Anyone interested in an alternative school set much like the novel Ender's Game?
I'm going to be occupied with the literal map and lore so probably no high-tier alien subplot. I am very interested in the social dynamics and plot plotlines as such they unfold when it comes to a cast rping . But yeah, what has your little miscreant done to end up in a lunar detention base? 3000AD for a near future vibe. I'm thinking 12 to 18 for an age range for students and staff can be played as well. Any other considerations? I would like to lean into a new millennial of climate regions due to global warming of the great plains becoming arid and coastlines morphing, along with geopolitical mergers n such. Ya know, the usual. I'm cooking up lore right now sooo any takers? We can use this space to hash it out.
Appearance
Describe how your character looks. You may use a face claim in addition.
Full Name
For the more official types.
Age
12-18 or Staff
Sex
Male/Female/?
Place of Birth
Birthplace and current location if relevent.
Postition
if you are staff or student
Characteristics
What is their personality, what makes them unique, how do they tick?
Goals and aspirations
What do they wish to accomplish.
Background
How was their life before the current events.
Skills & Abilities
What skills and abilities does your character have.
@KactusPunch I do love the age of the climate and the global warming. I am a bit of a science freak. But since you mentioned that you want to to make no high tier alien subplot, and the social dynamics
What if the detention school is actually not really a detention school, but a place where children are set out to recover water (there is actually water on the moon) and minerals such as oxygen, iron, silicon and stuff from the moon soil called - Lunar Regolith(its an actual thing).
But there can be some sort of internal conflicts between some of the staff who think that children even though they are mischievous and troublesome shouldn't be doing stuff like this. But on the other hand some staff members might also actually insist that the kids should be doing stuff like (what if the reason behind this is because they were also once students of the same school and don't know how to handle their trauma).
There can maybe be different teachers for different class (mining for water, extracting regolith, sorting the regolith into the different mineral, maybe even packaging because they have to send it back to the earth that needs repairing from the impact of climate change). Their can be a point system where each student is ranked, and maybe the hgihest rank can get a trip back to earth and get out of the detention base.
Becuase its only 1 student in the entire school that can be allowed to leave the base competion will be tough. Some becomes friends but later get betrayed, others have trust issues and so on.
maybe a plot twist - what if in the case that the first position rank is tied with other people, then they do like a match of some sort like the hunger games where it is literally just survial through and through or you get injured (maybe even die). Similar to hunger games where teh rich people on earth can maybe if they like the player they will send a food parcel or something ...
@Blue Wolf Love the additions! I deter from hunger game ultimatums but other than that those all sound like great basis and motivators. plus mining would make sense, H3 helium is supposedly rare and plentiful there too. Perhaps a Principle's List of high achievers that get gifted a ride back. The movies Holes but MOON is what im kinda going for
Appearance This solemn young woman has round gray eyes, her right eye is clearly bionic. Her silky, curly, night-black hair is worn in a style that reminds you of an elaborate sculpture. She is short and has an athletic build, with a bionic left arm with a green and yellow hexagons covering it. Her skin is cream-colored. She has full lips. Her wardrobe is prison-issued orange bioplastic coverals and carbon-fiber-toe boondockers
A programmable plastic material that can be used to sculpt cruise ship suites or clothe prisoners. Any rip or tear in the coverals immediately reseals, it eats bodily waste products or spilled food, or even grease stains. They are effectively self-cleaning, and can provide limited protection in the event of a pressure drop, creating a transparent bubble around the head, hands, and feet. However, without additional tanks, air will only last about 15 minutes.
Right Eye has some minor vision enhancements above what their left eye can see - better night, distance, and near vision. It can also be popped out and allow the user to watch within 220 yards (1/8 of a mile) Left Arm is limited to the same strength as her right. Monitored by governor unit against tampering.
Full Name
Yevpraksiya Popova
A.K.K. Yev, Mekkamaid
Age
15
Sex
Female (certified)
Place of Birth
Birthplace: San Diego, CA.
Current location: Holding facility Sierra Delta Niner, formerly the San Diego Historical Naval Training Center
Position
Student
Characteristics
Phobia: A strong fear of radiation and its causes.
A pessimist, always sees the bad side of things.
Harsh (not to be confused with plain spoken). Prone to sarcasm.
Suspicious of others, trusts no one.
Grim - never smiles, stern of purpose
Creative - prone to acts of artistic vandalism
Dependable - does duties reliably
Organized - makes sure things are properly put in their place.
Goals and aspirations
Avoiding adult prison
Escape
Freedom at a non-extradition country/habitat
Profits from the movie about her life
Background Raised by maternal grandparents. Dydushka medically separated from the army following the Gulf Invasion 7, radiation injuries has degraded their muscles and organs. Babushka was a nurse.
Age 6: Organ-jacked during school field trip, lost right eye and their left arm from the shoulder down, received bionic replacements as per the Child Victim's Recovery Fund.
Age 7: Accused of heresy by the Congregation of the Aurora for sitting in the Empty Throne as an artificial being.
Age 12: Skill assessment noted strong artistic ability and programming skills.
Age 13: Got caught up in enforcement action at the Admiral Kidd Middle School during a food riot, received head trauma and was treated on scene. Phone was examined and discovered code that traced back to holographic graffitti/trademark violation case. Claimed they got the code at a "dead drop". More detailed examination found illegal modification of a bionic physical assistance device (arm).
Age 14: Found guilty at trial for seven charges of artistic holographic graffitti and three charges of violating her arm's intellectual property.
What if the detention school is actually not really a detention school, but a place where children are set out to recover water (there is actually water on the moon) and minerals such as oxygen, iron, silicon and stuff from the moon soil called - Lunar Regolith(its an actual thing).
But there can be some sort of internal conflicts between some of the staff who think that children even though they are mischievous and troublesome shouldn't be doing stuff like this. But on the other hand some staff members might also actually insist that the kids should be doing stuff like (what if the reason behind this is because they were also once students of the same school and don't know how to handle their trauma).
There can maybe be different teachers for different class (mining for water, extracting regolith, sorting the regolith into the different mineral, maybe even packaging because they have to send it back to the earth that needs repairing from the impact of climate change).
That's what I was going for really. I'll be fluffing uo the lore as the week goes on.
Nova Aditi Rao is 16 years old with a slender build and an average height of 166 cm (5'5"). She has warm brown skin, long jet-black hair usually tied into a loose ponytail, and intelligent dark brown eyes that rarely stop observing her surroundings.
Her hands carry faint scars from soldering irons, broken glass, and countless chemistry experiments. Even in uniform, she's usually wearing a digital wristband she built herself, and her pockets somehow always contain a screwdriver, insulated wire, mechanical pencil, and several folded pages of handwritten formulas.
Despite her appearance, she's surprisingly approachable, usually wearing a faint, distracted smile whenever she's thinking through a problem.
Nova Aditi Rao
16
Female
Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka, India
Student
Nova is endlessly curious. She doesn't just ask "how" something works—she asks "why" it was designed that way and how it could be improved.
She thrives on solving impossible problems, often becoming so absorbed in her work that hours pass without her noticing. While she can explain quantum processors or chemical reactions with ease, she struggles to understand sarcasm, flirting, or social politics.
She believes knowledge should never be hidden behind corporations or governments, making her stubborn whenever authority conflicts with her morals.
Although quiet, she has a dry sense of humor that appears unexpectedly.
Her biggest weakness is that she often assumes logic will convince people, forgetting that emotions usually matter more.
Nova dreams of designing sustainable technologies that can support human colonies beyond Earth.
She hopes to create affordable medical technology and clean energy systems that can be used anywhere, regardless of wealth.
More personally, she wants to prove that scientific curiosity should never be treated as a crime.
Nova grew up in Bengaluru, where both of her parents worked as aerospace engineers involved in India's growing orbital infrastructure projects.
From a young age she spent weekends wandering research campuses, robotics competitions, and university laboratories instead of playgrounds. By twelve she was building autonomous drones from discarded electronics. By fourteen she had won several international science competitions in chemistry and engineering.
Everything changed when she discovered a critical flaw in an experimental atmospheric recycling system being developed for future lunar habitats.
The company refused to acknowledge the defect.
Believing lives were at risk, Nova illegally accessed their secured servers to gather evidence. When internal reports were ignored, she released the documents publicly alongside a detailed technical explanation proving the design could fail under certain conditions.
The leak embarrassed several governments and exposed classified research.
Although the defect was eventually corrected, Nova was convicted of cyber intrusion, theft of classified data, and violating national security laws.
Because of her age—and her extraordinary intelligence—she was sent to the Lunar Juvenile, where gifted but dangerous youths are educated under constant supervision instead of serving conventional prison sentences.
Nova still insists she'd make the same decision again.
"If the truth is classified, then maybe the classification is the problem."
Advanced Chemistry - Exceptional understanding of organic, inorganic, and industrial chemistry. Can analyze unknown compounds and create medicines, adhesives, fuels, batteries, and polymers using limited resources.
Computer Engineering - Highly skilled in programming, cybersecurity, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence.
Robotics - Experienced in designing drones, automated systems, and small robotic platforms.
Electronics -Can repair, modify, and construct complex electronic devices from scavenged components.
Physically average with little combat experience. Easily distracted by scientific problems. Has difficulty reading people's intentions. Can become obsessive when working on a project. Often questions authority, especially when she believes it conflicts with ethics.
~Nova illegally accessed their secured servers to gather evidence~
Because of her age—and her extraordinary intelligence—she was sent to the Lunar Juvenile Detention AcademyThe Academy of Lunar Sciences, where gifted but dangerous youths are educated under constant supervision instead of serving conventional prison sentences.
I like Nova, and we do need official name for the place.
@Blue WolfAh, I havn't went the AI route yet. I might try and find some character or landscape generators for the staff and lore or the place. The Academy of Lunar Sciences sounds power n vague enough for some juvenile encouragement via ecopolitical means.
I'd say at least 100 students, 20 direct staff, and just as much auxiliary staff that is nomadic between the worlds of Moon and Earth. The earth is currently facing solar flare that amp up the UV expose to lethal amounts in new regions on the planet, forcing an accelerated exodus underground, into shrinking polar zones with new resources, and even into space such as reclaiming old mining bases into new found labor avenues.
@KactusPunch can my char have decided that life on the moon is better than life on earth, an instead of trying to get off the moon himself, he helps others return to earth
@KactusPunch can my char have decided that life on the moon is better than life on earth, an instead of trying to get off the moon himself, he helps others return to earth
Sure, but why help others return to a place they have forsaken themselves? A lifer at this base would mean becoming staff so I suppose it would be an eventuality. It would be curious to explore though so yeah
@KactusPunch well you initially described it as a lunar detention base, so there is a decent chance atleast some were sent unwillingly. Also, i have read the first few enders game books and also through shadow of the giant
Having read through this, I'm wondering if there's a chance that Yev might actually be allowed to wear civilian clothing, not this prison outfit from the SD9 Detainment Facility.
Having read through this, I'm wondering if there's a chance that Yev might actually be allowed to wear civilian clothing, not this prison outfit from the SD9 Detainment Facility.
Yes and yes, tho I do like the Bioplastic idea quite a bit. I'm forming wall'o'text with some landscape pic dispersions for the OOC currently, and little things like that really help out. I figure the domes will be the more domestic areas; with the mines being the older infrastructure(backroooms moon edition).
Here is a quick snippet before the weekend takes me like a killer tide.
Appearance Alan would normally stand a lean 6ft 4 inches if a drone had not shredded him from the knees down, now the servos and gizmos bring him down two inches. He wears a broad imposing mustache that hides the puckered scar on his lip if you look at it funny. Hardly ever seen without some sort of sunglasses, which the children mock but a former career as a orbital sapper arc flashed him into perpetual self care. His forearms bear nano tats of military sigals and chemical burns near the wrists. The former brunette now grays at the temples and corners of his chin. His demeanor is that of stern authority.
Titanuim nano weave shins. 2.5x normal human load. Running on legacy software with an orbital key providing maximum input while forsaking EoL boundaries like silencing servos and damping heatsink offload.
@Expendablewardrobe is prison-issued orange bioplastic coverals and carbon-fiber-toe boondockers
A programmable plastic material that can be used to sculpt cruise ship suites or clothe prisoners. Any rip or tear in the coverals immediately reseals, it eats bodily waste products or spilled food, or even grease stains. They are effectively self-cleaning, and can provide limited protection in the event of a pressure drop, creating a transparent bubble around the head, hands, and feet. However, without additional tanks, air will only last about 15 minutes.
Full Name
Alan Virgil Westingale
Age
42
Sex
Male
Place of Birth
Birthplace: Richmond, VA.
Current location: In transit to Dome 1, Lunar Academy
Position
Assistant principal of the facility, but for all intents and purposes is acting leader on Lunar grounds.
Characteristics
Consistant: Always tries to see things through
Ambitious: sees the best and strives for it
Solem Ear: Alan has seen and been through enough to be a true confidante
Dull: Often doesnt get a joke
Dependable - does duties reliably
Organized - makes sure things are properly put in their place.
. But yeah, what has your little miscreant done to end up in a lunar detention base? 3000AD for a near future vibe. I'm thinking 12 to 18 for an age range for students and staff can be played as well. Any other considerations? I would like to lean into a new millennial of climate regions due to global warming of the great plains becoming arid and coastlines morphing, along with geopolitical mergers n such. Ya know, the usual. I'm cooking up lore right now sooo any takers? We can use this space to hash it out.
