Join the U.N. and see the world
The year is 2052 and Mankind stands at the threshold of another landmark event in its history: the colonisation of Mars. A permanent base was established on the moon 26 years ago and the first in a new generation of space craft has left shipyard at the United Nation's SkyLab One orbital facility and is headed to Mars.
The Mars Pathfinder mission is the culmination of a huge multinational project and has seen unprecedented cooperation between the participating nations, each of them providing the finest scientific, engineering and logistic experts not to mention spending billions of dollars to construct the technology that will make the mission possible.
America, England, Japan and Germany are the largest contributors but all of the United Nations members have contributed in some way to the largest global collaboration the word has seen since WWII. The initial colonisation is a one way mission for the astronauts of Pathfinder. They have the task of making a habitable colony for the 200 'sleepers' aboard the Pathfinder. Advances in technology have allowed the colonists, 200 of the finest scientists, engineers and other professionals who have volunteered and trained for the last five years, to be placed in a stasis like sleep while the advance team of Mars Pathfinders prepare their living and working environment on the harsh surface of the red planet.
The Mars mission takes place amid a backdrop of increased global instability and the UN hopes that when the rest of the world sees the success of the mission it will prove that no obstacles are insurmountable in the face of openness and cooperation between nations.
Running parallel to the Pathfinder mission is an Earth bound UN scientific mission to catalogue and investigate a large number of meteor strikes across the globe. Over the last six months the number of recorded meteor strikes has increased ten fold and the number of objects classified as large (anything over 1 meter in diameter) has risen exponentially. The majority of these objects have been tracked to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The UN publicly makes no connection between the Mars mission and the increase in large scale meteor impacts on Earth, but internally feels the coincidence is something worth investigating.
A am looking for people to play in either (or both) the Mars Pathfinder group and the U.N. Science Team group, ideally 3-5 players in each group filling key roles in each. Maybe also there will be an option to join later as a solo character caught up in a globe spanning story arc.
EDIT: Currently the Mars group is full... Though there are plenty of openings in the UN Earth mission group.
This message was last edited by the user at 12:24, Thu 06 Mar 2014.