Mars: First planet to be terraformed and colonized by humanity. As the Solar System's preeminent military power Mars serves as a deterrent to Earth's imperialist interests. Mars has long been seen as the leader of cultural movements and is the Solar System's chief exporter of entertainment and manufactured goods.
Earth: Earth has long been the place on which all other colonies depend. Recent advances in technology as well as the degradation of Earth's natural resources have seen this planet pass its hay day as the cultural and economic center of the Solar System. Earth's massive corporations have turned on each other as their alliances with extra-terrestrial powers have made them competitors.
Venus: The second planet to be colonized by humanity. With much less hospitable conditions than Mars the terraforming process on Venus is still far from completion. To compensate for this the people of Venus have long practiced genetic modification to adapt themselves as well as flora and fauna to their new home.
C.I.B. (Colonists of the Inner Belt): The generations that left the earth in pursuit of a better future did not all settle on planets. The CIB was founded by the rebellious descendants of space faring workers who helped build the infrastructure necessary to move into the outer Solar System. They appropriated space colonies and asteroid mines that speckle the Inner Asteroid Belt as their own during the collapse of Earth's influence. Earth considers them traitors and thieves, while they consider themselves liberated from over a century of indentured servitude to greedy corporations.
Jupiter: ??
Keiper Belt: Mysterious colonists of the Outer Asteroid Belt. Little is known about their technology or motives.
Short mission statement-The world which we are creating is
meant to be an illustration of the division of classes within modern
society. We will highlight the nefarious
acts of violence executed by various militaries, terrorist organizations and
espionage agencies against one another and the peoples whose interests they
claim to protect. In essence: What would
happen were the US and Europe to suddenly be removed from their place as world
superpowers and be at the mercy of nations like Pakistan, a nuclear capable
country whose civilians have had quite enough of Us drone strikes? Would the US learn to live as just another
nation, or would it drag the entire world down with it in an attempt to regain the
power it perceives itself to have lost? It
will be important to remember as we design each society that each of these
worlds or people is a designed world, an
engineered people. These societies were
meant to be controlled and each must illustrate a method or series of methods of
social control. This can range from the
direct such as propaganda or
contaminating a societies drinking water with antidepressants to social ideas
like the concept that every single person has the opportunity to become a millionaire
regardless of birth, intelligence or skill set.
While each of these colonies (except Venus) has escaped the grasp of
their former leaders we will explore how these nations are still controlled by
banking cartels and foreign intelligence agencies manipulating marketplaces and
making demands of changes to internal economic policies to suit the needs of
the powerful and manipulated to depress the economies of the colony nations to
keep them weak. I want our stories to
focus on civilians and diplomats in a world torn apart by giant robot
wars. Giant robots are terror weapons, analogous
to predator drones or cruise missile strikes.
They are warfare in human form, an anthropomorphic metaphor for humanities capability to commit
acts of unfeeling harm upon dehumanized others.
We need to depict these things as terrifying gigantic monsters of mass
destruction. Gundam often had a habit of
declaring the awfulness of war but not really showing it. Half the human race dies before the series
begins yet we never see so much as a mass grave. The show contrasts combat with the beauty of
nature; despite the fact that Earth is supposed to be slowly dying it has lush
green jungles and forests. The concept
is the same but I want to offer a more visceral experience and capture an empty
haunting kind of beauty. Our warfare
will more often resemble the first world war with rampant radiation sickness
replacing rampant infection and with long sequences of tension slowly building
to sequences of frantic explosive terror .
Our beauty shots will be vast, soft and bleak. Space will not contain lush clouds of color
like the pictures from the Hubble. It
will be black and huge and silent. I would compare the directorial bent with the
films of Danny Boyle especially 28 Days Later and Sunshine.
Mars- If not the
eldest of extraterrestrial colonies, Mars represents the passing of the
greatest hurdle for humans hoping to live and work in space; the successful terra-forming
of an entire planet. This greatness of
achievements is reflected in the Martian culture's obsession with might, power,
and glory. Bigger as better is ingrained
into every aspect of Martian life from the overwhelming overproduced power
ballads of Martian pop music to their big dumb action flicks which play to
packed Martian theaters loaded with big guns, big tits, bulging biceps, fast
cars, manly heroes leaping from explosions, manly heroes walking slowly away
from explosions, exploding heads, bad puns and trashy music, to colossal geodesic
dome cities supported by hundreds of spidery buttresses coming together to rest
atop a circle of mighty megaliths, to the vast Martian army: legions of tanks,
mechs, tank-mechs, tank carriers and tank mech-carriers, aircraft, spacecraft,
and the largest single standing infantry army in the entirety of human
existence. Martian society follows a
highly regimented structure which divided into hierarchical classes dictates everything about a Martian's life from what
and how much he eats, to where he works; assigned based on evaluated skills and
carefully steered through an educational system which seamlessly moves students
from school to university to workplace, to where he lives; decided based on
evaluations of convenience of commute to work, size dictated by what class of
society he has earned his way to attain, to who he can marry, only one of equal
social class, to how much data usage and entertainment is allowed; while quite generous
regarding the distribution of action movies, slasher flicks and porn, the Martian
government has never been exactly eager to provide its citizens with easy
access to news, information, or each other.
Mars is an agricultural and industrial powerhouse. With the decline of Earth's reach into space,
the only factor preventing Mars from growing into the dominant superpower it has
the potential to be is the thirst of its industry. Without fossil fuels or easy access to
geothermal power, Mars is reliant on trade with the Moon and Gas Giants to
provide the fuel it needs to continue the growth and stability of its economy. In return for the fuels it needs Mars
provides food to its trade partners; most of the growth in the extraterrestrial
sphere, especially the population growth, is made possible by the Martian industrial mega
farms. Martian society was designed to
award achievement, promoting its best and brightest to its higher ranks where
they will be better provided for.
However while the path from student to engineer to leader is an easy path to trace, the
majority of the population who fail to test as well find themselves removed
from class to train for agricultural work and while achieving the rank of
overseer or foreman is a potentially foreseeable goal, there is little opportunity
for advancement beyond lower middle class.
Unless of course on joins the military.
Yeah the military, they seem important.
They get respect. Joining the
military guarantees a two rank advancement in social class. I've seen it in the movies. The government entertainment agency who makes
all the movies would never lie to the people.
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