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Zilina is a city inhabited by humans and their Pokemon. Situated on a river and nestled between great mountain ranges, it grew into an important factory city.
However, one corporation (often known simply as 'the Corporation') was able to rise above it's competition, buying up Zilina's industries, resources, and transport. Eventually, the city's government was bought out and marginalized, turning Zilina into a corporatocracy.
The ruling board of directors had a plan drafted that would transform the core residential areas into an 'upper city' whose residents, anybody that was not a lower-class laborer or factory worker, would live at the highest standard of living possible, living comfortably surrounded by high technology and freedom from industrial pollution.
However, the majority of residents in the city would be kept in impovershed working-class housing, consisting of the older city sectors not deemed suitable for the project, and newly-built large, overcrowded tenements that sometimes stood far too close to the factories. The most care the Corporation gives to the 'lower city' is constant surveillance to ensure that workers work and live in a 'positive enviroment'.
This project became known as the Sigma City Project, and most of it has been completed, with Sigma City a gleaming upper city rising above the poor masses of laborers below. It is tiered for different sorts of residents. The tiers form concentric rings. From the outermost ring inward, they are for: clerks, security workers, and scientists; government officials; deparment administrators; and finally, the board of directors and their families. Everyone else lives in the squalid 'lower city', where conditions range from barely tolerable in the new tenements, to inhospitable in the old city. While Sigma City's residents 'work to live', old Zilina's residents are made to 'live to work.'
Resistance is present, however. Many laborers' movements combined to form the 'Worker's Vanguard', a resistance group that fights the Corporation. They usually hide out in the lower city and prove to be a thorn in the Corporation's side in a myriad of ways. They are mercilessly hunted by the Internal Security Department, who often post, ineffectual, rewards for capture of members as well as ordinary violent methods. A few years ago, they successfully organized a mass riot, which got about a sixth of the laborer population killed, mostly because Internal Security rounded up and killed many laborers, regardless of whether or not they were rioting.
Also active is Team Galactic's Zilina Branch. They were about to corner the energy market with their research, and thus have a shot at taking Zilina for themselves, but were squashed by Internal Security after an exhaustive operation of searches and executions. However, they managed to sneak away into the shadows, and operate in opposition to the Worker's Vanguard and the Corporation. Team Galactic cannot hope to challenge the Corporation as they are now, though. Nor can they afford to face the Vanguard in open warfare. They mostly perform smalltime operations against both sides, however some say that they are bringing in more and more reinforcements every day.
There are two major genetic experiments of note:
Project 2884, or the Hydra Experiments, successfully created hybrids of humans and Pokemon. The new mutants are used as heavy-duty laborers and specialists in Zilina's industries. They have powers from their genetic splicing, but they are weaker than those of a normal Pokemon. The hybrids are constantly viewed with suspicion by Internal Security, who maintains stricter laws for hybrids than for normal humans. They are also found in Sigma City as pets or slaves of the residents.
Project Empath tampered with Pokemon genetics. The objective was to create Pokemon that had elemental powers beyond what their species was normally capable of. Pokemon which were normally one type could be enhanced with a second type, and Pokemon with two types could gain a third. They were also evolved to be able to speak with humans, and are either employed by Internal Security as elite guards, usually partnered with a human operative. Some, however, are reported missing, and suspected to have run off to join the Worker's Vanguard, or have been kidnapped by Team Galactic.
Funny, I didn't mean it to be that long.
Rules:
- Reasonable grammar and spelling at all times.
- All forum rules apply, obviously.
- All RP forum rules apply, of course.
- This RP is rated PG-13. Keep it that way.
- You can have up to three characters, but all on the same side, please.
- Use some common sense.
- Do you want to lead the Worker's Vanguardor Team Galactic? Mention it in your post/sign-up.
- The products of Project Empath are capable of using moves of it's new type that it would not normally be able to learn, but gain the weaknesses of that type, though perhaps not as strongly as normal Pokemon of that type.
Form:
Name:
Race: Human, Hybrid, Pokemon, or Empath
Species: If you're a Pokemon, empath, or hybrid.
Gender:
Age:
Empath type: Your character's extra type if he/she is a product of Project Empath
Appearance:
Side: The Corporation, the Worker's Vanguard, or Team Galactic
Personality: At least a few descriptive words here, don't just put 'played out'.
Biography: It just needs to be longer than a sentence.
Pokemon owned: Optional if you're human.
Other:
Reservations:
Characters:
The Corporation:
Radovan Masaryk, Ursula, and Hermes, link008
Tanya, Kali the Flygon
Moonlight Fullmoon, Mewtwo
Shallo Hazuno, Sock
Worker's Vanguard:
Ropisa & Kino, shadow_lugia
Storm (second-in-command) and Shadowstreak, Dragon
Obsidian & Melanie, Shining Eevee
Ming-Yue Ryuu, moon-panther
Team Galactic, Zilina branch:
Tuma (Leader) and Malum (éminence grise), Exo-Raikou
Shellby, Darksong
Maris Lark, Cryptica
Eruzione, Male Gardevoir
Karae, Stormecho
Starr Diamond, Full Metal Cookies
Name: Radovan Masaryk
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Appearance: Radovan has black-brown hair, usually unkept, and dark brown eyes. He stands at around 6 feet. On the job, Radovan typically wears a white t-shirt, gray trousers, a brown trenchcoat, and a pair of leather loafers.
Side: The Corporation
Personality: On the job, Radovan is all-business. He takes a dim view of anyone who is fighting the corporation, showing no mercy, never backing down and holding a near flawless record of arrests, though he's not exactly brutal. In his new role, he is calm and collected, usually sure of himself. Once duty ends and he gets home, though, he is laid back and quite friendly.
Biography: Radovan is the son of a department head, though he chose to work Internal Security early on, despite his father's protests. He got the job easily, and hasn't done much since, besides changing roles from an ordinary beat patrol to a special investigator. He lives in a comfortable condominium in Sigma City.
Name: Ursula
Race: Empath
Species: Gardevoir
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Empath type: Ghost
Appearance: A normal-looking Gardevoir.
Side: The Corporation
Personality: Ursula is usually practical and observant. She notices things that Radovan won't see. Otherwise, she tends to be quiet on the job. She doesn't often see a need to be violent, though it never gets in the way of helping Radovan out, always doing what he says on duty. Much like Radovan, she relaxes once they get home.
Biography: Ursula was one of the first subjects of Project Empath, and a successful one, at that. For most of her life, she has been placed under the custody of corporate scientists, observing how the genetic modifications affected her. However, the trial phase ended and she was placed into service under Internal Security, assigned to Radovan as a partner.
Name: Hermes
Race: Pokemon
Species: Porygon2
Gender: Genderless
Age: 4
Appearance: Normal Porygon2.
Side: The Corporation
Personality: Hermes has a simple AI built-in, which tends to be sardonic in nature. Otherwise, it follows directives from above to the letter, but also accepts commands from authorized operators, mostly Internal Service personnel. Hermes is very analytical, as is fitting for a surveillance unit.
Biography: Hermes is a surveillance Porygon2, employed by the Corporation to watch over the laborers of the lower city, and pursue suspects, if need be. It can also deliver messages and communicate with all Internal Security personnel. Hermes's area is roughly the same as the sector Radovan is assigned.
However, one corporation (often known simply as 'the Corporation') was able to rise above it's competition, buying up Zilina's industries, resources, and transport. Eventually, the city's government was bought out and marginalized, turning Zilina into a corporatocracy.
The ruling board of directors had a plan drafted that would transform the core residential areas into an 'upper city' whose residents, anybody that was not a lower-class laborer or factory worker, would live at the highest standard of living possible, living comfortably surrounded by high technology and freedom from industrial pollution.
However, the majority of residents in the city would be kept in impovershed working-class housing, consisting of the older city sectors not deemed suitable for the project, and newly-built large, overcrowded tenements that sometimes stood far too close to the factories. The most care the Corporation gives to the 'lower city' is constant surveillance to ensure that workers work and live in a 'positive enviroment'.
This project became known as the Sigma City Project, and most of it has been completed, with Sigma City a gleaming upper city rising above the poor masses of laborers below. It is tiered for different sorts of residents. The tiers form concentric rings. From the outermost ring inward, they are for: clerks, security workers, and scientists; government officials; deparment administrators; and finally, the board of directors and their families. Everyone else lives in the squalid 'lower city', where conditions range from barely tolerable in the new tenements, to inhospitable in the old city. While Sigma City's residents 'work to live', old Zilina's residents are made to 'live to work.'
Resistance is present, however. Many laborers' movements combined to form the 'Worker's Vanguard', a resistance group that fights the Corporation. They usually hide out in the lower city and prove to be a thorn in the Corporation's side in a myriad of ways. They are mercilessly hunted by the Internal Security Department, who often post, ineffectual, rewards for capture of members as well as ordinary violent methods. A few years ago, they successfully organized a mass riot, which got about a sixth of the laborer population killed, mostly because Internal Security rounded up and killed many laborers, regardless of whether or not they were rioting.
Also active is Team Galactic's Zilina Branch. They were about to corner the energy market with their research, and thus have a shot at taking Zilina for themselves, but were squashed by Internal Security after an exhaustive operation of searches and executions. However, they managed to sneak away into the shadows, and operate in opposition to the Worker's Vanguard and the Corporation. Team Galactic cannot hope to challenge the Corporation as they are now, though. Nor can they afford to face the Vanguard in open warfare. They mostly perform smalltime operations against both sides, however some say that they are bringing in more and more reinforcements every day.
There are two major genetic experiments of note:
Project 2884, or the Hydra Experiments, successfully created hybrids of humans and Pokemon. The new mutants are used as heavy-duty laborers and specialists in Zilina's industries. They have powers from their genetic splicing, but they are weaker than those of a normal Pokemon. The hybrids are constantly viewed with suspicion by Internal Security, who maintains stricter laws for hybrids than for normal humans. They are also found in Sigma City as pets or slaves of the residents.
Project Empath tampered with Pokemon genetics. The objective was to create Pokemon that had elemental powers beyond what their species was normally capable of. Pokemon which were normally one type could be enhanced with a second type, and Pokemon with two types could gain a third. They were also evolved to be able to speak with humans, and are either employed by Internal Security as elite guards, usually partnered with a human operative. Some, however, are reported missing, and suspected to have run off to join the Worker's Vanguard, or have been kidnapped by Team Galactic.
Funny, I didn't mean it to be that long.
Rules:
- Reasonable grammar and spelling at all times.
- All forum rules apply, obviously.
- All RP forum rules apply, of course.
- This RP is rated PG-13. Keep it that way.
- You can have up to three characters, but all on the same side, please.
- Use some common sense.
- Do you want to lead the Worker's Vanguard
- The products of Project Empath are capable of using moves of it's new type that it would not normally be able to learn, but gain the weaknesses of that type, though perhaps not as strongly as normal Pokemon of that type.
Form:
Name:
Race: Human, Hybrid, Pokemon, or Empath
Species: If you're a Pokemon, empath, or hybrid.
Gender:
Age:
Empath type: Your character's extra type if he/she is a product of Project Empath
Appearance:
Side: The Corporation, the Worker's Vanguard, or Team Galactic
Personality: At least a few descriptive words here, don't just put 'played out'.
Biography: It just needs to be longer than a sentence.
Pokemon owned: Optional if you're human.
Other:
Reservations:
Characters:
The Corporation:
Radovan Masaryk, Ursula, and Hermes, link008
Tanya, Kali the Flygon
Moonlight Fullmoon, Mewtwo
Shallo Hazuno, Sock
Worker's Vanguard:
Ropisa & Kino, shadow_lugia
Storm (second-in-command) and Shadowstreak, Dragon
Obsidian & Melanie, Shining Eevee
Ming-Yue Ryuu, moon-panther
Team Galactic, Zilina branch:
Tuma (Leader) and Malum (éminence grise), Exo-Raikou
Shellby, Darksong
Maris Lark, Cryptica
Eruzione, Male Gardevoir
Karae, Stormecho
Starr Diamond, Full Metal Cookies
Name: Radovan Masaryk
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Appearance: Radovan has black-brown hair, usually unkept, and dark brown eyes. He stands at around 6 feet. On the job, Radovan typically wears a white t-shirt, gray trousers, a brown trenchcoat, and a pair of leather loafers.
Side: The Corporation
Personality: On the job, Radovan is all-business. He takes a dim view of anyone who is fighting the corporation, showing no mercy, never backing down and holding a near flawless record of arrests, though he's not exactly brutal. In his new role, he is calm and collected, usually sure of himself. Once duty ends and he gets home, though, he is laid back and quite friendly.
Biography: Radovan is the son of a department head, though he chose to work Internal Security early on, despite his father's protests. He got the job easily, and hasn't done much since, besides changing roles from an ordinary beat patrol to a special investigator. He lives in a comfortable condominium in Sigma City.
Name: Ursula
Race: Empath
Species: Gardevoir
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Empath type: Ghost
Appearance: A normal-looking Gardevoir.
Side: The Corporation
Personality: Ursula is usually practical and observant. She notices things that Radovan won't see. Otherwise, she tends to be quiet on the job. She doesn't often see a need to be violent, though it never gets in the way of helping Radovan out, always doing what he says on duty. Much like Radovan, she relaxes once they get home.
Biography: Ursula was one of the first subjects of Project Empath, and a successful one, at that. For most of her life, she has been placed under the custody of corporate scientists, observing how the genetic modifications affected her. However, the trial phase ended and she was placed into service under Internal Security, assigned to Radovan as a partner.
Name: Hermes
Race: Pokemon
Species: Porygon2
Gender: Genderless
Age: 4
Appearance: Normal Porygon2.
Side: The Corporation
Personality: Hermes has a simple AI built-in, which tends to be sardonic in nature. Otherwise, it follows directives from above to the letter, but also accepts commands from authorized operators, mostly Internal Service personnel. Hermes is very analytical, as is fitting for a surveillance unit.
Biography: Hermes is a surveillance Porygon2, employed by the Corporation to watch over the laborers of the lower city, and pursue suspects, if need be. It can also deliver messages and communicate with all Internal Security personnel. Hermes's area is roughly the same as the sector Radovan is assigned.
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