New: Inter-Universal Diplomacy RPG (free, open-ended, www, human, space, modern, rpg, abstract)
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Costs: Free
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Email: iudiplomacy zat gmx.com
URL: http://iudffrp.hostrocket.com/
Type: free-form, open-ended, sci-fi, diplomacy, Play-by-forum
Last-Update: 2008May07
Keywords: free, open-ended, www, human, space, modern, rpg, abstract
Description:
In 2005 an independant film studio created a prop for a sci-fi movie. The
movie was a flop and the studio went bankrupt a year later. The prop
however was actually something more. It turned out to be a wormhole
generator that allowed access to parallel worlds.
The US military acquired the device and hooked it up to a computer to
enable them to control the destination of the wormholes. They started
sending teams through to other universes. They also formed a coalition of
universes these universes could join. It is called the Alliance of
Parallel Universes.
Over time conflict in the Alliance caused it to split in two. The
universes that broke away formed a coalition called the Confederation of
Worlds with Parallel Universe Technology. The Confederation and the
Alliance are at war. War ranges from "cold war" to actual military
conflict depending on the individual universes involved.
There is also a "neutral" universe. Earth in this universe is called
Schitzocratic World. SW is the only world in both coalitions. It has two
UNs because most of this world's countries have at least two governments -
neither recognizing the legitimacy of the other. One UN is in favor of the
Alliance, the other the Confederation.
You can be a representative of one of the many governments on
Schitzocratic or you can be a representative of a world whose universe is
in one of the coalitions. Do you have what it takes to make your
government/world prosper or will you be relegated to a footnote in
history?
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