Stargate 1888 Recruitment!

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The Royal Academy of Otherworldly Sciences was established by the joint effort of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria and her counterpart Christian IX of Denmark. The Academy has been recruiting aggressively among the great minds of Europe for some time, and has become a name spoken in hushed corners of dark venues. If, after all, The Academy asks you to join their ranks, you are destined for great works somewhere exotic in the far reaches of the known world. You are whisked away to a career of adventure!
Little do the common masses realize, these forays are quite otherworldly, entirely.

Those a part of the Royal Expeditionary Forces often were put into the force as...expendable. Those with a track record of reckless abandon, yet RESULTS. Those who couldn't be trusted domestically with trusted assets, yet had undeniably skills to put to use. Those were the ones put into the ranks. Sikhs. Irishmen. Americans.
Nova Londonium (pictured here); The new capital of the new empire is a bastion of beauty on a nearly perfectly earth-like world. The scientists and scholars have been poring over it's every inch for nearly a decade, and still, barely the surface of it has been scratched. Now, with full support of the Queen herself, the colonization of the new frontier will commence!

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You have been gathered from your various origins, sent on an Antarctic voyage to a blasted ice shelf, ushered into high security secret facilities, and then loaded upon a train car (which you surmised would go nowhere on this little island). Moments later, a WHOOSH and a swirl of light, and the train is blasting forward through a shimmering silvery portal!

You find yourselves seconds later being offloaded in the new port of Londonium. Massive marble buildings dominating the skyline of an alien city! Verdant jungle of wild abandon in the distance, and the train pulling free of a massive Stargate behind you!

The promise of service to your Queen and Country behind you, the grand expanse of an alien world all around you. Your future, uncertain.

So the question each of you need to answer is simple; why would YOU have been recruited for this grand adventure? What history would put you in the grand fate such as this?

Why, You?

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The colony is based on some sort of alien abandoned city; massive monolithic buildings of clean white marble. Interlocked stone streets. Fountains pouring crystal waters. And all of it hedged in on a low mountaintop, with nothing in all directions but a vast green jungle towering away.

Her Majesty's military forces are dispatched here in earnest; red uniforms abound. Among them, the officers of the Royal academies are ever present. Scientists of all fields arrive here with devices arcane and sophisticated, seeking to unlock the mysteries of the Stargate, and the new colony.

Apparently, this land has been claimed by The Queen for some time; the forces here have for some years been reclaiming the city around you, block by block, from the jungle and it's inhabitants. Fierce beasts of alien form, massive in scale and ferocious, with no fear of man. The Royal Armory has been put to good use, and many trophies now line the dormitories around you. But the work is constant, the fight tiresome, and the need for security paramount.

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There exists here, on this strange new world, a series of devices. Found by the first expedition, they are of infinite usefulness. Each of you is issued one immediately upon arrival.

It is called an "Assistant".

A small orb of some odd etched metal, roughly the size of a large apple. When held out and commanded to "Come along" or something equivalent, it springs to life, and hovers nearby. You find that, when asked to, it will immediately begin translating all conversations about you in real time! It appears, as you speak, the words issued form your mouth are understood by anyone you speak to within a few feet! Now, written language is still the same; incomprehensible unless you actually know it. The Assistants only help along spoken word. But the language barrier is no more an issue here in New London as it was in the times of Babel!

Evening bump. I shall check my messages in the morning!

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Seriously considering it, but I know fuckall about GURPS (though I have pdfs) and will have to become acquainted with it very quickly

>>50216417
has the queen been to the stargate?

>>50219879
I promise that once character generation is out of the way, the hardest thing to learn will be 'where did I put my dice'

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>>50220256
>'where did I put my dice'
On roll 20?

Seems good.

Which books will it be using?
Might get a bit of help for character creation from the friend who gave me the pdfs

>>50220321
Basic set, high tech.
Most weird tech will be homebrewed stat blocks.
Aim for realism first, flavor with fun. Skip exotic advantages, but dip in amd make something interesting

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>>50220373
Ah, thanks

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Very cool setting, but if I could make a suggestion:
Since this is the discovery of the millenium it would doubtlessly lead to war without a acces for other empires. Eventhough nooone can match the British it could not prevail against combined efforts of ever other nation who wants a piece.
Therefore I would suggest that there is limeted use for other nations diplomats and scientists for these could give additional insight.
Furthermore it gives potential conflicts and intrigues be it rivalries between two exploration teams or an espionage affair threatening a world war back on earth.

Also nothing is cooler then a team of international experts like pic related

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>>50220561
Too true. There are certainly joint efforts currently in place; Victoria is cooperating with her royal extended family after all. Need the best and brightest from all over.

But so far it hasn't come to a head. Victoria has cooperated nicely, with caveats of a hierarchy with her on top. Right now, the players are ground level 'grunts' as it were. Enlisted from accross the globe, but clandestinely. No conflicts so far, and thanks to the Assistants, things should move smoothly.

>>50216417
>Grim
>Realism
>Stargate
>1888
Pick two

>>50220778
I pick that lst two.
I dig ~19th century adventure

>>50220778
You ever been shot and tended to, before regular anesthesia was a thing?

Get shot
Get infected
You gonna die

>>50220984
A broken bone was enough to kill you

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Bumb of interest

>>50216417
Twice this weekend; are you having trouble attracting players?
Have you considered that your problem is 'grim realism'?

>>50225096
Nah no problem per se recruiting. Just wanted a solid sized group. We have quite a few interested folks. Sorry you weren't :)