Omniverse One

Siege: and once they've gotten away from those assassins they are the ones who end up founding militias and colonies of rugged individuals out in Wildspace. Invictus: I was mainly thinking of PMCs when I was writing it, but then I'm not entirely sure where and how the line between PMCs and official ...

I personally prefer the idea of Maverick Fighter Cocks and Spacebilly Militias being kind of impractical but existing because Solarians are just that neophiliac. Imagine a reverse-mercenary company where rich Solarian kids pay for the privilege of getting re-sleeved into a killfucking transterminato...

Anti-Telestronic Kerberi could also contribute to the whole process of culling the lesser races to prevent them getting too big and destabilising reality any further. Though they are probably too busy pruning the Karlack jungle and vainly trying to foil the hyperyogic plans of their Telestron elders.

As I recall they had a speech-off in that chapter whic... Well no one won at the time but Robert was the one who eventually had to rethink his whole approach. I have really enjoyed this series, I do think it's interesting that when you want to write a light adventurous space opera you still end up w...

I lurked on that game, that was a weird sequence. I remember all of you being class acts though (from what I remember, which is largely the original punishment for the King guy, Anglia helping rescue the beleagured man-tau and one of Shroom's scenes where the Infected blew up a hospital out of spite...

"where suicide is punishable by body conscription" I love it, this continent is just a 24 hour, 365 day no holds barred deathmatch. It is madness Madness? This is America *Is kicked down a well and eaten by a thing* I like the fact the governor's office is in Havana so as to keep away from...

While our ideas are indeed just spitballs, I think you could, for story purposes, get some mileage out of Fracture people claiming to represent or descend from pre-Earthreign cultures. It would accentuate what a mess the Fracture (event and place) is because there is no way you could verify any of t...

I thought it had implications for the universe as a whole regarding the possible number of virgin planets, but basically, yes, Earth is the number one concern since it has to have been our world at some point in prehistory. I should say I love your idea of the Chixulub (sp?)impact being a Rhapspdite...

Ok well this clarifies a couple of things, but it basivally lines up with what I had imagined. The only thing that has my eyebrows raised is the speeds. So... If I recall correctly, the warp scale is logarithmic, sort of, with 1 being lightspeed, 4 being 1000 times lightspeed, 9 being 8 lightyears p...

The Fermi Paradox is basically "why have we not seen any aliens yet?", in reality, as I said, this is not a paradox because it assumes a) there are intelligent aliens who can build electrocivilisations like ours, b) these civilisations exist close enough in space and time for us to pick up...

That is a lot of backstory in one go, and if you want to make Wildspace more than a nondescript neutral zone a cult of ancient robots centred around a god living in a cluster of black holes would certainly spice things up! I particularly like the idea of Rhapsodite heads being used for extra process...

I like the slow buildup, sometimes it works better to give the impression of the wondrous and grotesque bits being part of the world. This seemed somehow more grotesque than anything in Errance , I just imagined everything here being so slimy and gelatinous. Shroom, your mind is a treasure chest of ...

VIC: That is an elegant and beautiful way of summarising the Wranath, and gives this race of hyper-collectivist, compulsively belligerent, psychic viking plant monsters a real sense of pathos ;-) SHROOM: I love the idea of barnacle huts, of course as was said somewhere earlier; things that 'overcome...

I will have to think on the eyeball issue... They would definitely have a method of sensing light but would it be tgeir primary sense? Don't know, they probably don't have what we would recognise as a face, anyway. I love the idea of them growing tons of extra eyes/ears/hands/flowers(genitals) and s...

I never read Hardcore Way, but this is a fantastic piece, the general madness, the strange future world and the tongue in cheek attitude all add up to something marvellous.

Would I be right in thinking that the Great War was where the Wild West continent ended up being destroyed? If so, I imagine a lot of the survivors might blame the destruction on a foreign conspiracy, and even if they're wrong, the Great Realms of the east would probably want to take advantage of it...

^Ah. My mistake. I think that scene might have been more relevant if my version was correct, but it would have added more detail creep, plus it would raise more questions because Darkness flew over the horizon. Yeah. On making a better Comix Africa, would it be worth someone starting another thread ...

Wow, a lot of extra thoughts on my plantoids :D a few brief replies. Name: Wranath is my favourite of those, wranath or wranat. Biology: For these things to exist I imagine anivegtalism (or whatever, photosynthetic quasi-modular animals) would have to be pretty much the norm, with at least a lot of ...

Walking collosal birdhouses for the little hive-bird-things sounds fantastic, I imagine a weird sort of collection of gigantic stilts striding across the horizon surrounded by clouds of flashing little bird things. Could there also be subcultures that live inside the bodies of heavily modified Sajit...

I've been trying to come up with something for the plantoids, who I am provisionally terming the War Weeds, as of now this is what I've got: I am going to rip off Olaf Stapledon's masterpiece of sci fi worldbuilding/theological discourse Star Maker , which featured, as a kind of little aside, a race...

On Deimos: True enough, I never did get around to writing up Black Mars or working out exactly what his powers were. He certainly wouldn't have Deimos' degree of control over the weed but there is no reason he couldn't have some control over it, especially with Mwami assistance. Black Mars started o...

WHEW, that is a lot of setup I find an oligarchy of corporate interests bringing in a guy who calls himself Socialist Hawk as head of their super-security force to be a little odd. Is the idea something like that his distaste for all of them means they are all reasonably confident he won't sell out ...

Oh, you can definitely have your cake and eat it. The Sajit Ranges, little fortress-states filled with multispecies refugees, can be quite fragmented and isolationist - when compared to what they were before the Gorok advance. Inside the Ranges the metakarmic hierarchy functions on, albeit reduced ...

Complete nonsense character idea designed basically to annoy the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft. So there is this Lovecraft story called Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermayn and His Family Spoilers Below A nervous English aristocrat researches his own geneaology and discovers that his great grandmother...

Heh, MANGs :) I agree that Lord Erebus would add an unnecessary layer of detail to the whole scenario, but am I correct in thinking your implication is that the shadow demons could be entities from the unrealised Infinite Reichs Ludwig was trying to summon into existence, maybe even the model for hi...