Engineered to Serve
| Engineered to Serve | |
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| Type | Solo |
| Players | Saria, Zero |
| Genres | science fiction, adventure, action |
| IC | IC |
Seized by Astreans, and en route to a horrifying and torturous execution, Kino Sumiya turns the tables on his captors. But escape is the furthest thing from his mind. Having tasted the forbidden fruit of Astrea, Sumiya resolves that he must have them. He must have them all. He must outwit the cognitively enhanced. He must outsmart their technological advancements. He must overpower their genetically-perfected bodies. He must claim them all.
He is one, pure, unmodified man, against an entire world of genetically-enhanced, warrior women. But... they don't know he's coming... or the lengths he will go to to make them all his....
Intro
Kino Sumiya has been living the good life. Having set up a private estate on the vacation world of Loquaia, he has indulged in a devilish hobby, collecting the most beautiful women from the billions of visitors to Loquaia, and converting them to obedient and submissive pleasure slaves. With the administration of Loquaia turning a blind eye to his hobby - and, occasionally, accepting some of his "product" as bribes - Sumiya has no fear of being caught, and a near infinite supply of raw material to work with. But then he makes a fatal mistake.
She was impossible not to notice, and impossible not to desire. She was the first Astrean - the first member of her reclusive and xenophobic, genetically-enhanced all-woman race - to come to Loquaia. Less than a fraction of a percent of all the men in the vast universe get a chance to lay eyes on even one of these women, and when they do, they cannot forget it for the remainder of their lives. There was no way Sumiya could resist the temptation of such a prize. He had to claim her.
But Astrea could never stand to have one of her daughters in the hands of a genetically-inferior barbarian. Their wrath matched only by their cunning and technological superiority, they would scour the ends of the universe and rip worlds apart rather than see one of their own debased by lesser beings. From the very instant his agents laid their hands on the flesh of the Astrean, his doom was inevitable.
Or was it?
Story
About a week after Kino Sumiya abducted Gossamer, Astrea activated one of their rescue/extraction teams. A week after that, Threnody and Zenith arrived on Loquaia, disguised as a pair of Gorbdan women.
It didn’t take them long to pick up the trail – virtually everyone who had seen Gossamer remembered it, in exquisite detail. In fact, it took them less than a day of investigation to hear rumours about Kino Sumiya. That was the downside of abducting an Astrean – they tended to attract attention.
The two agents did not find it particularly hard to infiltrate Sumiya’s residence and plant recording and observation devices. Loquaia was not a world that took security particularly seriously in general. After that, they meticulously recorded everything that happened in the Sumiya estate for the next two weeks. It would be evidence, for Sumiya’s trial.
It was a hard two weeks for Threnody. Gossamer was her gene-sister – they both shared the same two gene-donor mothers – and Threnody had always felt somewhat protective of her little sister. Watching Sumiya, an unmodified human – a male – degrade and humiliate Gossamer was enough to drive her into a killing rage several times over. Had it not been for Zenith reminding her that Sumiya’s fate would be far worse than death, should they manage to get him back to Astrea, Threnody would have charged over and murdered the whole household several times.
But they waited, and when the time was right, they struck.
The actual assault lasted less than half an hour. In their combat armour they infiltrated Sumiya’s mansion surreptitiously, then used paralysing darts on anything and anyone that moved. It was a military operation, carried out with surgical precision. Sumiya never had a chance.
Once they acquired Gossamer, and Sumiya, they had their ship – the Aquaria Viper – jump right in to Loquaia’s atmosphere, causing a massive ecological catastrophe. The windstorms and tidal waves would distract the Loquaians, and discourage pursuit, while the agents, their prize, and their captive, raced away at high speed to a safe jump point.
It was a perfectly executed mission, and a resounding success, but like most rescue missions, the aftermath was sombre. As usual, the rescued victim was distraught and traumatized, but what made it worse in this case was that it was Threnody’s sister – and a close friend of Zenith as well. Gossamer would, of course, be getting the best treatment and counselling, once they got back to Astrea. But until then, it would be a sad and difficult trip.
But it might even be worse for Kino Sumiya.
They were taking him to his death. Of that there was no doubt. There would be a perfunctory trial, but with two weeks of recorded evidence against him, there was really no hope of acquittal. He would be found guilty, and then sentenced to death. But executions on Astrea were not easy. They were not painless. And they were not slow. Sumiya would die, but only after ages – possibly even centuries – of excruciating agony.
And until then, he had several weeks of travel in a cramped brig to look forward to. Not to mention visits from the vengeful and violent Threnody, and the manipulative and sadistic Zenith.
Transport to Astrea
TBD
Characters
Kino Sumiya
TBD
Astreans
Gossamer
The young, naïve Gossamer was the first Astrean to visit the vacation planet of Loquaia. While there she caught the eye of Kino Sumiya, who conspired to have her abducted, and added to his stable of pleasure slaves. He began the process of breaking her will, and transforming her into a compliant, submissive slave, but this was interrupted when his estate was assaulted by Threnody and Zenith, who had come to rescue Gossamer.
Threnody
Threnody is the leader of an ADF commando unit that specializes in finding and retrieving Astreans who get into trouble outside of Astrea. She is a proud and strict believer in the philosophy of Astrea, that strength is beauty, and a savage and violent enemy of anyone who defies Astrea. She is vehemently bigoted against anything non-Astrean, and hateful and distrustful of non-Astrean places, people or ideas. She was assigned to rescue Gossamer - her own gene-sister - from the clutches of Kino Sumiya.
Zenith
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Zenith is the second part of Threnody's two-woman assault team. She specializes in infiltration, and serves as the calmer, more devious part of the team. In many ways, the mischievous and lascivious Zenith is the polar opposite of her conservative and closed-minded partner. Zenith delights in exploring the outside universe and sampling its forbidden delicacies, and fantasizes about exploring taboo pleasures.
Astrea
TBD
Other locations
Starlit Hypatia / Aquaria Viper
The Starlit Hypatia/Aquaria Viper is the two-in-one starship used by Threnody and Zenith on their missions.
Aquaria Viper
The Aquaria Viper is a top secret, fast-attack, superluminal interceptor used by agents of the Astrean Defence Force for extraction or rescue operations.
After receiving their mission orders to search for and rescue Gossamer, Threnody and Zenith program the Aquaria Viper's automated flight systems with instructions for a quick getaway flight plan when they sent a signal for it. They then left the ship hidden in interstellar space and travelled to Loquaia by civil freighter from the planet Gorbda, taking the identities of two Gorbdan women they murdered.
After storming Kino Sumiya's estate, rescuing Gossamer and capturing Sumiya, Threnody and Zenith signal the Aquaria Viper to do a pre-planned jump directly into Loquaia's atmosphere. This causes an environmental catastrophe, triggering extreme and erratic weather patterns and tidal waves. Threnody and Zenith use the ensuing confusion to escape with their rescued sister, and their captive.
Starlit Hypatia
The Starlit Hypatia is a long-haul large freighter starship, whose detachable front section is secretly the Aquaria Viper.
After escaping from Loquaian space, the Aquaria Viper jumps to an uninhabited star system, where the Starlit Hypatia is hidden, and flies to rendezvous with it.
Normally, Threnody and Zenith would handle the docking procedures, while any passengers (and prisoners) simply braced themselves in an acceleration harness (which are built in to all beds) and waited for it to be over. However, Kino Sumiya had implanted a command in Gossamer's dissociative alter-ego "Sam" to force Gossamer ask permission to do the piloting herself. Zenith was only too happy to hand piloting duties over to Gossamer, so Gossamer piloted the Aquaria Viper during the docking procedures with the Starlit Hypatia, then piloted the Starlit Hypatia onto its flight path toward its next jump point.
Loquaia
Loquaia is a small, heavily-terraformed planet famous across the human universe as a resort world.
The native population of Loquaia is very small, numbering only some 12 million. Virtually all of them are engaged in the planet's only business: providing pleasure and relaxation to the hundreds of millions of visitors that come to the planet each year.
Loquaia's main claim to fame is as a "natural" resort world. This does not imply the planet is not terraformed - in fact it is heavily terraformed, and the climate and weather control systems are extensive. What it means is that Loquaia's main draw is not its casinos or shows (though those are quite popular) but rather its outdoor beauty. Tourists come to Loquaia to hike its trails, climb its mountains, or sail on its seas. (Synthetic) big-game hunting and sport fishing are also popular pastimes. But many come just to lounge on its pristine and perfect beaches. Because there are only a few dozens of millions of people on the planet at any given time, guests can easily find places where they can go their entire stay without seeing another human being, creating a sense of solitude and oneness with nature that is very hard to find on most worlds.
Of course, this sense of being isolated and cut off from the rest of the universe is only an illusion. In reality, every square millimetre of the planet is heavily monitored by a fleet of millions of heavily camouflaged drones. These not only tend to the planet's natural beauty, they surreptitiously monitor all human activity on the planet. If any guest, or local, comes to any harm or danger, a rescue team can be dispatched immediately.
This system means that despite appearing to provide a rugged, isolated vacation alone with "nature", Loquaia is a very safe place. Injuries and accidents are commonplace - as you would expect when you unleash millions of city- and space-colony-dwellers onto relatively open and "untamed" naturescapes - but fatalities are extremely rare, because accidents are spotted almost immediately, and emergency medical officers can get to victims very quickly. No one is ever lost for long, either (unless they want to be). Crime is also almost unheard of: you can't get away with much when you're being observed all the time, so locals know not to even bother trying, and newcomers who try are usually swiftly caught.
With so few problems and little to do but maintain the status quo while trying to attract as many visitors as possible and take as much money as possible from them, Loquaian authorities are somewhat complacent and corrupt. This was exploited by Kino Sumiya, when he set up his estate, and began collecting women. All it took was a few well-placed bribes, and the authorities not only looked the other way with regards to his activities, they actively aided him on occasion. Loquaia's reputation at being crime-free also helped - his targets usually had their guard down, and after their disappearance few peopled believed that it could have happened while on Loquaia itself (which was a belief the Loquaian authorities were only too happy to encourage).
