Opposition

FRAMEs (Mech combat, political intrigue & corporate struggles)

"Not good."
Ryder was pinned down by the two FRAMEs as they rounded the corner. She cursed to herself. No matter how good she was with her melee antics, there was no way she could run up and punch these guys, despite her powerful urge to do just that. She zigzagged a moment try to find cover in the nearly barren street, which allowed the two enemy FRAMEs to easily fire straight thtough her Zaruga's weak armor. She was continuously peppered with fire from both angles and she had to do something quickly. It seemed kind of ironic how she could charge one machine and fight it up close while the other would be cut off from firing at her, but it was definitely not the time for that.

Theta was damaged pretty heavily, and Ryder knew it. The panicked flashing screens of the inside of her FRAME really did not help. Trapped within the clutches of a miniscule amount of cover, Ryder felt as if it was a waiting game that her survival depended on. She knew Cecilia knew her location, but with all the AP rounds that tore through Theta, she didn't know how much longer she could last. As seconds passed, a panicked Ryder threw the switch that activated her LMG. She decided her best option was to at least try and suppress the enemy FRAMEs.

With her torso mounted gun's 7.62 mm bullets firing rather inaccurately in one direction, Ryder brought up her AFC-40/L in the other direction, firing in the general direction of Shāyú-Sān. Less than a minute had passed before Ryder heard the futile click click click of her LMG sputtering out of ammo. She merely sighed, mouthing the words "Really? Why now?" to herself as she spun around to face Shāyú-Èr and trying to land a few solid Autocannon 25 mm rounds into his FRAME while she had a few seconds break from Shāyú-Sān.

Theta wasn't going to last much longer in this fight. Ryder planned to give her teammates a minute more before she tried something drastic. After all, she was nearing the end of her ammo, Theta's systems were steaming as if in agony, and Ryder couldn't handle much more of this heavy fire rocking her FRAME.

Shine City II: The Next Season

"Akane. I am Akane. Nice to meet you, Zac." She replied. Just the quick name exchange and his magic opener were really good ways to make Akane open up. Akane met his smile with one of her own as her hands fidgeted atop the table. She still occasionally sipped her tea. Akane's eyes were now much more focused on Zac than his card trick as he continued to shuffle and reshuffle his deck. Akane was never one to be awestruck and dazzled by magic, but it was an interesting skill, and it was a good opener for talking to girl apparently. Akane was happy with it.

"So you are a magician? How long have you been practicing your hobby?" She asked, making small talk as he prepared his trick. Perhaps she should have waited for him to finish the trick before calling him a magician. After all, he could completely screw up the trick, but despite all of that, Akane kind of enjoyed Zac's company. It was more human interaction than she normally had, and more than she would have had sitting alone at home. Just talking to Zac was good enough for her, even without the magic.

Her smiling expression turned to a rather blank one as he revealed the top card accompanied by the age old line: 'Is this your card?' Akane was smart enough to realize that it might have been part of the trick, of course. "Nope, wrong card!" Akane replied, cheerfully. She was of course, expecting more, but perhaps she was wrong. Maybe he was an amateur who hadn't practiced enough. "Is that all you've got?" She said. Of course, she meant no harm by this. Akane was merely poking fun at her new acquaintance. A smile quickly returned to her face to signal her feelings. She looked up to him, scanning his face. He still seemed rather happy with her response. There was definitely more to his trick.

Time's a Changing - a Steampunk NRP set in a Psuedo-Earth

The Sultanate Of Aeterna

The Sultanate of Aeterna

Territory:

The Golden Territory is Aeterna

Description of Government:

The Sultanate of Aeterna is an absolute monarchy, more commonly called an autocracy, lead by the undoubted rule of a Sultan or Sultana. The children of the current Sultan are also given this title before their name, yet any spouse of the Sultan is not. Sultans and Sultanas come from the bloodline of the previous absolute monarch. The Sultanate of Aeterna does however have government influence from chosen advisors and aristocrats from Aeterna as well as The Aeternian Council. The Aeternian Council is a representative-based group of advisors with one representative from each Aeternian territory. This council is often given less credit than deserved, for they are often the group to create new policies within the Sultanate, and the Sultan chooses whether or not these policies are to be enacted. If a Sultan is to pass, his rule goes to the eldest or most able child, depending on the situation.

Current Sultan and Royal Family:

• Sultanah Cecily Aurelia
• Minerva Aurelia
• Lucas Aurelia
• Daniel Aurelia

Description of Economy:

The Sultanate of Aeterna runs on a mixed economy where most of the resource generation and harvesting are privately run by common folk, but some production of goods, particularly military goods. Aeterna's sources of wealth are rather widespread. Its main industries are fishing and agriculture, mining, and industrial production.

Agriculture and Fishing
With large seasonal floodplains surrounding Aeterna's large freshwater river that runs throughout their entire territory, agriculture nets the Aeternian people a rather large source of food. The main crops grown around the river are grains and vegetables. Thanks to the yearly inundations from the river, fertile soil is abundant. Cattle, goats, and fowl are kept around as well to diversify the agricultural industry. There is very little game in the sandy deserts of Aeterna, causing hunting to provide little to no industry, but hunting is occasionally played as sport.

Mining
Aeterna, much unlike other nations, actually has a rather rare amount of Blue Coal in its soil. Instead, their mines have another hot commodity. Within Aeternian grounds lie a rich supply of Natural Gas, which is extracted and synthesized into numerous other precious gasses. They also have a relatively high amount of normal coal within their ground. This allows for much more small scale and personal used of steam power.

Production
The industry in Aeterna runs rampant with some privately owned and others government sanctioned. Production of airships is the largest industry within Aeterna due to the large supply of Natural Gas that can be synthesized into Hydrogen and Helium, but due to the desert-like landscape, wood and other natural resources used in production are in need of importing. Other military goods have a large industry in Aeterna, causing them to be a large exporter and manufacturer of weaponry, militarized airships, and tanks alike.

Description of Culture:

Aeternian cities are known for being rather lively and bustling with citizens, merchants, and travelers alike. The current Sultana is known for being quite gracious with the liberties of her people, allowing them to be free to do what the wish. Aeterna has a very distinct class system. This causes people with positions close to the Sultan or military workers to live luxurious lives while there is a distinct working class that those that work in factories and mines inhabit. The wages are too greatly different, but the gap is there. Propaganda runs rampant throughout Aeterna causing nationalism to be a strong force within the nation. Many citizens would readily go up and to arms to defend their Sultana.

Description of Military:

Aeterna has an extremely unique military. Currently lead by the brother of the Sultana, the Aeternian military fights in rather large clusters, occupying both air and land. The air is occupied by powerful dirigibles and zeppelins while below them, formations of tanks protect the ground. The infantry have been known to be rather mobile with small gadgets allowing them to traverse quickly throughout the entire Aeternian formation. This causes both land and air vehicles to synergize quite well. Their strategy works just as well if not better with the Aeternian Navy. The people of Aeterna have not been advocates of war, but once they are dragged into a war, the people wish to crush the threat. With Aeterna being slightly behind in terms of technological advancement, their strategy and infantry skills are heavily relied upon in battles.

History:

Aeternians have been known as the natives of Hadricia, but associate, often with the nations of Edoniras. The Sultanate is well known for defending its lands and not giving an inch of land when it comes to colonization. There have been numerous small skirmishes between Aeterna and Edoniras Civilizations that have ended in nothing more than a few square miles of land changing hands.

The nation of Aeterna has been around for a very long time, and it is often said that the lands of Aterna date back to the beginning of written history. Aeterna has been a river based nation for ages now. With expansion, they have learned to rely on other means of survival.

Aeterna was always considered a walled off and isolated nation, until the discovery of Blue Coal. The current Sultan had realized that, in order to keep up technologically with other nations, they would have to begin trade to net a large amount of goods for protection. Since then, the Sultanate has been an open nation, welcoming outsiders with open arms. The Aeternian military and government spent many days and a large sum of money to push forward and catch up to the nations of Edoniras in terms of technology.

The current Sultana is the eldest daughter of the previous, rather triumphant Sultan Daniel Aurelia. Daniel was the Sultan that reopened the isolated nation, allowing trade to flow in and out of Hadricia easily through Aeterna. He changed the lands of Aeterna from a weak land with the power of a colony into a rising power. With new materials flowing in and out of Aeterna, the nation's technology was able to advance, pushing the nation into an early industrial era.

Sultan Daniel became bedridden only a small number of years before the present time. With his illness consuming nearly all of his time, he forced himself to pass on the throne. With his numerous suitors, he looked to his three children to choose a new Sultan. It was a tough decision to choose between his eldest daughter Cecily and his son Lucas. In the end Cecily had proven the most responsible and resourceful and to her surprise, she was given Sultanship.

The nation was in an uproar for a short time after Daniel had stepped down, as it all happened rather suddenly and secretly until the new Sultana was crowned. It took Cecily near a month to reinvigorate her people and get her nation back to its previous economic standings, but her people now work towards advancing Aeterna and Hadricia as a whole once more.

Shine City II: The Next Season

Akane straightens up in her seat as the man sits across from her. Her eyes were directed towards his hands as he moved to open the fresh deck of cards. Her quizzical look switches to a smile as he explains himself. Magic was never something Akane got into herself, but it was always fun to see someone perform on the streets and the like. She brought an elbow up onto the table to rest her chin on her hand as she gave him an enticed stare.

Akane seemed a bit impressed as he shuffled the cards so well. He's definitely practiced. After she is asked to pick a card, Akane lingers for a moment, looking over the spread of cards. She settles, much like everyone ever, for one of the cards in the middle of the spread, just to make sure he hadn't stacked the top and bottom parts of the deck somehow. Akane pulls the card along the table before bringing it to her face, much like a poker player would do as he was dealt. After giving a quick glance, she recognized the Queen of Spades, one of her favorite cards. She gave a quick nod before replying with an, "Okay. I've got it." She slid the card back across the table placing it a few cards over from its original location.

"The rest is up to you," She said jokingly as she tapped her fingers on the table once more, though this time, much less rhythmically. She tried to go over how he would proceed in the trick in her head. With another sip of her tea and a flick of her eyes up to meet the gaze of the man, Akane focused her eyes on the deck of cards, waiting for her new acquaintance to proceed. Let's see if he is truly able to impress.

@Daxam

The Resistance

EDIT: I suppose I am going to wait on my sheet until I see if this has enough interest to start up.

V I L E

I do believe I have all of my faction and character sheets sent to you. If there is anything else you need help with to help get the RP going, I am free to assist, @Rhymer.

Time's a Changing - a Steampunk NRP set in a Psuedo-Earth

@duck55223 Not a problem! I do believe I've covered any issues and expanded my history a bit. Tell me if anything else needs changed.

Shine City II: The Next Season

Akane found herself rather entranced within the music as she sat idly in the coffee shop. Fingers tapping the table in a speedy manner. As if her hand was on a grand piano, Akane subconsciously allowed her hand to elegantly flow across the table. With the occasional sip of tea, she continued her little routine as if no one was watching. Of course, this little show was interrupted rather abruptly as Akane was approached by another patron. He couldn't have been much older than Akane herself.

She sent a startled glance in the man's direction. With blank look, her hand snaked up to the side of her head to remove her headphones while her opposite hand flattened her hair that might have been ruffled from them. Then, with a quick hand, she paused her music, hiding her phone within her shoulder bag. Akane let out a "Hmm?" as her blank stare was then directed to her new acquaintance. "Yes, hello..." She said quietly before he continued in offering her a magic trick. She was never good with words. It was a bit awkward, how she spoke, but this was normal for her. "Uhmm, yes sure. Go ahead." An inquiring look crossed her face as she turned towards him while simultaneously pushing her cup towards the other side of the table to clear space in case he was to use the table.

Well that's one way to meet new people, Akane thought. She was a bit uneased, shifting in her seat. She was never one for social situations, but if someone wanted to approach her and she didn't even have to try to make small talk, Akane liked them already. She figured she would just let this guy do his trick and he'd be off. Just in case, she gestured to the seat across from herself as he prepared his trick, offering him a seat should he want to sit.

@Daxam

Shine City II: The Next Season

All day. It took all day.
Akane pulled her scarf up over her mouth as she let out a shiver from the cold. She hated the cold and her misery was only amplified today as she trekked back towards her home from the library. With all her research notes done, she could finally leave the library. As she traveled her gaze fell to the windows of numerous stores that she passed. Slowly, Akane withdrew a pair of headphones from her bag. She settled them on her ears, over her hair and pressed a button on the side of the headphones. The relaxing sound of a piano filled her ears as she continued on her trip back to her dorm.

It was relaxing to walk in the late evening like this. Akane enjoyed just peering about the city and simply looking at the night sky, at least until a little dog hopped up against her leg. Startled, Akane smiled under the bright red scarf covering most of her face. She followed the little guy's leash up to meet the eyes of a man to whom she gave a quick nod before continuing on her way.

I wonder if there's a pet store around here... I could use some... Akane paused in thought for a moment. Cats... I could use some cats. Like five of them should suffice. Her smile melded into a smirk as she continued down the sidewalk. It was only a few more moments before her peaceful music was interrupted once again, but this time it came from a buzzing in her shoulder bag. Akane's hand curled around her cellphone as she pulled it out of her bag, the bright screen illuminating her face and making her squint. An alert from another girl in her dormitory. Apparently there was a problem or some sort of renovation and they wouldn't let students into that section of the dormitory.

Akane let out a long sigh as she spun disappointedly on her heel. Off to the the cafe then. Akane figured some shops would start closing now, but Mochavine should still be open. It wasn't long before she arrived at the quaint little cafe and bar. She took one of her usual seats towards the window and ordered a simple cup of tea. She would have withdrawn a book as well, just to have something to do, but Akane had done enough of that today. Which made her think: With all that done, she had a weekend ahead of her with no homework to do. It would be a rather boring weekend lest she find something else. Contemplating her plans, Akane continued to sip her tea and peer out into the city.

Shine City II: The Next Season

right...how do I post youtube videos?

@BeastofDestiny

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