PRE-APPLICATION DISCUSSION POST!

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Hey guys! I had some requests for a discussion post where people can shoot the shit about potential backstory and power ideas, so here it is!

For best results, make sure to check out the FAQ and other setting information for inspiration, such as superhero registration and power levels, as well as taking at peek at the game wiki to see what's already been started!

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Feel free to discuss any facet of the setting you like, and how they relate to your character ideas!

Please keep in mind though, that nothing can be set in stone until the related apps are accepted. Try to not rely completely on everything on this board being apped successfully.

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Have fun!

Comments

Re: MILLY & BAELHEIT | RE: CYBORGS/CYBERNETICS

[nitrodamus]

Yeah, I think it's definitely a very flexible time when it comes to how cybernetics and advanced AI are treated, which actually makes it fairly interesting for a character like this, because he could have a lot of personal sway in how things roll out.

It obviously isn't all around illegal, but I think the most questionable thing in terms of Milly would be that his technology would not have been test approved for medical use on humans. Since, like medication, that thing would probably have to be approved to be allowed in a more general sense. So while nobody would get arrested or whatever happened to Milly, it could see be seen and weird and embarassing that he used EXPERIMENTAL TECHNOLOGY on his own, unconsenting child.

And since there's probably still a great deal of debate (which i'm sure would also be religiously fueled) there are probably people who would react to Milly badly if they knew the extent of her replacements. It'd probably be on par with being a homosexual about a decade back in terms of social unpleasantness.

Re: MILLY & BAELHEIT | RE: CYBORGS/CYBERNETICS

[bombsheltered]

YEAH that's what I had thought, more or less -- that while cybernetics themselves might not be seen as BAD AND EVIL, the circumstances of Milly's becoming a cyborg (and where the technology originated) are questionable at best. And Baelheit certainly wouldn't be the only one out there developing cybernetics, but he's made a career out of it and is probably decently well-known, at least by folks in the R&D/science community. Milly has her own very strong reasons for wanting to keep it a secret, and Baelheit has impressed the need for secrecy on her basically her whole life, but I imagine that if and when he gets closer to his goals (DESTINY) he might feel the need for her to be public about it in order to further his cause. I'm still working out what office he would even run for, because I'm not sure what would be the most useful for him. But I think it's safe to say that cybernetic implants for humans are at least somewhat controversial at this point?

ha ha "test approved". Milly was the test. The test of destiny.

Re: MILLY & BAELHEIT | RE: CYBORGS/CYBERNETICS

[liberaition]

embrace your destiny milly

come to the cyborg side. whirrr. whiiirrr.