When Twilight ascended to princess-hood, Equestria's technological level surged. The princess's tinkering, combined with almost unlimited resources and full approval of the other monarchs, took machinery from expensive, large, and low-quality items, to cheap, compact, and powerful devices. Magic quickly became outshined by technological possibility, and even if people wanted the old ways back, they still knew that they couldn't live without what the princess created.
Of course, technology brought on problems, too. Firearms were created in response to encroaching threats upon Equestrian soil, and other nations stole those firearms to manufacture their own. Wars started breaking out, and corporations profited from the essential items they created, and sold them for ludicrous amounts.
By the end of the second great war between The Griffon Kingdoms and Equestria, the Equestrian government had spent ridiculous amounts to prevent the destruction of it's people and ways of life, and now had barely enough money to hold the country together, and the Corporations found out that they could run things themselves with the money they'd made.
Many cities stayed together on corporate cash, and public services were privatized and used both for the public interest, and corporate interest. The police of most cities became Private Military Contractors hired to protect the public, while freelance groups and private eyes became all the more common.
30 years after Twilight's coronation, in the year 2025, the first entirely corporate city was created, called Generation. It quickly became filled with low income families, refugees, and immigrants who wanted cheap housing and an easy job working for the company that owned the city, Utsukushī Biomedical. The city quickly received a large population, mostly because of the work benefits, but the low income, cramped housing, and apathetic law enforcement meant crime ran rampant until robots were added to the Pseudo police force, and more PMC's were hired. Crime was slightly more manageable, and more people moved in.
In 2052, the city had swelled massively in size, and with upper classes desiring space in the large city, segregation between the poor and the rich was ramped up. It started with walling off districts, and ended with several large platforms above the city, one to hold rich homes away from the noise, pollution and poor, and the other for more expensive and volatile research and development. The potential uproar was quelled by the city's police and Utsukushī Biomedical before it even started.
Now, it is 2078. Utsukushī Biomedical has introduced widespread bodily augmentation, ranging from limb replacement, to brain enhancement to the working population of the city. Criminals organized themselves into large gangs, and with much more ground to cover for the police, crime has risen again.A number of people, with almost no prior knowledge of each other, find themselves stuck inside a bar being occupied by a gang called the 6 Shooters, and would soon become part of something much, much bigger...
Details about Generation
Generation is in the south east of Equestria, covering most of a large, flat expanse. Clouds constantly cover the area, and they seem to come back and pour with rain even if the pegasi remove them. The city is built over the top of an old, agricultural town from the times before technology, and the sewers still lead down there if you search long enough. Aside from small-time criminals and the homeless, no one goes down there without reason. The city itself is a massive, skyscraper filled, poverty-stricken, cramped, crime-ridden hellhole. The 'Peacekeepers' are hired mercenary Private Military contractors who, while caring, don't do much for delicate operations, which creates business for private eyes and freelance groups, and car-sized mechs armed and mobile for anti-gang combat. Two enormous pillars and a large number of support pillars hold up two separate platforms above the city. The lower platform holds all the important scientific research. Augmentation, biochemical warfare, everything that is too dangerous to do in the lower city is done there. Above that is the beautiful, serene, and clear-skies first-class layer. Pegasi and machinery keep the skies blue, while dropping the clouds below. Both the layers have a mostly robotic police force, and they enforce the law much better than the lower city.
Rules
All the normal rules of roleplay.
Even though mechanical wings are a thing, earth ponies and unicorns are too dense and heavy to fly, even with them.
Robotic augmentation is ridiculously common, but the most practical, powerful or advanced designs are expensive, and wouldn't be in the hands hooves of someone who isn't rich.
You can play as a robot, and it can be different than a robotic pony, like a robotic dog or even defense drone, as long as it's got an AI and a personality.
You can have money, but don't go too overboard with wealth.
No metagaming.
Any race in the show can be used.
Character sheet
Name:
Age: (Robots won't be too old, most are new)
Gender: (if a robot, assigned gender or voice gender)
Race: (Anything in the show, type of robot)
Appearance: (picture or description)
Personality:
Bio: (One or two paragraphs will suffice)
Augmentations: (Pretty much anything you can think of can be augmented. Brains, legs, internal organs, it can be whatever you want within reason)
Starting weapon: (Shouldn't be over the top. A single gun, please)
Here's one I made earlier
Name: Naga Yukin
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Race: Earth pony
Appearance: A tired looking blue furred pony with blonde hair. Naga always wears a hat, and a large trenchcoat, with a bulletproof vest underneath. He's always covered in bruises from bullets fired at him a few months ago, but usually gets away fine. His mane is moderately sized, while his tail is fairly long.
Personality: A quiet, but affable guy, Naga just wants to see the law put into action without any innocent bloodshed. He never goes out of the way to kill, but will do so if necessary. He is slightly paranoid and always is slightly tired from sleep deprivation, a fact which annoys him very much.
Bio: Born to a rich mother and a poor father in Generation, Naga seemed to be stuck in a sort of rift between the rich and the poor. He would spend weeks at his mothers, then weeks at his fathers. His friend's thought of him as either too posh, or too lower class, but still a likable person. He liked both his parents, and lived through his childhood as a happy-go-lucky kid. When he was 16, however, his father managed to displease a gang, and they went after his mother. He witnesses his mother almost get killed, and she was obviously traumatized. Something clicked in his head that day, and he spent the rest of his school life on law, and trained himself to become a PMC and to help the law.
Eventually, Naga was hired by Icarus Security Consultants, and spent 6 years working in a profitable and useful career. He purchased most of what he owns now, including an office, house, and his augmentations using the money he received. Eventually, after being promoted once or twice, he found out how bad Icarus could get when he was ordered to partake in the shooting up of a hotel filled with mostly innocent people to find one person. He quit afterwards, and after several months of brooding, he got up, and started trying to dispense justice in a way without killing anyone who didn't deserve it. He became a freelance detective, and even with less pay and less support, he still finds the job much better than the last one. And he never looked back.
Augmentations: Front right leg has revolver quick loader and ammo holder, with a built in multitool. Several retinal enhancements and brain augmentations for better shooting and quicker thinking.
Starting weapon: Sideways break-action 7 shot revolver with red dot sight
If you want to join, go to the RP application thread ==>http://www.brohoof.c...p-applications/



