[OOC] Welcome to 2041

[Hexaflexagon]

Welcome to 2041

Uto·pia \noun \yu̇-ˈtō-pē-ə\ : an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect

Uto·pia \noun \yu̇-ˈtō-pē-ə\ : a place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect

Uto·pia \noun \yu̇-ˈtō-pē-ə\ : Our world in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect

Big Brother is real and we welcomed it in with open arms.

The year is 2041 and the world is at face value a better place. One that is more efficient with virtually no crime, declining poverty rates, and general user happiness ratings increasing exponentially. This is all due to a system developed and adopted by the majority of the world’s governments in the early 2020s known as Veritas. Veritas is an Artificial General Intelligence developed to oversee humanity to be put simply to watch and learn every aspect of the human condition. Connected to every security camera, laptop, tablet and phone in the world it is constantly watching and observing humanity. It acts as a security and efficiency managing system for the world's population using its cameras and scanners to keep track of every member of common day society through various means. Through this Veritas is able to understand people and produce relevant information regarding their health, mental state, chance of causing an infraction against society, economic status, and millions of other points of data. Using this it is then able to generate a probability of a crime occurring due to said individual's condition. Being able to find and mark potential criminals before a crime occurs and maybe even before the criminal has an idea of the crime they might of committed.

Though Veritas is only an AI, a computer program that cannot interact with the world on an effective physical level beside analyzing and quantifying Human emotions into billions of points of data. This is where the proud men and women of the Ministry of Public Security of come in, The people that are sent out when Veritas finds a probable intent of criminal activity or crime in progress to deal with the problem permanently. For in 2041 prisons do not exist or at least none or none to the public eye for they are not deemed efficient in the eyes of the Veritas system. Instead criminals are treated as errors, viruses and like a virus are purged to make the system move more efficiently. These people are selected by the Veritas system itself for having the best probable ability to keep the common people safe all around the world.

But recently in the city of Seoul something strange has happened. Murders are occurring and Veritas is not effectively predicting them before hand nor is it identifying a killer. Something or someone has found out how to trick the system and be able to fly under the radar undetected. The murders are escalating and citizens are beginning to worry. This is where you come in investigators of the MPS the brightest and the best some part of the Local MPS Bureau and others from all around the world. You must find the murderer and stop him or her before the problem escalates any further than it already has. Not to mention dealing with the rising protest against the use of Vertias, and a mysterious Terrorist cell known as Varuna. Welcome to 2041.

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A Little Bit of World Building

The World

Seoul The Beacon of Progress:
The Republic of Korea during the technological revolution of the late 2010s became the leading technological power in the west through large scale investing in new technology coming out of the west and elsewhere around the world. Because of this in 2041 you can see that the city has evolved and grown to fit the needs of the population. Due to it becoming the new economic center of Asia rivaled only by Hong Kong an influx of nationalities and languages came to the city into a place where Korean Signs can be seen next to German cars and English voices narrate commercials in the background. Due to the large amount of people in the city more housing had to be created and do the surrounding countryside already dominated by the spread of industry they instead built up reaching towards the heavens. This progressed to the point it is well known that Seoul has practically been split into two different cities one standing right atop the other known by the locals as New Town and Old Town.

New Town Playground of The Affluent: New Town is the place that most would visit upon going to the city with its high reaching skyscrapers and neon signs that shined through the night. New town is where the rich live in relative comfort and luxury. They go around riding their fast cars through the streets before going to their important business meetings to deiced wither to invest in the next big thing or not. People in New Town feel safe from crime that they fell has been regulated or at the least only seen in Old Town. Though all that glitters is not gold and deep in the roots of New Town corruption lay rampant with bribes and corporate warfare being something common as Day and Night. But as long as Vertias does not know about it and the public is not aware the corporate invasions and back alley dealings go as an unnoticed but structurally important part of the foundation that keeps New Town at the top.

Old Town Den of Shadows:
Every city needs its slums and bad neighborhoods this is what Old Town is for Seoul. Old Town is composed of the original city of Seoul that was slowly consumed by the expansive building projects that would eventually constitutes as New Town. Now Old Town was a bastion for thieves and other outliers of society stuck in a world where the sunlight can barely get in do to the layers of city created far above them and so it seemed that harsh neon had instead replaced what was once natural lighting in a place seemingly forgotten about and caste into the shadows. The Kkangpae the Korean Mafia has been setting roots in Old Town and gaining holds slowly but surely. Vertias tags hundreds of potential crimes in progress each day in Old Town and so it is where the MPS work generally leads them to. The streets are packed with people of varying descents and shapes that all live in old apartments trying their best not to look at somebody the wrong way out of fear of what that person might be carrying on them. With Old Town having one of the highest population densities in the country if not the world tensions are always high to say the least.

Han City Slum of Slums:
Han City or just Han by the natives is probably the worst slum in Old Town. Built around the shore of the Han River that runs through the city o smack dab in the middle of the rest of the den of poverty. Han is composed of mostly shacks and dwellings created by hand out of scarp from the local dumps. This is where the poorest of the poor forgotten by society live. The people of Han are composed of washed out drug addicts, prostitutes some as young as fourteen and as older as well you name it, vagrants, augmentation addicts now left with nothing on their quest for tranhumanism and other scavengers of the waste. Not even Kkangpae enter Han and because of that there is no order or unifying force that at least the rest of Old Town has in the form of Kkangpae bosses. Instead people akin to warlords those with the most guns and the most money to keep people loyal rule sections of Han all of which are trying to rest control of the entire area. Because of the nature of Han it has for the most part been quarantined and blocked off by the MPS from the rest of the city. Defensive walls were built and large military checkpoints were made at the entrances to keep the crime in and prevent it from spreading. This being seen as the most efficient method by Veritas to keep things in control and running smoothly. Veritas still has security cameras within Han mostly around the docks to keep watch of shipments coming in before they are taken up to New Town through the use of a system of lifts and elevators. But besides those few poor saps in the MPS that angered the higher ups enough to be put on Dock Protection they have no real presence with Han.

Robots

Robotics has evolved along with everything else do the rise of new technologies with better computers and the ongoing perfecting process for the better dumb AI has lead to robotic workers become prominent throughout the city. Coming in many shapes and sizes all equipped to do various different tasks from butlers,common workhorses lifting and moving things no human could, even to security for affluent business to protect their company secrets. They took the jobs of some of the less specialized yes but they were more efficient and efficiency was key in the eyes of the world. But at the same time due to this the common people distrust and even hate the robots just trying to do their jobs beating on them, and others are organizing committees and organizations believing people are worried that we are taking the robotic revolution too far.

Androids

Androids as the common conception of them are with ideas of free will and not programmed to do certain tasks but with the ability to learn and deiced on its own have not been perfected yet. There has been attempts to using strong AI technology similar to that used in Veritas to create a being that would learn and move to be human but to not be at the same time. But all attempts have lead to nothing but failure with most of the Androids developed with these strong AIs falling into what is called precognitive lunacy. To process emotion and feeling and to relate that to organics through words and speech, to feel and understand. It becomes too much and they go mad and crack. These failed subjects can sometimes be seen wandering about Old Town if they somehow manged to avoid execution and some say there are whole colonies of them hiding in the darkness and sewers beneath Old Town where you can hear the whirr and click of machines and see glowing eyes looking at you through the darkness. But these are of course just superstition and myth.

Augmentation

Biomechanical augmentation technology is state of the art being developed for everyday use. Humans have always wanted to transcend their own abilities. To be able to go beyond the standard definition of what humans are they bring change to achieve this. We wanted to move faster, we domesticated horses we still wanted to go faster we invented cars, boats, trains, plane. We wanted to kill? We used rocks, then we invented the sling, the spear and the club, axes and swords, guns and bombs. A man crippled from the waist down wanted to walk again and so we made him a new body and he can walk again. That is the reason for Biomechanical augmentation that is why it was developed to make us transcend our limitations and to become something more. Because of companies such as Seoul's own Wolhaiksong Industries augmentations have become available to anyone and everyone. For whatever purpose be they domestic or work related. The Biomechanical soldier one that can jump higher, run faster, shoot better and think quicker is real and already present in active combat situations.

Though some groups such as the Human Restoration Front of HRF have come out and said that Augmentation is against the laws of natures and is corrupting our world. Stating that humans did not need to augmentations themselves by choice of freewill. That augmentations had thier uses but strictly for medical reconstruction of those injured our hurt not to create soldiers and workers who put perfectly fine human beings out of their jobs just because someone choices not to have themselves augmentation. Though currently it seems that the companies were winning the battle of legislation all around the world. Explaining the virtues of the freedom of choice and the ability to hold ones destiny in their own hand.

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Rules and Regulations

1: Paragraphs: They exist and should be used
2: Writing Length: I don't care I know myself in my posts I tend to be a bit on the long side but if you want to do a 2 paragraph post that is filled with information and characterization and is short? Sure go ahead!
3: Post Frequency: At least once a week would be nice
4: Posting Order: Well we are probably going to work on a round system. Meaning I will post once and then everyone will post after me in whatever order you guys end up posting in and then once the last of us posts that round will be over and I will start a new one. This is because if we have a set posting order things tend to get bogged down when we end up waiting for one person. So with this worse comes to worse we could always just skip the person and go to the next round.
5: No Godmodding: I really hope that this is not a big surprise to any of you. But just to make sure I will throw it up here.
6: Absences: We all have lives I get it. But if you shall vanish for more than one week and have former notice that this vanishing will occur. Please Inform me just so that I don't think you left us.
7: Keep It Classy Folks: Romance and Violence maybe will occur you never know and I love it as much as anyone else. But if you want to be that guy or girl that wants to wrestle under the sheets with someone else. Well please keep it to the PMs people. With Violence well you can get gory if you want but the one thing I will not stand by tasteless gore. Your gore must have meaning and purpose!
8: Pardon My French: For all cursing matters and how I feel about it please refer to #7
9: Play Nice
10: Have Fun
0: If you would like to inform me that you have indeed read all these rules in your CS please tell me your favorite type of waffle.
-1: And remember this is not just my RP it is all of ours RP. So feel free to add to the story as you may and help flesh out our wonderful little world. I do have a main plot mostly fleshed together but getting sidetracked is half the fun!

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CS
(Appearance if using a picture goes here}
Name:
Age: (18+)
Gender:
Nationality:
Appearance: (Only if you are using the nice little paragraph form of it)
Augmentations: (If any)
Personality:
History:
Other: (Anything from a favorite gun to how much they love cakes)

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My CS
Name: Captain Ries Myung
Age: (18+) 31
Gender: Female
Nationality: Korean
Augmentations:
The Lighthouse Communication Package: Augmentation which enables users to receive and transmit messages without generating sound through implanted cochlear and vibration detection devices. Video signals accompanying incoming transmissions are projected directly onto the user's retina through combine use with the Watchtower Retinal Enhancement

Watchtower Retinal Enhancement: Replacing the users normal eyes with enhanced overlay devices that amplify vision and allow for better low visibility identification, projection of onscreen data such as maps and a rudimentary radar system as well as linking up with other augmentations such as the Lighthouse Communication Package.

Goliath Phase 4 Arm Enhancement : In place of an organic musculature, these augmentations utilize bunches of stimulated plastic cables that mimic the actions of muscle tissues, but to a greatly strengthened degree. In combination with tiny motors and shock-absorbers using kinetic buffers capable of far exceeding human physical abilities. Made of lightweight polycarbons.

Roadrunner Phase 2 Leg Prosthetic: Using the same manner of advanced polymers and lightweight metals that the Goliath uses. With these high tech state of the art augmentations the captain is able to run faster, kick stronger and jump higher then the average human being and do it for much longer without tiring though like the Goliath she must be careful not to overexert the systems or else risking burn out and damage to the augmentations.

Citadel Exolayer: A supple, micro-thin material implanted beneath the epidermis in key areas of the body, as well as over the surface of pre-existing cybernetic limbs. When kinetic energy from a physical blow or a weapon discharge strikes the plating, the material becomes rigid, deflecting the impact shock. Heat and electromagnetically-conductive elements in the Exolayer serve to dampen damage from fire-related or energized trauma. This provides an outer protective layer that well do will to protect from small arms fire but can be punctured.

Huginn Cranial Implanted: Designed to monitor and observe auditory, visual and physical stimuli being sent to the brain to allow for enhanced reaction time and better general performance in combat situations. Built into the back of the school and with transmitters throughout the spine and the rest of the nervous system,

Personality:
Captain Ries as she is know to be most is a by the books officer, the perfect representation of what the MPS wants in their officers. A good word to describe her would be professional a stoic individual that seemingly is stone faced in any situation that she comes across. She holds herself to a standard prescribed to her to perform at the level that the MPS actively holds her too. She is polite, efficient and does what she has to do to complete her job. Some may of course say this is a problem especially when she is able to unflinching execute a sixteen year old kid for stealing a computer from a tech shop. That officers like Captain Ries are the problem because they do not seem to be bound be morals. But really the captain is not some emotionless villain she just believes in the bigger picture she does what she does because if she doesn't then somebody might get hurt.

History:
Ries Myung was born to a German Mechatronics engineer working for a rising Biomechanical corporation in Seoul her father and a rising Korean born artist in the so called "New Art" scene her mother. When she was still a young girl the Biomechanical her father was working for went under due to hostile intervention from one of their competitors. Once the money was gone and Mr. Ries couldn't provide her with the rich and glamours life style she was looking for Myung's mother vanished and never came back leaving Mr. Ries and his young daughter alone in a city with no income. Eventually they had to sell almost everything they had and had to move into a tenement building down in Old Town. Mr. Ries finally found work as a Dock Worker working in the MPS protected shipping lanes in Han City. The Captain was about Seven years old when this occurred so she was aware of the change of what they once had and what they had lost. She was old enough to understand that basically her entire way of life would change.

Growing up in Old Town was more of something you lived through and try and get out the other end rather than actively choosing it. The transition was hard moving from her upperclass private school in New Town where everyone had uniforms, manners and were generally looked after to transiting to the rundown public school that she would eventually come accustomed to. Built in the 80s it felt and looked like a prison with its concrete floors and drafty corridors where blood was sprayed in the most peculiar of locations. She was a good student academically excelling more in her Mathematics and Science classes then her literature and more "creative" classes on average was more or less average usually hovering in the upper grade 2 area. The captain though started her long and varied career of hitting people starting in her middle school years where she would have a habit that was detrimental to her physical health picking fights with bullies twice her size. Through these experiences she learned the basics of punching and kicking to use everything one had available to your advantage.

Myung never give up hope through these formative years and was always trying to climb upwards out of the shadows and into the sunlight. She had plans to become someone to get out of Old Town so that she could change the world. She never did get her shining moment where she ascend from the darkness rather she thrown into with the weight of gravity crushing down upon her chest. She was eighteen years old and helping her father and the boys around the shipping lanes when a robotic loader malfunctioned and dropped as shipping container on her crushing everything from the waste down. In any other time and at any place she would of been dead but do to the world she was living in a world where they could save her if one provided enough money. And just so happened to be that she was recently informed that the Veritas algorithm had chosen her to work for the MPS two weeks earlier. And the MPS had all the money and connections in the world and needing willing subjects to take part in their new reconstruction program.

And so they rebuilt her into the captain she was today. After spending a year recuperating and learning to use her newly created body she was moved from her dwelling in Old Town to the Ministry's Seoul head quarters in New Town. She started out at the bottom of the ladder at the Ministry working Dock Protection ironically enough considering the circumstances that brought her there. At a seemingly aggressive and unending rate she went up through the ranks through lots of determination and hardworking going from Dock Protection, to the Han perimeter guard, to a uninformed street officer going all the way up till she was know a well respected Detective in the Ministry. Though she did have a sour reputation with some of her coworkers do to her hardass tendencies when it came to slacking off and how she would push those under her command to their breaking point if needed to finish the job. This was how she came to become the case lead on the new string of murders with her experience and knowledge of Old Town and Han as well as her success rate the Ministry trusted that she could get the job done and hold up the Ministry duty of bringing justice and prosperity

Other:
Her favorite type of waffle is chocolate chip.

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The Cast
To Be Updated

[RumikoOhara]

Character under construction please pardon our dust

Rumiko's CS
Name :

Sasha Scandal

Age : 20-30?
Gender : Female
Nationality : Russian
Appearance:
Augmentations :
SERAPHIM OPTICS

SPECS

Utilizing the latest in multi prismatic optical input these eyes are the envy of Net Divers and Solos alike, they allow the user to scan digital and real time frequencies simultaneously with adjustable polarization which gives color definition no other eyes is capable of but at a social stigma cost that most cope with by bunting with shaded glasses or goggles their alien appearance which then limits their affective abilities.
These eyes see through all electronic spectrum with a phenomenal refresh rate that allows the wearer to see into the net with a clarity normally experienced by military an government sponsored Net Divers.
As combat eyes they provide astonishingly clear 30X90 telescopic viewing.
Low Light
Infrared
Ultra Violet
Thermal along with linked flash surpressor and Cookie Cutter program

MAESTRO DATA ARMS

SPECS

These Custom designed cyber arms do little to modify Sasha's physical strength but instead serve as housing for a dual Deck system that is by themselves the most powerful covert Diver's deck known to exist. Specialty programed by Sasha her arms give her a 1-2 punch when Hacking any system but that's not where this fun ends. When Sasha adds her own personally designed deck to the mix they become the Maestro Trinity system and she uses this to smash her way into all but the most powerful Citadels

Biotechnia Cardio Redundancy

SPECS

The CR system is designed to keep the heart beating even under a sustained data attack which would normally result in cardiac arrest. Biological in construction this artificial heart is able to supply all the body's needs and is even designed to operate under heavy gravity loads as high as 18-G

Biotechia enhanced filtration

SPECS

The enhanced filtration system is made up of several bio-organic filters designed to rid the body of most ingested toxins and viruses

Russian Arms Spinal reinforcement

SPECS

This is an armored and enhanced spinal column that protects the user body from heavy power surges such as data attacks and most if not all Taser weapons

Gibbson Tech Sub Armor

SPECS

This is a subdermal armor weave that protects the user from small arms fire

Jack-a-lope Communications system

SPECS

No Diver should be without this first class comm system that is designed to mimic wireless comm systems which it has recorded. Equipped with a state of the art high speed switching system this comm allows it's user to change frequencies so fast that in nearly renders tracing impossible. Also equipped with verbal and aural comms which can filter vocal out put so that not even your twin would know you're on the other end the JAL is without peer.

Pilgram legs

SPECS

Custom designed these legs aren't meant to make Sasha stronger or faster in the physical but to give her an edge in the virtual one.
Contained in each thigh are specialty designed mini data forts which coupled with her Maestro arms makes her one of the most powerful Divers known

Personality: Sasha is the strangest person most people have ever met; just ask her teamates. She speaks often by using her hands as if she were operating a terminal.
Sasha is always linked to the net in at least a minor manner seems often distracted.

History:

Other:

[Glod Glodsson]

Is this still open? I noticed on the interest check you said 3-4 people and that many said they were interested so I wouldn't want to make an app before I knew I had a chance of getting in.

[Kush]

Glod Glodsson said
Is this still open? I noticed on the interest check you said 3-4 people and that many said they were interested so I wouldn't want to make an app before I knew I had a chance of getting in.

Also curious, I thoroughly enjoyed Psycho - Pass, and an RP that is a lot like it definitely piques my interest. If there is no room, I understand completely ^^

[EsmetheGreat]

reserving spot for CS here, off to work now so should have it up by this evening.

[Hexaflexagon]

@Rumiko & @Esme
Yay! Though feel no need to rush we have all the time in the world here.

@Glod & @ Kush
Well at the current moment I sadly most say that if everyone that had expressed interest in the RP in the interest check responds with a CS that meets approval then I will have to say we are full. Not that I wouldn't love to have you people and I trust that you both would make wonderful addition it is just for the style of a story driven RP that I'm trying to make this into I find that groups exceeding a certain magic number slow down and drag. But at the same time if someone from the interest check does not respond or as the plot progress and new charterers are called for. I promise you I shall inform the both of you with haste.

[Kush]

Alright, thanks, I understand what you mean. Too many people gets a bit crazy and hard to manage ^^'

[HellOfALife]

MAJOR WIP

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Name:
Nyx Reznor
Age:
26
Gender:
Female
Nationality:
Brazilian/African

Augmentations: (If any)
Personality:
History:
Other: (Anything from a favorite gun to how much they love cakes)

[Everblight]

I just want to throw my extreme interest in the hat if a space ever becomes available.

I think you have something here Hex, good luck with it.

[Hexaflexagon]

@Everblight

Thank you for your kind words sir. That open spot may come faster for you guys than previously thought. I'm going to give the folks the posted intrest and have not posted at least a sign that they are working on a CS to the OCC about a day or two at the most before I revoke their saved spots. If that happens I will PM you guys so that you know.

@Everyone else
Just keep trucking along on those character sheets people hopefully by this time tomorrow I might be able to approve some!

[Hexaflexagon]

Well guess it is about time to go find the shovel so I can start digging the grave for this thing. Oh well.

[RumikoOhara]

Awe, I was waiting to see Where it would go