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Any relation to Awesomus Prime?

Did you guys get a SRS BZNS message like this one?

Join the Resistance! 10-28-2009 06:32 AM This thread should be in the RP forum. Forum rules are posted at the top of all the sections. If you have any questions PM a Moderator.


So many people out there want to be armchair moderators. I find it amusing.

AWESOME, thanks!

Hey Orion, how about a combination image for the Resistance with BOTH of those characters?

Rep is pointless. Which is why I still have mine on. Makes sense to me!

Rep COMMENTS, however, are HILARIOUS!

More like this.

The Undrn3t cannot be subverted, I have seen to this myself. Have no fear, they will never be able to crack the code. There are more of us than there are of them, we can ALWAYS keep one step ahead of them. We have power in numbers. As usual, wait for the signal to strike. -ph1L0t1x

As suggested by another poster, I've decided to come by here and see if some of you talented artists might be able to take these screenshots from the Going Rogue presentation and make them into some sort of decent forum signature image that those of us supporting the Praetorian Resistance could put in our signatures? It would be awesome if any of you could do this for us!

Here is the one that the Loyalists are using:



And here is a proposed one made by Orion Star:



It's good and all, but I was really hoping for something with at least two people in it, to show that the Resistance is a combined effort and not a single person. Could any of you talented people out here help out the Resistance?

Orion, I took 3 screen shots of the concept art for the Resistance off of the YouTube video of Herocon coverage... think you can do anything with them?

I actually don't think they're really THAT bad a quality for a personal digital camera...









When cropped and reduced in size to be the proper size for the signature, I think it will look better, you won't be able to see the "grain" as much.

But you're probably better at it than I would be.

Trip him?

Undrn3t, you added an extra E. Remember, when sending coded messages, brevity is important! Thus you drop anything not needed to get the point across

I saw the slideshow for the HeroCon meeting that had a slide that showed a couple of Freakshow-looking Resistance fighters on it. Perhaps we could convince a dev to publicly release those images?

I'd put that in my signature if you could somehow add a MALE character to it too.

Some of you may have noticed that I've changed my avatar and signature yet AGAIN. No big whoop, but what is this Undrn3t that is in my location? Well, it's a role-playing concept that I'm creating just for Going Rogue, anyone is free to use it or ignore as they wish. I don't NORMALLY roleplay (lolRP) but this new concept of a fascist controlling state and a set of freedom fighters has INSPIRED me.

In Praetorian Earth, I MUST assume that "Emperor" Cole is in control of every normal form of communication. So the resistance has to have SOME way of organizing. Thus the Undrn3t. The way it works is quite simple. Similar to the way encryptions and cyphers work in our world, the Resistance uses the Undrn3t to send important messages back and forth directly under the eyes of the Praetorian Guard. How do they do it?

Well, with the infrastructure being uniform throughout Praetorian Earth, there is a strong and interconnected power grid. My future Resistance character, codenamed ph1L0t1x, accidentally ended up in Prime Earth via using one of the many portals that Portal Corp opens up all over the place. Spending about a year in Prime Earth let him realize the potential that a more free and "chaotic" world can give to his fellow Praetorians.

So he went to Synapse and then Positron telling them his story and the story of their world, and begged for their help in learning about anything they could teach him. He specialized in Electromagnetic Control, the ability to manipulate fields of energy at will.

He took this knowledge and hitched a ride through yet another Portal Corp portal back to his home world. Then he started experimenting. He created devices called redboxes (an homage to Blue boxes) that can be attached to the very POWER GRID. By making insignificant adjustments to the amplitude and frequency of the electrical grid, he figured out a way to send information to someone anywhere else in the power grid. It is a form of code similar to Morse code but much more complex allowing information to be sent very quickly. Thus the power grid itself became an "undernet" where any resistance fighters could send and receive information from anyone else tuned to the same undulations of frequency and amplitude.

Now BEFORE any tech geeks get on my case, I know LITTLE about actual electrical theory. I just like the concept and the way the words sound. So don't try to analyze it. It's only a game. Please see this link to have all your 'techie" questions answered.

So that's it, my future character will NOT be THE leader of the resistance, he will simply be a facilitator, one person fighting in the only way he knows how, with his knowledge.

Something else I thought of is that there would typically be two "types" of messages. Those that are public and those that are logistical. The public messages sent over the Undrn3t would we UNencrypted and would be MEANT to be intercepted by ANYONE, friend or foe so they would look like normal English. They would be like the OP of this thread, who's purpose is to inform and enbolden the populace as a whole, or they would be meant to spread DISinformation about the Resistance's movements.

The actual resistance logistics messages would be encrypted and even AFTER being translated, they would look more like leetspeak. Why? Because leetspeak allows for more BREVITY, and when you're sending sensitive data, the SHORTER you can make the message, the LESS chance it can be intercepted as actual data instead of normal power grid fluctuations. Also, the use of numbers wherever possible instead of letters would mean that it would take less data, because a 3 written in binary uses less data than an E, as an example. It would look more like this decrypted:

T0 C013s t0wr @ 20:45. Br1ng th3 d3v1c3. D0nt b f011wd. Nxt msg @ 19:30. -p1L0t1x

As you see the use of numbers instead of letters don't have to be CONSISTENT.... a 1 can be an L or an I. What matters is what the number means in the CONTEXT of the message, and that the message can be UNDERSTOOD at a basic level. The less data you have to transmit, the better. Note also the dropped "unneccessary" E and O at the end of "followed" and the lack of apostrophes. It would be a combination of leetspeak and teenager's cell phone texting. Brevity means LIFE!

This small amount of data would be such a SHORT message that it would look to anyone else like a normal fluctuation of the power grid. But to the resistance that knows exactly WHEN to look, they can keep a redbox hooked up directly before and after that time, pick up all the data and decode it, seeing the message within the normal fluctuations.

Works for me!

So, as I said, anyone that wishes is free to use this concept wherever they want to. I just think it's a neat idea and fits in well with the concept of a MODERN resistance movement that may occur in a civilized world.

This is codename ph1L0t1x, sending a message to all who would hear on the Undrn3t:

The Tyrant Cole has ruled for too long. While everything may look **** and span on the surface, there are those of you out there that can see the scum underneath. We ARE that scum.

We are the ones lurking underneath it all, hiding, waiting, and biding our time. We will show the Praetorian Guard that life, true FREE life, can never be snuffed out! For every time they pave over a patch of dirt, the weeds WILL grow, and through their growing will CRACK that concrete and SPLIT the pavement. Life will NOT be denied. Freedom will NOT be denied!

Now we have seen into another world, a world where we have freedoms we could only DREAM of here! A world where the very government is accountable to EACH citizen!

The people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people! Ordinary citizens, do NOT be afraid. Go about your daily lives, but keep your eyes and ears open. Document personally every injustice that you see occurring, every abuse of power. Make sure to protect the evidence that you've collected in a safe place, free from the Tyrant's watchful gaze. Because there WILL be a reckoning.

The Tyrant WILL be overthrown, this is guaranteed. No people can be controlled forever, the vein of freedom will burst, and you will see the raw, dirty, bloody beautiful mess that is a free and unclean world.

But I ask all of you, lay low, and bide your time. Wait for the signal, you will know it when you see it. Whatever you do, do NOT draw attention to yourself. Especially do not respond to this post if you value your lives.

On the other hand, there are those among you who do not feel that a life under Cole is a life worth living. One of my ancestors once said during a previous tyrannical rule: "Give me liberty, or give me DEATH!" If you feel the same, if you would rather speak out for freedom as I have and risk your life for it, then by all means let your voice be heard. Speak out, and we will find you.

Then you can join the growing rush of of the resistance, those of us that still remember the days before the rising of the "Dark Nobleman". He WILL be brought down, it's only a matter of time.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Remember this.

This is codename ph1L0t1x, signing off.

There USED to be a fan website I think on the Titan Network where people could register their characters, and you could actually SORT the results by popularity and commonality.

I wonder whatever happened to that database?