Ok. Today's idea is a fun sci-fi world of my own design, which I've been building for a few years. The story idea is set in a semi dystopian, degraded civilization. Kind of a history of the Galaxy will be below and I have many more details for those that would be interested, but the crux of the story idea here is that ONE of us would be a character from the modern day, regressed society, a Scrapper trying to make ends meet by finding technology of old. While the OTHER, is an AI/Android that's been in hibernation since before the end of the war. Hopefully we can explore an adventure featuring the two, and there's lots of different ways it can go!

One of the things here though, is that the evil from the past is resurfacing, the evil that this android was originally built to fight. So we have plenty of opportu ity for action and adventure. I'd also love if there was a bit of a romantic arc, because I'm a sucker. But that's neither here nor there.

What follows is a history of the Great War

The Terran Coalition, later, the Terran League. Dominated the stars, and began to integrate every species possible into their ranks. However, discontent grew quickly as more and more taxation occurred, more and more rights were stripped, and eventually, citizens were little more than wards of the state.

The Grand Imperator Leo XXII, The last ruler of the League, commissioned a project codenamed 'Xanadu'.

Xanadu was part of the second wave of AI, with the first wave being prototypical, the second wave had eight total intellects.

Alpha, an administrative AI, controlled economics, trade, logistics. Beta, controlled the mighty fist of the League, the Terran Star Fleets. Gamma, bringer of Justice Delta, chief stellar architect Lamda, The learner Theta, the Indocrinator And lastly Pi, the Incomplete...

All served a purpose, all directly reporting to the Imperator and the Imperator alone.

Delta and Lamda hatched a plan, to build Pi, a smart AI like the world had never seen, the first truely sentient neural network, built in two parts, based upon the neural scan of the Imperator himself, and his sadistic mistress, the Queen of Agathon VII, a cruel slaver and criminal mastermind.

Xanadu itself was to be a Dyson sphere, to house a magnificently huge factory, And to power the two part AI that was to be PI.

The purpose was to create a drome fleet, which would spread Omega, commonly called the Mind Flayer.

It would enslave each and every sentient creature in the Galaxy.

Fortunately, those that would resist caught word, forming quickly into the 'Federation to destroy Xanadu', the first of several alliances that would spawn from the impending Civil war.

The Federation crashed a Battlecarrier into Xanadu, partially collapsing the Sphere and setting the star to Supernova, wiping 4 worlds clean of all life.

The civil war raged for 200 years, culminating in the death of the LONG cybernetically enhanced and now mostly artificial Grand Imperator at the hands of First Citizen Blair, leader of the Federation.

With the death of their leader, and the clear loss of strategic focus, the Council of the Mind, the 6 AIs, launched an all out assault, glassing hundreds of worlds, tearing down the infrastructure built for centuries by the Coalition.

In the collapse, all but 2 AIs were destroyed, thanks to the efforts of the Noble Legion.

The Noble legion was a joint project between the Federation, and the Republic of Robigo, the two oldest factions to rise against the League.

So named for the Noble Gases, Neon, Xenon, so forth, the Legion were to represent the sacrifice people would go through, to remain independent, just like a Noble gas rejects bonding. A total of 20,000 individuals partook in the project.

It required a brain scan, just like Pi, however, lacking the League's technical prowess, this process killed each and every donor. Their minds uploaded into a State of the art Neural net, and disseminated, using the finest algorithm the two powers could assemble, leading to a legion of Level 3 AI units that were the sum of the scans, and yet, something different.

The brainchild of Doctor Simon Murao, from the Stellar research array at Maia, his own niece, Denise Murao, was the first sacrifice.

The Legion, with specially designed Fightercraft, and the first of the modern 'super-capitals' fought against the might of the League, with some success, and some failures. Their war rending the state of the Galaxy, with more and more smaller, micronations and warlord powered territories forming in their wake.

Pi, in its incomplete state, was unleashed, and in a day, ten thousand of the legion fell.

But the League did fall as well.

The Galaxy has regressed nigh on 500 years in technology. All AI and AI experiments were outlawed if they were greater than level 1 AI.

Pirates reign, warlords are common place. The Federation, the Republic, the Alliance, and the Empire are all that remain for superpowers. Their reach limited, their strength sapped.

Contact with aliens was made 70 years ago, and since, 7 space faring races have been discovered.

The stars are in shambles, much mystery can be found in the wrecks of old, who will brave these nightmares of twisted humanity, and broken tech? That my friend,

Is whete we begin, with a Scrapper searching through these wrecks, looking for someway to turn his life around.

A look at the state of the Galaxy

Modern society is a mix of civilized, uncivilized, and downright barbaric nature.

If you stay within one of the three major powers, you're likely to have a decent quality of life, with reasonable law enforcement and generally fair trade, if a bit restricted.

If you venture into the Grave, the areas of space where the great battles of old took place, thats where you can earn the REAL money, salvaging League tech. However, these areas of space are largely uncontrolled, or controlled by roving bands of pirates, slavers, and warlords.

Most of modern society lives on crumbling relics of the League, stations and megastructures that no one knows how to replace, though efforts have been made to colonize ELWs or 'earth like worlds', and the Alliance of Independent Systems is developing proto terraforming technologies.

Life is grim, and with the discover of the latest species, it's been a question of not If, but WHEN humanity will face its next war….

After thoughts.

Whew. Thisnwas a lot to write! But anyways a few notes.

This is a VERY long term, High effort rp. I do prefer to be active at least daily, usually with more than one post per day, in the 2-5 paragraph range. So PLEASE if you're going to reply to this, show some effort and actual interest. I have a great many more details I can provide at your request. This just seemed like a good stopping point.

Now, ah. This rp has the chance to become rather spicy in terms of both action elements, and others so please bring an open mind.

Please use the words 'A Galaxy is a big place to lose a ship' so I know you read it all :)

Anywho. Toodly doodly for now!

-Final