okay, as I'm seeing we're stagnated here, we have to choose one story but people have their own interpretation and probably won't let it out so easily. The possible solution that I can think of is doing it like Eurovision:
1) We're gonna vote. But there are rules.
2) Nobody can vote their own proposal. I know this is gonna be the most difficult rule, but I do think that a final game which only one here (or even no-one) is satisfied about is still better than no game at all. I'm afraid we can't split the development and do multiple games, each with his own story, so we have no choice but to aim for the "second-best" idea.
3) When voting, assign 1 point to the story you like least, 2 points to the next-to-least, etc. until you reach the story you like most (remember, no yours), with max points.
4) In the end, the story that sums more points is the one we'll choose. We can make amendments later, but we won't change the entire story again (unless completely necessary), so think well before voting!
Here are the options, if I forgot something please tell me. The g) is one I added, mainly to make the odds of a tie lower, you can ignore it if you want.
a) Government is a major part of a group of countries in a pact, and using monies from the pact makes the project (with the 'we are doing this for your good' sticker), but is actually using it for war crime purposes.
b) Government is making this project with the 'we are doing this for your good' sticker but is actually committing war crimes.
c) Government hires agency to do project, agency betrays government and uses it as a block.
d) An outside agency of c-ish origin infiltrates and controls a majority or more of the gouvenrments on the planet, to the extent that they can keep their project secret and funded. (Which is also done through control of other financial institutions, such as banks).
e) The government agency (e.g the CIA) funds various front research groups to perform their experiments, most of whom do not know they are being run and funded by the government. I (Babylon) think this is the most likely scenario.
f) Group a infiltrates big group + weapon creation + motive to dissolve big group = conspiracy. Long version:
"A pact is created by many major powers to try and stem the backstabbing.
But like our world, the ‘east and west’ conflict is true, and other major powers will hate this idea. A Rogue Government who hates the new world idea (no reason given) decides the best way to gain is by joining the pact, but (secretly) only for their own gain. They eventually hold very important placings within the pact, or at least have bribed particulars.
They have done this so that they can ‘suggest’ an initiative (see earlier post) to “help the world along the way to this ‘new world order’” and that this initiative will soon be theirs to control (behind the shadows again), and if the true experimentation is found out, the pact will shatter from the extreme mistrust that will follow.
Two birds with one stone: the experimentation (may need to revise) and to kill the pact which they have hated since its -with them emerging as the political winners afterwards, the experiments giving them ultimate unchallengeable control."
g) Independent discovery, government finds out and tries to regulate it, it invariably leaks to the public, controversy, some groups deem it as dangerous and want it gone while others want it to continue in name of progress, things get hot, protests, etc. media demonizes the discovery, all that ultimately leads to it continuing to be researched secretly, in alliance with the government, trying to keep away from leaks and other government's spies (what I think would most likely happen in real life
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