HeySeuss

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

Well, there are several ways to approach this. I am generally of the feeling that such cybernetics exist for people with a strong medical need but the required medical followup and care is such that it wouldn't be for someone to just lop off their arm to get a stronger one.

Nom de Guerre [Historical/1950]

_{A pair of Foreign Legionnaires fighting Viet Minh in an ambush, 1952}

TL;DR Summary

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• French Indochina, 1949-1950
• Historical/Psychological Thriller
• The French retook Indochina (Vietnam) after the Japanese occupied it in WWII, but encountered stiff resistance from the Vietnamese, who seek to dismantle the French colonial system in favor of self-rule.
• I have two characters; the Pole and the German. I am looking for a player to take up the role of the French nurse that is married to the German.
• The French nurse married to the German; the German is trying to escape his past and the Pole wants to kill the German for it; the Pole will find himself in the same hospital, unbeknownst to either party, that the French Nurse works at. It can move into a murder plot from there.
• The French nurse herself is a survivor of WWII, but of an age with the Pole. How she spent the war is up to you, the player. She could have been in France when it was occupied/liberated (possibly Resistance -- teenagers fought and died for France as maquis) or she might have been in exile in Britain or Canada. That's your end.
• High casual-Advanced; I can give a potential partner lots of the historical information on the era.
• Based on a true story; both "Street Without Joy" by Bernard Fall and "Eichmann in Jerusalem and the Banality of Evil" by Hannah Arendt.
• At least a couple paragraphs per post, possibly more.
• My availability is sometimes not the best, which is why a 1x1 is a better move -- I feel like I can write that with someone and I consider myself an ideal partner for someone who also might take a bit of time to get a post out.

In Character Info

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Nom de guerre (French phrase meaning "name of war" or "war name") were frequently adopted by recruits in the French Foreign Legion as part of the break with their past lives.

The tale starts in Poland, where two very different men, a Silesian German man and a Warsaw Jewish boy both hail from. The German is a grown man with a university education and a commission in the Schutzstaffel (SS), the police-military arm of the Nazi party. He oversees the slave labor of Jews in the ghettos and the concentration camps on behalf of the department of labor within the SS. He is reckoned a war criminal by the Allies.

The boy, the son of a Warsaw professor of physics, manages to escape the fate of many Polish Jews; his father has him shipped to France to stay with a colleague's family, before Poland falls in 1939. When the Germans bring the thunder of their Blitzkrieg to France in 1940, he escapes again, this time to Great Britain. There, he lies about his age and joins the war fighting for a King and Country that are not his.

When the war is over, the two men go their separate ways; many Germans join the French Foreign Legion. The French gladly take in these men, even though many of them are wanted war criminals and the invaders and occupiers of la France, yet their need for troops in far-flung corners of their failing empire, in places like Indochina and Algeria, outweigh such considerations. These men are given new names and are hidden. The German man signs his name and joins his kameraden in la Légion étrangère.

The Polish boy, now a man, leaves Europe behind for Palestine, joining the camp survivors and many other refugees to build the new Jewish homeland. There is little peace to be found and he fights a second war as part of the newly-founded Israeli Defense Forces. Eventually he locates people, camp survivors, that he once knew as a child, people who knew his family, and he finds out the bitter details; where and when it happened and who did it. He even manages to find reliable information that the man joined the Foreign Legion.

While he is a serving soldier of the Israeli Defense Forces, he requests transfer to the Navy. When his ship pulls into Genoa, he jumps ship and makes for Marseilles, France, the home of the Legion, at least in France. The Polish man signs his name and takes on a nom de guerre in la Légion étrangère.

The German man is sent to to fight the Communists, the Viet Minh, in Indochine (Vietnam) where he meets and secretly marries a French nurse; she doesn't care about his past, and he doesn't go into details -- the past is done. Together, they plan for a bright and happy future with each other; she with the sort of charming man she always dreamed of, and he putting his own black deeds well behind him by adopting a new name in the Legion and obtaining French citizenship.

Meanwhile, the young Pole is wounded in battle, and he winds up in the same hospital, in Hanoi, where the French nurse works. He has stories to tell; the past isn't as done as she thinks it is.

Out of Character Info

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The plot is simple; the Pole is going to kill the German, but he's going to have to wrangle information out of the French woman to do it. He has to track the German down somehow, and doesn't have much information to work with. It may well be that they become friends and he tells her why he's there. Sympathy turns to shock as the tale unfolds and he describes the killer of his family, a callous, amoral monster...and her husband. There's a lot of psychological, emotional and moral choices involved. How you'd care to play it is up to you, I'm down with whatever the outcome.

There is a twisted element to this, of course. There's a potential for a sordid affair, guilt and conspiracy to murder. There's a lot of potential in the plot, but I'm looking for input, more or less, on where to take it. There is another twist, of course...the German is wealthy from the ill-gotten proceeds of the war years. Or at least, he has that wealth stashed away. Hello multiple motives.

This is actually based on a true case; there was no woman involved, but an Israeli man did kill the man who had his family massacred, while both were serving as legionnaires in Indochina. When he came back after his time in the legion, he was tried for desertion in Israel, but was acquitted. He was even praised -- one less Nazi in the world. That's just a cool postscript, something I read in Bernard Fall's "Street Without Joy" a while ago. But it makes for a heck of a 1x1 idea.

The ideal partner is coming to the table with ideas of their own on where to take the plot and their character's wartime history. That history may determine how that character reacts to the idea that their husband is actually a wanted war criminal and SS type. The RP should involve flashbacks, as to explain how they got to this point.

Spiritum

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To be honest, I'd kinda prefer our own small Discord. I don't like having to silence new channels periodically.

@Draken

That's really easy to accomplish, basically.

Edit: Using this link, this is the chat we talked about. No worries about being purged out.

Star Wars - Rancor Company

Popped in one. Basically, lodging Besk's concerns that it's a goatfuck.

Star Wars - Rancor Company

Ready Room

Off to the side of the infantry common areas, separate, was a different sort of country. It was a smaller area, furthest from the lifts and sitting in the curves of the Keep's bulkheads, packed with equipment and people eternally out of uniform in the strictest sense. There was no Alderaanian blue and white, but rather an array of different clothing types, though at the moment they were wearing a primarily sand-colored pattern that blended in with the terrain of Anaxes. The place was neat, but it was tight-packed with the addition of work benches and a small table to conference around, indicative of a place where the troopers kept to themselves.

SpecForces came in off the U-wings exhausted but not overly damaged because the scope of their engagement was measured carefully and perhaps cold-bloodedly. There was no way they could have started blasting on Anaxes and done anything except vainly sacrifice themselves. So they sat tight, called in airstrikes and engaged only as needed to disengage as a whole.

As a result, they came in with scrapes, burns, a little shrapnel from when a blaster bolt hit ferrocrete was natural, as were the aches, pains and incidental bruises that came with the job they did. They set down equipment with a groan after the whole thing was through and found their way to the inevitable post-battle needs, drink, food, hitting the refreshers. He needed steam, heat and the other things he used to keep the dull aches and pains down to a manageable level. Their space in the Keep was a overrun with triple bunks and hammocks. It was home base, even if it felt like they were meat in a can, wedged up against the bulkheads the way they were between equipment storage and racks. Packs and load bearing equipment were shed with simultaneous thumps and boots were pulled off with groans of ecstasy. It seemed like the air circulation was overloaded all at once with the amount of human and alien swamp-foot smells that assaulted the room, but everyone's noses were used to it.

That was the grind of the war, fight after fight. Besk knew to keep his guys in their space and away from the Infantry; they'd lost a lot out there and tempers would flare naturally.

So he gave orders to keep them busy, "Make sure the equipment gets repaired, assessed and replaced if necessary. Stow it. There's Alderaanian wine on this ship and I'll make sure some gets down here, but stay away from the troopers until they've gotten it out of their systems." He had that raspy voice with that distinctively Mando accent; Jango trained his batch personally and they'd adopted his speech patterns out of a desperate gambit for some sort of identity and human contact.

The post-battle was the ugly stuff; they had a terminal there to load all their data into, and making sense of that was a bear, but necessary. Intel didn't let them know of the extra forces they ran into, but it was also a risk that you ran in any war. The enemy was good or they were lucky and they showed up to shoot your tail off. He'd seen it happen so many times to clones, whom he had a genetic connection to, that he'd gotten somewhat philosophical about the whole thing, though the numbing was just that -- it wasn't a true healing, just a matter of getting used to those emotional wounds and carrying on with the parts of the job one could control.

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Briefing room

"Simple" he'd said to them. Besk looked down at the plan. Point A to Point B was to get the ships in the hangar and figure out a means to disable the weapons with the network spike at a terminal. Point B to C was to hold that hangar and potentially take control of other points within the ship.

"Not a lot of time to requisition equipment and if this goes wrong, even a skeleton crew of scrubs on a Venator is a lot to take on." Chakaar was 20 beings, not that much next to the losses they'd just taken at Anaxes, but they'd just been told to come off an op and get back into one the next day with minimal rest and a lot of planning to do. On the way out of the briefing, he sent a text by PDA to Bens and Ves, the other two Specforce officers; [Tell the boys to put down their drinks and get as much rack time as they can once they get their weapons maint done, they're throwing us back into it. We've got a lot of planning to do.]

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

More than a hundred years. A lot of time has elapsed. And yeah, I wanted to skip past the part where they're just building prefabs and getting their feet under them.

Spiritum

This OOC thread has been unofficially supplanted by the official Discord chat.

@Draken

We might have to shift that over if we don't keep activity up. They're clearing inactive channels out, but I have no idea what the schedule is.

Far Colony (Classic Sci-Fi)

OOC is up.

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

A cover for a collection of Isaac Asimov's short stories by Peter Elson

TL;DR Summary

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• Discord chat for brainstorming and questions.
• Please direct all questions to the OOC. Please post character sheets in the OOC first; once approved, then post here.
• See the character roles below, but please feel free to cokme up with your own.

Character Roles

Character Roles

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This is a list of the roles in the RP that I think will work very well but one does not need to be exclusively these things and good ideas will always be considered; this is a wishlist of the stuff I've thought of.

- The Head of Security - Security is on the colony for two reasons -- to deal with physical threats to the colony, though this is very much secondary to the counterespionage role. Other companies want Voyager's secrets. The Aeneas Project represents huge unknown outcomes and potential breakthroughs that could be worth everything to rival companies...or governments back on Earth. Security's task is made more difficult by the fact that scientists like to share things and that these scientists view Security as largely unnecessary -- Earth's in the rearview, right?
- Chief of Agronomy and Farming Operations - The person in charge of feeding the colony; making sure that food can grow on Aeneas, in charge of seeding it with livestock and agricultural crops, the person that is at the forefront of making the colony self sufficient.
- Chief Medical Officer - Huge role on a new colony. This person is probably one of the most important characters in the plot.
- Executive Assistant - VICTOR is useful, but some of the functions of a good assistant involve politics and dealing with the people. The Executive Assistant is an intern and an understudy of the colony's leadership, a bright young person that often finds themselves in the middle of office intrigue by dint of their position...they are also often sent for coffee, but that unglamorous image doesn't change that this person has access to the decision-makers and works with them and that they are being groomed for a bigger job down the road.
- Rival Corporation's Agent - In return for financial consideration or other concessions, this character is trying to ferret out the secrets of Aeneas. Interested parties should PM -- this can be any character, but they will not be known to the other players.
- Chief of Engineering - The person that builds and maintains the facility and oversees a variety of operations from picking sites for buildings to manufacturing the equipment that the scientists come up with, though much of that job is handled through VICTOR.
- Security Executive Officer - If the character in charge of security is military, this person should have a police/counterintelligence background. If the character in charge of security has a police background, this person should be military. They should play off each other a bit.
- Chief of Operations - A catch-all for the guy responsible for repairs, maintenance and cleaning and so forth, the mundane stuff of the facility. This is not a glamorous job, but it is vital. Stuff needs to be moved, cleaned, dusted, fixed. You can't send a bunch of scientists out and expect them to fix their own plumbing...well, you can, but it's an inefficient use of their time.
- Orbital Operations/EVA - Someone experienced in this stuff will be needed to repair satellites and other things of that nature.
- Cybernetics and Robotics - An expert in the use of prosthetics and so forth -- Aeneas has cutting edge medical tech and research facilities, it means that a variety of experts are here to work on all sorts of projects.
- Biologist/Geneticist/Botanist/Zoologist/Mineralogist, etc... - The science guys. Your character's discipline will probably be extremely important in some fashion.
- This list is not a complete list -- you can come up with other character concepts as you please. Most characters should be the heads of departments in the place, or second in commands. There are departments for biology, engineering and so forth.

Sample Sheet

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Character Sheet:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:

Text -- no pictures. They are just too distracting. I know that's weird, but bear with me.

Bio:

(Education, background, how they wound up in Voyager's program)

Psychological Profile:

(Views of human colonization, the company, politics, what back on earth is like, this is all important. Attitudes toward authority and bureaucracy will also be extremely useful here.)

Skillset/Occupation:

(The character's primary skill; weaponry isn't in high demand, because interstellar warfare is not particularly expected when they are launched. Relatively few cops, too, because the sort of people who can't cooperate or abide by the laws and are of a criminal tendency by nature are weeded out hardcore in the psych evaluations. Of course, just in case something unexpected happens, they do exist, but the colonists probably see them as useless mouths to feed.)

Relationships and Acquaintances:

(You do not need to fill this out immediately, but this should include other characters, after you talk it over with various players as the RP fills out, as well as NPC contacts they have in various parts of the colony, mostly to help flesh things out.)

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

A cover for a collection of Isaac Asimov's short stories by Peter Elson

TL;DR Summary

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• Discord chat for brainstorming and questions.
• Science Fiction setting; a just-colonized planet
• Inspired by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Philip Dick and Peter Hamilton; all sci-fi authors.
• The colony is just getting set up; soil detox, water purification and building homes, as well as prefab buildings.
• Rip van Winkle themes; the colonists have been in suspension way longer than anticipated due to unforeseen difficulties. Some of them died in the tanks due to mechanical failure.
• Characters should have useful skills and trades that would come in handy in a working, self sufficient colony. They are trained to be frontier people, to set up the colony for later. There are relatively few military types, though they have a militia-type familiarization with personal weaponry; these are engineers, farmers, electricians, technicians of various sorts.
• Technology level is roughly equivalent to what was shown in the Aliens movies, though there is AI, AI-assisted auto-fabrication and other advanced technologies.
• Several NPC's and semi-PC type characters, or even a second character. Multiple characters beyond the main.
• When the colonial ark arrives, the characters are thrust into roles of leadership due to starship damage suffered in transit; the senior leadership are dead or comatose. Our characters inherited the role by attrition and are facing a monumental task.

In Character

In Character Info

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In 2182, Voyager Industries offers a new life to the bold and the intelligent, the cream of society; others have to pay companies to take them to a new life on an established planet or buy criminals or hire the desperate as slave labor to hack out the wilds and turn them habitable for follow-on colonists, but Voyager instead looks for people with the right skills, talents, fitness and psych profiles to staff their colonies; it's a long term investment. The colonists come to the new planet, carve civilization out and earn their keep as workers, using their industriousness and natural talent to set up the planet for those who come afterward. They are not paid wages, but are given a stake in the planet's profits, a hefty incentive that brings the best and the brightest marching for Voyager's offices.

The trip is supposed to be decades long in stasis tanks in ships called 'colonial arks' but at the end of the voyage is a new world. That goes horrendously wrong; the logs show, partially, a heroic struggle on the part of thawed out maintenance techs to fix an emergency situation and get the ship so that it can limp along in the void. The colonists emerge on their new planet, expected to build the fundamentals of living with their equipment; set up sustainable food, power sources, habitation and terraforming. They also have to figure out what's happened to Earth and make contact with humanity somehow.

That, of course, is only the start of the surprises.

Out of Character

Out of Character Info

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The characters will be colonists on this new planet, very bright, accomplished people (probably young and just finished their educations for the most part, people that have the physical strength and mental adaptability to hack it in the wilds, but with some very accomplished/experienced people to round it out) and then trained by Voyager in basic survival skills, including how to operate weaponry (just in case.) It is almost like military training, but it's more oriented toward how to build and repair things, how to dig ditches and encampments, and the fundamentals of sanitation and so forth. People would come in with skills and educations in various areas, but they'd also be cross-training to learn how to do the jobs of others; the idea is to set up a colony that can sustain itself while expanding for follow on colonists. It is a first; colonies have never been established so far out in space before; most of the colonies are closer to Earth; this colony will be fare more autonomous.

The colony isn't just about survival, of course, it is about marketability; they are trying to make a nice place to live, a space colony version of the surburban American dream, a place you want to spend time, a lifetime, living in. The idea is to provide good jobs, a nice environment, amenities, comforts and the sort of society they want to live in. It's an attempt to create an ideal place to live for their sort of people. The idea is to also find and capitalize upon what native resources exist to replenish their initial stocks of food, medicine and technological equipment. Agriculture, manufacturing and production of biotech are prioririties. But the technology Voyager provide and the skills of the settlers should be sufficient for the task and then some; it is expected that there will be coffee shops with wireless internet within the first year of operation, if all goes according to the plan; yet the expectation is that the colonists will move ahead of schedule, because these are energetic and educated people, the cream of the crop, deliberately recruited for their motivation as much as their skills. They are also being assisted by the most advanced computer to ever be constructed on Earth - VICTOR.

They're highly educated people, most of them anyway, with magna and summa honors from graduating college, probably with some postgraduate degrees, possibly doctorates, and they largely are fleeing Earth's bullshit and are trying to start over. Colonization by this sort of person is viewed as a slightly innovative concept, or one doomed to fail. Most colonies are started with industrial goals in mind, such as mining, as in the case of Mars, and the colonists are often deportees and otherwise signed under duress rather than a sense of adventure -- troublesome political groups, ethnic/religious groups and outright criminals are often your typical colonists in the first wave, worked under what amounts to slavery conditions, again like Mars. Voyager's concept is different, billed as the way forward and much rides on the success of this colony.

Of course, there is a twist. The colonists are several hundred years out of date when they finally do land; the trip was supposed to take decades, but there was a miscalculation in navigation; an asteroid or other anomaly got in the way of the ship and the navigation computer automatically corrected course to avoid this, throwing off the ship's arrival time...and disabling some of the drive systems in the process. They arrived with dead crew; the maintenance shift that was on duty when the disaster happened died and made emergency repairs and gave up their lives fixing a threat to the colony ship. The ship arrived pretty battered, but managed to survive intact enough to do its job. Not all the leadership survives, so the role falls to some shoulders that might or might not be ready for it.

What the colonists know when they land is that they gotta get to work and wait for the follow-ups, the contact from Earth, to find out what is actually going on with Earth. They aren't even sure of how much time has actually elapsed. The job is still the same; build the colony. It's a hard, spartan life akin to that of colonists on Earth's North American continent in the 17th century, making something out of a wild and untamed land, living rough and making do without a lot of the creature comforts of modernity. They signed on for a different life, out of a sense of idealism.

As it turns out, that idealism is out of date and they are an anachronism.

Colony Profile

Colony Profile

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Voyager Incorporated started in the early 2100's as a communications satellite manufacturer using the latest in materials and communications technology. However, in 2164, a team led by Dr. Neill Scott used original work by the young MIT graduate to create the Nagashima-Ashley-Scott Communications Array (NASCA) that stretched the boundaries of viable communications between colony worlds of Earth, at the time limited to Mars and the Solar System and very nearby stars, for which communication, limited to light speed, was viable. The technology was initially meant to enable faster communications uplink between extra-solar probes and Earth, but also, as a consequence, made colonization beyond the Solar System viable.This did not speed up the ability of ships to arrive on new planets and return to Earth, but it did allow for faster communication once those links were made.

Before, colonization beyond Pluto wasn't happening because of the loss of contact, but now it was possible...though colonization focused on buying convicts and undesirables from various regimes in an attempt to gain cheap labor that no one would care about, disposable people. Only a few really worried about the welfare of convicts, for the most part, or really concerned themselves with the conditions they worked under in these mining colonies. But what did rankle, particularly in the scientific community, was that their innovations were taking convicts and corporate suits to the stars and benefitting the suits, but the rest of humanity was generally stuck on Earth, or maybe the Lunar or Martian colonies, or perhaps the Jupiter or Saturn moons. The main adventure, colonizing an actual planet on the fringes that could support life, seemed unlikely.

Voyager was doing well though; it monopolized communications technology through NASCA patents and an army of the sharpest lawyers on Earth, and it managed to spin off technologies allowing limited use of faster-than-light travel derived from the initial breakthrough in order to create probes that could stretch further out into space, and report back. When a suitable planet was discovered, with a very primitive plant and insect life only and a soil type that could be made compatible with Earth plants after processing, the Aeneas project was announced, fueled largely by the passion of Dr. Neill Scott, who very publicly signed himself on as the first colonist and took on the role of the Executive of Aeneas...to the secret relief of much of the board of Directors.

Scott, always the visionary, announced the following: Aeneas was a colony by scientists for humanity, a better way forward than sending slaves into space to finish out their lives mining out of some airless rock, and that the Aeneas Project would return on investment immensely by facilitating research beyond Earth's wildest dreams of what could be accomplished back at home. It was a one way ticket, but it brought the idealists marching; there was risk, but the prospective colonists reckoned the price worth paying for a variety of reasons. They had a chance to leave Earth, with all its man-made discontentments and problems, there was the chance to make a better society away from it, the opportunity to engage in unparalleled research and make exciting new discoveries, a sense of mission in one's life work, a sense of calling in finding and taming a new place. That idealism infuses the scientific side of the venture. Even some of the people on the corporate side are buying into the party line, though the company sent minders to keep the project on task. So much was invested in the project, because Scott was a heavy hitter in not only the company, but as a stockholder and to the scientific community at large; he used his influence to purchase the development projects he needed, the technologies he wanted and saw use for. He drove Aeneas from a pipe dream and steered it into a reality.

With great fanfare, a sleepship, a particle sail-driven colonial ark, propelled with technology derived from the NASCA team's breakthroughs and which would carry the colony in stasis, was launched with a cargo of Humanity's best and brightest, its adventurous idealists who were willing to translate word and thought into deed and example.

And it was never heard from again.

Significant Events

Significant Expedition Events (Timeline)

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- Day 1 - arrival near the planet Aeneas, systems working on backup, many systems are down and on backups. Due to damage to systems, auto-wakeup crew are activated immediately; the return from stasis to normal functioning takes seven days with computer systems monitoring it.
- Day 7 - the first technical and survey teams are woken up to establish the colony. Medical and Emergency Technical specialists quickly try to fix what is broken to stabilize the colonial ark for subsequent operations.
- Day 15 - surface landings and exploration of potential colony sites begin.
- Day 32 - the colony begins building on-planet, once surveys are completed. Construction rapidly progresses through pre-fabricated units.
- Day 140 - half of colonists thawed out and put to work. As the construction progresses, more units within the colony start their work.
- Day 212 - VICTOR, the colony's AI, is brought online.
- Day 223 - satellite net deployed, sending communications back to Earth with progress reports to Voyager Inc.
- Day 267 - agricultural self-sufficiency through hydroponics, including water purification and geothermal/solar power.
- Day 345 - No response from Earth. Worries mount.(First day IC)

Martian Intervention of 2178

Martian Intervention of 2178

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Always plagued with labor relations problems, Zhang-Frost-Kunkel Incorporated, the management company in charge of the Martian Commercial Authority, used a more draconian model of strike-breaking by sending mercenaries to assassinate labor leaders. As things escalated, the ZFK Security Forces used lethal force to make laborers work and the company itself started selling anyone that they suspected of being involved in anti-Authority labor groups to penal colonies in the asteroid belt, illegally. Through the work of a number of reporters, ZFK's activities were exposed, but when told to cease and desist, their response to the UN was a "we have more troops than you do and are too big to fail."

During the course of several years of dispute, UN negotiators were sent in to try to resolve the situation, but they delivered an ultimatum and Governor George McKenzie had the negotiators ejected without having the legal mandate to do so; something went wrong during the arrest attempts and diplomats were killed, creating a considerable cry back on Earth to bring Mars to heel. Military experts warned that the fight would be too bloody to be worth it as the Martian forces were dug in and too numerous for a conventional force to defeat. There were far more forces on Mars working for ZFK than the UN could really control without bombarding with nukes from orbit, and the UN mandate did not allow for that. ZFK was confident that the UN would back down.

UN forces were equipped with a new generation of NASCA drive ships and powered combat armor derived from asteroid mining suit technologies developed during the decade-and-a-half-long standoff when Mars was cut off from the latest tech; the forces arrived faster than expected and more capable than expected despite the smaller numbers. This unexpected technological advantage shifted the outcome in favor of UN forces, though the intervention did not do much to save those laborers caught up in the dispute.

VICTOR - Colony AI System

E-VICTORExperimental Virtual Intelligence, Colony Total Operations Routine

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• Runs the fabricators; VICTOR essentially configures the system rapidly to produce equipment as needed. While it is not a mass production facility, he is capable of overseeing an expansion of industrial equipment for the purpose.
• Augments the research projects, VICTOR is more like a partner than an assistant to the researchers in regards to developing new technology; his full-spectrum research capabilities greatly streamline the process.
• Assists the directors and Security.
• Functions as a general diagnostic tool and manages the various base electronic functions of the colony, helping to drastically increase the efficiency of work in the colony.

E-VICTOR is basically a highly experimental program designed by Voyager to help make the colony quickly self-sufficient; it is designed to assist in all facets of government, though it is dependent on human input to expand its knowledge; it operates with all departments as an advisor. The facilities that hold Victor were brought along in huge cargo container by ship and were installed deep underground with a geothermal plant supplying the power, which was a necessary step in order to power the massive equipment that houses Victor. The interaction is simple; you speak to Victor as if speaking to a colleague.

VICTOR is, at the time of launch, Earth's most efficient and advanced supercomputer intelligence, and sending it along with the Aeneas colony is part and parcel with Voyager's intention to create a new type of colony, a more productive colony that generates profits for the company. Victor is at the heart of the colony in that it assists in the ability to quickly crunch numbers and assist the colony's specialists in their work, drastically speeding up the collection and analysis of data as well as being able to make projections. It is not particularly mobile outside of a certain range of the colony, except via special links to certain types of vehicles, such as the shuttles or various ground vehicles, and it depends on humans for input. It is, as yet, a very new AI, just unpacked in the colony, so it is still finding its feet here. With human guidance, it is expected that VICTOR can quickly design prototypes and assimilate research into its memory banks and expand its knowledge base, among other things. While some colonists may joke about "The Overlord" the reality is that VICTOR's design is such that it depends on humanity to act as its eyes, ears and imagination.

VICTOR is more than just a highly capable personal data assistant; he controls the autofabricators on the planet. The system, still in prototype development, is the key to Voyager's anticipated market share in colonization; he is able to rapidly adapt the machinery to put out what is needed with enough raw material to work with, and that is after assisting humans with the design of the equipment according to a specification that VICTOR can develop. This is the true heart and center of the Colony in that regard, what makes it viable. What is installed on the Colony is merely the start; VICTOR is designed to expand considerably as needed.