I probably should have jumped in by now, but I wanted to clarify:
-Can I land in my own area nearby?
Yes. I would actually recommend it. That way you don't have to concern yourself with what's happened in Landfall so far because your character wouldn't know anyway. But most aircraft landed at Landfall. So the aircraft your guy/gal is in probably got lost/crashed on its own or with one or two others. There wouldn't be a huge landing somewhere that isn't Landfall.
-Are there single/five-person escape pods?
There are dropships, which as I've imagined them carry probably a little over a dozen people. Maybe two dozen. Everyone probably has a different image of them, but I imagine they wouldn't carry too much people because they were originally meant to carry soldiers down and from Invictus. They weren't meant to carry civilians until they decided "whatvever" and started putting people into anything with wings.
The gliders are what were meant to carry civilians. But I'm not sure about their size. They definitively carried more than the dropships though. They're like small planes, probably.
The pods I think carried a bunch of people and equipment. And I think are comparable to really big space capsules.
But as far as I know there weren't any pods or whatever that carried single persons, or just a few.
-How big is the colony (in kilometres)?
Vilage can probably answer this better than I can, but it's described as being the size of a town. And it has a tower in the center that goes up about ten stories. The other sections probably go up a few stories too.
3: 10km in diameter, ten stories tall. The camps, since they house tens of thousands of people, would be circling the entire thing.
Diagrams below to help you with understanding the basics of landfall:
and the map, again, to give you an idea of where everything is. This is a map of the entire world, which is roughly 3/4 the size of Earth.
Hugs and I have thusfar been the only ones posting about Landfall, so you'll want to pay close attention to our stuff for details about that area. Right now, I have focused on what is happening outside the colony, and Hugs has focused on what is happening inside.
I probably should have jumped in by now, but I wanted to clarify:
-Can I land in my own area nearby?
Yes.
-Are there single/five-person escape pods?
That would be a severe waste of space. Even in an environment where a sector of the ship blew up killing several thousand. One of the things that would've been taken care of while the time was there was to ensure everything is properly loaded.
As in my case, there could always be a situation where any and all NPCs aboard your vehicle died. Though in my event of the passengers that were on it, thirty survived in that drop ship.
Now that I'm back, I'm gonna hop in this. Gonna be a criminal, with no real reason for being here other than to get away.
Name: Hayato Nishihara Occupation: Translator (BS occupation? He's a Yakuza runaway, but for the sake of having a job, we'll say he's the only one in his group who speaks English.) Bio:
Hayato was born on December 6th, 2140 to a single mother, and three siblings. His father, whom he was named after, had disappeared earlier that year, managing to grab one of the last seats aboard the Fujisan, spending the family's entire savings on the ticket, leaving them in poverty. With four children, and a meager income, Hayato's mother would die later that year, leaving Hayato and his other two siblings in the care of his 12 year old brother, Yuuta.
Needless to say, growing up was harsh. Yuuta managed to get enough food for his family by breaking into homes while their owners were away, and stealing food and water. He would later go on to join the Yakuza, which aided in their continued survival tenfold. He never let his sisters know how he suddenly made so much, but, when Hayato turned nine, he let his little brother in on the secret. Knowing and seeing no other alternative, Hayato would eventually end up in the same group as his brother.
For Hayato, life in the Yakuza was fairly easy. Everyone in their group was branded with a serpent tattoo running from their eyebrow to their collar bone, making them easy to notice for the Peacekeepers in Tokyo, who received a heavy sum to keep their hands off, and turn their heads. However, this also made them easy to notice for rival gangs, who would constantly try to challenge their authority. These small fights were the hardest part of the job, but generally went smoothly, especially when the peacekeepers joined in. Generally, things were simple. Hayato would join his brother in patrolling their territory often, whenever he wasn't taking part in a smuggling job, or delivering the monthly bribe money to the Peace keepers.
It wouldn't be until one day when he was delivering the bribe money that things would turn to hell. It seemed that somebody in one of the rival groups had learned the pattern, and figured out how Hayato's group was keeping the peacekeepers away. They had set up an ambush, and burst out, taking out two of the cars ahead of Hayato, and destroying the third as everyone in the back ran out of their vehicles for cover. This would eventually lead to a huge firefight in the middle of the city, that would eventually lead the peacekeepers to join in on. When they arrived, a small group escorted Hayato to them, and brought him to the man in charge. However, when Hayato handed him the money, the peacekeeper laughed, and told him that the bribe was never received.
By the time Hayato caught on, he had taken a bullet to the chest.
A couple of days later, he would wake up in a hospital bed, chest bandaged tight, and so heavily drugged he couldn't get up. When the nurse saw this, she instantly ran out of the room, coming back moments later with Hayato's brother.
Once he came to completely, and managed to sit up, he had everything explained to him. The peacekeepers took advantage of the firefight, and said they never received the money, and that Hayato had died before he could deliver it. Because they didn't have the bribe money, the Peacekeepers raided the Yakuza's base, killing almost eighty percent of their members. Those that survived were those away on jobs, or those who were at a smaller base outside of the city.
It was then explained to Hayato that the bullet had apparently managed to miss his heart and all major arteries, and only barely damage his lung. He had somehow survived on fools luck.
A couple of weeks later, Hayato had finally been discharged, and was taken to a small safe house, where only seven other members were. At this point, it was explained to him that the peacekeepers were now hunting anybody and everybody who had the serpent tattoo on their face, and that the message had been sent around the globe, so even fleeing the country wasn't an option. In addition, and tattoo parlor with the machinery to remove a tattoo was under heavy surveillance. As it was, they were not going to be able to survive, and booking a flight to Mars wasn't an option, either.
With no other choice, Hayato's brother booked them a flight among the Olympus, who accepted almost anyone with their lax background checks. Together, the nine of them would flee Earth, and start a new life for themselves on Invictus.
When it finally came time for their departure, the small remnants of the Yakuza group would escape Earth, taking with them only a few stashed belongings, and what little they still owned. Yuuta laughed to himself, and finally told Hayato how their father escaped, and sat there, wondering to himself if it was for similar reasons. Yuuta had gained some new found hope that their father wasn't a terrible person who abandoned them, and simply had to escape the planet, same as them.
During the escape from the Olympus, Hayato and Yuuta ended up getting split up. Yuuta would arrive at landfall with three of the groups members, but Hayato and the others were not so lucky. While flying down to the planet, their pod would get rammed into by another, sending them flying off track, to the West of Landfall. The last thing any of them saw before meeting with the surface would be strange trees being pulverized against the front of the pod.
My DeviantArt, so sexy
.dds? Isn't that a texture file some games use?
My DeviantArt, so sexy
If you want to download that, grab yourself a drink and prepare a movie, because that's going to take forever.
Yeesss.
-Can I land in my own area nearby?
-Are there single/five-person escape pods?
-How big is the colony (in kilometres)?
Yes. I would actually recommend it. That way you don't have to concern yourself with what's happened in Landfall so far because your character wouldn't know anyway. But most aircraft landed at Landfall. So the aircraft your guy/gal is in probably got lost/crashed on its own or with one or two others. There wouldn't be a huge landing somewhere that isn't Landfall.
There are dropships, which as I've imagined them carry probably a little over a dozen people. Maybe two dozen. Everyone probably has a different image of them, but I imagine they wouldn't carry too much people because they were originally meant to carry soldiers down and from Invictus. They weren't meant to carry civilians until they decided "whatvever" and started putting people into anything with wings.
The gliders are what were meant to carry civilians. But I'm not sure about their size. They definitively carried more than the dropships though. They're like small planes, probably.
The pods I think carried a bunch of people and equipment. And I think are comparable to really big space capsules.
But as far as I know there weren't any pods or whatever that carried single persons, or just a few.
Vilage can probably answer this better than I can, but it's described as being the size of a town. And it has a tower in the center that goes up about ten stories. The other sections probably go up a few stories too.
2: Yes.
3: 10km in diameter, ten stories tall. The camps, since they house tens of thousands of people, would be circling the entire thing.
Diagrams below to help you with understanding the basics of landfall:
and the map, again, to give you an idea of where everything is. This is a map of the entire world, which is roughly 3/4 the size of Earth.
Hugs and I have thusfar been the only ones posting about Landfall, so you'll want to pay close attention to our stuff for details about that area. Right now, I have focused on what is happening outside the colony, and Hugs has focused on what is happening inside.
Yes.
That would be a severe waste of space. Even in an environment where a sector of the ship blew up killing several thousand. One of the things that would've been taken care of while the time was there was to ensure everything is properly loaded.
As in my case, there could always be a situation where any and all NPCs aboard your vehicle died. Though in my event of the passengers that were on it, thirty survived in that drop ship.
My DeviantArt, so sexy
Name:
Hayato Nishihara
Occupation:
Translator (BS occupation? He's a Yakuza runaway, but for the sake of having a job, we'll say he's the only one in his group who speaks English.)
Bio:
Hayato was born on December 6th, 2140 to a single mother, and three siblings. His father, whom he was named after, had disappeared earlier that year, managing to grab one of the last seats aboard the Fujisan, spending the family's entire savings on the ticket, leaving them in poverty. With four children, and a meager income, Hayato's mother would die later that year, leaving Hayato and his other two siblings in the care of his 12 year old brother, Yuuta.
Needless to say, growing up was harsh. Yuuta managed to get enough food for his family by breaking into homes while their owners were away, and stealing food and water. He would later go on to join the Yakuza, which aided in their continued survival tenfold. He never let his sisters know how he suddenly made so much, but, when Hayato turned nine, he let his little brother in on the secret. Knowing and seeing no other alternative, Hayato would eventually end up in the same group as his brother.
For Hayato, life in the Yakuza was fairly easy. Everyone in their group was branded with a serpent tattoo running from their eyebrow to their collar bone, making them easy to notice for the Peacekeepers in Tokyo, who received a heavy sum to keep their hands off, and turn their heads. However, this also made them easy to notice for rival gangs, who would constantly try to challenge their authority. These small fights were the hardest part of the job, but generally went smoothly, especially when the peacekeepers joined in. Generally, things were simple. Hayato would join his brother in patrolling their territory often, whenever he wasn't taking part in a smuggling job, or delivering the monthly bribe money to the Peace keepers.
It wouldn't be until one day when he was delivering the bribe money that things would turn to hell. It seemed that somebody in one of the rival groups had learned the pattern, and figured out how Hayato's group was keeping the peacekeepers away. They had set up an ambush, and burst out, taking out two of the cars ahead of Hayato, and destroying the third as everyone in the back ran out of their vehicles for cover. This would eventually lead to a huge firefight in the middle of the city, that would eventually lead the peacekeepers to join in on. When they arrived, a small group escorted Hayato to them, and brought him to the man in charge. However, when Hayato handed him the money, the peacekeeper laughed, and told him that the bribe was never received.
By the time Hayato caught on, he had taken a bullet to the chest.
A couple of days later, he would wake up in a hospital bed, chest bandaged tight, and so heavily drugged he couldn't get up. When the nurse saw this, she instantly ran out of the room, coming back moments later with Hayato's brother.
Once he came to completely, and managed to sit up, he had everything explained to him. The peacekeepers took advantage of the firefight, and said they never received the money, and that Hayato had died before he could deliver it. Because they didn't have the bribe money, the Peacekeepers raided the Yakuza's base, killing almost eighty percent of their members. Those that survived were those away on jobs, or those who were at a smaller base outside of the city.
It was then explained to Hayato that the bullet had apparently managed to miss his heart and all major arteries, and only barely damage his lung. He had somehow survived on fools luck.
A couple of weeks later, Hayato had finally been discharged, and was taken to a small safe house, where only seven other members were. At this point, it was explained to him that the peacekeepers were now hunting anybody and everybody who had the serpent tattoo on their face, and that the message had been sent around the globe, so even fleeing the country wasn't an option. In addition, and tattoo parlor with the machinery to remove a tattoo was under heavy surveillance. As it was, they were not going to be able to survive, and booking a flight to Mars wasn't an option, either.
With no other choice, Hayato's brother booked them a flight among the Olympus, who accepted almost anyone with their lax background checks. Together, the nine of them would flee Earth, and start a new life for themselves on Invictus.
When it finally came time for their departure, the small remnants of the Yakuza group would escape Earth, taking with them only a few stashed belongings, and what little they still owned. Yuuta laughed to himself, and finally told Hayato how their father escaped, and sat there, wondering to himself if it was for similar reasons. Yuuta had gained some new found hope that their father wasn't a terrible person who abandoned them, and simply had to escape the planet, same as them.
During the escape from the Olympus, Hayato and Yuuta ended up getting split up. Yuuta would arrive at landfall with three of the groups members, but Hayato and the others were not so lucky. While flying down to the planet, their pod would get rammed into by another, sending them flying off track, to the West of Landfall. The last thing any of them saw before meeting with the surface would be strange trees being pulverized against the front of the pod.
~DED
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