Futura

"Call it a Worked Example for a nonexistent GURPS Electropunk, or an Alternate Artistic Earth -- Reality Futura welds the Futurist "road not taken" of modern art onto an inverted World War Two. In this reality, technology, politics, and even strategy are driven by artistic axioms behind the sooty scrim of the material world. The mood is intense action, arcing ahead on the sound of horns and motors. The world may be dystopian, but it's a dystopia on fast-forward. Futurist adventures should be cinematic, over-the-top tales of epic antiheroism; Ayn Rand on crystal meth or Jack London on crack. It's Tim Burton's Speed Racer, it's Fritz Lang's Star WarsFritz Lang was a possible inspiration for Star Wars, particularly his film, "Metropolis" -- but had nothing to do with the production of Star Wars itself. -- it's the World War of the Future!" (partial free sample of War of Future Past: Reality Futura)
==Concept==
"This timeline diverged long before World War One, which was fought with the first robots. Now a new world war has started, not instigated by the forces of Fascism, but the forces of Futurism - an industrial ideology right out of Metropolis. Led by the Italian Futurist Republic and its ally the North German Republic (ruled by Chancellor Speer), their robots and battlesuit troopers, railguns and transatmospheric craft threaten to overrun the world. Now even the Moon has become a battleground..." - (Jürgen Hubert from archive of RPGnet Forums, 04-02-2011 post)
== Major Players ==
=== The Futurist Powers ===
* Italian Futurist Republic
** Coanda Raptor aircraft
* North German Republic
** Ju-290 Flugelräders
* Spain
* Poland
* Japan
** Mechani
* Finland
* Argentina
* absorbed nations
** Bavaria
** Hungary
=== Non-Futurist Powers(?) ===
* Soviet Russia
** Mechani forces
** Comintern Brigades
** Behemoths
** Autofactories
* Brazil
** Mechani
== Major Technologies ==
* The Mechani -- Bionically enhanced soldiers
** Titanium limbs
** T-ray emitters
* Robots -- fully robotic soldiers
* Behemoths -- Assault mecha, piloted by Mechani
* Chem Soldiers -- Soviet Russia and Brazil testing these
* Skip-Ships -- suborbital attack vehicles -- armed with t-ray emitters and kinetic harpoons
* Leviathan Submarines -- used by America
== References ==
Category:Infinite Worlds
Category:Quantum 4
Category:No Mana