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Project Shattered Skies: Roleplay Adaption


Background: It has been four hundred years since the events of One Man War. EX1 has been killed, and his plan of re-eradicating the 1st Generation BioAndroids has been stopped. However, his Zero Generation BioAndroids are still at large, and still wrecking havoc around the universe. Snpr Mk.VII and SWATS have decided to put an end to the Zero threat once and for all, and have enlisted the help of anyone who wishes to combat the threat alongside them and the DHO.

Opening: Above Rommallian Major, deep within IBAE territory, the 53rd Navy’s new 3rd Volunteer Hunter-Legion consolidates its forces for the push into R. Minor, where a sizeable force of Zero Navy vessels has dug in. The 3rd V/HL and SWATS are backed by the 753rd Navy’s 18th Support Division, 6th Bombardment Squadron, one of their few combat divisions and arguably one of the best long-range support divisions of any aerospace navy. The 6th Bombardment primarily operates Victor-class Hunter-Killer Artillery units, but also sports a handful of their Kilo-class variants, which sport missile launchers and a defensive CIWS system.

Important Terms:
BioAndroid- The most abundant race in the known universe, a product of an experiment on Pure Planet 14 that was thwarted and stolen by an unnamed race of scientists that inhabited present-day BioAndronia, back when it was thriving. The concurrent industrial rush causes a total collapse of the planet’s ecosystem, and turned it into a slowly-decaying hazy brown ball. BioAndronia has started a long process of regeneration, but it will be at least another billion and a half years before the ecosystem is stable enough to survive on the surface outdoors. BioAndroids originated as a bipedal super-soldier on PP14, but was plagued by multiple shortcomings, not the least of which was a lack of a gyro system at least on par with a human’s. The BioAndroid Project was the only example of interference with an autonomus planet’s development being tampered with, and the only other event where a time paradox was averted. (The other being EX1’s death; also the only time that time travel was used out of testing stages- which also brought that project to a close, and strict monitoring on all civilizations in order to prevent abuse from happening.)

A BioAndroid created from BioAndronia is all the same super-soldier from PP14, and more. For the most part, BioAndroids are capable of independent thought, analysis and action, though most BioAndroids in the IBAN or IBAA are monitored. As of Shattered Skies, there are twenty-three different versions of BioAndroids, and as of the latest section of Project N25, there are forty-three. The primary BioAndroid Generations are: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th, and Prime. 1st Generations are masters-of-all-trades, and Snpr Mk.VII and EX1 fall into this category. Records are sketchy, but about two hundred thousand years after Mk.VII was created, EX1 created the Zeros, and the next year during Operation Windfall, the entire 1st Generation Army was massacred by EX1 and the Zeros. Mk.VII, in an epic clash with EX1 himself, was activated when EX1 triggered his dormant emotional sense and forces EX1 and the Zeros back, and proceeded to resurrect the fallen 1st Gen.’s, renaming them Fallen Firsts. Thus began the history of the DHO.

The 3rd and 4th Gen. BA’s were developed at the same time, with the 3rd intended as political machines designed to infiltrate enemy empires and attempt to destabilize the whole nation by protesting any action against the IBAE. The 4th were developed as a failsafe for the 3rd, designed to go into resisting nations and unleash all hell. However, a freak accident switched the personalities of the two, which resulted in the 3rd becoming a race of aggressive soldiers who could blend into crowds, and the 4th becoming a race of pacifists with doomsday devices inside them. While the IBAE was shocked by this accident, there was no attempts to reverse it as nation after nation began to rapidly appeal to membership inside the IBAE. However, one 4th Gen. suffered an even more freak accident, his entire consiusness being transferred into his 3rd Gen. body. He defected from the IBAA and became known as Mk.42. He was outraged at the whole of the 4th Gen. Situation, and knew he should have been one himself. His personal nemisis is Rckt because he was the only 4th Gen. with an active WMD inside him, and who never took advantage of it. He is also outraged that even though his WMD went with him, it was rendered inert by the transfer, designed to operate only under the exact paramaters the 4th Gen.’s would alone be suspect to. (And only Rckt’s was a defect, being able to operate without restriction; this just pissed Mk.42 off even more.)

The 7th Gen. BA’s are a race of super-snipers, designed to hide away in one place for their entire lives, even to just wait for a freak coincidence where their only target passes their field of view. They are actively discouraged from defecting because of their horrendous bodies, designed equally to aid them in keeping hidden as to make them regret any attempt at defection. Only one 7th Gen. has ever defected, and only after an intense interfaced disussion- more of a death threat then anything- with Mk.VII. He still remains unknown to anyone other then Mk.VII.

The 9th Gen. BA’s are a race designed to operate as mobile, aware optical-based Aerospace Vessel antimissile defense systems. They are incredibly stuck up after released from duty, but only those who leave the Navy entirely shed that skin. These are known as 9th Gen. Masters, 9th Generation BioAndroids who strive to perfect their built-in laser system to operate under the most diverse set of conditions possible. The most famous 9th Gen. is FLKN, a Master who went to PP14 to live in the Antarctic. He is the only 9th Gen. ever to be able to operate his laser system under literally any conditions. He was also sheltered from typical Master life, and as such, when Mk.VII met him, he thought he would defeat what he considered was the last of an obsolete Generation. He was proven very wrong, very fast, and very hard, and joined Mk.VII and the DHO- later joining SWATS- because of this.

Prime Generations: An ambitious project of merging another being with an inert BioAndroid mesh. The project was an abject failure, most of the subjects dying during merging, while those who didn’t typically died soon after, went insane, or became useless. Every subject suffered massive external defects, and the only surviving example of Commander Tank, who is Rckt’s ‘Handler’. (Because Rckt was ‘born’ hating violence, he needed Tank to help in firing his WMD whenever needed.) The left side of Tank’s entire face is a horrible mess, which is constantly eating away at the three-thousand year old human. He is waiting for the one woman- of any race- that actually believes in personality first, and apperances never, but hasn’t had any luck. Rckt’s selfless and caring personality is probably the only thing that keeps him from going completely crazy, but Tank has been the only Prime Gen. for almost 2,900 years, and it gets to him. He’s slowly slipping away, and doing taking up increasingly stranger and dangerous hobbies.

Zero Generation: EX1’s personal BA race, combining the first eight BA races (except 1st.) into one super-race. Because EX1 refused to put in any likeness to the 1st Gen.’s he eradicated, they lack enough of a free will to deviate from orders, and lack the kind of protection from weaknesses that Mk.VII has. (1st Gen.’s were notorious for covering every weakness and elevating their skill in that weakness before even thinking of their strengths. Had the Zero’s been built with that, they would bee much harder to kill or fool.)

IBAE: Imperial BioAndronian Empire; the de faco masters of almost all of the known universe, and a highly militant empire at that. However, after the collapse of BioAndronia’s ecosystem, they decided to control the universe so it would not happen to anyone else. Thus, the Pure Planet designation was had, which designated all of the highly-attractive and naturally prosperous planets for protection. There are over five thousand designated Pure Planets in their territory. They have only ever lost one, Pure Planet 14, to anyone, and strictly speaking, they gave it up to the DHO after they learned their leader was one of their kind and could be trusted with his statement to protect it. (Twenty Pure Planets, not including PP14, are under dual-protection like PP14; however, PP14 is the only Pure Planet to be locally protected by only the DHO. (The IBAN forces are delegated to first-response duty.)

IBAN and IBAA: Imperial BioAndroian Navy and Army. The IBAN is more prestigious then the IBAA, because the Navy received the most R&D money, and was able to churn out huge, deadly vessels long before the IBAA was able. The IBAN is also linked to the prestegeous Aerospace Engineering Divisions, which only increase its prestige. As well, in BioAndronia, Luna and Sol come before Terra, (literally in that order- Moon, Sun, Earth) which shows a clear attraction to space. (Luna comes before Sol not because of male vs female debates, no no; rather, it is part of their history, and the scientists that created them viewed BioAndronia’s sole moon as their source of prosperity and company, and in destroying the ecosystem they feel they have let Luna down, which is why Luna comes before Sol. Sol comes before Terra because the Sol is disappointed that its only ‘child’ is not prospering with the energy it gives it. Terra comes last only because they feel bad for the planet, and know that it would not want them wasting tears over itself and thus get nothing done for it. This hierarchy is reflected in the Iron Sister series of ships, the ISA Luna, Sol and Terra)

SWATS and the DHO: The two divisions that Mk.VII created on his way to find EX1. The DHO contains every member of SWATS, all the Fallen Firsts, and all of the 53rd Flunkies. SWATS stands for “Special Warfare Assault Team Squad” however much that make no grammatical sense. (It used to be SWAT Squad, but the Squad was eventually absorbed. Mainly to avoid conflict with the real-life SWAT in the LAPD.) And is home to only those who Mk.VII met and gathered along his path to find EX1, and only those he got to know personally. (It spans the entire main and EXTEND cast, excluding EX1, Mk.42, etc.) The DHO was the original group. The name originated from the fact that everyone in it was vastly different from the others of their kind (Mk.VII was the only surviving 1st Gen. BA; (EX1 was the first official beta subject, not the first production run subject. As well, he is the only 1st Gen. BA to have two identical eyes.) Rckt was the only 4th Gen. BA to have an active WMD, FLKN was the most unique Master, Don G. MOMC was a midget Giovannian, a race of giants. (Originally, he was just a movie director, named only ‘The Director’, and was huge for no explicable reason.) Blaze was unique in just being himself (a perpetually drunk man with an insatiable appetite for sexual activity of literally any kind) and Demon was, of course, an invisible man) And One Man War used to be depicted in part of an old grade-school ‘nutrition break’ (bastardized recess) thing I did with my friends, which was run much like .Hack//. (DHO= Dot Hack Outcasts) To avoid the blatant copyright issues in the event I ever published the One Man War Saga, the group was simply named The Outcasts during the events of One Man War, and the origin of the name DHO was never to be explained in any of the other series. (Except in some blurb in some book about myself. I’d probably say it was the original name when OMW was in comic format, and that it is up to the reader whether the DHO in the official series is the same or not. Works double time by basicially saying that it is the official name, but avoiding a lawsuit at the same time. Although .Hack// will probably be a memory by the time I ever publish the OMW Saga.)

Alright that lasted for quite a while. Thank god for spoiler tags. Anyways, all you really need to know now is that you need to make a character, and a ship. The guide for designing a ship can be found on my DeviantART page, Project-N25, under the name ‘SSBP-2 Shipbuilding Guideline’ it’s nine pages long, but you can wing it and probably get it authentic enough in the first two tries. (It’s essential you at least know to include the counterpart to any custom weapons or shields, so I know how to gauge power. It’s not that complicated, and it’s nothing you need to understand in full to still make a good ship. Don’t bother trying to explain how your ship is super-maneuverable, that gets done automaticially as a balance feature, because there is no correleation between size of ship and armament size, so minor effects like maneuverability are adjusted for balance. Don’t worry about it. I’m just a super-serious shipbuilder and like to know everything I can about a ship.)

Things about my editing of ships: It’s hard to put down in words how I judge a ship. While it may seem that I go overboard with the armaments on my own, I do have criteria, and on occasion, its precise, actually using specific measurememts to find out maximum armament. (Other times, like the SwarmCarrier, I just wing it, knowing what its broadside would look like but having no good range of weapons. For sure, Laser Guns are tiny, and I sure as hell could fit more then three million on one, even on one SIDE.) Don’t feel discouraged about any edits- I don’t do it because I don’t like it (most times I keep the original design as well as the official one, to see if I can keep a much of it as I can, because it would take weeks to effect a true edit, while an RP edit has to be done in appropriate time so people don’t abandon it.)

If it’s something like my two Xbox Live friends churn out, of course it’s going to get blasted to pieces during the edit. Shit like 100% organic, supershielded gigantic ships are totally inappropriate, and I could go on a friggin’ rant as to how many physics points it breaks. I realize that going past my invisible lines can be easy, but I don’t bite on newbies, especially newbies to the whole concept of sci-fi. They usually have ideas of huge ships of grand scale, which unfortunately can’t be handed out like candy in the One Man War Universe. (Because it is a solid fact that the IBAE is the master of the universe. There is little anyone else can do to beat them back, and even if they can take over some border territories, even a good leap into them, they will always be beaten back. It is a sheer fact that the defense network is so vast that it is literally impossible for a huge dreadnought-like super ship to sneak in, and it’s suicide to try to make a push.) For refrence, ships are typically large, most of them being easily described as being a capital ship, but the upper end of size restrictions for newcomers is about 5-6 kilometers in any direction. Also, in practice many ships enter atmosphere, so don’t make it a huge bloody box. A goddamn Borg Cube might be able to enter atmosphere, but it sure as shit isn’t coming out. (At least not without the captain being an immoral bastard who doesn’t care if the whole population dies. Which all of the members of the 53rd are not. Some have tried, but fratricide (shooting an ally) is by no means unheard of. Immoral forces are usually last-ditch, and irradiating a planet is typically frowned upon.)

Superweapons aren’t restricted, but they aren’t something to take lightly either. The one main problem is physical shear- in space, a muzzle brake like on an artillery piece is more or less useless, because the ship itself is not grounded against anything to transfer the momentum into. If you want you can load up a superweapon, but it is essential that you describe it so I can see if it is possible on the current ship, or if there needs to be fixes. (The main one is people forgetting to put in counter-engines for large guns. Without a counter-engine, you get one shot before you have to reset the sights because you’re going to go flying backwards. And trying to fire while in high forward velocity is usually too hard so that is usually rejected as a lazy fix. Counter-engines aren’t that hard to add in, and from what I’ve seen, people usually overdo it. Just make it as best as you can guess, and I can help fix it later.)

If you can’t draw your ship, be as descriptive as possible. Let everyone read the blueprint and imagine what it looks like. You can go down into fine detail if you wish, I do from time to time, and it isn’t all essential detail. (I’ve usually added in the top bridge for the SwarmCarrier, something I almost never talk about in an RP or story) Basically, we want to know what your ship’s shape is so we could imagine it, carve it out of a block of wood with basic skill, and have it be a close match. Describe its contours, and the positioning of its engines and weapons, and that’s about all you need. Further detail is up to you, unless there’s something I’m wondering about. (Describing engines can get really repetitive, but don’t fret- I do it myself, and I know how stupid it sounds when you read it out loud. That’s completely fine- appreciated, actually. You can’t fancy up where your engines are, so when you read that, you get all the info you need and want. This[/these] engine[s], in this [and this and this] spot. Repeat. All there is too it. If you have four engines equally far apart from one another, and it looks like a square, then dammit, say its arranged in a square shape. That tells you so much.)

The only somewhat-difficult part of engine placements is remembering in space, an engine does not ‘just’ push forward like on an airplane- you have to make sure they just push forward. For an example, look at a Star Destroyer from Star Wars. If you delete the tower, you get a perfectly symmetrical design, verticially and horizontally. With three engines, it has one in the middle and two on either side, which means that overall, its thrust is pointing forward. Now look at a TIE Fighter. It’s two engines are low on the cockpit. That would make it spin around verticially forever. (Unless they were directional thrust, which is always assumed on small craft like fighters, because it would be a hassle to try to balance out engines on a beautiful design. Typically, trying to do that just makes it look dumb. If you have an awesome design that isn’t symmertrical, and you want your engines right here and here and here, but it would cause it to fly in circles, go for it. I assume they can adjust themselves to correct for all the fancy physics of spaceflight, so you don’t have to. Let your imagination take charge.)

There are many details people add in that aren’t required. If you feel that this or that detail is unnessesary, tell your mind to screw itself, and leave it in there. I’ve only had to ask one person to remove details for readability reasons, and really, he’s my friend so it’s all good. (because my own things are typically hard to wrap your head around because there is so much I can’t write down, I’m pretty lienient with other people. And for the most part I can deduce functions and stuff written by others because sometimes you think of things and just write without putting things in proper places. I do it myself, so I’m adapted to it.)

In closing, don’t feel intimidated. Everything might feel clausterphobic, but all that is truly needed is a functional design with comparisons to my generic set of weapons and shields. The rest can be done later, and if not, by myself if I decide to adapt the ship for my own purposes. (Which I do frequently because I’m adapted to huge designs with meticulous detail to weapon loadouts and placings. For me, shipbuilding is more then ‘just’ a hobby, its something I take seriously. I do often try to force that on others, but I’m a lot looser now, because I realize how confusing I can be. I can’t draw any of my things, so I have to be as detailed as I possibly can be so I can look back at the page a year later and remember how it looked. Because I’m adapted to huge designs it feels weird to make a smaller one, because I feel it’s useless. My doctorine for shipbuilding is self-sufficient ships, able to fend for themselves alone or in very small numbers. It just seems alien to me to make a ship that will be mass-produced because it has to be, not because it lets me replace any that happen to fall in combat. I’m so far away from small craft that I still haven’t designed the fighters, bombers and other small craft for the SwarmCarrier. I always try to cram too much on a tiny design, and when I make something that I’d expect someone else to make, it just feels wrong. I don’t make quaint little, respectable, solid, general-use fighters, I make experimental, advanced, psychologicially damaging, multi-use behemoths. (The SwarmCarrier started as just a dedicated carrier out of a huge tanker. Then it got what I call ‘quaint armament’ which is a token armament meant to fend off a few small enemies, usually used against fleeing crafts because they don’t bother with the ship, and only get targeted at the end, just a single snapshot if anything. Then I had the idea of giving it a purpose rather then just be a huge grey rectangle that spat fighters for hours. It didn’t seem complete. Then I got the dumb idea to strap a huge cannon half its size but just as long to it. All hell broke loose after that. The thing’s got two versions of the contemporary design, and over the course of five years has seen the addition of over twenty new defensive weapon systems, ranging from a last-ditch cluster bomb to reviving the Flak-88 from World War II and slapping it on there, to making it capable of holding a hefty amount of the most destructive missile known to any nation. It may be an obsession, but it’s a goddamn FUN one. With few downsides.)