So I was havinga look at the new season's batch of series on EzTv.it (remember, I'm not form USA :P) when I stumbled upon this one. It reminded me an old series about a cop displaced in time using a credit card that contained a supercomputer and his ingenuity to catch escapees from his time period when I looked the wikipedia entry, so I gave it a shot.
Thus far, I watched the first episode, and it contains the following:
- 7 escapees (not the never concreted number of the old series. Lexa Doig being one of them is a bonus xD) from a corporate-controlled future 60 years from now (2077). They were going to be executed (the first execution in 40 years) when somehow time travel got involved.
- Kiera, the Protector: unlike the escapees, she has biomods and augmentations, boots, pants and jacket with extras:
Both pants and jacket are smart clothes, bulletproof and containing a computer (Ecto/mesh equivalent), and the jacket also has a taser incorporated. She also can hack an ATM or disable a video camera with them.
She has a recording chip in her head (being a Protector is like being a policeman, and having a record of the event means there is no need for testimony), some sort of enhanced vision and a HUD (that lets her see faint tracks of heat and mark enemies), and a secure comm device that lets her talk with the younger version of the man that designed that tech (so she has an "operator"... a Muse of sorts, just a guy at the other side of the cable XD).
A gun that won't work because of the temporal jump, and a drug-dispenser that can wither be a nanofabricator for drugs or a standard Star Trek hypospray.
- Some of the escapees are ex-military, and their first movements are brutal, decisive and precise. While not at the level of what an Ultimate should be, they are quite an interesting example.
- Memetic war: the escapees want democracy, freedom and the restoration of other civil rights. The corporations want to keep in power, selling a Planetary-Consortium line of safety under their control.
The series is now in the 9th episode or so, and I plan to catch on it, but I thought it could be interesting to bring the subject up for all to see, specially for those new GMs that might find some inspiration in the technology showed that can be translated to EP equivalents, or that might even be directly inspired by the game.
Images tend, after all, to we worth a thousand words.
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Continuum TV Series
Sun, 2012-07-29 15:17
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Continuum TV Series
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