Overview:
Savvytech is the combination of a community-written curated lore, Semi-serious post-apocalyptic role-play environment and a 1.12.2 mod-pack, all functioning under the same name. Focusing on tech-based mods with a sub-theme of large-scale combat and industry, we are just opening to the wider public now from our test groups and are seeking to expand the player-base through advertisements on several forums, with staff more than eager to answer any questions available. We are by no means a professional team, like those operating for several years , but we are a passionate one, and I personally emphasize a community-staff communication and relationship above all else, building our foundation on a strong open-communique between any players and staff. If i had to capture the essence of what makes our focus unique, its the following adage, which i try to maintain all facets of the community with.
"The player has an equal if not inferior obligation to uphold and maintain the rules and regulations of the community to the staff/administrator/owner, who has the superior obligation to ensure that the services provided are satisfactory to the player, and available sufficiently to the community."
**Edit** Gameplay:
Starting with nothing in the wasteland, surviving against harsh climates, disease - even a broken bone or a scratch could mean the end if you aren't careful, comfort becomes a luxury nobody can afford until you manage to stabilize your communities to the myriad plagues of the apocalypse. Getting a foot up is hard enough, but if you can; the wonders of pre-bombing technology await your fingertips. Retroviral super-serums, Bio-weapons capable of global devastation, Cybernetic Enhancements, Powered Armour Suits, Nuclear Warheads and Weapons of mass destruction - the tools of the old worlds demise aren't quite forgotten yet. And with the harsh conditions of the wasteland comes the threat of mutual annihilation too, out there in the sands and the blasted rock, there are others that survive too. If you can defeat the beasts, and the disease can't stop you - then you contend with the prospect of industrial-scale war with other survivors. Rebuild civilization from its ashed , harness weapons of the glorious past, or attempt to rebuild civilization - establish industry, achieve great feats, re-institute a power grid or descend into the darkening twilight of extinction, the choice is yours on Savvy.
Role-play:
I personally come from many years of DND campaigns and 'serious' Minecraft RP servers, and this can be seen in my tendency to write in-depth lore, character applications and the general seriousness of tones in the story arcs. However this isn't necessarily enforced on every player, especially new ones, and light-RP is the general norm among players (We encourage new players to experiment with their style and ask questions!). Both the discord forum and the server are open to those wanting to RP, however it isn't forced on either.
Setting:
The year is 2319, almost 300 years into our future and man kind has been blasted by a catastrophic
thermonuclear event. The present takes place almost 80 years after the bombs fell, proceeding waves of bio-weapons, radioactive release and toxic decay. The world we knew is gone, but there is a hope... Mankind left the seeds to its rekindling in many places, hoping that with redundancy would be an assured immortality by design. The nature of conflict however, is that it is not always so rational, or intermittent. From the sky drop great iron men, the scions heralding the return of the long dead gods of science and logic, upon the ground, and indeed beneath it are the twisted remnants of a society leveled by atomic fire and contorted in the death-throes of a radioactive contagion - Mutants. On foreign worlds, civil wars and similar apocryphal endings have met the seeds of man, and we know look on to the final moments of an interplanetary golden age, will humanity fall that final step into the abyss, or will they grasp onto a thread, and pull themselves once more from this grimdark into the light again?
With a in-development Lore Wiki, and over 20'000 words in curated and canonized lore, the focus extends beyond the visions of the original writers with an open submissions system, adapting and canonizing elements suggested by the community, with such extensively written branches of lore as races of sentient mutant Mermen in the pacific ocean, the 'city of blood' , housing ancient cybernetic vampires, Cosmic entities of unimaginable power stemming from an energy rift in what was the UK, and thousands of words of adopted lore regarding factions of player design and import.
The Fundamental focus of the server and story-line and arc is the factions emergent in this post-apocalypse world, with a total of 6 'canon' spots for factions, four of which have been successfully written and filled with submissions open for the final two, these factions will dictate the precise nature of the story arc and themes presented with the emergent politics and their reactions to various events and developments in the global arc, the story is for the most part, written by the players. Currently the following factions have entered the fray:
The Ghost Legion:
A remnant of something once greater, this neo-soviet empire of space stations and vessels in orbit around earth has begun landfall in the hopes of recapturing their mother planet, they come with the iron will and singular focus of the red nation, and intend to subjugate all of man in an attempt to bring us back from extinction.
The Collective of Mercurial Researchers:
A desperate escape, a city of genius's and prodigies and a battered stripped-down cruiser hull, these are the base elements, what remains is the story to be told. The CMR are the survivors of the Prometheus Research base who made it back on a last ditch decades-long attempt to escape their slowly frying research station. Many expired on the journey hope, their ship systems slowly failing and causing power outages in cryopod life support, but those that did make landfall intend to rebuild with the democratic vision of the pre-bombing world, combining a drone security force and data cores housing schematics for thousands of experimental designs.
The Hive-Mind:
A collective of sentient robots living in the converted remains of an underground city-made-bunker, they live a benignly-racist isolation from their creators, following their logic-dictated religion of Alpha-Binary Stationlism, they hoard knowledge and artifacts, trading with any outsider willing to do business, but have thus far been spared of attack because of a cultured bacterial contagion which infects their surrounding region. It absorbs thermal energy exponentially and used it to reproduce, cocooning kinetic projectiles with a spongy exterior and dissipating energy discharges. It also is fatal to many breathing organisms, growing inside their longs as it slowly absorbs and lowers the internal body temperature.
The IAAF (Imperial Autocratic Australian Federation ) :
Once a series of military bunkers, the federation is the military heavy-weight of the remaining Terran peoples, forging a war-machine from advanced mechanized walkers and artillery, and boasting several distinct pan-Asian conquests outwards, they are not to be trifled with. Despite this, their soviet tendencies and imperial rule have caused a cultural and somewhat technological decline, resulting in a reliance on analogue, but inferior technologies to more forward-looking peoples.
Important Information:
The Discord server containing most important information, lore and communication channels :
The Server IP :
Notes:
The pack is in open Beta, but is close to an official/full release, so what you see is very much representative of what it will be, its just matters of balance, content variety and stability which are being tweaked with each concurrent update, there will be modpack updates proceeding this initially uploaded version. The lore is being written, with open suggestions/feedback/discussion pertaining to it, however the actual story arc and in-game events won't be revealed until full release or thereafter. I'm accepting applications for staff team, whether to write or administrate, however will only accept any form of application/applicant via private messaging on discord. To my knowledge, the modpack and all practices associated with ingame content and the community are compliant to the regulations and requirements of Curseforge, Twitch and the Minecraft EULA.
Permissions:
All modifications were obtained directly via curseforge's Modded Minecraft repository, they all have open use permissions, I , However, take no credit for any of the work put into the development or distribution of that content.
The Savvytech Roleplay Team
