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- Advanced
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Genres
- Sci-fi, modern, horror, a bit of dark romance stories.
What is Guerra Continue?
Well, a little history lesson:
This universe is indeed an alternate one to ours. There's an earth, and like in many great sci-fi stories, we went to the stars, found aliens, and created a major empire... That didn't go far though. Our reach went to a very small section of the universe. Why is that? War of course.
It's believed the conflict began 70 years ago, when Earth made it's fourth colony. It was the classic revolution story: The fourth colony had found a unique resource on that planet called, 'Olverian.' It's a plant like substance that, when converted into liquid, could be used as a new type of fuel; making ships faster and travel longer. With this, humanity could go even further out into space. Problem was, the fourth colony wasn't happy since they were feeling mistreated. No money was being given back for producing the oil, and much of the planet's ecology like it's plants, animals, and even oceans were all poisonous to humans, so the colony became sick and poor within a year of its life.
While earth tried to supply as much food, water, and medicine as it could, the colony was beginning to riot. They were starving, and couldn't leave the planet as ships began a blockade around the atmosphere in case the riots became too much to handle. The land they owed wasn't their own, they were sick, they were hungry, they were worked nonstop, they felt angered by how Earth was treating them, and they were trapped. However, one man was willing to call for revolution. Ivan Tropski. He was a retired admiral of Earth's space navy, and was a former governor of the colony. Once the riots began, he quickly joined up as the leader of the revolts, believing both the land belonged to the colony, and that the colony should be treated as a colony, a sovereign nation of its own, rather than a mining facility.
As you might expect, with a leader like Tropski and being treated as animals, the colony revolted, as earth began using force to stop the riots. In actuality, Earth was doing everything it could to help keep the colony alive, but thanks to propaganda by Tropski and other supporters, people were convinced Earth didn't care about them. To make things short, the colony quickly became a resistance, fighting in guerrilla warfare against the Earth's military. And since the colonists knew the planet's terrain better, they were able to fight off the military, but were embargoed by the ships orbiting the planet, hoping to starve the colony into submission. After several months of patience, a deal was made by the colony to supply Olverian to Earth as long as it was seen as it's own country. Tropski was now considered a hero, and his ideals of what the colony should be quickly made word to all of humanity. Tropskism was created, and in short, it was essentially Socialist Communism: "all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs." This was Tropskism, the colony rightfully owned the planet, and its workers were to be treated justly for their work.
This ideology soon spread across all the colonized planets, with the third colony even revolting against Earth. To simplify everything even more, both the fourth and third planets were independent, the second still supported earth, but barely as Tropskism was also becoming a problem, and the first was actually bombarded by the navy, since they were also close to conforming to Tropskism themselves, and had the biggest military force out of the colonies. Earth was afraid of a war with them, as if the colonies joined in, the war would be a bloody one. The accounts of how the bombardment happened differ, Earth saying the colony fired upon them, while the colonies believe they simply wanted to kill the rioters.
The deaths of hundreds of thousands of colonists only made things worse with Earth and its former colonies. It got even more terrible when the colonies went to war with each other. When Tropski died, others tried to take his place, and the ideals of the colonies quickly were shifted to match that of its new leaders. None of whom lasted long, since there was a coup almost every 3-4 years. With this struggle of power, the colonies found themselves in the same conditions that plagued the fourth colony when all this first began, with the fault lying on themselves for their need of control. Earth simply stayed back and tried not to interfere in fear of losing the Olverian supply line. The third attacked first, as the fourth was still suffering from famine and nearly out of supplies, as they still relied on the opposite colony for food. The Planet was also beginning to suffer from the constant mining and exploitation of its environment, pollution creating a toxic wasteland, and soon all out war began. This conflict ended with the third winning, and there was unification between the colonies. A new leader was appointed seven years ago, Cassandra Van Duiji, and she is comparable to Stalin. The atrocities made by her were so unhuman, that Earth finally stepped in and tried to stop her. But with the Olverian trade stopped, Earth didn't last long; soon calling for peace.
But it doesn't end there. Remember when I said humans did meet aliens in this universe? Well, while they stayed back and let these human wars go on, they eventually also involved themselves in fear things for all the galactic empires would be worse with Tropskism influence spreading across the galaxy. Soon, the colonies went to war with different alien races, and earth even stepped back in once it was supplied with another resource it could use to travel through space.
If all of this seems really confusing, it was. This whole situation became complicated fast, and got even more deadly, as more wars began, and the conflict spread to even more empires not involved with Earth. Unknowing to Tropski, he set off a domino effect with his ideals, one not leading to the rights of the colonies, but one with them ruled by an iron fist.
This story focuses mainly on the colony planets, mainly Olvania. Aliens can of course be involved, but the plot revolves around which side to choose in this political game of war. Do you join Earth in trying to stop this menacing to the galaxy, or do you side with Olvania in hopes to carve out a new future for it?
Whatever the case may be, I'll see if people would be interested in RP'ing in this setting.
Well, a little history lesson:
This universe is indeed an alternate one to ours. There's an earth, and like in many great sci-fi stories, we went to the stars, found aliens, and created a major empire... That didn't go far though. Our reach went to a very small section of the universe. Why is that? War of course.
It's believed the conflict began 70 years ago, when Earth made it's fourth colony. It was the classic revolution story: The fourth colony had found a unique resource on that planet called, 'Olverian.' It's a plant like substance that, when converted into liquid, could be used as a new type of fuel; making ships faster and travel longer. With this, humanity could go even further out into space. Problem was, the fourth colony wasn't happy since they were feeling mistreated. No money was being given back for producing the oil, and much of the planet's ecology like it's plants, animals, and even oceans were all poisonous to humans, so the colony became sick and poor within a year of its life.
While earth tried to supply as much food, water, and medicine as it could, the colony was beginning to riot. They were starving, and couldn't leave the planet as ships began a blockade around the atmosphere in case the riots became too much to handle. The land they owed wasn't their own, they were sick, they were hungry, they were worked nonstop, they felt angered by how Earth was treating them, and they were trapped. However, one man was willing to call for revolution. Ivan Tropski. He was a retired admiral of Earth's space navy, and was a former governor of the colony. Once the riots began, he quickly joined up as the leader of the revolts, believing both the land belonged to the colony, and that the colony should be treated as a colony, a sovereign nation of its own, rather than a mining facility.
As you might expect, with a leader like Tropski and being treated as animals, the colony revolted, as earth began using force to stop the riots. In actuality, Earth was doing everything it could to help keep the colony alive, but thanks to propaganda by Tropski and other supporters, people were convinced Earth didn't care about them. To make things short, the colony quickly became a resistance, fighting in guerrilla warfare against the Earth's military. And since the colonists knew the planet's terrain better, they were able to fight off the military, but were embargoed by the ships orbiting the planet, hoping to starve the colony into submission. After several months of patience, a deal was made by the colony to supply Olverian to Earth as long as it was seen as it's own country. Tropski was now considered a hero, and his ideals of what the colony should be quickly made word to all of humanity. Tropskism was created, and in short, it was essentially Socialist Communism: "all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs." This was Tropskism, the colony rightfully owned the planet, and its workers were to be treated justly for their work.
This ideology soon spread across all the colonized planets, with the third colony even revolting against Earth. To simplify everything even more, both the fourth and third planets were independent, the second still supported earth, but barely as Tropskism was also becoming a problem, and the first was actually bombarded by the navy, since they were also close to conforming to Tropskism themselves, and had the biggest military force out of the colonies. Earth was afraid of a war with them, as if the colonies joined in, the war would be a bloody one. The accounts of how the bombardment happened differ, Earth saying the colony fired upon them, while the colonies believe they simply wanted to kill the rioters.
The deaths of hundreds of thousands of colonists only made things worse with Earth and its former colonies. It got even more terrible when the colonies went to war with each other. When Tropski died, others tried to take his place, and the ideals of the colonies quickly were shifted to match that of its new leaders. None of whom lasted long, since there was a coup almost every 3-4 years. With this struggle of power, the colonies found themselves in the same conditions that plagued the fourth colony when all this first began, with the fault lying on themselves for their need of control. Earth simply stayed back and tried not to interfere in fear of losing the Olverian supply line. The third attacked first, as the fourth was still suffering from famine and nearly out of supplies, as they still relied on the opposite colony for food. The Planet was also beginning to suffer from the constant mining and exploitation of its environment, pollution creating a toxic wasteland, and soon all out war began. This conflict ended with the third winning, and there was unification between the colonies. A new leader was appointed seven years ago, Cassandra Van Duiji, and she is comparable to Stalin. The atrocities made by her were so unhuman, that Earth finally stepped in and tried to stop her. But with the Olverian trade stopped, Earth didn't last long; soon calling for peace.
But it doesn't end there. Remember when I said humans did meet aliens in this universe? Well, while they stayed back and let these human wars go on, they eventually also involved themselves in fear things for all the galactic empires would be worse with Tropskism influence spreading across the galaxy. Soon, the colonies went to war with different alien races, and earth even stepped back in once it was supplied with another resource it could use to travel through space.
If all of this seems really confusing, it was. This whole situation became complicated fast, and got even more deadly, as more wars began, and the conflict spread to even more empires not involved with Earth. Unknowing to Tropski, he set off a domino effect with his ideals, one not leading to the rights of the colonies, but one with them ruled by an iron fist.
This story focuses mainly on the colony planets, mainly Olvania. Aliens can of course be involved, but the plot revolves around which side to choose in this political game of war. Do you join Earth in trying to stop this menacing to the galaxy, or do you side with Olvania in hopes to carve out a new future for it?
Whatever the case may be, I'll see if people would be interested in RP'ing in this setting.