Futuristic k e n o p s i a - temp ooc

[zara3447]

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k e n o p s i a — temporary ooc​

Hello!! Welcome to the temporary OOC thread. Official OOC will be on Discord, and invites will be sent out at the end of the application period (which will not be for a while).

Please ask your questions here, or in DMs! I'll also be posting answers to lore/character creation/plot relevant questions here if I get asked any in private.

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conduct rules reminder​

Please be kind and respectful to all. Discriminatory, bigoted, or bullying behavior towards others will not be tolerated, and will result in immediate expulsion. This RP is LGBTQ+ friendly; all sexualities and genders are welcome. Pronouns will be respected !

We are here to have fun as a collective, so please keep that in mind!

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setting lore & faqs​

A Brief Recap of the Horrible Years Pre-ISEP

— On the Nature side of things, there were quite a few problems. Tectonic volcanic activity increased, making the air nigh-unbreathable without a filtration mask. Massive ice cap melt coupled with temperature-associated thermal expansion caused sea levels to surge. Desert regions became even more arid while coastal regions experienced disastrous flooding. Natural disasters, particularly storm-based ones, abounded as the warming Arctic disrupted global wind circulation, which had particularly devastating consequences for the equatorial regions of the world.​

— On the manmade side of things, humanity took those problems and said "look, Ma, we can make it worse!" Freshwater sources were lost to acid rain and ocean encroachment. Droughts and disasters ruined farmland and fisheries. Since the turn of the millennium, medical professionals have been screaming that antibiotic resistance is coming to bite us in the ass, and now: teeth, meet cheeks, ft. a whole lot of dead livestock and people. The rapidly growing scarcity of resources only made powerful countries scramble harder to hoard what they could. (Ethics? In this global economy? Who can afford that!)​

— Nuclear war always feels like something of an inevitability in all those End of Times stories. Having been so unfortunately proven right in this case, what can we say except that yeah, mankind knows itself well? Every nation will point a finger at someone else for being the one to fire the first shot. The United States. Russia. China. Who started it doesn't really matter, in the end. What matters is that volleys were exchanged. Nuclear war is too devastating to be a drawn-out affair, and a collective ceasefire was negotiated before nukes could do the job of ending humanity without giving the apocalypse a chance to, but not before the significant cutdown of the global population and the crippling of major military superpowers​

— In a way, nuclear war was a good thing. If you squint really, really hard. It leveled the international playing field in terms of power, made those global superpowers more willing to listen, to negotiate, to cooperate with the littler guys. This allowed for the International Space Evacuation Project to form as it did. And the rest, as they say, is history​

Cryosleep? How'd That Work?

— Freezing all those people takes time and resources to do, so the Cryo Phase was a sort of staggered release/rollout process. Each region did it a little differently depending on the country's government, and how obvious it was that the rich and powerful were going to be getting off on the earlier waves of Ark Ships. For a country like Australia, the resources-to-people ratio was sufficient to ensure a decent number of open spots on the earlier ones for common citizens. These spots were application based, though the public tagline was that Cryoshed assignment date was an equal chance lottery. They'd have space for everyone, of course, by the end, with the only difference being how early a slot you managed to pull.​

— Everyone in a Cryoshed would have been put on the same ship. In Australia, you would have submitted an application with a preference listed for how early or late in the rollout you'd like to be, but alas, once you get your assigned date and batch, that's simply final. You get what you get.​

— Timeline wise, people began to be frozen far before Ark Ship construction finished. Cryosheds served as human/Cryopod storage warehouses basically, until they could be mass loaded onto available Ark Ships. This particular Cryoshed in Otway was one of the earlier scheduled ones, so at the time that your characters were put to sleep, the current ISEP status was that Ark Ship construction was on its way, and you all would wake up on the ship as it arrived at the habitable new planets.​

— How the Cryo stuff actually happened, specifically, is that you would have gone to your assigned Cryoshed on your assigned date, and been led to one of the hundred or so Cryopods lining the walls. There's a footlocker (think military style) built into the base of each tank unit for your belongings. Tests and calibrations were done by the laboratory team, a nanobot infused cryoprotectant solution was injected into you intravenously, your skin was slathered with a protective gel, and then you stepped into the chamber to be frozen into Cryostasis.​

— The time slots would have been scheduled like surgery, so you didn't wait in line really, you showed up at your time slot. If you'd arrived early, maybe you would have met a couple of the people scheduled ahead of you in the day, but there wasn't a real waiting in line situation. You could have seen the sleeping faces of the people in tanks preceding yours, maybe, if you'd cared to look, but odds are that you don't recognize anyone else in the room waking up with you.​

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Links to the Interest Check and Application Thread​

 

[mythcals]

giggling maniacally at this btw... frothing at the mouth with excitement..

 

[zara3447]

giggling maniacally at this btw... frothing at the mouth with excitement..

Cannot wait to see what you cook up!!

 

[mythcals]

thank you!! apologies ahead, law is a grade a edge lord i fear..

 

[zara3447]

listen... if there is ANY setting where this is a valid character trait...

 

[SavannahSmiles]

I will contribute my own menace to society in the morning, for now I sleep

 

[zara3447]

Updates for all my lovelies!

— If anyone has strong preferences either way for the actual RP being on RPN versus Discord, I would really appreciate if you could let me know ahead of time! (Ex. PM me, or reply here or on the IC, or indicate at the bottom of your CS, etc)

— Someone asked me in pms what exactly had happened when the world went to shit, and I was like, oh wow, what a great point! I should probably drop that lore somewhere. So now here it is, lore, dropped ("A Brief Recap of the Horrible Years Pre-ISEP")
— DM NPC sheet is up on the cs thread! To clarify, I'm looking to accept around eight characters for this RP, and Gen will not count as one of the slots. Think of them as something of a plot device c:
— If you read in the Applications thread lore sections that this took place in Canberra, shhhh no u didn't. Name of the city has been arbitrarily changed to Otway, to better reflect that this is a fictional, made up city! It sprung up like so many of the other metropolises did, like a pin stuck randomly to a map by the government picking places to build its short-lived ISEP mega cities

— As an additional note here, this is part of why all the skyscrapers and buildings are so architecturally unsound, as you will find out in the RP proper!! All this stuff was built as a stopgap measure, not made to last​

 

[zara3447]

mythcals

So many hugs and kisses to you for getting a form up so quickly, Law looks so cool and the lore you made up for MayCorp is very interesting. HOWEVER, I would have really appreciated if you'd run it by me beforehand?? It's absolutely something we could keep in the story, but we're gonna need to iron out some feasibility details (which I'm gonna list below, but please let me know if you'd rather we do it in PMs)
— How did he secure a spot in such a relatively early wave of the Cryo program, when his family is literally Famous for opposing it? Coming to Aus versus the US would not be enough to ensure anonymity when your name and face is that well known for being literally one of the heads of the anti-ISEP faction. There would have been political and security concerns (ex. is this guy gonna like.. come and smash up Cryo equipment in protest? Bomb the Cryosheds?)
— On that note also, MayCorp protesting has to have been just political/financial, with no actual like, idk, suicide bombers or violent shows of force. If they'd shot up some places in protest, and then you came all meekly to be like "omg sorry, let me in plz" ISEP is locking you up in a cage and kicking said cage out the metaphorical airlock

— The family murder-suicide would help as a politically sob story, and the most feasible answer to the "how did he get in" question as I see it is that Law could have denounced his dad's views and paid his way in? "I never stood for his views and don't condone what he did, I'm willing to contribute all this funding to ISEP, in exchange for a spot on one of the earlier Ark Ship waves" sort of thing​

This goes for everyone, and I'll make an announcement about it in the interest check too just to be safe, but please run world/plot lore by me beforehand. I am thrilled to hear everyone's cool ideas, and would love to incorporate as much of it into the story as I can, but there are preexisting plot elements that we'd have to make sure it doesn't contradict.