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A saga in the works - Tamsin - 08-31-2007
The economic situation in the universe changed. Before, dozens of buissnesses were created in order to cater the ever increasing number of prominent fighters in which economists saw a flourishin customer base. But with the introduction of fighting contests and the severe casualties that often occured throughout such events, these buissnesses became endangered. Two very important planets were especially affected by such turn of events.
One of them was Mercy-sei. Given that the terrible weather conditions on the planet force the majority of the population to remain within domes, the planet provides very little in the ways of making a living. As such, the mayority of Mercys society has become one mayor middleman...a humongous mercenary agency which hires fighters to do jobs requested by contractors. However, the promise of fame and fortune (and the thoughts of most fighters that the life of a contest participant was better then the often hazardous lifestyle of a mercenary) drew most of the possible recruits to fighting tournaments. This resulted in a serious lack of manpower and consenquently, contractors could no longer rely on Mercy to find people to do their dirty work. The planet`s most important buissness venture was facing a serious crisis and the Dome leader`s were unable to simply ignore this.
The other was none other then the icy planet of Frost #213. The cutting-edge fighter technology which was created by the planets denizens represented a large share of the profit the planet made. An entire market, called the Galaxial Trade Center, formed around such products and many fighters bought equipment there to ease the work they had to do and give them an edge in fights. But given that most contests forbade the use of items, warriors saw little reason to spend their hard earned money on such equipment. For the first time, Frosts products were gathering dust on shelves and not earning money. And if there was anything that disturbed the citizents of Frost, it was smaller paychecks. The Frost Council had a serious issue on it`s hands.
But a light of hope appeared for the both quickly and unexpectedly. An independant team of scientists discovered a unknown planet, roughly halfway beetween Mercy and Frost. After landing on the overgrown and humid surface, they analyzed the soil. The results were amazing. They discovered that the planet was rich with diamonds and a preety strong metal ore. The leaders of Mercy and Frost soon found out about this discovery and immediatlly saw a mayor oppurtunity. If they could take control of the planet, they could both pass the crisis and earn a lot of money in the process. Very soon, reconnaissance teams were sent to investigate the planet.
But through skirmishes beetween those teams and espionage, the two planets learned of each others interest into taking control of this now vital space body. Since there was no guaruantee there was enough resources for the two sides, both of them realised that a war was inevitable. But there were two problems connected to this.
The first one was that the two planets were dependant of each other. The mercenaries from Mercy-sei were important customers of the Galaxial Trade center while the equipment from Frost allowed those mercenaries to complete their jobs more easily. If they started to fight each other, they would have lost even more profit. The second problem was that their neutrality was an important guaruantee to their customers who did not trust biased providers. If they went into open war, nobody would have wanted to do buissness with them again. So instead of confronting each other directly, they decided for a proxy war. A conflict of two sides in which Mercy and Frost werent officially involved, but controlled the war behind the scenes.
This soon materialised as two factions layed claim to the newly discovered planet, named Azure Surge and Crimson Rush. Allthough the two often met diplomaticlly, this was an act in itself as it only served to increase the tensions beetween the two even further. And so even the simple inhabitants of various planets got to know of the war that was about to be unleashed.
The (puppet) commanders of both factions decided against making ground armies. The unbarable jungle conditions would have made any land warfare a disastrous and costly endavour. So they decided to take control of the space surrounding the planet instead. But for this, they required a massive space fleet. So they hired the companies Fuji and Rheem to produce the needed ships. But ships weren`t enough. They needed people to fly these ships. And for this, they planned to turn to the many adventurers roaming the galaxy.
And so the citizents of Mercy and Frost #213 were completely oblivious that their leaders were secretly investing money into a great buissness investment. The first space-only war in history.
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So there, that is the introduction into the saga I am planning. Now before you say anything, this isn`t a sign-up thread. At least not yet anyway. No, the reason why I started this thread was to see if there is any interest for this saga at all. There is a preety inactive and passive mood in the RPG currently and I don`t want to invest a lot of work and time into something which will simply be overlooked. If there is no interest, then it is better this saga doesn`t leave the planning board. If there is no time (due to the start of the school year), I will probably put this on hold. But if there is both...well, that would great.
So I ask you now. Do you (or Will you) have the time and interest for this?
A saga in the works - Mal Nova - 09-01-2007
Star fleet huh? Meh im not a star action man but I could work it to wher I am able...
and which side pays the most?
A saga in the works - Tamsin - 09-01-2007
Well, I`m glad I started this thread. Had I undertaken the saga without checking the general situation, it`s obvious that it would have preety much ended in disaster. It`s a shame that this didn`t work out as I hoped for, but at least I saved myself a lot of work.
A saga in the works - Tempo - 09-02-2007
Just put it off to the side. It sounds good, but the morale around here is kinda down. Pop back in like a month or two and you will see results. Keep your chin up champ! ^_^
A saga in the works - Tamsin - 09-02-2007
Perhaps. It`s worth a shot.
This saga is delayed until further notice.