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Ben runs into the kitchen, his knees scraped with blood and dirt, his hair full of twigs and the biggest smile on his face. "Mum! Mum! Can we watch TV with dinner tonight? Pleeeeeaaaaase mum!" he asks repeatedly, his high-pitched begging beginning to grate on Martha's recurring headache.
"No! You always watch that rubbish, it's time for the grown ups to watch their own programs," she says, sternly putting him down. His lower lip trembles and snotters begin to run down his nose and onto his lip in the disgusting way you know that their just going to lip their lips after they've wiped away the largest drips. Martha shudders inside but doesn't let it show over the physical agony of mashing the potatoes. Her grimace covers the sour thoughts of her child. He would simply complain for hours on end if she didn't allow it. "Fine! Go clean yourself up, you are a complete mess. No way are you sitting on my couch like that," she said, glad to see him charge out of the kitchen towards the bathroom. Callum, her husband, entered after the young one vanished.
"What was that about?" he asked, the darkened circles of a 10-hour work day as clear as the sea, adorning his under-eye's.
"Ben begged me to watch Primetime Wartime again. I said no, but he just kept begging and begging. So I gave into him. Again. I can't believe my son enjoys that horror show. You've seen what it does to them, and my child enjoys it? He's a fucking psychopath, watching that show has ruined my boy. He's even talking about joining the military now, and runs around shouting about 'killing those stupid Stellons'. He's going to end up on that TV in 10 years, going through the same shit we see those men subjected to, and some other 8 year old is going to be screaming what he is and his parents are going to be having this same damn argument!" Martha said. Her voice had been rising until suddenly it fell, as she did too to the ground, racking tears making her body jiggle on tiled floor.
"I know what you mean. He won't listen to me when I try and explain what's actually happening, and he can't understand that it isn't a show, and it isn't a game. I don't even know if he realises what's actually going on," Callum said. He placed a hand on her shoulder and another on the back of her head, pulling her in for a tentative hug. "I don't even think he knows what's happening."




It's been 10 years since humanity began its crusade on the only alien lifeforms it has encountered. Seemingly being human instinct, the foreign ship, peacefully sailing by Earth without a second glance, was shot down by Inter Planetary Ballistic Missiles (IPBMs for short), spraying cosmo flotsam down on the Pacific Ocean. Scientists and Xenophiles across the planet banded together to determine who this invader was, soon named the Stellons. Astrophysicists tracked their direction and velocity back to a star system hundreds of millions of kilometres away, now titled 'Django-1'. Mankind pulled together it's resources and launched the Alrekur, a Capital ship carrying 6,000 troops, squadrons of fighters, and some intensely heavy weaponry designed for defence. Meaning the best defence is a good offence.

At home, millions of miles away, live feeds from the helmet cameras are streamed on to televisions, cruelly named 'Primetime Wartime' where families on their couches can watch war with a bucket of popcorn for only $99 a year. A bargain. And from their armchair they can watch soldiers get gutted by the Stellons, or trip and fall on a landmine, often accompanied by the shrill laughter of a safe family. Judging and analysing like a football game, they'll meet up at work and discuss where the Sergeant went wrong on the last patrol or why Davidson is unworthy of leadership for not charging the bunker. All the while the soldiers on the front line have their minds unravelled as they go insane, trying to not come off as a coward while preserving their lives. There is no middle ground on war, and the spectators are ensuring it's entertaining.




To summarise, this will be about a group of soldiers being deployed to another solar system to fight a race who hadn't instigated the war. They will have to struggle with their opinions on the war while watching good men die and worse men live, all the while dealing with the psychological terror of millions of viewers getting front row seats to their own little self-apocalypse.

Advanced Interest Check (please read! More example of what we're aiming for and good for information!) from a while back on the first attempt: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/93802-starship-troopers-the-forever-war-meets-death-race/ooc
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O-o-o-oh, I wanna try, I wanna try!
I've got one really cheesy idea about a full-conversion cyborg mercenary called Cere-Bellum but if that doesn't really fit into the game you envision i'd like to make a member of some elite unit who acts really tough around others and is a fearless and determined warrior on the battlefield but is deeply traumatized and troubled by things he had to do during service deep inside his soul and is troubled even more by the fact that he is yet to find a true friend or another person he would trust hard enough to vent about everything and ease his soul.
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O-o-o-oh, I wanna try, I wanna try!
I've got one really cheesy idea about a full-conversion cyborg mercenary called Cere-Bellum but if that doesn't really fit into the game you envision i'd like to make a member of some elite unit who acts really tough around others and is a fearless and determined warrior on the battlefield but is deeply traumatized and troubled by things he had to do during service deep inside his soul and is troubled even more by the fact that he is yet to find a true friend or another person he would trust hard enough to vent about everything and ease his soul.


I can't tell if you're bullshitting me or not.
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@The Scotsman
Have I said something wrong
I'm sorry if I did
I know I sometimes say wrong things without even thinking but I honestly didn't try to convey anything negative.
Is it because the second guy is extremely cliché n typical?
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Well you have my interest!
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Very interested.
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@The Scotsman
Have I said something wrong
I'm sorry if I did
I know I sometimes say wrong things without even thinking but I honestly didn't try to convey anything negative.
Is it because the second guy is extremely cliché n typical?


You didn't say anything wrong, but what you're saying is almost like you're trying to give me shit for something, like you don't approve of the thread. Have we met before?

Well you have my interest!


Fantastic! Glad to have you.

Very interested.


Great! The more the merrier.

So I'm not really sure how many writers would be ideal for this kind of story. I was thinking about a smallish group of 5 or so, but I really feel that with a larger group of quality writers, we could very much detail a lot of individual horror stories happening, and most importantly we could have different perspectives.
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No, no, I completely approve of the thread, why else would I be writing in here?
It's just that I've got two ideas for characters I wanna play and I dunno if you'd like me to play a bashful and crazed cyborg warrior suffering from superhuman psychosis and the fact that with each upgrade he distances more and more from humanity or a more like, down-to-earth-ish character with more immediate moral problems.
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No, no, I completely approve of the thread, why else would I be writing in here?
It's just that I've got two ideas for characters I wanna play and I dunno if you'd like me to play a bashful and crazed cyborg warrior suffering from superhuman psychosis and the fact that with each upgrade he distances more and more from humanity or a more like, down-to-earth-ish character with more immediate moral problems.


Well, the second one would fit in more with the motif of the story, but probably a lot more subtle than what you're proposing.
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Violent crusade against non-humans in space?
Televising it to the rest of humanity?

Count me in!

Just one question, do the soldiers know they are being televised back home? I might have an idea for a character if so.
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Violent crusade against non-humans in space?
Televising it to the rest of humanity?

Count me in!

Just one question, do the soldiers know they are being televised back home? I might have an idea for a character if so.


Yeah! It's a large plot motif that they're struggling with the concept of being judged 24/7 for doing their job from millions of miles away by people who can't judge them. Glad to have you!
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Yeah! It's a large plot motif that they're struggling with the concept of being judged 24/7 for doing their job from millions of miles away by people who can't judge them. Glad to have you!


I was actually thinking something like, a guy who has lost it and ended up embracing the fact that many are watching him, thinking that he's now some kind of TV star and that the war isn't even real or just doesn't care anymore.
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I was actually thinking something like, a guy who has lost it and ended up embracing the fact that many are watching him, thinking that he's now some kind of TV star and that the war isn't even real or just doesn't care anymore.


I wouldn't allow 'lost it', I would fully endorse 'having trouble grasping' or 'questioning oneself' though
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I wouldn't allow 'lost it', I would fully endorse 'having trouble grasping' or 'questioning oneself' though


Aw, so I can't have a character who is okay with being televised then? Alright, I'm still in though, I like this idea.
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Aw, so I can't have a character who is okay with being televised then? Alright, I'm still in though, I like this idea.


You can have a character that's okay with being televised, but no military force, interplanetary or not, would allow a dysfunctional link in their unit as it causes unnecessary hazards to friendly forces. Your character can be fine with being filmed, and they can be on the top of the downward slope towards losing the plot, but they'll never actually reach rock bottom.
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You can have a character that's okay with being televised, but no military force, interplanetary or not, would allow a dysfunctional link in their unit as it causes unnecessary hazards to friendly forces. Your character can be fine with being filmed, and they can be on the top of the downward slope towards losing the plot, but they'll never actually reach rock bottom.


I didn't mean 'lost it' as like, completely lost the plot but rather then acting like he's some sort of star on this televised war was just his way of coping with the fact that he's been thrown across the galaxy to fight some alien force. Just worded it badly
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I didn't mean 'lost it' as like, completely lost the plot but rather then acting like he's some sort of star on this televised war was just his way of coping with the fact that he's been thrown across the galaxy to fight some alien force. Just worded it badly


I mean, I could see that working if written right. Like kinda delusional? Sounds cool anyway.
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