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The Gundam franchise shouldn't need too much of an introduction: The grand-daddy of the 'Real Robot' mech anime sub-genre, it spawned a whole slew of imitators, as well as a huge empire of merchandise, sequels, side-quels, prequels and alternate universes.
The major characteristics of a Gundam series are the focus on giant robot combat in space and on earth in a near-ish future setting, against a backdrop of emotional and personal drama, often focused on the idea that war is hell, and that no-one who goes through it comes out all right, and that everyone is someone's villain or hero. All things that have gone on to define the mecha anime genre over the years that have followed.

My particular favourite Gundam setting is the Universal Century, as I like its' level of technology, continuity, and the general 'feel' it has compared to some of the less 'grounded' (comparatively speaking; we're still dealing with giant robots here) parallel continuities. However, for the RP I'd like to run, I'll probably eject continuity after a certain point to avoid getting caught up in things, or at least not be beholden to it too strictly, so that we can run our own story.

The RP will follow a small group of Earth Federation mobile suit pilots on a ship outside of the regular area seen in the show, perhaps in the Asteroid belt, carrying out various missions and patrols against Zeon remnants or other hostile forces in support of asteroid mining colonies and resources. Players will be able to pick their own mobile suits (from within a certain part of the timeline, and Universal Century only to avoid things being too overpowered or mixed up), and there won't be any canon characters making more than cameo appearances and mentions.
The idea will to be try and stay true to the 'spirit' and feel of the shows and universe, balancing high-action and exciting action with some elements of relative realism (again, anime giant robot show) against the character drama and relationships, and not getting too mired down in the details and specifics in favour of fun, excitement, and moving the plot forward, as well as the characters getting to do cool things and be Big Damn Heroes.

Aiming to make this a casual RP, potentially even advanced. I'm fairly relaxed about posting rates and such as well, so looking for one post a week from each player would be fine.
You won't have to know masses and masses about Gundam or the Universal Century, but at least having seen, read, or otherwise knowing something about it would be ideal. As it is, there's loads of resources and info online I'll be using rather than writing out reams and reams of lore - why not take advantage of what's there already, after all.

Looking for a minimum of three players + myself to get started, and probably a maximum of no more than six in total.
Also, players will be restricted to playing Mobile Suit pilots, and for the Federation only; no enemy characters and no support personnel, as it's really hard as a GM to balance everything and keep giving people to do, in my personal experience.
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Will the RP be consistently grim? Or will the grimness be changeable by player actions?
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Will the RP be consistently grim? Or will the grimness be changeable by player actions?


I don't tend to go for relentlessly miserable RP's, because I do this for fun, not self-punishment. It'll have sad parts, there'll be a consistent sense of danger, but it won't be a case of 'anyone can die' or just a slog of awful things.
TBH, I don't think it's 'consistently grim' even in the source material; there are moments of levity, hope, and good things happening, and generally speaking there are heroic characters and moments too, and plenty of good and sympathetic people too.
It won't be a comedy, as I have no interest in running such a thing, and it won't be 'light and fluffy' because again, I have no interest in running/playing something like that. It'll be pretty much something where yes, bad things can happen, people can get hurt, and there are evil, nasty, or unscrupulous people around. But there's also moments of fun, moments of relaxation, moments of fun, etc etc.
Feel like I've rambled a bit there, but hopefully got the point across xD
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Will we all be forced to be piloting Gm's, or Jegans? What exact time are we piloting these things? Zeon Remnants can be anything from the post one year war to Neo Zeon to the Sleeves
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Will we all be forced to be piloting Gm's, or Jegans? What exact time are we piloting these things? Zeon Remnants can be anything from the post one year war to Neo Zeon to the Sleeves


No, you won't be forced to pilot GM's or Jegans. It'll be a selection of various variant versions of those, and some mass-production Gundams and other suits. I haven't nailed down the specifics yet, but there'll be a healthy selection. Part of the units' background will be that they're also operational test/evaluation for previous models of mobile suit and putting them into action, and their mecha were pulled together from the remnants and left-overs from earlier conflicts and special groups that have since disbanded.
As I said in the opening post, I'm not going to be fretting too much over exact continuity, but for the sake of answering your question, post-Char's Counterattack but pre-Unicorn, or even alongside Unicorn, but removed from the Earth Sphere and more out in the asteroid belt/Mars/potentially even the Jovian system, leaving things free to not be too bothered by the same characters, events, etc. I will be deliberately ignoring any manga, side-stories, etc that happen in those places and times to tell my/our own story, and the same for post-CCA/UC100 continuity.
Also it will be a group of Zeon remnants generally smooshed together, consolidating under one group for survival etc and otherwise being a nuisance in the outer Solar System.
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Alright fair enough I suppose I can get something down.
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Cool cool, that's you and I so far. I'll keep this open and hope we get a few more people interested as well.
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No, you won't be forced to pilot GM's or Jegans. It'll be a selection of various variant versions of those, and some mass-production Gundams and other suits. I haven't nailed down the specifics yet, but there'll be a healthy selection. Part of the units' background will be that they're also operational test/evaluation for previous models of mobile suit and putting them into action, and their mecha were pulled together from the remnants and left-overs from earlier conflicts and special groups that have since disbanded.
As I said in the opening post, I'm not going to be fretting too much over exact continuity, but for the sake of answering your question, post-Char's Counterattack but pre-Unicorn, or even alongside Unicorn, but removed from the Earth Sphere and more out in the asteroid belt/Mars/potentially even the Jovian system, leaving things free to not be too bothered by the same characters, events, etc. I will be deliberately ignoring any manga, side-stories, etc that happen in those places and times to tell my/our own story, and the same for post-CCA/UC100 continuity.
Also it will be a group of Zeon remnants generally smooshed together, consolidating under one group for survival etc and otherwise being a nuisance in the outer Solar System.


Will it be possible to avert future events/tragedies somehow, like the events of Narrative and Hathaway's Flash?
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I am interested
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Consider me interested.
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Will it be possible to avert future events/tragedies somehow, like the events of Narrative and Hathaway's Flash?


I'm not overly familiar with Hathaway's Flash, although I have seen (and enjoyed) Narrative. However, as I said in the OP and in other posts, the idea is removing the player party from the Earth Sphere so that we don't have to worry too much about continuity and ongoing events as much, and can focus on creating our own story.

Regarding the interest, thanks y'all. Thats the minimum at least, so will work on getting an IC before the weekend.
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@Silverwind Blade Hopefully its not too late for one more person to shout interest.
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@Silverwind Blade Hopefully its not too late for one more person to shout interest.


Not at all, my minimum was 3 + me, maximum is six altogether, so still plenty of space.
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I'm not overly familiar with Hathaway's Flash, although I have seen (and enjoyed) Narrative. However, as I said in the OP and in other posts, the idea is removing the player party from the Earth Sphere so that we don't have to worry too much about continuity and ongoing events as much, and can focus on creating our own story.

Regarding the interest, thanks y'all. Thats the minimum at least, so will work on getting an IC before the weekend.


All right, I understand.
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Hello everyone, just an FYI; I'm currently putting together the details for the actual thread. Just crunching the details to try and make things specific-but-not-too-much. It's taken me a bit longer than I hoped for one reason or another, but it should be up in the next day or so. Just wanted to touch base with people and let you know it's still going ahead, and that I haven't lost interest or buggered off and left you all in the lurch.
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Well at least you've told us I'm in a spot where somehow two other gm's have vanished from the face of the earth so I'm just waiting for stuff to do.
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Well, it's taken me a bit less time to put the thread together than I expected - the joys of doing an RP in an existing setting I guess, you can just use links instead of writing out pages of lore and background - so it should be up shortly. I'll post a link in here when it's up and ready :)
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@Silverwind BladeIf you like I can send you the character I intend on using I don't think he'd need that much edits. Just the atypical one year war survivor.
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The topic is up for the game!
Feel free to read over what's there, ask any questions if need be, and get to work on your characters.
I'll probably create a GM PC for myself as well.

roleplayerguild.com/topics/182604-mob…

See you all there!
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@Tate@CaptainBrittonNot sure if you two are still interested but the OOC is up.
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