//Memoirs of Former Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces//- "Commander John Sheppard Plesskin"

Exodus report

PRE SHEPPARD ERA:

Everything started
with an idea. This idea was that of reaching mankind’s space stage, and to
achieve that Project exodus was created, not much is known about its origins,
apart from the fact that it was a Project that involved many countries from
across the globe to create an utopic city whose only purpose would be that of capacitate
its inhabitants for them to able to create, update and control what would be
their new home: The Exodus Ship

The exodus ship was
an engineering marvel, big and resistant enough to fit a big city on its
Surface, but powerful enough to get lifted and surpass the atmosphere without
much of a problem, everything about the ship seemed like a dream come true; but
dreams tend to get nasty once you’re not looking.

They were the evil
that  wanted exodus out of business, we
gave them the name “tumbladistans”, a conglomerate of evil corporations who
moved in the shadows and were greedy enough to try to avoid mankind’s advance
so they could keep ruling the world <<market-wise>>  they had a lot of tactics to avoid exodus’s
completion, and the first one to have a hard impact on us was using horrible
edited pictures of what appears to be members of exodus sacrificing their
childrens (hence the name we gave them, that was terrorism over tumblr)
anyways, let’s just say we avoided problems and the great day finally arrived,
the day we’ve all been waiting, the first trial flight of exodus.

Everything had to be
under control, and, as it was kilotons of difference testing the first flight
of an unmanned ship and fully habited one, so the residents were already set on
their homes the day of the test flight arrived, everybody was excited and a bit
scared, but after the half an hour of testing all the engines and checking
every important sensor was working, we were all set and ready to fly like
friggin’ birds.

It wasn’t anything
that i had imagined, at all, there was almost no vibration and the lifting was
smooth and controlled, we were in the pre-atmosphere in a matter of minutes,
the cities we all once though were magnificent were now nothing compared to
what exodus was; but you might be asking to yourself, you is this? You are you?
And to explain that, i must first explain exodus’s political system so you can
understand other events later on.

As exodus was the
result of most countries’ efforts, thinking of choosing a ruler in the
traditional way was just ridiculous and, because in exodus every inhabitant is
treated equally, there were changes that had to be done, first off, job
assignment was set through a system called “post’s number” whatever that means,
anyways, you must use a command called “roll” in one of the machines located in
all exodus so you can set your entry to the system and, after a random
generated number, you can get a job determined by the number you received.

As having absolute
power was just too much for a man, it was decided to have 3 main roots of
power; the first one  was to control
everything political-wise; a council set of councilors and high councilors
<<the laters having a Little bit of control on other important exodus
branches>>.

The second one was
the military; you see, by the time exodus was set on air there was already
transmissions of other civilizations in space, so we had to be sure we could
negotiate in their “terms” in case they were hostile, military has control over
citizens in general so they can keep them safe from accidents/problems.

The third of these
roots is R&D (Research and development) and although they don’t have any
political or military power over people, they are the most important division
of exodus, as their engineering made exodus possible and their minds produce
every peace of equipment we use as well as improving exodus facilities and functionalities.

Now to answer your
question i rolled for a job and got military, after a rough 2-year training i
got to be an outer ops; that way i got the title of Lt. Snake Plissken (former
name David Plissken), but it wasn’t everything honey and oats, after i got my
promotion i was immediately set off to the front lines to defend exodus from
this so called “tumbladistans” who were still trying to take exodus before it
was set to depart to space.

I was assigned to a
squad and we were set to patrol the walls of exodus; given the fact that exodus
was now a state of land independent from all other countries, the only place it
could be placed was international waters, which was no problem for the
integrated floating systems; but being so far from lands didn’t made us safe
from danger.

After a terrorist
incident caused by the tumbladistans exodus was blamed and we got to declare
war to this new enemy, this marked the beginning of a new era called the “first
great war”

SHEPPARD ERA:

My name is John
Sheppard Plesskin, and I’m the grandson of Lt. Snake Plissken, and was once
Supremme commander of the army of Exodus, I was born 50 years after the first
great war and rolled military since I was a child, all my life i set myself to
be as great as my famous grandparent, upon reaching my adult life I had to do
another reroll as it is written in the law, Since then I got to be judge Shepp,
and acquired the power to serve the council directly, at the time, former
general of the army was Colonel Cornwallis the third, but oh boy he liked big
titles, his entire title was “Colonel Cornwallis the third, former judge and
noble honorable member of the council” and let’s be honest, I was attracted by
the big title and the power he had to protect exodus, so after an incident with
tumbladistans I tried to help him and ended saving around 15 lives that day,
after what happened, I decided to talk to him and asked him to make me his
apprentice so I could help him in the fronts of war.

I received the
former title of “The First Exodus Arbiter Sheppard, Bane of Heretics and
blasphemy” I gotta admit that the title was ridiculous but, at the time I was
more than glad to receive it and finally be able to protect exodus as I was
initially meant to be and as my grandpa did back in the good ol’ days.