My own dystopia setting with story and details (need help for story bits and details), This is just an experiment and sligthly politically incorrect Options

[Die Hindenburg]

Its an new futurisitc science dystopia setting, where a new world war is fought with revolutionary vehicles, which are actually just overpimped IFVs:

M3CHS
Mechanized Military Mobile Combat-Heavy System
Formely an extensively modified GTK BOXER, the European military quickly developed an complete new generation of armed vehicles, which have replaced all manner of tanks, self propelled artillery, infantry transports and even walkers though a modular configurable weapon system on a all-fitting chassis which can use any propulsion system. Now called M3CHS they can adapt to any situation, and are on the road to even replace VTOL and Drones which proved unable to react to primitive counter measures like manpads or so. The European name is M3CH, Militärisch Mechanik Modul Compatibler Hybrid


Technology and mechanism of M3CHS: As a new mass produceable type of graphene was developed through the european "Graphene-2000" Project since over twenty years it was possible to design durable and flat pieces of electronics (commenly called graphtronics, because of the high electric efficience) and the lightweight beehive comb armour of euronium, an byproduct of Graphene when flooded with electricity within a exact voltage causes the material to tighten and harden the bounds of atoms to an uninmaginagle strong strcuture which is still lighter as previously used nano-metals and harder but more flexible than diamond. This material is marked as 12 in the Mohs scale, which was expanded to include this innovation.

The most important development was a new gyroscopical turret on a 360* degree cancel, shaped like a ball. Also advancements in AI research, again thanks to graphene, led to highly intelligent but not too creative (only capable in battle conditions and deciding on tactics) which could drive the vehicle while simulatnly control the battlefield situation to react to any danger or condition from location, enemy to weather and tactics, but some aspects are still controlled by trained crews, but theyre reduced to mostly 2 or even one.

This important combination of the previous two advances enable the turret to attack any target at any time and angle and even range. The turrets are build modulary, with powerful magnets, protected from EMP thanks to advancements, can accept any weapon and modification of these. For reseasons of logistics and to specialise the pilots of M3CHS, at most 5 (five) weapon modules can be integraded along with an optional (reusable through the fusion powered generator) for support abilities like stealth or self-repair to offensive shields, and a ammo limited grenade-battery which can accept any type of 25/40mm grenade avaible.

The vehicles are small, but thanks to the fusion generator and efficient locomotion systems that replaced plastic or steel wheels, legs and tracks with flat but robust euronium-titanium, they can fit more ammo then even previous ammo carriers.

Its profile also allows the M3CHS to accept any type of locomotion, ranging from clasic to weirder ones like 360* magnetic balls that can drive in any direction. Jetpacks with high newton force can prople and land safely these chimeras also easily from locations up to 100 meters. Rumors even speak of air-mobile, in the literal sense, M3CHS.

All M3CHS have an in board multipurpose detector, capable of detecting any target by using a silent and energy efficient type of wavelength and through unpowered, silent mechanical detectors.

Althrough M3CHS could transport infantry, this modification is not contiued since they small size made them, in essence, literal mobile infantry divisions.

The pilots wear lightweight, wearable and fitting suits that counter gravitc and speed effects through graphene inserts. They are operable for days of combat thanks to efficient fuel-batteries or even small scale fusion generators.




M3CHS have a similar reputation as chariots of old, because they are so new in design and use that they killed the old strategy used in previous mechanized wars.
TL'DR:
A mix of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A.I.:_Ste...a_International with their modularity and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_%28armo...ting_vehicle%29 as common chassis design, but these things are not walkers, drone, tank, mechs or actual IFVs but more of an soldier in vehicle form.




Superblock
Created through the US-Russo-War (an war similar to cliched stories and not important for this setting that much) and grand civil (occured because of many reasons, dont ask) war era period of the early 21st century as many nations have crumbled, the remained, most powerful ones quickly absorbed the land into political and military super-nations. Most of these Superblocks abandoned their original nation, free market, most western values religion, liberty and small mans capitalism in favour of a authorial, militarist, multicapitalist rationalist and supra-nationalist agenda. These military-industrial dictatorships turned the world into a more clear, multipolar world, but at costs too large to be avoided while single-handedly made the progress, advancement and also disasters that preceded them forgotten quickly.



Seat
The representative (but not executive) center of an Superblock, we cannot know where are they bases. GPS is gone you know, destroyed in the previous battles-.



The last great misfortune of this century
A series of Military conflicts between the Western Alliance, Asian League and the European Commonwealth, started in the 21st century because of battling over recourses like water, oil, agriculture and place to live.
While Oil and agriculture and even most recourse are not important since the breakthrough of genetic and graphene technology, drinkable water and places have become an issue that is causing these wars the most often.

The Afrika Eroberungen (The conquests over Africa)
The European Commonwealth first politically and economically "acquired" the defenceless lands of Africa and even the armed fortresses in the middle east constructed by the Western Alliance to project fast strikes and reaction. These events prompted the Asian League (who controlled North Africa) and the Western Alliance (fearing that their fortresses in the middle east would be cut off if Europe gained land on Iraq) to declare war on the Europeans.

The first battles were brutal and short for the attacking sides, because their obsolete equipment of western Tecumseh MBTs Tanks and Asian KCWs (Korean-Combat-Walker) proved worthless against the first generation of M3CHS which outgunned and overrun the opposition with almost no resistance.

The infamous "European Hammer day" was an testament of an massacre, leaving thousands Asian & western men dead on the dunes of Africa, along with multiple hundred wrecks of destroyed tanks, IFVs and walkers. The European did not lose any of their M3CHS, which was a such frightening fact that west-based Claymore Mechs and Asian Shanghai/Bombay Industries were ordered to quickly analyze and replicate this technology.

Their best scientists, some of them the most relatively intelligent (you now, intelligence is relative) of earth used an easy to do, safe and subtle method to gain the knowledge from so called European science:
Cutting these damn things with the strongest material cutters and learn from their internals components.
Although it took 2 years to even understand the mechanics and frames, which while simple are made of new and classified materials at that time (it was the early rendition of Nano-Materials, called Euronium), the work was finished and the first prototype of the western M3CHS rolled from Ottawa, Canada: The Mj. Payne, which was named after an US-Major who served at the Russo-US war in the 21st Century and the first Canadian born to earn the Medal of Honour.

The reason of why it was so difficult to analyze the materials came to the fact that europeans quickly recovered their M3CHS as possible, even sacrificing their own troops and tanks for them.

Western Alliance
Seat: Ottawa, Former Canada
The multifunctional Superblock consisting of the former United States. Canada and Mexico. Although most of the Canadians, Mexicans and US-citizens protested this political thing, this monster of an industrial-military complex
(which was made up of nationalized companies and the 10 largest US-Corporations) quickly suppressed and ended the riots and protests that followed. The system of small free market and liberty was completely abandoned and forbidden in favour of a capitalist style reminding of early 21st China, with many elements of large scale government. Technology regressed for civilians to an extent that a Smartphone will be the most advanced piece of electronics that an Western citizen will get. The black market, an way to circumvent this in theory is actually controlled and monitored by the companies & government to make it impossible to buy weapons and higher tech and even many simple things to enjoy life, an trick used by the former UK.

The civilian cities Reminds you of Deus Ex 1 and that resistance from Crysis-3, while the army has Mass Effect styled military aircraft and the ground forces have elements of Crysis-3's C.E.L.L. also doses from Frontlines: Fuel of War and Tomclancy Endwar, but only military
The US have no gorvernment and are like in "Deus Ex 2", reduced to a mass of land of the Western Alliance, so its no US takes over cliche.

Greater Asian League
Seat: Gangam, United Korea
Lead by China, India and United Korea (The unification war was won by the south who later ended their relationship with the US in favour of a new nationalist, non-western korean way of life) this was the first Superblock to be created and is one of the most technological advanced one at that, thanks to Korea and China, an computerized and cybernetic enhanced technocracy that is unlike the neo-communist USF and the authoritarian Western Alliance. Having the largest population of cyborgs and robots due to cheap and easy to get electronics, this Superblock and quickly react to most dangers that threaten its tightly guarded boarders. Japan and Singapore, once advanced nations, were destroyed in civil wars (espically Japan) and are reduced to 4th world countries, with Japan not even existing as proper nation anymore, instead being colonized by India and China for living places.
Also since cloning is extensivly used, this superblock also has little problems for food and other organic materials, what it lacks is actually much more arbitally: Land.

Looks like china and singapore from Deus Ex Human Revolution, and has many many cyborgs and androids.
*Gagnam is one of the richest cities in Korea.

United Slavic Federation
Seat: Crimea, Crimean Oblast
Huge Neo-Communist amalgamation of Slavic and greek speaking land, this massive entity is the result of heavy doses of nostalgia and lost during the early 21st century, where the Balkan nations were left on their own dirt because of the formation of the European commonwealth and the Russian federation experiencing a shameful defeat in the US-Russo war, also called the 2,5 World War. The extreme industrialisation that followed after the neo-communists (presumed to be a conspiral manuever by an 3rd party source, but unlikely) took over in control of the Federation and through the submission of the east European Balkan countries like Serbia, Greece and Poland (easy since russia still had many industrial and organic recourses) did a great job to rebuild this mass of land into an giant factory and communist care centre. While the population lives without any money, they get the most simple of thing like food (artificial grown and genetically modified to ethical and biological extremes) for free... or rather for work for the country. An communist disneyland was born... an industrial hydra which can regrow its head with two other heads.
This Superblock was slow to adapt to the new military technology, but jumped in the M3CHS train after their 4T Reaper IFVs and TMU100 Heavy Tanks were shredded by Asian Jadeblade M3CHS in the thousands.

Architectually like a mix or RA3 soviet (green colors and tesla-punk) with ROTR style (square architecture)
Btw, Russia is one of the weakest members, if not non-existing.


European Commonwealth
Seat: Geneva, Switzerland
Europe was one of the most prosperus continets thanks to the advances of graphen-materials, and the people were had little to no problems because of the many jobs created by the new technology, until the populations rose to an new high, while land and clean water became more scarce--- needs more help here.

2nd to form and ironically enough, most diverse Superblock, despite the fascism and nationalism that this unified Europe created by its very existence. Most non-european populations (even some europeans like basques, and czech) where driven out, while the Jewish citizens were oppressed again, which marked their return to their home Israel, the only major block-free nation that currently exists and able to replicate (but not innovate) M3CHS technology. The racialist and fascist European Government is a combination of many rightwing and left and also conservative parties, all of them formed since the early 21st century (so none of the todays parties). Despite this, while technology and life quality seem very comfortable and well leveled, it is all but an expensive charade (thanks to the Truck-system replaced money with so called DLC-Cards, which are gained by work and status to this chimera of an nation.)*
From satellite view, the white sprayed buildings that form the most of European architecture, with their hexagon construction and glowing neon colours hide a brutal and coldly calculation bastardisation of human life.
The most ironic part is that Switzerland gave up its neutrality and joined the EC in awe of its power and "wealth".
Their shining M3CHS, the Löwe/Legionari is an italian-swiss monstrosity which reduce tank armies to molten slag in less than few minutes, and its scary green searchlights broke the hearts and ended existance of thousands of human soldiers.
One of the few hopes still remain in the form of many resistance inside europe, like the german "Blaue Rose" and "Liberati Italia de Cumpas" of Sicily. These plan to free to europe from the facist fist it holds down its throut.


An parody of these idalistic future europe settings, with 1984 style of civilian life.
Trivia: The leader of this Commonwealth is Italy, actually... because its too cliche to use germany or the Uk for that. Oh and france is their own black sheep, reduced to an third world mass of land, more of an test field for new M3CHS
Italy's cities like Neon-Acedia looks so futuristic that you think you live in a eldar or tau or alien city, but it smells like melt plastic and burn bird crap.


Andean Military Pact
Seat: Any Andean subordinate has one seat of government, to prevent loss of control.
Very late to be established Superblock, the unified government of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela is the only Entity with a socialist "constitution" but it as against old world moral and an authoritarian blob of militarism and technocratic as any other Superblock. Unconventional in warfare and highly aggressive against any disruption of its borders and rule of land, the Andean forces are rapid, brutal and unpredictable, striking with fast attacks to annihilate their many enemies. Was life in the Brazilian Favelas a living nightmare during the early 21st for most, it is now an entire continent that builds on that "proud tradition", while "pacification" through the Paramilitary, an another tradition maintain this status quo. Possession is tightly controlled to prevent insurgents to get arms and starting civil wars.
This is the only Superblock without an central government, its placed around the continent.

Take the Favelas and place them anywhere in that contintent, you have the civilian cities of the AMP. Also they are a expy of the James Camerson humans in that movie with these space smurfs.

Lunar Colony Alpha
Seat: Moon Base Alpha
A newly forming but still infantile Superblock, but with a clear and naive vision: to overcome, or better yet avoid the problems that plagued people on the small and finite earth. The Lunar Colony was founded as non-ideological base by the richest and most influential men and woman who defected from decadence and thanks to the large mineral reserves gained from asteroids and comets through bots and space stations orbiting the moon, this small nation can easily reach or even surpass its jealous rivals. Although posing as pacifistic and diplomatic, the Lunar Colony has developed its own M3CHS, an prototype of rumoured to be based on physic laws breaking technology. They want to be free from any of earths problem, but are they ready to face the inevitable conflict that will arise from its enemies?
And is the Lunar Colony really that different in philosophy, respect to human life and technology, as their enemies?
This one is like the Earh21xx's Lunar Society, also with so many woman but not "feminazi"-cliche (which i find insulting to true feminists which i respect) like.

Middle East Coalition
The 2nd smallest but weakest and lousiest... "Superblock", the MEC is so small and weak in fact that it is almost ignored by the other major player, which could prove to be a mistake, since many rich warlords from Africa and Arabian countries are secretly planning to construct their own combat forces, fortunately they lack any capability to even design their own M3CHS, instead they steal and modify abandoned ones which are weak and desperate Frankenstein's without any military worth or any use. If not for the large amount of riches, it would not even be plundered by Europeans, Westerns, Slavs and Asians.
(Its a take that moment to any of these terrorist organisations that you see in games, like nod and gla)


Other Nations
Israel & Austria are the only nations that do not belong to any Superblock. They cannot manufacture many M3CHS and those which they produce are unmodified copies, just with different serial numbers and colours.
They can still defend themselves a bit against the superblocks, since they amased enough M3CHS to counter invasions for enough time to make conquering them worthless for the superblocks.
Africa and nations like Mongolia are so powerless that they don't have any influence what so ever.



*This system existed really!
Btw, since i am a christian, please no anti-christian bits, like an christofacist government for the US here, this is an anti-christian cliche. Oh and no other religions, i respect them even i disagree with them.

Oh and i am sorry for painting all these superblocks so negative and a bit racist, but its their authorian governments that make them so dystopian and their efficient propaganda/supply system keeps most people into believing them as nice guys..


This post has been edited by Die Hindenburg: 18 Jul 2014, 15:51

[Die Hindenburg]

Without wishing to derail this thread, I do feel that I should say my piece on this tangential matter in the briefest manner: I respect Snowden because he revealed what may very well be the biggest incursion on privacy in the Western world since the dawn of the digital age. He revealed the inner workings of an intelligence community that has taken on a dangerous momentum of its own, akin to a state within a state, with its own rubber stamp jurisdiction of secret military courts and political lobbyists. All these speculative statements about terrorists that may or may not have gotten away because of him don't hold any meaning in the light of the fact that this whole practice was amoral, from the collecting of data to the spying on supposedly allied government officials. Two wrongs don't make a right and the price of letting such practices become the norm is much higher than the risk of some terrorist event. This constitutes a breach of trust of the highest order which only comes off as more insulting with all that politician talk about the strength and meaning of our wonderful transatlantic friendship. Friends don't do shit like this, end of story. The terrorists cannot defeat us. They cannot invade our capitals, topple our governments and impose their own rules upon us. What they -can- do is to scare us and our politicians into submission so they abolish all the hallmarks of our civilisation for them and turn is into paranoid, militarised societies where historical achievements like personal privacy, human rights, rule of law and freedom are reduced to empty buzzwords without meaning. The history of the United States, as well as that of my own country, makes it apparent to me that those branded as 'traitors' by a government -can- also be heroes and vice versa. The guy himself may be a bit full of himself, but I respect what he did and the US should ask themselves how they got into the position where dissidents escape from their country rather than to it.

Well thats also agreeable.

But the controversy is now retificed.