Omniverse One

So essentially the Bounty is paying for the weakness, or absence, of the Myrran central government. Harsh :P I am rethinking my original conception of the Bounty as completely balkanised and the Sajit as aggressively isolationist. Maybe the Sajit Ranges really are refuges where the people of the Bou...

VIC: I like the idea of the Bounty being a close-knit ecosystem of civilisations, each one feeding off each other from an early stage so that species getting into space of their own accord would be abnormal rather than the rule (to be honest I always thought this was a much more likely way for a gal...

I am not sure about the idea of Karmic Judges because I imagined the Karma system as being kind of... OK, I am not sure how karma is actually supposed to work or if there are supposed to be gods who hand out the karma, but I have always got the impression that it is meant to be an entirely impersona...

To address Shroom's question to me about the Sajit: I haven't really got much beyond the tagline in my head: 'not Tech Priests but Tech Brahmins'. Unfortunately I know nothing about Brahminism, so all that has got me is a vague idea that the Sajit have a belief in some kind of mathematical mysticism...

This looks ingenious and full of possibilities. I particularly like the Sultanate, and the possibilities implicit in the leadership struggle every time a Sultan dies. I lurked a bit on the first SDN World (I think), do you remember the Mujahadeen Submarines you and Shroom played who plagued Zor's sh...

Happy Shroomsday, Shroom Man!

This is the first time I realised Shroom is the same age (well, slightly older) than me.

I hope this story just isn't an excuse to laugh at me for all my bad ideas... Have a look at all the information and planning here, man, you can only say "Grand Germanic Generalissimo Gerhardt Gesundheit Grinned Gruesomely, Goldstein Grimaced" for so long and that length is a lot shorter ...

First... Wow, Invictus, what do you do to your brain to come up with this sort of thing? How do you put so much method in your madness? I have always thought Ludwig could make an interesting villain for these same reasons, that his desire to resurrect the Second Reich is in some way tied to his fami...

Re. Fracture-K Zone relations, I think I read the map wrong, it seems that the route into the Fracture from the USS is quite circuitous unless one wants to risk getting eaten by Phyrrons. I was under the impression the Cascade was pretty much a tunnel from the USS to the northern Fracture. I general...

SHROOM: Re. The Sajit, I think we MUST rename them since 'Saggitarians' is so cumbersome. My conception of them is that they have developed a bit of a siege mentality with the chaos consuming the Serengeti, hiding on gigantic asteroid fortresses they call Mountains. Maybe they have kind of created a...

ON THE SAVANNAH: I was thinking that the Myrrans could call this volume The Bounty, just to show what dicks they are in that they see the suffering and degradation of whole races as irrelevant next to them getting new land. Humans could call it East Wild Space or Myrran Wild Space. I also realised, ...

Wow, this is old, but still on the front page. I apologise if reviving it at this stage is necromantic. So having now seen the first Capaldi season of Doctor Who (about 8 months ago) I have to say I have mixed feelings about it. Capaldi is great in his role, obviously, and I think it's interesting t...

Um, what he said^ :) I have to say that I love both the fairytale imagery of the latest chapter and the cosmopolitan weirdness of the Esarhaddon pilgrimage road, the images that the pilgrimage invoke to me remind me of the Nikopol Trilogy , which is this series of bizarro comic books by a Czech-Fren...

So I am guessing someone from one of the lesser, mortal races can no longer become a Lord by hard work and style? Unless of course some of the now sleeping Lords have already built massjammers before getting bored and going to sleep, meaning an ambitious young hirado could get himself appointed a ca...

SO MANY BOXES! :D It's good to have that cleared up, that pretty much aligns to the map in my head. I just have a thought on Shroom's thoughts on the Rapture Lords. Could they be guarding the survivors of an ancient race... And that race is the Rhapsodites? So, in the closing days of the Titanomachy...

I think regarding the Raptured and their agents, the fact that the Hirados are out in the galaxy procuring or looting rather than the Raptured creating rare metals and breeding pet races with their Cthullutech, I think that says something. I think it implies the Raptured want to interact with the ga...

If the Hirados are like the Portuguese the USS and BSE could be like the Safavids and Ottomans, either resenting and attacking the meddlesome aliens or trying to mobilise them against their enemy. The USS seems like the guys who would want to be on good terms with them, BUT the Raptured remember the...

There are so many (horrible) possibilities when it comes to Myrran reproduction. Like, maybe nobility could plan on resleeving themselves into a younger body when they die, so they could have a whole cadre of 'children' who are all thinking they have won the Cat Apprentice but are actually just wait...

SHROOM: Re. The Oolycysts and such, since I sense we're about to wrap them up for now. A: I think Qylath sounds good, or maybe change the others to Quorom or Quorol or, something, I don't know I like the extra O to make it sound damper. B: Pretty much my thoughts on the Listeners, I also wondered ab...

The image is strangely compelling :) Could Oolycysts and Padryceps be collectively referred to as (name of ancestral planet)ids/oids/lings once we get a name for their ancestral planet? Also, I had a thought that maybe some of the Listeners have a philosophy of ascending out of their bodies to becom...

What the hell am I meant to do with a Brock Les... Ah, thank you, Shroom! Thank you so much! If the Satrapies are now multicultural and disunited then I don't think they need a suffix. Maybe they could officially be the Padrycep Protectorates, since they grew up to protect the blighted Oolycysts fro...

God, so much stuff here, I wish I had time to respond but, honestly I don't, sorries

Have added Padryceps to the master list, though, so that is something.

I actually also mulled about Padryceps (damn I originally meant Padrycids but Padryceps has stuck!) ecologies. The home and parent would be the forest, but the walkers would have to bring carcasses for the forests to germinate into, and to provide nutrition to the forest. Only dead things, hence th...

SPEAKER Shroom: I like Padryceps as a name. I was thinking along very similar lines for the conflict between the two fungaloid races. The Oolicytes would have been the Padryceps ideal hosts and as such would have either idolised or reviled them. My thought was that the Oolicyte Wispite culture coul...

Would it be too ridiculous or outrageous to suggest that the All-Father and the Ministry of Fate's evil acts of evilry are so... out there that to destroy the calcified stagnant anti-progressive nature of the Fracture, they'd resort to... strengthening calcified stagnant anti-progressive natured Fr...