci-fi RP that takes place on a jovian moon system that contains a developing human colony with no political unity.

-There is a tropical world, a ice world, a tiny abandoned city world and a desert world in the moon system.

-There is multiple worlds with complex life in said moon system, with intelligent alien life that have developed societies of their own as a strangely common find on these worlds.

-And there are beings known as custodians, the degenerative descendants of the ancient aliens who once reigned supreme over this place who lord over the ruins.

-Players can be any of these three perspectives and are expected to do some world building.

Hmmm.

Maybe I needed to go with a smaller OP for the interest check.

I will note that I am open to hearing player input and any concerns or criticisms one has of the RP itself as I prefer that to radio silence.

For my part, as interested as before.

also interested

I am interested still, I may or may not play as the same race again, however I will note that my previous race was very primitive yet sophisticated in society and technology, an interesting and enjoyable race to play indeed.

Unlike last time i'll make a tangible human society alongside the role of Comus (who acts in PM much more than IC anyways) since the GM gets to cheat that way. Just a human civ to act as a standard bearer for other human factions and so people who don't want to make a human society don't have to early on. To those who want to make their own human society, you can still make a radically different human society with the centuries of time to work with here. Humans have been on Solomon for a thousand years by this point after all.

This same logic applies to aliens- if you want, you can make a alien character using a alien society of someone else's creation as long as it doesn't violate/contradict what said player already established about them in regards to what said civ is like.

@DracoLunaris Nice to see interest! Which perspective do you intend on being?

@Liotrent I liked them. I hope they come back.

I've decided that I will be using my old race for this one, I found it to be such a waste if I don't get to use them.

@Arawak
Alien I think.
Possibly some kind of aquatic race on Luke or Gabriel.

@DracoLunaris Either will do, though I hope you take into account the differences those worlds have. Both have lots of sea, but are radically different beyond that.

Either way I hope you make a fascinating and exotic alien to occupy one of those worlds.

If you need help making a alien civ, my advice is to work upwards and consider the environment always.

@Arawak

I'm thinking Luke, with city states built around geothermal spots. the geothermal spots where used first for metallurgy and then for power-stations and civs naturally formed around these impotent sites.

I was also thinking of having a space elevator seeing as you can build one with Kevlar if you go to worlds even slightly smaller than earth. Luke is so small and low g they probably don't even need to be that tall, it lets them stick to the whole geothermal power theme by running power from them up the cables.

Also because space elevators are cool and they should be in more Sci-Fi

only a start obviously


also octopuses in spacesuits

@DracoLunaris Molluscoids on Luke would make a lot of sense given the very low G environment- no need for bones to hold yourself up with bones on the surface there, so I can easily see them having colonized the surface as well and becoming amphibians.

We will start on Friday as I want to see if we grab more people before beginning (which is to be a slow affair unless I get help w/ recruiting), but having 4 players is enough to begin.

@Arawak What's the next?

@Liotrent Depends on what happens between now and friday in regards to interested players. It's been a slow boil, but I am willing to bid the nessecary time and make the moves needed to ensure this RP succeeds.

Developing human lore is what currently occupies me more or less. Along with making maps for each of the five worlds.

Remade the OP, please take a second consideration to those who browsed this thread before.

I figure that maybe people felt things were too set in stone by the first OP and so I decided to make a second one to alleviate that.