After an apocalypse, take control of a successor state. Fight your rivals and find the answers as to why your homeland has suffered so.
Slow But Fine (A Historia Quest)
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Premise 0.0
Such was the length of the previous era of peace and plenty that only the best scholars feel confident in trying to describe not only when it began but also what came before. Great and mighty are the works Humanity has wrought on a universe of uncaring matter and great and terrible was the fall thereof. Was it the hubris of Mankind or some merely physical event? Either way, the heart of modern civilization has been ripped out and the unlimited energy that allowed for interstellar travel and a post-scarcity society has disappeared.
You will take control of the chosen guardian of one of the pockets of survivors that have been blessed with a power source capable of powering a fabrication bay. But with only the barest idea of how to fight back against an increasingly hostile world a military has been synthesized from the records of nations, states, and fantasies of ages past. Balance energy and manpower allocations and ensure your people are protected from the threats that Humanity has tried to forget existed while you look for answers about the disaster that befell your homeland.
You will take control of the chosen guardian of one of the pockets of survivors that have been blessed with a power source capable of powering a fabrication bay. But with only the barest idea of how to fight back against an increasingly hostile world a military has been synthesized from the records of nations, states, and fantasies of ages past. Balance energy and manpower allocations and ensure your people are protected from the threats that Humanity has tried to forget existed while you look for answers about the disaster that befell your homeland.
Faction Select 0.1
Looking across the increasingly frigid plains toward the artificial mountain beyond brings forth a renewed sense of respect for the engineers and artisans who crafted the Central Artani Arcology. Perhaps, if you were feeling generous, even the ones who had set the project in motion back when Humanity was still new to this celestial body. For any other failings they may have possessed as individuals they had not suffered from a lack of vision.
Of course, the arcology had been a more impressive spectacle back when the dimensional taps still worked. Unlimited power had been put to use all along the sturdy flanks of the megacity in displays of advertisement and culture. With the wellspring gone dry it was left as dead stone once more.
Footsteps sounded behind you. The plush carpets that would have muffled the noise had been stripped out to make bedding once it became clear that the power service interruption was something more serious than a damaged conduit and so you could hear them coming from a good distance away.
"I can still picture that stupid drawing that school stubbornly refused to change for as long as I can remember." The assistant sent to fetch you says wistfully. Like you, they were remembering better times. Perhaps in expectation of another great change in your routine.
"The whale done in red and green crayon?" You ask softly, before taking a fortifying breath and turning for the door.
"Yeah." A hand on the shoulder arrests your motion to let the assistant give you a conflicted look. "Are you sure you want to go through with this? From what we can hear from other holdouts-"
"They can't guarantee I will be the same person afterward." You state the truth evenly. "And yet without it how will we survive the winter? There are already Entech thugs looking to take our ability to grow food."
"Entech." The assistant spits (in a fine display for someone who would be making use of the provided methodology to imprint a synthetic engram in your head) but allows you to continue your abortive journey to the impromptu medical lab in the guts of the repurposed resort you call home.
By all expectations you should be sickened by anything that promised to make you a better killer. Despite your firm statement, you still were. Simple things like "need" did not simply wash away a lifetime of experience of violence being the inferior path. But you knew people had done worse for their homes. Were, even, as synthetic armies distilled from the regrettable fantasies of the past were formed, marshaled, and even used. Staying as you were would just get your precious generator "requisitioned" and the mix of vacationers and refugees you called home discarded. At worst, outright killed by a bad Entech install for some fictional reason taken literally.
So you would do as you must to preserve your people. Even if it meant smiling as you went under the knife to get a killer's disposition inserted into your head.
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FACTION SELECT
War has become a nearly lost art to Humanity. Where it is practiced it is kept well out of sight, and performed by a very few who have something to gain from it. Rather than spending the lives, time, and resources to relearn old lessons the means to create new armies has been provided by some mysterious source: take the forms and organizations of past militaries and adopt them for your own use by implanting the knowledge and will to use it into a volunteer. However, it will be some time before you can second guess your implanted engram in order to modify designs. Worse, you start with minimal knowledge in the field of making war and so regardless of what your chosen universe has you are limited by the engineering knowledge of how to make the weapons that are ultimately placed in the hands or other appendages of your manufactured and/or vat grown units.
[ ] Terrans (Starcraft)
[ ] United Nations Space Command (Halo)
[ ] Imperial Guard (WH40k)
[ ] Tytanids (WH40k)
[ ] BattleTech
[ ] Galactic Empire (Star Wars)
[ ] Weird War (Alt-Hist/Dieselpunk WW2)
[ ] Write In
-Can be from almost anything, but as we are focusing on low level ground combat it would behoove you to pick something with an actual and somewhat to very fleshed out army. So no TEC (SoaSE) for example. Similarly, you do not start with access to the technologies that can recreate the look of outright magic.
Of course, the arcology had been a more impressive spectacle back when the dimensional taps still worked. Unlimited power had been put to use all along the sturdy flanks of the megacity in displays of advertisement and culture. With the wellspring gone dry it was left as dead stone once more.
Footsteps sounded behind you. The plush carpets that would have muffled the noise had been stripped out to make bedding once it became clear that the power service interruption was something more serious than a damaged conduit and so you could hear them coming from a good distance away.
"I can still picture that stupid drawing that school stubbornly refused to change for as long as I can remember." The assistant sent to fetch you says wistfully. Like you, they were remembering better times. Perhaps in expectation of another great change in your routine.
"The whale done in red and green crayon?" You ask softly, before taking a fortifying breath and turning for the door.
"Yeah." A hand on the shoulder arrests your motion to let the assistant give you a conflicted look. "Are you sure you want to go through with this? From what we can hear from other holdouts-"
"They can't guarantee I will be the same person afterward." You state the truth evenly. "And yet without it how will we survive the winter? There are already Entech thugs looking to take our ability to grow food."
"Entech." The assistant spits (in a fine display for someone who would be making use of the provided methodology to imprint a synthetic engram in your head) but allows you to continue your abortive journey to the impromptu medical lab in the guts of the repurposed resort you call home.
By all expectations you should be sickened by anything that promised to make you a better killer. Despite your firm statement, you still were. Simple things like "need" did not simply wash away a lifetime of experience of violence being the inferior path. But you knew people had done worse for their homes. Were, even, as synthetic armies distilled from the regrettable fantasies of the past were formed, marshaled, and even used. Staying as you were would just get your precious generator "requisitioned" and the mix of vacationers and refugees you called home discarded. At worst, outright killed by a bad Entech install for some fictional reason taken literally.
So you would do as you must to preserve your people. Even if it meant smiling as you went under the knife to get a killer's disposition inserted into your head.
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FACTION SELECT
War has become a nearly lost art to Humanity. Where it is practiced it is kept well out of sight, and performed by a very few who have something to gain from it. Rather than spending the lives, time, and resources to relearn old lessons the means to create new armies has been provided by some mysterious source: take the forms and organizations of past militaries and adopt them for your own use by implanting the knowledge and will to use it into a volunteer. However, it will be some time before you can second guess your implanted engram in order to modify designs. Worse, you start with minimal knowledge in the field of making war and so regardless of what your chosen universe has you are limited by the engineering knowledge of how to make the weapons that are ultimately placed in the hands or other appendages of your manufactured and/or vat grown units.
[ ] Terrans (Starcraft)
[ ] United Nations Space Command (Halo)
[ ] Imperial Guard (WH40k)
[ ] Tytanids (WH40k)
[ ] BattleTech
[ ] Galactic Empire (Star Wars)
[ ] Weird War (Alt-Hist/Dieselpunk WW2)
[ ] Write In
-Can be from almost anything, but as we are focusing on low level ground combat it would behoove you to pick something with an actual and somewhat to very fleshed out army. So no TEC (SoaSE) for example. Similarly, you do not start with access to the technologies that can recreate the look of outright magic.
Nation Status
Locations:
Gehenna Nature Preserve Refugee and Community Center
-Backup Fusion Core [20 Power per Strategic Turn]
-Capacitor Stack [Stores 6 Power]
-Small Fabrication Bay
Contacts and Relations:
"Motorists" (Brigands)
-Template: Command and Conquer
-Known locations: Near-ish Gehenna
-Known units: 1x Technicals (recruits), 1x Nod Buggies, 1x MCV-alike (mobile workshop?)
Alien Commander (Unknown)
-Template: Starcraft Zerg
-Known locations: Wellspring Growing Plots
Wellspring Cooperative (Uneasy Peace)
-Template: Leviathan series French Republic
-Locations: Wellspring Region
-Known Units: 1x Biter (chimeric wolves), 1x Infantry (Great War infantry)
Polar Battery Exterior Security Force (Hypervigilant Security)
-Template: Battletech
-Locations: South Polar Approach Battery
-Known Units: 1x Mechanized Infantry (recruits)
Gehenna Nature Preserve Refugee and Community Center
-Backup Fusion Core [20 Power per Strategic Turn]
-Capacitor Stack [Stores 6 Power]
-Small Fabrication Bay
Contacts and Relations:
"Motorists" (Brigands)
-Template: Command and Conquer
-Known locations: Near-ish Gehenna
-Known units: 1x Technicals (recruits), 1x Nod Buggies, 1x MCV-alike (mobile workshop?)
Alien Commander (Unknown)
-Template: Starcraft Zerg
-Known locations: Wellspring Growing Plots
Wellspring Cooperative (Uneasy Peace)
-Template: Leviathan series French Republic
-Locations: Wellspring Region
-Known Units: 1x Biter (chimeric wolves), 1x Infantry (Great War infantry)
Polar Battery Exterior Security Force (Hypervigilant Security)
-Template: Battletech
-Locations: South Polar Approach Battery
-Known Units: 1x Mechanized Infantry (recruits)
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Military Status
Gehenna Defense Force
1st Infantry Company (217/220)
-CO: Miyasu Musashi
-Conscript Infantry (decreased quality, doubled quantity)(197/200)
-Field Hospital (allows for casualty trickleback in the field)(20/20)
-Shaken Trained
2nd Infantry Company (102/126)
-CO: Hiyomata Ankira
-Mechanized Infantry (83/100)
-Antitank Platoon (6x 37mm, 2x 50mm, 19/26)
-Confident Green
3rd Infantry Company (100/100)
-CO:
-Motorized Sapper Infantry (demolitions trained and prepared for rapid fortification) (100/100)
-Confident Green
4th Infantry Company (100/100)
-CO:
-Line Infantry (100/100)
-Confident Green
1st Cavalry Company (100/100)
-CO: Catherine Quinzel
-Cavalry (100/100)
-Communications Specialty (increased coherence)
-Confident Green
2nd Cavalry Company (100/100)
-CO:
-Cavalry (100/100)
-CQB Specialty (melee and short ranged weapons are common rather than the exception)
-Confident Green
1st Armored Company (12/12 Medium Armor, 80/80)
-CO: Masaharu Okamura
-Medium Armor (12/12 Medium Armor, 48/48)
-Support Personnel (32/32)
-Confident Green
Kami Squadron
-Great War Scout Biplanes (11/12)
-Support personnel
-Confident Green
Home Guard
Roughly division strength militia formation
1st Infantry Company (217/220)
-CO: Miyasu Musashi
-Conscript Infantry (decreased quality, doubled quantity)(197/200)
-Field Hospital (allows for casualty trickleback in the field)(20/20)
-Shaken Trained
2nd Infantry Company (102/126)
-CO: Hiyomata Ankira
-Mechanized Infantry (83/100)
-Antitank Platoon (6x 37mm, 2x 50mm, 19/26)
-Confident Green
3rd Infantry Company (100/100)
-CO:
-Motorized Sapper Infantry (demolitions trained and prepared for rapid fortification) (100/100)
-Confident Green
4th Infantry Company (100/100)
-CO:
-Line Infantry (100/100)
-Confident Green
1st Cavalry Company (100/100)
-CO: Catherine Quinzel
-Cavalry (100/100)
-Communications Specialty (increased coherence)
-Confident Green
2nd Cavalry Company (100/100)
-CO:
-Cavalry (100/100)
-CQB Specialty (melee and short ranged weapons are common rather than the exception)
-Confident Green
1st Armored Company (12/12 Medium Armor, 80/80)
-CO: Masaharu Okamura
-Medium Armor (12/12 Medium Armor, 48/48)
-Support Personnel (32/32)
-Confident Green
Kami Squadron
-Great War Scout Biplanes (11/12)
-Support personnel
-Confident Green
Home Guard
Roughly division strength militia formation
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Map
North/Close: Artani Central Arcology
Not just heavily urbanized but often one contiguous building only occasionally broken up by internal parks and heavy transit lines.
Points of Interest Unknown
West/Close: Wellspring Agricultural Exploitation Region
Built in the canyon and on the banks of what was once and now is beginning to once more be a major river. Total exploitation of the river is beginning to revert due to damage.
-Bulk Growing Plots: Fields and greenhouses in the Wellspring basin. Known Alien Commander presence. (Secure food source)
Further Points of Interest Unknown
East/Close: Coastal Forest, East Artani Arcology
Gengineered trees of a dozen stripes grow here. Some are dying out due to the climate shifts from the orbital mirror/parasol pairs falling out of alignment but some are adapting with engineered speed. Before the Collapse there was a major shipping port in the region.
Points of Interest Unknown
South/Close: Rural Paradise
On the near side of a number of archipelagos, island chains, and large atolls from the early terraforming lies rolling hills, coastal lowlands, and a growing arid region.
-Before the Collapse this was the location of the Polar Approach Control complex. Possessing a number of mass drivers the battery was most often used for light spacelift rather than ensuring tolls were paid. The installation is still under the control of the original complement who are attempting to treat everything as if nothing was wrong and thus claim the region as under their protection. [BattleTech Entech Commander present]
-The Wreck of the Altherschiffen: A behemoth cargo voidcruiser that fell out of the sky onto the coast. (Energy, high tech parts)
Further Points of Interest Unknown
Not just heavily urbanized but often one contiguous building only occasionally broken up by internal parks and heavy transit lines.
Points of Interest Unknown
West/Close: Wellspring Agricultural Exploitation Region
Built in the canyon and on the banks of what was once and now is beginning to once more be a major river. Total exploitation of the river is beginning to revert due to damage.
-Bulk Growing Plots: Fields and greenhouses in the Wellspring basin. Known Alien Commander presence. (Secure food source)
Further Points of Interest Unknown
East/Close: Coastal Forest, East Artani Arcology
Gengineered trees of a dozen stripes grow here. Some are dying out due to the climate shifts from the orbital mirror/parasol pairs falling out of alignment but some are adapting with engineered speed. Before the Collapse there was a major shipping port in the region.
Points of Interest Unknown
South/Close: Rural Paradise
On the near side of a number of archipelagos, island chains, and large atolls from the early terraforming lies rolling hills, coastal lowlands, and a growing arid region.
-Before the Collapse this was the location of the Polar Approach Control complex. Possessing a number of mass drivers the battery was most often used for light spacelift rather than ensuring tolls were paid. The installation is still under the control of the original complement who are attempting to treat everything as if nothing was wrong and thus claim the region as under their protection. [BattleTech Entech Commander present]
-The Wreck of the Altherschiffen: A behemoth cargo voidcruiser that fell out of the sky onto the coast. (Energy, high tech parts)
Further Points of Interest Unknown
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Kanata.EXE
Programmer
- Location
- Indonesia
Can we use C&C armies?
That would be fine.
Happerry
Bat out of Hell
- Location
- Kanto
[X] Weird War (Alt-Hist/Dieselpunk WW2)
C&C could also be fun though.
I kinda wish I could vote in either Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends or Age of Wonders, but I doubt that there'd be enough support for them. Or maybe X-Com/XCOM?
...Well, a lot of the options would be fun, so I doubt I'll be disappointed.
C&C could also be fun though.
I kinda wish I could vote in either Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends or Age of Wonders, but I doubt that there'd be enough support for them. Or maybe X-Com/XCOM?
...Well, a lot of the options would be fun, so I doubt I'll be disappointed.
[X] Weird War (Alt-Hist/Dieselpunk WW2)
[X] Terrans (Starcraft)
Kanata.EXE
Programmer
- Location
- Indonesia
If we pick weird war, do we get mechs?
Because I'm thinking Iron Harvest.
Because I'm thinking Iron Harvest.
Well, I'll try to give you opportunities for "acquiring" new Stuff, ranging from infantry to vehicles, so this isn't ALL you will have access to, ever.
Iron Harvest, Konflikt 47, that sort of thing yeah.
Kanata.EXE
Programmer
- Location
- Indonesia
[X] Weird War (Alt-Hist/Dieselpunk WW2)
Isekai Grand Strategy II, here we come~
Isekai Grand Strategy II, here we come~
Trent01
A Fountain of Quest Ideas
And the GM of that game is the Co-GM of this one as assistant to DaLintyGuy. So brace for FUN~
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
[X] Imperial Guard (WH40k)
[X] Xenonauts (Xenonauts)
I'd be fine with either of these. Xenonauts get some pretty absurd stuff in the endgame tech trees, without being out of the bounds of real-life physics, depending on what sort of rules this universe operates under.
EDIT: Since there's the possibility for mech combat, just going to add this to the lineup.
[X] BattleTech
[X] Xenonauts (Xenonauts)
I'd be fine with either of these. Xenonauts get some pretty absurd stuff in the endgame tech trees, without being out of the bounds of real-life physics, depending on what sort of rules this universe operates under.
EDIT: Since there's the possibility for mech combat, just going to add this to the lineup.
[X] BattleTech
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- Location
- Earth
[X] Terrans (Starcraft)
[x] United Nations Space Command (Halo)
[x] United Nations Space Command (Halo)
It is what would be considered "soft" science fiction, but without anything like psychic or magical powers. That doesn't mean they can't be faked, for example a Terran Ghost would have a very mean offensive electronic warfare suite to monitor and hack artificial soldiers, but that is all it is.
Vote will be called in... Let's go with thirty seven hours for fairness sake.
[X] Weird War (Alt-Hist/Dieselpunk WW2)
I think this'd be fun, but Battletechs is a close second.
[X] Battletechs
I think this'd be fun, but Battletechs is a close second.
[X] Battletechs
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
[X] Weird War (Alt-Hist/Dieselpunk WW2)
[X] Battletechs
[X] Battletechs
Vote will be called in twelve hours ish (ie when I wake up). Currently leading is Dieselpunk, a fine choice that will spawn a mostly flavor vote for primary country theme (example, Imperial Russia, Soviets, United States, etc) in the next update.
Hmm...sounds good to me.