GeneWar: Project Chimera


Project Chimera
Throughout time advances have been made secretly by small groups and lost though death and destruction of these groups. sixty years ago one such small group stumbled on the secrets of successful genetic alteration. This group labeled what they were doing Project Chimera. At first their alterations were minor, but then they made the first of the beast men. This first beast man, later called a halfer, was half man half gorilla. Some of the group didn’t see this as much of a step seeing how close the genes of the two species were. So the next Halfer used cat. This creature was a perfect blend possessing traits of both species. It wasn’t long before their success with the halfers and the fact that halfers wouldn’t be able to blend in anywhere near as much as they would prefer this group went on to splice in multiple creatures and trying to select the most desirable traits. strangely despite their success and the fact that their work was still unknown to the rest of the world Project Chimera stopped 40 years after it started.

Recently people with odd abilities and looks have been seen in the news. Some committing crimes other stopping them. Still other just happened to slip and their oddities got noticed. A government organization has been established track these oddities. Unknown to the rest of the world a group of people has already been doing this, and going a step further and ‘cleansing’ the world of these genetic abominations.



Available character types
Human: norms, pures, old breed. These are the normal humans. Nothing special about these but there are reasons you might want to play one.

Chimeras: these are the fruits of Project Chimera’s work. Yes it has to be a current animal, they had to be able to get ahold of the DNA without too much problem to use it. So no megalodon or other extent animals. Though any living animal even insects work can be used. Strangely an unknown factor in the genetic alteration allows the Chimeras to live longer than a human. while the average human has a projected lifespan of around 70 years most Chimeras have an average projected lifespan of around 90 years while halfers have a projected life span of 120. It is speculated that whatever was used to stabilize the merging of separate species together slows down cellular degeneration, the reason halfers live longer is because they have less DNA sources to stabilize. Players choose 1 to 6 animals from which their Chimera character derives it’s traits from. Then choose your 6 traits from the chosen animals (note this is 6 total not 6 from each.) this means halfers take all 6 traits from their one animal, while new men are varied.

Classifications of Chimeras.
Halfer: Half man half animal. All halfers look part animal and find it nearly impossible to pass off as a normal human, with the exception of halfers made from most other primates. Ironically most primate halfers have an easier time blending in than new men. In addition to their longer life span Halfers rarely get sick.
New men: new men are Chimeras who’s traits come from multiple animals (at least two animals other than human). Some new men have fooled the Knights into believing they are normal humans while others look less human than halfers. New men are varied some only posses traits from two animals while others posses traits from three to six animals.

Organizations
IBGI: The International Bureau of Genetic Investigation are a multi national organization with branches in the USA, Canada, France, Brittan, China, Japan, Russia, Australia and Egypt. This organization works with it’s branches in the individual countries to coordinate the tracking of suspected genetic oddities. IBGI has small taskforces they called the GATF (Genetic anomaly task force) that apprehend confirmed oddities that have committed crimes.

Knights of Genetic Purity: (first of yes I did that the name from something). These are people who have learned of the Chimeras and consider it their mission to remove these genetic abominations from the face of the earth. To the knights all Chimeras are abominations that must be destroyed, mass murderer or life saving scientist who discovered the cure for cancer, in their eyes all Chimeras must be eradicated. The Knights have started infiltrating the IBGI allowing them to use them to find the abominations for them. It is said that some of the founders were former members of Project Chimera. The knights symbol is a double helix rapped around a sword

Brothers of the new blood: a secret organization made up of Chimeras, former members of Project Chimera and the descendents of Project Chimera. The main head quarters of the brother hood is in a secret location that only the higher-ups in the brotherhood know where is. For the most part the brotherhood tries to keep Chimeras out of the news and keep the Knights from finding those that wind up in it.

New Genesis: As expected some of the Chimeras took their powers and increased health and lifespan to mean that they were the next step for mankind. New Genesis’s plans are to infiltrate key positions in the norms governments to take over. New Genesis is split into three sections each section split further into cell structures much like a terrorist organization. The section involved in infiltration of the norms’ society are called eyes. The section that actively hunts down and kills selected norms are called Fangs. The section the last section isn’t made up of cells, but instead form small ‘packs’. these ‘packs’ are referred to as stingers.




Yes obvious benefits do seem to lean toward the Chimeras. But remember your basically genetic mutants in a world that doesn’t really know much about you with an international organization trying to track you and find out as much about you as possible and a secret organization that wants to exterminate you no matter what. As for the increased life span and immune system of the halfers, well that’s explained by the higher genetic stability than new men. And to make them more attractive to players since they’re limited to a single animal to chose traits from. Unfortunately for some of you I’m counting each sense as a trait so not package deals of sight hearing and smell.

This reminds me of an rpg blood wanted to start a while back, except in modern times. Blood even had a movie of the rpg somewhere. lol. And those knight guys sound like paladins from jumper. but meh.

Sounds fun. What animals to choose from.

actully the thing I took the Knights from is old. infact it's 30 years old

also the years ago implise the other parts happened in the past. as in the rp takes place in this year. or around it.

Oh sure, like Jump totally has a monopoly on religious fanatics that hunt down and kill people with genetic differances from the norm.

You're absolutely right, Tyde. Go you. <_<


Moral of the story: There comes a time when all new ideas are spent and mankind is forced to rehash old ideas. Unfortunatly for mankind, it's allready WELL past that time.

Oh yeah if this goes live. and what i've heard from msn it looks like it might. Im thinking i'll allow up to three characters.

oh a bonus to the first two (other than blood) who can tell me where I got the knights of genetic purity from.

I know of lots of stories that have religious fanatics and stuff blood. I only said paladins from jumper because i saw the movie todays ago and riven is discussing a jumper rpg that has paladins in it...

Bring it on :bang: :smirk: :beers:

and one of the bonus's has been earned.

Yeah, ya'll already know who it is! :invert:

if you cant get up with me useing msn you can send me a pm. for the trying to answer.

Do the characters have any sort of restrictions to them, about strength, speed, agility, etc?

With that in mind, how exactly do we calculate all that? Or are you assigning us preset values for the data files??

Yes there will be restrictions. if I didnt than some one could use rino beetle and if it still had the same size/weight to strength ratio than a 90 lb weakling could still lift over 30 tons..... and thats a bit much for a bit of gene spliceing by humans with no advent technology to work off of.

as to the values.... um... im working on how that'll work. unlike chubbs this rp seems to be takeing a bit mopre work to get ready