"We put the C in Capitalism!"
~Corporate troubles in a super powered future
America 2033.
The world has changed, more than it ever has before. Except for when the all the continents tore themselves off from the mainland, and also the Dinosaurs all died that one time. But it's still pretty close, because just like the Dinosaurs, a giant meteor came crashing down and changed the whole pecking order. The meteor carried with it a new substance unknown to man, which dispersed in the atmosphere and gave hundeds of thousands of people powers.
In the midst of the ensuing chaos, the first to take action was not the government. It was Corporations instead and they quickly rose to power. Suddenly all of the 'Gnu man inc.'-s and the 'Hahahah Group'-s literally became fueled by cosmic space powers, so obviously a struggle ensued. But as was the way of the world, the smaller companies were eventually trumped and absorbed by the bigger companies which in turn grew unimaginably huge. Not just large either, huge. How huge you ask? Well, one of them actually had enough bank to buy Russia. And they did.
There had to be a new term coined for that, so from that day on the Alkaev Conglomerate was crowned the world's first giga-corporation, and also as the new rulers of Russia. "Hey!" I hear you ask. "I thought you said America 2033, not Russia 2033!". I'm getting to that, so don't you worry.
Some people said that these corporations would've eventually gotten this big even without the meteor coming down and changing things. So kind of like, again with, the Dinosaurs' extinction apparently being half changing-climate with the meteor sealing the deal; the Corporations were already sort of half way in control with the meteor just sealing the deal. So yeah, most of the countries in the world became simply a collection of big corporations, except for Australia. Because no one cares about Australia.
America was one of the only major countries who managed to avoid total corporate control. They managed to get a morally sound president who didn't give in to bribes which is all the Corporations in America ended up trying for a while before they wised up, but by that time the president had already read up on all the tactics. The Corporations ended up stepping off however, as they figured out that coming into the giga-corporation business this late was probably going to be a bad move considering every other giga-corporation had a massive head start on them.
Now America has entered what would probably be termed a Corporate Stalemate, where none of the corporations can really do anything without amassing more power but none of them are clearly bigger than any other corporation and they probably won't be able to make a move without getting someone else trying to double-team you. Kind of sort of like if T-Rexes were fighting each other, except there's only 9 or 10 of them and there's no other food, except the 8 or so Mosasauruses down in the beach somewhere, but they definitely wouldn't be able to take those.
Basically, it's all a big mess. But that my friends, is what Corporate Troubles are in a Super Powered Future.
Welcome
For those that are new here, welcome. Despite the preface this RP will not be a nation RP, military RP or anything like that. It's simply a normal RP with a different kind of premise. It'll function a little differently to a normal casual RP(hopefully) in that I'm not particular about post size in here. You can make it as long or as short as you need it to be, so it is basically half free.
Now, some considerations:
- Do be respectful to other people. If you're going to have a heated debate, do it via PMs or something if it's going to clog up the OOC.
- If you need to ask about something, don't hesitate to say it either OOC or PMing me. I've made a ton of mistakes which I could've avoided if I just asked about it.
- Feel free to PM me suggestions about what I could do better, I don't have much experience GMing and I'm still human so I'll probably miss stuff some time.
- I'm not in complete control here. An RP is a player driven experience so it's really up to all of you to make big decisions.
Applications and Guidelines
- The sheet is just a template, you can add or change whatever you like with it.
- When making a power, you can make it 'overpowered' if you really want to, but consider other people. You're not the only one here and if it's just not fun to play against, then don't do it.
- Please don't try to purposely offend anyone
- Keep in mind that you should make a character you would enjoy playing. You should design a character that can have interesting interactions with other characters or the environment.
- Factions are listed in the character section
If any of you are having trouble with ideas, I can provide a lot. That's pretty much everything from me...
So, what did YOU do when America was in a Corporate Stalemate?
