The landscape has changed. Geographically and politically. Refusal to take action against the way humanity was changing the climate have caused sea levels to rise,and droughts and superstorms to become common.The most powerful nation on Earth’s president is the younger brother of the head of The Helios Corporation, a global energy giant that constitutes an empire with all of it’s various holdings and political clout. It has it’s own military a “security” company called Mermidon Security Forces that have acted as privatized soldiers around the globe where wars were fought over energy and fuel interests.Their ranks are full of former black ops troops. Workers watched as smaller unions vanished and their rights along with them and most of the remaining unions eventually merged into the Global Shoreworkers Union, a giant global union whose workers handle all the trade-both legal and illicit-everywhere in the world. The head of this union is referred to often as simply The Russian and his right and left hand enforcers are called The Hammer and Sickle. The Russian is undeniably corrupt and well connected and capable of having people vanished but he also takes good care of the workers around the globe who are GSU members and indeed to be a non GSU worker in this world is a dire fate indeed. There is one place untouched however. New Ilium- A walled off sovereign bio regional city state. New Ilium is an oasis where the city has been shaped by organically symbiotic technologies and engineering to create a sustainable ecotopia.Founded by scientists and others who gave up on protesting for the powers that were making the mess to stop and turn things around they found a place that welcomed them to do it there.Generations have now grown up in New Ilium never knowing the outside world. But outside the walls forces are in motion to take control of the city-or destroy it in the attempt. You will play as a character that exists in one of the major spheres of influence and power either inside or outside of New Ilium. There will be multiple threads/POV at first with these spheres moving closer to converging and eventually the worlds of New Ilium and the world of The Helios Corporation collide.
Hosted and narrated by:
Angus Adair (Snowball)
Started 05/20/14.
Scenes played: 3
License: Community License