I assume this Phoenix Empire you mention throughout your story is different from the Phoenix Empire in Rifts Africa?
Also it seems as if these characters are from a different/parallel earth. Is this correct?
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Mr. Deific NMI wrote:I assume this Phoenix Empire you mention throughout your story is different from the Phoenix Empire in Rifts Africa?
Also it seems as if these characters are from a different/parallel earth. Is this correct?
The Phoenix Empire/Republic of the stories is different than the one named in Africa.
They call it the "Phoenix Empire" because like a Phoenix, they rose from the ashes of dispair and destruction.
Their Rifts Earth is completely different than Rifts Earth Prime, and the history is longer, that way the fall is further. The Rifts Earth of the PC's had interstellar travel, colonies on most planets and moons, matter transmission, space elevators, etc. They survived via emergency cryogenic stasis.
I'll get to that eventually.
"The Tolkeen War was a disaster. Yes, we achieved victory, but we exposed grievous errors in our training doctrine and unit METL's. We must seek to address these issues, we must rethink what we know or this nation will perish from the Earth. Should we not learn from the hard lessons of the Tolkeen War, our bones shall be ground to dust."-Ross Underhill
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OK, this was probably missed by some readers, as it appeared in another post, but I will repost it here.
The group originally consisted of three characters:
A type IV Juicer by the name of Mary Elliston, a SFC in the NORAM Special Operations section. Created by Dr. Paulette Hawthorn as a Juicer IV after the dying young woman was given to her, SFC Elliston was put under nueral control, with the personality center adjustments to make her more reliable and more controllable. SFC Elliston was assigned to guard Dr. Hawthorn after the Doctor's trail and transfer to a hidden location.
A Scientist/Gadjeteer by the name of Paulette Hawthorn. Genetically and cybernetically enhanced, Dr. Hawthorn survived the Outsider War on Mars, led the way in many uplift experiments, is 124 years old (and looks in her early 20's and can expect to live up to 250+ more years). She was tried in the Terran Courts after a bioterrorism event that used a bioweapon she devised during her college days, and the NorAm government agreed to hide her in return for her full cooperation of Project Green Page.
A Generation 4 Auto-G, created by Dr. Hawthorn. An expert in covert operations and espionage, he is only 5 years old, suffers from superiority complexes, and views Dr. Hawthorn as both mother and God.
Later came Guy, a Rifts Earth native who was captured by the three above, and willingly joined for the opportunity to continue ruin exploring and access to high tech. Guy is a tech junky, and a supreme robot pilot, specializing in Glitter Boys, SAMAS, and Goblin series power armors. Guy was born in the outlands, led a life of deprivation and hardship, and has an innate hatred of mages due to a power mad mage ruling over the hamlet he grew up in with an iron fist.
Major Franks, former CS military specialist. One of the first CS the group encountered, Mary pulled Franks out of a burning UAR Enforcer, and Dr. Hawthorn rebuilt him. He was offered the chance to return to the CS, but turned it down and defected to the Phoenix Republic.
Xavier was added later, a former NorAM Ranger, he and his team fought to save several regions during the Great Cataclysm, but six months in, followed order to enter cryonic stasis and await reenforcements that never came. When the small Cold Warrior bunker was found, only 50 of the 230 men and women who entered stasis were still alive.
The time line:
Known Timeline
1939-1945-World War II
1945 First Detonation of Atomic Weaponry
1951-1990 First Cold War
2001-2063 War on Terror
2008-First use of tactical thermonuclear weapon
2079-2084-AI War
2124-2129-Android Rebellion
2162-2171-Amplified War
2192-2202-Unification War
2235-2251-Colony War
2260-2261-Outsider War
2267-2294-Second Cold War
2294-Now
And some threats:
Known Players
Reunified Russian Republic (3R)
Pan Asian Pact (PAP)
African DisUnion (ADU)
European Union (EU)
SouthAM (South American and Central America to South side of Panama Canal)
NorAm (North America and Central America to North Side of Panama Canal)
Caribbean League (Caribbean Islands)
Middle Eastern Anarchy Zone
Sol Colonies
Apha-Beta-Epsilon Centauri Colonies
Betelgeuse Colonies
The origins of the game actually started here, with transporting Dr. Hawthorn from Centauri Beta to Terra, and getting her to the facility. Elliston personally stopped 6 attacks of the good Doctor. There was a lot of role playing, including the court scene.
Sam Elliot, Auto-G Type 4 was on a mission in the 3R, and had to duck through the Chernobyl Advanced Energy Research Site in hopes of ditching the Russian counter-espionage hot on his tail. Unfortunately for him, he replicated a man with long term mutations in his genetics, which bound to his own core DNA, and he manifested over 22 genetic maladies within the next 72 hours, and had to be fixed by Dr. Hawthorn.
And that's when things went downhill.
A routine demolition of Outsider "relics" just past Neptune coincided with a planetary alignment, a test of a "stargate" like portal, and a terrorist nuclear detonation in the Beruit Megaplex. This caused the Rifts to cook off.
What happened, and how, the PC's didn't know. They were in a secure facility in an unknown location (could have been Luna or orbital, for all they knew) when suddenly there was warning of multiple breaches throughout the facility.
But that will be detailed in a flashback/dream sequence.
Any other questions you might want to ask?
The group originally consisted of three characters:
A type IV Juicer by the name of Mary Elliston, a SFC in the NORAM Special Operations section. Created by Dr. Paulette Hawthorn as a Juicer IV after the dying young woman was given to her, SFC Elliston was put under nueral control, with the personality center adjustments to make her more reliable and more controllable. SFC Elliston was assigned to guard Dr. Hawthorn after the Doctor's trail and transfer to a hidden location.
A Scientist/Gadjeteer by the name of Paulette Hawthorn. Genetically and cybernetically enhanced, Dr. Hawthorn survived the Outsider War on Mars, led the way in many uplift experiments, is 124 years old (and looks in her early 20's and can expect to live up to 250+ more years). She was tried in the Terran Courts after a bioterrorism event that used a bioweapon she devised during her college days, and the NorAm government agreed to hide her in return for her full cooperation of Project Green Page.
A Generation 4 Auto-G, created by Dr. Hawthorn. An expert in covert operations and espionage, he is only 5 years old, suffers from superiority complexes, and views Dr. Hawthorn as both mother and God.
Later came Guy, a Rifts Earth native who was captured by the three above, and willingly joined for the opportunity to continue ruin exploring and access to high tech. Guy is a tech junky, and a supreme robot pilot, specializing in Glitter Boys, SAMAS, and Goblin series power armors. Guy was born in the outlands, led a life of deprivation and hardship, and has an innate hatred of mages due to a power mad mage ruling over the hamlet he grew up in with an iron fist.
Major Franks, former CS military specialist. One of the first CS the group encountered, Mary pulled Franks out of a burning UAR Enforcer, and Dr. Hawthorn rebuilt him. He was offered the chance to return to the CS, but turned it down and defected to the Phoenix Republic.
Xavier was added later, a former NorAM Ranger, he and his team fought to save several regions during the Great Cataclysm, but six months in, followed order to enter cryonic stasis and await reenforcements that never came. When the small Cold Warrior bunker was found, only 50 of the 230 men and women who entered stasis were still alive.
The time line:
Known Timeline
1939-1945-World War II
1945 First Detonation of Atomic Weaponry
1951-1990 First Cold War
2001-2063 War on Terror
2008-First use of tactical thermonuclear weapon
2079-2084-AI War
2124-2129-Android Rebellion
2162-2171-Amplified War
2192-2202-Unification War
2235-2251-Colony War
2260-2261-Outsider War
2267-2294-Second Cold War
2294-Now
And some threats:
Known Players
Reunified Russian Republic (3R)
Pan Asian Pact (PAP)
African DisUnion (ADU)
European Union (EU)
SouthAM (South American and Central America to South side of Panama Canal)
NorAm (North America and Central America to North Side of Panama Canal)
Caribbean League (Caribbean Islands)
Middle Eastern Anarchy Zone
Sol Colonies
Apha-Beta-Epsilon Centauri Colonies
Betelgeuse Colonies
The origins of the game actually started here, with transporting Dr. Hawthorn from Centauri Beta to Terra, and getting her to the facility. Elliston personally stopped 6 attacks of the good Doctor. There was a lot of role playing, including the court scene.
Sam Elliot, Auto-G Type 4 was on a mission in the 3R, and had to duck through the Chernobyl Advanced Energy Research Site in hopes of ditching the Russian counter-espionage hot on his tail. Unfortunately for him, he replicated a man with long term mutations in his genetics, which bound to his own core DNA, and he manifested over 22 genetic maladies within the next 72 hours, and had to be fixed by Dr. Hawthorn.
And that's when things went downhill.
A routine demolition of Outsider "relics" just past Neptune coincided with a planetary alignment, a test of a "stargate" like portal, and a terrorist nuclear detonation in the Beruit Megaplex. This caused the Rifts to cook off.
What happened, and how, the PC's didn't know. They were in a secure facility in an unknown location (could have been Luna or orbital, for all they knew) when suddenly there was warning of multiple breaches throughout the facility.
But that will be detailed in a flashback/dream sequence.
Any other questions you might want to ask?
"The Tolkeen War was a disaster. Yes, we achieved victory, but we exposed grievous errors in our training doctrine and unit METL's. We must seek to address these issues, we must rethink what we know or this nation will perish from the Earth. Should we not learn from the hard lessons of the Tolkeen War, our bones shall be ground to dust."-Ross Underhill
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Thank you for the information on your campaign. The timeline looks very cool!
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
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Bump! Back to the top with you! We don't want this thread to disappear. It is too awesome to just disappear.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
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I hate doing to much reading at once... and I read all of this... 
Very interesting stuff.
I'm a bit of a power gamer myself, and I have few minor complaints.
The biggest of which is assorted 'super tech' seems to be portrayed poorly, or otherwise things seem to be handled in minor or highly inefficient ways compared to what the tech could do.
But I won't go into details, don't want to ruin the overall feel the story has.
The nanotech and other stuff makes me think of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
The Nanofactory Secret Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcEwUcVBHs
Ran across this also, sweet CGI example of a futuristic 'desk top' nanotech factory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEYN18d7gHg
Very interesting stuff.
I'm a bit of a power gamer myself, and I have few minor complaints.
The biggest of which is assorted 'super tech' seems to be portrayed poorly, or otherwise things seem to be handled in minor or highly inefficient ways compared to what the tech could do.
But I won't go into details, don't want to ruin the overall feel the story has.
The nanotech and other stuff makes me think of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
The Nanofactory Secret Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcEwUcVBHs
Ran across this also, sweet CGI example of a futuristic 'desk top' nanotech factory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEYN18d7gHg
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keep up the great work, must... have... MORE!!made sticky per request.
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The writing style is excellent. The descriptions are fascinating. The techno-babble is well-researched and on-target, for the most part (APFSDS rounds would not work in a rail gun, but that's a pet peeve of mine that isn't terribly important to most people).
Yet for some reason, although it is a pleasant read, I'm not really hooked yet. So much time is spent describing in great detail how the Phoenix Republic is so superior to normal humans in weapons technology, genetic and medical technology, power generation, metallurgy, pilot interfacing, and raw intelligence that it gets a little tiresome. Their measurable superiority to everything they encounter is elaborated upon with an almost orgy-like zeal. I get it. These guys are high speed, low drag, and they have the coolest stuff on the block.
There are some promising hints about what may be coming, but I'm hoping these guys start doing something other than kicking the crap out of whoever gets in their way and fawning over their own superiority.
The historical bits are the most interesting to me. I haven't read through Chaos Earth or some of the newer Rifts books, so I think I may be missing some of the references, but I'm intrigued by the flashbacks and references to the apocalypse.
A very solid composition so far. I look forward to seeing where you take this.
Yet for some reason, although it is a pleasant read, I'm not really hooked yet. So much time is spent describing in great detail how the Phoenix Republic is so superior to normal humans in weapons technology, genetic and medical technology, power generation, metallurgy, pilot interfacing, and raw intelligence that it gets a little tiresome. Their measurable superiority to everything they encounter is elaborated upon with an almost orgy-like zeal. I get it. These guys are high speed, low drag, and they have the coolest stuff on the block.
There are some promising hints about what may be coming, but I'm hoping these guys start doing something other than kicking the crap out of whoever gets in their way and fawning over their own superiority.
The historical bits are the most interesting to me. I haven't read through Chaos Earth or some of the newer Rifts books, so I think I may be missing some of the references, but I'm intrigued by the flashbacks and references to the apocalypse.
A very solid composition so far. I look forward to seeing where you take this.
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It would be great to see some more material posted.
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I'm sure he will. He said something about working like 6 days a week a few weeks ago. He is probably terribly busy. He'll post again soon enough.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
since this hasnt been posted to in almost a month, I am removing the sticky. it wont be pruned.
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It looks like this thread has fallen a little to far...
Time to bring it back up and hope T-Willard will see it and add more onto it.
Although, it seems like it has been a month or two since T-Willard has posted anything on the forum.
Time to bring it back up and hope T-Willard will see it and add more onto it.
Although, it seems like it has been a month or two since T-Willard has posted anything on the forum.
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It is hard being alone.
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