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Post by Lawnmower Joe on Dec 27, 2013 6:20:49 GMT -5
I came up with an interesting RP idea today and I want to share it with you guys. Basically, this takes place in the Metro universe, but 40 years in the future.
The surface is no longer contaminated and humanity has started moving out of the Metro and establishing colonies there. The environment was radically changed by the War and is almost nothing like the world Man once ruled. One thing is sure: humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain.
Polis is still a beacon of erudition and power thanks to its control of D6, and Hansa is the leading trader on the surface. The Red Line still exists, although I'm not sure what form it would have, same for the Reich.
Pre-war tech is getting more and more rare, and weapons not seen since the Middle Ages are making a big return. The bow, the crossbow and the sword are almost more common than guns. Moscow has become a strange jungle of mutated plants, pre-war buildings steadily disappearing beneath it. Mutants stalk the streets in droves and the Dark Ones, thanks to Artyom's intervention, are also present.
So what do you guys think? Are the Red Line and the Reich still strong? Any mutant ideas?
I'm thinking we could also add the possibility of making our own factions.
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Post by The Karcolith on Dec 27, 2013 8:42:38 GMT -5
I think the Reich should be fairly weak, more of an idea not as strongly held since the Fuhrer would be long gone.
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Post by blackpapermoon on Dec 27, 2013 10:53:53 GMT -5
Like killing a daemon with a Ballista? Ok sounds fun, would the Dark ones be buddy buddy with humans or are human going to be like kill the freaks?
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Post by Lawnmower Joe on Dec 27, 2013 12:14:43 GMT -5
The only way I can see the Reich surviving is if the Furher's successor tones down or gets rid of the ludicrous eugenic policies and somehow acquires more fertile women to keep the population up.
The Red Line has better chances of survival. If it manages to keep the peace with the others and doesn't suffer too many famines it could last fairly easily to 2073.
The Dark Ones, while not openly hostile, would not be particularly friendly either. The memory of their kind's almost complete destruction would still be strong.
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Post by Lawnmower Joe on Dec 27, 2013 12:48:57 GMT -5
I'm going to move the year forward, perhaps to 2083 or 2093.
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Post by CaptainNips on Dec 27, 2013 21:01:05 GMT -5
Sounds like an AWESOME idea. Heck, if this was made into a book I'd suggest it be sent to Glukhovsky himself!
Hansa i can totally see being a bully, trying to gain a monopoly of the surface. Typical capitalists.
Reich should be a LOT weaker, I agree. Unless one of their past conquests somehow suceeded and they annexed a few stations, speeding up reproduction perhaps.
Red line... still a bitch. I bet it would be the second one to patrol the surface most next to the Hansa. One of their ambitious goals could be to reclaim the Kremlin or some other big commy landmark.
Stalkers. If humans are beginning to colonize the surface, I am sure a Stalkers job would be greatly needed. Most who remembered the city layout prewar are dead and the daredevil stalkers are the only ones left who know it well... The ruins, mutants, landscape. They would be in charge of an all manner of things, transport, protection of a colony, maybe even being permanently hired by a station. A station leader could have like a Stalker advisor, while the Stalkers themselves have to choose the best-paying masters.
Baumanns. If prewar weapons are failing, maybe the Baumann aliiance could be a leading weapon producer? The last bastion of prewar technology.
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Post by Lawnmower Joe on Dec 28, 2013 6:15:31 GMT -5
I am actually considering writing a story based on it, but I'm on my iphone so it may not happen. I also agree with all your ideas!
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Post by mamajumbo on Dec 28, 2013 15:03:23 GMT -5
What I know about the Reich is that they have not enough women to reproduce and so a plan of expansion was already in place in the early 2033, my guess is they would have 2 options: 1: They would turn into a new order built like the Legion from fallout new vegas with caucasians and communists as slaves to build forts and war vehicles and like in Ancient Rome, they 'd take women from the surrounded stations to repopulate. 2: Before 2073 The Führer, stressed by it's people to take action to take over the metro would start a war of expansion but would fail and thus destroying the whole nazi party, leaving a new red territory, or a bandit one depending on the motivations of the secretary general to indoctrinate these piles of rubble.
The only job left to the stalkers would be to turn into cartographers and map the newly shaped lands of Moscow, the elite of them would be soldiers armed to destroy wild mutants nests with explosives or biochemical weapons that would sterilise the gonads of the creatures.
As for Hansa they could associate with the scholars from Polis and create an organized market, then repairing most of the electrical circuits in the remaining buildings, the electricity would come from homemade solar panels thanks to the knowledge brought from Polis by greedy Brahmins. An apartment is very expensive and Hansa would take every single profit that could come from it.
The baby boom of excitement would be beneficial for some regions and catastrophic for others and a better mobility means a better "cultural brewery" and new factions could find some place to settle, some could be some kind of kingdoms others would be democratic enclaves.
I agree with all of you and this could be a great new forum, but it reminds me too much of a Stalker or Fallout game.
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Post by Lawnmower Joe on Dec 28, 2013 15:56:25 GMT -5
>Fallout
Oh Gawd
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Post by CaptainNips on Dec 29, 2013 4:20:34 GMT -5
In essence, it would become a lot like Fallout... except no freaky mutants that turn invisible (and cause Nips' comp to implode), cray cray energy weapons or firearms, or Roman empire imposter maniacs. Oh yeah! and no robots or alien technology. sounds more like a The Road apoc concept to me. Few resources, few guns, and the world looks drastically different.
i am honestly really liking the medieval weapon concept, humanity going back to it's primal roots where weapons and clans come into play. I believe having swords and ballistas is what makes this idea SO much different from STALKER or Fallout.
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Post by The Karcolith on Dec 29, 2013 5:23:42 GMT -5
It's not like Fallout because it's in the Metro universe.
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Post by Lawnmower Joe on Dec 29, 2013 5:38:01 GMT -5
I can see the similarity though. Fallout and STAlKER are two of the most well known open world post-apoc settings.
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Post by milch on Dec 29, 2013 6:18:00 GMT -5
But, nevertheless, it's different
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Post by mamajumbo on Dec 30, 2013 11:56:12 GMT -5
What could be taken from Fallout is the fact that 2073 means a whole new generation, people who never approached the old world luxuries and technologies, quoting Last Light, Anna even said that their children won't know how to operate certain machines and the grandchildren will think these have been built by the gods.
I'm not even surprised if some common forms of curtesy like not speaking while eating and removing your hat once you enter a home will be forgotten because they do not understand the meaning these little things. And the idea of the Legion from New Vegas is not entirely dumb because as I said before, the search for identity and meaning of life will require interpretations of what has the old world done wrong to blow up, to do so they will read what they can find in the ruins and restore order to avoid anarchy. What we can find crazy in their line of thinking is what they think is the solution to maintain a healthy society.
Yeah I'm comparing a lot with Fallout but it's one of the few post apocalyptic game I've played, I'm just comparing the sociology of the game (also yup there is no super mutants but we have dark ones who are an evolution of mankind and that can f*ck up the brains of those who come close to them), but for the ressources, weapons and it would be like The Road, never seen the movie but heard of it as a very dark vision of the world in hunger.
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Post by shadow0130 on Dec 30, 2013 12:47:07 GMT -5
I don't mean to contradict or eliminate this idea, I mean it's a great idea but, forty full years or so, you cant really predict or assume what could happen... If you look at the WWs between our industrial revolution and the cold war, thing changed so dramatically... I mean with the Commies, Reich, or Red Line there could be someone who rises to power that completely changes the whole faction... Or they couldve been completely destroyed by: Repetitive bandit raids, assaults by other factions, famine, mutants, station collapses, Etc. All I'm suggesting is to move the date back a bit I suppose...
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