Orkpiraten

It’s 03:23 in upper Ber­lin. Des­pite the late hour, the smog levels are still high, and there’s still a lot of traf­fic going down the Deut­sche Bahn Speed­way. This pri­va­tely owned patch of asphalt and con­crete is expen­sive to use, but it’s the fas­test way from the Rei­ni­cke city-complex to the Köpe­nick mega­p­lex. And it’s also the …

Ome­ga­S­teel Inves­ti­ga­tion Report — INTERNAL USE ONLY DESCRIPTION Janu­ary 14^th, 2061 a series of events occu­red which cul­mi­na­ted in a desta­bi­liza­tion of our high-orbit manu­fac­tu­ring site. Pro­duc­tion was down for 3 hours. This report will reveal that this desta­bi­liza­tion was a con­cer­ted action by at least 6 indi­vi­du­als, to pro­vide a dis­trac­tion during which Dr. Schrock, head of the new mate­ri­als rese­arch …

WTO 2060 is a Cyberpunk-like role­play­ing set­ting. Cur­rently, it’s being desi­gned for a future play-by-post role­play­ing cam­paign. As you could see by the first back­ground notes, the set­ting tends towards „dark and gritty“. The player cha­rac­ters will struggle for sur­vi­val, living mostly outs­ide the esta­blis­hed sys­tem. They work for big cor­po­ra­ti­ons, govern­ments or the Mafia — whoever …

First Look at the set­ting: We’re loo­king at the year 2060. While nati­ons still exist on paper, most of civi­li­sa­tion is effec­tively gover­ned by laws and „recom­men­da­ti­ons“ of the WTO. The inte­rests of com­pa­nies and their share­hol­ders are more import­ant than those of so-called „sover­eign nati­ons“. Tech­no­logy has advan­ced quite far in the past 53 years: …