On the flip side, two RP ideas!

[Red Mage Black]

I'm still a little unsteady with the whole GMing thing, but I'm working on it. Of course, practice makes perfect, does it not? I've been playing and running too many D&D games, which suck, by the way. Anyway, I'll throw out some rather simplistic ideas for people to either choose... or what not, so here we go!

Cliche'd Mech RP:
Well, besides the obvious title, I'm talking about walkers and space fighters, battle cruisers and airships, the works. A war between the planet Arlia and Geneva. Well back in the day, Geneva was a prisoner workstation, where they sent criminals to do hard labor. Go figure because of the name, right? Anyway, when Arlia was threatening to heavily overpopulate, they thought, "Geneva has enough resources to support life for thousands of years! All we need to do is get rid of the prisoners and everyone will feel safe about actually moving there!" Well, the plan worked, to say the least. The prisoners were moved to a second workstation on one of the planet's moons. So, they started to actually colonize it, using the old workstation as a spaceport to transport people to their new homes.

Guess what? Some were none too happy about the conditions of the planet. Frequent storms that lasted for days, ice storms so deadly that just walking outside during one almost guaranteed you got beaned to death by heavy hail or impaled several times by large ice spears. Well, after the complaints were made, Arlia had sent some scientists over and created a sort of... shield to protect them from the storms. After that, it seemed all too peaceful.

Well, they had left the colonists on their own for a while. With what scientists they needed so they could recreate and create new things there. It didn't seem too bad, as they had what they needed. Though they left someone there they shouldn't have. A respectable military leader who had his cruiser stationed just out of orbit of the planet. He fumed that Arlia's leaders would try to bleed Geneva like they did their home planet.

Summarizing this all up, he used his power to create a 'military structure' for the planet. Then later, he declared the planet it's own, instead of being a colony of Arlia. He refused to send down anymore resources to the dying planet and now Arlia threatens to overpopulate again. So now, Arlia must make the decision now. Go to war and retake Geneva, by force if necessary.

Not the greatest, I know, but I could make it into so much more with other people's help.

Second Idea: Big scale murder investigation? Possibly supernatural stuff included with it. (Cop & Detective & CSI stuff)

Okay, I've been working on a cop game for World of Darkness, but I've never been able to just... use it. So, I want to run it in this setting with just normal role playing. Now, my thoughts are of using the supernatural or not. For me, that could either add or take away from plot. Though, giving any of it away on here would completely ruin giving you guys a case in the first place.

Yeah, no fun right? I guess... tell me what you think might be better to run. I've been working on the cop game for longer then the mech one, just so people know.