mandag 23. februar 2009

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. - Unknown

For starters, even though I have a really healthy relationship with sci-fi, there is some part of me that has always leant towards the 'lighter' side of life. In all honesty, I find too few occasions where the two elements mentioned in the titles are mixed. Now, please understand me when I say this I don't mean the lower age target audience which rejoice at the sighting of Wall-E, I am talking about the more mature type. A childish humor can entertain adult people, at least us who like the eastern brand of entertainment. At times the elements of a show should not be too pure or too predictable, and as a person who often notices a pattern of things that especially includes high budget shows targeted at audiences aged 12+ which seems to have developed an unfortunate evil circle where it is the same thing, but not within the same context.

To introduce an element of the past, present or future and dragging it into another timeline itself can produce some pretty funny results. Take this, a chicken that is dragged into a WWI setting and a crusader into the future.





Alright, let's start with the chicken. I called him Rad and I was in a rush to invent him as he was made during the exam itself. Who is he and what does he aspire too? Firstly his childhood was not among the easy ones, seeing that they are scavengers they often pick fights with each other for no particular reason which was a factor he frequently had to experience. Now despite hating his farm and the general people he was around it did not take too long for him to join the defense after they where invaded by the turkey squadron. So without much love for his country he still fights fiercely onboard his old red baron style WWI plane.

Peasant, Squire, knight, Templar and Templar master. That are the 5 levels that the order of Illumination has. The character on screen happens to be a Templar, someone sworn to protect the order during the confrontation with the Order of Terra. The name of the mainstream order in the sol system during Earth's early intergalactic expansion days. They first revealed themselves in several acts of sabotage during a financial crisis which the order of Terra practically had enforced upon themselves, taking over asteroid belts and various regions on planets. With new technology and a unmatched will these knights fight against what they see as a spawn of their own ignorance as their roots dates back towards the original crusades. They are considered mainstream to be antagonistic, but the order of terra is not without flaws, both sides have a very closed propaganda agency and strict rules for information trading.

Seeing that this is a game idea, the first public appearance of a templar will be when the main character, an agent of the order of Terra investigates what seems to be a technical malfunction in an asteroid prison. He goes in finding nearly everyone dead, and a line of blood leads him towards a large observatory window where one of these knights gaze into the sol system, while being confronted by this knight who vows that the patterns of control will soon shift he draws his gun. At the moment he fires the shot is blocked by the large chainsaw blade which the templar does handle without any respect to its size or weight. The templar leaves and he is spared, but there seems to be no escape from the asteroid, until an old escape pod which was abandoned for its insecurity comes into view, but the only possible launch place would be a newly occupied Illumination camp, where many peasant and squire class members control most of the action.

Ok, that at least is the start of the game. These elite soldiers are exceptionally agile. They have technology unknown to the order of Terra and they are considered unstoppable at first on the open battlefield. The story has a two-fold level of engagement where neither order really are clean on their sides. A choice will be made later on which determines the fate of the main character.

I know, I am dreaming with this, but that's half the fun of creating these things. You can be sure I would have nativity, stupidity and pleasant foolishness in both of the stories mentioned above. These elements which we are familiar with, and at times live. When our attempts become an outright failure then a sense of joy, believe it or not, can be found within certain people. It depends on the relationship, but levels of crazy randomness can fit in anywhere, and if a person is smart enough, it can cover the entire genera, but it has to be fresh, new and constantly updated all the time. Quite a challenge eh?

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