Another plot post! Before I can even build this plot and submit it to the plot queue for the mods, I need to get a general idea of how it will run, and how it will run depends heavily on character choices.

Rather than 7 Sins, which I'm probably gonna pass off to someone else to run, I'm going with Send in the Clones.

Here's the rundown:

Galilee's cloning and genetic technology is incredibly advanced, as is their medical tech. The planet is home to countless doctors and genegineers who keep its populace healthy and happy, that could be of great help to the injured in the war against the Ohm. However, part of why the happy populace is so happy is because they don't have to lift a finger to do any work. Their entire society is run on the backs of clones, mass-cloned to perform all the hard labor on the planet and marked by holographic caste marks branded into the skin. The clones are programmed to live for very few years at a time and receive only as much programmed education is necessary for them to do their work.

But there is a resistance, clones that secretly block their caste marks from being tracked, that pass along coded information, clones that seek knowledge read classic literature at risk of death to try to open their minds as much as they can before their short lives are over. Now the resistance movement is massing together a powerful force for one final fight against their oppressors, a final fight for their freedom. Will Stacy's crew help the clones at the risk of destabilizing a government they need as an ally? Will they help the government put down the uprising to win them over to their cause? Most importantly of all, if the crew decides to help quell the resistance, and some of them join the clone army to help them fight for their freedom can those supporting the Galilee government fight their own? Which side are you on, Meatcrew?

Basically, the government side will portray the clone resistance as terrorists and claim the clones are happy being slaves and well taken care of. They will insist on the crew helping put down the resistance in exchange for an alliance, which is the crew's mission objective. Stacy can give out Violations for outright working against the mission objective.

The clone side will claim the government keeps clones enslaved and too ignorant to understand their situation and that as clones get old enough to understand, they get less complacent.

The bad thing is this alliance would be an incredible boon. The medical tech could be given to the entire GIA making it so only the most extreme injuries, like head inuries and incineration could kill soldiers. It means every ship, from Stacy to all the Daligig and GIA ships, could eventually have medical tech installed that'd allow people to be brought back from everything but the most extreme injuries.

Characters well-suited for this plot: Diplomats, soldiers, superhero types, political types, clones, a few medical types. Overall character cap is 30 characters, one character per player, but I would like anyone interested to comment here so we can get an idea of the general trends of the choices characters would make. We understand that the character choices may change based on the plot, this is just to get a general idea to figure out the plot structure. It will hopefully be submitted in May and run Juneish.

Please comment with this, if interested:

Character Name:
Character Type/Profession: (Soldier, diplomat, superhero, some kind of descriptor)
Which Side Will They Choose: (Pro-clone, pro-government, refusing to take a side, switching sides?)

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: Everyone is going to have to re-sign up again later, closer to when it's going to be run. So please keep that in mind. This is not official signups, this is to figure out the plot structure.

As of the tail end of this thread, the Trojan Horse plot is finished!

People are still free to backthread, or you want to make new threads with characters celebrating, breathing a sigh of relief, or something else in the immediate aftermath, you can feel free. But otherwise, the retrieving of crew members and the (damaged) Quarter's return to Stacy can be otherwise handwaved (though if you guys want, I can put up a post for the Quarter's arrival back at Stacy), and tagging can resume as normal.

EDIT: Post is up for the Quarter's arrival back on Stacy here.

Plot Post Mortem

So what did you guys think? Those of you in it, and those of you who watched. I really would like to know. So if you have any thoughts, comments or concerns about how the plot was run, or any critiques or ways to improve things for the future, you can comment here. If you're a bit uncomfortable with that, you can also privately and anonly leave a note in the mods drop box and they can pass along to me anything they feel is relevant.

Just letting folks know, so they're not waiting on tags, but I'm dropping Megamind. Love the character, but his voice is too hard to manage longterm.

And with Megamind, Roxanne returns home/to the pods as well.

This unfortunately means a game drop for me, since Roxanne is my only character. I really enjoyed the time I was here even if I didn't tag around a lot. You were all really amazing to stalk and thread with.

Catch you guys later <3