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2084: A sci-fi RPG of business and intrigue.
Date: 2009/02/22 16:00 By: 2084 Status: User  
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2084.

In 2051, war was beginning.

With the European Union continuing to resist the efforts of superpowers like China and the United States in their attempts to publicize the wormhole technology developed by the Swiss and refined by renowned businessman and physicist Gustaf Koehler, tensions began to rise in the world. The Swiss and the French, in attempts to remain neutral, had already begun dismantling their nuclear arsenal and sending the warheads to be processed into pellets for power plants.

This disarmament, however, did not faze any of the superpowers. With the US's Department of Defense wanting to use wormhole technology to deliver bombs to specified targets, and the Chinese Red Army wanting it for immediate troop transport, they soon got into a bitter political feud over who had the rights to the technology.

Neither of them seemed to realize that the technology wasn't theirs to fight over.

In a faux pas of truly dismal proportions, the Chinese and American ambassadors got into a fistfight, one that worked its way up the ranks until the presidents of the respective countries pressed 'the big red button.'

The first attack was launched on Beijing, the silos in the Nevada desert opening for the first time since the Cold War and sending their warheads to China's most populated center. Those warheads obliterated three-quarters of the city in the initial blast, and killed more than a billion people in the first minutes of the blast. Buildings were destroyed, entire city blocks leveled by the hydrogen fusion bombs, and not even the charred remains of corpses to be seen. The city became a wasteland.

This was not before China had launched its own attack. The Red Army, predominantly Buddhist, had petitioned for an assault against the center of the Catholic faith, Vatican City. The Government had wanted an attack on a major population center in America. Both got their wish. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles arced from the countryside, hitting Los Angeles with devastating impact. The city, and nearby San Francisco, were immediately reduced to smoking craters by the blast.

The resulting impact on the San Andreas fault, however, took more lives. All up and down the Pacific coast of the United States, extending through Alaska and the Aleutian islands, even extending as far as northern Japan, devastating earthquakes killed hundreds of millions of people. All told, in these two attacks alone, twenty-five percent of Earth's population was killed in the first ten minutes of this war.

The final missiles, however, had the worst impact of all. Not in terms of human life - the casualties only numbered in the tens of thousands, but of faith. Vatican City, the stronghold of religion since time immemorial, reduced to a shell of its former self by the Chinese attack. Ornate frescoes millennia old, sculptures, works of art, books... all vaporized in the final attack of a brutal religious war.

While the nuclear holocaust ended with those three strikes (disregarding several exchanges of tactical warheads), the governments of the world were unsatisfied. Intercontinental bombers flew over targets across the world, demolishing city after city until the warring factions simply could not continue.

Those were dark times, indeed.

Out of the ashes of the past, humanity reassembled itself. Fearing a replay of the past, the forces of civilization united under a single banner. The Federal Republic of Terra was created in 2054, and by the year 2060, the human race was back on track. Gustaf Koehler, having established his corporation OmniDirect Enterprises (ODE) before the war, took a major role in worldwide reconstruction and operation. By 2066, ODE's individual GDP exceeded that of the Federal Republic of Terra.

ODE became ubiquitous, producing toasters and tanks and buildings and bread for the world. Koehler, using the wormhole technology he solely possessed, began sponsoring extrasolar colonies. Years of risky borrowing by the Federal Republic left the Terran government with a massive debt to ODE. More and more, the world began to appear to be as simply an extension of corporate policy. By 2084, the transactions of OmniDirect Enterprises make up almost eighty percent of worldwide finances.

The world: a corporation - not several, but one.


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This is a game based loosely off the novel "1984" by George Orwell. It is a futuristic political intrigue Free-Form RPG, with forums on the Solaris layout. It is chronological, meaning that the date you post matters as much as what you post.

2084 is a world of business and politics, science and research, fugitives and freedom-fighters.

Let's see what all this is about.
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Re:2084: A sci-fi RPG of business and intrigue.
Date: 2009/02/23 15:55 By: Mike Status: Admin  
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Welcome to RPGee and thanks for joining. Only issue is when I try to go to http://2084.my-pages.net/ (your site), I get a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error.
Have knowledge, will help.
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Re:2084: A sci-fi RPG of business and intrigue.
Date: 2009/03/01 15:17 By: 2084 Status: User  
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That issue was fixed.

Additionally, we have moved to a dedicated domain name.

See us at: www.2084rpg.net
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