"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Brief overview of the setting:
In the distant future a colony ship called The Star of India landed on an uncharted planet and lost all contact with earth. Technology had evolved to a point where it is possible to transfer ones mind to a new bio-engineered body creating psuedo-immortality, the original crew used this to rule over their now primitive descendants by hoarding most earth knowledge and technology.
In time this has evolved to become reminiscent of a caste system, those who had pleased the top hierarchy could work up the karma to be given the body of a lord or king, those who had displeased were given the body of a servant or in extreme cases that of an animal. At the top of the hierarchy those of the the original crew that remained and others who had risen to join them, using a mixture of bioengineeing, self-hypnosis and other techniques they were able to develop limited psychic powers known as 'aspects'. Combined with technology the more primitive inhabitants saw these powers were seen as god-like and over time they even adopted the guise of the Hindu pantheon. Ruled by the mighty trio of Brahmin, Vishnu and Shiva the gods dwell in Celestial City, a technological utopia. But with the recent death of Brahmin a rift has been torn across paradise and there is rumors of war in heaven.
That's about as easily I can surmise things, but I'll go into more detail once the OOC goes ahead. The setting is based on the book 'Lord of Light' which I highly recommend but is far from necessary reading as the events of the roleplay won't follow that of the book and we'll be playing with original characters. If you'd like a feel for the setting and the writing style there's a sample of the first chapter here: http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Light-Roger-Zelazny/dp/0060567236
As for the actual roleplay we will each play as one of the 'gods' from the hindu pantheon or another character you think might work in the setting. Power wise they are more like demi-gods, envision someone in a medival setting with a grenade launcher and power armor, the rp will have elements of a nation rp as each god has many temples and cities that are loyal to it and declaring war on another god would have serious consequences among their followers. Seeing as most people won't have read the book and even then details on the world is quite sparse I'm more than happy for people to come up with their own ideas for the setting without any worry for breaking canon.
The book this is based on is quite obscure but I've wanted to roleplay in this setting for a while and a chance to try out that mythic flowery writing style that can almost only be used in this world.