Talk:Big Lunk
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
Whilst I try to work out how to go about remaking Lunk's wiki page, I thought I'd talk about some of the conceptualization behind his current iteration. Lunk of the "Everlasting" dimension is dead. Kicked the bucket. Gone the way of a parrot etc. He died at some point during the Neo-Shivan invasion. This was decided to allow anyone who may have known him in the past still has that hook, while giving a free reign to reboot the character. This Lunk is from a different dimension entirely to Everlasting, Virtue or Union.
Which is where it gets interesting.
The world he is from (which I will refer to Company Dimension) is an OOC experiment on genre bashing, and sociology. Specifically something I feel like calling "Colonial Punk".
Imagine steampunk without the steam, a modernized victoriana a step closer in aesthetic and morality to contemporary, but still mired in the ideas of empire. The enlightenment period, but stretched forward to the time of microprocessors and lasers. Bordering on the anachronistic, without seeming a completely different time. Piracy and border skirmishes are still the norm. Business is conducted over ostentatious banquets, in opium dens, and the class system and servants are still common. The largely federal superpowers of our world, replaced with imperial leviathans and merchant princes, and most importantly for this version of Lunk: A British Empire which has largely come under control of what was the East India Company, which continued to rise in power among the British colonies until it was able to control even the parliament in Westminster.
The concept of colonialism and post-colonialism, as well as alternative history, interest me deeply, and while we in the west still benefit from our colonial history, in the Company Dimension this is ramped up to 11, where an organisation with an undeniably questionable past, although now less domineering, having socially evolved, less likely to roflstomp a farmers revolt, it is still blatantly holding power. Unlike the changes in government actors over the last 200 years, there is no denying that they ARE the same global force that profiteered from colonialism . On the other hand, one of the largest global actors is also made up of a reasonably recently unified sub-Saharan African monarchy, which is both which is both trying to reverse the impact colonialism had on it, as well as find its place as a major economic and military force.
At some point, I will be creating AE arcs dipping in to the Company Dimension, and introducing what I hope to be interesting stories. Stay tuned.
