AW: Neue Planeten
Aus dem Giftschrank:
Dignidad
Dignidad is a world with two faces. Or rather it tries to be. The official face Dignidad tries to portray, probably more out of a sense of tradition than anything else, is that of a planet of blue oceans, white beaches and cities and green jungles. The mostly human population is concentrated in several sprawling cities along the coastlines of the only inhabited continent – the second, occupying the south polar region, is nothing but a cold, stony wasteland - some of the islands in its vicinity, and further inland in the overgrown mountains or on the banks of one of the many rivers crisscrossing the jungles. Tourism and Agriculture play their part in this worlds economy, which is firmly grounded in manufacturing industry. A manufacturing industry that crumbles and breaks down as one begins to look behind the mask of Dignidads official face, just as the white cities crumble under the pressure of the slums surrounding them and eating into them like aggressive cancer, just as the tourism breaks down in the face of violent crime on the rise. The agriculture though takes on a whole new meaning as soon as the mask is off.
The jungles of Dignidad provide raw materials, space, soil, concealment for the true heart of the worlds industry. Farms, fields, laboratories all engaged in the production of drugs. All churning out not the safe, expensive pleasures of Karma brands, but the promises of cheap and easy power provided by the likes of Shatter. All wholy owned by Dark Night.
The hidden face of Dignidad is that of one of SLA’s rivaling Oppressor Power‘s premier industrial worlds. The lab-factories in the jungles produce, the masses in the derelict cities - and all across the World of Progress – consume. The money made powers DNs other operations on the planet, the business not linked to the corporation is hard to find on Dignidad. The high echeleons of the giant maintain offices in the cities and (fortified) retreats, which double as the control centres for the drug operations, in the mountains and jungles, while providing basic living amenities for the population – something that the government proves incapable of – and feeding them their propaganda.
The government in their quest to maintain Dignidads mask have even asked SLA Industries for help in combatting the drug trade, and while some people in the civilian administration really do mean to get their world out of its current situation (and, in their eyes, predicatement), enough of them are in the pay of Dark Night to make this endeveaour as any other past or future doomed to failure. SLA on the other hand, perhaps not totally aware of the extent of Dark Night’s Dignidad operation, has reacted only sluggishly to the (half-hearted) pleas of the planet’s diplomats, though on several occasions operative squads have been sent on varying missions to the world (ranging from advisory roles to search-and-destroy operations in the jungles – most of these squads have not returned).
Designer’s Notes
Dignidad, named so after the alleged "code of conduct" of columbian drug cartels, owes its existence to several factors. For one I have long been fascinated with the way SLA depicts nationalities, ethnic groups, nations found today, twisting them, reducing them to stereotypes in some ways, elaborating on them in others – Dignidad is a product of that fascination, trying to transport some of the stereotypes regarding south america into the World of Progress. Two other contributing influences were the wish to portray a place not completely owned by the company, one of those alleged sites controlled by one of ist rivals, and me blatantly wanting to install drug syndicates in SLA or at least experimenting upon the idea.
Stay SLA
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zum beispiel)...wie schauts in eurer WoP mit neuen (eigenen) planeten aus?
