Welcome to the Alternate Universe contest, a chance to explore what your characters lives could be like in another reality. Every AU contest has a set theme, and each AU contest leads into a virtual reality sim VR game, where your character can experience that life through the space station's VR simulator. For more info on the VR Simulations, see this wiki page.
What Kind of Contest is This?
This contest has participants creating a character draft of a specified AU or theme. This is not an application, but instead a brief summary of what your character would be like in the AU. Characters should be a version of one of your (accepted) characters, but re-imagined to fit the setting.
This is not a competitive contest. There are no winners or losers, but participating in the contest will grant all participants an upgrade voucher, in addition to getting them ready to go for the VR event.
This is not a competitive contest. There are no winners or losers, but participating in the contest will grant all participants an upgrade voucher, in addition to getting them ready to go for the VR event.
How Do I Enter?
To enter, grab the form in the second post, decide your idea, fill it out, and then POST IT IN THIS THREAD. Please do not PM it to a mod or post it elsewhere. Anyone can enter as long as they have at least one accepted character (if you're accepted during the contest period, that's fine).
Any Other Restrictions?
This contest is taking on a slightly different format from other AU contests. Players will have only five days to enter, and may only enter one entry. Depending on how the first version of this goes, this AU contest may be rerun in the second half of the month with a new set of characters. Characters can submit entries on the 6th, 7th, and 8th, but will not be eligible for the early-entry upgrade voucher reward.
You can only have one character in this AU.
You can only have one character in this AU.
Other Rules:
These apps are intended to be short and to the point. Please don't go heavily past the word count limits, as the idea is to give people who you might ICC with a chance to briefly skim over the essentials of your character. Again, please only enter one application.
July Alternate Universe Contest: Space Colony
Entries Close 23:59 PST on July 5th
Entries Close 23:59 PST on July 5th
The Colony Ship Morpheus is on year 139 of it’s 450 year journey from Earth to Terra Prime, a colony world intended to be the first of the Galactic Empire of Mankind. You are the lucky colonists, chosen because you have unique skills and training that will be useful on the fledgeling colony. You have been placed in cryostasis for the duration of the journey. You are to awaken on the last year of the journey to begin preparations for landing on Terra Prime, your new home.
However something has gone wrong. Sensors indicate that some of you are infected with bacteria that will wreak havoc on both the colony and Terra Prime’s ecosystem. The ship’s sensors identified stasis blocs that likely held the infection and woke up the inhabitants of those blocs. You.
Now you have to find out who is infected while the rest of the colonists sleep safe and sound in their blocs, blissfully unaware of anything around them. With no weapons, limited food and medical supplies, and not a lot of time it’s up to you who have woken up to figure out what’s going on so you can all get back into stasis.
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All occupants of the Morpheus are normal humans, coming from an earth not unlike our own. No one has any powers, but the jobs available are what you'd expect from a near-future setting. Consider why your character might choose to be on the colony ship, as well as what kind of skills they might offer.
However something has gone wrong. Sensors indicate that some of you are infected with bacteria that will wreak havoc on both the colony and Terra Prime’s ecosystem. The ship’s sensors identified stasis blocs that likely held the infection and woke up the inhabitants of those blocs. You.
Now you have to find out who is infected while the rest of the colonists sleep safe and sound in their blocs, blissfully unaware of anything around them. With no weapons, limited food and medical supplies, and not a lot of time it’s up to you who have woken up to figure out what’s going on so you can all get back into stasis.
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All occupants of the Morpheus are normal humans, coming from an earth not unlike our own. No one has any powers, but the jobs available are what you'd expect from a near-future setting. Consider why your character might choose to be on the colony ship, as well as what kind of skills they might offer.
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