The year is 2253.  Cliche beginnings are still around, the atmosphere is more polluted than ever, and wars are still being fought.  Currently, the biggest news-worthy war is being fought over oil.... just as the last three wars were. With oil reserves being depleted, countries panic and politics explode.  Two groups of people dubbing themselves The Rebels (East Americans) , and The Fighters (West Americans) find themselves at each other's throats when a recently passed treaty declares an oil reserve between Nebraska and Iowa as capital meant only to be traded away to foreigners.  The split nation leaps to action, with the East Americans fighting to keep the reserves for the East American people, and the West Americans fighting on the side of the treaty.

Allied nations and otherwise feel the need to jump into the war, concerned over losing the oil themselves, or losing the precious resource to their enemies.  Militant groups from all over the world are deployed to the Americas to aide, to fight, and to represent their countries.  As all out war commences, it's up to the soldiers to win this for their people and their country.

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This, obviously, is an rp set in the future.  You MUST apply in order to play, and once sign-ups are complete, a separate thread will be created for the game.

Sign Ups will last until June 30th, 2013.

Rules:
1. Standard vizzed rules apply.  Family friendly.  No inappropriate material or cursing or flaming/spamming.

2. This game is meant for LITERATE writers who exhibit skill in building a long-term plot.

3. Absolutely NO God-modding.  You can not just -kill- off another character, direct another character's actions, or speak for another character.  Doing so will get you a warning, and then a disqualification.

4. I will participate as the 'game master'.  This simply means that I will not have a character directly involved in the plot.  Instead, I'll post feeds that contain more 'NPC' like actions.  Perhaps a news story will make it's way into the events, or a bomb will explode, or someone will have a message delivered to them.

5. Since there are two 'parties' involved in this story, there might be two plot lines running at one time.  If you guys choose to merge the parties through some event (captivity?) I don't mind.  However, to keep things simple, you will color code your posts.  Rebels will post in blue, and Fighters will post in orange.

6. You MUST apply in this thread, using the following application.  I reserve the right to deny any applications.  If you want to play another nationality, state which nationality you are playing, along with which side they are fighting for.  Keep politics in mind... and first come, first serve.  Once a person has said "Hey I'm playing an Italian and he's sided with the Rebels", then all Italian characters submitted afterwards must be fighting for the rebels.  A list will be kept below the application.

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Application

Name of your Character:
Age:
Nationality:
Rebels or Fighters?:
Role in the Company (i.e. Soldier, Nurse, Supplier, etc):
Physical Description:
Motivation for Joining the War:
Miscellaneous Information:

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The Rebels	The Fighters
East Americans	West Americans

Singelli : My forum... you know I have got to try this out. 

Name of your Character:            General Thing
Age:                                                 19
Nationality:                                     American
Rebels or Fighters?:                    Rebels
Role in the Company:                  Soldier who had a brain beyond his years, asked to lead forces as the youngest leader of any large military occupational force in history. 
Physical Description:                    6 feet, 165 lbs. White, Athletic Build, High School Football Star, turned down scholarship to join military.                                                          Denied entry into Army, asked to lead the Rebels.
Motivation for Joining the War:   Always believed that America was the world's leader in democracy. If America can't have their own oil, the most powerful symbol of power on the globe at the time, how is America going to stay the Global Leader?
Miscellaneous Information:      Turned down scholarship to join military. Denied entry into Army, asked to lead the Rebels.

Ya know, as a RPer? I've got to try this here. However... I may tweak the template a wee bit... Okay yeah, I made myself a template for this. Aaaand here it is! Sorry it's a bit long.

|Basic Information|
Name: Hugo Santigo
Nickname: Hugh
Age: 26
Birth date: Nov. 4th 2227
Race: Caucasian

|Physical|
Height: 6'3"
Weight: Approximately 225 though varies on his diet.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Sky blue.
Strength: Through severe training and work outs he is at peak conditioning.
Stamina: Peak conditioning

|Personal Information|
Family:
-Mother: Catherine Santigo (Deceased)
-Father: David Santigo (Deceased)
-Siblings: David Santigo J.R.(Supplier), Christopher Santigo (Soldier), Christina Santigo (Nurse), Monica Santigo (Civilian), Angela Santigo (Civilian)
-Children: None
Significant Other: None
Occupation: Staff Sergeant in the Rebel fighters.

|Skills|
Handy with most fire arms, particularly gifted with blades.

|Training|
Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Tai Cho Chuan, Boxing, Basic training at Parris Island, School of Infantry at SOI East (Camp Geiger), and the best training you can get... Experience.

|History|
Crap happens, this mans life is an example. He had a decent child hood, never got hit unless he really deserved it, had everything he needed. Never had a reason to complain, while his family wasn't rich they made it through the days. Hugo was a smart kid, but he had a smart mouth to go along with it. He had a love for fighting to rival that mouth. Eventually, it lead his parents to put him in several programs, hoping to curb that urge, unfortunately all it did was prove he was good at it, and drive him to want more challenges.

It was all good up through his schooling, little bits of trouble here and there nothing major. Until the day in high school when he fought for a good reason, defending his younger sister Monica, who was being harassed by a few upper class men. Hugo never saw it coming when he got blind-sided, but he didn't go down. After everything was said and done, the three upper classmen were limping away, and Hugo was being escorted in cuffs beaten and bloody, but refusing to say he was wrong.

He spent a night in a cell, but charges were dropped. Things changed from then on, his parents had enough. He ended up being sent to a private school, things were much stricter there. Even he was amazed he made it. When his father died from cancer however Hugo took a turn again. Going down an angry path, and when he turned eight-teen? He signed the enlistment papers. He was now property of the United States Marines.

He was off to Parris Island soon after graduation, it seemed this was what he needed, never had any issues. It was even recorded in a few personal documents it was as if he were bred specifically to be a Marine. He showed true ability, not just physically, he followed orders perfectly, and even inspired others. He was a natural candidate for leadership positions.

SOI was no different. Promise was shown repeatedly. Earning praise after praise. Hugo didn't seem interested in the praise though, he only wanted to move on. And move on he did, soon being thrown into battle like all other Marines. He proved himself time after time, even as a green horn. Through time he climbed the ranks, now sitting comfortably at E-6. Carnage was a part of this man’s life. But at least now he could help his men and still carry a gun. Admittedly however Infantry Unit Leader is not what he thought it would be.

Hugo got word his family had been pressured by the internal conflicts of the states, all but his younger sister Monica. He went home to see what he could do to help to find out his baby sister Angela was not permitted to leave home, the struggle of oil was too far. Then and there he cast himself from the West allegiance, taking up home with the East. Hugo in a way blames himself, though never shows his emotions on his sleeve, he however has been known to take moments to himself to reflect, and even write to his sister Monica. However as always Hugo keeps his smart mouthed attitude, many believing it a defense mechanism, and many thinking him a cold twisted sod. Who's to say what's true or not. One thing was known however, he was fighting for The United States, his family, the people… Even if they weren’t doing it for themselves.

Kostabi :
That's a TOTALLY awesome profile!  I'm well pleased haha!
Definitely accepted... I'm already excited to see more!

thing1 :
You're accepted as well!

Now, for other people that might sign up... you do realize we need some opposition, right?  

Singelli : yes... maybe we can ask elliot to advertise in chat for 24 hours? XD 

Singelli : Hah, I spend A LOT of time RPing lately. So yeah, I had the free time to throw together a quick profile. Just be glad I didn't use my usual template, it's like a book.

Singelli : where do you want to go with this, since we really are not getting a lot of people to it... this is your thing, so I leave it to you.