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Crystal spikes from the sky rained upon Earth. Civilization, nature, or sea, it didn't matter the target. Cities were fractured, continents split, and the tide thrust itself upon the land. The world as we knew it, with all of its joys and imperfections, vanished that day.

Humanity would try to rebuild. That's what it had always done in the face of destruction. However, something stopped them. The spikes that had pierced the Earth had brought a gift alongside their arrival. Giants of steel awoke from their dormancy. They emerged from the canyons and fractures created by the spikes. They crushed humans like ants. The weapons humans were so proud of did little to even scratch the metal that the beasts were comprised of.

So mankind escaped. With as many survivors as possible, man took to the Moon. With them, they took their dreams of home. They would reclaim Earth.

Of course, space was not as prosperous as Earth. Trivial matters became processes and the long-term effects of space faring were beginning to become apparent. To find a solution, man looked back to their home. From the remains of the beasts that had destroyed their home, man found a path. One that would allow them to fight back against the invaders that took their home.

Knights.


Hello and welcome.

It's ya neighbourhood goblin coming at you with a mecha RP. Inspirations are pretty on the sleeve for this one. Witch from Mercury (and Gundam in general), Evangelion, etc.

The RP will follow a group of trainee pilots sponsored by megacorps as they have to navigate being used as political tools for arms manufacturers, an academy life filled with pride and prejudice, a world government that seems to keep things secret, and being weapons of war expected to risk life and limb in order to scavenge physics-defying items.

As for technology levels, think pretty far in the future. More prosthetic and less cybernetic. Generally, the deepest technology goes is faster (but still painfully slow in the grand scheme of things) space travel, pilots being able to mentally control their mech via mental connections (ala Evangelion), and colonies/space stations functioning from scavenged alien technology.

I'm looking for a small-ish (3 to 8) group and more-or-less weekly posts.

If there's any questions, shoot 'em. It's a lot easier for me to answer direct questions than try to cover absolutely everything.

If you're interested in reading preliminary lore to get an overall idea, you can find a test thread here. I may revise large portions of it, so don't treat it as absolute.

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It's ya neighbourhood goblin coming at you with a mecha RP. Inspirations are pretty on the sleeve for this one. Witch from Mercury (and Gundam in general), Evangelion, etc.


Hey, my girlfriend loves space lesbians!

Though on a scale of 1-20, just how fucked is Earth supposed to be?
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Hey, my girlfriend loves space lesbians!

Though on a scale of 1-20, just how fucked is Earth supposed to be?


12? 15? Very fucked. The majority of cities have been reduced to piles of rubble. The ones that still stand are abandoned with structural overgrowth. The entire coastline was basically washed away. If you were unlucky enough to live near where a crystal fell, you were effectively turned into crater vapour.

Besides the immediate effect of dropping a bunch of heavy objects, there's also the anomalous weather. Black clouds of crystal dust that jam communications, hazes that block out the sun, things of that order.

Permanent settlement is pretty impossible in its current form. While the mech-aliens aren't plentiful or intelligent enough to be part of an ecosystem or form their own civilization, they tend to be pretty territorial. Any attempt at a large outpost would be stomped out pretty quickly. Basically, think about camping in the woods and a bear just struts along because it thinks you have honey.

In the more pleasant regions, there's still birds, insects, and other small fauna. Not enough time to evolve, but enough for some adaptations.

Basically, it's borked enough that it can't be resettled yet, but still has diversity. Jungles, forests, plains, city ruins, etc. It's not a massive molten slag heap.
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Hey, I'm interested.
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12? 15? Very fucked. The majority of cities have been reduced to piles of rubble. The ones that still stand are abandoned with structural overgrowth. The entire coastline was basically washed away. If you were unlucky enough to live near where a crystal fell, you were effectively turned into crater vapour.

Besides the immediate effect of dropping a bunch of heavy objects, there's also the anomalous weather. Black clouds of crystal dust that jam communications, hazes that block out the sun, things of that order.

Permanent settlement is pretty impossible in its current form. While the mech-aliens aren't plentiful or intelligent enough to be part of an ecosystem or form their own civilization, they tend to be pretty territorial. Any attempt at a large outpost would be stomped out pretty quickly. Basically, think about camping in the woods and a bear just struts along because it thinks you have honey.

In the more pleasant regions, there's still birds, insects, and other small fauna. Not enough time to evolve, but enough for some adaptations.

Basically, it's borked enough that it can't be resettled yet, but still has diversity. Jungles, forests, plains, city ruins, etc. It's not a massive molten slag heap.


So basically, if I make a character from the Bible Belt, he won't notice any significant difference between his life in the pre- and the post-apocalypse. Nice. I think I got a solid idea now.
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Definitely interested, if there is still room!
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Tempted, what is the moon like and the rest of the human colonies? Thinking of possible chars.
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Tempted, what is the moon like and the rest of the human colonies?


The Moon is effectively a small amount of specialized colonies. It's the most limited in habitation (the largest reason for that being political), so the majority of residents are the rich, powerful, and self-proclaimed elites. Think faux-greenery, pristine white buildings, and a general elitist vibe in the residential bases and extremely specialized and clean mega-facilities for the other moon bases.

The Mars colony is one big metropolis. A bunch of interconnected megadomes. Think industrial concrete, hazy skies, and a poorer quality of life. Besides the general lack of resources and the constant labour, it's not horrible.

The Outer Colonies are generally comprised of space stations designed to act as relays to mine from asteroids. Quality of life is generally pretty bad. Basically, you're out in the boonies mining for months on end. There's never enough and help is 3 months away. Think just before (or inside) the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Basically, the further out from Earth you go, the more destitute things become.

There's some more specific information in my test thread write-up.
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Something something war is bad-

Wow cool robot, I'm interested
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I'm down to throw hands with these alien invaders with cool giant robots. I'm interested.
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Oh right, weapons-wise, is there melee or just ranged weapons?
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Oh right, weapons-wise, is there melee or just ranged weapons?


There's melee and ranged. The scope of melee ranges from "this is a last ditch effort" to having mechs specifically designed for it and all auxiliary ranged weapons/systems support their ability to cut things in half.

For melee, beamswords, chainswords, massive hunks of metal, energy emitting blades, etc are all viable.
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Can I play a newtype lol
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Can I play a newtype lol


I'm staying away from newtypes as in the evolution of humanity and ambiguous psychic ability. Humans are stuck as humans.

The exception is the augmentation surgery that allows someone to sync with their mech and use their brain to control it rather than physical controls. Upsides and downsides to that, though.
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Upsides and downsides like data storms melting the brains eh. I see you, motherfuckerrrrrr.
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I'm loving The Witch From Mercury so far, and was hoping something like this would crop up. A few questions.

Students are sponsored by mega-corps, will we be making those up with our characters, or will there be a list of canon ones?

Will different corps have different specialties and styles for their Knights?

Are there any prejudices or particular societal notions regarding people who are enhanced go pilot a System Type Knight? Like we see in Iron Blooded Orphans(if you've seen it).

Hey, my girlfriend loves space lesbians!


Is she familiar with The Locked Tomb? Space lesbian fiction of the highest quality.
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Is she familiar with The Locked Tomb? Space lesbian fiction of the highest quality.


Fuck me, now there's a name I haven't heard in a hot minute...an old pal of mine actually recommended it to me during quarantine - specifically because of its pitch of being lesbian necromancers in space.

I have the PDF of it stashed somewhere on my computer. I'll have to dig it back up now...
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@OwO OK cool. What's the scale of the mechas we're working with? Would piloting something like an Atlas be unfeasible?
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Love the Lancer art, but that raises another question.

Scale is 7-12 meters, according to the auxiliary thread with additional info, and most(but not necessarily all) are humanoid. But what kind of style are they?
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