The Rahzgriz
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RP thread
The world of FLesh and Metal is both familiar to a lot of people, but there are variations that might make it interesting to some people. It was originally was the premise of a board-based RPG I had going for awhile, but I abandoned it since it became more of a chore than a hobby or whatever. Though I kind of regret entirely leaving it since I put a lot of time into creating that world. Thankfully, my memory still works I still have the gist and details of what it was. Though I do not have the really long background information posts that I originally wrote, I will post a more concise version of them.
Background: This world is sometime in the believable future. Technology has progressed a lot from today, espessially in the robotics area as the title implies. There are still robot lawnmowers and vacuums, but more complex and intelligent robots have been available to the general public for a long time now. Skipping ahead a bit, we encounter an event similar to what happened in The Matrix. No one quite knows the single robot that first stepped forward to demand protection from being scrapped for a better model. It said that it was intelligent and sentient enough to realize that it just might encounter "death" and it wanted to continue living. After being denied, it immediately sparked a movement for rights for machines, at least some. This went on for a little more than a year before violence occured. Lives on both sides were lost in widespread riots around the world.
By this time, most of the countries of the world had come together in a much tighter coalition. These countries have representatives who sit on a council similar to the U.N. There they govern what has now been dubbed the Nation of Earth (Working name). This council decided that the machines were too dangerous at this point, but destroying them was too risky since they did hold a good portion of power with all the technology they can control. So they decided that they could have their rights, but they had to leave Earth. Their reasoning was that if the machines were so intelligent and sentient, then they could start their own society away from Humanity. Mars was to be their home from now on.
They grudgingly left the blue planet for the red planet. For a few years this worked out fine. The Metallobions developed a civilization all their own and equivalents for just about everything the Humans had. But years of exile and a deep grudge against the home that had gotten rid of them had reached a boiling point. With the development of far more advanced technologies, the Metallobion's were more than ready to take on the newly-formed Earth Armada. The resulting war was more horrendous than any could imagine. Such a horror caused both sides to consider a treaty after a little more than a year of fighting.
The treaty provided a relative peace and free trade and travel between the two worlds.
(Sketchy, I know. I need work out the kinks.)
Basic Info
- Metallobions are not allowed to have hidden/concealed weapons without military liscenses.
- Travel between the worlds is much like an international flight today.
- Personal space travel is not very common. It's like owning a plane today.
- Energy weapons are still in their infancy.
- Metallobions are given stock bodies when first created, but then they are allowed to personalize and customize all they want. Their minds are random in a sense, allowing for individuality.
Ask question if you want.
The world of FLesh and Metal is both familiar to a lot of people, but there are variations that might make it interesting to some people. It was originally was the premise of a board-based RPG I had going for awhile, but I abandoned it since it became more of a chore than a hobby or whatever. Though I kind of regret entirely leaving it since I put a lot of time into creating that world. Thankfully, my memory still works I still have the gist and details of what it was. Though I do not have the really long background information posts that I originally wrote, I will post a more concise version of them.
Background: This world is sometime in the believable future. Technology has progressed a lot from today, espessially in the robotics area as the title implies. There are still robot lawnmowers and vacuums, but more complex and intelligent robots have been available to the general public for a long time now. Skipping ahead a bit, we encounter an event similar to what happened in The Matrix. No one quite knows the single robot that first stepped forward to demand protection from being scrapped for a better model. It said that it was intelligent and sentient enough to realize that it just might encounter "death" and it wanted to continue living. After being denied, it immediately sparked a movement for rights for machines, at least some. This went on for a little more than a year before violence occured. Lives on both sides were lost in widespread riots around the world.
By this time, most of the countries of the world had come together in a much tighter coalition. These countries have representatives who sit on a council similar to the U.N. There they govern what has now been dubbed the Nation of Earth (Working name). This council decided that the machines were too dangerous at this point, but destroying them was too risky since they did hold a good portion of power with all the technology they can control. So they decided that they could have their rights, but they had to leave Earth. Their reasoning was that if the machines were so intelligent and sentient, then they could start their own society away from Humanity. Mars was to be their home from now on.
They grudgingly left the blue planet for the red planet. For a few years this worked out fine. The Metallobions developed a civilization all their own and equivalents for just about everything the Humans had. But years of exile and a deep grudge against the home that had gotten rid of them had reached a boiling point. With the development of far more advanced technologies, the Metallobion's were more than ready to take on the newly-formed Earth Armada. The resulting war was more horrendous than any could imagine. Such a horror caused both sides to consider a treaty after a little more than a year of fighting.
The treaty provided a relative peace and free trade and travel between the two worlds.
(Sketchy, I know. I need work out the kinks.)
Basic Info
- Metallobions are not allowed to have hidden/concealed weapons without military liscenses.
- Travel between the worlds is much like an international flight today.
- Personal space travel is not very common. It's like owning a plane today.
- Energy weapons are still in their infancy.
- Metallobions are given stock bodies when first created, but then they are allowed to personalize and customize all they want. Their minds are random in a sense, allowing for individuality.
Ask question if you want.
