[Translated to English]
Death Planet is the galaxy's single most popular action packed Reality Television Show and Blood Sport. On the Planet Tal Shorral teams of players slaughter each other for the glory and fame of being the toughest warriors in the sector! These teams will face all manner of dangers, from slaughter robots, to homicidal maniacs from the worse war zones imaginable, to strange and bloodthirsty monstrous beasts genetically designed to improve your Death Planet experience.
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Thoughts:
I had the idea for Death Planet a long time ago. The idea hit me while watching my brother and his 3 friends play Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4. I was surprised by how enjoyable it was watching them slaughter one another. Which led me to create this "show". I'm hoping to make it into a novel, or a campaign setting for a science fiction game. Not sure yet.
The show is caught on film by small floating cameras that capture every minute of every hour of every day. The Players are almost never alone (Editors will usually remove all the boring parts, saving it for special Uncut downloads). Each team consists of 5 squads of 10 people. The reason I used the number ten is that I need some cannon fodder for the main characters, my hope was to have 4-6 main characters, and a few "red shirts" to get eviscerated.
Teams dynamics are very diverse. Some teams are made up of professional soldiers, or amateurs, or veterans from a bloody war who could not cope with the real world, or, in one instance, inmates who accepted a deal from the local Magistrate to serve in his team for a few years rather than life in prison.
Teams are supplied by their Owners, and not every team is supplied equally. Some teams have the finest equipment available, some have cheap hand me downs from a war a hundred years ago. Each person is worth a certain number of points, which is mediated by the Death Planet Commission, essentially the better you are at the game the more points you are worth to your enemies.
The arena is an entire planet. Once is had a bustling modern society, but whoever lived on the planet is long gone. The planet is owned by the Death Planet Commission. The planet is covered in ruins, after decades of combat there are few buildings that have survived unscathed. However there is still standing the burnt out remnants of buildings (new buildings are constantly being built by small androids around the clock to keep the terrain interesting)
Vehicles are another interesting aspect of the games. They are controlled by the Commission and used to help make things more interesting. A prime example is a firefight between two teams suddenly turns as a tank teleports down the street. Suddenly the firefight has turned into a desperate dash for the tank. To keep players from trying to live in the tanks or over use the tanks, the tanks can fill with a deadly gas before they are teleported back to wherever they come from. These vehicles appear randomly, and come in many different designs (to sell merchandise of all the different models)
The Commission scours the galaxy searching for strange monsters to throw against the players. One of the few animals to thrive on the planet are Carrion Eaters, large lizards who roam from battlefield to battlefield devouring dead bodies whole.
There are also robots that will appear randomly, like booby traps. I have a few cool designs, but they are a lot like the tripods from War of the Worlds, they burst out from rubble and start shooting. I also like them to look completely alien, there are also plenty of configurations (also to help sell merchandise).
Food consists of corporate rations. These are tiny product placements that are paid for by various corporations. So players will drink Miller Beer and Burger King Burgers (naturally, these will be Alien brands) Their guns might be produced by a certain weapons manufacturer, and there combat fatigues from a certain sportswear retail outlet.
That's pretty much the gist of Death Planet. The hard part is coming up with names for teams, I want them to be violent and scary, like Death Metal Band names. I am also going to avoid a lot of alien sounding names, I want them to be "translated into english" because episodes of the show would be translated (or at least have subtitles) So names like Crimson Kings, or Skull Takers, or Shadow Knights (the last one was really cheesy)
The theme of Death Planet is brutal and intense. Everything is cranked up to 11. Naturally a show where people kill people probably wouldn't be well liked. But we enjoy Ultimate Fighter shows and Wrestling, so hey. Words that describe it include "savage" "brutal" "visceral" "ripper" "slaughter" and "murderous"
Any Thoughts?
The show is caught on film by small floating cameras that capture every minute of every hour of every day. The Players are almost never alone (Editors will usually remove all the boring parts, saving it for special Uncut downloads). Each team consists of 5 squads of 10 people. The reason I used the number ten is that I need some cannon fodder for the main characters, my hope was to have 4-6 main characters, and a few "red shirts" to get eviscerated.
Teams dynamics are very diverse. Some teams are made up of professional soldiers, or amateurs, or veterans from a bloody war who could not cope with the real world, or, in one instance, inmates who accepted a deal from the local Magistrate to serve in his team for a few years rather than life in prison.
Teams are supplied by their Owners, and not every team is supplied equally. Some teams have the finest equipment available, some have cheap hand me downs from a war a hundred years ago. Each person is worth a certain number of points, which is mediated by the Death Planet Commission, essentially the better you are at the game the more points you are worth to your enemies.
The arena is an entire planet. Once is had a bustling modern society, but whoever lived on the planet is long gone. The planet is owned by the Death Planet Commission. The planet is covered in ruins, after decades of combat there are few buildings that have survived unscathed. However there is still standing the burnt out remnants of buildings (new buildings are constantly being built by small androids around the clock to keep the terrain interesting)
Vehicles are another interesting aspect of the games. They are controlled by the Commission and used to help make things more interesting. A prime example is a firefight between two teams suddenly turns as a tank teleports down the street. Suddenly the firefight has turned into a desperate dash for the tank. To keep players from trying to live in the tanks or over use the tanks, the tanks can fill with a deadly gas before they are teleported back to wherever they come from. These vehicles appear randomly, and come in many different designs (to sell merchandise of all the different models)
The Commission scours the galaxy searching for strange monsters to throw against the players. One of the few animals to thrive on the planet are Carrion Eaters, large lizards who roam from battlefield to battlefield devouring dead bodies whole.
There are also robots that will appear randomly, like booby traps. I have a few cool designs, but they are a lot like the tripods from War of the Worlds, they burst out from rubble and start shooting. I also like them to look completely alien, there are also plenty of configurations (also to help sell merchandise).
Food consists of corporate rations. These are tiny product placements that are paid for by various corporations. So players will drink Miller Beer and Burger King Burgers (naturally, these will be Alien brands) Their guns might be produced by a certain weapons manufacturer, and there combat fatigues from a certain sportswear retail outlet.
That's pretty much the gist of Death Planet. The hard part is coming up with names for teams, I want them to be violent and scary, like Death Metal Band names. I am also going to avoid a lot of alien sounding names, I want them to be "translated into english" because episodes of the show would be translated (or at least have subtitles) So names like Crimson Kings, or Skull Takers, or Shadow Knights (the last one was really cheesy)
The theme of Death Planet is brutal and intense. Everything is cranked up to 11. Naturally a show where people kill people probably wouldn't be well liked. But we enjoy Ultimate Fighter shows and Wrestling, so hey. Words that describe it include "savage" "brutal" "visceral" "ripper" "slaughter" and "murderous"
Any Thoughts?
that.
As far as technology goes, I'm thinking it might be on par with star trek. Beaming, food, things like that.
The set up of the adventures will be a lot like Left 4 Dead. Get to the safe house now!
The hard part is coming up with team names. I want them all to be translated into English.
I might even get rid of any alien names and put them in English.
That's what the fans of the show are going to be.
"Blood!"
"Murder!"
"Betrayal!"
"Flamethrower!"
"Heart!"
"GOOOOO DEATH PLANET!!!"
"By your powers combined... I am Captain Death Planet!" He is a 8 foot tall hulking beast with fangs and a thick main of jet black hair and a braided beard. A chainsaw sword in one hand and a sawed off auto-matic shotgun in the other. Blood and gore seems to drip off of him everywhere he goes.
Magog- The veteran Captain of the Lost Souls Penal Team, he is the only non-convict, and the only member of the team who gets paid. He was once a champion, until an explosion near killed him, now he is more machine then man. He is huge and imposing, 2 meters tall with cybernetic muscles that have been known to punch holes through people. He has the controls of the explosives in everyone's brain, as does the owner of the Lost Souls, who paid to have him outfitted with his cybernetic body. Personality wise, he's like any other athlete. He doesn't see himself as a warrior or soldier or killer, to him this is a game. Giving 110% all thanks to God.
Bale- The Crew's medic, he enjoys his role as crew doctor, taking care of sore muscles and other medical needs. During a fight he carries an small handheld x-ray scanner for removing bullets, an injector for medications, scalpel and bandages. Once a great surgeon, now he is a convict sentenced to 6 years on the crew for performing surgery on patients while high on painkillers. He is still addicted to painkillers and will often hoard them for himself and not administer them to his crewmates in pain.
Kreed- The scout character, I haven't thought too much about him. I'm thinking he comes from a wild planet, believes in the spirit of a world, and see's this world as soulless. He is an excellent shot, smokes 9 packs of cigarettes a day in the hopes the cancer will kill him and instead of something worse.
Kolothor- He's the main character, probably the narrator. He is a rookie, although not in the ways of war. He is what I call an Assault Soldier, carrying an Assault Rifle, a Pistol, and some grenades. Nothing fancy, he hasn't earned that right. Veterans always get the finer equipment, or whatever they can steal and pick up.
The Legion: One of the few cases when a team owner actually also plays the game. He is a rare alien who reproduces through rapid cellular mitosis. So he splits into two people to reproduce and creates clones of himself. He can only have 50 or so team members on the planet at a time, so he keeps it to that number, but he makes use of a simple strategy. Attack, die, reproduce, repeat. He will continue this until his opponent runs out of bullets and ammo and then he will over run his foe.