| Invisible Lasers
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
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