Omniverse One

If you have a plot bunny that's gnawing away at the inside of your mind, it'd probably be better to just post the update you had planned, if only for closure's sake.

I'm gonna go WAY against the grain for a moment here and briefly revisit two of the ideas that Heretic put out in the opening post: Another idea I had was to try out a steampunk setting, but this time in the settings of the colonized areas, such as Africa, the Southeastern Asia, etc. etc. We could e...

I have only a passing knowledge of Warhammer 40k , and while I played the hell out of the first Half-Life back in the day, I have yet to play the second game. Still interested in seeing where you'll be going with this, though. In any case, I have quite a few questions. Are the fauna of Xen going to ...

All of this gives me the impression that in the Holy Empire, there isn't much impressive in the fields of human enhancement/medical technology other than anti-agarthics. Am I totally barking up the wrong tree? Anti-agarthics were the only aspect of medical technology that received any amount of foc...

Oh, hey Shinn. Didn't know you posted here. This ought to be interesting. You were in SDNW2, Ryan. The name "Lelouch vi Britannia" should have been a major giveaway, considering that I had appropriated his name and appearance for my leader persona in that game. Speaking of Lelouch, I supp...

Particularly the idea of perpetually physically young and attractive yet mentally ancient and potentially deeply scarred people was something I find extremely fascinating, so anything that gives us more of that is a boon in my book. I'm now wondering if any of us here have seen In Time . In hindsig...

Fin, Shroom, Siege, and anyone else who was (un)fortunate enough to participate in or otherwise pay witness to SDW4 would be familiar with the Holy Empire of Haruhi Suzumiya, the polity that I ran in that game. For those who aren't familiar with that blasted game, the short version is basically this...

Alright, so that Modern Warfare homage post that I talked about earlier is pretty much on hold and would be out of chronological order if it was posted now. Instead of that, I have something else that I hope to flesh out in greater detail soon. There's another homage in there that I hope Fin gets, b...

Somewhere in the Philippine Sea... http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/voiceactors/2/12450.jpg http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/voiceactors/2/3271.jpg Jack Vasquez (left) and Kara Betancourt (right) For a former commissioned officer, life after leaving the Nanyang Federal Armed Forces could go in an...

I wanted to make my own contribution to the ongoing nuke smuggling storyline, but writer's block seems to have gotten the better of me for the time being. The thing I had in mind prior to my writer's block relapse was essentially a Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare reenactment, with Nanyang Federal Nav...

Ryan Thunder wrote:I'll take a chunk of North America if nobody minds. Will update shortly with details.

Czernobog has already staked out Canada, the United States, and Mexico for his Phoenix Empire, and while I was toying with the map earlier, I was considering giving Alaska and Hawaii to Fin.

Alright, since it seems that I'm the de facto main cartographer, here's the latest version of the map , with Red Commissar's claims all lined out. South America's colors need to be tweaked to prevent confusion with other nations on the map, and I think that Red Commissar may need to adjust the borde...

Do we make up NPCs, or do we just leave them blank in case other people want to join up later on? Make up NPCs, and use them as cat's paws in our proxy wars! Very well, then. :twisted: http://i48.tinypic.com/2gy3cbn.png [Sky blue] Khanate of Greater Mongolia - Military junta with delusions of grand...

-One that could be the island of Madagascar plus the coastline of Mozambique. This is a republic, but who can live on the island is rather restricted to those who are not mutated. I am envisioning some sort of bad war that has ravaged Africa in the past which has left a lot of fallout- presumably c...

Also, before we move on, I'm a bit concerned about what to do with the rest of the map, as it can't all be terra nullius. Do we make up NPCs, or do we just leave them blank in case other people want to join up later on?

The Nanyang Federation OVERVIEW A (relative) island of stability in an ocean of chaos, the Nanyang Federation is a prosperous nation on the rise, though its existence is ultimately one fraught with much risk and danger, given the instability of many of its neighbors. It has spent much on a massive ...

Altering my tentative interest to be in Deathworld Superjail Indochina for now. That may cause some problems for me, as I also had my eyes set on adding parts of Indochina to my own domain. I'd be fine with just Vietnam, Laos, peninsular Malaysia, and Singapore for my purposes, though. Hmm. That's ...

Invictus wrote:Altering my tentative interest to be in Deathworld Superjail Indochina for now.

That may cause some problems for me, as I also had my eyes set on adding parts of Indochina to my own domain. I'd be fine with just Vietnam, Laos, peninsular Malaysia, and Singapore for my purposes, though.

Hehehe... This is going to be interesting... Who wants to take up China? I will likely be occupying a portion of the area above it, pressing towards some of the frosty parts of Siberia. I only require certain parts of China (specifically, the provinces of Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi,...

...Well, as long as I can get up to some proper Ace Combat -themed shenanigans with superplanes and lasers and such, count me in. As for the Japan issue, SDNW2 had at least three different nations based on Japan, and it worked reasonably well there (even though one of them was inactive for much of t...

How large a tech disparity are we talking about here? F-16s and MiG-29s versus F-86s and MiG-15s? Newly-commissioned Arleigh Burkes going up against tricked-out Fletchers that have been sailing for 70+ years? Tank battles involving Tigers versus Leopards?

The bannerspikeskulls, Greco-Roman motifs, and other stuff cribbed from Warhammer 40K can still be useful as a basis for establishing the character of the new Imperium. Just as the Sovereignty evolved from being a relatively straightforward Space America to a truly cosmopolitan society that defies e...

Don't worry, a whole lot of guys festooned their pages with US military rank insignias. :P I think the prevalence of Space Americas with Space USMCs with Space M16s should be in part due to some conservative reactionary militarist/fundamentalist reaction to the psychic cataclysm. So you end up with...

Personally, I'm not too keen on the idea of the vast majority of humanity's psychic potential being tied up with only two people and their immediate descendants. I actually liked how SDNW4 handled it, in that there is a clear genetic component to psychic potential that varies between populations and...

The current SDNW reboot has given me a bit of a second chance in regards to giving Homura and her comrades the characterization they sorely needed, because all five of them had a lot of story potential that went untapped in SDNW4. The other four Puellae Magi (or at least their SDNW4 incarnations) ha...