RE: The Grand OC! [CONTEST FIFTEEN: DINOSAURS! SUBMISSIONS WELCOME!]
05-01-2014, 04:39 AM
Username: Dragon Fogel
Name: The Commission for Overseeing Optimal Technological Security
Race: White, every last one of them
Gender: Male, every last one of them
Color: #6A5644 was good enough back in our day, it's good enough for you too.
Biography: The Commission was formed as a response to rapid advances in new technology. New developments seemed to come every week, and the legislature was having trouble keeping up.
In order to solve the problem, they recruited a number of retired officials - legislators, senators, judges, and businessmen - and told them to review newly proposed advances in order to identify potential problems before the technology came to the market.
The Commission was granted a broad purview, and before long, the problem of rapidly advancing technology was halted. In the twelve years of its existence, not a single new invention has caused dramatic global change.
This is largely because no invention has ever cleared their process. The Commission does not trust new things.
One day, the entire Commission vanished. Nobody noticed until three weeks later, when a proposal for a magnet-operated saltshaker was actually approved.
Description: The Commission is composed of about two dozen old white men, none of whom trust anything created since they were about thirty years old. That includes young people and their music, and have you seen the clothes they wear these days? Things were just fine back in the Commission's day, by God, and the young have no respect for their elders.
The other thing that members of the Commission really can't stand is other members of the Commission. Despite their shared distaste for everything new, they can never actually agree on the simplest of proposals. They constantly argue with each other, usually over nothing.
It's questionable if they'll even notice they've been entered in a battle to the death.
Weapons and Abilities: The Commission is unarmed, though all of the Commissioners claim to have served in the war. (Though you'll get a different answer from each of them about who the war was against and when it happened.) They have the legal authority to hold up adoption of any new technology - of course, they wouldn't have any actual jurisdiction if they were dropped into a new universe, but good luck getting them to believe that.
The Commission's primary abilities are bickering amongst themselves and complaining about today's youth. They can do both tasks for an indefinite amount of time, sometimes even simultaneously.
Name: The Commission for Overseeing Optimal Technological Security
Race: White, every last one of them
Gender: Male, every last one of them
Color: #6A5644 was good enough back in our day, it's good enough for you too.
Biography: The Commission was formed as a response to rapid advances in new technology. New developments seemed to come every week, and the legislature was having trouble keeping up.
In order to solve the problem, they recruited a number of retired officials - legislators, senators, judges, and businessmen - and told them to review newly proposed advances in order to identify potential problems before the technology came to the market.
The Commission was granted a broad purview, and before long, the problem of rapidly advancing technology was halted. In the twelve years of its existence, not a single new invention has caused dramatic global change.
This is largely because no invention has ever cleared their process. The Commission does not trust new things.
One day, the entire Commission vanished. Nobody noticed until three weeks later, when a proposal for a magnet-operated saltshaker was actually approved.
Description: The Commission is composed of about two dozen old white men, none of whom trust anything created since they were about thirty years old. That includes young people and their music, and have you seen the clothes they wear these days? Things were just fine back in the Commission's day, by God, and the young have no respect for their elders.
The other thing that members of the Commission really can't stand is other members of the Commission. Despite their shared distaste for everything new, they can never actually agree on the simplest of proposals. They constantly argue with each other, usually over nothing.
It's questionable if they'll even notice they've been entered in a battle to the death.
Weapons and Abilities: The Commission is unarmed, though all of the Commissioners claim to have served in the war. (Though you'll get a different answer from each of them about who the war was against and when it happened.) They have the legal authority to hold up adoption of any new technology - of course, they wouldn't have any actual jurisdiction if they were dropped into a new universe, but good luck getting them to believe that.
The Commission's primary abilities are bickering amongst themselves and complaining about today's youth. They can do both tasks for an indefinite amount of time, sometimes even simultaneously.
There's no reason for this | Or this | Death is inevitable | You can't challenge fate | The smallest change | I'm overwhelmed
I'm serious | It makes perfect sense | Easy as ABC! | I can't even explain it | Cleaning up someone else's mess
I suck | I rule | I've got it made | Really, I'm serious | This bugs me | It's all lies | I want to believe | Beauty is a curse
I'm serious | It makes perfect sense | Easy as ABC! | I can't even explain it | Cleaning up someone else's mess
I suck | I rule | I've got it made | Really, I'm serious | This bugs me | It's all lies | I want to believe | Beauty is a curse