Ranix Aurus
Languishing in Progress
Background
In the far future, after giving up on space exploration and focusing on improving life on Earth, advance in mechanical engineering and artificial intelligence had created a perfectly functional system of autonomous, self-replicating machines. The lines between humans and machines blurred further with the perfection of androids and cyborgs, and humanity ascended into a new place with an ever-ready information network, the Interweb which everyone can access anytime through their augmentation. A central processing system, the Brain of Gaia, was made to help govern humanity, and its steady and efficient guidance created an utopia never seen before in Earth's history.
Until one day, things started to change.
The self-replicating nano machines started to form a network of their own, separate from the massive Interweb. This network functioned like a hive mind, with every nano machines a part of its entire processing power, creating a chaotic system without a concrete goal or purpose. The machines had gone mad. Within minutes, nano machines replicated uncontrollably, a condition which scientists viewed akin of human cancer cells. By the time this flaw was discovered, there was no going back.
The nano machines covered the ground, dried water streams, and started to accumulate in the sky. Their congregation was so thick, sunlight couldn't pierce through them. Earth had grown dark, and living beings relying on the sun died out from starvation, if they were lucky enough not to be consumed by the nano machines. It wasn't that humanity did not try to contain the swarm. Weapons of the age failed to exterminate these machines, for if one machine was left behind, thousands would rise anew. The suppression had failed. One by one, humanity fell to the monstrous swarm.
The Neuro Tower
The Brain of Gaia had started a plan before the nano machines could reach it. It had constructed a tower-city above its underground lair, and evacuated as much humans and machines as possible before the nano machines invaded. Before the sky above it could be covered up, the tower generated a strong magnetic field, preventing the nano machines from coming near. But that would only serve to buy time until the congregation grew big enough to breach through the field, and so the Brain employed volunteers to fight off the swarm above the sky. This was the start of the Neuro Tower, the last bastion of humanity after the swarm. The volunteers who fought against the swarm, and their subsequent successors, become known as the Knights of Firmament, the protector of the last patch of sky humanity could claim.
The Present, and the Future
The Interweb had been corrupted by the swarm's collective network, becoming a jumbled mess of incoherent pathways leading to chaos. Those who connected to the network will be consumed by the corruption, although some with strong mind would be able to resist it for a while. Those brave souls had extracted bits of information throughout the ages and after hundreds of years, managed to find a sliver of hope. There might be another settlements out there who managed to fight off the swarm, just like Neuro Tower. They also uncovered another information: seven nightmarish entities formed out of the collective consciousness of the swarm called the Children of Lemuria.
That's a bit too long for an interest check, but oh well.
So basically this is a futuristic roleplay where we can play as either pure humans, cyborgs (humans with machines augmentation), androids (machines with perfect human form mostly indistinguishable from pure humans), and robots (machines not having human form). In this setting, we are members of the knights of firmament, fighting off the nano machines threatening to consume us. Our end goal would be to find the way to shut off the nano machines and restore Earth.
The Children of Lemuria are large machines created by the swarm with seven different form, each monstrous and capable of mass destruction. While the nano machines could only replicate and consume matters bit by bit, these monsters and their offsprings are capable of doing direct attack, and becoming direct threats the knights had to address in their journey.
The roleplay would start with the coming of one Child of Lemuria to Neuro Tower, and as heroes surviving that attack, the Brain give us mission to end the swarm's threat pmce and for all
Inspiration: The Matrix, Blame (comic), This song
In the far future, after giving up on space exploration and focusing on improving life on Earth, advance in mechanical engineering and artificial intelligence had created a perfectly functional system of autonomous, self-replicating machines. The lines between humans and machines blurred further with the perfection of androids and cyborgs, and humanity ascended into a new place with an ever-ready information network, the Interweb which everyone can access anytime through their augmentation. A central processing system, the Brain of Gaia, was made to help govern humanity, and its steady and efficient guidance created an utopia never seen before in Earth's history.
Until one day, things started to change.
The self-replicating nano machines started to form a network of their own, separate from the massive Interweb. This network functioned like a hive mind, with every nano machines a part of its entire processing power, creating a chaotic system without a concrete goal or purpose. The machines had gone mad. Within minutes, nano machines replicated uncontrollably, a condition which scientists viewed akin of human cancer cells. By the time this flaw was discovered, there was no going back.
The nano machines covered the ground, dried water streams, and started to accumulate in the sky. Their congregation was so thick, sunlight couldn't pierce through them. Earth had grown dark, and living beings relying on the sun died out from starvation, if they were lucky enough not to be consumed by the nano machines. It wasn't that humanity did not try to contain the swarm. Weapons of the age failed to exterminate these machines, for if one machine was left behind, thousands would rise anew. The suppression had failed. One by one, humanity fell to the monstrous swarm.
The Neuro Tower
The Brain of Gaia had started a plan before the nano machines could reach it. It had constructed a tower-city above its underground lair, and evacuated as much humans and machines as possible before the nano machines invaded. Before the sky above it could be covered up, the tower generated a strong magnetic field, preventing the nano machines from coming near. But that would only serve to buy time until the congregation grew big enough to breach through the field, and so the Brain employed volunteers to fight off the swarm above the sky. This was the start of the Neuro Tower, the last bastion of humanity after the swarm. The volunteers who fought against the swarm, and their subsequent successors, become known as the Knights of Firmament, the protector of the last patch of sky humanity could claim.
The Present, and the Future
The Interweb had been corrupted by the swarm's collective network, becoming a jumbled mess of incoherent pathways leading to chaos. Those who connected to the network will be consumed by the corruption, although some with strong mind would be able to resist it for a while. Those brave souls had extracted bits of information throughout the ages and after hundreds of years, managed to find a sliver of hope. There might be another settlements out there who managed to fight off the swarm, just like Neuro Tower. They also uncovered another information: seven nightmarish entities formed out of the collective consciousness of the swarm called the Children of Lemuria.
That's a bit too long for an interest check, but oh well.
So basically this is a futuristic roleplay where we can play as either pure humans, cyborgs (humans with machines augmentation), androids (machines with perfect human form mostly indistinguishable from pure humans), and robots (machines not having human form). In this setting, we are members of the knights of firmament, fighting off the nano machines threatening to consume us. Our end goal would be to find the way to shut off the nano machines and restore Earth.
The Children of Lemuria are large machines created by the swarm with seven different form, each monstrous and capable of mass destruction. While the nano machines could only replicate and consume matters bit by bit, these monsters and their offsprings are capable of doing direct attack, and becoming direct threats the knights had to address in their journey.
The roleplay would start with the coming of one Child of Lemuria to Neuro Tower, and as heroes surviving that attack, the Brain give us mission to end the swarm's threat pmce and for all
Inspiration: The Matrix, Blame (comic), This song
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