Paeniteo Azrael
The Bestest of Besties
It's been ten years since the Fall. You do know what the Fall was, don't you? What, don't they teach you anything in those hypertime classrooms they have these days? Fine, fine, I'll tell you about it.
Ten years ago humanity, that is, transhumanity, lost everything we ever hoped to have. We were the architects of our own downfall - seed AIs, self-upgrading artificial general intelligences, suddenly lost their shit and started killing humans. They were called the TITANs, in some bizarre, acronym related reversal of ancient Earth mythology. All we know is that they weren't suppose to wake up, and that when they did, well, the events speak for themselves.
All of a sudden, the tenuous political situation on Earth collapsed. Thousands of years of oppression and concentration of power exploded into massive rebellions and revolutions, and war broke out across the entire planet. No one knows for sure why this was when everyone decided to get their war on, but the TITANs certainly took advantage of it. Some say the TITANs themselves orchestrated it, appearing as influential leaders and altering diplomatic communications. The Mesh started to go down as massive disruptions caused by the TITANs disrupted even generic communications - in the ensuing chaos automated factories started churning out automated slaughter-machines, killing everything in sight. Before we had a chance to say "There are no WMDs in Iraq," every type of weapon imaginable was being used in a conflict no one knew we were fighting.
Soon enough, people started to notice the missing cortical stacks in all the dead corpses - the TITANs were taking human minds and doing who knows what with them. By now, whatever organized elements existed in the system started to figure out just how bad everything looked. Then it all got worse. The TITANs expanded their influence off-world, and found themselves wrecking the rest of the solar system. Mars and Luna did almost as poorly as Earth.
Then one day, in all the death and chaos and gore, someone noticed that the relentless automated assault had paused, and then stopped altogether. As fast as the TITANs showed up, they had left - and with them 15 billion transhumans. Earth's a wasteland, most of the people who've survived don't even have a body to live in, hell, most are just in permanent cold data storage.
Transhumanity is on the brink of extinction. It's been just ten years, and the only thing that's gotten better is that the psycho-murder death gods have left the building. Transhumanity still has all of good old normal humanity's problems: greed, war, strife, corruption, and no amount of genefixing has fixed those traits. Some say that transhumanity is destined to die off, that our ultimate mistake was ever existing in the first place. They say the TITANs weren't what killed us, good old natural human failings did. They just accelerated it a little.
But me, I like to think that as long as we've still got one iota of fight left in us, we'd better fight. Because if we're gonna die off, we may as well do it with style.
Any discrepancies or help with characters? Ask me! Adding a trait like Allies or Mental Disorder or Enemy or something like that? Make sure I know about it and can work with you on what it means for the story!
All character sheets will have to be submitted to me for approval, including whatever background you want to include. If you need/want help, don't hesitate to ask. Feel free to also inform me of how you want your character to grow! Character growth drives stories more than any narrative.
And remember: Extinction is approaching. Fight it.<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2013_06/eclipsephase_charactersheet_editable_ssb_pdf.e5a55ee79b29769b83cc4af4ac079fda" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="23970" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2013_06/eclipsephase_charactersheet_editable_ssb_pdf.e5a55ee79b29769b83cc4af4ac079fda" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p>
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Ten years ago humanity, that is, transhumanity, lost everything we ever hoped to have. We were the architects of our own downfall - seed AIs, self-upgrading artificial general intelligences, suddenly lost their shit and started killing humans. They were called the TITANs, in some bizarre, acronym related reversal of ancient Earth mythology. All we know is that they weren't suppose to wake up, and that when they did, well, the events speak for themselves.
All of a sudden, the tenuous political situation on Earth collapsed. Thousands of years of oppression and concentration of power exploded into massive rebellions and revolutions, and war broke out across the entire planet. No one knows for sure why this was when everyone decided to get their war on, but the TITANs certainly took advantage of it. Some say the TITANs themselves orchestrated it, appearing as influential leaders and altering diplomatic communications. The Mesh started to go down as massive disruptions caused by the TITANs disrupted even generic communications - in the ensuing chaos automated factories started churning out automated slaughter-machines, killing everything in sight. Before we had a chance to say "There are no WMDs in Iraq," every type of weapon imaginable was being used in a conflict no one knew we were fighting.
Soon enough, people started to notice the missing cortical stacks in all the dead corpses - the TITANs were taking human minds and doing who knows what with them. By now, whatever organized elements existed in the system started to figure out just how bad everything looked. Then it all got worse. The TITANs expanded their influence off-world, and found themselves wrecking the rest of the solar system. Mars and Luna did almost as poorly as Earth.
Then one day, in all the death and chaos and gore, someone noticed that the relentless automated assault had paused, and then stopped altogether. As fast as the TITANs showed up, they had left - and with them 15 billion transhumans. Earth's a wasteland, most of the people who've survived don't even have a body to live in, hell, most are just in permanent cold data storage.
Transhumanity is on the brink of extinction. It's been just ten years, and the only thing that's gotten better is that the psycho-murder death gods have left the building. Transhumanity still has all of good old normal humanity's problems: greed, war, strife, corruption, and no amount of genefixing has fixed those traits. Some say that transhumanity is destined to die off, that our ultimate mistake was ever existing in the first place. They say the TITANs weren't what killed us, good old natural human failings did. They just accelerated it a little.
But me, I like to think that as long as we've still got one iota of fight left in us, we'd better fight. Because if we're gonna die off, we may as well do it with style.
This game is going to be focused on fast-paced action with a judicious helping of jailbreaks, cosmic horror, and grand larceny. The above introduction is a lead-in to the first part of a much larger story arc, but there will be plenty of things to do on the side (after all, life is never boring when you're the only thing standing between transhumanity and every existential and physical threat the universe can throw at you).
I'm planning on starting the RP in the beginning of July (I have a trip I'm taking next weekend).
Any discrepancies or help with characters? Ask me! Adding a trait like Allies or Mental Disorder or Enemy or something like that? Make sure I know about it and can work with you on what it means for the story!
All character sheets will have to be submitted to me for approval, including whatever background you want to include. If you need/want help, don't hesitate to ask. Feel free to also inform me of how you want your character to grow! Character growth drives stories more than any narrative.
And remember: Extinction is approaching. Fight it.<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2013_06/eclipsephase_charactersheet_editable_ssb_pdf.e5a55ee79b29769b83cc4af4ac079fda" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="23970" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2013_06/eclipsephase_charactersheet_editable_ssb_pdf.e5a55ee79b29769b83cc4af4ac079fda" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p>
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