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Sic Semper is an RPG campaign pretending to be a low-budget science fiction TV series. It premiered in fall 2009 and is currently in its third season.
It's about four people from year 2009 stuck in a prison colony called Coventry ... no.
It's about escaping a multidimensional prison colony ... not that either.
It's about a larger than usual Ragged Bunch of Misfits from Alternate Universes, trying to find their way home while fighting an overpowering interdimensional corporation which has imprisoned them for reasons of its own.
That is, until it becomes something else again.
This series provides examples of
Action Survivor Most main characters until Season 3, when the main cast is joined by Giovanni, a Wicked Cultured Assassin, and Mily, a near-Crazy Prepared Disaster Scavenger.
Actual PacifistAyela. She has gone as far as threaten Gao Chun with a gun, but it's uncertain if she'd ever have fired.
Anyone Can DieFor a series that started out with very little violence, the body count sure has gone up since the end of Season 1. Now they're even killing off main characters, who knows where it will end?
Camp GayWalter Huggel, whiny hairdresser
ChessmasterEverything that happens, happens because Mizida has planned it to happen. Except maybe not managing to be on the first conveyor off Coventry, and seeing how season 3 is turning out so far, maybe even that.
Complete Monster: Tukulti-Ninib is implied to be this.
Did Not Do The Research: Happens occasionally. Do not watch this for advice on how to act when shipwrecked or make bombs.
Flashback: Common in Season 1, not so common any more.
Hide Your Children: Coventry had no children at all, since the people in it had been sterilized. Starting from season 3, we have seen some children.
Jumping The Shark: Attempting an aversion. The producer has claimed that he hopes to make every season so completely different from the previous one that people who cannot abide change will just stop watching.
Loads and Loads of Characters: You will need a scorecard to keep all the characters straight.
Mega Corp: Infinity Unlimited, apparently.
The Multiverse: All the parallel realities. So far we've only seen a few, but several dozen have been mentioned. These are all Alternate Histories, some more so than others.
Penal Colony: Coventry. Maybe. Nobody really knows for sure, but this seems to be the leading theory.
Status Quo Is God: Averted hard. Everything is subject to change.
Wham Episode: Episode 23. They killed Leonid???
Wouldn't Hit A Girl: Even Giovanni, an immoral assassin who likes torture, has some standards.
Wrench Wench: Clavia
Xanatos Speed Chess: Leonid turned out to be a master of this. Too bad he and Mizida never had a real contest, except for a brief moment in season 1.
Yellow Peril: Gao Chun, an inscrutable chinese criminal mastermind / rebel leader
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