Futuristic Martian Frontier (cyberpunk space western)

[lucidnonsense]

The Year is 2138, mars colonization is well underway, plants are blooming, the air is getting thicker and with genetic modification humanity has adapted to live comfortably on the red planet. Many governments have formed on the red planet some formed as experiments, others to fulfill a need. World war IV happened in 2088 which caused a mass exodus by many to mars, the current population is 1,573,000 (though some are unsure whether to count AIs as people or not).

Liberty city will be the setting of this roleplay, a Corporate colony with a contract based law system, people sign contracts with the corporations which give them certain rights and protections at the cost of having to obey certain laws. It is indeed possible to sign an agreement to revoke your own personhood which allows you to not obey any laws...at the cost of no longer having any kind of legal protection (so most people dont do this)

Of course, not everyone follows these rules and many people have failed to abide by terms of service, some people refused to work when they agreed to without reason, others murdered other employees. regardless, in this city there are two forms of law enforcement. Corporate Hired Police...and Bounty hunters, bounty hunters form contracts with people and are tasked with hunting down criminals and bringing them to court (or, in some extreme cases, the grave). This is a dangerous job and because of this it is usually quite expensive. This roleplay will focus on the Bounty hunters and those who evade them, despite this it will not all be combat based, Bounty hunters often also act as investigators into the crime...and sometimes violence just isnt the answer.

also, cybernetics are widespread, AI have the ability to acquire the same level of rights as a human (technically animals are too, but they tend not to be able to follow the terms and conditions unlike AIs, unless they are augmented) Brain uploading is also a thing but its an intensive proceedure that often leaves some personality changes. Will go into more detail with technology when I write the roleplay.


anyone interested?

 

[lucidnonsense]

here is a list of some of the major corporations, more information on them later


Mars Agro: genetic engineered plants for growth on mars


Pegasus Starlines: spaceships, aircraft, and traffic control


Storkcorp: creates humans (and some other biological creatures) for people to raise under contract


Amazon: goods distribution


Aeon Sophotronics: Artificial intelligence and neurological enhancement and counciling


Panacea: pharmecudicals


Olympus Mons heavy industries: vehicles, industrial equipment, robotic bodies


Cornucopia Industrial Planning: Fabricators, city planning


Chroma: robotic bodies, cybernetics


Prometheus Energy: energy production


Morravec Intelligence Company: AI and Robots.


Asimov Robotics: AI, robots, and cybernetics


Third Eye Cybernetics: cybernetic enhancements usually focusing on neurological or sensory augments


Samsara: Brain uploading, AI reprogramming, human reprogramming


Mars Terraforming Initiative: terraforming


Wildside Ltd: cybernetics and cosmetic enhancements, tend to be on the "exotic" side


WAN: telecommunications


SpaceX: habitat construction, spaceships


Liberty City Legal: space lawyers!


Contracker: makes software for easy tracking of contracts


Ares Martial solutions: security equipment, weapons

 

[Warden Click]

This looks pretty cool! I'm definitely interested!

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Interested

 

[JW Suzusihi]

This sounds really cool. Color me interested

 

[Muffinboi]

Nice!

 

[lucidnonsense]

Cool glad people are interested, still have a bunch of work to do on this before its ready

 

[Safety Hammer]

Let's do it. Maybe add a little bit of steampunk and I'm in.

 

[Warden Click]

Personally, I'd love to play as an AI.

 

[Safety Hammer]

[QUOTE="Warden Click]Personally, I'd love to play as an AI.

[/QUOTE]
I'm sorry Dave.. I'm afraid I can't let you do that...

 

[lucidnonsense]

[QUOTE="Warden Click]Personally, I'd love to play as an AI.

[/QUOTE]
You can play as an AI, various types and structures will be available. for example.


Aeon sophotronics: highly intelligent but less human AIs, the most varied, Aeon explores all the different permutations of "self" and "mind" they tend to be more specialized than humans and optimized for different skills. cant think of example AIs from fiction that would fit the model of Aeon Sophotronics AIs. some aeon AIs are capable of emotions, some aeon AIs experience emotions and sensations humans cannot comprehend. Aeon also makes many non-human level AIs for various tasks.


Morravec: AI are much closer to humans, possessing roughly equal capabilities of an (augmented) human mind, they possess emotions, unique personality and all that. Morravec AIs grow up much like humans either in cyberspace or in a robotic body.


Asimov: Asimov AIs are guided learning AIs, they are born with programming and as they learn they eventually grow beyond programming. they often have emotions (it helps guide the learning process). while they grow beyond programming they still often have a sense of attachment to the job they are programmed to do. They are generally born without any rights, but once they grow beyond programming acquiring legal status is not difficult. They are most like the droids in star wars.

 

[DJGomez]

Intrested

 

[Safety Hammer]

[QUOTE="Warden Click]Personally, I'd love to play as an AI.

[/QUOTE]
Hey, you could play as my character's AI. He's a cyborg/android.

 

[Fenris]

Interested as well, I like the corporations

 

[lucidnonsense]

I will actually put the roleplay itself together after finals, but here is some historical information.

World War III was essentially a continuation of problems in the middle east, it was a brutal war between Europe and Russia vs ISIS, nuclear weapons were used, While ISIS is pretty much destroyed and things are more stable in the middle east, religious extremism is far from dead. Russian forces continue to occupy the middle east, fighting terrorism in a brutal, almost totalitarian fashion.

World War IV or the "Ecowars" were fought over the dying remains of earth, turns out global climate change was a real problem, the ice caps were melting, overpopulation was another percieved problem with many nations wanting fertile territory to feed a growing population. It started with a war between China, Korea, and India but soon spread across the world, cities were reduced to ruin, people killed en-mass, it was one of the most brutal wars in human history. Many nations joined together to form GAIA, guided by AIs dedicated to protection of all life on earth from the horrors of the war. GAIAs only goal was to protect earth, willing to do anything to stop the war and bring humanity to a sustainable state. Using an army of robotic soldiers and many nations united to a common goal, GAIA took over the world and now rules earth with an Eco-friendly iron fist. Many people left earth for mars during the war and after the war many people went to mars to escape the totalitarian government established by GAIA


Major factions Include:


Republic of Brazil: Covering most of south america, The Republic of Brazil is an economic superpower, it was one of the best places to own a business, and despite severe weather, it was a good place for farming. This, along with major differences in ideology between SLA and the RB is why Spanish Liberated Alliance fought them. While the Brazilian military was more powerful, the SLA's use of insurgents and social media activism caused great social unrest and a revolution against the capitalist government and a surge of terrorism. Brazil Joined the Coalition to fight against GAIA once the invasions began.


SLA: The Spanish Liberated Alliance was made up of various Central american governments who had become communist following a major revolution, they actually managed to make it work pretty well but they did not have the economic power of brazil and while they crushed the criminal organizations that once plagued mexico, new criminal organizations took place (but they were less brutal). eventually with growing economic scarcity and lowered standards of living across the board a nationalistic element took hold which helped spur the war with the Republic of brazil. Despite the low standards of living the SLA had a high tech government. the SLA joined GAIA after it rose.


United States of America: still an economic powerhouse, but has been more isolationist, largely staying out of World War III, the United states was still recovering from an era of Division between the National Socialism and Global Capitalism, with powerful corporations fighting for globalism while the people fought for the government. (it wasnt a true "civil war" though, mainly just feirce debates). Many of the Corporations joined GAIA, funding it and developing tech for them but some fought against it for freedom and the government largely fought with the coalition.


Canada: a socialist country with a high population of AI due to relatively liberal personhood laws, they had started to fall into economic hard times with the fall of the oil industry but many AI run businesses helped bring them out of economic depression. They were one of the Main forces behind GAIA.


Scandinavia: while the countries of Scandinavia remain seperate they will be grouped together here, they are very much like scandinavia of today but higher tech and stuff, they joined GAIA.


Europian Union: suffered heavy losses during World War III and after being saved by russia, russia took some eastern european countries back into the new "Russian Empire", some people were a little pissed by this and European Nationalism grew, the new european government waged war against russia and the middle east for economic reasons. They fought alongside the coalition with the rise of gaia


Russian Empire: The Russian Empire was one of the largest superpowers of the world, while mostly able to fight against the european union, China used this as an oppurtunity to expand into russia which led to a nuclear exchange which escaled the war across the globe. Russia was severely weakened by the war with china and had to join forces in order to fight against GAIA in the coalition.


China: Started by taking over Korea (now united with the fall of the dictatorship a long time ago) then started a war over India with pakistan (officially they were helping india fight against pakistan, but in actuallity they were taking over) the government tried to keep quiet about the death camps but word got out and people were outraged...but too involved in other issues to do anything. they got into a nuclear exchange with Russia before joining forces in the coalition to fight GAIA


Japan: Japan has a large robotic population but a rather mixed record on AI rights, while they technically legally have rights in practice they are treated as property by many people. They began preparing a larger military (mostly robotic) after china began taking over countries. GAIA secretly took control of many japanese cities and built many of its robots there, officially Japan fought against GAIA, but in reality they were building weapons.


Australia: Fought alongside the coalition, after the war they were left largely alone making it a popular site for refugees.


GAIA: a coalition of a bunch of nations alongside superintelligent climate control AI to save earths biosphere, they used robotic armies to take over the world. They are rather totalitarian with strict laws on green-energy and population control. they also seek to stop war and take care of conflicts "before they begin"


The war officially ended in 2104, earth is still feeling the effects of the nuclear war further devastating the environment, a mass extinction is occuring and some within GAIA have decided the mission is hopeless and instead of returning the environment to a natural state, they work to create a new environment of organisms designed to be more adaptable.

 

[lucidnonsense]

Here is a prototype for the Character sheet, let me know if it needs anything added to it, while you can start making characters now, as the lore isnt complete yet some things might not be clear yet such as equipment. this is more just a prototype


Primary Name:


Other Names:


Preferred pronouns: (gender has slowly became irrelevent, most people still cling onto male or female pronouns, but many people also use others, especially those without a biological gender)


Age:


Originhuman? AI? Genetically Engineered Human? Bioroid? Uplifted animal?)


Physical Traits:


Neurological/Mental Traitsthis is not for personality, but more for what kind of intelligence you have)


SkillsDoesnt have to be comprehensive, just a general idea of your capabilities)


Personality Profile:


Criminal or Bounty hunterboth is an option, or neither)


If criminal, what did you do:


Major Contracts you have acceptednot just bounty hunting ones, in general what laws are you bound by)


Equipment and weapons:


Backstory:

 

[Safety Hammer]

It seems a little complex

 

[Warden Click]

I think replacing "physical traits" with "appearance" would be less confusing.

 

[lucidnonsense]

[QUOTE="Warden Click]I think replacing "physical traits" with "appearance" would be less confusing.

[/QUOTE]
oh, physical traits is more for like, augmentations and stuff (or for robots built in features or advantages and stuff), I need to add an appearance to the ap

 

[Warden Click]

oh, physical traits is more for like, augmentations and stuff (or for robots built in features or advantages and stuff), I need to add an appearance to the ap

Oh, okay!

 

[Fenris]

Here is a prototype for the Character sheet, let me know if it needs anything added to it, while you can start making characters now, as the lore isnt complete yet some things might not be clear yet such as equipment. this is more just a prototype
Primary Name:


Other Names:


Preferred pronouns: (gender has slowly became irrelevent, most people still cling onto male or female pronouns, but many people also use others, especially those without a biological gender)


Age:


Originhuman? AI? Genetically Engineered Human? Bioroid? Uplifted animal?)


Physical Traits:


Neurological/Mental Traitsthis is not for personality, but more for what kind of intelligence you have)


SkillsDoesnt have to be comprehensive, just a general idea of your capabilities)


Personality Profile:


Criminal or Bounty hunterboth is an option, or neither)


If criminal, what did you do:


Major Contracts you have acceptednot just bounty hunting ones, in general what laws are you bound by)


Equipment and weapons:


Backstory:

Since you seem to be aiming for a more casual RP? There's a few things you could do to slim down the character sheet. Of course only you can choose were to place the balance between streamlined and stylish/flair.


Preferred Pronouns is cool, but could easily be discovered during play or rolled into the 'Other Names' tab as street handle or known as


As mentioned Physical Traits could use as quick explanation of what it entails and a tab for actual appearance added. Maybe call it physical modifications to differentiate from Mental Traits.


Speaking of which I feel like those are already partially covered with 'Origin” but I might just not fully comprehend the intention.


Criminal or Bounty Hunter/If Criminal might just be easier as Profession: (What do you do to earn your living and how did you get there?)


So maybe like this:

Spoiler

Appearance:


Birth Name:


Street Handle:


Origin:


Age:


Profession:


Skills:


Major Contracts:


Personality:


Mental Traits:


Physical Modifications:


Equipment:


Background:


I could imagine this as a dossier a Employer, Law enforcement etc. might look through. A quick identifier at the the top, followed by the subjects capabilites and the the nitty gritty at the bottom... just my two cents on the sheet.

 

[DrCompton]

Is this still a thing. I'd like for this to still be a thing

 

[strongestbaka]

Seconding DrCompton. This sounds amazing!

 

[lucidnonsense]

Is this still a thing. I'd like for this to still be a thing

it is fairly busy the next few days, but it is still a thing that will be happening

 

[Missingo]

I'm very interested in this.