The Odysseus

A world Earth has died, and all of known humanity is on a generation ship too somewhere.

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11 hours, 25 minutes ago: Ria wrote a Downtime Journal for Asteroid Harvest

Time on the Gun range and talking to Apa.

"It feels really heavy" Ria complains a bit. She holds the pistol and looks down the range. 

"It should It's a serious weapon."

Ria looks over at Spark.

Reaches out. They are focused, calm. Not malicious. 

Ria breaths. Then aims down the scope. 

"Breath in, then let out half way. Then hold."

Ria breathed in. Release. Hold. Fire. 

She clipped the shoulder of the target. The gun hurt in her hand. 

"Ouch." 

"Yeah, that's recoil. You need to be braced for it. Here, let me show you a shooting stance, and how to hold your arms."

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Ria sits with Apa. Apa feels guilty. Worried. A lot of things really. 

The house was full of new emotions to Ria's newly awakened sense. 

"Apa. You took me... From the Biogenetics?" 

Apa is sad. 

"From a lab. It was hard. I thought I got away with it. I carved a hole where my stomach usually was. Then I gave you a drug to keep you quiet, and put you in. I did some ... other things to hide it."

Ria knew it was true. She always knew that she was... That she came into the family.... That she was different. 

She had more questions ... But it was too much.

"How..."

Ria's voice breaks.

"... Did you know what I could do?"

Apa frowns.

"I suspected. I knew that you needed... different foods, nutrients for it to grow. So I kept that from you. Hoping it would stay under wraps. Until you were old enough to hide it... But it seems we were found."

Ria tears up. She stops being able to speaks.

Apa notices.

"Ria.. Alexandria, sweethearts, it's okay. I'm so sorry. I wish I could have protected you better. Know that I did this because I love you. I wanted you to have a full life."

Apa tears up as they take Ria in their arms. An action they have done many times in the 9 years since they stole her away and gave her a name and a family. 

"Shhh. It's okay love. You're safe. You are my daughter, and we love you."

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The Odysseus is the name of a generation ship that left Earth a long time ago. So long ago that it's not even a memory of a legend. All the general populace knows is they're on a trip to somewhere, but where? This is a high-tech, no magic(currently) setting. Welcomed themes include bio-punk, cyber punk, sci-fi, and horror.

Sources of inspiration include:
Blame!
Knights of Sydonia
Orphans of the Sky
Remnant 2 - Nerud

Please note this will be a primary PbP server, at least to start, but there will be room for VC games as well.

If the invite isn't working, please PM me, and I will sort it out.

House Rules

Contractors from The Odysseus Are NOT portable, and may NOT visit other Playgroups to participate in Contracts.
The Odysseus grants 6 Experience points to GMs who achieve the Golden Ratio.
  • Citizenship: Active Players are expected to GM Contracts from time to time. If you have played as a Contractor in your most recent six Contracts, you are barred from playing in The Illumination again until you GM.
  • Supernatural Powers: All non-mastery, non-concealed Powers must be obviously supernatural when activated or grant a mutation that marks the wielder as supernatural or bizarre if discovered.
  • All contractors do need to choose a department/faction to be a part of.  More detailed descriptions are on the Discord server
    • Factory - builders and Physical Science
    • Reclamation - recyclers and janitors
    • Messengers - Diplomats and Couriers
    • Forgotten - Criminals and Rebels
    • Engineering - THE ENGINE!  THE ENGINE!  ALL PRAISE THE ENGINE!
    • Enforcers - Peace keepers
    • Cultivators - Food & arts
    • Command & Control - The ones in charge
    • Biogenetics - Doctors & Bio Science

Full Setting Description

The Odysseus is on a journey to a place simply known as "The Destination."  Earth is lost and no longer in living memory, or even remembered in legend anymore.  As far as any of the crew members know, the crew is all that's left of humanity.  The journey was going well until some time ago a rouge asteroid struck The Odysseus, taking out a large portion of the crew, and causing serious damage.  While the damage was repaired, it was done so at great cost of blood and material, and it was only a patch job.

 

This event caused a schism in the crew as quality of life dropped.  There was an attempted Mutiny, and the rebels were punished, their names stricken from the ship manifest.  Many of the rebels died.  Those in charge, Command & Control locked down, and isolated the departments to prevent such an event from happening again.  Overtime, each department developed their own cultures and a tribal mentality grew out of it.

 

Command & Control encouraged this since it made the crew easier to manipulate.  However, this isolation has allowed dark interests to run wild.  Genetically engineered horrors, rouge AI, fanatical beliefs have taken root, and now threaten the ship and the crew.