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A New Frontier: Genesis
Topic Started: April 22, 2011, 8:49 pm (365 Views)
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It is the year 2100 AD. Humanity has reached the brink of its capacity to sustain life, let alone human life. While advances in technology have been made, they have come at a terrible price. Over the last century humanity has made huge strides in robotics, genetics, fusion technology, and many other areas of science, but the uses of these technologies have thus far been less than noble. Harnessing the powers these technologies represent, humans have waged a self-destructive war that has lasted for nearly half a century. Before the war, earth was being decimated by overpopulation, starvation, and the use of non-green energies. Combined with the wide-scale waste and devastation the war has left, the leaders of humanity have realized all too late that they have doomed the entire planet to an early grave.

All life as we know it is about to come to a long and terrible end.

Calling for a universal ceasefire, the factions of the world have formed together to create the Genesis Project. Realizing the futility of trying to restore the planet, the greatest minds and leaders of the human race have spent the last quarter of a decade working on this project. In the aftershocks of war and in the throes of global devastation, the members of the Genesis Project have set out to create generation ships that will be launched into deep space. Those staying on earth have realized their doom and thus have set out upon the project with the goal of not finding a new planet to move to, but for finding a new planet which can sustain the life they send to it.

Earth is at an end. The world’s population will die out within the coming years. A new frontier is needed for those brave enough to volunteer to find it.

So at the end of the century, in the twilight of all that is earth, the Genesis Project is finally sent off. They set out on what is quite possibly the death of them all, to find a new home for humanity, to explore a way to save humans from themselves, and to make sure that life as we know it will not perish from the universe.


The Rules


We’ll be starting around the time that the planet is discovered. This takes place roughly 3 generations into the ship’s voyage, so while you can play someone from the 1st generation they’ll probably be very old. 2nd generation is now entering their 30’s to 50’s, and the 3rd is the youngest with 20’s and possibly under. All crew have been placed in cryosleep, and the current awakened crew of the ship is the 2nd generation. 3rd generation is set to be awakened soon, and 1st generation is set to die off and be recycled. There are 7 more generations on board that have yet to be awakened, and should the crew find a habitable planet, they will all be awakened.

All characters have a basic scientific and engineering knowledge to survive on their own, and in addition to that they have their own personal backstories that can flavor their known skills. The Genesis Project staff members were pretty lenient with entrants in terms of qualifications, but criminals have not been accepted and the crew has been tested psychologically prior so that they are known to be relatively stable. This does not mean everyone’s a goody two shoes, however. You never know what extreme situations will do to a person or how well someone’s hidden something about them. All this means is that the crew have passed psychological screenings and are not former criminals.

Within those small limitations you are free to make any character of any background. If you think something is too far-fetched or have any questions, just ask. But it is the future after all, so you’re pretty much free to whatever you want. Questions about what sort of technology is available can be posted in the OOC.

This RP will be plot heavy and while it will have a lot of action, there will also be walls of text. This is encouraged, but your posts also don't need to be long to be good. This is just a simple warning, so as the old saying goes, that if you can't take the exposition, stay out of the plot.

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[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age and Generation:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Background:[/b]
[b]Special Skills (check to make sure appropriate):[/b]
[b]Anything Else:[/b]


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First. Again.

Oh and Juice does picture type matter? Anime or Realistic, Other?
Edited by Vanity&Ecstasy, April 22, 2011, 9:25 pm.
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Picture type doesn't matter. It's just gotta be fitting with the futuristic theme or be neutral enough to not matter.
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Name:Gabriel Princeton (Prefers Gabe or Prince)

Age and Generation:27 Years Old, Third Generation

Gender:Male

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Personality:Gabriel is quite neutral in everything, his tone, demeanor, opinions. Though he isn’t neutral because he wants to be, because of the high stress that comes with being a closed space Psychologist he has to become like a machine so that he won’t collapse under the pressure like so many before him have. After years of having an emotionless attitude towards everything at his job Gabriel managed to carry that neutrality over to his personal life causing many people to leave him because of the huge difference in who he had become and who he was before. While carrying a monotonous tone most of the time when things do excite or frighten him it’s quite easy to tell from his body language and a strange difference in pitch in his voice.
Background:Raised in a technologically behind city Gabriel was never really great at using all the newest and best things around like everyone else. If one were to describe him on the chain of electronic users he would rank right up there with senior citizens. While not fluent in things like how to create an operating system or video game from scratch Gabriel does know how to assemble and disassemble various electronics that were discarded at a local charity.

Being so far behind others there was really no chance for Gabriel to become an engineer or scientist but his vast understanding of the troubles and emotional traumas people go through made him a viable candidate for becoming a psychologist. After six years of higher education Gabriel was released as a fully capable psychologist. After only a year of work everything had gone to hell and no one really came to their appointments any more since survival was the only thing on people’s minds at the time. When Project Genesis was announced Gabriel knew that this was his chance to try and make a name for himself despite how small of a part he might play in the overall picture. If he were going to be put down in the history books it would be as the man that held the sanity of his fellow crew members together, at least if he managed to live long enough for the mission to be completed in his life time. Only a few weeks later did he put in his ticket to be part of Project Genesis and receive a reply accepting him as the professional psychologist for what was the Third Generation, whatever that meant.

Upon arriving to the ship Gabriel was given a special suit that all other members wore and placed in a tube. The tube was a special cryogenic chamber that isolated time for its inhabitants and released them after a set period of time. While unsure of how long it might take for him to awaken the fear of never waking up again was quickly overridden with his excitement for becoming part of something amazing.

Special Skills (check to make sure appropriate):Psychology.

Anything Else:While not very skilled in Engineering Gabriel knows how to repair most simple devices. He also has some skill sword fighting from the time he spent playing Knights of Camelot up through his teenage years.
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All finished. I'd assume being a psychologist would be fine ~-~

Oh and here's what Kira should look like if you do that Death Note RP.
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Accepted on both accounts. :3
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Shameless bump.
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Name: David Hales
Age and Generation: 16 Generation 3
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Personality: : friendly, bright, and kind he's willing to trust anyone until they're proved totally evil. His kindness can get him into bad situations sometimes. David is no peace monger, but he doesn't exactly love the sight of blood.
Background: David is a general amnesiac, and has random flashes of memory. Despite this, he remains reasonably sane. He works well with machines, and assumes this is from before he got amnesia. He has a recurring memory of a woman with blonde hair, presumably his mother. 2 years ago, he stumbled into a war shelter with no memory of anything but his first name. He created his last name.
Special Skills : Works fantastically well with machines.
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