Post by NeoEllis on Oct 24, 2004 9:46:47 GMT -5
-In the moderately distant future, the powers that be on Earth finally settle down and try to tackle the growing over population problem.
-O'Neilian space islands are built at the various Lagrange Points around the Earth, their net populations reaching 660 million.
-The powers that be on Earth get rowdy again and earn themselves a big fat nuclear war, wiping out 95% of the population.
-As if that weren’t enough, several low Earth orbit satellites break up in the conflict, setting off a chain reaction the sends so much debris flying around low orbit that it's nearly impossible to get to Earth any how.
-The powers that be inhabiting the Islands, now independent, do what all rational industrialized societies do, they fight a disastrous war! (dropping the population down to 330 million).
-Years after things stabilize (and by stabilize I mean the world becomes dominated sham democracies, corrupt laizze-fairist politicians and Neo-Fascist holding a tense peace based on trade competition) a strange viral disease called Sever Paranoia and Mental Erosion Reaction Syndrome (S.P.A.M.E.R.S.) breaks out across humanity. The pandemic causes some individuals to be slowly reduced to mindless, raving killing machines –lending them superhuman powers at that. The human population drops to roughly 250 million.
-Years later, the SPAMERS condition has been brought well under control. However, the SPAMERS retro-virus has incorporated itself into the genome of every human being, so surges of out breaks occur from time to time, they are particularly common at the island of "Gamma Point".
-While the SPAMERS virus renders most of its victims mindless, a minority of the effected retain their sanity are able to cultivate their abilities to the level of an art. These "PATrns" as we shall call them are employed by the Gamma Point Administration (the government, that is) to combat the SPAMERS out breaks.
-And so they do, until one day a particularly powerful and violent PATrn by the name of Raz kills a load of innocent people in a frenzy during battle. When the Administration attempts to capture Raz he kills 60 or so MPs, disappearing after that.
-Thus the PATrns are disgraced and disbanded, shrinking from the public eye in shame, relegated to an out of the way bar to wander their days in an aimless alcoholic haze....
Not far from their own bar, however, the PATrns discover a seemingly abandoned underground hanger. Within this hanger they find four proto-type AVA-TARs (giant robots), apparently designed to be next generation Island invasion types.
-Meanwhile, at a particularly Neo-Fascist Island known as "Omega Point", the individuals we call Zorak, Draco and Cygnus are banned for the most heinous crime of speaking out against the Administration. Draco heads to and industrial technology Island cluster called the "Suburbs Group" were as Zorak and Cygnus proceed Gamma Point. Zorak makes his own way while Cygnus stumbles upon the bar of the PATrns.
-After taking some time to adjust, Cyg finds acceptance among the ex-warriors. Soon, however, Cyg is forced to reconsider her relationship with her new friends when their violent past catches up with them in the form of a SPAMER attack on the bar itself. In the mists of this particularly bloody battle, Cyg’s brother Ellis shows up at the bar, finding it to be not quite the happy-go-lucky place his sister had written him about.
-Given time, Ellis too becomes one of the Bar’s natives. Days and months pass, until one day the Bar is attacked by one of the largest SPAMER attacks in history. Dozens of SPAMERS flood the bar and three “Flamers” (SPAMERS mutated to the point that the fuse with one another to form giant monsters of sorts, called Flamers by their high body temperatures and plasma/ beam/ flame thrower like weapon) appear as well. Cracking the ground, they force the four AVA-TARs to the surface, thee of which are in working condition. Aries, Ellis and Ace commandeer the AVA-TARs and, after a brutal battle, kill the Flamers. Meanwhile, Spammers continue to appear, growing so in numbers that even Gunn, Viper and Lita can’t hold them off for much longer. Raz suddenly appears and kill the SPAMERS, also attempts to kill Gunn and Viper before disappearing. Crazy and Aries are killed in the conflict.
-In the wake of the SPAMER out break that ultimately lead to the deaths of nearly 3000 people, the Gamma Point Administration, places the blame squarely on the shoulders of the PATrns. With nowhere else to go, the PATrns make their way to the MSPB Group, a cluster of mining asteroids now Administrated by the former commander of the PATrns, Maverick.
***
So that’s the bar bones rundown of Part 1. Add to that lots of political commentary, philosophical dialogue, references to all things historical, anime and British comedy related and as Raz put it, “scenes violent enough to make the creators of Mortal Kombat cry” and you’ve got my vision of the MSPB’s story. At least, the first part of it anyway.
-O'Neilian space islands are built at the various Lagrange Points around the Earth, their net populations reaching 660 million.
-The powers that be on Earth get rowdy again and earn themselves a big fat nuclear war, wiping out 95% of the population.
-As if that weren’t enough, several low Earth orbit satellites break up in the conflict, setting off a chain reaction the sends so much debris flying around low orbit that it's nearly impossible to get to Earth any how.
-The powers that be inhabiting the Islands, now independent, do what all rational industrialized societies do, they fight a disastrous war! (dropping the population down to 330 million).
-Years after things stabilize (and by stabilize I mean the world becomes dominated sham democracies, corrupt laizze-fairist politicians and Neo-Fascist holding a tense peace based on trade competition) a strange viral disease called Sever Paranoia and Mental Erosion Reaction Syndrome (S.P.A.M.E.R.S.) breaks out across humanity. The pandemic causes some individuals to be slowly reduced to mindless, raving killing machines –lending them superhuman powers at that. The human population drops to roughly 250 million.
-Years later, the SPAMERS condition has been brought well under control. However, the SPAMERS retro-virus has incorporated itself into the genome of every human being, so surges of out breaks occur from time to time, they are particularly common at the island of "Gamma Point".
-While the SPAMERS virus renders most of its victims mindless, a minority of the effected retain their sanity are able to cultivate their abilities to the level of an art. These "PATrns" as we shall call them are employed by the Gamma Point Administration (the government, that is) to combat the SPAMERS out breaks.
-And so they do, until one day a particularly powerful and violent PATrn by the name of Raz kills a load of innocent people in a frenzy during battle. When the Administration attempts to capture Raz he kills 60 or so MPs, disappearing after that.
-Thus the PATrns are disgraced and disbanded, shrinking from the public eye in shame, relegated to an out of the way bar to wander their days in an aimless alcoholic haze....
Not far from their own bar, however, the PATrns discover a seemingly abandoned underground hanger. Within this hanger they find four proto-type AVA-TARs (giant robots), apparently designed to be next generation Island invasion types.
-Meanwhile, at a particularly Neo-Fascist Island known as "Omega Point", the individuals we call Zorak, Draco and Cygnus are banned for the most heinous crime of speaking out against the Administration. Draco heads to and industrial technology Island cluster called the "Suburbs Group" were as Zorak and Cygnus proceed Gamma Point. Zorak makes his own way while Cygnus stumbles upon the bar of the PATrns.
-After taking some time to adjust, Cyg finds acceptance among the ex-warriors. Soon, however, Cyg is forced to reconsider her relationship with her new friends when their violent past catches up with them in the form of a SPAMER attack on the bar itself. In the mists of this particularly bloody battle, Cyg’s brother Ellis shows up at the bar, finding it to be not quite the happy-go-lucky place his sister had written him about.
-Given time, Ellis too becomes one of the Bar’s natives. Days and months pass, until one day the Bar is attacked by one of the largest SPAMER attacks in history. Dozens of SPAMERS flood the bar and three “Flamers” (SPAMERS mutated to the point that the fuse with one another to form giant monsters of sorts, called Flamers by their high body temperatures and plasma/ beam/ flame thrower like weapon) appear as well. Cracking the ground, they force the four AVA-TARs to the surface, thee of which are in working condition. Aries, Ellis and Ace commandeer the AVA-TARs and, after a brutal battle, kill the Flamers. Meanwhile, Spammers continue to appear, growing so in numbers that even Gunn, Viper and Lita can’t hold them off for much longer. Raz suddenly appears and kill the SPAMERS, also attempts to kill Gunn and Viper before disappearing. Crazy and Aries are killed in the conflict.
-In the wake of the SPAMER out break that ultimately lead to the deaths of nearly 3000 people, the Gamma Point Administration, places the blame squarely on the shoulders of the PATrns. With nowhere else to go, the PATrns make their way to the MSPB Group, a cluster of mining asteroids now Administrated by the former commander of the PATrns, Maverick.
***
So that’s the bar bones rundown of Part 1. Add to that lots of political commentary, philosophical dialogue, references to all things historical, anime and British comedy related and as Raz put it, “scenes violent enough to make the creators of Mortal Kombat cry” and you’ve got my vision of the MSPB’s story. At least, the first part of it anyway.
