Well, we still get that benefit from a Mars with small underground colonies. You get a culture of people that are used to living underground, going up to the surface in suits only when they need to. We can throw in a culture of hardy miners too.
That way we get the benefit of a different culture without chipping away at the sense in sending people to the middle of nowhere on a one-way trip.
Even a Terraformed Mars could fit into this situation fairly well. You just have to consider humans.
Mars is a drain off. It is relatively safe, relatively near, but kind of dry. For people who want to play colonist while keeping in contact with their old lives will be comfortable going to there.
But Invictus is the great human challenge. It is the chance for an interstellar Empire, pushed by scientists and philosophers because it gives the human species immortality. It might also be pushed by our Dystopian government because it means permanently getting rid of some people. We would also see the government playing tricks in order to get people to go, whether that be lying or Shanghai-ing
The issue with the underground thing is that underground is likely to be the way moon colonies are handled. This is become you cannot really terraform the moon - its gravity is too low to permanently keep an atmosphere. Having Mars be the exact same thing would be sort of redundant. Ideally, Mars would have reached the point where agriculture is possible, which would open up a sort of "Corn rush" as people start taking up land claims in order to make it big on selling agricultural goods. After all, an overpopulated earth would pay heavily for food.
Need, although it'll probably make this another sci-fi space horror RP.
Does this mean if something infects the invertebrate itself, it can jump species to humans?
If it suited us, we could do that, though that would be a dramatic change. What I was thinking was something more limited. It could very roughly mimic humans, but its inability to mock the details would make it look more like someone quickly dipped a doll in tar.
Wouldn't this species have trouble communicating if there's other flora floating around, as well as dense winds blowing them away?
That is sort of like saying "Wouldn't humans have trouble communicating if there is other humans making noise around them?" They would presumably have evolved ways to understand, and utilize, subtleties in their 'Speech'.
As for dense winds, I would presume that the floating floral would have evolved ways to balance themselves in the air in the same way fish balance themselves in the sea. Some form of inbuilt propulsion perhaps, using the bladders of lighter-then-oxygen gasses they would need to float as a way to direct themselves against a gust.
I'm actually not sure where we decided to go with this. Originally the concept was that Mars proved too costly to terraform and it took too long.
A terraformed Mars kind of chips away at the whole point of sending colonists ridiculously far in search of a habitable planet. There'd be no reason to spend further resources, time and possibly lives on such a project if Mars was terraformed and perfectly capable of accommodating people from Earth.
This will have to be something to discuss in a group chat. But personally I think that, if there are colonies on Mars, they'd have to be small underground colonies. Those would be less costly than terraforming a planet and they would obviously not take as long. And, being small colonies, there's still reason to want to venture into space in search of habitable planets to dump more people in. Otherwise, like I said, there wouldn't be much of a point sending people out to the middle of nowhere to find a habitable planet.
When it was first presented to me, I was under the impression that the booming popularity and functionality of martian colonization was part of the plot.
As I heard it, the first set of Colonists to Invictus were sent because it was taking too long to terraform Mars. Once mars was terraformed, the world governments sort of let Invictus slide and sent the second mission (and later third) as an after thought.
The biggest positive of having Mars colonized is that it adds color to the story. That is one of the things we should strive for. By having Mars as a culture with experiences unique from Earthlings and Moon Men, we gain the potential for unique characters.
Iran has likely been rolled into the world government, which would mean deposing the Ayatollah and making it where the power plants issue is irrelevant.
Lets just take the system in Opels last post and accept it. It is visual enough.
Also, imma write this down so we have it. Basically, my understanding of how Earth and its local colonies are set up (or at least were when we left them)
The world is unified economically and the soveirn governments we know and love are significantly less powerful. The UN acts much like the EU, with laws in place and free-trade largely established. There are still problem areas of the world where terrorism and insurgency are common. Still, the world population has boomed.
Terraforming technology, as was mentioned before, takes too long. Colonists are sent to the moon, but moon colonies prove expensive as they are completely reliant on supplies from earth, making the growth of lunar colonies slow. Luckily, a planet capable of supporting human life is found in a nearby star system and the ability to travel near the speed of light exists. Colonists are sent in numbers, and of course a second wave is sent. After a while, terraformation on Mars improves and Mars becomes habitable. At the time that our characters leave Earth, Mars has reached the point that it can sustain human life naturally and their is an immigration boom. The moon is largely a series of penal colonies and slums for people who had no other choice. There are space stations orbiting several other planets in order to aid in resource extraction, and asteroid mining is a thing. Most work is automated, so people on Earth aren't required to work, but their guaranteed incomes are low and many people seek the few remaining jobs the require humans as a way to give their life meaning, and to line their pocket books. Still, the number of people who are permanently unemployed and bordering poverty have caused a large spike in both crime and listlessness. This is a driving factor in people wanting to be space colonists, as it allows them to do something besides rot in their government provided houses.
The traditional cultures of Earth still exist, but they are somewhat faded and intermingled. The Moon and Mars have much more rough, frontier cultures, breeding tough people.
Possible ideas for an alien.
-invertebrate that is capable of shape-shifting in a vague way, which means it cannot necessarily impersonate a human, but it can grow an arm, tentacle, leg, etc, wherever it needs it.
-Intelligent species that evolved from the flora rather then the fauna, meaning it has some of those floating properties I mentioned earlier. Speaks via "scent" transmitted by pollen rather then sound.
-If weird is too distracting, lizard people work too. Just want to make sure they aren't too simple. Thick hided snake people? Lizard dudes who use their tails rather then their limbs to manipulate objects?
To further the alien nature, we could also make it where there are multiple intelligent species on the planet.
Regarding the map...
-I still stick by the equator being ringed by a massive salt desert. Nothing grows, nothing lives, and it separates the planet into two distinct eco systems.
-Hows about one of those proper extraterrestrial volcanoes that are unreasonably humongous? Sort of like the Olympus Mons. Could have religious significance to the locals of course, it would look awesome as hell from ground level.
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Job/Place in Society: Medic, non-doctoral.
Age: 26
Looks: Pacific Islander. Tall, overweight, imposing. Wears medical white jumpsuit with top pealed to waste, revealing undershirt.
Personality Traits: Quiet, nice, apprehensive but adaptable. Does not speak a whole lot, and comes off somewhat aloof to outsiders
Important Biographical Facts: From Wahiawa, Hawaii. Island flooded, leaving old Honolulu below sea level. Rest to be RPed
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Name: Dr. Nishant Kumar
Creator: Vilageidiotx
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Age: 98
Looks: Thin, flat figured, olive skinned, hair in white dreadlocks. Wears medical white jumpsuit and labcoat much of the time.
Personality Traits: Placid, content. Somewhat pompous with exaggerated gentlemanly speech.
Important Biographical Facts: From India, served as an expert Cardiologist until age caused his career to stagnate. He volunteered, and was not coerced, into joining the Olympus mission.
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Name: Pandora "Dora" Janson
Creator: Vilageidiotx
Restrictions for Use: Don't kill, maim, or explore in great detail without permission of Vilageidiotx
Job/Place in Society: Medic, non Doctoral.
Age: 20
Looks: Short, Brown hair often kept in a bun. Youthful.
Personality Traits: Bubbly, Know-it-all, talkative. Had a natural talent for surgery.
Important Biographical Facts: From Eau-Claire, Wisconsin. Middle Class upbringing but bad parents. Rest to be RPed.
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Name: Yipp-Dawg
Creator: Vilageidiotx
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Job/Place in Society: Dog
Age: 6
Looks: Small, mostly white with brown dapples in fur. Terrier like appearance. Broad nose.
Personality Traits: Barks a lot, but is not aggressive.
Important Biographical Facts: From Eau-Claire, Wisconsin. Is a dog.
For me, 99 was all about Star Wars. Friends had toy lightsabers, but I couldn't afford that so my father made me several of his own versions out of PVC pipe and reflective paint. Friends ended up preferring to borrow those because you could hit harder with them then you could with the weak plastic stuff wal-mart sold., so they would borrow some.
We also had acreage at the time, so I got to march around in the woods.
I was seven. I had no friends, which oddly enough didn't bother me for the next three years. 2007: The RP Where nobody cares about life and its lemons.
So many seven year olds.
I was seven back in 1997. In those days, I didn't know what an internet was.
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Even a Terraformed Mars could fit into this situation fairly well. You just have to consider humans.
Mars is a drain off. It is relatively safe, relatively near, but kind of dry. For people who want to play colonist while keeping in contact with their old lives will be comfortable going to there.
But Invictus is the great human challenge. It is the chance for an interstellar Empire, pushed by scientists and philosophers because it gives the human species immortality. It might also be pushed by our Dystopian government because it means permanently getting rid of some people. We would also see the government playing tricks in order to get people to go, whether that be lying or Shanghai-ing
The issue with the underground thing is that underground is likely to be the way moon colonies are handled. This is become you cannot really terraform the moon - its gravity is too low to permanently keep an atmosphere. Having Mars be the exact same thing would be sort of redundant. Ideally, Mars would have reached the point where agriculture is possible, which would open up a sort of "Corn rush" as people start taking up land claims in order to make it big on selling agricultural goods. After all, an overpopulated earth would pay heavily for food.
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You had me at "Men"
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If it suited us, we could do that, though that would be a dramatic change. What I was thinking was something more limited. It could very roughly mimic humans, but its inability to mock the details would make it look more like someone quickly dipped a doll in tar.
That is sort of like saying "Wouldn't humans have trouble communicating if there is other humans making noise around them?" They would presumably have evolved ways to understand, and utilize, subtleties in their 'Speech'.
As for dense winds, I would presume that the floating floral would have evolved ways to balance themselves in the air in the same way fish balance themselves in the sea. Some form of inbuilt propulsion perhaps, using the bladders of lighter-then-oxygen gasses they would need to float as a way to direct themselves against a gust.
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When it was first presented to me, I was under the impression that the booming popularity and functionality of martian colonization was part of the plot.
As I heard it, the first set of Colonists to Invictus were sent because it was taking too long to terraform Mars. Once mars was terraformed, the world governments sort of let Invictus slide and sent the second mission (and later third) as an after thought.
The biggest positive of having Mars colonized is that it adds color to the story. That is one of the things we should strive for. By having Mars as a culture with experiences unique from Earthlings and Moon Men, we gain the potential for unique characters.
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Also, imma write this down so we have it. Basically, my understanding of how Earth and its local colonies are set up (or at least were when we left them)
The world is unified economically and the soveirn governments we know and love are significantly less powerful. The UN acts much like the EU, with laws in place and free-trade largely established. There are still problem areas of the world where terrorism and insurgency are common. Still, the world population has boomed.
Terraforming technology, as was mentioned before, takes too long. Colonists are sent to the moon, but moon colonies prove expensive as they are completely reliant on supplies from earth, making the growth of lunar colonies slow. Luckily, a planet capable of supporting human life is found in a nearby star system and the ability to travel near the speed of light exists. Colonists are sent in numbers, and of course a second wave is sent. After a while, terraformation on Mars improves and Mars becomes habitable. At the time that our characters leave Earth, Mars has reached the point that it can sustain human life naturally and their is an immigration boom. The moon is largely a series of penal colonies and slums for people who had no other choice. There are space stations orbiting several other planets in order to aid in resource extraction, and asteroid mining is a thing. Most work is automated, so people on Earth aren't required to work, but their guaranteed incomes are low and many people seek the few remaining jobs the require humans as a way to give their life meaning, and to line their pocket books. Still, the number of people who are permanently unemployed and bordering poverty have caused a large spike in both crime and listlessness. This is a driving factor in people wanting to be space colonists, as it allows them to do something besides rot in their government provided houses.
The traditional cultures of Earth still exist, but they are somewhat faded and intermingled. The Moon and Mars have much more rough, frontier cultures, breeding tough people.
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-invertebrate that is capable of shape-shifting in a vague way, which means it cannot necessarily impersonate a human, but it can grow an arm, tentacle, leg, etc, wherever it needs it.
-Intelligent species that evolved from the flora rather then the fauna, meaning it has some of those floating properties I mentioned earlier. Speaks via "scent" transmitted by pollen rather then sound.
-If weird is too distracting, lizard people work too. Just want to make sure they aren't too simple. Thick hided snake people? Lizard dudes who use their tails rather then their limbs to manipulate objects?
To further the alien nature, we could also make it where there are multiple intelligent species on the planet.
Regarding the map...
-I still stick by the equator being ringed by a massive salt desert. Nothing grows, nothing lives, and it separates the planet into two distinct eco systems.
-Hows about one of those proper extraterrestrial volcanoes that are unreasonably humongous? Sort of like the Olympus Mons. Could have religious significance to the locals of course, it would look awesome as hell from ground level.
And I elect Gorgen as OP.
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Job/Place in Society: Medic, non-doctoral.
Age: 26
Looks: Pacific Islander. Tall, overweight, imposing. Wears medical white jumpsuit with top pealed to waste, revealing undershirt.
Personality Traits: Quiet, nice, apprehensive but adaptable. Does not speak a whole lot, and comes off somewhat aloof to outsiders
Important Biographical Facts: From Wahiawa, Hawaii. Island flooded, leaving old Honolulu below sea level. Rest to be RPed
===
Name: Dr. Nishant Kumar
Creator: Vilageidiotx
Restrictions for Use: Don't kill, maim, or explore in great detail without permission of Vilageidiotx
Job/Place in Society: Medical Doctor
Age: 98
Looks: Thin, flat figured, olive skinned, hair in white dreadlocks. Wears medical white jumpsuit and labcoat much of the time.
Personality Traits: Placid, content. Somewhat pompous with exaggerated gentlemanly speech.
Important Biographical Facts: From India, served as an expert Cardiologist until age caused his career to stagnate. He volunteered, and was not coerced, into joining the Olympus mission.
===
Name: Pandora "Dora" Janson
Creator: Vilageidiotx
Restrictions for Use: Don't kill, maim, or explore in great detail without permission of Vilageidiotx
Job/Place in Society: Medic, non Doctoral.
Age: 20
Looks: Short, Brown hair often kept in a bun. Youthful.
Personality Traits: Bubbly, Know-it-all, talkative. Had a natural talent for surgery.
Important Biographical Facts: From Eau-Claire, Wisconsin. Middle Class upbringing but bad parents. Rest to be RPed.
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Name: Yipp-Dawg
Creator: Vilageidiotx
Restrictions for Use: Don't kill, maim, or explore in great detail without permission of Vilageidiotx
Job/Place in Society: Dog
Age: 6
Looks: Small, mostly white with brown dapples in fur. Terrier like appearance. Broad nose.
Personality Traits: Barks a lot, but is not aggressive.
Important Biographical Facts: From Eau-Claire, Wisconsin. Is a dog.
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I'm not into that sort of thing, so i'm dropping it.
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So there is that.
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We also had acreage at the time, so I got to march around in the woods.
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So many seven year olds.
I was seven back in 1997. In those days, I didn't know what an internet was.