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[@Dinh AaronMk] At the end of the day, it's a question of why are people here?

Is it for the story?

Or are they trying to win something? 

Personally, I'm here for the story, and when everything is about the story, benign details matter less and less. If someone wants a legion of Brotherhood clones, armed to the teeth with railguns and an accompaniment of Metal Gear Solids, then let them. If the GM has allowed for such a thing to happen in the scope and lore of his RP, then s'all good.

For me, that doesn't change the soul of the story. The world ended, people hid in bunkers, emerged 200 years later to try and rebuild. This is their tale, not a timeline of their ascent to becoming overlords of the universe. If some horde of impossibly advanced warriors comes pouring across Normandy, then I'd look forward to the nitty gritty posts of a futile defense, and the more clinical posts of an armed resistance to an occupying force.

That's my two pennies on everything. EVER. Like literally, I think I just wrote my thesis on the Theory of Living. 

But enough of that, Normandy needs to crack on with the Spartain II program. 'scuse me :)
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Actually if people are freely marching out in the shadow of the Metal Gear Ray then it ruins the Apocalypse vibe and becomes a whole new genre of fiction.

The RP is branded as a Fallout-Like RP so I come here to expect a story involving societies nestling the brink of survival or restoration under the shadows of the ruins of the old world, where what the world was before is a phantom or a legend where the reality of the world is a much tougher, grittier thing than it was before. If people can build Metal Gears then the illusion of man's capacity being maimed is removed in favor of it being a Mech-based RP. And there is a genre for that: it's the typical Sci-Fi world where man and aliens have taken to the stars and have the capacity to construct mechs and dazzling super-structures and projects beyond the current scope of reality.

Apocalyptic fiction, in the same vein as Fallout and Mad Max represents a model of story where man is feeding off the corpse of the world before it, and the world before it hardly works as it intended. No one has the capacity for modern genetic modification and the facilities to perform the exact science of identifying and changing genomes. What this reality and story is - and should be as to be accurate to the branding - is one where people don't have this sort of ability. And with the branding of this RP doing such would be a breach of immersion.

If you want mechs on a desolate planet, I'm sure any one of the dozen of current sci-fi RPs can facilitate that. Trying to claim something like that is something that reads off as someone playing-to-win since they want the glitziest of the thing. Even inquiring arises my own suspicions.