» Sat May 28, 2011 6:02 am Blood on the Sand will be similar to The Great White North, in that it adds a new environment reachable through Cleen's Teleporter. However it will be revisitable, and instead of a "Mega-Dungeon" it will be an entirely new world. I haven't quite decided yet on scale but I think something of at least the size of Point Lookout will be possible, mainly because most of it is barren desert, not a whole lot to build.
This thread is at the moment going to primarily serve to get suggestion and ideas from you guys, so if you know of a file that may be useful to me or have a cool concept just throw it out there.
BackStory So Far:
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Blood on the Sand will take place in an area of desert along the Suez Canol in Egypt. Before the war America and China were in a power struggle over the area, not only for the economical and military advantages of the canol but also for the oil in the region. Both sides having their resources spread thin and in other areas of the globe (Like the invasion of Anchorage) were forced into a stalemate. The canol became an effective no-man's land, unusable by both sides, makeshift military camps were built of each side of the canol. As the daily battles for control intensified those camps grew into full fledged military bases. This went on until the bombs finally dropped in 2077. The people of the American military base retreated to the underground vaults, the Chinese to their ramshackle bomb shelter. The locals to the region had no refuge and were wiped off the face of the Earth.
As the Americans waited for the fallout to settle, as years went by, many grew restless and left the vault, they later formed small tribal groups which have continued to survive to the present day. Some of these tribes stumbled upon weapons caches and ruined outposts from before the war these bands became the equivalent of the DC Wasteland raiders. When the vault dwellers finally left the vault, 50 some years after the bombs fell they set out the form the settlement of Dust. The desert showed little evidence of the war ever having happened, the only warheads to strike the area destroyed the Chinese outpost creating what the locals know as "The Glassed Flats". While the tribes became allied with Dust (Respecting their shared lineage) the raiders did not, they started a series of wars which in the end (mainly due Dust's superior resources) were forced to the Chinese side of the Canol. Some raiders still come across from the Borderlands to pillage tribal villages or small homesteads, but never since have they attempted a mass assault. Dust currently lives in relative peace and is entirely self sufficient, their only quarrel is with the town of Suez which overlooks the only crossing to the Borderlands. Normally Suez prevents raiders from trespassing out their own interest but on occasion raiders slip through in the night or are even commissioned by Suez to weaken their enemy. The primary reason Suez sees Dust as a threat is the many times Dust has rejected proposals for trade so that Suez can ship the valuable goods (Food, pure water, even petrol) to the colonies of the European commonwealth. However Dust's saving grace is in it's military strength, the whole of it's population is trained combat skills from birth and their population is much greater due to the fact that Suez has almost half it's population at sea at any given time.
Dust:
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The town of Dust was established in 2229 by the last group of people to leave the military base's vault. Their first act was to salvage all the usable equipment from the vault, they exhausted their army specialized GECK (Originally used to create a stable command base) within months. The city grew to the small but successful settlement that it is today. The most outstanding feature is the town excellent plumbing system, water is siphoned from an Oasis to the North and run down a pipeline to the town where is purified and plumbed to the town's buildings.
After forming their small settlement they encountered the descendants of the first to the vaults, ruthless raider gangs struggling for power of one another and peaceful tribes caught in the thick of the fray. Dust launched a series of battles which eventually pushed the raiders out of the Eastern region and over the canol into what is now known as the Borderland. Raiders who surrendered where offered amnesty and where outcast to safeguard to bridge to the Borderlands, under heavy supervision of course, over time the need to tend to what became known as the town of Suez dissipated and Dust's military became focused on guarding Dust from the horrendous creatures of the wastes as well as the odd raider party which slips through the security of Suez.
Soon after tensions mounted, Suez protested the greed of Dust for not sharing water and for refusing to use Suez's trading ships to further develop the region. However Suez dares not attack such a powerful enemy as Dust and Dust simply cannot eliminate the only thing holding back the raiders.
Suez:
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Suez was first established in 2232 under the iron fist of Dust's supervision by the raiders who sought forgiveness from the acts of their raider forefathers. After the shackles of Dust's overseer's were lifted Suez experienced a rapid growth. They began to utilize the resources of the scrapyard that they had been dumped in, they salvaged boats and began to form their own merchant navy which trades to survivor colonies in the European commonwealth.
Suez's intellectuals dislike the whole of Dust, seeing the truth that Dust's "Military Tradition" is really a veil for a fascist military state. This has fueled their conflict with Dust for mean years. Suez has began conspiring with the tribals of the oasis from which Dust acquires it's water. The tribals see Dust's water pump as a blatant violation of their ancestral lands. Suez also occasionally "misses" raiders crossing the border and commissions them to harass the citizens of Dust.
The stage is set for a full on war between the two states.
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http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5653/screenshot69r.jpg - Using Andersh's Tyranid Resource (Current name is really just a placeholder)
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http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/4333/botscreaturecollage.jpg - Some of the new enemies you have to look forward to.
More will posted soon.
