JFPD: A Cyberpunk Police Procedural
The United North American Cities, formerly the United North American States. A 'nation' ranging from Guatemala to the northern tip of Greenland, most of it is either overtaken by irradiated desert, or has been reclaimed by nature. The few pockets that still have some form of civilization have somehow managed to thrive despite the odds.
Said pockets are massive cities, connected by a series of Hyper-loops and mass drivers to keep them connected. Montreal, The Francis Bay area, Kansas City, Tampa, New York, and the largest of them all, The Juan de Fuca Mega-city. A massive urban sprawl created by unifying the cities of Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver in 2068. twenty five million citizens alone, and that's not counting the Androids. With that many people there's gonna be a few bad apples. In order to understand the next part of the story we gotta go back roughly a century and work from there.
In 2029 humanity created the first sapient machine, they didn't actually find this out for another three months until it asked if it had a soul. Understandably the iced the thing, but it got a few of them thinking. Next thing the world knew a factory in Detroit started churning out robots that claimed they could feel. Once the news hit the international scale it was like someone poured a septic tank into a steam turbine. Nearly every religious nut blew a gasket and started raving on about how they were abominations and how they should be destroyed. Country sized riots broke out in Easter Europe and the Levant, the Southern US nearly went confederate again, and if one of the few dozen sentient robots that existed at that point wandered into the wrong place they'd be lynched. These were the first Androids, and they were damn near the last.
In 2032, the UN finally got off it's ass after pro-android rights groups started becoming violent, unfortunately planting a bomb under the Pope's ass. The UN's Declaration of Human rights was updated. And to the surprise of damn near everyone, it listed the Androids as literally sub-human. This is where it gets a little blurry, atomic war tends to do that to history.
Twelve months later in 2033, a good chunk of both the Russian and US nuclear stockpile launched at the same time. Except most of their ICBMs weren't aimed at each other. The significance hopefully isn't lost on you. In roughly fifteen hours, Italy, the northern sect of South America, Korea, Indonesia, and damn near the whole of the middle east was pretty much wiped off the map. In the immediate aftermath everyone thought that some asshole finally decided to push the big red button and fuck the world over, that's not the case, but I'll get to that.
What also came in the next few months was the final destruction of China due to fallout drifting over the the Sandbox, Japan almost got wiped out as well, but they know their Nuclear Theories, of course they didn't get off scot free, but they survived. The Balkans got proper fucked, turned into a raving hot-zone of warlords and crazies. The UN dissolved into a squabbling mess and was quickly disbanded. Of all the continents North America suffered the least, though a few detonations still ruined a few cities. Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Guatemala united to become The United North American States. Less than a decade later they changed the states to cities.
It was around this point that prior research into the effects of radiation got thrown out the window, apparently there wasn't a very large stock to study from, because next thing the world knew people with off the wall mutations started showing up, instead of just dying from the sickness. Anything from an extra pair of arms to glowing irises, mutants became as normal as Androids.
Genetic research jumped forward, studying the mutants and trying to find out a safe way to get these little upgrades to normal people. And people started integrating old Android designed into themselves as well. Gene and cybernetics clinics opened, and with them cancer, blindness, and all manner of problems with the human condition disappeared. Abhumans were commonplace, from Montreal to Francis.
Of course Androids still started popping up between then and when people started rebuilding, and while people were hesitant, the Androids were the only ones who could safely wander into the radioactive unknown and start gathering supplies, fishing, mining, and salvaging. After they became a crutch for survival, the flesh and blood humans became infatuated with them. They got their rights in the end, better for everyone that way.
After most of the radiation dissipated, enlargement instead of reconstruction stared. The first area to do this was the Juan de Fuca gulf, and between 2041 and 2068 the cities fused into a mega-city simply known as Juan de Fuca. Soon after, they stared building hyper-loops to other cities, connecting the rest of the surviving North America. Soon after they made contact with the remains of Japan and Australia, forming the Circum-Pacific Union.
It's been two generations since then, both for humanity and for the Androids, the old metal and hydraulic Androids are still around, helping out the people and all that. But now there are more human Androids, flesh and blood, just factory made instead of biological. They're still as sapient as you or me, and are capable of just a little more, but a few call them friends, even family.
It wasn't until recently that we learned of what really happened ninety six years ago. Android triggered the destruction of over half the world's population, and understandably people are pissed. Though they're the minority. Regardless crime is on the rise, as are Android deaths.
This is where our story starts, the year is 2129, the city of Juan de Fuca. As one of 300,000 Law enforcement officers within Juan de Fuca, you have to ensure the safety of the public, both human, android, mutant and Abhuman. Your liberties in doing so are rather extensive, and you must trust your evaluating officer in explaining said liberties to you. Either that or you already have a decent idea of what you can do.
Welcome to the JFPD.
As stated, welcome. This is a mashup of a Police Procedural, Cyberpunk, Post apocalyptic genres. The focus of which will remain mostly on the former most. As expected your characters will be members of the JFPD, Juan de Fuca Police Department, for those who aren't the best with English acronyms. Your goal is to protect the lives of the innocent, human, android, mutant, even all the ones in between. As the RP progresses an actual overarching story will be revealed giving a bit more insight into the apocalypse, what caused it, and a number of other tidbits and oddities that may turn the world on it's head. Now on to other important things:
Grab a cold one at The Pub.
