Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?

[ThatGuyThere]

@ghost

@ghost said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

Orville.

Just sayin.

AI almost upvoted this than I remembered what MUSHers do to settings, why would you wish this on a promising show?
Plus MU players really don't do humor well for the most part and without the humor it would be TNG. (That is not a bad thing but the pitfalls of Trek mushes have been well discussed.)

[Bobotron]

@ghost
Along the same line, Starship Troopers (based more on the novels and Roughnecks cartoon, which was a bit more wartime take on it) would be pretty cool.

[Ghost]

@thatguythere Fair enough, but if I had to choose between another Trek MU and an Orville MU, I know where my money's at.

[ThatGuyThere]

@ghost
In truth I would likely choose Orville too, if only because we have not seen it done, so it might break old patterns.

[Ghost]

@bobotron said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@ghost
Along the same line, Starship Troopers (based more on the novels and Roughnecks cartoon, which was a bit more wartime take on it) would be pretty cool.

Colonial Marines:

• Infantry
• Pilots
• Medics
• Technicians
• Convicted criminals serving their sentence in the marines
• Smartgunners
• Corporate Attaché
• Synthetics
• Corporate lab techs/scientists

Starship Troopers:

• Mobile Infantry/Assigned Naval crew
• Psychics
• Infantry
• Medics
• Snipers
• Heavy Weaponry
• Armored Battlesuit land tanks
• K9 Units...

Seems a good setup for FS3

[Lithium]

@ghost I would actually play a game with FS3 if it were an Aliens setting world... I like the colonial marines angle a lot.

[Ghost]

@lithium said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@ghost I would actually play a game with FS3 if it were an Aliens setting world... I like the colonial marines angle a lot.

The thing I really liked about the idea when it crossed my mind was the corporate soldier setting. In canon, the military was outsourced to private corporations, so a lot of these soldiers were being yanked around by Weyland-Yutani to do soldiery stuff, but under the dystopian guise of corporate control of political policy.

So the setting wouldn't have to be CONSTANT aliens and/or predators, but could also have this element of:

• "We were sent to Gradis-54 to reclaim a mining operation from armed rebels" (Who were, in fact, seeking independence due to corporate greed)
• "We were combat dropped into a hazardous wasteland to provide security for corporate officers while they installed a strange lab..."

I think the trick, though, would be writing stories that didn't constantly end up wanting to make the players shoot their corporate bosses, you know? Weyland Yutani are assholes, so the storylines of where the marines go and when would have to be carefully crafted to avoid that.

[Bobotron]

@ghost
You'd have to have some sort of good economic/IC benefits system, really. It's why real life PMCs are the way they are; they get paid TONS of money to do the job.

[Ghost]

@bobotron said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@ghost
You'd have to have some sort of good economic/IC benefits system, really. It's why real life PMCs are the way they are; they get paid TONS of money to do the job.

Vacations, money wired home to family, finding yourself some Arcturians...

That's a good way to angle it. The kind of personalities involved in being in a PMC for money would likely weed out a lot of "I'm doing this for the betterment of the universe" and result in a slightly more mercenary mindset.

[Bobotron]

@ghost
Right. And the true humanitarians don't then derail your entire game setup/premise.

[Ghost]

@bobotron Wow, thank you, I'm suddenly seeing it a bit more clearly.

I mean most of the Colonial Marines in the movie were assholes, but they weren't all heartless. Many of them were mercenary, and even though they were merc-like, they still patted Newt on the head, or didn't want some kid to get killed.

You can be a mercenary hired to do a job and not go all Apocalypse Now Evil with it. They still took their queues from their officers and the Corporati who set the mission parameters. It's part of the job, and so long as the stories don't push hard limits (like genocidal behavior), the reality would be "Fuck it, put the kids and their daddies on the transport back home. They were stupid for trying to homestead on government property, anyway. Once this job's done I got a barbecue and a beach full of hot people for leave in six weeks, and this cash is gonna buy me a whole lot of tequila."

[Bobotron]

@ghost
Exactly. And a lot of times, the corporation won't out and out say 'Genocide the homesteaders' but will have implied things, or loose enough interpretations (outside of 'OH SHIT YAUTJA') that the concept of shipping them back as criminals is entirely doable.

[fatefan]

@ghost I am surprised at how surprised I am that I want to see (make?) this happen.

[Ghost]

@fatefan Not gonna lie. I'm heavily considering it. Actual consideration. It's not like we don't have every resource possible for help with FS3.

[faraday]

@ghost said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

You had me at Colonial Marines.

[Jennkryst]

... Can I be a Xenomorph? IN DISGUYZ, to explain why no one has killed me yet?

[Ghost]

@jennkryst Every xenomorph begins as a xenomorph in disguise.

[Autumn]

@ghost "Every facehugger is sacred, every facehugger is great; if a facehugger is wasted, the Queen gets quite irate ..."

[Ghost]

@autumn Hah! nice

There's a novel series where a cult begins to worship the aliens. They present themselves naked to their queen, ready to be purified...and then freaked out as facehuggers began taking them down.

Sometimes you pray to the wrong god at the wrong time.

[Chet]

I've iceboxed my experimental project for another day, and I'm going to go with that DC Comics henchman project. It's a Villains United theme, with XP and earning Gear for OCs, leadership positions for villain FCs, and temp lockers for heroes so anyone can GM any hero. I'm making it as inclusive as possible for theme ranges in DC Comics, instead of just going Gotham City. I rewriting the playbook a little as far as MUSH concepts go, there's a link to a couple Dropbox documents in room #0 on the project. portent.genesismuds.com:2070 is the addy, drop in and let me know if any of you want in. I don't want to direct the finished product, I should note, if any of you feel like it's something you'd be interested in running.