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by Simon_Jester
Sun Nov 25, 2018 3:03 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517561

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Oh hey I completely forgot about this setting, despite having participated in it back on page NEIN NEIN NEIN. Boy is my face red. :( I wonder if there are paranoiac rules in even saner Fracture states in which esper congregations can't exceed... certain magnitudes of astropathic puissance... lest it...
by Simon_Jester
Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:09 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517561

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

All this about the patriarchal disdain of Meridian Institute professors led me to briefly speculate if the Institute itself had fallen victim to the Fracture's psychohistorical memes: in their case, emulating the square-jawed, pipe-puffing, slide rule-slinging Men of Science of the 50s. Of course, ...
by Simon_Jester
Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:25 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517561

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

The Meridian's relative inexperience with mentallics and psionics might stem from early-Fracture traumas. Aside from the pogroms, there might have been unethical scientific experimentations done on espers by various factions, the Meridians may or may not have been involved (I remember the Umerians ...
by Simon_Jester
Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:45 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517561

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Coming from the Haruhiist-hedonist cultures might make the non-Silver-Moon half of the Magi more inclined to solve problems by punching them in the face with lasers, because that's part of the cultural mythos that supports turning century-old psychic heroines into the rock stars of their society. Pe...