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by speaker-to-trolls
Fri Dec 09, 2016 6:23 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Whispers of Destiny" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 2 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 295
Views: 156283

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

EPILOGUE: "GODDAMNIT CAT! I leave you alone for one night, ONE NIGHT, so I can spend time with my boyfriend when he isn't busy with Captain/Jedi stuff and you get seduced by a telepathic serial killer! Seriously can you not go anywhere without... Oh God now you're crying..." Very glad to s...
by speaker-to-trolls
Wed Aug 24, 2016 4:27 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Aurigans would either be Euhumanist or some other kind of humanism we could think up (aristohumanism? Pseudogearchy, because they're probably closest to the Earthreign in terms of their institutions?)They certainly want to exercise control over the whole Fracture and direct it's culture,and the side...
by speaker-to-trolls
Wed Aug 24, 2016 1:31 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Meridian meddling would be a big part of why the UIS are more stable than the rest of the volume, with them trying to keep the local cultures more coherent. And the Meridians would try to get other planets to sign.up for it but these might just see it as further Euhumanist Imperialism and cultural d...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sat Aug 20, 2016 5:03 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Maaan I was just extrapolating from what Invictus said, consider; A: No political stability in this place, so if you set up an ally or puppet government it's not going to last long before (haha) fracturing into little statelets or going through some revolution or other. Keeping a handle on all that ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:07 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Well they don't have to actually be slaughts (good name by the way) the Grandees/NEURomanians/Shepherds just have to think that they might be, and since it's so difficult to get political stability in these regions the safest course is to make sure there isn't enough infrastructure to support a slau...
by speaker-to-trolls
Fri Aug 19, 2016 4:20 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

And presumably this means the poor bastards in the Intervergence are getting tossed around on the winds of memes whilst being treated as scarcely better than Phyrrons by the more militant Fracture nations, who will swoop in and melt a planet or two every so often to make sure one of these mene-surge...
by speaker-to-trolls
Fri Aug 19, 2016 11:40 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I love this idea for a massive heterogeneous gigasomalia, and if it's wedged between Shen, Auriga and Meridia then you get to see three types of interstellar interference from these three powers, those being predatory capitalism, well-meaning if paternalistic social engineering, and vassalisation/gu...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Aug 16, 2016 7:39 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I think that all makes a lot of sense and allows for a huge amount of political intrigue and bastardry without being exactly medieval. I had wondered myself what dynastic marriages would mean to a bunch of transhumanoids, and the idea that it is basically a corporate merger with an obscene amount of...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:38 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Point A: Make my syllable 'Zel'. It can go in the middle or the end, no real preference. It would.. It would be pretty petty if I had a preference, come to that :p Point B: Ah, so animals are still important for Joxundra civilisation. Maybe that could be one of their hallmarks, the use of powerful c...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Aug 07, 2016 2:22 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I love these guys! Getting into space through hyper-animal-husbandry and eugenics :D Since it's usually easier to domesticated an animal if you get it as a baby, maybe the baby space whales are spawned in the atmosphere of their planet, live there for a while as dragon-like creatures before blasting...
by speaker-to-trolls
Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:56 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I had a thought about your other suggested Fracture race, the nomadic pilgrims. To add a bit of character, could we say that the shrine worlds they visit are places containing their hidden cities, which they had a hidden through a contract with a Raptured Lord. So their cities are safely inviolable ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:11 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Various points to Vic: A)Kindless is a much better name, I agree. B) wouldn't Cyclical Suicide Cults be possible if the core wasn't cloning but just abducting other Kheler, or even aliens, and just brainwashing them more conventionally rather than actually downloading it's thoughts into them? Or a m...
by speaker-to-trolls
Mon Aug 01, 2016 5:21 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I had the idea, might be abusing the whole symmetry thing here, I don't know, that the craziest bereaved cores could form Cyclical Suicide Cults: The core decides that since its charges died but it remembers them, and it absorbed the consciousness of the last ones, now it needs to die and leave it's...
by speaker-to-trolls
Mon Aug 01, 2016 3:34 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

It's actually quite neat how the ancestor-cores and the living populations complement each other, it's another layer of that symmetrical dualism. As such losing one side, either to death or decay of some kind, would leave the remainder spiritually scarred, they might see themselves as an incomplete ...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:22 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I have many thoughts but at the moment will just post these ones on the Brags: The BSE is the kind of place where they might also keep planets of unbyzonthinkers around so that they could use them as a training ground for their spies, or smuggle refugees out to a target planet and then invade that p...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:46 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Aside from the teeming numbers of miscellaneous cosmozoans drawn to that ecosystem and finding all sorts of niches there, would there still be traditionally, universally recognizable Karlacks though (Vanilla Karlack? Karlackassic?)? With even common genetic markers that might suggest a common point...
by speaker-to-trolls
Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:24 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I assume "living in harmony with the Karlacks" means accepting you'll be eaten every now and then. :? Basically yes :P And 'you' sometimes encompasses your entire family, tribe, planet or indeed species. That's the circle of life :ugeek: More seriously, the existence of Treewalkers does h...
by speaker-to-trolls
Wed Jul 06, 2016 7:36 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

That's not to say entire Karlack planets or solar systems don't have actual cerebrates and overminds, maybe there are highly successful hivemind-components there, perhaps led by hyper-intelligent individual "nodes" (be it some enormous brain-slug-structure thing or some infesticated forme...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Jul 03, 2016 6:59 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Looking at that I wonder about the mechanism for Karlack evolution, which is obviously a lot faster than normal evolution; In SDNW4 I know the Karlack were like the Zerg, and they had an overmind and avatars ('aspects'), now since they are now more of an ecosystem, maybe the overmind is more of an o...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:02 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Maybe there are different wavelengths of information, so it's easier for a human psychic to mess with another human brain than with a computer, but a giant neuromancer slug might be able to do both with no problem. I have an idea on a completely different tack if anyone wants to do anything with it:...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:53 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Shear Anarchy / San Dorado [Worldbuilding Exercise]
Replies: 170
Views: 155696

Re: Shear Anarchy / San Dorado [Worldbuilding Exercise]

I like these things, and from an outside perspective it gives some intriguing hints about the nature of their world. 700 million years is more or less the estimated age for any kind of animal life on Earth, so the fact there was something that big, that long ago, demonstrates a very different history.
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Jun 21, 2016 7:47 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Seeking the Past" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 1
Replies: 106
Views: 72749

Re: "Seeking the Past" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 1

Seconded, I will be eagerly awaiting the next instalment.

Incidentally, I would just like to say that in this last episode, Fassy's discussion with Eicke about the Gersallian psychics was hilarious. Mein Gotte, imagine how exasperating strategy meetings must be with these people.
by speaker-to-trolls
Mon Mar 21, 2016 10:09 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Collaborative Post-by-Post Universe: COMIX 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Replies: 16
Views: 18463

A short one but hopefully one that could fit in somewhere: Only a Canvas Sky by noted astrophysicist Amina Gulen, is considered one of the most controversial books of the 1980s. The original aim of the book was to scientifically approach, and discredit, the claims of meta-supremacist groups of the t...
by speaker-to-trolls
Tue Dec 22, 2015 8:10 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

First, thanks, this clears up a lot of my confusion on the Traums. Seems they confer tactical, strategic and metastrategic evolutionary boons on their hosts, in a way they're almost symbiotic. Makes the gorok masses miserable and visit awful depredations on the poor innocent people of space but ther...
by speaker-to-trolls
Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:29 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517453

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

(Speaking of the Samtics themselves, Samtic aid could consist of contrapsychic technology to deter the Traumfangers' influence, which might be enough to materially affect the Gorok advance. Of course, Sajit reluctance to accept would not only be due to ideology, but the fear that it would also dilu...