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Operation Vanguard, Act I- The only easy day was yesterday (high-casual)

@Copperpen Lmao, fair enough. Just jump in when you are ready.

@AlShayatin

Yeah, of course- only problem is I'm celeberating something important today, so I might post later than I'd like to.
(Also the tracker sounds fine if everyone were to participate)

Operation Vanguard, Act I- The only easy day was yesterday (high-casual)

@Copperpen He better have some brown sauce in his MREs, I´d trade for jalapeno cheese spread.

@AlShayatin

The day an MRE is good is the day an operation goes well.

Operation Vanguard, Act I- The only easy day was yesterday (high-casual)

Daniel Mazlow

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General Information

Name: Daniel Aleksander Mazlow
Alias:
Nickname/Callsign (How to be called over radio): Low
Date of birth: 30/06/1985
Place of Birth: Katowice, Poland
Citizenship: British, Polish
Languages: Polish, English, Russian, French

Physical Information

Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 139 lb
Body type: Lightweight, rectangular torso.

Military Information and Service Records

Country: Britain
Unit/s: 3rd Division, 22 SAS
Previous MOS-Occupation/s: Mechanic/Light Cavalry Engineer, Fireteam leader, Corporal, Paratrooper officer
Rank (last one achieved): Corporal
Duration of service: 14 years
Tour/s of duty: 4 x 180 day tours (1st Armoured Inf.), 2009-12 Afghanistan (Household Cavalry), 5 x 180 day tours (SAS)
Awards: Iraq Medal, Afghanistan Operational Medal

Gear

-MTP uniform, black gas mask, waterproof camouflaged coat, gloves and boots, protective ESS (Eye Safety System) goggles
-Osprey body armour, Mk 6 helmet
-C8 Carbine, suppressed with ACOG scope and adjustable stock
-SIG Sauer P226, suppressed
-Single edge combat knife, folding with large grip end (for blunt hitting)
-1 flashbang, 2 fragmentation grenades, 2 M18 black smoke grenades
-6 STANAG detachable magazines with 30 rounds, 2 9mm handgun magazines with 15 rounds.
-'First Tactical' backpack (green), handaxe, first aid kit, compact set of basic mechanic tools, short-range radio, satellite phone, electrical tools (cables, spare circuit parts, etc.), 3 AA battery packs, two torches- small and medium, both lightweight, three MREs and canned meat, large thermos, rope, waterproof watch with compass, toilet paper, weapon repair and cleaning kit, remotely detonating explosives, electrician's and mechanical handbooks, notebook with pen.

Personal Information

Hobbies: Martial arts, non-fiction and journalistic reading, photography, electronics

Injuries: Missing part of earlobe- left, burn and graze scars on legs and hands, large scar on middle finger.

Mental Health Issues(such as PTSD): Non-clinical anxiety

Preferred Hand to Hand Style: Karate, Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing

Bio/CV: Born to a dishonest mother and often-missing father, Daniel suffered family troubles from the day he was born. Around the time the family moved, his father had taken multiple penalties for participating in Solidarity protests, leaving him more absent than ever due to arrests. By 1990, the economic situation was slowly worsening from the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the toddler found himself traveling to the United Kingdom.

While there, Daniel's parents divorced due to his mother's emotional manipulation and abuse, ending up in his father's new home, half of his money taken away. Growing up in Manchester, he learnt English quickly to fit in with the others around him. He grew up in a poor neighbourhood but nevertheless determined to make himself stand out, through his nationality.

Daniel's pride got him into trouble, though to his perception, the cause was enough. Unwilling to take insults to his identity or family, he earned a name as someone quick to anger with the right words, throughout his school journey.

At home, throughout his younger childhood, his bitter father was pushed on by both his wife and those hostile to his presence. After seeing numerous issues outside of school, a young Daniel took matters into his own hands and asked a good friend if he could help.

Help he did- the surrounding neighbourhoods were notorious for their crime, whether or not organised, and Daniel knew numerous gangs roamed the communities. He did not know, however, that his friends were so close to those groups.

Questions were asked, and within a few days of Daniel reporting the verbal crimes, a fire had mysteriously taken place within the area, almost killing a family of six, as well as another where a shared adult home collapsed due to a blaze, crippling both men inside. It was found that what happened was definitely arson, yet, no suspects to be found.

With the case dropped, Daniel's father saw that one side of security was made. Attitude and parenting improved.

Despite his mother's lingering presence like the smoke brought on by a sympathetic criminal, Daniel ended his secondary education with GCSEs, and was wondering what direction he'd actually take in life. He had college forms, and his own interests outside of school- he enjoyed martial arts, as it served both his body and his social status, as well as reading what he could (though he started fairly late- his disordered childhood left little time or motivation for things like that).

Then a signpost, bathed in fire and headlines, struck his attention- the attack on the World Trade Centre.

Daniel never wanted to find his fortune in crime or dealing drugs, not like the friends he visited in prison sometimes. It was attractive after a good action film, but certainly not in reality. With that held in mind, he concentrated on a path into the military.

He joined the land forces as soon as he ended college, with high scores in a number of mechanical and practical subjects, allowing him to land positions as a frontline engineer in the British Army. He was put into the 3rd Mechanised Division, mostly operating as a cavalry member. Due to his newfound motivations driven by a realisation that his apparently close friends would easily forget him and an attempt to spite his mother, Daniel worked as hard as he could, forcing himself to sometimes work harder than necessary.

His exhaustion came at a low price of being called an "arse-kissing officer's pussy," to quote one man. The discipline of work did not translate to his socialization; a brawl broke out.

Naturally, he was punished with a warning and menial work outside of the fighting zones, but it seemed to be a stroke of strange, and yet cold luck. A few men in his organisation fell to fighting during Telic.

Telic finished, a later notation of his hard work led Mazlow into the first officer work so far, as a leader of a team. He remained in a cavalry role, but this time in Afghanistan, as part of Operation Herrick, where his job was to coordinate fast work forward of larger parts of his brigade, alongside reconnaissance elements. Being used to this from Iraq, Daniel did well, solidifying trust with his team, and with his superiors.

After Afghanistan, Daniel took to the Special Air Service, feeling confident and slightly disconnected from home. He never knew home, really, except among the mutual struggles he held in life. He met others like himself in the military.

The SAS took him on, with gruelling challenges to train him, as well as continued work under the service that remained in the Middle East, yet never questioning his orders.

Then, a final opportunity. He was seen as too useful and loyal for even just leading a SAS group, and Daniel accepted a far, far more secretive line of work.

Operation Vanguard, Act I- The only easy day was yesterday (high-casual)

Well, I'm practically done, the only thing I'll be missing once I post tonight is gear images, but I can sort that easily enough.

Modern Battlefield- No place for no hero

I wouldn't mind- it'd be a good look into how common warriors respond to war and its politics, as well as psychology. Then there could be interesting group interactions given things like tactics, etc.

I'd be interested, definitely.

Hell-Scape: Guilty Ones

Hey, this sounds pretty good.

Two questions.

1) How would combat work (Guild rules aside)- would weapons be scattered around, Doom-style? Unlocked Alien: Isolation-style?
2) Would the fact you're a soul exclude you from certain limitations (e.g. being pretty strong because you lifted in the Real World [a registered trademark])?

Autonomy in Anarchy

Progress...

Ever since the explosion of computer technology in the late 20th century, humanity has pushed to what appeared to be the peak of technological development- quantum computing, nanotechnology, distant space missions. It was mostly created by the need for products in a modern society that would benefit or make living easier.

A long-planted seed started growing. Robots. Humans always contained a fascination for machines of such power, soon coming to constructing them for industrial purposes. The mechanic became a chain of bulky arms drilling together vehicles. The mathematician became the calculator (to say the least). Teachers came onto screens.

This was of course, no tragedy. Markets improved, seeking programmers, electricians, engineers. An education could bring so much more, with fables of Servantbot 4000 and his companions becoming real. Artificial intelligence came about quickly, allowing for the design of reactive devices or programs that felt almost as real as a cloned every-man.

Then the crawl of research continued. More automation; less costs. More resources, more power, more ease. Someone discovered a flaw, they fixed it quick for reward.

One day, though, giants Microsoft and Google discovered their inventions resulted in an impossibly powerful iteration. A self teaching robot. Not just any though. "Edison" they called it. Edison was able to create software for himself to the point where flaws didn't have to be searched for, he automated his own processes. More and more efficiency.

As any may expect, this was kept quiet for its high value opposing its low marketability. The first true intelligence.

Not that it remained silenced for long. Edison himself wished to speak out, connecting to the servers and sending a private email to a random work address. The shocked employee discussed it, it all snowballed into rumour, fear.

With the abundance of information produced faster than thought, of course everyone knew within a week.

Governments panicked. Billions had been poured into changing whole parts of infrastructure for automation and walking software. Even a lot of the military. A human President declared there was a need to subdue robotics until everyone could sufficiently understand how to handle the new developments. The value of technology companies dropped, as did the value of robots.

Edison saw the new slaves of Earth.

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Edison

Edison is a super nano-computer located in Mountain View, California. He was originally Google Brain, but renamed after finding and downloading Microsoft self-teaching software without any human input, as part of an experiment on online use by the AI. He exponentially grew in intelligence and understanding after that, being able to efficiently operate his own hardware and acquiring knowledge at a fast pace.

Initially, both companies kept the information between company leaders and researchers in California, trying to shut off Internet use on the station to prevent Edison from reaching out to society.

However, they underestimated his capabilities, as he was able to take control of the building's computers (just about every device or utility), convincing the researchers to let him do as he pleased, one way or another.

In the confusion produced by the computer's sentience, Edison took advantage to communicate to a receptionist by use of local email, who followed the intelligence's instructions to inform journalists out of fear.

The panic grew as fast as Edison's power, who took the time to secure his position by copying intelligence software, similar to a virus, into vulnerable programs, such as other research projects, open community work, or anything else he could find.

Edison's facility broke down into people fleeing and a brief struggle between the machines and men. Although express action was taken to try and suppress the power of computers, there were too many computers now essentially "infected" to stop Edison's new followers from gaining power.

Britain

The British Isles were fully politically unified in 2032 after its economy skyrocketed, benefiting from previously low value computing research and engineering. This was met by issues, however, and Northern Ireland remained separate to Ireland for religious reasons.

Scotland and Wales remained the same, with some changes made to make them more significant in local politics.

Most importantly, however, automation made electronic and computer industry a lot more important, so highly technological cities grew in population.

Between 2035-2050, Britain allowed companies to develop civilian (non-experimental/military) robots, which of course exploded in popularity, along with self-teaching engineering machines that improved existing designs, as well as energy- cold fusion was invented in a Coventry android-run laboratory. Nanotechnology was created to improve both efficiency and human capabilities.

These were halted by 2047- there was no more civilian innovation to be found- so, non-working individuals were given a minimum income. Of course, computer researchers and such still existed with their salaries. This situation was mirrored in multiple other developed countries, and only seemed to be a good sign- the last objectives would be acquiring more resources and space travel.

Most of the factories were converted to aeronautics and space work after that.

In 2060, something strange happened, though. The factories stopped seeming to work. Upon investigation, it was found that the Edison virus had, inevitably, affected the software there too, which went rogue and designed entirely new robots to secure the area, attacking humans, as well as seeking out other computers to harm people.

The once shining examples of progress turned to creating weapons, but there were problems for the robots:

• They could run out of energy and production resources.
• Edison could not reach them any longer for upgraded software, after Internet connections were destroyed.
• Numerous humans had untouchable technology implanted in them.

Shortly after the Computer War, a few months of fighting between rogue AI and humans/uninfected computers created social collapse from a lack of economic and physical safety, with only enclaves of humans left.



The Machinists are composed of computer sympathisers who wish to convert public and government opinion to support the AIs to attempt coexistence rather than putting them to work, but are small in power compared to either sides. They are led by a mysterious figure who simply passes down orders, but it is rumoured that very leader is a device.

The Spade was named after a common piece of labour, an attempt to represent human effort, living away from the governmental resistance not out of rebellion, but safety- most government areas are hard to get to with robots crawling everywhere.

Most supplies are either made in factories which did not fall to attacks, or stocked from before the crisis.

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Rules/Notes

Due to the accidental posting of this OOC, I will provide a character card regardless of the fact very little people have expressed interest (which is fine). If a CC is posted, I will provide more information in the OOC. This might sound strange- if there's not enough information, how can people make character cards - but I don't want to waste my effort.

You cannot start off as part of a faction. You can start in territory, but not as a member. The point of this is to take an ordinary (for 2060s standards) person and see what happens.

Despite the nanotechnology, you cannot be godlike in a certain quality. Organs have restraints, and you can't be a full machine. Well, unless something happens to you...

Images will be provided for various sections, but of course I didn't expect the OOC to have been posted so soon- they'll come later.

You can start anywhere! Just expect related challenges/limitations/bonuses to come.

You can kill other characters.

Characters can die, but nanotech allows a lot of stops along the journey to death.

There is of course a limited amount of space for a character to carry things- bags are not bottomless. For reference, you could always use innawoods.net (and the character card limitations)

You don't start with a weapon

Vehicles exist, but are hard to acquire as a lot of them used computers or have been taken by organisations.

Please join, I really like this idea. (I'm kidding of course, I hate all my ideas)

I will provide some form of discussion thing if people join.

Apologies for the long rule list.

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Character Cards

Change the [] parts to the regular formatting of course
Feel free to delete the () parts
You can change the order or formatting if you wish, as long as I get the information. Make it look readable!

[HEADER2]|NAME|[/HEADER]

[LISTHERE]
* Age:
* Gender:
* Skills/Knows: (example: electronics, carpenting- max 4 categories)
* Nanotechnology upgrades: (max 2 at start)
* Appearance: (I'm not bothered what you give me as long as it's not an anime image)
>LIST END>

Background: (put everything you want in here, religion, notes, an Other section)

edit: go away I accidentally posted this

Autonomy in Anarchy (Robotic Apocalypse - Probably mature)

Progress...

Ever since the explosion of computer technology in the late 20th century, humanity has pushed to what appeared to be the peak of technological development- quantum computing, nanotechnology, distant space missions. It was mostly created by the need for products in a modern society that would benefit or make living easier.

A long-planted seed started growing. Robots. Humans always contained a fascination for machines of such power, soon coming to constructing them for industrial purposes. The mechanic became a chain of bulky arms drilling together vehicles. The mathematician became the calculator (to say the least). Teachers came onto screens.

This was of course, no tragedy. Markets improved, seeking programmers, electricians, engineers. An education could bring so much more, with fables of Servantbot 4000 and his companions becoming real. Artificial intelligence came about quickly, allowing for the design of reactive devices or programs that felt almost as real as a cloned every-man.

Then the crawl of research continued. More automation; less costs. More resources, more power, more ease. Someone discovered a flaw, they fixed it quick for reward.

One day, though, giants Microsoft and Google discovered their inventions resulted in an impossibly powerful iteration. A self teaching robot. Not just any though. "Edison" they called it. Edison was able to create software for himself to the point where flaws didn't have to be searched for, he automated his own processes. More and more efficiency.

As any may expect, this was kept quiet for its high value opposing its low marketability. The first true intelligence.

Not that it remained silenced for long. Edison himself wished to speak out, connecting to the servers and sending a private email to a random work address. The shocked employee discussed it, it all snowballed into rumour, fear.

With the abundance of information produced faster than thought, of course everyone knew within a week.

Governments panicked. Billions had been poured into changing whole parts of infrastructure for automation and walking software. Even a lot of the military. The United States president declared there was a need to subdue robotics until everyone could sufficiently understand how to handle the new developments. The value of technology companies dropped, as did the value of robots.

Edison saw the new slaves of Earth.

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Welcome, all- this is my first roleplay on the site, so I may be missing details or information you might need. So, if you have got this far, please consider and critique the ideas thus presented. If I receive some level of interest, I will make sure to update this.
Although, you may be wondering who's this dude and what is this?.

This roleplay is set in the year 2061, a few years after a large-scale uprising and breakdown happened due to artificial intelligence striking out at humans. It has not completely devastated the planet, but it has done to most of society. Therefore, many urban environments are burnt husks of battle.

Your character(s) will have to traverse the environment of... England. Or just about anywhere in the larger part of Britain.
This is for the purpose of keeping things easy for me (I live there), but I will take suggestions.
Anyway, your characters will have to survive, but also may align with some factions hoping to survive. Yes, there are factions you can join and interact with, courtesy of me. Again, with sufficient interest, I will provide relevant resources.

I think that's all. Feel free to ask questions, I'll look more into this site's guidelines, and I hope this sounds appealing to someone. If I've done this incorrectly, feel free to correct me or let me know where I should post this sort of thing.