Concept title piece. No idea if I'll stick with it.
With a somewhat moderate amount of interest in my idea of ORCA__, I decided to get a worldbuilding thread up to garner both interest and to help me develop a world without me tearing my hair out in the process.
Here's what I have so far:
- The Catastrophe is a mix of natural disasters, climate change, a disease and the spin of the Earth slowing down at a sudden and dramatic rate. The disease isn't named (although I am opened to naming and developing what it is), but has no link to the spin of the Earth, while the natural disasters and climate change are in direct correlation with the spin of the Earth.
- Because of the Catastrophe, much of civilization before it has either been destroyed by floods, earthquakes or fallen into ruin. The geography of Earth is one giant, super-continent in the centre of the Earth, running along the equator, and two gigantic oceans on either side of said super-continent. Along the shores of the continent, it's like a very tropical paradise along the shores of the continent, while the more inland you get, the less life and more hostile the land becomes. There are a couple of pockets of fresh water in the continent which are usually settled by small villages, but other than that it's just miles and miles of dirt.
- ORCA (Omnisentient Reactionary Computing AI), is the terraforming AI developed by humanity prior/during the Catastrophe that was supposed to help revert the effects of the Catastrophe but for a mysterious reason did not work. It is rumoured to have been lost in one of the few Pre-Catastrophe Ruins.
- While we're on the topic of Pre-Catastrophe Ruins, they exist and somewhat resemble what the cities before the Catastrophe look like, except, obviously, they've fallen into ruin, so a lot of the high tech roads and buildings are destroyed or falling apart. As well, they're extremely dangerous since they're inhabited both by criminals, outlaws/bandits and monsters that are the result of the Catastrophe (called demons).
- This will definitely be taking way farther into the future, not far enough where Earth would have left to conduct colonization, but far enough where they are smart enough to develop intelligent, omnisentient Artificial Intelligence that is capable of terraforming. Because of the Catastrophe, this doesn't really matter as humanity is inevitably sent back a few thousand years in terms of technological advancement.
- Goal of characters will be to find ORCA and activate it. Initial player characters will be banded together right off the bat. Players who join in after the start will be thrown into the path of the group so they can also join in as soon as possible. This will, I repeat, be like much of my other RPs and be extremely gritty and somewhat realistic.
Right, onto the wishlist of things I want to build here.
Wishlist:
1. A map (doesn't have to be super detailed, but it has to be usable)
2. Factions & locations on the map (cities, towns, points of interest, ruins, etc.)
3. Backstories/Lore/Recent History
4. Things that will be encountered
5. Geography
6. Help with the plot (it's not 100% fleshed out, and I don't want it simply to be a "go to point A find object X go to point B activate object Y",
even though it looks like it might end up like that).
7. Anything else that may pop up, either from suggestions or from me realizing we forgot an underlying issue.
Right so, where does everyone want to start?
