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Maybe it's not exactly a normal fraternity, more like a collection of misfits who couldn't get into a normal fraternity/sorority?
I'd be cool with that and it's in keeping with the idea that clubs and fraternities are separate entities. If we still go with that idea, the university could be dangling frat-hood if the group explores and/or cleans up a property that the university's trying to disassociate with. They find some secrets, and the university suddenly takes interest in the property.
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college students don't appeal to me much, so I'll see what else develops here.
Your idea wasn't out of the question either, we may just have to hash that out separate from the main core of this thread since it seems to have somewhat taken hold here, all the better if you can get several people interested. I do have to ask though: Is it just the college student aspect of it? Because the idea could still be tweaked so as to make it more satisfactory to all involved if there's room for it.
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[...]late 21st century setting where Earth has solved her energy crisis through the use of sea colonies devoted to mariculture and energy production via Open-cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion.
It is an optimistic future where high-speed mag-lev trains and solar powered blended-winged airships move people and goods from place to place, where humankind is working toward [...] expansion out into the greater Solar System is continuing apace.
[...] Humankind is still tied to the concept of nation-states. Regional conflicts still happen[...] The United Nations, while apparently powerful, is in most respects a paper tiger, and is becoming more irrelevant by the second [...]
Large multinational corporations fund the majority of humankind's explorations [...] have powerful influence over the decision making processes of the nations, [...] independence for the colonies, making of them corporate states. [...] Earth, while still on center stage, is seeing its influence over human affairs start to dwindle.
Sounds like a very interesting onion. I think you would be a better cook for it than I would. If you were to set up a
separate IC for it, and decided to run it in Modern AGE, I'd be probably interested, but I do think it's a little on the deeper side for me. My various physiological problems prevent me from thinking too deeply except in rapid spurts.