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A young man, Duncan Moran, learns that a nuclear war is coming in 2020. He was researching a way to provide guidance for interstellar travel based on the Alcubierre Theorem. In his research he stumbled upon the means to look forward in time. (To get useful data while travelling in a ship moving faster than light this became a necessity. When he realizes he is getting data from the future he refines his research to develop a useful image. What he saw was the city he was living in lying in nuclear ashes.
Once he receives his warning his efforts geared toward physical time travel. Despite his young age of 20, he holds a postgraduate research position at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. UNM is better known for its medical center, but as New Mexico is known as the Energy State, it should not be surprising that it covers other disciplines like geology, metallurgy, astronomy and engineering. He has also built his own businesses. One of these is a think tank. It is there where he builds his time portal.
Duncan travels back in time from the early 21st century to 1881 to the Territory of New Mexico through a time portal of his own invention. More specifically he travels to Albuquerque, NM for this is where he was from in the 21st century. New Mexico won’t be a state until 1912.
Homesteaders began moving into the area in the late 1870’s as the trains finally begin to reach the region. The train reached Santa Fe in 1880, later Albuquerque, and Deming in 1881. The New Mexico Education Association is formed in 1886. The first colleges will open in 1889.
Note: The Homestead Act was in 1862.
You are a young woman (18-22) that has either grown up in the region or moved here during this turbulent era. You can live on a ranch or in town. But I am using Albuquerque as the focal point. (It starts its boom in 1880-81. Crime sky rockets in downtown until they finally get a marshall.) You can even be foreign and have immigrated with hopes of living the American dream. (However, read the history brief below.) I enjoy characters that represent a little imagination and creativity, so I don’t want to tell you what to be. Big ranch owner’s daughter? School teacher? (Civil War anything doesn’t fit because of time. You would have been a child.)
History Brief
(Billy the Kid’s big period was 1878-1880.) Avoid being hispanic (neuvomexicanos) as they were second class citizens. Native Americans had it worse. Slavery and even indentured servitude was outlawed in New Mexico in 1862, but blacks are less than second class citizens in this time. Same is true is just about anyone not White really. And women won’t get to vote until 1920 in New Mexico.
Our young man is age 21, unfamiliar with colloquial mannerisms, speech, clothing, costs, culture. But he has studied the history of the period rather heavily and recently. He stands out in a crowd without trying. He is 6’7” built like a football quarterback, short black hair, sharp blue eyes. He walks with a limp (left side) and wears a fingerless deerskin leather glove on his left hand. He is well armed with both rifle and pistol - a Peacemaker.
This is to be an Advanced / Detailed RP. I am looking for a writer not so wrapped up in other RP’s and real life that they can’t post steadily, preferably at least every other day. When you apply, you will need a character CS. You will also need to decide whether to use a forum styled RP or PM's.
A young man, Duncan Moran, learns that a nuclear war is coming in 2020. He was researching a way to provide guidance for interstellar travel based on the Alcubierre Theorem. In his research he stumbled upon the means to look forward in time. (To get useful data while travelling in a ship moving faster than light this became a necessity. When he realizes he is getting data from the future he refines his research to develop a useful image. What he saw was the city he was living in lying in nuclear ashes.
Once he receives his warning his efforts geared toward physical time travel. Despite his young age of 20, he holds a postgraduate research position at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. UNM is better known for its medical center, but as New Mexico is known as the Energy State, it should not be surprising that it covers other disciplines like geology, metallurgy, astronomy and engineering. He has also built his own businesses. One of these is a think tank. It is there where he builds his time portal.
Duncan travels back in time from the early 21st century to 1881 to the Territory of New Mexico through a time portal of his own invention. More specifically he travels to Albuquerque, NM for this is where he was from in the 21st century. New Mexico won’t be a state until 1912.
Homesteaders began moving into the area in the late 1870’s as the trains finally begin to reach the region. The train reached Santa Fe in 1880, later Albuquerque, and Deming in 1881. The New Mexico Education Association is formed in 1886. The first colleges will open in 1889.
Note: The Homestead Act was in 1862.
You are a young woman (18-22) that has either grown up in the region or moved here during this turbulent era. You can live on a ranch or in town. But I am using Albuquerque as the focal point. (It starts its boom in 1880-81. Crime sky rockets in downtown until they finally get a marshall.) You can even be foreign and have immigrated with hopes of living the American dream. (However, read the history brief below.) I enjoy characters that represent a little imagination and creativity, so I don’t want to tell you what to be. Big ranch owner’s daughter? School teacher? (Civil War anything doesn’t fit because of time. You would have been a child.)
History Brief
(Billy the Kid’s big period was 1878-1880.) Avoid being hispanic (neuvomexicanos) as they were second class citizens. Native Americans had it worse. Slavery and even indentured servitude was outlawed in New Mexico in 1862, but blacks are less than second class citizens in this time. Same is true is just about anyone not White really. And women won’t get to vote until 1920 in New Mexico.
Our young man is age 21, unfamiliar with colloquial mannerisms, speech, clothing, costs, culture. But he has studied the history of the period rather heavily and recently. He stands out in a crowd without trying. He is 6’7” built like a football quarterback, short black hair, sharp blue eyes. He walks with a limp (left side) and wears a fingerless deerskin leather glove on his left hand. He is well armed with both rifle and pistol - a Peacemaker.
This is to be an Advanced / Detailed RP. I am looking for a writer not so wrapped up in other RP’s and real life that they can’t post steadily, preferably at least every other day. When you apply, you will need a character CS. You will also need to decide whether to use a forum styled RP or PM's.