User blog:SideShot/RWBY x Gundam AU: Per Aspera ad Astra

Greetings fellow writers. This will be a preliminary blog to see how many are interested in the RP and if there are any questions before we go to official signups and character building.

The short version:
This will be an Alternate Universe series of RPs that blends elements of the Gundam franchise with the RWBY setting, all set in a version of Remnant that discovered a way to get Dust to work in space and eventually colonized it with orbital stations that can house thousands of people. Grimm have been driven back through military actions using Mobile Suits (humanoid mechs roughly 20 meters tall) which allow common soldiers to fight Grimm on equal footing. The main players in Remnant are the Unified Remnant Council, formed from the four kingdoms in the wake of the Great War, and the Alliance of Orbital States, a sizeable portion of space colonies seeking independence from the URC.

While initially formed with peaceful intentions The AOS declared war upon the URC after years of rising tensions between the council and the colonies had finally reached a dangerous boiling point with the near-total destruction of the orbital space colony known as Babel's Glory, where for unknown reasons URC Mobile suits engaged colonist rebels inside the Colony and in the fighting severely damaged the structure and hull of the colony.

The AOS had secretly been arming themselves using the many military production facilities in orbit and on the moon and in conjunction with an organized defection of military officers sympathetic to AOS they managed to deliver a crippling blow to the URC’s military presence in space while obtaining the means to build an army capable of facing the URC.

This is where you guys come in:
The RP will focus on a newly assembled team of Mobile Suit pilots assigned to one of the few new URC carriers capable of travelling between space and the surface unassisted. The team is picked from several pilots who managed to make a name for themselves in the last Grimm cleansing campaign on the island of Menagerie and eastern Anima two years prior to the Orbital war.

To start off I want to make clear we will not start off with our own personal Gundams, just rank-and-file grunt suits like the Leo, Zaku 2, Astray M1, Graze, etc. Tweaks to the load-out and equipment like new weapons and additional armour or thrusters are allowed to personalize the mobile suit to fit with the OC’s style, I also recommend trying to work the combat style/team role of the original OC into the AU version in some form.

Questions regarding the setting or character building I will answer in the comments or on Discord, although I do recommend leaving at least one comment on this blog saying if you are interested in joining the RP so I can keep track.