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It was only known as the Mothership to its people.

It was an unbelievable large vessel, almost the size of a mountain. It was shaped almost like a saucer, pure white and silver in its color.

And it carried the minds of the sole remaining survivors of an alien race, as they traveled from planet to planet, mining its resources to power their Mothership so it could stay running.

And now, it had arrived in Fantasia, a medieval world torn in conflict between all the various races in it. And it was the very first planet they visited that possessed Mana, allowing its inhabitants to use and employ magics in their daily lives.

Fortunately for Fantasia, the Mothership had a rule it always obeyed. If a planet had sapient creatures living on it, they would have to ask for their permission before grabbing their resources. Only if all negotiations broke down and when the Mothership couldn't survive one other trip to a different planet, they would resort to pillaging the planet by force.

And so the Mothership sent their agents, either AIs or digitized minds, linked to an android body, to roam the planet and make deals with the native populations. They would become its ambassadors, bridging alliances and making trades with them, or, if they felt that they were unworthy for such an arrangement, they could bring their case to the Mother Brain, the supreme AI that ruled over the Mothership, for them to be granted permission of laying waste to them.



Welcome to my interest check. This is still more in the idea phase than a solid setting and RP idea but I thought I'd post it to the interest check just to see how many people are interested.

Basically this would be sorta a science vs magic kind of story, with the aliens in the side of science. I'm not sure if players would want to play other than the aliens though, especially since they're kinda the ones moving the plot along. Though I guess you can play as the fantasy side going to the Mothership to investigate it.

The default setting I have in mind for the fantasy world is going to be like your typical Japanese isekai fantasy setting. Humans are in conflict with non-humans, especially against the demon race. The human church has an anti non-human teachings, viewing them as inferior heretics. Slavery still exists, with both sides having both human and non-human slaves (with the beastmen being most common). Dwarves and elves hate each other while beastmen are torn between supporting the humans or the demons; both sides viewing them just as an easy source of slave workers with their super strength. Lots of corrupt folks on all sides in short.

Their technology level is medieval with some magic tools in use, with demons using most of them. Elves could manipulate the growth of plants. Dwarves have their steam devices whose secrets they never shared with anyone. Beastmen are the most primitive, living nomadically off hunting monsters, as they believed settling down and becoming farmers to be a dishonorable act.

The aliens would ask for permission to set up shop in mana rich lands where they would proceed to suck it all up to be stored as energy for their ship. They could offer all sorts of things in return, from their technology to passage for mind upload into their paradise-like cyberspace.

Their Mothership would land in the middle of the Great Wasteland, a scorched and empty battlefield destroyed by generations of combats between humans and demons.

Society inside the Mothership's cyberspace is mostly free, with most of the aliens living in a simulated, idealized version of their home world without having any need to work. Going to the real world is strictly regulated however. They knew they had landed on a new planet but as much as some of them wanted to sightsee, only chosen agents trained in diplomacy and combat were allowed to do so. They didn't want to risk any diplomatic incident if untrained civilians were to be unleashed to the real world.

I'd like it for players to worldbuild their part of the fantasy world, even if they're just playing as the aliens. The aliens would send their agents to every corner of the world after all. And feel free to ask anything about the setting.
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I. Am. IN!
God! This is awesome! I mean it. Truly something I haven't seen on RPG for like...4-5 years. Awesome!

Let me know if you want some help or anything alike 😉

Also, just to throw the idea here, I'm most probably be playing a fantasy race which desires to join the Mothership in their trip. Sounds good?
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Sounds good! Feel free to think up the background setting of him/her that makes them want to join the aliens.
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I'll have to think on what character to be, posibly some sort of religious person, maybe an elf, but this idea was too intriguing to not express my interest. So I'm on board
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I like the idea of world/lore building in game but with point limitations to keep things even. Say once a week you get 5 points that allow you to introduce new lore.

A new hero/character could be 1
A new basic race 1, advanced 2 monsterous 3
Town 1 city 2 capitol 3
Island 1 special landmass/location 2, country 3

So as you want to write in something new you use creation points. If you don’t have any, you just have to wait and work on what others have created.

The most basic concept and delivery of this would be from the aliens side as we explore the new lands discovering new creatures and cultures.
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Ooh and as an alien or AI we can have a main brain/body on the ship and send out androids, it will sorta act as a respawn if things go bad.
But if we do good and bring back resources we can upgrade our androids :)

The more I think about it the more excited I get with possibilities!!!
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Not sure if I'll have enough time to join but Yes, this looks awesome. I'm curious to see more.
Disclaimer: I'm making no promises.
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That's a good idea! I'll think up a loadout system where you have a bunch of tools you could fit into your android body, from flight system to camouflage. Naturally, you can't fit everything.

Not sure if an upgrade system would make sense though. You'll already get the best android body they could make after all. Maybe if you can find magical artifacts and the like that could be researched for an upgrade, though that upgrade would be shared to everyone.
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Every android is equipped by default with a quantum wireless communication device, allowing latencyless data transfer to everywhere in the world, no matter how far. You don't actually upload your mind to the android itself. Instead, you control it remotely from the Mothership. Every android is also equipped with a device capable of outfitting the body with any kind of clothes you want, though the clothes would disintegrate if taken off the body. An android could eat and drink like a normal human, and they can use the nutrition to replenish their battery. They're also equipped with mana-sensing devices so you could always pinpoint where a place rich in mana is located. And of course, they could automatically communicate with the natives thanks to the real time universal translator program.

Here are the loadouts you can choose. You only have 10 points to spare.
Weaponry
  • Arm blaster = Fires off an energy blast from your palm like Ironman (1 point)
  • Finger pistol = Allows each one of your hand fingers to act like a handgun (1 point)
  • Arm gatling gun = Transforms your arm into a gatling gun. (2 point)
  • Shoulder rockets = Fires off miniature missiles from your shoulders that could be set to aim for specific targets (2 point)
  • Arm blades = A sharp blade pops out from the side of your arm. (1 point)
  • Arm grenade launcher = A hole opens on your palm and a grenade is launched from it. (1 point)
  • Energy shield = Conjures an energy shield in a decently wide area that could be used to protect not only yourself but others as well. (3 point)
  • Gravity field generator = Generates an increased gravity field all around you. (3 point)
  • Photon discharger = Sacrifice your android body to create a large and powerful explosion. The amount of power depends on the remaining energy you have. (3 point)

Utility
  • Antigravity flight device = Allows flight (3 point)
  • Spy droids = Releases tiny insect-like droids that could act as additional eyes and ears. Can't be too far away from the android and would eventually die as it runs out of energy (2 point)
  • All-purpose scanner = Can scan all sorts of objects including biological creatures and see what elements they're made of (if the database could recognize it). Also allows you to see through skin, clothes, and even walls, up until a certain thickness. (2 point)
  • Jet flippers = Allows fast swimming in water (1 point)
  • Medicinal nanodrones = Can inject nanodrones into a biological creature's blood to heal its wounds and illness. Not every wound and illness could be healed however. (2 point)


Feel free to suggest more devices other than the ones listed here.
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