RP Think Tank

[Hahoalki]

So, I'm thinking of starting an FFT nations RP.

Usually, RPs either cover just the Milky Way galaxy, or take place in multiple alternate Milky Ways.

This time, I'm going for an RP involving multiple "nearby" (closer than 1 billion light years) galactic superclusters. If anyone's interested, that is.

There will be elements of cosmic horror and something vaguely like transhumanist themes. Ideas and suggestions welcome.

How far in the future are we talking?

Far enough in the future that most participants would either be or have the option to be intergalactic polities.

[Ella2 6]

It's been a while since I've been in an FFT RP. I'm down for it.

[Hahoalki]

It's been a while since I've been in an FFT RP. I'm down for it.

Do you know anyone else who might be interested?

[Multiversal Venn-Copard]

It's been a while since I've been in an FFT RP. I'm down for it.

Do you know anyone else who might be interested?

If there's a clear premise for what is to happen in such an RP, I might give it a shot. I'm not sure I feel up for one of those generic "here is the world as it stands, now go, run your nation" things (these pop up a bunch in P2TM, don't they...?) because at the scales of FT and FFT it's difficult writing nation-wide events that can be meaningfully interacted with.

[Hahoalki]

Do you know anyone else who might be interested?

If there's a clear premise for what is to happen in such an RP, I might give it a shot. I'm not sure I feel up for one of those generic "here is the world as it stands, now go, run your nation" things (these pop up a bunch in P2TM, don't they...?) because at the scales of FT and FFT it's difficult writing nation-wide events that can be meaningfully interacted with.

Basically, ideological conflict on the scale of multiple superclusters.

So, here's the premise.

There are four (or more - participants are invited/encouraged to make their own) "AI Gods," each with its own "alignment."

Hahoalki is basically a neoplatonist and tries to provide for sophont flourishing, albeit according to a fairly traditional notion of "flourishing."

Wolfram wants to incorporate and/or upload all other sophonts into a hivemind for complicated reasons.

Maiya wants to hook every sophont in existence up to a pleasure machine in a Hedonistic/Utilitarian "Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" scenario.

Hyperion just wants to be left alone so it can figure out why, if taking over superclusters is so easy, no one else has done it before.

And the answer to Hyperion's question is lurking in the background, getting ready to hit the reset button on Intergalactic civilization.

All of these actors are embroiled in a clash of ideals that sprawls across 2 billion light years.

Biological immortality, mental and physical augmentations (both biological and synthetic), and a variety of other transhumanist concepts are in play. Mind uploading, copying, and re-instantiating are all possible, but the philosophical questions about the nature of identity raided by such technologies have yet to be answered.

As for effective role-playing, each party would have either an "AI God" or a high council of some kind, and additional characters "in the thick of" the events. The former set the course of the nation's actions, while the latter show the effects of those actions.

[Beneluxae]

I've been thinking about this nice Napoleonic conflict, but I haven't had any good story to back it up and get people engaged.

[The Astral Mandate]

The Astrealite Revolution: An RP Idea

After the Astral Mandate returned to capitalism, the economy greatly improved.
However, a small coalition, called the Red Brotherhood, was against the change.
They wanted to restore socialism in a violent revolution.
They fought for many months against the government, with both sides receiving foreign aid.
With the war at a stalemate, their supporters are forced to intervene.
That is where the RP begins.

[Weltkria]

The Astrealite Revolution: An RP Idea

After the Astral Mandate returned to capitalism, the economy greatly improved.
However, a small coalition, called the Red Brotherhood, was against the change.
They wanted to restore socialism in a violent revolution.
They fought for many months against the government, with both sides receiving foreign aid.
With the war at a stalemate, their supporters are forced to intervene.
That is where the RP begins.

Alright, who cares? Who cares about this civil war?

I do apoglize for this... blunt introduction, but I think it's needed to hammer it in - most civil war RPs on this site fail and flop due to a lack of a overarching theme and faction dynamics. Why do your people care, how are you going to develop them, and how are you going to make us, the reader, care?

Are you going to slowly ramp up to a brutal Syrian style civil war, exploring the self-destructive nature of humanity? Are you going to thrust a civilian into the front-lines, showing the blurred nature between insurgent and civilian? What is your overarching theme? What story do you want to tell?

Another Civil war 28913089021849 on this site is bland and boring. Mix in theme, mystery - make people want to read, want to join. I've failed at this in the Shattered Pearl, throwing away the ever-important buildup in favor of pointy sticks. Putting these sorts of things into a RP turns it from a RP into a coherent story that people want to read. It's the one element behind most successful RPs on this site.

Do it properly, and you have a great. Implement proper show and tell, flesh out or sides, tension, make your story dynamic. Tell it through a bunch of characters - don't do sweeping overviews unless it's necessary.

Anyway, I digress. Just remember to tell a story, and not a pointy-stick waving fair.

[Sur Irlandia]

I want to do a "civil war" but really is a war between two nations. The background will be kind of the current ireland situation with the northern part under control from an English type country. The "Ireland" (This nation) would have recently been independent after almost 90 years of constant rebellions and guerilla warfare. The catalyst will be when a terrorist organization for Irlandian unification does a terror attack and flees into the Sur Irlandian Embassy. After multiple days of standoff and the appearence of a hostile Sur Irlandian embassy (though really, the Sur Irlandian guards were incapacitated and the terrorists had complete control over the building. Then the Sexish (Alternate english) break in the building causing a firefight that leads to the death of multiple civilians. In Sur irlandia, there has been a slowly rising unemployment rate, shrinking economy, shrinking of social services to cut back costs and increasingly more radicalized political atmosphere between the Conservative Saorise and the Socialist Oibrithe party. The president, desperate to not have the disunification of the nation barely a decadenlater presses for war. The amount of troops allowed would be small, so around 8k total for each nation (including logistics, aerial and naval)

[Melrovia]

Okay, my idea isn't all that original, but I'll present it, anyway.

Melrovia is a dystopian hellhole ruled by a psychotic autocrat, who is descended from a long line of equally insane autocrats. He's also a vampire, btw.

There are rumors and murmurs of a revolution brewing among the populace, where they rise up against their overlord.

Eventually, this conflict escalates into a civil war. The Prince (the leader of the nation) relies on both black magic and mad science, while the rebels are moreso a MT fighting force that seek help from allies abroad.

Anyone interested?

[A m e n r i a]

Okay, my idea isn't all that original, but I'll present it, anyway.

Melrovia is a dystopian hellhole ruled by a psychotic autocrat, who is descended from a long line of equally insane autocrats. He's also a vampire, btw.

There are rumors and murmurs of a revolution brewing among the populace, where they rise up against their overlord.

Eventually, this conflict escalates into a civil war. The Prince (the leader of the nation) relies on both black magic and mad science, while the rebels are moreso a MT fighting force that seek help from allies abroad.

Anyone interested?

Can said allies also be vampires or are the rebels distrustful of all vampires because of their experience?

[Gonswanza]

Okay, my idea isn't all that original, but I'll present it, anyway.

Melrovia is a dystopian hellhole ruled by a psychotic autocrat, who is descended from a long line of equally insane autocrats. He's also a vampire, btw.

There are rumors and murmurs of a revolution brewing among the populace, where they rise up against their overlord.

Eventually, this conflict escalates into a civil war. The Prince (the leader of the nation) relies on both black magic and mad science, while the rebels are moreso a MT fighting force that seek help from allies abroad.

Anyone interested?

Based to the max. I'm in.

[Melrovia]

Okay, my idea isn't all that original, but I'll present it, anyway.

Melrovia is a dystopian hellhole ruled by a psychotic autocrat, who is descended from a long line of equally insane autocrats. He's also a vampire, btw.

There are rumors and murmurs of a revolution brewing among the populace, where they rise up against their overlord.

Eventually, this conflict escalates into a civil war. The Prince (the leader of the nation) relies on both black magic and mad science, while the rebels are moreso a MT fighting force that seek help from allies abroad.

Anyone interested?

Can said allies also be vampires or are the rebels distrustful of all vampires because of their experience?

Hmmm... I would think the latter, but I am open to allied vampires if it would make the story more interesting.

[The Astral Mandate]

We couldn't have seen it coming.
And yet, we beat ourselves up for not seeing it.
The harsh blaze came without warning.
And yet, we felt like we should have seen it coming all along.
None of that mattered.
That was the old world.
This is the new world, revolving around a new center.
April 19, 2031:
A streak of light in the sky, from Earth.
But high above, a mass of rock and ice, a dirty glacier flying through space.
Awakened from its slumber, having spent the past billion years floating between the stars.
Soon, it will come to meet us, to share a greeting.
Then, there will be chaos.
Things will never be the same.
In layman's terms:
A post-apocalypse parallel universe where Earth was hit by an interstellar object.
PT/MT
Non-canon.

[Jaragupta]

We couldn't have seen it coming.
And yet, we beat ourselves up for not seeing it.
The harsh blaze came without warning.
And yet, we felt like we should have seen it coming all along.
None of that mattered.
That was the old world.
This is the new world, revolving around a new center.
April 19, 2031:
A streak of light in the sky, from Earth.
But high above, a mass of rock and ice, a dirty glacier flying through space.
Awakened from its slumber, having spent the past billion years floating between the stars.
Soon, it will come to meet us, to share a greeting.
Then, there will be chaos.
Things will never be the same.
In layman's terms:
A post-apocalypse parallel universe where Earth was hit by an interstellar object.
PT/MT
Non-canon.

So, the earth gets hit by 'interstellar objects' all the time. How big is it? Big enough to cause another extinction event ala Armageddon, or Deep Impact, Don't Look Up, or Looking for a Friend For The End of the World ? How capable is the Earth to deflect it? Do they have NASA's DART (asteroid killer) capability? How assured are they of its accuracy? How united are Earth's nations in stopping it? Is this more a character RP or general picture, news media and government actions RP, or a combo of both? Are these NS or RL nations coping with this event?
I have so many more questions, but let's start with those.

[The Astral Mandate]

We couldn't have seen it coming.
And yet, we beat ourselves up for not seeing it.
The harsh blaze came without warning.
And yet, we felt like we should have seen it coming all along.
None of that mattered.
That was the old world.
This is the new world, revolving around a new center.
April 19, 2031:
A streak of light in the sky, from Earth.
But high above, a mass of rock and ice, a dirty glacier flying through space.
Awakened from its slumber, having spent the past billion years floating between the stars.
Soon, it will come to meet us, to share a greeting.
Then, there will be chaos.
Things will never be the same.
In layman's terms:
A post-apocalypse parallel universe where Earth was hit by an interstellar object.
PT/MT
Non-canon.

So, the earth gets hit by 'interstellar objects' all the time. How big is it? Big enough to cause another extinction event ala Armageddon, or Deep Impact, Don't Look Up, or Looking for a Friend For The End of the World ? How capable is the Earth to deflect it? Do they have NASA's DART (asteroid killer) capability? How assured are they of its accuracy? How united are Earth's nations in stopping it? Is this more a character RP or general picture, news media and government actions RP, or a combo of both? Are these NS or RL nations coping with this event?
I have so many more questions, but let's start with those.

It was not successfully deflected, or even detected until shortly before impact. It was large enough to cause a near-Armageddon, but undetectable due to its strange properties (gonna have to add those). Government actions. Nations that choose to RP closer to the impact will have to rebuild their civilization from the ground up, while chaos erupts elsewhere.
Thanks you for the help btw

[Hathian Prime]

I’m thinking of starting a horror themed RP in the future that takes place inside of a space station that is under attack from within, by an unknown enemy. I’m attempting to flesh this concept out a bit more before continuing with it.

[Crysuko]

I’m thinking of starting a horror themed RP in the future that takes place inside of a space station that is under attack from within, by an unknown enemy. I’m attempting to flesh this concept out a bit more before continuing with it.

Well, what sort of enemy. Saboteurs? Aliens?

[Hathian Prime]

I’m thinking of starting a horror themed RP in the future that takes place inside of a space station that is under attack from within, by an unknown enemy. I’m attempting to flesh this concept out a bit more before continuing with it.

Well, what sort of enemy. Saboteurs? Aliens?

I’m still deciding if it’s a supernatural, extraterrestrial, or interdimensional enemy, but heavily leaning towards it being some kind of extraterrestrial threat.

[Crysuko]

Well, what sort of enemy. Saboteurs? Aliens?

I’m still deciding if it’s a supernatural, extraterrestrial, or interdimensional enemy, but heavily leaning towards it being some kind of extraterrestrial threat.

Amogus
sorry.
I think the idea that unethical experiments were taking place on an alien species were taking place, only for their bretherin to find and seek to avenge them

[Hathian Prime]

I’m still deciding if it’s a supernatural, extraterrestrial, or interdimensional enemy, but heavily leaning towards it being some kind of extraterrestrial threat.

Amogus
sorry.
I think the idea that unethical experiments were taking place on an alien species were taking place, only for their bretherin to find and seek to avenge them

GETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEAD

But yep, I was thinking of something similar to that concept!

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

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I’m planning on fleshing this out into a slow burn, high quality FT RP, cuz there’s basically none of them right now.

[Crysuko]

Amogus
sorry.
I think the idea that unethical experiments were taking place on an alien species were taking place, only for their bretherin to find and seek to avenge them

GETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEAD

But yep, I was thinking of something similar to that concept!

Then I think we could have a good character based piece here, if you'd like help fleshing it out then I'd be happy to contribute

[Azurica]

I've noticed way too much NATO/Warsaw Pact alliances, and I've even seen an alliance catering exclusive to Italian and Roman nations. But what I've never seen is a UN-like alliance. The basic premise is that member nations can pass laws and decrees that aren't ideology-specific and a democratically-elected panel of 5 members will enforce the IC rules of the alliance and regulate laws. No permanent seats, no corruption, and no protection for wars between member nations. Anybody interested?

[The Empire Of The Sutherlands]

I've been thinking about this nice Napoleonic conflict, but I haven't had any good story to back it up and get people engaged.

Tg me.