With Graham's permission, I am considering a Warhammer 40k RP. For those unfamiliar with WH40k, as it is abbreviated, it's a universe comprising the galaxy in the 41st millenium in which the Imperium of Man must struggle constantly against the forces of Chaos and the xenos breeds (aliens.) Entire planets are exterminated in order to obliterate the taint of Chaos, even among humans, and countless legions fight in the name of the Emperor in his constant state of undeath. Just so, the Holy Ordos of the Inquisition fight a far more subtle and sinister war, ruthlessly rooting out the touch of the heretic, the witch, the alien, and the daemon amidst the Imperium. An illustration is the foreword beginning the fictional works of the WH40k universe:
Later I will provide some basic details, info, and links to get folks up to speed for character creation. For now, I will just state that I'm not looking to host super-characters; look elsewhere if you want to play a terminator brother-captain, venerable dreadnought, or Inquisitor Lord Karamazov. Further, characters should grow and develop during play, and I'm happy to advise and guide to that end, but there has to be some room!The Black Library wrote:It is the 41st millenium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.
Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest among his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defense forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.
To be man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
I would personally wait to see who we have before deciding my own character; if I don't have a character that would be in a leadership position, I have no problem steering things through PM and roleplay.
Thanks to Graham for his graciousness, and to Rochey for his ideas and for being a sounding-board. Now, who's interested?
BTW: if there is sufficient interest, I will ask Graham or Ian to create a forum under "Roleplaying."