The Lightbringer Mutany
(SciFi Scenario with postapocalyptic elements, suitable for shooters, adventures, RPG and even MMOG. Please contact us if you are serious in making a complex game based upon this story)
2052: Scientists discover a growing distortion within the magnetic fields of the sun. First calculations show that a dangerous increase of solar turbulences could occurr in the next decades.
2055: The joint examination team, consisting of the very best NASA, Russian and Chinese scientists, speaks in front of the UNO during a secret meeting of the worlds leaders. They had sent two probes to the corona of the sun, and after evaluating the results send to earth, their calculated model shows a horrible danger for earth and mankind: With a likeness of more than 92%, there will be hyper-turbulences, around the year 2078, sending so huge loads of radiation throughout our solar system, that most of the life in it will be wiped out. Gamma Rays with deadly potential will be sent out for weeks, if not months, and even if life could prevail, the technical infrastructure will be melted. The end of our civilisation is most likely to come.
2057: After talking and negotiating around for almost two years, the nations of the world unite in a pact called "Frozen Frontiers for survival", that bans all wars on our planets, setting the military budgets free for three different projects that shall guarantee the survival of mankind:
1. Project Prevention:
Five unmanned and two manned missions to the suns corona, with latest in Tesla Technology will try to get controll over the distortion in the magnetic field in order to prevent or at least lower the consequences.
2. Project Protection:
Engineers and highly skilled technicans all over the world are designing, building and improving bunkers, and they work on measures turning whole street blocks into secured areas. They also start developement of HighTech that is immune to radiation blasts and EMP effects.
Project Lightbringer:
The most expensive and ambitious project. In an high earth orbit, the space agencies from all over the world utilize the finest technology available on earth in order to built a generation ship:
The Lightbringer
is a huge generation ship, designed to accomodate more than 20.000 men and women on a journey to a star system called "Asylum", which was discovered and examinated by deep-space radiation telescopes in 2037 and shows signs of three different planets that could be colonized, with two of them actually providing a dense, oxygen-producing vegetation.
With the very best in human propulsion technology, speeding the Lightbringer up to 60% of Lightspeed, it will still take slightly more than 300 years (10 generations) for the crew to arrive.
There would be several nearer star systems with planets that are sufficient for colonization, some even in reach of a humans lifetime, but the decision was made:
If the lightbringer will be bear the last remains of mankind, it shall provide a new start for our civilization in the best environment possible - and that`s the Asylum system.
With 8000 passengers, selected from all over the earth based upon their physical and mental constitution, their intelligence and of course their fertility, the Lightbringer starts in 2072 its long, long journey to the stars. It takes more than 70% of the ultra-rare materials (Iridium, Wolfram...) from earth and a huge load of other valuable ressources with it, not only to provide the best start for the new human cilization, but also for the unlikely need of trading goods when encountering another civilization.
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2185:
You are XXX, proud Guardian (a kind of security officer) serving on the bridge and in the science labs of the Lightbringer. Almost 15.000 inhabitants are now living, working, raising children and dying aboard the Lightbringer which has made about 37% of its way to Asylum, with 63 more to go.
The society onboard, the social structures and even the religious beliefs are highly affected and dominated by total devotion to the missions goal. Everyone is living in order to ensure that one day the descendants will reach Asylum, everything else is from minor interest. The people see themselves as chosen ones in a religious sense of meaning, and the mission officers are seen as high-priests of this beliefe. Every percent of the distance made, is celebrated in a huge party (once in 3 years), and all prayers are begging for safe journey and a prosperous future in the Asylum system. Earth is a fading memory, and the common sense is, that if someone has survived there, the civilization there is reduced to some remote habitats.
On the 21st of March 2185, during your first shift, you are standing on the bridge, close to the captains chair. Since you have reached the rank "Guardian 1st class", you have this honour twice a week. High Priest (Captain) Ijoko Harashi, a 55 yrs old, highly intelligent woman, is reading the reports, calculating alternative routes to bypass meteors and signing congratulation messages to all newborns, jumps of her seat as a red light turns on and a strange signal is heared, a signal you`ve never heard before.
It`s the incoming COM signal, that was last heared in 2078, when the radiation blast destroyed the earth` satellites.
In front of the Lightbringer, about 2000 yards ahead, a space distortion with same speed as the generation ship itself emerges. The bubble of local space time collapses, and a strange ship can be seen, a very elegant, shape, that is new even to the history officer, sitting on the bridge and staring as stupid into space as all others of the 32 men and women on the bridge. It`s a small ship compared to the lightbringer, but a beautiful construction.
"Here is Major John Sellers from the Earth Scout Ship Ikarus. Lightbringer, can you hear me?"
Shaken, trembling and overwhelmed, Harashi needs some minutes before answering.
"Here is Ijoko Harashi, High Priest of the Lightbringer. Identify yourself and your species! You can`t be from earth!"
A laughter is heard.
"Yes, M`am, I´m from earth, and I expected such an answer. The blast did come, and did quite a damage to our civilization. But Project Prevention and Project Protection did their jobs well, and we slowly recovered from the reset button that was pressed upon mankind. Most of our memory chips and data storages were gone, but we made it. 60 years ago a genius from India invented the STC, the spacetime compressor, allowing to work around the lightspeed limit. All nearby planets and systems, including Asylum, are now inhabitated or at least taken by first settlers."
With all of your beliefs shaken, all of your goals gone and the basement of your society destroyed, you stare at Harashi. She`s in no better condition than all of the bridges crew, but she answers.
"Allright, and what are we supposed to? We`ll need still almost 2 centuries to arrive..."
She is interrupted.
"My job was to find you, M`am, and I can tell you, that most of the people thought the Lightbringer, with all outdated technolgoy, was lost in space. Now I`ve to report that you`re still out there. I can`t tell what is thought off, but there are some problems. All STC ships are very small compared to the Lightbringer, our hugest vessels are carrying about 50 to 100 passengers each. So we can`t evacuate you all, at least not in a reasonable time. I`ll fly back to the next outpost and ask for some technicans to look after you and if they can power up your engines in order to reach the next colony in a decent time. Sellers Out."
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Although Harashi has ordered strict confidence, the rumours are spreading fast, and three days after the encounter, the society onboard is crumbling. All of the beliefs, all of the higher goal is gone, and despari is spreading, dividing up the society. Some want to return to earth, some want to fly into Asylum, but most of the people want to reach the next human colony and abondon the now senseless life onboard the Lightbringer. Tensions are growing, and while the men and women in charge are still waiting for the next ship passing by or approaching, the Lightbringer is on the brink of Mutany, a civil war ahead.
It`s your job to maintain security and order, but it`s no easy job with people going mad and different interestz groups fighting each other onboard a spaceship.
In addition to that, Leyla Summers, the science officer who was in duty during the encounter, has revealed her theory to you:
In her believe, the encounter was not with human beings, but with an alien ship, pretending to come frome earth and faking a human voice. She has some very good arguments for that theory, as the central core of the Ships database seem to have been accessed from outside the ship, and the ressources onboard the lightbringer would be a perfect prey for any space pirate out there, no matter which species....
Examinate the facts, maintain order and peace onboard and reveal the true nature of the visitor!
