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Dark Future Meme (as requested)

DARK FUTURE MEME
[We know who it is we want. We have a collective mind.
We don't miss a single step. We're always right behind.
We know we serve someone else. We have swallowed our pride.
We march to this tune of loss. We take this in our stride.]

Ten years later, humanity and the synthetic life on the station are at odds
Hypatia has inducted as many citizens of Sacrosanct into a private military and launched
an all-out war against organic life and the people of Asphodel.
Some were kept on the station as captives, some escaped down planet-side
to become part of the resistance, and countless others were re-purposed into
Hypatia's willing slaves.

Where will you be?

How this works:
-If you are synthetic or part-synthetic, OR if you have special armor (Looking at you, Spartans, Troncast, EVERY ROBOT EVER) you are a target for re-purpose.
You can still have escaped down to the planet, but she'll be after you. Going to the station is dangerous, once you enter her wide-area-network you are at risk of being hacked
-If you are fully organic, you are either dead, kept prisoner and made to work on the station, or part of the resistance on Asphodel.
-Anything in-between? You decide. Be creative with this.
-Fill out the form below to give us an idea of what your character is up to, what happened to them etc. Thread with each other! RP it out!
-Also, bring in your extra journals! There won't be the same people on the station ten years from now! If you're planning to app someone, or just have something interesting lying around, toss them in!

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Name: Jin Tian
Current location: The surface of Asphodel, constantly moving, only going belowground to contact the resistance. Occasionally he flies up through space and sneaks into the junkyard to monitor the rift.
Current Physical Appearance: The same. Exactly the same, though his clothes are more frayed.
Summary: When the war started Jin fought back. He and some others attempted to fight their way to one of Hypatia's fragments, but they failed. Many people he cared about died. He retreated and helped as many escape to Asphodel as he could before following as well. He contacted the Resistance and told he would fight when it came to it, and that he would monitor Asphodel's surface. He hunts and destroys any of Hypatia's synthetics and robots that come to the surface to fight. In the meantime he's still hard at work building and studying and researching, holding out the hope of one day going home.

[ Ladon's been hanging out in the tunnels ever since coming to Asphodel and finally committing to the Resistance-- neutrality no longer a possible stance to take. Currently he's lurking about somewhere away from the other Resistance members, enjoying a smoke. He's had to ration them since he left the station, but with luck there will be a raid soon and he'll get his hands on more.

He sighs and rests against a nearby wall, watching the smoke drain from the tip of his cigarette. ]

[Jin is coming down to collect food and water and to touch base with his friends underground. As he comes down the tunnel toward one of the modicums of civilization, he spots Ladon. Jin looks rather disheveled and thin. It's clear he hasn't been eating or sleeping. Still, he manages a small smile at Ladon.]

Hello, sir. [He pauses.] Sorry, I mean Ladon. It's been awhile...I forgot.

You look like hell, yeah? [ Never one to beat around the bush. There's concern in his voice, though. Jin has a way of getting carried away, and Ladon has a way of harping on him when he does. ] Here for a supply run, or you finally gettin' some rest?

Supplies. And rest, yeah, yeah. I ran out of food about a week ago. It gets irradiated fast up on the surface, but I can keep eating it for a long while at least. [He sighs and rolls his shoulders.] And I guess I need to report. Haven't seen many patrols in the last... [He frowns.] I don't know. Awhile.

Don't "yeah yeah" me. Know you'll let yourself go if I don't go naggin' you. [ He frowns a little at that last bit of information. ] That ain't good. Wonder if they're preparing t'do somethin' big.

I've been working! This rift manipulator's gonna have much better results when it's done, I just know it. I just need to get it done.

[Kinda darkly, which has become characteristic for him,] I don't know. I hacked the last one I ran into but couldn't learn anything.

Just don't go killin' yourself over it, yeah? Or else no one's gonna be around t'know how to work it. [ Ladon has a little bit of a sense of humor left... Kind of. ]

S'how things used to work back in Nieve, odds are s'how it works here. Some fink goes into hidin' like a rat, means he's planning. That crazy blue dame's got somethin' up her sleeve. Just that she's also damn good coverin' up her tracks.

Heh, don't worry. I've lived through much worse than all this. [Stars, that's depressing.]

I didn't notice anything ordinary the last time I went to check on the rift, but that was awhile ago. Maybe some of the higher ups know something.

How have you been, though? [He grins and nods at the cigarette.] Still smoking, I see.

Don't jinx it, yeah? S'the kind of thing a guy says right before he gets plugged.

If they do, info ain't trickled down t'me yet. Can't say everyone's been on the level 'bout how deep of shit we're in here, though.

[ He shrugs. ] M'still here. Take that how you want. And yeah, still smokin'. Might've made some decisions I wouldn't've made before, back in Nieve, but the smokin' is one thing that ain't gonna change.

Heh...don't worry so much about me.

Yeah. I don't know, I try to stay out of it as much as I can. At least I've stopped questioning whether it's okay for me to fight or not. But that doesn't mean I really want to do it.

Heh, it's a good thing some things don't change.

Nothin' doin'. Got no one else to fuss over, so you're stuck with it.

War's not my idea of a good solution to things, but I ain't callin' the shots here. Just hope I can make it back to Nieve 'fore my scales start turnin' gray.

Tell that to the killjoys lecturin' me 'bout second-hand smoke. Bunch of wet blankets.

Yeah...

[He fidgets.] I'm working on it. 24/7 when I can, though I need to stop using that expression, heh. But. But yeah. I'm confident about this one.

Heh, well, as long as you're not smoking around kids or babies, I don't think it matters too much.

[Jin isn't the only one that occasionally stops by the junkyard. Just that Barrcade doesn't do it to poke around the portal; he does it to scrounge up supplies. His Energon-refining equipment occasionally needs replacing, after all. Burnouts and breakages with jury-rigged equipment are inevitable.

Luckily he has tunnels and downed cameras all the way into the area, and even if this... organic belongs to Hypatia, he can take care of him easily. And so he rummages through junk, keeping one optic on the man, just in case.]

[Jin becomes aware quickly that he's being watched, but he doesn't look around, doesn't acknowledge that there's anyone out there. If whoever it is wants to attack, Jin can handle it. He's not here to look for trouble--he's here for parts.]

[He's currently scrounging around in a pile of what look like spare car parts, gathering spark plugs, pistons and assorted wires into a plain bag. He's also faintly glowing.]

[Humans don't normally glow where he's from. Then again, he hasn't seen 'normal' humans in years. But if it isn't attacking him, he doesn't care what the glow means. Barricade does note what he's looking for, though. And so long as the human doesn't decide that stripping him for his car parts is easier...]

Would suggest trying over this way.

[Admittedly, not everything he's digging through are cars. Some Covenant vehicles, some Alliance, some other... but if it had something he can use, he's gutting it and putting the useful parts on a sled.]

[He twitches slightly when his watcher speaks up and stands up straight, his hand slipping into a plain bag hanging over one shoulder. He looks around until he spots the speaker and...well. Not exactly human. Not exactly organic even. Yet he's not running to get the drones.]

[He looks over at the area the other guy is in. Some nice parts around there, Jin remembers.]

[This is strange. Jin is on edge.]

Don't you belong to the station?

[Barricade's posture doesn't stray from 'wary but nonchalant. He shutters his optics one by one - which might look slightly pathetic, with one of the larger upper ones completely missing - then flicks the gaze of a lower out toward the rest of the area. He's more worried about drones than this organic.]

If I did, don't you think I'd be attemptin' to murder you already?

[Not that it wouldn't be delightful to maul something with a little more yield in its skin than metal. But there's little point.]

Point in fact, for all I know, you might be one'a her pets.

[Good point. Jin narrows his eyes at the mention that he might be with Hypatia. This guy obviously doesn't know him.]

I'm not.

[He studies the guy for a moment longer, then shrugs. Well, Jin won't attack first--that's not his style--and if the guy chooses to, well, Jin will handle it.]

Alright, then.

[He starts heading for the pile Barricade indicated.]

[When it comes to organics, there is a very select group that he knows; the ones that aid him, and the ones that torque him off. The rest of them... well, all humans look so much alike, don't they?]

Fair enough, then.

[This guy hasn't gotten near his base and hasn't tried to shoot him yet. As far as Barricade is concerned, he doesn't warrant attacking without provocation. He slips over to a close-by pile.]

This obviously ain't a resistance raid.

[He knows the signs of those. And if it was one, he'd be raiding actual stores, not this dump.]

[Jin starts rooting around in the area, scooping up anything that looks workable and keeping one eye on the robot.]

No. I'm building something specific.

[There's one red optic still trained on him in return, as Barricade shuffles a few broken clay pots aside.]

Guessing it's not a laser death ray or something involving a station-wide EMP.

If I was, I don't think I'd tell you. [Hey, we're all being fair here.]

But it's not. I'm not interested in the war aside from trying to keep as many people from dying as I can.

It's almost like you don't trust robots~ [He doesn't hold it against you. He wouldn't either.]

Tough job. But you don't exactly look like a medic.

[Then again, neither does Barricade.]

I haven't for thousands of years. Sorry. Hard to kick a bias like that.

[He's silent for a bit, cause goddamn he wishes he was sometimes. Even though in the back of his mind he doesn't think he could handle it.] I'm not. I just build things.

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