Review and Commentary Irwin Allen's 'The Man From The 25th Century' For Your Old School Post Apocalyptic Campaign

You can find it HERE

This was the pilot for 'The Man From The 25th Century'. This pilot is like something from a combination of Star Trek's Assignment Earth and a preparation for an alien invasion.
The film basically concerns James Darren's character who has been raised by the Planet Andros as the advanced scout for a alien invasion.
Robert Prentice has been trained by these large cranium aliens to be their advanced scout upon Earth except he has the sins of Pride and arrogance. He's been accepted into the ranks of 'Project Delphi'
and given a civilian identity.
This film pilot follows the usual tropes of an Irwin Allen production and I'm quite fond of his work.
You can read more about Allen right over HERE

This great little site goes into quite a bit more detail HERE

 Utilizing the Man From The 25th Century For Your Old School Games 

There is a ton of material that can be borrowed from the 'Man From 25th century'. There are the bald headed aliens who might be be another type of Metaluna refugees. Or they might be from the Mutant Future race known as the Master Minds via their  diabolical creator Tim Snider  HERE

The Mega dungeons of 'Project Dephi' looks pretty awesome and would make a great addition to the Mutant Future as a possible set of Lovecraftian style ruins.
Which Mega Corporation has a hand in the construction and maintenance of such a facility as 'Project Delphi'? Whomever they are and I do have theories would have to almost be the military someone whose got their hands on their own alien technology.
The Delphi Project might actually be its own mega corporation waiting to happen upon an unsuspecting post apocalyptic world. A vault into the future and the source of unspeakable evil waiting to unleash itself upon the world.
Perhaps this is might be an arm of the Pax organization I've talked about before. More on that in a future blog entry.


The set up looks very similar to Project Tick Tock and these massive alien looking ruins are perfect mockups for Krell style laboratories and weird technology abounding as the Earth fights to deal with the menace from Planet Andros. 


Level after level of hidden and sheer dangerous alien and government paranoia as well artifacts await the PC's as they being to deal with this strange and utterly bizarre mega dungeon. Perfect stuff for Mutant Future.
Vaults, levels, and weird 60's style colourful wonders await the PC's. This is a perfect environment to discover and encounter another great mutant menace or survivor issue waiting for the characters!
Could Project Delphi be somehow or some where connected with 'Project Tick Tock'?
You bet they could! 


There are a lot of unknowns connected with Project Delphi and Robert Prentice. A clever DM could exploit those holes to fill in what, who, and what they need to have waiting down in this creeptastic hole in the ground.


This is meant as a fan based piece of entertainment and in no way shape or form as a challenge to the holders of the copy right or trade marks of these properties. This is for entertainment purposes and the opinions expressed here are my fan based attitudes only. 

Commentary On The New Robocop Trailer For Your Post Apocalyptic Campaigns Part II

The new omni corp looks like another generation of OCP from the original Robocop from 1987. Omni Comsumer Products has been the backbone of the RoboCop franchise. So could there be different generations of the Megacorp running around? 

Well in my games there certainly was! From Gamma World to the TSR Buck Rogers Game Omni Consumer products was always quietly in the background.
Let's not mention Cyberpunk 2020, The Bubblegum Crisis Rpg, or the numerous Post Apocalpytic games this Mega Corp made appearances in.
Why?
Well Dick Jones says it best according to Wiki:

"They also serve as part of the military–industrial complex; according to OCP executive Richard "Dick" Jones, "We practically are the military." Jones observes in RoboCop that OCP has "gambled in markets traditionally regarded as non-profit: hospitals, prisons, space exploration. I say good business is where you find it"They've got their hands in everything! They're practices are well more then shady to say the least and let's not mention their connection to Sky Net canical or not. 

Now we get the newest incarnation of  Robocop. 

The Making of the 2014 Robocop 

One thing I'm liking with the new RoboCop is the number of actual practical effects in the movie. That's a plus in my book with the number of craptastic CGI effects we've seen in both horror and science fiction.
Let's face it the original RoboCop is a classic and hell Dark Horse comics practically built their company on the franchise along with the incredible crossovers back in the 90's. 

 The basic plot outline went something like this according to Wiki: 

" To address the city's crime, OCP tests several projects to engineer robotic law enforcement. During a presentation of a project spearheaded by the senior president, Dick Jones (Ronny Cox), the ED-209 enforcement droid malfunctions and kills a junior executive. With Delta City's construction scheduled to begin within months, the OCP Chairman (Dan O'Herlihy) immediately advances an alternative put forth by an ambitious, middle-ranking executive named Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer). Morton calls his cyborg project "RoboCop."

So one of the things that the original movie had going for it was Alex Murphy. He was a family man, every guy, and pretty much cyborg fodder. Peter Well's performance really made the role work and its one of the reasons why the original is still considered a classic. Not a 'holy grail' but a classic 

Can the new guy perform up to expectation?
We'll see. The original had its attitude, slogans, grit, and more going for it. 

The 2014 RoboCop Remake Official Site
HERE

Business The OCP Way In Mutant Future 

Omni Consumer Products

Type	corporation and laboratory
Founder(s)	The "Old Man"
Headquarters	Detroit and Delta City, Michigan
Products	Consumer products Space exploration Urban Pacification Tools Military grade weaponry Food products Private government

The above display shows only some of the areas that OCP has their hands into. Basically if their is a need in society then OCP has its hands into it.
Once more wiki says it quite nicely:

OCP is depicted as a megacorporation with divisions affecting nearly every level of consumer need, society, and government. Their products range from consumer products to military weaponry and private space travel. Their projects included RoboCop, the ED-209, and the RoboCop 2 cyborg. OCP owns and operates a privatized Detroit Police Department and have been known to employ criminals to achieve their goals

The Mega corporation is going to look for profit where and when it can seemly in markets that don't readily have a profit margin. OCP plans for the long haul .

Another wiki qoute here:  

" It creates products for virtually every consumer need, has entered into endeavors normally deemed non-profit, and even manufactured an entire city to be maintained exclusively by the corporation." 

For the 2014 remake, the corporation is called "OmniCorp", with the slogan "We've Got the Future Under Control. Which brings us to the latest incarnation of Omni products.

 Across the planes and through alternative Earth's there's going to be an Omni Products division right there. 

The XT- 908 Drone 

 

Hit Dice : 10

Frame: Drone 

Locomotion: Flight  Class B For Osric 

Manupalators: None 

Armor: Class 6 Duralloy composite frame 

Sensors: 4 

Mental Programming: Programming 

Accessories: AI uplink 

Infrared tracking

Facial recogniation 

Active Stability 

Votl capable 

Weapons :
Guass Small arms platform 2d6 400 foot/ 800 foot 

Micromachine cannons

 3d6 300/600 foot or 900/1,800 depending upon configuration 

The XT series is a fast, light, highly maneuverable drone capable of extreme deployment out in the fields. These monsters were deployed with multiple configurations and A. I. assisted up links enabling these drones to be used in a number of theaters during the Apocalypse and beyond.
Omni corp a division of OCP used these monsters extensively throughout their operations in both civilian and military campaigns.
Now fodder for many A.I. controlled installations and city states the XT series is a proven, reliable, and very dangerous enemy  for PCs. 

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Commentary On The New Robocop Trailer For Your Post Apocalyptic Campaigns

 The new trailer looks amazing or does it? The thing here is that this is an all star cast and it does have some pretty interesting and cool CGI stuff. Will it have the satire that made the old one an icon though. The path of this movie is kinda of interesting and the inclusion of Michael Keaton is a pretty bold choice. 

Just in case you might need a refresher on the 1987 movie.

Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is brutally murdered and subsequently revived by the malevolent mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as "RoboCop".

Alright here are my concerns about this remake :

• The movie isn't going to have the satire  of the original 
• No Peter Weller and that goes without saying. 
•  The ideals of the original are passay and so the movie is going to become another sci fi remake on a pile of sci fi remakes that don't make bank at the box off.
  
  These concerns have nothing to do with what I've seen in the trailer so far. But how does the remake stack up to the original?
  Judge for yourself my friends. 

As for me I'm going to have a Robocop marathon over the weekend.

The OCP Legacy 

Omni Consumer products got quite the workout in my Gamma World and Cyberpunk 2020 games. The whole evil corporation vibe was going pretty strong and my players seemed to run into a every single product made by them from bots to space craft OCP had their hands in it. 

According to wiki:

Omni Consumer Products (OCP) is a fictional corporatocratic megacorporation in the RoboCop franchise. It creates products for virtually every consumer need, has entered into endeavors normally deemed non-profit, and even manufactured an entire city to be maintained exclusively by the corporation.^[13][14] OCP is a modern example of the longstanding trope of the evil megacorporation in science fiction.^[15][16]

OCP is depicted as a megacorporation with divisions affecting nearly every level of consumer need, society, and government. Their products range from consumer products to military weaponry and private space travel. Their projects included RoboCop, the ED-209, and the RoboCop 2 cyborg. OCP owns and operates a privatized Detroit Police Department and have been known to employ criminals to achieve their goals.^[13]

OCP, throughout its depictions in the RoboCop films, has sought to fully privatize a dystopian Detroit, Michigan, into "Delta City", a manufactured municipality governed by a corporatocracy, with fully privatized services — such as police — and with residents exercising their representative citizenship through the purchase of shares of OCP stock. They also serve as part of the military–industrial complex; according to OCP executive Richard "Dick" Jones, "We practically are the military." Jones observes in RoboCopthat OCP has "gambled in markets traditionally regarded as non-profit: hospitals, prisons, space exploration. I say good business is where you find it."

In Gamma World every single robot, cybernetic organism, and android had some OCP part or neural network. OCP had a hand in the Exterminator series of robotic units that plagued players of the game. And with the remake maybe its time to dust off a few campaign notes. 
Here's the official movie website
HERE