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Only a Human System: a Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Fantasy RP

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Only a Human System: a Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Fantasy RP

@Metronome, yes, it doesn't take place on Earth. Do you think I should specify more stuff on the OP?

Only a Human System: a Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Fantasy RP

Only a Human System

A Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Fantasy RP

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“The Eternal Empyreal Empire has collapsed, leaving chaos in its wake. The portals that once connected the farthest corners of the empire were its downfall at last. When we became too greedy and sought to conquer other realms of reality, we opened a threshold for the Corruption to come. Then the whole portal network collapsed, and we were left in the dark, disconnected, disinformed, abandoned and alone. A century has passed since the War of the Corruption started and fifty years since the Empire finally fell. Most of the population of the Empire has been exterminated either by our own incivility and barbarism or by the sword and gun of the Corruption. We must travel to the edge of the Empire to try to escape from both of them now; there seems to be no other choice but to fly away as far as we can and maybe, just maybe, we can unravel the mystery if the Corruption on the way...
Every story after the end starts this way, child.”

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What to expect?

• This is a Sci-Fi and Fantasy RP but turned on its head since its after most of the wonders of modern technology and magic, and sometimes the combination of the two, are submerged in a post-apocalypse. This means that whatever gadgets you have of the times of the Empire are what could be salvaged from what worked after all networks of communications and amenities collapsed. What can still be powered up, what can still be repaired after breaking a dozen times, what can still work even after a life ten times as harsh as intended; that’s what we can count on.
• Whatever weapons you might have picked up from the fallen military of the Empire are few and might still fail you even if they were in perfect condition. Remember that the Empire conquered everything in sight until the Corruption came. And they brought forth everything they had conquered against the Corruption and, while managing to fight them for half a century, still lost.
  Guns are precious, if you can kill something with an arrow, don’t even consider wasting a bullet. If have enough magic potential to avoid using an arrow, don’t even consider wasting them. Nevertheless, the Corruption hasn’t been kind on the world, and you’ll have to use your bullets one way or another; sooner rather than later.
• The Eternal Empyreal Empire was a huge state, far larger than any state that has existed on Earth, in fact, larger than the whole surface of the Earth. We luckily will be starting close to the very edge of it.
  That means that you can have a character that is inspired in any human culture or any mixture of human cultures, while not necessarily being human.
  This also means there will be some time-skips.
• Many were the races that were part of the Empire. Regardless of their status then, they are now what you can count on to survive. Nobody who thinks otherwise has survived long and those who have aren’t worth less than putting a bullet through their hearts. Yes, in these apocalyptic times, we haven’t all managed to work together or even stand each other. Take care with every group or being you encounter.
  You can pick one of many races or their hybridizations. Elf? Yes. Half-Elf? No problem. Son of an elven mother and a shapeshifting Kitsune father? Again, no problem unless I start to have everyone claiming to be such kind of beings. It’s not first come, first serve either. You have to have a good character that justifies this investment and even if you have, I won’t have everyone using them. It is, of course, implicit that these characters aren’t meant to be Mary Sues.
  Also, there will be robots and golems.
• The Corruption is an extremely dangerous enemy, but one that isn’t very interested in actively hunting the survivors of the war after the Empire stopped being a threat. However, should you encounter it, it will do everything in its power to get rid of you, so you better run or, if you are extremely well armed and armoured, be prepared to do the same. Other survivors might also present a threat.
  Your character might not need to be the most adept warrior, but everyone here is an adept survivor.
• Magic isn’t something that everyone can master, nonetheless, a slight majority of the population of the Empire can practice in some small measure. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean that magic is free. Every spell used carries an equivalent cost. For example, do you want to light a fire on a cold night? You’ll have to cool down the entire area a little bit to significantly heat up a smaller area.
• Technology, on the other hand, is something that everyone should be able to use. Some of the most adept will be able to use it in much more efficient and lasting ways though. Just remember that it will be harder to encounter intact tech and some of the most advanced forms it will require someone with some knowledge of how to use it.
• I only need one interested player to start. Everyone else can be joining at any time in the RP along our journey.

[18+] Looking for wordsmiths of like minds.

Interested.

Fallout ?

I'm interested.

Metro themed RP

Definitively interested too. I also share the sentiment of not setting it on Russia... What about London?

Axis Mundi: An adult Renaissance Fantasy RP (Seeking flexible people)

Hello all and welcome to my interest check of the world of Axis Mundi! I’m so happy to receive you. :3 A few things before starting on the actual story and worldbuilding:

• I’m 22 years of age and a student, but currently, as this message is posted, I’m on vacations (due to end on the beginning of March).
• I live on the GMT - 3:00 timezone.
• This will be an adult RP and thus I’m looking for people over 18.
• Despite the aforementioned, the RP won’t be only of mature themes, but will also include a heavy amount of worldbuilding. I hope you are ready and eager to start on that too. The adult parts will only come after that.
• Remember that we can talk and discuss about the setting too, few things are set in stone.
• Descending from the aforementioned two, I wish for both quality and quantity. While the first one is more important than the second, we’ll likely be needing both from each other.
• Please have good orthography and post in third person past.
• I’m male and pansexual and for me all types of pairings are good. Whether is MxF, FxF, MxM, there are herms included or more than two people participate… You likely can expect it for the RP.
• There will be humans, magical races and anthros in this RP.
• I have few limits and this RP is thought to be centred around many, many kinks, so hopefully you’ll have few too ;3.
• However, the limits that exist are hard limits.
• Note that I said Renaissance, not Medieval. This is a huge difference and it will play a great role in the RP.
• I will likely need a way of discussing ideas fast due to the quantity of them involved the RP, so hopefully we can talk through Discord apart from through the guild.
• I love meeting new people and getting to know each other, I’m always going to try to be friendly with you and I’ll always try to respect you.

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Axis Mundi

An adventurer walking through a series of “dead” Portals…

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- What’s the lifeblood of a civilization, of an empire? What keeps it together? –
- Military might, master? –
- It isn’t something static, young one. -
- A common culture? –
- Not through long periods of time nor long distances. –
- Commerce? -
- Close, but not quite. –
- Common institutions? –
- Yes, but behind them, what’s behind them? Movement, of goods, people and information. -

Axis Mundi is a world unlike our own. Under the paternalist gaze of the Eternal Empyreal Empire, mankind has spread across vast continents and oceans, displacing or crushing other polities, human or not. Across land and sea, it extends for a surface larger than that of the Earth. The Empire extends its tentacles through cultures, civilizations and races, all with the wonders of technological advancement such as gunpowder and oceangoing ships. Inside the inner walled cities of the Empire, commerce and culture blooms as the goods of the world travel through them. A strong military subdues any threats to the empire, ever expanding. Finally, in the jewel of their crowns, the capital, flourishes an amount of population larger than most other kingdoms or empires are able to support inside their boundaries as a whole.
How are these facts possible?
Certainly, the core of any empire is the movement, as discussed before. And so, the empire needs something to move their lifeblood farther and faster than any empire of that time on Earth. They are known just as Portals, massive structures from just a few metres across to gargantuan ones that can have an army march through them. They are located in pairs that allow travel between two locations instantly, which are always separated somewhere between 20km. and 75km. Each exit/entrance twin Portal is separated from the next one by about twenty kilometres. Thus, if one uses the Portals to travel, one can move at minimum double the speed as if one was traveling by normal means.
Portals extend in chains as if in a Metro system, with lines extending for thousand of kilometres and through whole continents. But despite the vital use in of these medium of transportation, the Empire didn’t create them nor can manipulate them. They are, in almost all cases impossible to create, destroy, change exit or move with only the last one being technically possible for the smallest portals.

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The Culture

One of the fortress-cities guarding the portals towards another larger city.

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Axis Mundi is extremely vast and so has many cultures, societies and religions, which can be classified into three main ways of looking towards life: The World as a Legacy, The World as Order and, finally, the World as a Nest.
These views are written in the sworn oath of the Emperor or Empress to be protected.

The World as a Legacy:

Those who follow the Way of the World as a Legacy are intermediate ones between the other two points of view. They see the world as a gift given by either the Gods, the Ancient ones or even the Starchildren. These people in many cases worship the Portals themselves as a legacy of the past, where a much stronger and powerful civilization existed in a paradisiac affluence before collapsing and leaving few traces in the world.
While they mostly aren’t religious fanatics, they are also dutiful in their service of the multiple churches and interpretations that have arisen. They have some missionaries and proselytizing is important though not vital.

The World as Order:

Those who follow the Way of the World as Order are the most rigid and fanatic of three main points of view. The world for them is the world as a conduct to do the will of the God/s. These “Gods” can be many, few or one and almost all are absolute beings, omnipotent, but still must have human worship.
There as many churches, schools of thought and ideas that follow this Way of thinking as stars in the sky is said contemptuously towards them. While that is a tremendous exaggeration, it isn’t far from the truth at its core. The World as Order boasts the most fanatic missionaries for the many faiths inside of it and expansion is crucial to stay alive in the midst of the silent and cold religious wars that rage beneath the surface.

The World as a Nest:

The ones under the many banners of the Way of the World as a Nest follow the principle that the world is one of many where one will live many experiences of different kinds and this World is the Womb or Nest of mankind. According to their view, there are no omnipotent being, and existence as a whole only might have one constant, which is chaos.
The World as a Nest finds their meaning in teaching mankind the necessary spiritual tools to be able to navigate this whirlwind we call universe before and after death.
This is the most permissive of the three worldviews and thus is the one that has attracted the most followers. Here, expansion isn’t necessary because the religion is extremely, extremely syncretic and thus it expands itself under its own massive weight. A weight made of hundreds of millions of souls that follow it.

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The Crisis

A city burning under the watchful eye of one of the Green Ravens

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The Empire has had no great problems expanding for the last two hundred years. It’s complex and effective bureaucracy and rotation of armies, apart from the use of the portals, has made possible for the Empire to keep growing without stagnating once bereft of powerful enemies. That has changed. And in a manner that makes it impossible for the Empire to counteract.
Each Portal has a fixed location of entry and exit in the shape of other Portal. However, with some sort of ancient technology the Empire of the Green Ravens has made it possible to change locations temporarily. For a few hours a place is disconnected, alone and unable to receive reinforcements. In that way, cities are isolated from other cities and then invaded from within, sacked and burned. Armies which were supposed to be sent to support the defences have been routed or sent to inhospitable places to perish. The trade routes are in jeopardy and the complex clockwork that once worked perfectly to maintain the Eternal Empyreal Empire has too many spokes in its wheels.

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Who are you?

One of the many ports that link the Portal Network between oceans.

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Your character has been contracted by the Empire to go even beyond the unexplored ends of the Portal Network. Whether is because you are great leader, marksman, swordmaster, magician or a combination of any or all of the above, you are now journeying far away from the now bleeding core of the Empire towards a mythical city-state that might have the solution. They were supposedly able to isolate and protect themselves from the civilization that flourished before the Empire by surreptitiously controlling and redirecting the Portals under their noses. If they could do so again, this time in the benefit of the Empire, it would be its salvation.

All-Verse: The Initiative

Alex Stark

"You aren’t going to make me work, are you?"

[ALEX STARK ⫻ IMPERIUM ⫻ 18 ⫻ CHAOTIC GOOD]

▼ APPEARANCE ▼

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"I’m not a beauty, I’m quite normal for the XXV century."

Have you ever realized the “ideal” Vitruvian Man is made with the proportions of a male that’s smaller than the majority of today’s average heights for a man? Well, that’s something that would continue as a trend into the future. Alex measuring 197cm. (6’6’’) means that actually the hermaphrodite is on the lower end of the curve of stature. Mankind has become increasingly taller as a whole. Of course, genetic engineering had nothing to do with that, nothing at all.

The young Stark has pale skin and piercing grey eyes, denoting the intelligence that lies behind them. S/he’s thin and nimble, as most herms are, and very strong for his physique, thanks again to genetic engineering. Both hips and shoulders are almost the same width, with his/her shoulders being more feminine than masculine.

▼ PERSONALITY ▼

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"I’m lazy, so? That means I’m predisposed to discover more efficient solutions to common problems by thinking outside the oval."

Alex was raised by seven very doting parents, that likely has had the impact of making him/her extremely lazy... Or it is equally likely s/he was born that way, it’s anyone’s guess really. That has expanded to various aspects of his/her life, such as being extremely unobservant when not focused, having a poor will and emotional control, even though his emotions are somewhat muted, and finally lacking some empathy when s/he’s not putting effort into it.

The lack of skill in reading his/her environment has made a great dent on the perception of Alex’s intelligence, at least from the outside for people not familiarized with the young Stark. While this is much more pronounced than his/her own perception of intelligence, one must not forget that a person is seen through the others and therefore Alex has had a low self-esteem for most of his/her life. It has also meant that Alex perception of his/her intelligence is lower than it should be.

The young herm’s lack of will to start and follow through with concrete things has resulted in a complete lack of ability with magic; “A zero to the left” would be an appropriate expression. What isn’t lacking in him/her is imagination and the ability to turn an idea on its head and inside out several dozen times until s/he has created an innovative solution. If it’s present at the moment, at the right time and not in the shower and/or at four a.m., well, that’s another story.

▼ BACKSTORY ▼

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"I guess I could pass for a prince…"

As most people in the XXV century in Imperium, Alex has been heavily altered from the baseline human from the moment of conception. Having all your sexual chromosomes replaced, most of your DNA modified and nanomachines inserted in your body that grow along with you it’s much easier when the fertilized egg isn’t even a morula. Also, remember that by this point in time you can have as many “parents” as people have given you DNA to exist in the first place, it’s pretty rare that someone has carried you in his and/or her person and you finally have as real parents those who either; a, are the ones who raised you or; b, are the (likely many) that appear in your certificate of birth.

Alex has seven parents, all who happily raised the hermaphrodite as an only child in a world of luxury and opportunities. While s/he wasn’t in the highest social class, nor close, Imperium is a rich universe with all the raw materials and products flowing from other universes. A consequence of this is that mankind is mostly concentrated on intellectual, administrative, political and artistic pursuits since most of the physical and repetitive work is automated. There is almost no poverty in Imperium, with people living at the standards of the high middle class at the lowest. The mind is the tool of the XXV century and Alex is quite good with his/her.
Noted from an early age as very intelligent, Alex had his/her education specially adapted to suit his/her needs like most people on Earth-1. By the time s/he was 14, s/he had already completed the equivalent of three university careers, postgraduate included, of our time. However, the intense study disconnected him/her from his/her age group, not really because s/he needed all the time and effort present in the day, but because s/he was too lazy to work on creating friendships and bonds of trust outside his/her circle of prodigies.

Through all his/her life, Alex had modifications installed in his/her body and central nervous system to enhance his/her performance. From brain upgrades that granted eidetic memory and absolute pitch to modifications to his/her muscles that allow XXI century Olympic-level performance. While that might seem excessive for a person that isn’t trained at all for combat and doesn’t practice sports, it must be remembered that people in the current date consider that the bare minimum. Alex isn’t an athlete nor someone that can be highlighted for anything but his/her intellect in the XXV century.

However, his/her mind has been enough to be fought over by the military and diverse universities across the different Earths and their nations. By this point in time though, at fifteen years of age, Alex had no real accomplishment to his/her name outside of being a brilliant student. That changed when s/he was called by the military, to which s/he accepted.

After two years in the officers’ academy though, which now meant only mental and not physical exercise, s/he quitted, leaving behind the possibility of a brilliant career though still as a brilliant military strategist. At seventeen, s/he started his/her fourth and fifth careers in university at the same time, not worried too much and hoping s/he could make up for the “lost time”. Still, while his discharge was almost dishonourable, Alex learned a few lessons from his/her time in the military… Except for not being lazy.

▼ ABILITIES & EQUIPMENT ▼

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"I haven’t thrown a punch in my life to defend myself. Still I suppose I could kill you. Hopeful- -Oh! – Humph - Damn! That was fast! I… I wasn’t ready!"

• Genius-level intellect:
  Alex has a tremendous ability to solve intellectual problems and think outside the oval when s/he applies him/herself to it. Added to that is a degree in Physics, Chemistry and Math.
• Peak physical condition:
  The alterations and genetic engineering done to all members of the Imperium-worlds are a guarantee that his/her abilities are far beyond what can be expected of someone of such a nimble and unimpressive physique. S/he has Olympic level physical conditioning as a basal state and it won’t decay in muscles mass, reaction times and such due to lack of training or until very advanced old age.
• Brilliant strategist:
  Even when Alex didn’t complete nor advance too far into the military, s/he still managed to get an impressive amount of experience in terms of tactics, supplies and strategy.

▼ LIMITS-WEAKNESSES ▼

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"It’s awesome until you hit your crotch in a septuple jump while on your period..."

• Lazy to the extreme:
  Alex is lazy to the point of being slothful. S/he might have several well-developed abilities, but s/he must focus to put them into action since s/he has completely foregone the training to have them active or at least not dormant at almost all times.
• Unobservant:
  A direct consequence of his/her natural laziness, lack of observation and attention towards the environment. Quite pronounced in his/her case, s/he is the kind of person that falls into a puddle of mud or crashed face-first into a post while walking on the street. More than that, s/he is the kind of person who hits him/herself in the face with the door s/he is opening.
  That also applies to social situations or perceiving other people’s emotions.
• Lowered self-esteem:
  "I’m not the sharpest tool on the shed..."
  Quite the opposite actually. But s/he doesn’t believe it.
• Has never fought a battle:
  Despite the multiple extremely violent entertainment mediums that exist in the worlds of Imperium, Alex has never fought a battle, a real battle… Where fear of death is in the air and tension is crushing. There is nothing to prepare him/her for the first real battle s/he is going to fight.
• Has never had to defend him/herself:
  Alex has never thrown a punch in his/her life, period. S/he doesn't know how to fight. S/he might be in a quite strong body, the problem lies in that s/he doesn't know how to use it.

▼ OTHER ▼

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Alex doesn’t speak English as modern English doesn’t and has never existed on Imperium. Instead, s/he speaks the classic mixture of German and English that’s the Lingua Franca of Imperium. Because of this is the fact that there are structures such as “s/he” and “him/her” on the description, as in Imperial there is a neutral pronoun.

All-Verse: The Initiative

Hoepfully this is good enough for my character.

Alex Stark

"You aren’t going to make me work, are you?"

[ALEX STARK ⫻ IMPERIUM ⫻ 18 ⫻ CHAOTIC GOOD]

▼ APPEARANCE ▼

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"I’m not a beauty, I’m quite normal for the XXV century."

Have you ever realized the “ideal” Vitruvian Man is made with the proportions of a male that’s smaller than the majority of today’s average heights for a man? Well, that’s something that would continue as a trend into the future. Alex measuring 197cm. (6’6’’) means that actually the hermaphrodite is on the lower end of the curve of stature. Mankind has become increasingly taller as a whole. Of course, genetic engineering had nothing to do with that, nothing at all.

The young Stark has pale skin and piercing grey eyes, denoting the intelligence that lies behind them. S/he’s thin and nimble, as most herms are, and very strong for his physique, thanks again to genetic engineering. Both hips and shoulders are almost the same width, with his/her shoulders being more feminine than masculine.

▼ PERSONALITY ▼

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"I’m lazy, so? That means I’m predisposed to discover more efficient solutions to common problems by thinking outside the oval."

Alex was raised by seven very doting parents, that likely has had the impact of making him/her extremely lazy... Or it is equally likely s/he was born that way, it’s anyone’s guess really. That has expanded to various aspects of his/her life, such as being extremely unobservant when not focused, having a poor will and emotional control, even though his emotions are somewhat muted, and finally lacking some empathy when s/he’s not putting effort into it.

The lack of skill in reading his/her environment has made a great dent on the perception of Alex’s intelligence, at least from the outside for people not familiarized with the young Stark. While this is much more pronounced than his/her own perception of intelligence, one must not forget that a person is seen through the others and therefore Alex has had a low self-esteem for most of his/her life. It has also meant that Alex perception of his/her intelligence is lower than it should be.

The young herm’s lack of will to start and follow through with concrete things has resulted in a complete lack of ability with magic; “A zero to the left” would be an appropriate expression. What isn’t lacking in him/her is imagination and the ability to turn an idea on its head and inside out several dozen times until s/he has created an innovative solution. If it’s present at the moment, at the right time and not in the shower and/or at four a.m., well, that’s another story.

▼ BACKSTORY ▼

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"I guess I could pass for a prince…"

As most people in the XXV century in Imperium, Alex has been heavily altered from the baseline human from the moment of conception. Having all your sexual chromosomes replaced, most of your DNA modified and nanomachines inserted in your body that grow along with you it’s much easier when the fertilized egg isn’t even a morula. Also, remember that by this point in time you can have as many “parents” as people have given you DNA to exist in the first place, it’s pretty rare that someone has carried you in his and/or her person and you finally have as real parents those who either; a, are the ones who raised you or; b, are the (likely many) that appear in your certificate of birth.

Alex has seven parents, all who happily raised the hermaphrodite as an only child in a world of luxury and opportunities. While s/he wasn’t in the highest social class, nor close, Imperium is a rich universe with all the raw materials and products flowing from other universes. A consequence of this is that mankind is mostly concentrated on intellectual, administrative, political and artistic pursuits since most of the physical and repetitive work is automated. There is almost no poverty in Imperium, with people living at the standards of the high middle class at the lowest. The mind is the tool of the XXV century and Alex is quite good with his/her.
Noted from an early age as very intelligent, Alex had his/her education specially adapted to suit his/her needs like most people on Earth-1. By the time s/he was 14, s/he had already completed the equivalent of three university careers, postgraduate included, of our time. However, the intense study disconnected him/her from his/her age group, not really because s/he needed all the time and effort present in the day, but because s/he was too lazy to work on creating friendships and bonds of trust outside his/her circle of prodigies.

Through all his/her life, Alex had modifications installed in his/her body and central nervous system to enhance his/her performance. From brain upgrades that granted eidetic memory and absolute pitch to modifications to his/her muscles that allow XXI century Olympic-level performance. While that might seem excessive for a person that isn’t trained at all for combat and doesn’t practice sports, it must be remembered that people in the current date consider that the bare minimum. Alex isn’t an athlete nor someone that can be highlighted for anything but his/her intellect in the XXV century.

However, his/her mind has been enough to be fought over by the military and diverse universities across the different Earths and their nations. By this point in time though, at fifteen years of age, Alex had no real accomplishment to his/her name outside of being a brilliant student. That changed when s/he was called by the military, to which s/he accepted.

After two years in the officers’ academy though, which now meant only mental and not physical exercise, s/he quitted, leaving behind the possibility of a brilliant career though still as a brilliant military strategist. At seventeen, s/he started his/her fourth and fifth careers in university at the same time, not worried too much and hoping s/he could make up for the “lost time”. Still, while his discharge was almost dishonourable, Alex learned a few lessons from his/her time in the military… Except for not being lazy.

▼ ABILITIES & EQUIPMENT ▼

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"I haven’t thrown a punch in my life to defend myself. Still I suppose I could kill you. Hopeful- -Oh! – Humph - Damn! That was fast! I… I wasn’t ready!"

• Genius-level intellect:
  Alex has a tremendous ability to solve intellectual problems and think outside the oval when s/he applies him/herself to it. Added to that is a degree in Physics, Chemistry and Math.
• Peak physical condition:
  The alterations and genetic engineering done to all members of the Imperium-worlds are a guarantee that his/her abilities are far beyond what can be expected of someone of such a nimble and unimpressive physique. S/he has Olympic level physical conditioning as a basal state and it won’t decay in muscles mass, reaction times and such due to lack of training or until very advanced old age.
• Brilliant strategist:
  Even when Alex didn’t complete nor advance too far into the military, s/he still managed to get an impressive amount of experience in terms of tactics, supplies and strategy.

▼ LIMITS-WEAKNESSES ▼

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"It’s awesome until you hit your crotch in a septuple jump while on your period..."

• Lazy to the extreme:
  Alex is lazy to the point of being slothful. S/he might have several well-developed abilities, but s/he must focus to put them into action since s/he has completely foregone the training to have them active or at least not dormant at almost all times.
• Unobservant:
  A direct consequence of his/her natural laziness, lack of observation and attention towards the environment. Quite pronounced in his/her case, s/he is the kind of person that falls into a puddle of mud or crashed face-first into a post while walking on the street. More than that, s/he is the kind of person who hits him/herself in the face with the door s/he is opening.
  That also applies to social situations or perceiving other people’s emotions.
• Lowered self-esteem:
  "I’m not the sharpest tool on the shed..."
  Quite the opposite actually. But s/he doesn’t believe it.
• Has never fought a battle:
  Despite the multiple extremely violent entertainment mediums that exist in the worlds of Imperium, Alex has never fought a battle, a real battle… Where fear of death is in the air and tension is crushing. There is nothing to prepare him/her for the first real battle s/he is going to fight.
• Has never had to defend him/herself:
  Alex has never thrown a punch in his/her life, period. S/he doesn't know how to fight. S/he might be in a quite strong body, the problem lies in that s/he doesn't know how to use it.

▼ OTHER ▼

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Alex doesn’t speak English as modern English doesn’t and has never existed on Imperium. Instead, s/he speaks the classic mixture of German and English that’s the Lingua Franca of Imperium. Because of this is the fact that there are structures such as “s/he” and “him/her” on the description, as in Imperial there is a neutral pronoun.

All-Verse: The Initiative

Hopefully it is up the standards of the game.

Imperium

▼ DESCRIPTION ▼

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^{[Science Fiction, Fantasy]}

The First Divergence

This was once a world identical to ours, but everything changed around the 1750s. It wasn’t a large change, it wasn’t likely to be either a single change or perhaps even a single series of related events. Whatever the case, it is impossible up to this point in time to be able to trace back what was the First Divergence itself.

Between the Divergences

History

During the 1750s and the 1760s there were several important attempts at reforms regarding the taxation system and the relation of it with the representation of the colonies in the British Parliament. Most of these projects failed and of the ones that succeeded could only do so in a form where their impact would not be significant enough. They became peripheral in their scope or modified until their base concepts were taken out of them, something which ended in the costly three Wars of North American Independence, which together lasted twenty-two years and were spread over a period of twenty-seven. The inconclusive result of the wars through most of their duration was a terrible pressure on the British Parliament, which soon radicalized into two fields, those that supported the ideas of liberalizing their colonies and even some of the independence movements, and those who sook to tighten their hold on their remaining colonies. This destroyed what little cohesion had been existing at the time inside the Parliament. This was joined the social upheaval caused by the tremendous economic strain and the hunger and scarcity that said strain had produced, which forced a social divide mirroring that of the Parliament which would translate into the popular uprisings of 1782 and 1785.

While the war situation in the North American continent was varied through time in terms of tactical dominance, the strategic situation deteriorated in a slow but steady manner for the British Empire. While this is attributed to many factors, most experts coincide in that the devastation of the colonies played a fundamental role. With armies being harder to field for each side thanks to lack of supplies and the British lacking the home advantage, the North American rebels inflicted a tremendous cost on lives, supplies and economic strain on the Isles themselves. Furthermore, the campaigns on the Second War of North American Independence that devastated Lower Canada would play a pivotal role, forcing the British to redeploy their armies and pass their supplies through the sea in the later stages of the Second War and the early ones of the Third War so as not to overload the agricultural yield of the Canadian heartland and cause another rebellion that would effectively push out their last hold on the continent. However, the causes of the British Revolution are many and another vital one can be found on the foreign side.

The Franco-Spanish intervention in the war can be considered the reason that delayed the fracturing of the United States from the start of the Third War of North American Independence to the middle stages of said conflict. Indeed, the economic support brought by the, later known as, Latin Alliance was what motivated the February Retaliation by General Washington. The bold invasion was both a strategic decision to unbalance the British dominance of New England and a stratagem to deviate the public attention from the impeding utter economic catastrophic collapse which the rebels would be suffering. It was a known fact at the time in the high spheres of the United States and the British Empire that there would be both an economic collapse and a splintering of the United States in the near future. Nevertheless, the conflict did not turn for the better for the Isles before that moment arrived with the direct intervention of France.

The loss of their main fleet to the French at the end of the Third American War of Independence in 1786 at the catastrophic Sixth Battle of The Channel gave a wide opening to the European allies of the Revolutionaries in the Americas to blockade the Isles. This proceeded for two years without the intended effect in the British nation, until the Great Admiralty Mutiny in 1789. This would begin the First British Revolution, or as it would be latter called, the Silent Revolution.

Despite its name, the Silent Revolution was a tremendously violent affair, though it’s repercussions would be mostly deployed by the Parliament, now in control of the revolutionaries. After the beginning, the Royal family would be held in domiciliary reclusion for most of the beginning of the conflicts uninterruptedly. Said fact, while making them prisoners in their own country and palaces, would keep the core of the Royal family safe from the most radicalized revolutionaries, who sook to remove the monarchy itself.

The Silent Revolution’s era Parliament would make peace with the Latin Alliance and offer it several times to the heads of the American Revolt, without much success on the second front. This would allow the tired British Isles to recuperate, import supplies from abroad and reconstruct itself, including its army. A combination of firstly, the intervention of the British Empire directly against the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, and secondly, the Second Latin Alliance to intervention against the revolutionary Empire resulted in the ignition of the British Revolutionary Wars in 1792.

After the victory against the Sixth coalition, the British war machine had overextended itself vastly more than ever before by controlling most of central and western Europe. With the devastating defeat at the hands of the Russian empire after their betrayal in the Danubian theatre of the war, the morale at an all time low after Austria managed to take revenge from the Burning of Wien and the Sack of Prag and finally, the attrition caused by the North American and Iberian campaigns, the British broke. The haphazard retreat of the armies from eastern Europe after the chain of command was broken led to critical inaction on the army’s part, resulting in the definite toppling of the monarchy and the execution of the Royal family. This is considered the trigger event for the beginning of the Outcry Revolution in 1812.

The Outcry revolution saw the reign of terror and the destruction and reshaping of most of the monarchical institutions. After the declaration of 1807 in which the former lands under the homeland institutions of the Empire of England, were granted the status of Dominions, the first phase of the Outcry revolution saw the largest changes into the administrative system of the British Isles up to that point in time.

Two years of chaos and disorder later, in 1809, the Outcry Revolution would end with the General Staff of the Royal Army taking things in their own hands. The General Staff, supported by most of the Royal Army which had finally finished to mop up things on Continental Europe, decided to opt for a close repeat of the Glorious Revolution by inviting a foreign prince directly related to the royal line of England to ascend to the throne. This time, the monarch would not be Dutch, but Prussian.

Between the two divergences, the Prusso-British Empire would rise from the ashes of the First British Empire after the equivalent of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars swept the British Isles, ending the direct line of succession. As the Glorious Revolution in the past, the Army would finally tire of the anarchy reigning in the country and supported a foreign pretender to the throne. The Prussian prince chosen would then go and unify the countries under a personal union which would then be supported by a new Acts of Union.

This new country’s first great military action would be a second wave of pan-European conflicts that would put most of central Europe under their control. The second, would be the recovery and expansion of the former British colonies in North America. And therefore, they would expand until they occupied the British Empire’s place in history and surpassed its territorial extension.

The Second Divergence or The Event

The Prusso-British Empire, still shaky since its inception in the past decades, would come face to face with The Event in 1830 and said occurrence would shape its destiny and the world’s. In 1830, Magic came alive on the world of Imperium thanks to the weakening of the dimensional barriers that separated it from the rest of the multiverse.

Portals opened in East Africa and the Southern Cone, allowing the people of Imperium to both wield magic and to expand into other parallel versions of Earth. While most of those Earths were empty, not all were so…

The Inheritance War

The Inheritance war started on 2112 with the discovery of a human-inhabited world in ruins (which would later be called Asas Douradas). This world hosted not only human nations barely holding on to the lands south of the Equator, but to the invading armies of the Magna Arthropoda.

The Magna Arthropoda are descendants of the Palaeozoic subphylum Trilobitomorpha. Great insectoids that come from the size of a small car to transatlantic ships. Masters of engineering, whether mechanical, biomechanical or genetic, they exhibit a communal lifestyle similar to Imperium’s ants but with each individual having on average a higher intelligence than a human instead of being a mostly mindless drone as one would initially expect.

The Magna Arthropoda have heavily modified their bodies inside and out with technology of all kinds and breed at the speed of insects, causing their armies to be massive in number and extremely powerful both at individual and at organizational level. It is no surprise then that the resources extracted from the 120 Earths conquered, dominated and populated by the combined might of all the states in Imperium were barely enough to halt their advance. After many battles, hundreds of millions of deaths, several Earths ruined and thirty years of warfare, with the lightest casualties being on the scale of our Stalingrad, the Magna Arthropoda were not beaten, but instead decided to retreat, likely feeling the conquest of Imperium wasn’t worth the resources invested.

The Current Year

It is the year 2475 in Imperium at the time. Most of the larger bodies in the Solar system of the original Earth are colonized and mankind enjoys a golden age, with more than 500 Earths colonized and their resources steadily flowing towards the original one. It seems that there are no problems on the horizon… But the very thing that brought them prosperity, the portals and the connections to other Earths, now have been confirmed to be dangerous to the existence of the very multiverse if they aren’t properly stabilized.

▼ SPECIES ▼

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• Humans:
  
  Humans in this world are heavily different from the ones that existed in the XX century even when not all the time they present a different physical appearance. Thanks to transhumanism, the human race has transformed itself to allow for space colonization, extreme environments and damage and, of course, to better itself whether cosmetically, physically, intellectually or in their base biology.
• Magna Arthropoda:
  
  
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  The Magna Arthropoda are mysterious in many ways, but there are main facts about them that have been discovered and aren’t currently disputed. Starting with their physiology, they have fully embraced transhumanism with extensive biological and mechanical modifications to their bodies from before their birth. These mods have allowed them to become a formidable force in and out of combat, with most of them heavily modifying their bodies according to their role in society. It isn’t clear if this role is chosen by themselves or if it assigned from above.
  
  These organisms develop their lives in a mostly communal society, however, while individualist behaviour is discouraged as it leads to selfishness and egocentrism, according to their view of life, individual thought is encouraged. As previously mentioned, the Magna Arthropoda have shown a tremendous inventive and ingenuity in their creations.

▼ OTHER ▼

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• In this universe, most of what magic can do, science can do better or in a greater, often industrial, scale when combined with it.
• Transhumanism, while often being considered a polar opposite of magic in the past centuries, has become another means through which magic can flow. For example, why would you need to carry a group of protection ward stones when you can have those same symbols carved in your nano-component bones with atom-wide precision?