Send in the Clones

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Superboy
Character Type/Profession: Superhero/clone
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-clone

[theboywhowaits]

Character Name: Rory Williams
Character Type/Profession: Nurse
Which Side Will They Choose: Refusing to take a side, but sympathizing with the clones and wanting to help them.

[starlightace]

Character Name: Nanoha Takamachi
Character Type/Profession: Hero/diplomat
Which Side Will They Choose: Nanoha is usually very understanding about things, but her fiancee and daughter are both clones, and if anyone tries to take them from her she *will* blow them up.

[encourage]

Character Name: Sakura Haruno
Character Type/Profession: Medic Ninja/Medical/Fighter
Which Side Will They Choose: Coming down the line, pro-clone.

Though as a note: she will try to stay neutral as long as she can. Her sentiments and attitude will pretty obviously not be aligned with the government's thought process and treatment of clones, but depending also on who's issuing commands and what her direct orders are, she'll try to keep a relatively even keel. Likely to follow Rory's lead (or anyone in medical or a position she respects); moralistic enough to want to interfere in ways leaning toward incapacitation, not death/destruction/the clones are also going about it wrong in hurting innocent lives, even if they're slobbish, apathetic lives. Or other clones.

[powervacuum.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Gert Yorkes
Character Type/Profession: Superhero/junior political activist
Which Side Will They Choose: Clones 4eva

[starlightace]

Also, adding a pre-emptive signup here for Kiyuu, who will be tossing Fate T. Harlaown into this, since her computer is borked.

She's a clone, so!

[notsaintkaiser.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Vivio Takamachi
Character Type/Profession: Clone of legendary ruler/mage-in-training
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-Clone (since she, her Fate-mama and her Einhart-chan are all clones)

[needs-release.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Samuel Henderson
Character Type/Profession: Medical
Which Side Will They Choose: Happy medium! He's such a people pleaser

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Character Name:
Character Type/Profession: Medical Assistant/pickpocket
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-gov purely for practical reasons. He's not going to be as repulsed as the others by the clone's situation, though he won't be totally unmoved, but he prioritizes them getting AWESOME TECH first. If everyone else moves pro-clone, he'll go with them, because while getting tech is awesome, pissing off the rest of the crew is not.

[battorch]

I. Don't know if I'll be around (you know this), but if I am I'm totally interested.

Character Name: Tim Drake/Red Robin
Character Type/Profession: Superhero, with diplomatic skills et al
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-clone

[playsin-traffic.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Ildraniath
Character Type/Profession: Diplomat and psyker.
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-government. Ends justify the means. She's not going to pass up a tool that will help them win the war.

[eltneg.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Tieria Erde
Character Type/Profession: Mobile suit pilot/Celestial Being Gundam Meister.
Which Side Will They Choose: Their own. He'll refuse to take a side unless at some point he learns of the clones' intentions (i.e. what they plan to do in the event that they do usurp the government).

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Depending on where the plot takes my characters by the time this plot comes around, will make my decision on who I want for it. But I'm really interested regardless of who I use ^^


Character Name:Ronnae 'Mash Belore Ryllos
Character Type/Profession: Warrior/Engineer
Which Side Will They Choose: Neutral until more info is uncovered. She's been in similar discussions before and she would feel the need to be more informed before taking a side.


Character Name: 779/Splicer
Character Type/Profession: Black Ops soldier/ Powerful Psionics user
Which Side Will They Choose: Whatever side the Crew Officers take. Loyalties are always with Command.

[carrieswar.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Gaignun Kukai Jr. (Rubedo, OR FOR THIS PLOT FUN FACT IS ALSO SOMETIMES KNOWN AS URTV UNIT #666)

Character Type/Profession: CLONE! Former child soldier turned entrepreneur/battleship commander for a space colony that is home to many non-human types who are generally :\'d at. Like clones.

Which Side Will They Choose: Hahaha pro-clone JR.'S DADDY ISSUES LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.

Ugh ugh this is making me to excited but I still have like crap CR for Jr. I NEED TO FIX THAT REALLY BAD. :( MAYBE I'LL POST TOMORROW FOR HIM PLEASE JUMP ME GUISE.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Kanoe Zouichi
Character Type/Profession: Artificial life form/Massive destruction of life and property in a cyberpunk fashion
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-clone.

[shapeshiftqueen.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Gandrayda
Character Type/Profession: Soldier, mostly.
Which Side Will They Choose: Clone, considering she is a shapeshifter.

[not_the_philistine]

Character Name: Goliath
Character Type/Profession: Soldier/person who has been cloned against his will.
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-clone.

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Adam Chase, Chases-Parked-Cars
Character Type/Profession: WoD Werewolf/Urban Revolutionary
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-Clones, so hard.

[thunder-ace.livejournal.com]

FUNK ALREADY THREW MY NAME IN but whatever

Character Name: Fate T. Harlaown
Character Type/Profession: Lieutenant on ship, mage, clone, mama of at least two other clones, can also be a diplomat (but haha not in this case).
Which Side Will They Choose: So pro-clone it hurts.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Urgh, and it's Howard Bassem, obviously. I apparently fail at filling out basic forms.

[governorkang]

Character Name: Kang
Character Type/Profession: Diplomat/Soldier/Clone
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-clone, definitely

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Mindy Macready/Hit Girl
Character Type/Profession: Hero
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro Government purely on the basis of what it could do for them, though least likely to go and have wordy conversation about it. She's a girl of action.

[windyellow]

Character Name: Dustin Brooks
Character Type/Profession: Superhero
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-clone, as Dustin would argue that the clones are still people and should have a right to choose.

[staturity]

I'm going to sign Querl up for this and talk to you later about something I have in mind. Not complex or anything just an idea.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Einhart Stratos
Character Type/Profession: Kidlet Kung-Fu action mage person.
Which Side Will They Choose: Pro-clone.

[seeing-eye-cat.livejournal.com]

Character Name: Arhu
Character Type/Profession: Seer/Wizard
Which Side Will They Choose: Probably pro-clone, with an attempt at something like neutrality. Really, he's a cat. Governments can suck his harbls.