Letter Bee

The Ghosts of Napoleon

@Willy Vereb

Prussia already has significant catholic populations. They're not the majority, but they are there.

Kulturkampf also being a product of Bismarck is:
1) in the future, beyond the scope of the RP, it's like worrying about the Franco-Prussian War right now.
2) a product of Bismarck, who being a Protestant Junker, may or may not exist or have the influence of his class in Prussian society.

@Dinh AaronMk

Accidentally clicked Laugh when I meant to click Like.

Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Altered Cast [CASUAL RP]

Astraea Bauduin (NPC)

Name: Astraea Bauduin

Appearance:


Age: 21

Bio: The only heir of the Bauduin family, Astraea led a privileged, if regimented life, one meant to train her for the need to keep the peace as her family saw it. She loved reading and writing, history and politics. But above all, she loved to pilot Mobile Suits, which she learned to do so at a young age. Nevertheless, being a woman, she was not taken seriously many times and had to fight for recognition of her own separate, independent talents. Choosing to be deployed against pirates in her first few missions as an MS Pilot, Astraea proved to be a good and dedicated fighter, even though her initial lack of ruthlessness won scorn from some quarters.

Eventually, she pleaded for and received, the post of 'Special Inspector' for Gjallarhorn, hearing rumors of corrupt dealings on Mars. She planned to bring no one except her trusted bodyguards; she had made few friends in Gjallarhorn's military academy and trusted even fewer of those friends to stand by her when things got hard. For she had learned her lesson in her pirate-hunting days: That people are ready to backstab and slander others, and cannot even be bothered to do so up-front.

She also dated a member of the Fareed Family; it ended so badly that she purposefully forgot all about it, including whether the person she dated was a man or a woman (she is bisexual). Let's just say that she never wanted to see their faces ever again, and is bitter with the Fareeds ever since then.

Mundane Skills: Mobile Suit Piloting (including Gundams), Fencing, Shooting, Embroidery, and First Aid, also Riding Horses and Driving fast cars.

Personality: A curious soul who is less jaded than she assumes she is, Astraea thinks she is subtle and perceptive but actually struggles with the former due to how blatant she can be even when she tries to be cold. She views herself as an 'Ice Queen' who shows little emotion, but this attitude cracks when in the presence of her aides and immediate subordinates, whom she sees as her family. As for the Fareeds, she despises them due to how her past romantic interest was one of them yet that person dumped her, although she secretly fears that it was her fault all along.

Despite being loyal to Gjallarhorn, she holds some sympathies for the Martian Independence Movement but is aware that her views on them can sour the moment they step out of line or prove to be less than benevolent in both intent and methods. All in all, she is someone trying to assume an air of independence and adulthood but is still quite insecure.

Do you have the Alaya-Vijyana System?: N.

Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Altered Cast

Astraea Bauduin (NPC)

Name: Astraea Bauduin

Appearance:


Age: 21

Bio: The only heir of the Bauduin family, Astraea led a privileged, if regimented life, one meant to train her for the need to keep the peace as her family saw it. She loved reading and writing, history and politics. But above all, she loved to pilot Mobile Suits, which she learned to do so at a young age. Nevertheless, being a woman, she was not taken seriously many times and had to fight for recognition of her own separate, independent talents. Choosing to be deployed against pirates in her first few missions as an MS Pilot, Astraea proved to be a good and dedicated fighter, even though her initial lack of ruthlessness won scorn from some quarters.

Eventually, she pleaded for and received, the post of 'Special Inspector' for Gjallarhorn, hearing rumors of corrupt dealings on Mars. She planned to bring no one except her trusted bodyguards; she had made few friends in Gjallarhorn's military academy and trusted even fewer of those friends to stand by her when things got hard. For she had learned her lesson in her pirate-hunting days: That people are ready to backstab and slander others, and cannot even be bothered to do so up-front.

She also dated a member of the Fareed Family; it ended so badly that she purposefully forgot all about it, including whether the person she dated was a man or a woman (she is bisexual). Let's just say that she never wanted to see their faces ever again, and is bitter with the Fareeds ever since then.

Mundane Skills: Mobile Suit Piloting (including Gundams), Fencing, Shooting, Embroidery, and First Aid, also Riding Horses and Driving fast cars.

Personality: A curious soul who is less jaded than she assumes she is, Astraea thinks she is subtle and perceptive but actually struggles with the former due to how blatant she can be even when she tries to be cold. She views herself as an 'Ice Queen' who shows little emotion, but this attitude cracks when in the presence of her aides and immediate subordinates, whom she sees as her family. As for the Fareeds, she despises them due to how her past romantic interest was one of them yet that person dumped her, although she secretly fears that it was her fault all along.

Despite being loyal to Gjallarhorn, she holds some sympathies for the Martian Independence Movement but is aware that her views on them can sour the moment they step out of line or prove to be less than benevolent in both intent and methods. All in all, she is someone trying to assume an air of independence and adulthood but is still quite insecure.

Do you have the Alaya-Vijyana System?: N.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

Noble Arms Lore Update:

The Spartan Training Programs

As Noble Arms are created through life-changing personal growth in my version of it, various governments have created 'Spartan Training Programs (STPs)' to turn 'trainees' into Arms Masters by forcing personal growth. These are not the same as Arms Master Academies, although there is overlap between them and the STPs, with some establishments having separate 'Normal' and 'Arms Master' classes where those of the former can join the latter when they grow a Noble Arm. Note however that the STPs vary in methods and severity; some of them are mere 'Military Schools with more steps', and others are torture factories where abuse is a constant theme.

Singapore has the largest STP in ASEAN, where parents and orphanages regularly 'volunteer' their children for harsh training, both physical and spiritual, in order to have a chance of an Arms Master in the family. However, although the Singapore STP is not as bad as the ones ran by various authoritarian regimes, it is infamous for having dropouts who later join Anti-Arms Master terrorist groups such as the now-defunct Disablers.

Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Altered Cast

Might have a really vague idea but we'll see how it turns out I guess. Been kind of in a big RPing slump for a while so hopefully I can get this to work, but if I end up not being able to keep up or whatever at least Gundam being what it is makes it easy to write out my character if it comes down to it. XD

@Rin

Nice! By the way, a teaser:

My Hider

Galieo's alternate counterpart will be a woman in this RP.

Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Altered Cast [CASUAL RP]

Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans - Altered Cast

I. Intro

It is the year 323 of the Post Disaster Era, and Humanity is in the grip of tyrants of their own making.

The military organization Gjallarhorn, originally founded to prevent a repeat of the catastrophic Calamity War, has fallen into stagnation and decadence, putting most of civilized space under their iron boot. Nowhere was this boot more felt than on Mars, the Red Planet, where poverty is rampant and the authorities are brutal, with any expression of discontent with how things are silenced with the club and bullet. In the streets of Mars' cities, children are regularly taken and sold as 'Human Debris'; slaves to be implanted with illegal cybernetics and used as cannon fodder by various mercenaries, pirates, and bandits who prey on those who cannot afford Gjallarhorn's taxes for protection.

You are some of those children (or teenagers if you managed to survive), owned by Chryse Guard Security, a private security firm who hires out both adult soldiers and Human Debris as fighters. This company, also called CGS, is not rich enough to afford Mobile Suits, the humanoid machines which make up the main strength of any decent armed group, having to content itself with smaller 'Mobile Workers' which are barely usable for war. However, there are two things that lift you from being ordinary and unremarkable.

One is that you have one of the legendary Gundam Frames, the Gundam Barbatos, in your headquarters. True, it has been repurposed into a power source, and cannot be used for combat yet, but should one repair it and use it as a weapon once more, it would be lethal even to other Mobile Suits.

Another is that the two leaders of the Martian Independence Movement, the 'Children of Revolution', has specifically requested CGS' assistance in escorting them to Earth, where they plan to argue and plead for more rights for the Chryse Region of Mars. Why is that the case? Well, no one knows, but perhaps it is your opportunity to earn your freedom... Or fight for it.

Wait, there are two leaders this time?

II. Lore and AU Elements.

Basically, this is an Alternate Universe of Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, an installment of the Gundam Series set in its own universe. What's so alternate about this? Well, every canon character has been replaced with an OC, including the protagonists, who will be replaced by the players' own characters. Not just that, but enemies, aka Gjallarhorn and various pirates, can also be played with special GM Permission.

Consult the Gundam Wiki for further info (the Post Disaster page is also relevant).

III. Rules

1.) No Godmoding or Powergaming, aka no controlling other players' actions, no defeating your enemy in one shot, and no shrugging of all hits without good-enough armor.
2.) Any consenting relationship between people of the same age group is allowed, whether it's Homosexual or Heterosexual. If you cannot stand such things, don't post here in the first place.
3.) Be polite to others.
4.) You can get Gundams besides the Barbatos later.
5.) You can have Custom Mechs which are not Gundams later.

IV. Character Sheet:

[b]Name:[/b] (Don't call yourself 'Zero' or 'The Red Comet'.)
[b]Appearance:[/b] (No IRL pictures)
[b]Age:[/b] (14 to 16 if a kid; older if you're an adult)
[b]Bio:[/b] (Backstory; at least one paragraph of four to five lines each - More is preferred.)
[b]Mundane Skills:[/b] (What is your OC good at?)
[b]Personality:[/b] (At least one paragraph of three to five lines each - More is preferred.)
[b]Do you have the Alaya-Vijyana System?:[/b] (Type 'Y' or 'N'. If Y, you can have up to 3, but if every OC has 3, I will lower the limit to 2.)

Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Altered Cast

Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans - Altered Cast

I. Intro

It is the year 323 of the Post Disaster Era, and Humanity is in the grip of a vise of its own making.

The military organization Gjallarhorn, originally founded to prevent a repeat of the catastrophic Calamity War, has fallen into stagnation and decadence, putting most of civilized space under their iron boot. Nowhere was this boot more felt than on Mars, the Red Planet, where poverty is rampant and the authorities are brutal, with any expression of discontent with how things are silenced with the club and bullet. In the streets of Mars' cities, children are regularly taken and sold as 'Human Debris'; slaves to be implanted with illegal cybernetics and used as cannon fodder by various mercenaries, pirates, and bandits who prey on those who cannot afford Gjallarhorn's taxes for protection.

You are some of those children (or teenagers if you managed to survive), owned by Chryse Guard Security, a private security firm who hires out both adult soldiers and Human Debris as fighters. This company, also called CGS, is not rich enough to afford Mobile Suits, the humanoid machines which make up the main strength of any decent armed group, having to content itself with smaller 'Mobile Workers' which are barely usable for war. However, there are two things that lift you from being ordinary and unremarkable.

One is that you have one of the legendary Gundam Frames, the Gundam Barbatos, in your headquarters. True, it has been repurposed into a power source, and cannot be used for combat yet, but should one repair it and use it as a weapon once more, it would be lethal even to other Mobile Suits.

Another is that the two leaders of the Martian Independence Movement, the 'Children of Revolution', has specifically requested CGS' assistance in escorting them to Earth, where they plan to argue and plead for more rights for the Chryse Region of Mars. Why is that the case? Well, no one knows, but perhaps it is your opportunity to earn your freedom... Or fight for it.

Wait, there are two leaders this time?

II. Lore and AU Elements.

Basically, this is an Alternate Universe of Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, an installment of the Gundam Series set in its own universe. What's so alternate about this? Well, every canon character has been replaced with an OC, including the protagonists, who will be replaced by the players' own characters. Not just that, but enemies, aka Gjallarhorn and various pirates, can also be played with special GM Permission.

Consult the Gundam Wiki for further info (the Post Disaster page is also relevant).

III. Rules

1.) No Godmoding or Powergaming, aka no controlling other players' actions, no defeating your enemy in one shot, and no shrugging of all hits without good-enough armor.
2.) Any consenting relationship between people of the same age group is allowed, whether it's Homosexual or Heterosexual. If you cannot stand such things, don't post here in the first place.
3.) Be polite to others.
4.) You can get Gundams besides the Barbatos later.
5.) You can have Custom Mechs which are not Gundams later.

IV. Character Sheet:

[b]Name:[/b] (Don't call yourself 'Zero' or 'The Red Comet'.)
[b]Appearance:[/b] (No IRL pictures)
[b]Age:[/b] (14 to 16 if a kid; older if you're an adult)
[b]Bio:[/b] (Backstory; at least one paragraph of four to five lines each - More is preferred.)
[b]Mundane Skills:[/b] (What is your OC good at?)
[b]Personality:[/b] (At least one paragraph of three to five lines each - More is preferred.)
[b]Do you have the Alaya-Vijyana System?:[/b] (Type 'Y' or 'N'. If Y, you can have up to 3, but if every OC has 3, I will lower the limit to 2.)

The Ghosts of Napoleon

@Dinh AaronMkdo you mind reviewing my sheet? If you’re good with the history still, as per the original approval, can you please modify the world map so I don’t have some wanna be “U-S-A! U-S-A!” player diving in there thinking it’s all hunkydorie please?

Pagemaster

Here we go; note that I removed one @ so that Pagemaster isn't bothered by a ping.

The Ghosts of Napoleon

@Letter Bee

Firstly: There is no war in North America, only sporadic uprisings. The United States was subjugated by Britain in 1812 as a response to the pressures of the Napoleonic Wars. It's been several decades since the conquests of the American colonies, so by and large the British have a tight control of the cotton industry, by volume they have the most. The opportunity to claim sky-high cotton prices because of war in the US has passed in this period, that would have been at best 1812-1814, it is not 1812-1814, it is 1836. Don't read the one post by Page as if there is ongoing mass warfare in the United States to raise cotton prices.

Also, when and where did you ever claim Syria? Don't jump the gun.

But if you want to seek French buyers you will need to communicate with the French manufacturers. You will have to speak with the French government to lower the tariffs, not to buy the cotton. But you are still competing with British trade.

@Dinh AaronMk

1.) Ah; to be fair, I did read it as an ongoing protracted war, yes.

2.) In my Nation Sheet, plus the map, which has not been updated to accommodate the new data, and is thus open to misreading.

3.) I might do that, but for now, I will be editing out the post to account for the new data.

The Ghosts of Napoleon

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