Azimuth

The Team

I hope it isn't too late to join!

CS
Name:  Joe Joseph Arthur
Alias:  The Anarfist
Age:  26
Gender:  Male
Species: Superhuman
Appearance: 
He is only rarely seen outside of his motorbike related gear (his helmet, jacket, and so on.) Ironically, he does not wear any of the symbols associated with anarchism on him anywhere, owing to his intense disdain for "uniform" of any kind. He has a collection of different helmets, his favorite being the one adorned with many icons of fists with outstretched middlefingers.

Behind the helmet's visor, he is rugged, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He is of an athletic build, as you'd imagine a superhuman would be. No surprises there.

Power(s): 
- Can channel his overwhelming rage into his fists, with typically destructive results. When that fails to be suitable for wrecking shit, he can do the same with his sledgehammer he keeps with him always.
- Superhuman anti-authoritarianism
- He is somewhat, but not completely, resistant to damage. The exact mechanism of this is not fully understood, but it is speculated to be an extension of his inability to give a shit.
- Capable of being far more of an asshole than the average human being.
- Capable of pissing straight up without getting wet.

Abilities(Learned): Motorbike riding. The Hobble do gobble Doogie. Trashing stuff.

History: The case of Anarfist is often misinterpreted as one of the tragically amnesiac hero who doesn't remember his past, but the reality is that he doesn't care about it whatsoever. He only lives in the now, and he lives only for number one: himself.  

The truth of things is that he is the forgotten product of some black budget military project to create their own super soldier, but it very clearly didn't work so well. Determined to be a failure in just about every conceivable way, the program was shut down, Joe was drugged into a catatonic state and then dumped in an alleyway. Ignored for around a year among the garbage and refuse he was buried among, he would later wake up with a very sore back, having resisted some government goons emptying a magazine into him before doing their ditch n' run.

The fact he is a creation of the very government he wants to annihilate only serves to piss him off even more. The only reason he fights evil at all is that he absolutely cannot tolerate the idea of someone doing in the government before him. So long as there is a string of wrongs to be punched in the face, Anarfist will remain a champion of good (with not at all concealed reluctance.)

Personality: Non-compliant to ludicrous extremes, abrasive and uncooperative. Basically, a massive jerk.

Role: Loose cannon.

Weaknesses:
- Has pretty much no constructive impulses at all and is solely oriented towards making a mess of things.
- Mostly lacks discipline/compulsive rager.
- Is an intolerable asshole.
- Intense alcoholism
- Is only resistant, not impervious. Even then, his resistance pretty much only applies to getting shot at, stabbed and so on. Being on fire still hurts a fucking lot and stuff like magic is a bitch. If he were, say, crushed, there wouldn't be any coming back.

Family/Friends:  Only his motorcycle.
Crush/Relationship:  Only his motorcycle.
Other: Nothing I can think of.

The Age of Steam

The New Dawn

Nations Name: The Nation of the New Dawn

Flag:


Form of Government: Technocracy with some theocratic elements.

Describe the System: Led by a technical elite where the decision makers are selected only from those most knowledgeable in their respective fields. This council of sorts is represented by a figurehead who is designated through bi-yearly rotation. Presently they are led by the scientist-aristocrat Louis Hargrave.

Location on Map Desired: Somewhere with a mountain range for reasons that will shortly be obvious

Capital: Mt. Korvos.

Important Settlements:

- Mt. Korvos is the most developed of the New Dawn's settlements, functioning much like a Victorian era arcology built into the mountain itself. It is the seat of both the nation's government and the Cult of the New Dawn, its ideological counterpart.

- Mt. Vengerov is the second most developed after Mt. Korvos. With Mt. Korvos already handling all of the needs of their society at peace, Mt. Vengerov was designated as the main site for the nation's needs for war. It is home to their largest skyport and the bowls of the mountain are packed from end to end with weapons labs and factories of all kinds, as well as the largest training facilities and barracks the nation has in its possession.

Description: The nation has its origins in the New Dawn, a utopian movement that first appeared to the public sometime around a century ago. Heralding the creation of a society that would breed a superior strand of mankind through measures such as eugenics, it spread its way through fringe elements of the scientific community and other intellectual circles, with whom its goal of disposing of the old order and replacing it with a fresh and, in their eyes, more capable elite, resonated. Somewhere along the line, the movement accumulated cult-like elements, particularly the worship of an obscure god, recently rediscovered. This god, embodying struggle, the destruction of the weak and the ascendancy of the strong, fit with the New Dawn's world view like hand in glove. With their creed starting to gain too much traction, it was shunned where ever it had manifested by an increasingly fearful populace. It would have very likely ended here, had it not attracted the attentions and support of some rather wealthy benefactors, who arranged for the establishment of a new, secluded nation where the adherents of this strange new belief system could freely, and without the interruption of those they perceived as lesser, cultivate the new wave of humans they had aspired to foster. After rallying the devotees of their creed from across the land, they began their retreat from the world and into obscurity.

This model society of theirs where they could conduct their religious devotion to self-improvement was established in a remote mountain range. After decades of prevailing against harsh conditions, they soon etched out a nation quite unlike any other, built on and within the mountains, criss-crossed with railway lines, the peaks crowned with ports for their air fleet. There their isolated and compact society thrives, free from any constraints as they cast aside the weak and undesirable, maintaining only those fit for their world.

While they are very far away from their end goal of superhuman perfection, if such a lofty goal is even possible, they have succeeded in cultivating a nation abundant with talents of assorted kinds, particularly in scientific fields. Their military also follows this trend, consisting of only a small force of soldiers that nevertheless display high degrees of professionalism. The bulk of their power is found in their sky navy, where the nation's scientific minds are fully employed for exploiting and testing the boundaries of this new variety of warfare.

Societally self-improvement, skill and knowledge is valued above all other things. Strength of mind and body are at all times strived towards. Entertainment and cultural life is sparse, with joy through mastering whatever vocation interests the particular citizen being ingrained instead.

Important Characters:
Chief Minister Louis Hargrave
Minister for War Alexander Karskin
Minister for Science Howard Price
High Admiral of the Sky Fleet Reinhard Meer

Army: (I will roll this, navy, GDP and stability.)
Navy:
GDP:
Stability:
Population:
Percentage of Population in:
Industry:
Farming:
Mineral Production:
Traits list

Never been out of the Village + 1
Small Army + 3
Professional Army: -3
King of the Air: - 3
Airlegs: -1
Dreadnoughts: -2
Strong Industry: -2
State Controlled: +1
Off the Beaten Track +3
I'm not racist, but... : 1 of 2 +/-
New Age Ship Construction: 2 of 2 +/-
Natural great men -3
Scared of the water: + 3

I might be stretching a little bit here, but understand that the most superscience-y thing, outside of the airships, of course, is just their strange habitations. The rest is just good ol' fashioned eugenics coupled with extreme dedication.

The Age of Steam

Are there any established characteristics of airships? Size, form, what armament might look like, etc. Are they more like real world zeppelins, boats carried by balloons, or so on?

Are early aircraft a thing, for that matter?

The Age of Steam

duck55223 said
Also noteI did change the German stuff in my app, but kept Reich and Kaiser, there to cool for me not to use.

Oh yeah, that seems fine to me. Not any different to someone using "King" and such.

The Age of Steam

WilsonTurner said
I see smoke, I see walkers, I see strange contraptions, and for me that is enough.

So it doesn't matter that they didn't actually function on steam power? I'd think that would be a pretty major decider on whether or not something is steampunk, but maybe that is just me.

The Age of Steam

As cool as 90% of Leviathan/Behemoth/Whatever is, I don't think it constitutes "light" steampunk, no. Or steampunk at all, for that matter.

The Age of Steam

Commodore Robot said
I don't know about anybody else but I'd genuinely prefer that there were honest to god made up nations in this made up world. But that's just my personal opinion.

Also right there with you on that one.

MrFoxNews said

I think I can come up with something more original if that's what people want.

That would be much preferred, thank you.

The Age of Steam

I'd be down.