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The current year is 2525. About a hundred years ago, the humans of Earth almost destroyed themselves with constant war over resources, poisoning their very world. The fighting only stopped when visiters from beyond the stars revealed themselves to the humans; they called themselves the Sect. Emergency cease fires followed by UN meetings brought the violence to a screeching halt to decide how humanity as a whole would meet these newcomers. Before they could reach a decision, the alien race made contact, proclaiming they would allow some of the Earth’s popoulation to board their ships and make a new life in the stars. The world leaders decided to take the offer as opposed to total annihilation. The visitors allowed the humans to pick for themselves who would live and board their vessel and who would be left to die.

The process of deciding took months on the part of the world leaders. They chose themselves and their kind, the Earth’s top percentage of citizens. They boarded the vessel to be whisked away from their doomed world, but as the vessel took off, it was destroyed by the aliens. They spoke once more to the remaining humans, explaining that they had known what the decision would be and instead chose to destroy the selfish humans and allow the wouldbe doomed to board their vessels and leave the doomed planet behind.

After rescuing the humans from their dying world, the aliens helped them to settle on Mars. From there, humanity used their second chance at life to spread out amongst the stars and have become a normal part of life in the vast reaches of space, bringing new cultures and ideas to the Universe. They have since been inducted into the Intergalactic Federation of Unity, an organization similar to the antiquitted UN of Earth, which has been converted into a galactic junk yard. The IFU does their best to keep peace between the various races of the Universe, but there has been a split since humanity has joined. Some races don’t thinnk the humans deserve to be a part of the IFU since they came so close to destroying themselves and their own world and believe they are a poison.

This divide has sparked a war among the stars. Our tale, however, has little to do with the war directly and instead focuses on the Average Joe of the Verse. This story is about a ragtag group of individuals who just try to make ends meet and survive.



For this RP, I’m drawing inspiration from sources like: Guardians of The Galaxy, Firefly, Samurai Jack, Cowboy Bebop, and Space Dandy. I want a story revolving around a group trying to just get by. I’m wanting the story to start with them on a world, either not knowing each other or already knowing one another (we can decide this together), without a ship and then possibly trying to get a ship and expand the story with the Universe at large, with them surviving off a mix of skill and dumbluck and encountering all sorts of strange situations and threats along the way.
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This sounds pretty gorram awesome. I'm super down for getting in on this!
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Since they're all supposed to be fairly average, perhaps one of the characters is apart of a mercenary group/pirates/et-cetera that hijacks a passenger ship mid-transit? Could be interesting to see where things go from there, especially given that you'd only have to explain character backstories and such through dialogue/internal dialogues/actions, instead of showing all of your cards at once. (Edit: Would we be allowed to replace characters along the way -- perhaps if certain characters go off on entirely different arcs/die? Could add an element of realism.)

Either way, I'm intrigued.
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That's an interesting concept. I kind of want to stray away from the characters starting with a ship though, so perhaps they could all board a passenger ship briefly after the start of the RP. Most certainly, you can replace characters. The Universe is a dangerous place.
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Throwing my interest in as well.
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Glad to see some interest. Anyone have any suggestions for a better title?
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"Wayward Fortunes", "Those Unseen/Unheard", "Amongst/Across The Stars", "Sojourn(-Passengers)" or "Counting Sheep".

Also, heyo @Lexicon. *Bows*
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@Ink Blood Throwing in my interest!
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@Ink BloodI think your title is perfectly fine as it is because the title alone is what brought my attention here.
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Interested!
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I was born for this.
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Oh my. So much interest. I will attempt to work on an IC tonight.
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Oh my. So much interest. I will attempt to work on an IC tonight.


I have a feeling that "Cowboy Bebop" might have something to do with that.

Aside from that, HUZZAH, progress!
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@Virgil, you're probably right. It's my main source of inspiration for this RP, with th crew from that hardly ever getting the bounty, and when they did win it came at a cost usually. As for Samurai Jack, I sort of want the same crazy, silly, dare I say zany adventures across the universe. I'm ok with crew members being slightly above average, but not super-powered and being able to defeat anyone they come across.
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