Necroing this thread to say...
There's a new setting now! Now we're all trapped on a spaceship with no fuel, riddled with hull breaches sealed off by blast doors, attached to another ship full of zombies controlled by an alien that uses psychic powers to mess with people's minds, and being dragged along by said ship to Mars.
Don't have to worry about not finding people to talk to. You can't walk five feet now without bumping into someone.
History lesson:
Before society on Earth went to hell in a handbasket, the ship known as the SBS Pheonix brought a shipment of gold to act as an economy-starter to kickstart society on the moon. Society on the Moon was pretty much an utopia. And a scientist (forgot his name) created a cure against all diseases. But a small group of terrorists who wanted to screw up everything good for some odd reason stole the cure and modified it. They had planned to use it as a bargaining chip (I'm a bit sketchy on that specific part). But it leaked out anyways, killing off most of the life on the Moon. Those who survived ended up having irrepairable damage to their genetic code. Every survivor had a chance of birthing a normal human or a mutant, and every child had the same chance, and every child of that child, and so on. And those who didn't contract the virus fled to the SBS Atlas, the ship we're on now, and were put into cyrostasis. Only problem is it never launched.
Eventually some of the human population reverted back to strong religious beliefs and thought the mutants were the cause of all their trouble. And that sparked a civil war between religious fanatics and mutants and human sympathizers. And that's when New Pheonix started making bullets, out of their most quantiable resource; gold. They were eventually the only government left standing at the end, though not by much. And over hundreds of years, society started coming back like the old west. Atlas city becoming a giant junkyard ravaged by the civil war, and a new city known as Tram to become a city of commerce. And lastly, a city known as Reims, which acted as an outpost mostly to the eastern side of the atmospheric bubble. Whereas New Pheonix started using gold again as currency and became pretty much a dictatorship, keeping tabs on all the cities.
Reims got fed up and started creating the Revolutionary Army to fight back against New Pheonix, but they got the shit bombed out of them and that was it. Survivors started the town known as Grungetown. Eventually it built back up, and then New Pheonix bombed the shit out of that town too after a group of players raided one of its bunkers where it was discovered that the Gaiman Corporation from New Pheonix was performing experiments on the zombie-like aliens that laid dormant in one of the other colony ship that came to the Moon but crashed in a far off part of it. The alien infection was once again let loose and New Pheonix along with the survivors from Grungetown had to work together to get to the dormant ship that the population was originally going to use before the civil war broke out.
And now here we are, in space, with no fuel, attached to the missing colony ship that was suppose to find a place to terraform on Alpha Centauri, but came back with an alien infection that's kind of like the Thing, on a collison course with Mars, the last place that was terraformed but communications between the Moon and Mars was lost shortly before the civil war.
AND NOW TO CLARIFY ON WHY GOLD IS USE AS BULLETS
It was brought from Earth to kickstart the economy. That's why we have, or -had-, a shitload of it.
It's is a relatively soft metal. Way softer than lead. You know what that means? That means it doesn't break up on impact.
That makes it really easy to scavenge gold back after shooting something, but it's just one big piece of squished up metal instead of a million shards.
And the fact that gold is softer makes it even more deadly than lead. Because it mushrooms, causing more damaged. That's why hollow points have such a shakey foundation when it comes to legality in the US and UN.
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Topic: AtonementRPI V2 - It's like Mad Max. On the moon. (Read 5489 times)