Well I suppose I can put this here... I guess I'll find out, won't I? 
Scenario: Conceptual Vicky Vicky (See Below)
Starting Country: Germany
Date: 2010 - ?
Style of Writing: Miscellaneous Styles
Focus of Writing: Character (Victor von Pfalz)
Gameplay Description: As this scenario/mod is currently little more than an idea within my head, this "AAR" is done more in the image editor than in Victoria itself. The purpose of this is two-fold: One, I need to work on the main "storyline", and I figure input could help greatly. Two, this may spark interest in working on the project; seeing all of the flaws in what I describe may incite people to try to fix them.
Keep in mind that all technologies, units, events, leaders, resources, dates, population placement... hell, everything's probably going to be different in the real version. Like the title says, this is a pre-alpha - little more than a vague idea of what the actual game will be like.
Oh, BTW: I did (or, at the moment, will do) the graphics anime-style, partially because that's what this is inspired by, partially because that's just how I draw & CG things. Hope no-one minds.
Berlin, Germany
April 6th, 2011
Victor looked towards his desk, at the large piles of papers on top of it. Some were official documents from work, but most were bills; unpaid bills. Bills from the bank, bills from the hospitals, bills from...
No, don't think about it.
He had been well-off once. As well off as someone who grew up on the streets could get, anyways. He had been head of a top-secret division of the German military: the Black Eagles, a group of Germany's best. Formed in 2007, they assassinated political figures who interfered with Germany's interests. This mostly consisted of petty dictators and their henchmen, but one more than one occassion had a European or American disappeared into the shadows.
The main reason for the group's formation was that Germany's role in the world scene had grown since the September 11th attacks and the United States' failure to respond in any meaningful way. This suddenly left the position of the "world's policeman" open, and the members of the Europen Union were more than happy to take it.
After working his way up through the ranks, Victor was eventually select to participate in and then lead Germany's elite. He did so for two years before the accident...
To summerize the occurance, Victor had been aboard an ill-fated spacecraft, one of the earliest privately run tourist shuttles. Something went wrong - investigation's still pending as to what exactly occured to cause it - and the engines exploded, killing everyone on the shuttle except for him and a friend he had invited to go with him, who survived in a pressurized section of the ship until being picked up by a passing American shuttle. They didn't escape without loss though: His friend suffered an coma from brain injury, and Victor lost his right arm and leg due to shrapnel and temporary depressurization.
His carrear was over - although he still held his position as head of the Black Eagles, his usefulness on missions had effectively ended. In addition, medical expenses were mounting up, not just for him, but for his friend as well: prosthetics weren't cheap, and neither was recently developed, "safe" cryonic stasis. If he didn't freeze her, though, she would probably die, seeing as there was no treatment currently available, and there was no way she could afford it herself - what choice did he have but to help pay for it? It wasn't the yearly "holding fee" that was killing him, though - it was the initial cost.
Unfortunately the bank cared little for the life of an innocent victim of chance: payments were due on the loan Victor had taken out to pay for the procedure, and if they weren't paid, his assets would be siezed to recuperate the banks losses. This meant that not only would Victor be on the streets again, but his friend would die, and he'd have to live with her death forever.
Just when all seemed lost, fate intervined...
More prologue to come! Stay tuned kids!
Scenario: Conceptual Vicky Vicky (See Below)
Starting Country: Germany
Date: 2010 - ?
Style of Writing: Miscellaneous Styles
Focus of Writing: Character (Victor von Pfalz)
Gameplay Description: As this scenario/mod is currently little more than an idea within my head, this "AAR" is done more in the image editor than in Victoria itself. The purpose of this is two-fold: One, I need to work on the main "storyline", and I figure input could help greatly. Two, this may spark interest in working on the project; seeing all of the flaws in what I describe may incite people to try to fix them.
Keep in mind that all technologies, units, events, leaders, resources, dates, population placement... hell, everything's probably going to be different in the real version. Like the title says, this is a pre-alpha - little more than a vague idea of what the actual game will be like.
Oh, BTW: I did (or, at the moment, will do) the graphics anime-style, partially because that's what this is inspired by, partially because that's just how I draw & CG things. Hope no-one minds.
Prologue
Berlin, Germany
April 6th, 2011
Victor looked towards his desk, at the large piles of papers on top of it. Some were official documents from work, but most were bills; unpaid bills. Bills from the bank, bills from the hospitals, bills from...
No, don't think about it.
He had been well-off once. As well off as someone who grew up on the streets could get, anyways. He had been head of a top-secret division of the German military: the Black Eagles, a group of Germany's best. Formed in 2007, they assassinated political figures who interfered with Germany's interests. This mostly consisted of petty dictators and their henchmen, but one more than one occassion had a European or American disappeared into the shadows.
The main reason for the group's formation was that Germany's role in the world scene had grown since the September 11th attacks and the United States' failure to respond in any meaningful way. This suddenly left the position of the "world's policeman" open, and the members of the Europen Union were more than happy to take it.
After working his way up through the ranks, Victor was eventually select to participate in and then lead Germany's elite. He did so for two years before the accident...
To summerize the occurance, Victor had been aboard an ill-fated spacecraft, one of the earliest privately run tourist shuttles. Something went wrong - investigation's still pending as to what exactly occured to cause it - and the engines exploded, killing everyone on the shuttle except for him and a friend he had invited to go with him, who survived in a pressurized section of the ship until being picked up by a passing American shuttle. They didn't escape without loss though: His friend suffered an coma from brain injury, and Victor lost his right arm and leg due to shrapnel and temporary depressurization.
His carrear was over - although he still held his position as head of the Black Eagles, his usefulness on missions had effectively ended. In addition, medical expenses were mounting up, not just for him, but for his friend as well: prosthetics weren't cheap, and neither was recently developed, "safe" cryonic stasis. If he didn't freeze her, though, she would probably die, seeing as there was no treatment currently available, and there was no way she could afford it herself - what choice did he have but to help pay for it? It wasn't the yearly "holding fee" that was killing him, though - it was the initial cost.
Unfortunately the bank cared little for the life of an innocent victim of chance: payments were due on the loan Victor had taken out to pay for the procedure, and if they weren't paid, his assets would be siezed to recuperate the banks losses. This meant that not only would Victor be on the streets again, but his friend would die, and he'd have to live with her death forever.
Just when all seemed lost, fate intervined...
More prologue to come! Stay tuned kids!
