Science Fiction, Work-In-Progress
I set up the basic foundation for a science fiction story dish. Prepped with this "Fleshing Out the Universe." Add equal parts Characters and Plot. Two cups of Action, one cup Drama, two tablespoons of Comedy. Mix. Develop. Serve poured over Philosophic Undertones, and sprinkle on Current Events Ties for appeal. Presto!
OUR FUTURE is an extremely industrial society, run by corporations, the Companies, which everyone works for. If you don’t work for them, you’re essentially homeless. Government has been completely consumed by these Companies, the CEO’s being as powerful as presidents. The police are bands of Riot-police-esque thugs, with simple SWAT tactics in combat. They maintain the “peace” or whatever it is the Companies want. The UHGs regularly skirmish with, and defeat, these mandatory patrols. There are different levels of intensity with these soldier-police, a large group of them being powerful enough to crush a basic mob or riot situation.
Each town is devoted to a certain Company, the citizens working in Factories or Mills, at extremely low pay and harsh conditions, manufacturing the Company’s products. The men and women that don’t work in the Factories and Mills, work for the Company directly: office-jobs, paper-pushers. There is a hierarchy of careers ranging from Bossmans to Managers to Board Members to Administrators (key powerful position) and then a range of Advisors, Directors, and Executives, then finally the CEO. If you don’t have a job, then you don’t have money, therefore no home. The Homeless gather in groups in Slums or Shantytowns, and they have even begun farming what little soil they can find unpolluted in order to survive.
One Company is for Power, i.e. electricity through means of coal burning, wind power, dams (much is run on steam?). One Company is agriculture with mile-long greenhouses manufacturing artificial vegetables, genetically altered ofcourse, and basic cattle poultry meat plants. Feeding the nation of worker-peoples, Blue collar galore. One Company owns Mills for Clothing, Furniture, and other “Accessories.” Another runs the soldier-police Patrols, manufacturing their weapons, armor and vehicles, also sells "home security products."
The Companies are evil (besides for obvious class reasons) is how it’s almost complete authoritarian control in government’s place. Due to almost complete urbanization of the planet and mass population problems, there is a strictly enforced policy/law of standards on reproduction. A couple was allowed a child only after a certain amount of years of being legally wed. (“weddings”, while retaining the title of the ceremony, is a 100% legal affair, no longer with any religious ties whatsoever.) After a lengthy waiting period, a second child becomes an option, with certain standards being met. Before marriage, Employees must regularly take contraceptives. Children outside of wedlock is illegal. Children outside of the Population Control Policy is illegal. Part of the policy is there is a mandatory monthly population census. If the population numbers have reached over the monthly quota, a squad of soldier-police thugs is sent to the Slums and poorer areas of town, killing the Unemployed. These raids are infrequent, due to the Unemployed’s tendencies to not include their illegal children in the census, but devastating. (the UHGs frequently attack these raids)
All of the “Employees” and “Company Men” are absolutely atheistic, believing only in science and technology, Darwinism, evolutionism, etc.. Giving them a sort of survival of the fittest attitude towards the Unemployed/Homeless, who believe there is a God, ensuring their survival and that the meek shall inherit the Earth. The UHGs are also religious, some in a zealous fashion.
The UHGs are extremely proficient with Urban Warfare, and they’re own brutal form of Martial Arts. They have also acquired salvage weapons and are absolutely deadly with them. They organize in separate cells, sometimes the cells coordinating together, in acts of revolution against the Companies, through means of vandalism, thievery, dissent and sometimes straight out war. This “terrorism” is broadcasted among the civilian Company Men as absolute evil. The regular Employees regard the UHGs as no less than demons or freaks, trying to spread their foul religion and political beliefs (autonomous government, anarchy, socialism, some communist, etc.)
OUR FUTURE is an extremely industrial society, run by corporations, the Companies, which everyone works for. If you don’t work for them, you’re essentially homeless. Government has been completely consumed by these Companies, the CEO’s being as powerful as presidents. The police are bands of Riot-police-esque thugs, with simple SWAT tactics in combat. They maintain the “peace” or whatever it is the Companies want. The UHGs regularly skirmish with, and defeat, these mandatory patrols. There are different levels of intensity with these soldier-police, a large group of them being powerful enough to crush a basic mob or riot situation.
Each town is devoted to a certain Company, the citizens working in Factories or Mills, at extremely low pay and harsh conditions, manufacturing the Company’s products. The men and women that don’t work in the Factories and Mills, work for the Company directly: office-jobs, paper-pushers. There is a hierarchy of careers ranging from Bossmans to Managers to Board Members to Administrators (key powerful position) and then a range of Advisors, Directors, and Executives, then finally the CEO. If you don’t have a job, then you don’t have money, therefore no home. The Homeless gather in groups in Slums or Shantytowns, and they have even begun farming what little soil they can find unpolluted in order to survive.
One Company is for Power, i.e. electricity through means of coal burning, wind power, dams (much is run on steam?). One Company is agriculture with mile-long greenhouses manufacturing artificial vegetables, genetically altered ofcourse, and basic cattle poultry meat plants. Feeding the nation of worker-peoples, Blue collar galore. One Company owns Mills for Clothing, Furniture, and other “Accessories.” Another runs the soldier-police Patrols, manufacturing their weapons, armor and vehicles, also sells "home security products."
The Companies are evil (besides for obvious class reasons) is how it’s almost complete authoritarian control in government’s place. Due to almost complete urbanization of the planet and mass population problems, there is a strictly enforced policy/law of standards on reproduction. A couple was allowed a child only after a certain amount of years of being legally wed. (“weddings”, while retaining the title of the ceremony, is a 100% legal affair, no longer with any religious ties whatsoever.) After a lengthy waiting period, a second child becomes an option, with certain standards being met. Before marriage, Employees must regularly take contraceptives. Children outside of wedlock is illegal. Children outside of the Population Control Policy is illegal. Part of the policy is there is a mandatory monthly population census. If the population numbers have reached over the monthly quota, a squad of soldier-police thugs is sent to the Slums and poorer areas of town, killing the Unemployed. These raids are infrequent, due to the Unemployed’s tendencies to not include their illegal children in the census, but devastating. (the UHGs frequently attack these raids)
All of the “Employees” and “Company Men” are absolutely atheistic, believing only in science and technology, Darwinism, evolutionism, etc.. Giving them a sort of survival of the fittest attitude towards the Unemployed/Homeless, who believe there is a God, ensuring their survival and that the meek shall inherit the Earth. The UHGs are also religious, some in a zealous fashion.
The UHGs are extremely proficient with Urban Warfare, and they’re own brutal form of Martial Arts. They have also acquired salvage weapons and are absolutely deadly with them. They organize in separate cells, sometimes the cells coordinating together, in acts of revolution against the Companies, through means of vandalism, thievery, dissent and sometimes straight out war. This “terrorism” is broadcasted among the civilian Company Men as absolute evil. The regular Employees regard the UHGs as no less than demons or freaks, trying to spread their foul religion and political beliefs (autonomous government, anarchy, socialism, some communist, etc.)
posted by Travis H. Curran at 4/06/2006 03:03:00 PM
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