I love mech related things. I grew up with Gundam 00, Mech Assault Long Wolf, Chromehounds, and Armored Core: For Answer. Those were my mech games/anime that I knew best. But the one that has stood out as my favorite, was Gundam. Funny enough, I never really got into any other Gundam series. Gundam 00 is the only I have watched. So when it comes to making a Mech focused RP, to me it only makes sense to make a Gundam RP, or a Free Form Non Fandom RP. I suppose this means I'm going with the Former.

So yes, Gundam 00, AU RP. What do you need to know?

Well first this won't be a RP where we play Gundam Meisters piloting Gundams. Gundams are just too powerful, and there is rarely a reason for them to be challenged. Short of being just massively out numbered with full force, they aren't ever honestly really challenged, save for a few times when very special Mobile Suits showed up, but they were in fact defeated. And we can't very much have a RP where every single conflict is the entire military force of Earth versus a few Gundams. So for these reasons, we won't be actually using Gundams.

This isn't to say however that Gundam-Like Mobile Suits won't be allowed. It's just, you know... no Trans-Am, no ridiculously advanced technology on your mech that puts you leagues ahead of everyone else. Yes, that includes just slapping an "Experimental" title onto overpowered things as an excuse to have them.

What we will be doing instead is playing as pilots of a nation. Either The Union, Human Reform League, or AEU. All players should be of the same faction, so we'll decide that ahead of time. There's no point of telling two or three different sides of the same story in my opinion, and splitting people up so that each person can only interact with a very limited number of people in the RP. This is intended to be a small group, so if we have 4 people... that would mean we would have 2 groups who can only interact with the other person in their group, or we'd have two groups with only one member. That'd be pretty awkward now wouldn't it.

Regardless of what nation we pick however, all Mobile Suits are available to play as, as long as it makes sense for them to be piloted by normal pilots. This includes Mobile Suits from a different series, as long as they don't have some special ability or weapon attached like "This thing can destroy a planet because of its special main weapon!" Yeah no. You can use the appearance and name of the Mobile Suit, but not the OP weaponry.

The AU specifically is taking place during a time where Celestial Being is believed to have been defeated, but the world did not come together to form the UN. Instead, they continued their wars against each other fighting over the Orbital Elevators, while Celestial Being regained strength from a surprise attack that was believed to have destroyed them. In reality, they just needed a lot of repairs... and upgrades.

So the RP will be focusing on battles and politics between the three factions, their reactions to other events, and the development of the characters together as a group.

Characters from the anime, as well as OCs are both welcome. I'll personally be playing as Soma Peries if this whole thing goes through. Mind you, some backstory may need to be rewritten to fit characters into the faction we choose. Like Soma is a part of the HRL, but if we decide as a group to play as The Union I'll need to put in some backstory details as to why she's with The Union, not the HRL.

But it's an AU so that's all fine.

Well considering my own attempt to make this wasn't anywhere near successful I'll throw in my hat. I'll give my preference towards the Union.

I'm personally leaning towards Union myself. As said before, would probably aim for a 4 person group. More are welcome, but I'd like at least 3 people to be involved before starting.

Hello! I would like to join as well and I agree with going with the union. I've been looking for a Gundam RP for a while now, so thank you for making one.

Alright well, with 3 people that seems to be enough to start so I'll put up an OOC. Union it is. That's also my preference, as I want to put Soma in a Flag.

Also, in the long-term we may eventually get into Gundams, so no worries about feeling like it's a Gundamless Gundam RP.

Alright so what tier of units are we in exactly? Are we still in the flag era, or the A-Laws GNX era?

Sweet also what about our ranks?

OOC is up here

This is basically at the start of Season 2, but with the AU changes to the world. The UN no longer exists, it was a very temporary alliance. So at current, we are technically in the Flag Era of units, but the more advanced ones. GN drives have not yet been developed for use by the nations of the world, they're still working on it.

That being said, if you want to use something that shows up later on in the series, but sort of pull it back down to the levels of the other units, that's fine. Like you don't have to literally pilot a Flag.

For Ranks, it's mentioned in the character sheet section in the OOC, my character will be the Commander, the rest should be basically anything below that. Which is pretty much anything other than a General or Admiral or something honestly.

We will probably use US Airforce rankings as a guideline, with Commander replacing Captain. In this case, everyone else would probably be a Sergeant of some sort.

If someone wants to be a second or first lieutenant, also fine.