The Jeffinator
Captain Manbeard
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My idea for this is to take a Star Wars-type setting, but instead the galaxy is populated with planets based on the various Final Fantasy game worlds and locations from other JRPGs as well. The central theme tying them together, though, would be Final Fantasy VII.
Midgar is a huge space station orbiting the nearly dead world Terra IV, the fourth planet in the Terra star system. It was once lush and green, but is now mostly a wasteland with the only life deep underground. The citizens of Midgar have stripped the world of it's natural resources and continue to send down crews to sap everything it has to offer. They also do this with other mining and scavenging colonies in multiple systems. They use these resources to help build the Shinra-dominated cybertech industry.
Shinra Technologies, Inc. funded and constructed the Midgar Orbital Station, which has multiple levels. The top deck -- the Promenade -- is the only one with a "sky," created using a large holographic dome over the deck and computer controlled weather effects. There are also intellicrops, gardens, streams, fountains, and other artificial organisms making the Promenade seem like paradise. There is even lake at one end with beaches and hotels lining it.
The station itself is split into seven Sectors, and the walls separating these exist through all levels of the station except for the Promenade at the top. This top deck is only split into four sections -- in the center is the Presidential District, containing Shinra Tower and the offices of top officials. Directly adjacent to this is the Market District, the main commercial area for merchants and traders. Past the Presidential District is the Emerald Gardens District, where the rich and powerful live. This area is full of mansions and private parks. Many of the station's leaders live in the Gardens and then commute to work at Shinra Tower via the luxury Diamond Shuttle Service. And beyond the Market is the Recreation District, where the lake, beaches, hotels, casinos, nightclubs, and a variety of other social attractions lie.
Right below the Promenade is Deck 2, which is reserved for public transit by means of a subway-like system split into two main services -- Diamond Shuttle for the elite and Silver Shuttle for the commoners. These services have stations spread out that use lifts to get both to the Promenade and the lower decks.
Deck 3 is used for maintenance and industrial purposes and also connect to the cargo holds and hangar bays for traffic to and from the station. Deck 4 is primarily for water treatment and life support systems. Deck 5 is considered the Slums, used mostly by people who can't afford to live in the higher decks. Because it's below the water and waste treatment level, it can smell quite foul.
Whatever your reason for being here, our story starts in Midgar. The station is policed by the Red Wardens, which are basically Sith Warriors. They wear black uniforms and wield red lightsabers. Shinra also deploys them across the galaxy wherever they have worlds, and Midgar is sort of the de facto galactic capital. But there is a rebel movement that is whispered among the people, an organization called Avalanche. They wield multi-colored lightsabers in defiance of Shinra. Our characters can either already be agents of Avalanche or we get drawn in during a protest on the Promenade and end up in adventures across the galaxy.
Midgar is a huge space station orbiting the nearly dead world Terra IV, the fourth planet in the Terra star system. It was once lush and green, but is now mostly a wasteland with the only life deep underground. The citizens of Midgar have stripped the world of it's natural resources and continue to send down crews to sap everything it has to offer. They also do this with other mining and scavenging colonies in multiple systems. They use these resources to help build the Shinra-dominated cybertech industry.
Shinra Technologies, Inc. funded and constructed the Midgar Orbital Station, which has multiple levels. The top deck -- the Promenade -- is the only one with a "sky," created using a large holographic dome over the deck and computer controlled weather effects. There are also intellicrops, gardens, streams, fountains, and other artificial organisms making the Promenade seem like paradise. There is even lake at one end with beaches and hotels lining it.
The station itself is split into seven Sectors, and the walls separating these exist through all levels of the station except for the Promenade at the top. This top deck is only split into four sections -- in the center is the Presidential District, containing Shinra Tower and the offices of top officials. Directly adjacent to this is the Market District, the main commercial area for merchants and traders. Past the Presidential District is the Emerald Gardens District, where the rich and powerful live. This area is full of mansions and private parks. Many of the station's leaders live in the Gardens and then commute to work at Shinra Tower via the luxury Diamond Shuttle Service. And beyond the Market is the Recreation District, where the lake, beaches, hotels, casinos, nightclubs, and a variety of other social attractions lie.
Right below the Promenade is Deck 2, which is reserved for public transit by means of a subway-like system split into two main services -- Diamond Shuttle for the elite and Silver Shuttle for the commoners. These services have stations spread out that use lifts to get both to the Promenade and the lower decks.
Deck 3 is used for maintenance and industrial purposes and also connect to the cargo holds and hangar bays for traffic to and from the station. Deck 4 is primarily for water treatment and life support systems. Deck 5 is considered the Slums, used mostly by people who can't afford to live in the higher decks. Because it's below the water and waste treatment level, it can smell quite foul.
Whatever your reason for being here, our story starts in Midgar. The station is policed by the Red Wardens, which are basically Sith Warriors. They wear black uniforms and wield red lightsabers. Shinra also deploys them across the galaxy wherever they have worlds, and Midgar is sort of the de facto galactic capital. But there is a rebel movement that is whispered among the people, an organization called Avalanche. They wield multi-colored lightsabers in defiance of Shinra. Our characters can either already be agents of Avalanche or we get drawn in during a protest on the Promenade and end up in adventures across the galaxy.
