Monday, April 14, 2003

/ Blake // 10:33 PM

and, Damn. this week will be a hellish buzz. I need to sleep less then zero. two speeches. two tests. one big essay on a play that made no sense. then two more papers, but not quite as big. about a dozen make-up journals. now I must rip my own arms off. damn.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003

/ Blake // 7:39 AM

Ian and Evan both sent me links to the God-Helmet earler, and I was thinking of an intresting viewpoint. The mention working on the tech to affect people at long range, so what would this do for religon? Create real 'Gurellia Preachers' aremed with emoto-guns, blasting God into unsuspecting peons brains. Gonna work this in the campaign, don't you fret...

Friday, February 14, 2003

/ Blake // 8:21 AM

(ffom my old notes) What heck happened to the world? You're in New Manhattan States, on the east coast of the Incorporated States. Some nights, when the smog and dust clears up a little, you can see across the bay, get a glimpse of the ruins of old Manhattan. It disappeared about 30 years ago, practically vaporized. Now it's just a garbage crater filled with the corpses of old buildings. After it disappeared, the government searched desperately for a scapegoat, and launched nuclear weapons everywhere. Everyone else launched nuclear weapons everywhere. And somehow, humanity survived. The death toll was estimated at nearly a billion, an eighth of the worlds population scraped.
Some people would call it World War Three, but it was far too short, maybe a week long. They would call it "The Chinese Food of Wars." America got off pretty good, all but one missile was intercepted by the 'Star Wars' Defense satellites (retrofitted and reactivated just in time for the attacks), and it 'only' obliterated Tokapika, Kansas. Other damage was inflected though, and within a few years, most countries started selling out to large corporations. In June of 2027, under the Disney Act, corporations were allowed to hire and control private armies. The government began relying more and more on corporations to control the populous, until in 2040, when the government was officially bought out by the Incorporated States of America. All remaining public services were disbanded…..(to be continued)

Wednesday, February 05, 2003

/ Blake // 10:49 PM

State of the World: The campaign takes place in New Manhattan, on the coastlines surounding Old Manhattan, now a smoldering ruin. Twenty-five years ago, all civilization on the island was vaporised. The people on the cost saw only a bright blast of screaming white light, and then building crumbling. No one knows who did it, but everyone knows the response. The US, guns blazing, attacked almost every other medium and major nation. Nukes, biological agents, and conventual ground forces did the work, America was screaming for blood. Backed by the megacorps, little harm came to the States, aside from an orbital laser oblitrating a part of Newark and Tokapika. The rest of the world was not so fourtnate. Globle climates changed, leaving europe in a new ice age and the Brittian isles in a tropical heat wave. China broke off comunication from the rest of the world, behind a 'bamboo curtan' only emerging from their isolation in the past ten years. Africa and India were send back 100 years by a massive plague. Japan was relitivily unharmed, infact they made a huge finaical gain in helping to restore the enviroment and civiliation in many nations. The middle-east is still burning.

The atmosphere is in shoddy condition, despite the Japan's megacorps dedacation to breading an orgnism able to naturaly aid in the cleaning process. South America is a rare sucess story with bio-enginered trees and greenery. In fact, they've started to become a problem, overruning small settelments and cities. Now the genengeners work to reverse the growth, without damaging the trees. Failing that, grow long armed tree climbing humans. Nature's a bitch.

Tuesday, February 04, 2003

/ Blake // 8:31 PM

Some Megacorps and whatnot to look out for:

The Faceless Corparation: Probaly the bigist of the big, a massive superstructure built on agressive memes and immoral marketing. It deals in a little bit of everything, although you'll most likely see their faceless CG mascot/spokesperson Mark Q, a chap dressed in a 1950's father style, (complete with sweater vest) marketing food, homes, and the basic needs of life. Many, many sub-corps are owned in whole or at least in part by this giagantic captlistic machine. They are also the current provider of America's Army, and help fund the Public Eye and ProTECH police efforts, in addition to providing public schools for more then 70% of the country. They have no natural preditor, the best any lesser corp can do is try to remain unbought.

the Pulver Scientific Institute: The premere research group on the face of the planet. They sell very little, but make a huge amount of money off of the paitents the sell off to others. They've been the invetors of sucessful city car rails, electrolasers, modren day tanglers, and semi-self-aware computers, among many other scientific wonders. They are currently expermenting with prototype cold fusion, improved neural interfaces, and force field induction technology. They are the constant target of shadowraids by other corps, but have adiqite protection from their hired agents, who are outfited with the latest and best in tech and arms.

SNK: A south american weapons manufacture and dealer

Mafia Inc.: after Manhattan was vaporised, the mafia, weakend by cartells moving in at an alarming rate, decided to make the smartist business move they had in a long time, and incoruprate all the serveses that the mafia had been funding for the past centuary. Everything from laundromats to banks were incourparted, and the mafia logo can be found on all kind of inconspicus goods. and some very conspicus ones...

More later,including ProTECH and Public Eye

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

/ Blake // 9:57 PM

Ok, so what do you want to know about the world of the future? Politics? The rise and fall of the US? The Hostile Takeover of the Megacorps? Future Fads? Fashion? Perhaps we can start with a quick refresher on the past 50 years?
No? What's that?
You'll have to speak up...

Oh.

Fine.

We'll talk about "Blowing Shit Up." (uncultured heathens...)

First off, the weapons of today are not forgotton, instead just cheaper. A DEagle will shoot a hole through a bystander just as well as an Laser Rifle, Infact, with a couple of HEAT rounds and some TL8 Chemical amunition, it'll be a much bigger and deadlier hole. Pretty much any TL 7 gun can be found new for half-price, and no license is needed, these are consetered 'collecters' weapons, and are largely overlooked by the general public. This dosen't count for machine guns or explosives though, which require a license to buy (or there's always the black market, which gladly supplys old cheap explosives to those willing to pay inflated prices for questonable goods). Ammunition is another matter, as things like APS (Armor-Piercing Saboted) rounds and Explosives Bullets make any gun an increadbly deadly weap

Modren slugthrowers use chemical-based reactions to propel the bullet. The main advantage to this is that the ammo is incased in a solid chunk of propellent which is consumed, and lowers the weight and size of a clip, increasing ammo capacity, while eliminating the need for an ejection port for spent cases. Many kinds of guns can be bought, and TL7 weapons remodled into chemical slugthrowers at there normal cost. Normal ammo is unrestricted, special ammo is a bit harder to find, and can be a crime to have loaded into a carried weapon, or to have on you while carrying, but not to sell and possess.

Gauss Needlers, usualy just called needlers, use a magnetic pulse to fire steal slivers at super-sonic speeds. They are the general weapon of choice for most people of 2050, being small, not heavily regulated, and carry a lot of ammo. People from all walks of life, Shinobi Assasian to Middle-Class Thunderball Mom, carries these quiet little weapons. They work great against flexable armor like kevlar and monocrys, but break on rigid armor, and can shoot 200 shots on a single B battery. They are avalable in many forms, from holdout pistol to sniper rifile, and can be carried with only a regestration and payment. There are also needlers that run off of gas cartrages instead of magnetic pulses. These are mostly legal, howerer their most comman useage (shooting drugs into unwilling targets) is consitered highly illegial.

Gyrocs are supposedly heavily regulated, but show up with great frequency. They fire self-propelled .75 caliber spin-stabilized rockets, and make up the backbone of infantry and police weapons. The technology is somewhat outdated, but are kept in serves due to their versatility. They are mostly quiet, but heavy, half the weapon is ammo supply. Lots of diffrent ammo exists, from APEX rounds to gas rounds. These require a permit to buy, but can be found on the black market, gathered from shadow wars fought over the globe.

Yeah, I know you want them. You can even have them. They're in the url for sakes' sake. Yup, Lasers, now refering to just about any coherent energy beam. These are sold with only a registration, but aren't very popular, due to arugments from the gun culture agenst them being a 'pro' weapon. They'll mostly be found in the homes and hands of the rich and corp-hired mercinaries. Snipers love them. Children love them. They get a lot of show in the media. They've got no recoil. They are pretty much nullified by reflec armor, which is a popular fassion statement. They follow the standard rules, can be hot shotted illegialy, and make great stocking stuffer.

Personal Tanglers are available off the streets, and are totaly unregulated, you have to register to buy a heavy model.

Melee weapons are mostly unregulated, and are in populer useage. Stun clubs are legal, and are found in use by security and police. Vibroblades are considered legal, and all current blades weapons are automaticly super-fine. Melee weapons have hit a high point lately, with every hero on the web and screen using melee weapons. People carry swords as a current trend, it's not uncommon to see a 10 year old showing his friends his new claymore. Actualy, they've started to lose popularty among the younger croud, and may carry a negitive penelity when dealing with young kids, being seen as 'old-fassioned.'

Explosives are highly illegial! But that dosen't mean you can't find them on the mean streets, for right price.

Biochemical weapons are also illegal, aside from sleep gas, which can be bought with a licence, and prism gass, which is used to refelct laser beams, although it can also be used to block radar.

Well, that's all for now, tune in next week, when I'll discuss Disruptors, Electrolasers, Plasma Flamers, and maybe some other stuff. Boogum.

/ Blake // 7:42 PM

Ok, minor technical dificulities....

/ Blake // 7:41 PM

Pow!

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