Introduction
The year 2024
The world is recovering from one of the worst disasters in it's entire turbulunt history. Three years ago a deadly nano-virus was released onto the world by an unknown governmental agency. What it's target was, nobody will ever know. What we do know is that it wiped out over 90% of the world's population, leaving only a mere 500 million inhabitants to pick up the pieces.
In a strange twist of faith, the world has rebuild itself .. as a democracy.
That, however, is not this story.
Our story starts, december 12th 2024. A small deep space tracking sattelite picks up what appears to be a small comet, heading directly towards earth. At first, nobody cares - comets of this size are not an unusual sight.
What *is* unusual, however, is the fact that said 'comet' appeared to correct it's course to more accurately track earth's orbital path around the sun.
Panic and hysteria ensues. What is this? A missile? A spaceship? An attack? The tracking system was not accurate enough to tell. Pictures taken using orbital telescopes were fuzzy at best. All attempts to communicate with the alien device failed.
After two days, a probe seperated from the device and landed itself in the middle of Times Square. Robotic eyes gazed upon fearful humans.
A metallic arm extended, holding a package. With a card, bearing clearly legible words.
It's mission completed, the robot stopped moving. And never moved again.
Package and robot were brought into the world's most advanced research labs and examined from top to bottom, streaming the results live to a vast and curious audience. The robot was a tremendous puzzle. It appeared to be made of strange alloys, constructed in a fashion resembling earth's own manufacturing processes... using earth measurements .. and decidely earthy industrial standards for even the simplest nuts and bolts. Analysis of it's memory banks was even more decisive, leading researchers to conclude that the construct was running good old fashioned linux .. but a version at least a century ahead of the current version of that software.
The only possible explanation was that this robot .. came from the future.
The real prize, however, was the package. Inside a bundle of data sticks was found, detailing the results of a hundred years of painstaking research, propelling humankind from the brink of devastation, into Space.
The Trans-Newtonian Era had begun.
What is this?
This is an Aurora live AAR, putting YOU at the helm. As soon as this thread opens, five members of the forum are to be elected to guide humanity to space .. and beyond!
The GM (me) will implement all decisions, but the elected forum representatives will be the ones deciding*.
All forumites are allowed and encouraged to sign up for positions in the officer ranks. Officers put in command of things in-game will have a say about how they implement in-game orders.
What is Aurora?
General Aurora Thread:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?533990-Anyone-playing-Aurora
Previous games:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...tra!-...-an-Aurora-Forum-Game-run-by-blue-emu
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ederation-–-Aurora-Forum-Game-II-run-by-Rendap.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...r-Aurora-Forum-Game-II%BD-run-by-Scandinavian
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-Peace-and-War-A-Forum-Game-Run-by-Lord-Dalek
*) Mostly. Certain details, such as game setup, are the providence of the GM. Also, I reserve the right to make life 'interesting' for the members of this forum.
Finally, in the case of player absenses I may decide to simply go ahead and implement decisions as I see fit.
The year 2024
The world is recovering from one of the worst disasters in it's entire turbulunt history. Three years ago a deadly nano-virus was released onto the world by an unknown governmental agency. What it's target was, nobody will ever know. What we do know is that it wiped out over 90% of the world's population, leaving only a mere 500 million inhabitants to pick up the pieces.
In a strange twist of faith, the world has rebuild itself .. as a democracy.
That, however, is not this story.
Our story starts, december 12th 2024. A small deep space tracking sattelite picks up what appears to be a small comet, heading directly towards earth. At first, nobody cares - comets of this size are not an unusual sight.
What *is* unusual, however, is the fact that said 'comet' appeared to correct it's course to more accurately track earth's orbital path around the sun.
Panic and hysteria ensues. What is this? A missile? A spaceship? An attack? The tracking system was not accurate enough to tell. Pictures taken using orbital telescopes were fuzzy at best. All attempts to communicate with the alien device failed.
After two days, a probe seperated from the device and landed itself in the middle of Times Square. Robotic eyes gazed upon fearful humans.
A metallic arm extended, holding a package. With a card, bearing clearly legible words.
Code:
Here. This will help.
It's mission completed, the robot stopped moving. And never moved again.
Package and robot were brought into the world's most advanced research labs and examined from top to bottom, streaming the results live to a vast and curious audience. The robot was a tremendous puzzle. It appeared to be made of strange alloys, constructed in a fashion resembling earth's own manufacturing processes... using earth measurements .. and decidely earthy industrial standards for even the simplest nuts and bolts. Analysis of it's memory banks was even more decisive, leading researchers to conclude that the construct was running good old fashioned linux .. but a version at least a century ahead of the current version of that software.
The only possible explanation was that this robot .. came from the future.
The real prize, however, was the package. Inside a bundle of data sticks was found, detailing the results of a hundred years of painstaking research, propelling humankind from the brink of devastation, into Space.
The Trans-Newtonian Era had begun.
What is this?
This is an Aurora live AAR, putting YOU at the helm. As soon as this thread opens, five members of the forum are to be elected to guide humanity to space .. and beyond!
The GM (me) will implement all decisions, but the elected forum representatives will be the ones deciding*.
All forumites are allowed and encouraged to sign up for positions in the officer ranks. Officers put in command of things in-game will have a say about how they implement in-game orders.
What is Aurora?
General Aurora Thread:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?533990-Anyone-playing-Aurora
Previous games:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...tra!-...-an-Aurora-Forum-Game-run-by-blue-emu
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ederation-–-Aurora-Forum-Game-II-run-by-Rendap.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...r-Aurora-Forum-Game-II%BD-run-by-Scandinavian
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-Peace-and-War-A-Forum-Game-Run-by-Lord-Dalek
*) Mostly. Certain details, such as game setup, are the providence of the GM. Also, I reserve the right to make life 'interesting' for the members of this forum.
Finally, in the case of player absenses I may decide to simply go ahead and implement decisions as I see fit.
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