SepticGentleman

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, Now Accepting)

<sub>It all began sometime in the mid-2000s.

We don’t know what the start of it was. Natural mutations in our DNA, some crazy science experiment, or straight up sorcery… doesn’t matter. We stopped asking that question a long time ago. Earth, for a while, was home to both us normal humans, and beings who were… different. More powerful. More dangerous. You’ve heard plenty enough about it already, surely. Folks with godlike powers, some who transform into beasts and the like. It’s easy to imagine, so let’s not dwell on the details.

Now what do you think happened next? In the stories you’ve read, the movies you’ve seen, things always work out, don’t they? Humans and mutants, supers, whatever you want to call them, always end up coexisting to an extent? That didn’t happen here. You give a kid pyrokinesis and he’ll always end up starting fires. As soon as it started, it became a problem. There were mass murders. There were entire cities brought to ruin. Whatever conflict there was between nations was quickly diverted towards handling “the nonhuman problem”. The most common enemy, you could say.

Now admittedly, a good number of nonhumans weren’t the all-powerful monsters so described here. A lot of them were decent people just trying to live their lives normally, or even help with the situation. But the bad outweighed the good. The animosity was too prevalent. Things just kept going further and further downhill. Camps were set up to detain any and all confirmed and even potential nonhumans, from old folks to newborn kids. There was a joint effort between several technologically-focused companies to design a state-of-the-art system to keep track of them all. And that came in the form of a certain artificial intelligence. We’ll focus on her later.

Eventually, humans reached their limit. Despite their success in protecting their people and preserving their technologies, the planet was still being constantly ravaged by rogue parties of nonhumans, and even lone individuals who were powerful enough to take on armies. Earth, as far as they were concerned, was doomed. Every day, humans were being slaughtered and driven away from their homes the world over.

And so they left.

Operation Exodus. The epitome of spaceflight technology, ships designed and produced by every major company around the globe, all launched in a single day, carrying the tools to build the future of mankind. They brought as many humans off the planet as they could with plans of colonizing Mars, Europa, and if need be, further expansion to other areas of the solar system. The remainder of Earth’s entire online connectivity and technological canon were either destroyed or shut down once they departed. Everything else was left to the nonhumans. Any normal folks who didn’t make it to the ships in time either got killed, or did themselves in. Whatever the case, before long there were no humans left on planet Earth. It was all nonhumans the world over.

They didn’t completely destroy the planet like many thought they would. But they certainly changed it. Lingering satellites showed the far-gone colonies what the nonhumans left on Earth were doing. They were still fighting amongst themselves for the worst reasons, leaving entire nations in ruin. But a lot left over ended up building their own societies, even constructing their own cities and technologies using their myriad powers. So in the end, it did work out for both sides. Humans managed to live on in the further reaches of the solar system, and nonhumans got to keep their playground.

It didn’t last.

The year is now 2104. Eighteen years after Operation Exodus was launched. The nonhuman occupants of Earth have, to an extent, settled down. Their cities are still running and their numbers are slowly increasing. There are still many who roam the globe causing problems for the rest, but they get dealt with. Eventually, it settled into a routine. Until some humans decided to come back.

World Patriots. A splinter organization that was founded on Mars, shortly after the newly formed Systems Government began colonization. They started with the goal of one day returning to and retaking Earth, eradicating all nonhuman life. Saving the cradle of mankind, as they would put it. But they knew going up against the enemy themselves would be plain suicide. Thus, against the best wishes of SysGov, the World Patriots poured countless resources harvested from the colonies into constructing leagues upon leagues of proxy forces. Automated drones, tanks, mobile platforms, any line and model they had the designs for. Everything was gathered up into one massive fleet. A single command vessel, and several dozen foundry ships.

And they set a course for Earth.</sub>

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Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

I expect this RP to be full of Metal Gear references.

@Mr Allen J

Deborah will for sure get played like a damn fiddle.

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

Here is my first character. Founder and leader of the World Patriots. More are definitely coming after him, once the thread is up.

Eric Longford

NAME: Eric Daniel Longford
AGE: 56
GENDER: Male

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APPEARANCE: Eric is Caucasian. He stands at 5’10 and weighs around two-hundred pounds. His body isn’t at its best, and while he does own some muscle, he’s still got a bit of a gut. He’s a rough-looking man with defined facial features, accentuated by wrinkles caused by age and stress. His black hair and beard are both rather unkempt, with a good number of gray strands spread about. His eyes are a dull, pale blue and look rather sunken. He dresses himself in a combination of Martian colony worker’s gear and combat padding, all colored in a combination of black, gray, and lots of maroon. He wears the symbol of the World Patriots on a maroon band strung across his left shoulder, a simple white globe with the letters WP in the center.

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PERSONALITY: At most times, Eric is a stoic man who simply exudes leadership and authority, commanding his forces with a gentle but stern voice. At other times, he is a loud, rallying force, unafraid of downplaying the enemy in his speeches. A good many of the World Patriots serving under him know the man as if he were a long-time friend, and the rest simply look up to him as the one ready to lead the effort to reclaim Earth, brave and unwavering in the face of the powers nonhumans possess.

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POWER(S)/CUSTOM(S): Eric owns the first and one of the largest Customs ever designed, let alone built, among the World Patriots’ combined forces. The Gradivus, named after the birthplace of the World Patriots, was designed by Eric himself and built from scratch during the early days of the faction’s formation.

Designed to act as both an unstoppable force and an immovable object, the Gradivus stands stationary at around ten meters tall, and is comprised of four main components; the left and right treads, the lower body, and the upper body. The treads are both large, extendable, all-terrain focused mobility systems able to navigate through rough terrain and push through debris easily with their dual battering shields. It should be no surprise that the Gradivus is far from the fastest Custom around, but stopping it when it is moving is no easy feat. Two auto-targeting, heavy caliber turrets rest on each tread. The lower body contains a large afterburner system able to propel the Gradivus forward at decent speed. Now, the upper body, which is where the weaponry really starts to show. The Gradivus’ upper body is a large, heavily armored platform outfitted with four swarming missile pods, two mortars, and two heavy shot-firing main guns. One last item is stored within the upper body; a heavy nuclear explosive package, meant for detonation upon the Gradivus’ defeat, in the hopes of taking its adversaries down with it.

The Gradivus has been crammed with all sorts of defensive tech. The outer layer is comprised of a combination plastic-hardened metal shell, able to resist metal manipulation powers effectively. PsychoFiber, as is common in the World Patriots’ forces, covers the interior systems to defend against technopaths and, to a lesser extent, electrokinetics. The army can withstand very high temperatures and heavy impact, puncture, or slash-based attacks. A bulwark if ever one did exist.

Now, the downside. Unlike most other Customs, Eric poured resources into the Gradivus and, as a result, only ever built one. Once it’s gone, it’s not coming back. That’s why Eric has made it doubly clear that the Gradivus will not be sent out save for major assaults on heavily populated areas. He says, in truth, that he expects it to be destroyed at some point in the conflict. But he’s confident, in that case, that it will be responsible for the deaths of many nonhumans and will be remembered as a major contender in the battle for Earth.

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HISTORY: Eric Longford is the founder and continuing leader of the World Patriots. Before Exodus, he was one of the lead unit designers for a robotics company known as Carlyle APS, Automated Pacification Services. His was one of the many companies hired across the globe to help construct suitable service drones to handle nonhumans, and in many situations, he succeeded. Every time he spearheaded a project that proved effective however, eventually someone would come around and trash the model like it was nothing. Always striving to improve the many models that were in play, Eric often overworked himself to a point where he could do nothing but sit and watch the world around him fall apart. As time went on and the problems grew worse, Carlyle APS was eventually brought to ruin when their headquarters was destroyed and their board members were killed, all by a single nonhuman, just months before Exodus was launched.

Upon humanity’s departure from their ruined cradle, Eric took up work as one of the construction heads for the newly formed System Government’s colonization effort on Mars. With the technology available, setting up was over and done with quickly, and life soon returned to a feeling of routine normality. But for Eric, there was always a lingering grudge, a feeling of being wronged by the entirety of the nonhuman species. It didn’t take long for his feelings and attitude to sound themselves out to his coworkers, who all rallied behind him. Eventually, construction efforts ceased entirely, and they were replaced with calls to arms. Upon the formation of the World Patriots and the birth of the plan for Operation Homecoming, SysGov lost a substantial number of its work force to the World Patriots. One or two cases of civil unrest may have broken out, but they all ended soon when the fleet was launched, with pools of resources in tow.

Eric and the World Patriots were, and still are, very determined to take back Earth. Every nonhuman is a target to them, histories aside, and they have the forces necessary to reclaim the birthplace of mankind.

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OTHER: Eric smokes. Often.

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

@SepticGentleman
Hmm dratz then- I understand your reasoning for the powers of Precognition to be banned but the idea of my new revamped Precognition matches the predictive power of Andrew's ability to see muscle movement and see his opponent's actions. Instead of muscle movements, he basically receives visions as if it was a forgotten thought being remembered but that would just be repetitive. If you want you can just make the power GM-controlled and just shoot me random Private Messages that might affect the roleplay through these visions and since the power is not fairly trained you and wreck havoc by sending misleading clues that will cause drama but if not I'll change it into something else. Basically its all up to you, but I don't mind if its being changed

And yes, the the file does take place during pre-Exodus as Andrew probably can't live with himself after being ditched by the Government and being with the Mutants that was his job to kill. So after the Exodus event, Andrew probably kept to himself and laying low not doing much of anything interesting. So I'll just put my effort into making his story before then interesting if I am up to the deal

@GummyCat

I dunno. There being two folks with this kind of precognitive ability just seems pretty redundant to me. If I were you I'd start considering other powers, but I'm going to talk to the think tank about possible workarounds.

For now though, I slumber. Later on, the official thread will go up. Take care folks.

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

@GummyCat It's not really time manipulation as it is observation. Allen already made a character with something pretty much summarized as clairvoyance and I was okay with it, but it's not so potent enough that his character already knows the outcome of the entire conflict. And that in itself is what I would be very not okay with. Plus there was just straight up mention of time travel by envisioning for Andrew. So he won't work as he is right now.

Also, the wording implicates it as a file documented by some kind of training program. Am I correct in assuming it's all pre-Exodus?

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

Here are the rules, as of current. Split into two sections for both sides of the conflict. More may be added before the official thread goes up.

WORLD PATRIOTS

• _{All World Patriots are normal humans. No exceptions.}
• _{There are no human survivors left on Earth. Plenty of malicious nonhumans were very thorough in their pursuit to kill every remainder of them. If you're human, you're a World Patriot, and you're on their ship.}
• _{World Patriots don’t have one specific uniform style, but they are keen on the colors maroon, gray, black, and white.}
• _{All World Patriots live aboard the same vessel, the Horizon of Reclamation. They do not leave the ship under any circumstances, not even to board the unmanned foundry ships that hold all the proxy forces. Everything in the foundries is either automated or controlled from the main vessel.}
• _{Customs come in countless shapes, sizes, and forms. Humanoid, quadrupedal, flight-based, etcetera. They can be built from older or newer bases of technology; rough and segmented or sleek and shiny. The size limit is pretty substantial, but I am not allowing anything along the lines of this or this.}

NONHUMANS

• _{No reality benders. Period.}
• _{Understand that there is a difference between super powers and straight up magic. The ability to, say, make portals? That's fine, it's a mental projection thing. Very utilitarian. But spells and sigils and hexes and curses, whatever, simply don't belong here.}
• _{"Shadow powers" come in many iterations. The general consensus among myself and my co-GMs are that they are usually very unsavory, being that they have little to do with actual shadows. If a nonhuman can generate orbs of dark purple energy or radiate an aura of fear, that's not a shadow-based power. So, if you wanted to veer that way, heed these words.}
• _{Time control is just too meta. Heightened reflexes are one thing, but temporal manipulation is just asking to be shot down.}
• _{"Death manipulation" is right out.}
• _{"Blood manipulation" and mind control are both just really, really difficult powers to justify. Even if a character with such an ability is meant to be evil, they have a habit of causing problems for other characters and their players in the long run. So both are no-nos.}

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

<Snipped quote by Maxx>

How could that ever make anyone mad? That scene is nothing but pure ecstasy mixed with sheer testosterone.

@Turboshitter

Some people are faithful to the Metal Gear games. Other people are faithful to the Metal Gear games.

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

<Snipped quote by Turboshitter>

That scene made me so damn mad.

@Maxx

"YES, YES, SPLIT IT WIDE OPEN."

Boris says, as he masturbates furiously.

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

Hai Hai, this seems interesting idea and I'll be stalking the page o3o

(p.s: I expect those who were lawful superpowered humans that were working for the government to be left behind as well despite their loyalties due to suspicious and probably majorities vote?)

@GummyCat

Right on the money. Loyal as they were, having them on the evac ships simply wasn't acceptable to the majority.

Fallen (Robots versus Superhumans, if you're into that sort of thing. Official thread now up.)

So, question. How are we planning on getting everyone involved with one another if we're on different sides and belong to different townships and such?

@Turboshitter

Conflicts are going to start pretty much everywhere when Homecoming launches and WP forces get deployed worldwide. There will be plenty of rally calls and the like to get peoples' shit in gear.