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Futuristic Neo-London (Background)
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The Rules
This is a semi detailed RP so please try to keep a reasonable post length unless you are in a conversation or combat and need to wait for someone to respond. (1+ paragraph preferable but use discretion)
Please No god modding, You may control NPC's and your characters.
Please keep all OOC chat to the OOC tab otherwise I will end up insane and unable to GM this thread.
This is a semi detailed RP so please try to keep a reasonable post length unless you are in a conversation or combat and need to wait for someone to respond. (1+ paragraph preferable but use discretion)
Please No god modding, You may control NPC's and your characters.
Please keep all OOC chat to the OOC tab otherwise I will end up insane and unable to GM this thread.
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The City "Backstory"
Welcome to Neo London in the year 2100, the sprawling metropolis now covers most of the south east of England spreading all the way to coast in several places. The city consists of large skyscrapers occasionally interspersed with 2Km tall mega towers. The upper levels are beautiful clean glistening towers connected by a large network of tubes and monorails as well as the occasional road. Often the top of the towers have small green spaces on them for people to rest and relax. However as you drop below 800 m the situation changes clean walls give way to dirty patched up metal and sunlight is almost entirely replaced with the dim yellow light of sodium streetlamps and the glaring colours of neon that festoon the various shop fronts. A thick smog hangs around the city as you drop further bellow the 200m mark with the peaceful sounds of the upper levels replaced with the banging and screeching of machinery as monorails go over to rickety elevated rails and roads with a wide variety of vehicles moving along them. As you reach the bottom of the city you reach the Thames, or what was once the river it has long since burst its banks and flooded the area. This area is a collection of floating barges and roads chocking with fumes and dust. The river is clogged with litter, debris and pollution.
Neo-London is technically under the control of the European government however even that has faded to in effectiveness as the mega corporations have taken over control of the entire city. However in the lower city crime runs rampant and most areas are under the control of one gang or the other. The main way between levels are using the lifts present in almost every tower, the exit to these lifts are closely guarded by armed guards and gang members alike. If you happen to have the creds it is possible to use the high speed turbo-lifts in the mega-towers but these are heavily guarded. There are also some other methods to change altitude in the city.
The police no longer exists and law is now enforced by security guards belonging to the corporations these guards enforce brutal justice on the upper levels and barely venture from the factories and lifts. The entire city is covered in cameras while the airspace and roads are patrolled by drones which are authorised to use whatever force is necessary. The main currency of NL is the digital currency of creds however on the lower levels sterling are also exchanged as physical currency. All of the information travels around a giant system called the Netscape, this is a giant network that allows people to find information almost instantly. It can be accessed using implants, a VR system, An augmented reality system or even a manual terminal. The Netscape is also the primary form of entertainment for those who don’t want to defile their bodies by allowing people to freely game in a wide variety of situations including a perfect simulation of 2016 London. Food in the city varies from insanely expensive seafood such as lobster to the GM nutrients sludge that is grown in vast hydroponics facilities on the lower levels. In NeoLondon cybertech is rampant from augments and artificial limbs all the way to genetic modification. Robotics range from large clunky pneumatic systems with simple processing cortex’s all the way the cutting edge of nanotechnology. Vehicle technology ranges from simple engine based vehicles to the next generation of fusion powered aircraft. Fuel is nearly irrelevant since the invention of the molecular assembler.
Welcome to Neo London in the year 2100, the sprawling metropolis now covers most of the south east of England spreading all the way to coast in several places. The city consists of large skyscrapers occasionally interspersed with 2Km tall mega towers. The upper levels are beautiful clean glistening towers connected by a large network of tubes and monorails as well as the occasional road. Often the top of the towers have small green spaces on them for people to rest and relax. However as you drop below 800 m the situation changes clean walls give way to dirty patched up metal and sunlight is almost entirely replaced with the dim yellow light of sodium streetlamps and the glaring colours of neon that festoon the various shop fronts. A thick smog hangs around the city as you drop further bellow the 200m mark with the peaceful sounds of the upper levels replaced with the banging and screeching of machinery as monorails go over to rickety elevated rails and roads with a wide variety of vehicles moving along them. As you reach the bottom of the city you reach the Thames, or what was once the river it has long since burst its banks and flooded the area. This area is a collection of floating barges and roads chocking with fumes and dust. The river is clogged with litter, debris and pollution.
Neo-London is technically under the control of the European government however even that has faded to in effectiveness as the mega corporations have taken over control of the entire city. However in the lower city crime runs rampant and most areas are under the control of one gang or the other. The main way between levels are using the lifts present in almost every tower, the exit to these lifts are closely guarded by armed guards and gang members alike. If you happen to have the creds it is possible to use the high speed turbo-lifts in the mega-towers but these are heavily guarded. There are also some other methods to change altitude in the city.
The police no longer exists and law is now enforced by security guards belonging to the corporations these guards enforce brutal justice on the upper levels and barely venture from the factories and lifts. The entire city is covered in cameras while the airspace and roads are patrolled by drones which are authorised to use whatever force is necessary. The main currency of NL is the digital currency of creds however on the lower levels sterling are also exchanged as physical currency. All of the information travels around a giant system called the Netscape, this is a giant network that allows people to find information almost instantly. It can be accessed using implants, a VR system, An augmented reality system or even a manual terminal. The Netscape is also the primary form of entertainment for those who don’t want to defile their bodies by allowing people to freely game in a wide variety of situations including a perfect simulation of 2016 London. Food in the city varies from insanely expensive seafood such as lobster to the GM nutrients sludge that is grown in vast hydroponics facilities on the lower levels. In NeoLondon cybertech is rampant from augments and artificial limbs all the way to genetic modification. Robotics range from large clunky pneumatic systems with simple processing cortex’s all the way the cutting edge of nanotechnology. Vehicle technology ranges from simple engine based vehicles to the next generation of fusion powered aircraft. Fuel is nearly irrelevant since the invention of the molecular assembler.
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The Corporations
Phoenix Industries: This is the largest and most powerful corporation in NL specialising in property, corporate finance and governmental “services”.
Obsidian Corp: This is the largest supplier of cybernetics and electronic infrastructure in NL controlling a large portion of the clean factories on the upper levels and often some of the saw-bones on the lower levels have been found to have slightly healthier bank accounts after they started stocking obsidian corp tech.
Preeminent Communications: The city of NL is filled with news broadcasts from a wide variety of different channels but if you trace the lines then often you can find a common source of all of the information that they broadcast.
Harbinger: This the company that specialises in genetic engineering and so own most of the food sources in NL.
Epicenter Manufacturing: This corporation is the main producer of all of the normal products that you find in NL and so own most of the factories (sweatshops) on the lower levels.
Dominion Agra: This corporation specialises in protection and provides large portions of the manpower of the security teams of the other corporations. They also act as the heavies and the “police” force in NL.
Stronghold Energy: This corporation is mainly focused on the outskirts of the city and they run all of the reactors and facilities that produce the much needed power in NL.
LM lymer robotics: This corporation provides all of the drones that patrol the skies and most of the robots which work in cleaning and the factories. They also often produce lower grade cybernetic limbs.
Lexicon: No one really knows what Lexicon does however often anyone who voices disagreements with them ends up dead or very quickly changes their mind. Also often high level execs enter their headquarters and within a few days a popular or vocal opponent of that corporation will meet with an “accident”
Phoenix Industries: This is the largest and most powerful corporation in NL specialising in property, corporate finance and governmental “services”.
Obsidian Corp: This is the largest supplier of cybernetics and electronic infrastructure in NL controlling a large portion of the clean factories on the upper levels and often some of the saw-bones on the lower levels have been found to have slightly healthier bank accounts after they started stocking obsidian corp tech.
Preeminent Communications: The city of NL is filled with news broadcasts from a wide variety of different channels but if you trace the lines then often you can find a common source of all of the information that they broadcast.
Harbinger: This the company that specialises in genetic engineering and so own most of the food sources in NL.
Epicenter Manufacturing: This corporation is the main producer of all of the normal products that you find in NL and so own most of the factories (sweatshops) on the lower levels.
Dominion Agra: This corporation specialises in protection and provides large portions of the manpower of the security teams of the other corporations. They also act as the heavies and the “police” force in NL.
Stronghold Energy: This corporation is mainly focused on the outskirts of the city and they run all of the reactors and facilities that produce the much needed power in NL.
LM lymer robotics: This corporation provides all of the drones that patrol the skies and most of the robots which work in cleaning and the factories. They also often produce lower grade cybernetic limbs.
Lexicon: No one really knows what Lexicon does however often anyone who voices disagreements with them ends up dead or very quickly changes their mind. Also often high level execs enter their headquarters and within a few days a popular or vocal opponent of that corporation will meet with an “accident”
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Other Organisations
The Runners: This is a gang that operates in the lower to mid city, It acts as a method to transfer messages and information for those who don't want to use the netscape due to a lack of knowledge or trust. They are run by a man code named Wind.
The Aesir: An organisation of information brokers based out of the Sovreigns fall pub on the lower levels controlled by Odin.
The Lotus: Rebel, dissident movement trying to get power out of the hands of the corporations and back into the hands of the people, very like a terrorist organisation at the moment. Leader unknown
The Runners: This is a gang that operates in the lower to mid city, It acts as a method to transfer messages and information for those who don't want to use the netscape due to a lack of knowledge or trust. They are run by a man code named Wind.
The Aesir: An organisation of information brokers based out of the Sovreigns fall pub on the lower levels controlled by Odin.
The Lotus: Rebel, dissident movement trying to get power out of the hands of the corporations and back into the hands of the people, very like a terrorist organisation at the moment. Leader unknown
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Other (Special Locations)
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Technologies
Advanced Drone Technology:Advanced Cybernetics:
Rudimentary Nanite tech:
Quite advanced genetic engineering:
Combustion Weapons: Standard gunpowder based firearms.
MA (Magnetically accelerated) weapons: (Mostly prototype but starting to appear) Suspend the projectile in a magnetic tube before using the magnetic field to accelerate the projectile along the barrel.
Rail weapons: Place the projectile on rails and then subject it to a magnetic field to accelerate the projectile
Plasma weaponry: Prototype only, use a MA chamber then subject the metal projectile to insane magnetic flux to convert it to plasma and then accelerate it down the barrel.
Energy/Laser Weaponry: Restricted heavily but starting to appear onto the wider market, Offers excellent accuracy but range and power can be limited by atmospheric conditions.
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