Gundam Twilight [Advanced] {OPEN AND ACCEPTING!!!}

[Kind Stranger]

INTRO

The year 2023 hosted the grand opening of a new age - the Space Colonization Age. On that year, the very first space colony was established on the Lunar surface, situated on the famous Tycho Crater. The realized dream of an ambitious trillionair, Arcturus Von Burren, the colony was created in the hopes of becoming the ultimate vacation spot in humankind's history so far, backed by hundreds of investors. It was a circular city, no more than two kilometers across, completely surrounded by a glass dome almost half a mile thick, a tall tower supporting it at the city's center. Surrounding the large towere were buildings that were erected for the city's welfare, such as the mall and the municipal center (where the private city's appointed mayor lived), and on the outskirts of the city was the residential area. Although the materials to construct the city were rather crude, concrete mostly coming from the moon itself with a small percentage of metal to support them, the colony attracted the attention of several wealthy people across the globe, who flooded its reservations. The Tycho Space Colony, as it came to be called, was a big financial success.

Arcturus could never have dreamed of what he had unleashed. Over the years, people by the thousands flew to the moon, and the colony was forced to expand to accomodate the steadily increasing population in space, and so created more domes, connected to each other by underground tunnels. The population of the human race was already well above ten billion, and the those bound to Earth turned to space for a solution of the overcrowding chaos. Through the stressing demands of their citizens, and inspired by the Tycho Space Colony, the leading nations of Earth as well as other private companies planned to launch their own Space Colonization Projects as well, relying heavily on nanotechnology for relatively speedy and cheaper mass constructions of these "space cities", replicas of the Tycho Space Colony design. The Age of Space Colonization became so sensational that the majority of the human race declared it to be an Era. The Space Colonization Era (SCE) had begun. CE 2023 was but a mere shadow of the much more popular SCE 01, and came to be written in history as the "Nonexistant End of the Common Era".

First came the nearer side of the moon (the farther side came later colonies due to the hazard of meteoroids), then Mars, then the Asteroid Belt, and so on. Some even established huge Satellite Colonies, the projects led by the richest man of space, Arcturus Von Burren. He built more and more excessive projects that yielded him even greater profits, and by SCE 05, he had established his very own Space Empire. He even sometimes bought off some governmental colonies that he saw as rich, and asked bearable taxes from the peoples. His empire grew over the years that came, and so did his greed. By SCE 20, with so much technological advancements such as the Mass Driver that traveling from Earth to any of the space colonies was as cassual as boarding on an airplane during the Common Era, Von Burren took sight of the seemingly impossible dream of ruling the entire solar system, to create a space dominion with him as its crowned emperor.

Technological achievements kept on advancing, and so did the art of weaponry, but it was in Von Burren's private armory plants that the tools of destruction came the farthest, coming from hundreds of inventors and thousands of engineers working around the clock. Rumors of what Von Burren was to do with these advanced weaponry spread quickly, and the nations of Earth immediately questioned the man of his purposes for such things. Von Burren simply ignored their complaints, and by SCE 23, he officially announced a full scale war on Earth that began with the nuclear bombings of several of the United Nations' strongest military facilities, both on Earth and in Outer Space. Several weaker nations quickly surrendered and sided with Von Burren and his legion of major companies, while the more powerful nations retaliated. All those under his control who rebelled were quickly put to death, while all those who supported him had to prove their loyalty by sending their sons and daughters into the army, and were promised to have peaceful lives. And thus, World War III began. Who'd expected it was going to be waged against one man and his followers?

 

[Kind Stranger]

PLOT

Warfare became extremely deadly with the use of nuclear warheads, but both sides refrained from using them near civilians, which colonized all over in space. This kept the weapons of mass destruction from being constantly used.

Despite the destruction of several major military bases of the United Nations, some of which were able to intercept the nukes, Arcturus' empire was still well outnumbered, only accounting roughly 19% of the entire human populace. However, the superior arsenal at his disposal proved to be much more than capable of matching with the UN's superior numbers.

People came to be divided into two major sides. Most of the members of the United Nations and all its colonies as well as those that declared independence from Von Burren's rule came to form the Earth Alliance Federation (EAF) while the nations that withdrew from the former UN joined forces with Von Burren, forming the United Earth Dominion (UED). There were also some terrorist groups hiding among the colonies that constantly strived to sabotage UED forces, and so could be well said to be an ally of the EAF.

It took quite some time for the EAF technology to be at par with the UED, but by then, their advantage in numbers and supplies have diminished. Four and a half years had passed since the war began, and many could see that the end was near. It was good news for the UED, but a grave thought for the EAF. As the fourth year wore on, it was well accepted to be the beginning of the twilight years of war.

~MOBILE SUITS~

To have the mobility of a human being, the armor of a tank, and the firepower of a battleship together in one mobile weapon was a really high ambition, but not impossible. At the very core of the UED army were the mobile suits, gigantic humanoid robots that dominated the battlefield when properly used. One mobile suit could take on three heavily armored aircraft units. However, the Operation System (OS) of such a machine was highly complex, and it took a year and a half of rigorous training to master its equipment.

~DIRANIUM~

(It's really the same as gundanium alloy.) Composed of non-ferrous metals and non-metallic elements, Diranium was an immutable material that was highly heat resistant and electrically neutral. The name was derived from Dr. Diran, an egotistic EAF scientist who was head of the research team that made it in SCE 24. However useful it may have seemed, Diranium was extremely hard to make and refine, resulting into it being rare. It can only be constructed at Lagrange points (in space) in zero gravity conditions with the meticulous use of super-heated plasma and nanomachines. Both sides had gained full knowledge of Diranium, and each had its own set of armories for constructing the material.

~Military Brainwash~

Only six months passed since the Third Great War began, and there were already rumors of a military Ku in the UED, speaking of Von Burren's tyrrany and unjust goals. It was then that brainwashing was implemented. The most rebellious of soldiers, and even those with the least suspicious offenses, were sent back to the academy. There, one by one, they were sent into the Chair. Wrists, ankles and the neck strapped down, a large mechanical helmet would be lowered into the head and would attatch several tubes through the skull. A person's memories would be instantly washed away, and replaced with the fake memories of being a soldier all his life, purely loyal to the UED as to be able to sacrifice one's life.

~The Gifted Project~

The brainwashing extension of the academy was made possible by the field of knowledge acquired from a failed experiment on the human psyche 14 years back (SCE 13). It was known as the Gifted Project to the no more than 10 scientists and doctors that worked on a batch of 100 orphaned infants. Their goal was to enhance the human psyche for stronger more accurate brain wave emissions. Mobile suits were just too complicated to maneuver smoothly, and it took a year and a half for a pilot to be able to make it move. So the UED payed for all the costly constructions of these machines that did not live out to their full potential. The Gifted Project called for a new OS, whereas the mobile suit's central processing was directly connected to the human brain. If successful, a machine having the mobility of a human being could truly be achieved, with the pilot actually moving it at will, without having to memorize and rely on intricate buttons and functions. However, as the Project came to a conclusion that enhancing the natural mental abilities of a human being to exceed its limits took its tole on the brain and caussed terrible malfunctions and madness, the Gifted Project was called off and declared a failure. The remaining 67 children that survived all the testings were to be killed, but the doctors, who gained affection for the children, revolted, resulting to a bloody end of the secret facility, situated in an asteroid. It was abandoned ever since.

~Non Reale: The Virtual Reality Joy Helmet~

By the year SCE 26, a Twilight Year of the War, the UED had seized control of as much as 60% of the residential colonies that used to belong to the EAF. These colonies were promised to live peaceful lives if they subjected to UED's authority. To increase the people's wavering trust, the leading companies made sure to grant them with the high-tech civilized equipments that covered the citizens with wonderful experiences that had no trace of chaos, except for the minor conflicts they caussed among themselves. One of these fancy things was the sensational Non Reale Joy Helmet. Far more popular than the customary joy sticks, these helmets provided individual users a 360 virtual reality experience, while the supercomputers sensitive to their brainwaves would calculate their supposed movements and display it on a 3D screen for onlookers. The smoothness of the controls would depend half on the machinery's functionality and half on the minds of the users themselves. Depending on how clear-minded they were, or just how gifted they were mentally, their movements on the digital world would range from rigid and laggy, to smooth and fast. The most popular games hosted by the Non Reale were fighting RPG's (Role Playing Games). The companies even started making tournaments based on these, where two players would go head to head in the virtual world with their selected abilities, and fight based on life points and timers. This was the Non Reale Cup, the biggest gaming tournament in the colonies.

~GUNDAMS!!!!~

Even after the failure of the Gifted Project years back, the dream of gaining the ultimate maneuverability was still seemingly within reach. The hgihger ups speculated that the reason none of the 100 subjects yielded progress was that they weren't mentally gifted, that non of them was special enough as to already have psychic potential in the first place. That was when the Non Reale came in. Only advertised among the colonies formerly sided and ruled by EAF, this popularly encouraged Joy Helmet's purpose, other than bringing more trust to the UED, was to provide an easier search for the truly potentially gifted people. Driven by the popular craze for the games the Non Reale provided, these rare people would show up to be very good at it, and train themselves to dominate in the Non Reale Cup, where joining was free, adding even more interest for people to join. As they'd show up their impressive skills of maneuverability in virtual reality games, all the UED needed to do was abduct these people and brainwash them to pilot their mobile suits. In the end, the UED would take advantage of their captured colonies, and gain psychologically suitable already well-trained pilots for their mobile suits, and not just any mobile suits. These were Diranium Plated! It was all going to come together: the mobile suit technology, the increadible power of diranium, and the ultimate maneuverability that could unleash the machine's true potential. Introducing the...

Gigantic
Univerversally Dominating
Neuro-Sensitive
Diranium Plated
Autonomic
Mobility Suit

Our story begins in one of those former EAF colonies, near the edge of the UED's control in L4 (Lagrange 4), on year SCE 27, the Twilight Year that was supposedly going to bring the end of the Third Great War. Hidden among the colonies was a Diranium Armory that secretly constructed the GUNDAMS. The EAF Intelligence have found frightening evidences of these Diranium plated mobile suits, and were bent on taking them away, so sending a fleet led by their newly constructed Diranium Plated warship, the Kurogane. Now, you could choose to eb an inevitable main character and be one of those skilled Non Reale players that got abducted, and either got brainwashed or escaped while stealing a GUNDAM, or you could already be a UED or EAF soldier, and choose whatever rank you deem fit to give this RP life. Remember, creating a story is our ultimate goal here, not creating too many solitary plots and making it die.

 

[Kind Stranger]

CHARACTER PROFILE SKELETON

There are two types of information I'd like for you to fill up: your character profile and your mechanized counterpart, i. e. the gundam your char's mobile suit, mobile craft (think of them as space ships), or even the gigantic vessels that your RPC takes command of.

CHARACTER PROFILE:

[b]played by:[/b]
[b]Character's full name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b](I'd like for the age to be somewhat aprpriate to be an active influence to the story. A seven-year old could not be a mobile suit pilot, unless he was an android, etc.)
[b]Appearance:[/b](Could be a picture or written detailed description or both.)
[b]Life Story:[/b](If your character has anything special, you should write it here. He or she doesn't have to be all normal - could be an android, or even fully robotic, i. e. a humanoid supercomputer; it's the future after all, but don't get WAY too far about it. However, as a warning, to be part of those getting abducted and intended to be brainwashed, you'd have to be seemingly normal.)
[b]Personality:[/b](I am someone who believes that personality isn't fully described, and could even change, but this is so that we could have the least bit of an idea of how the person is like.)
[b]Anything distinctive?:[/b](It's the spot for *anything else*, and is there if you have something that you'd like to inform everyone as to go along with your own part of the story. It could even be a hobby, like, your character is a blackbelter in karate.)
[b]Mechanized Counterpart:[/b](Just place the name of the mobile suit, craft, or vessel that your character pilots or is the commander of.)

Military Unit Profile (aka Mechanical Counterpart):

They don't have to be only for your character. They could also be ideal units of either the EAF or UED military. Here is the link for a collection of mobile suit pics that Yath has gathered for your image convenience. PM him if you'd like to use one.

[b]Unit name:[/b]
[b]Armor type:[/b](What is it made of? Titanium, stainless steel, Diranium?)
[b]Weaponry System:[/b](These are the *abilites* of the machinery, like canons for a ship, or a lazer sword for a mobile suit. Please number them for clearer distinction. For smaller single-pilot units, I limit these to 7, while I limit these to 10 for vessels occupied by several personel. Hint: For single-pilot units, you could use *attatchments available* for a certain part of the unit counted as one weaponry system, i. e. the shoulders of a mobile suit's shoulder and arms are open for additional canons, etc. This enables the unit to have seemingly more weapons, yet some are not permanent.)
[b]Anything Distinctive?:[/b](Once again, it's the *anything else* spot, where you can freely put something in, like a rose painted on a mobile suit's chest.)
[b]Image[/b](Just like in the character profile, you could put a picture, a detailed description, or both.)

WEAPONS:

It would be gladly appreciated if you'd put some details on some weapons used in the RP, for better clarity and organization among RPers, and for me to give better judgement on the battle system. You could either ut them directly into your weaponry system slot of your Military Unit Profile or place it separately in the case of some other weaponry that no one specifically controls, either a powerful satellite or the artillery of space crafts from either the EAF or UED, in however format you wish to individually put them.

*If there are some stuff about anywhere in this RP that you don't understand, please PM me about them. And profiles will be in my Extension Thread.*  

[Kind Stranger]

Announcements:

Rising and Mobile Horse at your Information Relay Service!

4laugh 8/13/07: Extension Thread has been established! Here is the Link to it.
4laugh 8/13/07: Yath takes office of co-owner. Congratulations!
4laugh 8/13/07: Yath has collected several gundam pics for incoming RPers to choose for their own mechanical counterpart. Feel free to use them! Here is the link for the collection.
4laugh 8/14/07: The Battle System has beeen established and so the Extension Thread is almost set! Please read them!
4laugh 8/14/07: Thanks to Rhm, the Weaponry Database has finally been established, and it's very informative! Feel free to wander about its collection and carefully pick some for your mobile suit or space craft! The Weaponry Database is found in the Extension Thread.
4laugh 8/14/07: The RP is officially open! Let's make a wonderful Gundam RP that follows up with the long and wonderful line of Gundam stories!
4laugh 8/17/07: Thanks to Rhm's services, we have finally established a siggy for the RP! *applause*
4laugh 8/17/07: When I logged on today, the RP was proclaimed advanced! *hurra*
4laugh 8/17/07: Yath is going to take a vacation for a while and will be back on Sunday. We could only carry on if someone takes his character. Each character here is so unique that I am not sure if he could be taken over by another RPer, but we'll see. We hope for your valiant return, Yath!
4laugh 8/18/07: Gah! Just when Yath returns, Khlover333 and I, Kind Stranger, are going to be off on Sunday! I deeply apologize for this.
wahmbulance Important Announcement exclaim I AM SORRY FOR BEING GONE FOR A LONG TIME! *bows LOW* sweatdrop Well, you know how school is. It can be pretty tough. I see that the guild has gone to "sleep mode" and so has the RP. Anyway, as of my return, I am slowly making my progress in reading through ALL the pages I missed on, starting on page 53. As of today, I began reading page 55! 4laugh Whoopee! rofl Wish me luck as I continue to read along. Remember, you have pledged allegiance to the RP, redface so please don't quit it after my being gone for a long time!  

[Kind Stranger]

Heroes and Criminals

This is basically the Blacklist/Whitelist post, where judgements are placed upon the RPers! I don't have to go deeper than that, but needless to say, if you do something significant, whether for the good or for the bad, you'll be placed in the headlines!

Heroes:
1. Kind Stranger (MUAHAHAHAHA!!!)
2. Khlover333 (for being first member and great encouragement.)
3. Yath (for being co-owner and the collection of mobile suits.)
4. Rhm (for the Weaponry Database construction as well as siggy creator! 4laugh )
5. Rukas (for being a siggy creator to help out Rhm.)

Criminals::
... >_> None so far.