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- Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:31 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
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Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Huh right Apexai sorcerer ghosts and memories of sorcerer ghosts that can still wreck shit like any living sorcerer ghost... the destruction of the Oversoul probably caused a lot of gnarly stuff to bleed out back into reality. So in the occupied Apexaian parts of Bragspace there could've been all so...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:14 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
What if Hank himself is the current incarnation but the original mind wasn't even someone we'd think of as Hank but some Earthreign continuity contingency system that beamed out hyper-capable secrets-bearing souls/beings across space in hopes of recreating the grand project. Hank became Hank after t...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:39 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Woah my god yeah, not sure how much of it Hank himself remembers and hands-on made, but yes Sidney Hank as the immortal vizier of the Earthreign, one of the makers or even founders... is he haunted by his mistakes and wants to change and do right while using methods based on what he knew? Or is he t...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Book Thread
- Replies: 203
- Views: 163117
Re: The Book Thread
Been reading The Way of Kings by Brian Sanderson and despite the guy's rep among fantasy buffs... I'm kinda just whelmed? The stuff with the lords is kinda belabored, his plot is moving slower than I'd like, the book is thicker than my Earthsea collection with four stories, and I guess reading Le Gu...
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:48 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Sure, more cross-pollination of weird shit from the K-Zone. Distance shouldn't be a mega-obstacle... and there are gateways!
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Games!
- Replies: 57
- Views: 62177
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:08 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Respiters can literally baptise people or sprinkle sacred fluid and infect people with the liquefied souls which can have psionic secondary bio-mutagenic effects... MIDICHLORIANS and MITOCHONDRIAL EVES and cue Kojima-esque ramblings of DOMINANT GENES and METALLIC ARCHEA! The biological component isn...
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:44 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
I think the ecosystem around the flames might themselves be affected over time and be "purified" to a point of combusting, maybe the Pyroprax flames can also incorporate psionically neutral matter - not as an active ingredient or fuel, but something that'll still immolate? Stuff just catch...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Sure, Zigonian converts and apostles of the early Pyroprax decided on a new way when they were spreading the faith in the frontier - like the Nestorian Christians of Central Asia with their divergent faith. The Respiters probably wanted a Communion that didn't melt entire ecosystems - as I think the...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:32 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Hmmm... the coding of the Hrlgtuhe may vary depending on the ancient hegemony they came from. Yes, more collectivistic/totalitarian ones probably have denizens coded to be Cold War Lemmings. Less centralized civilizations could have more fragmented, community-level neurodogma bonds... filial piety t...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:02 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"
Unfortunately it is really hard to write a profound technological mismatch well. Blending the two plots was intended to mitigate this, and I grimaced a lot and felt like I was undercutting the Firefly characters, but I couldn't write myself out of it. In the end the result was 10,000 words longer t...
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:27 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"
But Steve, I have barely developed anything definite at all. It's all being filtered through the attitudes of people with hidden agendas and personal biases. And the Fracture itself has malleable memetics and history - but of course Imra knowing actual encrypted command thoughts makes her quite acc...
- Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:29 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"
There was a mystery spaceship in the Voltron chapter?
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:53 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"
You could integrate the callsigns to the cast of characters in the first page. Jeez, I do appreciate how we get fundamental multiverse-defining information disclosed in this spin-off series. Real heavy stuff. So revelations aren't just because the Chosen Ones in the Aurora happened on all the verse-...
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:02 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"
Well, she's close to Elia! And she went on leave with Fei'nur... And c'mon, no comment about the fact that Earthreign ships are controlled with encrypted thoughts ? Oh I found that quite cool, though Zhen'var having a moment of unsubdued humor was more astounding :P So if Imra has encrypted thought...
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:02 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"
That's nice - Zhen'var saying Santyanna
Yeah, her loosening up and becoming close to this crew would be so <3
Yeah, her loosening up and becoming close to this crew would be so <3
- Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:56 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10984
Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
The Culinary Lab isn't so much difference science as it is a reflection of a cultural approach to eating places. The Gersallian minority that the lounge's operator comes from has an appreciation for such kinds of eateries, so he implemented it on the Maimonides . I mean with super sci-fi tech it ma...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:32 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10984
Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
I love this but upon thinking about it, I think Colin came off as too much of a Manic Pixie Psychic Badass :P I mean, he's such a fun cool guy AND he likes anime and is such a polymath and a smartass... but I love the Psi-Corps action. And the nUF spinoffs are doing great exploring these aspects in ...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:26 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"
Haha, poor Jubal. What a chump but that's part of his charm - getting taken out in all sorts of underwhelming anticlimatic ways. Imra is nuts. She's the best. ...and, oh no. :( ...and oh shit. What the hell? What the fucking hell... she even threw mass effect stuff at them! Sweet god. Incredible. An...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 5 - "Big Iron"
I'd actually say that it's the opposite, that Zhen'var's being a hardass is a direct result of the traumatic experience of her mutiny and is not the end of her character development--but rather a realistic if sometimes problematic reaction to her trauma. Ah, yes I did get that Zhen'var's hardness i...
- Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:57 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43639
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 5 - "Big Iron"
JUBAL EARLY! That great man! Amazing! I'm amazed that Zhen'var's militarism makes Davies of all people come off as the laid back type. And I guess what strikes me is how... gung-ho Dilgar Zhen'var is now. I've just skimmed the previous chapters but this one has Firefly in it and more Imra, and Imra ...
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 6:36 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10984
Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
That was amazeballs.
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:07 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 520254
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
But how did the younger species even notice this weakness, given that the Apexai were already unshakably isolationist before this point? That unconsciously psychohistory's inertia drove them to attack, like over the decades and centuries the Vielre themselves became apathetic and some even just wit...
- Wed Dec 26, 2018 11:24 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10984
Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
Nice. That New Liberty councilor is totally Havokeff