Welcome to Lunar Dome 10
Population: 9 8
Purpose: Agriculture Production and Lunar Logistics
“Nine was a good number. It’s a shame Jim fell in front of that harvester last week. Who’s gonna break ties now?”
Hello. I am Fading Memory. I am trying to rekindle some of that old flame, spark, muse of mine. I am trying to facilitate a low OOC stress, soft sci-fi, apocalyptic scenario. This will not be a roleplay that features in depth timelines, hard science, rigorous fact checking, or encyclopedic mastery. This will not be a roleplay that features stringent expectations or tight deadlines.
This will be a roleplay about people. People who will, some day after the IC starts, discover suddenly that they might be the last of Humanity. Lunar Dome 10 is idyllic, almost a paradise, but staffed by the skeleton of a skeleton of a skeleton crew. The bottom feeders of the Corporate Concern ladder, the pariahs of their fields, the outliers who wanted to escape the pollution, societies, and pains of the decrepit Earth…
The cheapest people the Concern could staff LD10 with while still checking the clipboard boxes for utility and capability requirements. People who do their jobs well, but may not have had any other choice.
Some vibe/genre keywords I workshopped to capture the goals of this roleplay are…
“Trapped in the Garden of Eden.”
“Island Survival Drama.”
“The World Ended, But Now What?”
“We’re One Catastrophic Failure From Extinction.”
“Does Anyone Even Know What Happened?”
As for setting themes and aesthetics, since Sci Fi is so broad a category, I have taken to calling this pitch ‘Post-Cyberpunk’. Earth has been dominated by Corporate Concerns. The planet is in a state of ‘Resource Extraction’. Pollution, urban density, food scarcity, disease, and political suppression are all thriving. Cybernetic prosthetics, life extending drugs and procedures, and digital hyper-predation are all commonplace. Workforces face rampant automation. The masses teem for purpose. The rich eat well.
The Concerns have turned their gazes outwards. The Lunar Domes proved terraforming was possible. LD-Ten proved it could be cost efficient and handle long-term projects. Expeditions to Mars, Europa, and Pluto have all been launched to experiment with long form cryogenics and prolonged space exposure— but it is years from those expeditions bearing results.
Alien, with the retro edges sanded off and pumped with a healthy dose of neon and digitization.
This is the world your characters come from. Lunar Dome Ten is where they have chosen to go. For their entire lives the most important metric they have been measured against is ‘Profitability’.
Does this sound interesting?
My intention is to accrue eight, perhaps slightly more if interest is there, people to staff LD10. In my ideal world, I get to facilitate the exploration of these characters as they come to terms with their circumstances and each other. I will be in control of HOLIDAY (name pending, but Holiday sounds nice), the dome Alexa-Siri-intelligence, and the inhabitants of Domes 1-9 as they react and come to terms in their own ways and how those decisions affect Ten. I will take the role of a classical storyteller, more akin to a D&D dungeonmaster, rather than participate with ‘my own character’.
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