This is an RP based around the anime/manga series Mobile Suit Gundam, a mecha-genre involving many different universes that we will be culminating into one. If you’re a mecha fan I highly encourage you to say hello in our OOC and I hope you will join us! It can be a lot to understand so I highly recommend reading the provided information here and ask any questions you have in the OOC tab. Characters may be submitted in the OOC tab or by PM if you prefer, and will be allowed onto the Profiles tab upon approval. Please note this is a literate RP, and posts are expected to be descriptive and mature at all times. Rules will be available in the OOC tab and will be updated as necessary. Enjoy yourselves and the RP!
The World Is Finally Recovering…
A past which few remember has been filled with world spanning conflict and war, destroying much of what humanity was proud of. Universal Century, Cosmic Era, Anno Domini and more are mere chapters of the past where wars raged between Spacenoids and Earthlings. Where people used to relax in homes and cities, lay ruins populated by starving refugees. Where people travelled to the stars, floated debris littered with corpses and ghosts. Where humanity achieved its dream of living among the stars, hung bleak cold cylinders with few inhabitants. The weapons of war ranging from the mighty battleships, agile mobile suits, frightening mobile armors and legendary Gundams lay as treasures for others to find around the world. It is now year 109 of the Resurgence calendar, the official calendar of the Beloth Empire.
Humanity has endured the desolation and has picked itself up. At first tribes and societies, but then villages and towns sprung forth on Earth. The people gathered together to survive, some peacefully and others destructive. As the land and seas were littered with mobile suits and weapons from the past, some have taken them for selfish use while others began to defend themselves and even study these technological marvels. Cities began to reappear as people travelled the wastes for treasure or supplies. In space the remains of the colonies suffered many decades inside their cylinders without support from Earth. The trips between Jupiter and Earth meant fuel was a most precious resource, and their minimum stockpile could fund only a few expeditions at a time to the rich debris field around Earth. The culture of each society remained relatively unchanged since they were abandoned, yet collectively they have viewed one another as brothers and sisters in arms, from now until they return to Earth.
The World…
The Beloth Empire resides in the reshaped Europe, along the new coast of the New Mediterranean Sea. What was once a city barely holding together became a great nation through its military might and technological understanding of machines from our past. The Empire now encompasses multiple cities within its borders which each play their part in maintaining the nation. Its military is one few other known nations nearby can actively compete with. Their technological construction capabilities range only to battleships, cars and planes while it scavenges mobile suits, advanced generators and computer equipment from storage caches. They have been able to repair a spaceport and acquire HLV craft to return to the stars after so long. Outside of the Empire lay a few nations and city states, while the rest of humanity survive as nomads or aggressive raiders who attack anyone they have an advantage over. Occasionally the rare mobile suit or armor stuck on autopilot with no allies creates havoc, but otherwise humans on Earth live their lives as they have for years.
Above the Earth, over a billion pieces of scrap metal, spaceships, mobile suits, asteroids, orbital ring remains, cryo-sleep laden pods and more revolve around the world. As the eras proceeded on, they have added more and more to the field while little has fallen to the surface or been picked by scavengers. Communication from ground to space is impossible thanks to the remains of various reactors and equipment from the wars while visual sight is obscured by the metal. Sometimes the wreck of a battleship falls to earth providing a spectacle to those who can see it, along with more material for the world to claim.
In space, surviving by the skin of their teeth, the remaining colonies circling the Earth are Alexandria, Cecilia, Vitus and Side 3, banding together into the Colony Coalition for Restoration. With no support from Earth, the enclosed systems had difficulty recovering their population until they discovered a method of cloning to boost their numbers. Alexandria and Cecilia are agricultural colonies, Vitus contains many labs and industrial buildings to supplement, and Side 3 has been a residential and industrial colony since the time of old where it was the forefront of colonial military actions. Between the Earth and Jupiter flies the Hydrogen Fleet, which continuously travels from the two plants to bring precious fuel back to the colonies. Distanced from these cylinders are small outposts for the Colony Expeditionary Forces who gather machines and useful supplies from the wreckage around Earth, making use of the asteroids brought close to the Earth.
The People...
The humans on Earth have remained a stalwart bunch who have survived the darkened days of the past and strive through the new Resurgence calendar. The people of the Empire are made of a multitude of backgrounds, and are encouraged to view each other as siblings, yet there remains tensions between people of different origins and occupations within the Empire.
Outside of the Empire are the Independents, people who reside in either the city states or small nations for civilization, but most people survive in a nomadic or barbaric raiding lifestyle. These people tend to be self-sufficient and dislike the Empire and city-states, believing they wish to remove the people from their way of life up to this point.
In the colonies everyone has a sense of community, with those inside their colony. Since the usage of cloning the population of the colonies has grown much closer to one another in a sense, but while the colonies work together for their own survival, the distance and separation from one another causes many to be cold towards even their fellow spacenoids. Officials of the colonies are more social however, and attempt to make an example of themselves.
There also exist the Pod-people, those from the past who saved themselves in cryosleep pods in the debris around Earth or deep in the soil. The colonists attempt to find these people as often as possible for their knowledge of the past, although common issues with the prolonged sleep have been known to cause mild amnesia to their occupants which can proceed well after their removal. While most have been mere civilians or soldiers lucky to survive, some believe there may be legendary figures from the past.
The final niche of people on Earth are those now called ‘Advanced Humans’. In the past many different types exist, from Newtypes, Coordinators, Innovators, X-Rounders, and even Cyber-Newtypes. All were told to have powerful abilities above the average human in combat. Each one had differing abilities according to the era but were all more rare than humans and more sought after. While few confirmed cases have appeared, the legendary status of these people have naturally made them well known amongst even the masses.
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