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by speaker-to-trolls
Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:10 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518027

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

There is so much stuff here and I am so far out of touch, AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :o :o :) I will note on the ideas of the Padryceps that when you mentioned the Padryshah Emperor in earlier posts I always imagined it as being a planet, a single forest covering and penetrating an entire world, which wa...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:36 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

I am super late to this party but, Steve, that last episode was a triumph , I put on all the hats I own and take them off to you, all at once :ugeek: :!: Just, such DRAMA, such SUSPENSE, and honestly the fact that they are the Chosen Ones and the fate of the cosmos hangs in the balance is kind of a ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:08 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Shear Anarchy / San Dorado [Worldbuilding Exercise]
Replies: 170
Views: 155972

Re: Shear Anarchy / San Dorado [Worldbuilding Exercise]

How unlucky and frequent would you imagine the unlucky years being? A tunguska event every twenty, thirty or fifty years, coming down on random locations with little that could be done to prevent or avoid it would make for a hell of a wildcard.
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:49 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

Heretic, that is an awesome concept :P what kind of powers do you imagine the girls having?
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:46 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: First Glimpse
Replies: 7
Views: 10005

Re: First Glimpse

You have my attention, sir. Interesting to see the AI can apparently weigh so many variables, but it's still dudes commanding ships. One wonders if that's traditional inertia or if there's some other reason. This is where the quick thing for the challenge breaks down. I'm thinking the AI computers ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Fri Feb 03, 2017 9:18 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

In SOTS Earth was lost forever in the psychic cataclysm that brought down its empire, no one knows where it is anymore. Chances are it's around the middle of the Fracture, but the Fracture is very large. Of course multiversal contact means they could compare star charts with other cosmoi and work ou...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Jan 31, 2017 11:06 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Pretty much any established Sci fi story about modern earthlings encountering aliens could actually do this pretty nicely if you just ignore the humans in the original story. Predator, for instance; you could take the quite reasonable view that an entire civilisation of professional hunters is an ab...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:18 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Loving your work Steve, the last chapter was I think my favourite so far between the tense standoffs and magic kung fu :D This senator seems very annoying, but I have to admit that if I were an Alliance politician I might see his point. Three years ago I didn't know there was a multiverse, now we're...
by speaker-to-trolls
Thu Dec 29, 2016 7:11 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Action! Drama! Politics and actual moral political dilemmas! Great stuff! Plus continuing this year's theme of 'everyone on-board gets the physical and/or emotional shit kicked out of them' :) Also I am so bad. I imagined Angel pissed on Rob's bed instead of wetting the pillow with the tears of her ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:58 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

Oh, to Shroom Re. Necrons: I haven't really researched them properly but I gather from lurking around nerdsites that the 'Newcrons' can have human slaves, and that these can be either normal humans cowering in fear of being vaporised or cybernetically controlled borg-thralls. Which, actually, means ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Thu Dec 22, 2016 6:32 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

A point to consider is the homeworld culture(s) from which all these ex-Guard veteran settlers come from, which provides a much more direct avenue for culture clash with Pallas. I had an idea for a regiment, vague as it is, called the 123rd Keprean Scarabs , a vaguely Egyptian themed unit with an e...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:52 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

I'm not entirely sure by which method you'd prevent this sanitarium full of psykers from being instantly carted off by the Black Ships as soon as the Inquisition catches wind of it though. I mean, I'd think even the word of the Mechanicus only goes so far; they clearly have no jurisdiction over suc...
by speaker-to-trolls
Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:24 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

OK so what I'm getting Re. The threat of Chaos is: 1-any human civilisation that isn't either warded by Necrotech or located in an especially calm and non warping warp region is going to end up with a plague of psykers. 2-if it doesn't put down this plague of psykers with ruthless efficiency then it...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:12 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

More or less mecha animists, yeah, plus with each family having virtual shrines to their ancestors and such (maybe, or maybe they become ancestors to the whole culture without favoritism once they transcend) I'm really not sure yet how to address the threat of Chaos without sliding into either some ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Dec 18, 2016 9:51 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

OK so there's clearly a lot of details that would need to be sorted out for this idea to work :shock: :) this post I'll focus on some ideas I have had re. superpowers and Pallas' technology and relations with the Ad Mech So, taking this Squat idea, plus the hooking into the computer system via nanot...
by speaker-to-trolls
Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:07 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

I think your decision in this one to have Angel know, and the social interpersonal dynamics between sisters and between the crew, are great and very well done. IMO. That's what saved this from being exploitative. Because it was sincere. Because it ultimately served well the developments of Cat and ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:09 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Re: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

Wow, thanks for the responses :D Wrt Code Pallas (working title), that's a lot of ideas! :) To focus on the issue of what the Rebel's benefactor is for a moment: I think the idea of her either being or being supported by a Recongregationist Inquisitor is a really good one. The grim-dark element here...
by speaker-to-trolls
Wed Dec 14, 2016 9:24 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance
Replies: 36
Views: 33238

Random Ideas X, Random Hard With a Vengeance

I thought we ought to have another one of these just for any creative flotsam that might be drifting through our members' minds they want to exhibit to the world. I for one have just a swirl of bad and silly ideas in my head. So just in case anyone is interested or cam use an aspect of them I will s...
by speaker-to-trolls
Wed Dec 14, 2016 6:17 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

I pretty much agree with Shroom here (because I have no thoughts of my own) but I didn't mind the consecutive jailbreaks. Also whilst I thought that Cat's resolution was very sweet*, her closetedness is a pretty big bag of angst considering it hasn't come up before, so far as I remember (I think the...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:34 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

'My own mother thinks that I'm a monster :(

She's right, of course, but it still hurts :twisted: '

I have a feeling this isn't the last we see of her, somehow
by speaker-to-trolls
Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:11 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Point. :twisted: Although Cat isn't my preferred chewtoy. Zack Carrey is. :twisted: And yet Zack has now gotten over his daddy issues, jealousy and unrequited love, won the respect of his own subordinates and a fleet of new friends, has the love of a good woman and is generally headed towards a bet...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:39 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156435

Re: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Making Cat cry should be a war crime. :P I wouldn't push for that law to be ratified if I were you, as the author that would put you on trial for at least four war crimes charges :P And nice to see you've picked this up again. I hope you enjoyed 2-01. :) Very much so; I sort of expected a parallel ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:28 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518027

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

6-1-6-2-3-2-2

May the Omega Point have mercy on whatever poor planet encounters this crew :P