So, it's been a long, long while since I've run anything on here, or joined in anything either.
I'm a little dubious, as the guild seems to be deathly quiet compared to how it used to be, and there's not a lot that tickles my fancy these days.
But I've got the urge and the desire for a modern aircraft based RP, and no-one else is advertising anything like that. So I guess it's down to me to step up and suggest something.
I've got the beginnings of an idea inspired by Ace Combat, my favourite game franchise, with elements of the plot and setting adapted from or inspired by various other sources.
The premise as I have it in mind at the moment, is that the RP's setting is an alternate Earth. One where the Cold War extended into the 90s, and as such, many aircraft and weapons that were prototypes or otherwise never came to fruition were completed and saw service.
However, a cataclysmic event occured in the early years of the 21st century, after an asteroid struck the planet, and shattered civilization. By necessity, the state of Cold War ended, and civilization has picked itself up after the impact.
The UN is the de-facto world government, with a handful of other countering powers and alliances, as well as other independent powers of various alignments based in various regions of the world. Some places are completely devastated due to the results of the impact, and are functional 'dead zones'. Various corporate interests have also risen to prominence, leveraging their resources and aid to buy their way into positions of power in former countries, essentially becoming the government.
Mercenaries and PMC's have become commonplace, equipped with modern advanced technology. Some of them operate under contract and agreement with the UN as peacekeepers, abiding by particular rules and with observers to enforce law and aid people, as the UN military is too small and overstretched to be everywhere at once. Others are less scrupulous and more greedy, and work for whoever will pay them.
There are also rumours and evidence of other things afoot; abandoned technologies being bought back into the light, strange sightings and incidents, and so on and so forth.
In other words, it's a setting with a lot of options for adventure. The PC's would be part of a UN-aligned PMC squadron, and would be following up on various missions, flying around the world to deal with them, and slowly would start to piece together a plot that links the things they deal with together. Various sci-fi elements and more fantastical, hi-tech things would also start to be in evidence, leading eventually to a much greater scope of threat. A sort of slowly building arc-plot, formed and shaped by the players' influence and actions.
Recurring antagonists and rivals would also be a thing, as would friendly recurring NPCs, locations, etc.
Some knowledge of modern military aircraft would be necessary, but not an extensive amount. Enough to get by, more than anything. Equally a similar understanding of how military life 'works'. As even though you'd be playing PMCs, you'd still have support staff, infrastructure, etc.
Though, it would be 'military-lite', in order to make it more interesting and less restrictive, and enable your characters to have a bit more freedom in their actions, especially privately, than they might otherwise. This also allows for a variety of aircraft within the squadron, rather than everyone having to fly the same planes.
There would be plot and action outside of the cockpit on occasions, but players would be absolutely pilots, as the emphasis is around that idea, rather than ground crew, mechanics, etc etc.
I ran a play-by-email game with a similar concept many years ago that lasted the better part of a decade, and I've always wanted to revisit a similar setting and concept, and hopefully this will be popular in a similar way.
I've tagged it as 'casual' for now, as 'Advanced' scares people, but I always put a lot of detail into backgrounds and settings, so please keep that in mind.
I'm not looking for loads of people, just a small handful to have enough interaction between characters to keep it interesting.
I've had a lot of flakey people in RPs previously that have ended up with them dying before they've even got anywhere, so looking for people who are in it for the long haul as well.
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