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by Shroom Man 777
Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:26 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
Replies: 730
Views: 417861

Re: Official Movie Review Thread

It was amazing, at the very least on par of The Incredibles and The Lego Movie, and in a way having elements of both - Incredibles' heart and reverence for the superhero genre, and Lego Movie's ridiculousness and playful meta-ness/intertextuality. And it goes further than these in talking about how ...
by Shroom Man 777
Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
Replies: 730
Views: 417861

Re: Official Movie Review Thread

Watching Spiderverse tomorrow. Can't wait!
by Shroom Man 777
Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:26 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

The tiered system of lower-tech peasants beneath the technobilities in their hyperkremlins and floating cities and Elysiums could've been the basis for how in the Byzonist Empire the peripheral worlds have to use internal combustion engines whereas the core worlds and Bragule have war-moons and cybr...
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:37 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Hrlgtuhe against the Apexai probably clashed against Apexai-friendly Brag powers with appointed Keepers. So these Hrlgs probably supported anti-Apexai Brags that clashed with the pro-Apexai Brags. Among these would've been early folk hero revolutionary Byzon. And, well, that investment paid dividen...
by Shroom Man 777
Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:42 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

And there's a lot to explore with the pre-Byzonic Bragulans and their long-time presence in the K-Zone. Were the bears already there when the humans arrived?! I'd say Bragspace's current borders with K-Zone's Wild Space was former Hrlgtuhe territory and Apexai territory so while the Brags were in t...
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:30 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

The Apexai "commonwealth authorities" that managed the Keepers probably cared enough to rubber stamp the proto-Solarians' Crossing, but these guys were probably on the lower end of the Invisible Imperium's pecking order and the real movers and shakers had become apathetic. Perhaps the Ape...
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:56 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Wonder why they didn't give the humans the same treatment though, since the Apexai must on some level be aware of their passing through the veil and into the K-Zone since their Keeper let them through. Did they already stop uplifting new Keepers at that point, which was substantially before the Rei...
by Shroom Man 777
Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:14 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Idea: Apexai DNA, or the physical code governing their existence, isn't just amino acids and stuff... their genes extend beyond physical-chemical composition and into the psychospheric. So the Apexai Hybrid shenenigans with Solarian humans (and the Byzonic propagandas of ancient Apexai meddling of B...
by Shroom Man 777
Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:29 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43107

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 3 - "Case Armageddon"

Imra is a total boss.
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:18 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 256
Views: 135546

Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Nice, really really nice. And jeez it was really shocking, so much so that I can get how after all this time Robert wasn't able to react to it since it was so quick and he was a total wreck already.
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:17 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 256
Views: 135546

Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Coincidentally we recently talked IRL about how the show's sequels would be set even further into the future. Cyberpunk, space opera...
by Shroom Man 777
Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:06 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 256
Views: 135546

Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

LOL what a jam-packed episode. Killing Nazzies which is always good, and Solarian CYBORG NINJAs, and then AVALONIANS, and then Space Avatar-verse!
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:14 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

It might be akin to the vodou strangeness in Count Zero. The Datasphere, even sans psion influence, could as you said through sheer density start "glitching" in ways that are attuned to the collective subconscious of the population... CI and cyberspace algorithms are programmed to expand a...
by Shroom Man 777
Mon Nov 05, 2018 3:58 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

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 be seen as an impromptu neuromonger-like thing warranting sanction. So a big Magi temple in the Grandeur or wherever can't just get ...
by Shroom Man 777
Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:49 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 256
Views: 135546

Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

The strange ass pseudo-Sith, Cylon and Fassbinder's clique alliance make their move!

Though I wonder what the Neanderthal's role in this is.
by Shroom Man 777
Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:48 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

The Apexai definitely do still have functioning transpsionic communications, either puissant psions who can reach out, or systems/networks that utilize amplifying components but on a smaller scale than the bygone Oversoul (the Zedath-Kaleshi probably have Oversoul components that still work, albeit ...
by Shroom Man 777
Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:48 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 256
Views: 135546

Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Nice off-ship intrigue and spy stuff. Goodu!

And I loved the previous episode's stuff with Hawk and Becca.
by Shroom Man 777
Sat Nov 03, 2018 2:43 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 518014

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I'd presume the Brags have *some* fast-movers here and there, either the not-stealth but hotrod gunskimmers or Kerbal-like paleocruisers in which each one has a fallen sister-ship's recovered engines bolted on to make the thing resemble a deranged Vostok, including ridiculities like one way trips in...
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:17 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 256
Views: 135546

Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

The Aurigans are too busy re-enacting Dune amongst themselves whereas NEUROM's origins, both in this fic and in SOTS canon, are more tied into the meta of the Fracture (and the All-Father and Sophia angle)... which Steve's repurposed for his fic.
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:01 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Replies: 256
Views: 135546

Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)

Well, earlier pre-sagely Robert's holier than thou shtick would've made this whole "these guys who I thought were bad were actually trying to survive" revelation and rebuttal of his judgmental ways all the more delicious. Eh, Hawk is kinda Robert-ish so at least we get that. If Robert was ...