Walking the Trail of Stars - A 'Wild Western' Sci-fi RP

[Jb]

I know what you're thinking - JB, why are you making another RP? And (probably) why the Hell am I doing an idea that has clearly been done before...many times...on this forum alone.

Well, the first answer is that I just finished watching the 2016 version of the Magnificent Seven, then got thinking on Firefly and the like, then about space and so on; the answer to the second question is a simply 'why not'?

Although I do intend to write a fuller explanation/detail if/when I get an OOC up, I shall write a short summary for now.

In an undisclosed time in the future, the world has become far too overpopulated, resources are dwindling and the Planetary Government can no longer sustain so many people - several colonising 'missions' have been sent into space before, but none have ever been heard from again. Our characters, with an outer veneer of the Wild West but the technology and such of 'the future' I.E. Stetson hats and chaps but laser-firing Peacemakers and robotic horses, are part of the newest batch of colonists/homesteaders/idiots to take on the challenge of the Trail of Stars to make their homes on a colonisable planet somewhere out there.

Not an original idea I'll admit (damn you, Westworld!), but an idea I would like to try out nonetheless; we will need characters from all walks of life, all ethnic groups etc, and so forth, so in that at least the sky is the limit. I will say now though that this will be based on post-Civil War USA and will include everything that went with it I.E. Racial prejudice, rough-and-ready handling of the 'law' and so on and so forth.

I'm just throwing this idea out there because personally I think it'd be a fun ride, no matter the ending!

If anyone's with me, then please do speak up. If not, well, it'll just be another of my many RPs consigned to history.

My thanks for your time.

P.S.

Got questions? Ask them!

Interested Parties thus far

@Za Warudo

@Dogematix (Tentative interest)

@Mach2

@DrunkasaurusRex (My resident stalker...)

@The Mover

@Paraffin

@BurningCold

[Za Warudo]

Sign me the fuck up!

[Jb]

Sign me the fuck up!

@Za Warudo

Signed up ye are, as fuck. :)

[Dogematix]

Tentativly throwing my cowboy hat into the ring.

[Jb]

@Dogematix Cool...cool,cool,cool.

[Mach2]

OooooOOOOOooooh. I saw 'Firefly' in that description. Sign me UP.

Also, thank you Jbcool for reminding me that I still need to watch Westworld. I've heard good things.

[Jb]

@Mach2 You're welcome, and it is good! Good enough that I'd recommend a watch.

[Dogematix]

So any ideas for the general setup? Like are we going for a firefly crew right off the bat or will our characters be starting off in their separate walks of life?

[TyrannosaursRex]

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[Jb]

@DrunkasaurusRex Stop stalking me, dammit!

So any ideas for the general setup? Like are we going for a firefly crew right off the bat or will our characters be starting off in their separate walks of life?

@Dogematix

Plenty of ideas, actually (that will all become cleaerer if/when I get an OOC thread up); we'll each be starting off as separate entities, each with our own small craft - whether singular or as families - what happens once we leave Earth will define roles and so on.

Bear in mind that when I say 'Wild West sci-fi', I mean it I.E. although in a far away galaxy and long time ago, the setting will be as if we are in/on 1865 post-Civil War Earth. If your character is...say...Russian, for example, Alexander II will be on the throne and your character may be an animal wrangler at the Leningrad Zoo using an electro-whip and taming wild cyber-tigers for entertainment. Perhaps a a writer from Victorian England, one who uses specialised imagination-enhancers and finger-quills to help them write on their holo-tablet.

That is the sort of thing I'm thinking of - a load of history, a little imagination, and one big migration into the cosmos in what is essentially a US wagon train into space.

[Dogematix]

Well that's helped a character idea take shape right there.

[Jb]

@DrunkasaurusRex

Well that's helped a character idea take shape right there.

@Dogematix

I'm actually scared now as to what that may be...that being said, I am glad that it helped. :)

[The Mover]

I am most definitely interested if this Roleplay. I do love me some Westerns and some Sci-fi! I could definitely see myself playing a 'frontier Doctor' with his little round glasses and his medicine bag of 'goodies'.

[Paraffin]

your character may be an animal wrangler at the Leningrad Zoo using an electro-whip and taming wild cyber-tigers

Don't you mean...TiGEARS

[BurningCold]

@Jbcool You've got this tagged as both casual and advanced. I'll admit I'm intrigued but I was wondering if you had any specific requirements for post length and frequency? (I'm just going to assume that the post quality is supposed to be high)

[Paraffin]

Incidentally the straight transfer of one setting to a sci-fi while changing as little as possible reminds me of Ulysses 31

[Jb]

@The Mover And your character shall be called 'Doc', no matter what their given name is. :D

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Don't you mean...TiGEARS

@Paraffin

Incidentally the straight transfer of one setting to a sci-fi while changing as little as possible reminds me of Ulysses 31

@Paraffin

I see that you've got the right idea! Also, I had never actually heard of/watched that cartoon...but now I may just have to.

@BurningCold What you assume is most correct, good sir (or madam), this is not a place for low-quality posts, poor grammar/spelling or posts any shorter than at least two paragraphs; if you want to write more, then I've no problem whatsoever, but if you write less then saying more with less words is also fine.

[BurningCold]

@Jbcool I'd definitely appreciate a tag when the ooc is up.

[Jb]

@Za Warudo@Dogematix@Mach2@DrunkasaurusRex@The Mover@Paraffin@BurningCold

Okie dokie, we got ourselves seven (I'm assuming good and decent) folks thus far - I like that number, but if anyone else wishes to show their interest then please do!

I shall get to work on the OOC soon, so stay tuned and get those laser-colts ready.

[The Mover]

Laser-colts? Oh boy.. seems I'm gonna be doctoring pretty often here...