A remaking of a RP that due to school I had left behind, but now am bringing new life to due to having a whole summer freed up.

Now, when playing this expect to have some sci-fi world building on the agenda. I supplied the planets, you supply the societies.

Players from the past iteration of this RP can freely jump back in even with the reorientation to more character oriented play.

In this RP, there is three player classes. Humans, Aliens and Custodians. Humans came to this system a thousand years earlier with just one spaceship while the Aliens are more their own things while Custodians are more part of the ruins than the other two.

The scaling to balance this is that with Custodians you have a individual with drones, albeit a powerful individual while humans can be states who share their tech base with other human societies. Aliens meanwhile can be whole civilizations.

I'll redesign the star system and am open to requests on how to modify the star system as a whole, though the Gabriel moon system should be left relatively untouched. This is just what we are starting with and we can modify things to better fit the vision you have going into this RP.

The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani


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As the last men and women of Earth, it is our duty to make one last ditch effort to reach paradise... however long the journey.




Millennia ago the human species was rendered extinct.

A thousand years ago, our kind was born again.

From the wombs of machines born to live on a humid tropical world.

From the few thousand raised by machines came the future.

From the first tribe would develop every civilization that exists today.

Having to struggle in a humid environment filled with alien beings.

Worse still, some of them were smart and genuinely a danger to us.

As they would be monitored by custodians and attacks by the natives.

Still, our ancestors persisted despite the constant struggle.

And went on to build the foundations for billions to thrive once more.

And from those foundations we launched yet again into space.

To colonize other worlds and understand this strange place.

It was known the other worlds also had life.

Still, it was a massive shock to find intelligence still.

It became a fact of life, how common civilization is.

As even Solomon proves not as secure as it was initially assumed.

For we have been just scratching the crust when there is far more.

Layers upon layers of underground jungles on Solomon and sprawling ghost cities.

Some still maintained by mindless and mad custodians.

Overwhelming it all can become, the more you take it in.

The whole star system being touched in some way by the degenerative descendants.

Of the true creators of the worlds we live upon.

And every time we look we see swarms of activity.

Be it from the numerous ecosystems of wildlife across multiple worlds.

Giving rise alien civilizations primitive and advanced.

Or how every day a citizen sees specks of light drifting.

That weld the means to oblivion at the push of a button.

The flux and traffic of activity between the orbital cities we have set up.

Has created endless traffic around and between the worlds of Gabriel.

The scariest part is knowing how so few people can affect the lives of billions.

Across multiple civilizations, worlds and species.

Making the only certainty we have now being uncertainty.

May the first tribe save us all!

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Out of Character


The Grand Enigma or "The Grand Enigma of 82 Eridani" is a fusion of near-future technothriller and planetary romance and is the product of a desire to make a sci-fi RP that is neither sol or has a galaxy to worry about. For here there is only one star system, near future technology in the far future and lots of exotic locales to work with across multiple worlds.

In terms of applying for Grand Enigma, all you need to do is PM me your first IC post as a trial after making some lore and promise to work with other players in regards to collaborative world building while not doing the things on the list of NO. For ideas, check the list of YES which you can also add to by saying what you as a player want to have someone else take on the role of.

You are to pick a perspective to play from, with different guidelines for each perspective. If you want a hybrid perspective, you need to hold yourself accountable to multiple sets of guidelines. So if you want to be aliens from another star system for instance, you have similar guidelines to humans along with the alien guidelines.

But first you must understand the Eridani 82 system and the worlds you are to inhabit and figure out where you want to set up.





Please stick to the Gabriel system for now! It has the only human habitable worlds and Solomon is the world humans colonized.
As well, it has the most interesting worlds as all of them have complex life, ruins and are places intelligent natives to develop.
Now dedicate to one of three perspectives and put your work within said perspective. You can make individuals from another perspective, but you cannot make civilizations or species from other perspectives once you make a civilization for one of the three perspectives.





There are also hybrid perspectives and guidelines regarding any potential mixture of the above three perspectives.



Finally, use the following form to make your app-
Name:
Perspective:
Information:

And PM me an introductory IC post to start playing!





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Imagery made in the following programs:
Universe Sandbox 2 (where I modeled the star system used in this RP)
Space Engine (Used for the splash picture)

Useful links:
82 Eridani Information