Part 1 - Ring Around the Rosie

[wieldtherainbow]

The briefing was, well, brief, given the complicated situation they were being thrust into. Stacy tried to give them as much as she could but apparently her intel on this universe was rather limited.

For this reason, they were dumped rather unceremoniously on a vast planet, with grassy green fields, the dropship that dropped them off retreating on autopilot and disappearing back into the transdimensional ether. It was a lovely planet at the very least, with vast deep blue skies, teeming with vegetation, but oddly, they all would likely find themselves dealing with the unnerving inkling feeling that they were somehow being watched. There were no sentients or even animals in site, however.

The only thing they could do right now was wait. They had been told that they would be found, that they would be offered rings, taken into these different Corps of people, and they they needed to make sure the war ended in a way that didn't devastate life in this universe.

That was something of a tall order.

[ooc: Go!]

Comments

[first_of_steel]

"My civilization was destroyed by nuclear war," said Roger. "This was about twenty years ago. Far as my people and I knew, we were the only human beings left alive who hadn't gone feral."

(He doubts they've read Lord of the Flies here.)

"I'd wound up in the leadership position because the last commander we had shot himself. I've spent pretty much the past twenty years keeping my people believing that we've got it in us to reclaim enough of the old world to build a new one."

[wieldtherainbow]

"Your cause was keeping hope alive in the worst of circumstances, Roger Maxson. It was the furtherance of life. That is the same cause of our Corps. There are forces at work in this universe--many forces--that would see all life end. If the War of Light is allowed to progress in the way that's prophecied, it will mean the end of all that is."

[first_of_steel]

"About that-" Roger had heard the term thrown around a number of times now. "These prophecies. What do they say, exactly? Countering something that's trying to put an end to all life everywhere-" (He'd have said it sounded ridiculous, except that he'd been on Stacy's crew how long, now?) "-isn't the kind of thing you want to go into blind. Once you know what's coming, it makes it easier to rally people against it."