tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post3914101842702146670..comments2024-03-28T16:13:29.502-04:00Comments on Throne of Salt: A Timeline of the FutureDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-82401517343183762222022-04-08T22:07:00.341-04:002022-04-08T22:07:00.341-04:00It certainly began with hubris. Ended with that as...It certainly began with hubris. Ended with that as well. Whether or not the Celestials dumped a subversion into the codebase in the middle is never going to get a concrete answer. Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-7778161019943393712022-04-08T05:10:02.209-04:002022-04-08T05:10:02.209-04:00Was the 'quantum communication net' caused...Was the 'quantum communication net' caused by the Celestials, or was it a case of classic human hubris?James the Perkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15379401119859368832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-15302069332443087582022-03-29T12:13:37.624-04:002022-03-29T12:13:37.624-04:00Foppery and whim are the best. This is neat. :DFoppery and whim are the best. This is neat. :DLShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15495083228566425216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-37600828946073274772022-03-27T21:18:04.966-04:002022-03-27T21:18:04.966-04:00Mercury keeps chugging along as the main raw mater...Mercury keeps chugging along as the main raw materials exporter of the inner system, though later it starts to diversify into energy production (antimatter, specifically). It mostly keeps out of system politics due in large part to a culture that can be described as "hive-like".Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-35826310903986416642022-03-27T18:20:15.242-04:002022-03-27T18:20:15.242-04:00"There was a brief period of extreme politica..."There was a brief period of extreme political upheaval", set against a previous few sections of extremely detailed change, works very, very, well.<br /><br />Whatever became of Mercury? They seem to have faded away after the revolution. Or is that up to the GM to decide?De Cometishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14607332528158406698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-4204354447955554472022-03-27T12:55:04.444-04:002022-03-27T12:55:04.444-04:00I like the house of flesh having long-term goals a...I like the house of flesh having long-term goals and not just being 'scary flesh monster', v funSwampgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747822220344666500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-22680943585352497632022-03-27T12:33:41.264-04:002022-03-27T12:33:41.264-04:00The Bans are alluded to in other posts but in shor...The Bans are alluded to in other posts but in short:<br />* no tampering with warp drives and other clarketech - they are to be used exactly as intended <br />* No creation of an intelligence beyond a certain level of processing power (no rivals allowed)<br /><br />The dataminds are just under the destruction threshold. The creation of that quantum communication net could have easily created something in violation of the Ban but I feel like the destruction was the result of things going terribly wrong instead of terribly right. <br /><br />But the odds of some party hoping for a mass-ascension event and then either joining or overthrowing the Bureaucracy are good, though it wasn't the majority.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-45144168027803901222022-03-27T06:13:25.585-04:002022-03-27T06:13:25.585-04:00Are the Great Bans listed anywhere? I presume thes...Are the Great Bans listed anywhere? I presume these are things that threaten the stability of the Universe.<br /><br />Is the final massive death-toll caused by an issue with the quantum communication net... or was that the goal?Spwackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07247063374457045751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-63155934038944098182022-03-26T13:05:35.140-04:002022-03-26T13:05:35.140-04:00There is light at the end of the tunnel, though - ...There is light at the end of the tunnel, though - House Flesh's grand experiment will eventually see fruit (the best way to keep interstellar civilization stable is through these inter-species alliances. The maladaptive traits of one are course-corrected by another - pairing humanity with a species that we get along with very well, but who is much better at long-term planning.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-11072569166673967822022-03-26T12:51:39.193-04:002022-03-26T12:51:39.193-04:00the Redoubters are swiped from the public domain b...the Redoubters are swiped from the public domain book "The Night Lands" by William Hope Hodgeson - dying earth book where all the surviving humans in the time past the death of the sun live in a giant black pyramid. The book itself is borderline unreadable with its prose but the idea of a giant arcology of people dead-set on locking the doors and going on as long as they possibly can is great.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-91762205930251042342022-03-26T12:48:04.257-04:002022-03-26T12:48:04.257-04:00It made my morning as well. More Great Brain Ferti...It made my morning as well. More Great Brain Fertilizer.<br /><br />This makes me want to run something in the future of your setting, where the lights are dimming one by one and Humanity has lost it's home and population. The PCs are flying one of the last warp-capable vessels, moving from system to system, keeping it flying by scrapping the ruins of their own culture (many of which they remember alive and flourishing, now filled only with old corpses.) Through all of this, they watch the works of humanity degrade, or become inhabited by whatever comes after, both those humanity uplifted and the Alien Beings introduced by the Celestials. The vibe would be Cowboy Bebop during the onset of the Great Interstellar Dark Age.<br /><br />Don't know why the Celestials interdicted Earth but I'm pretty sure the Titan Dataminds have something to do with it. Another great campaign is lurking there, with the PCs trying to escape the Celestial Interdiction without being killed, perhaps with the help of the Dataminds or the OAI desperately scrabbling to keep some aspect of their civilization alive.<br /><br />And if the PCs do escape, they're met with thirteen trillion dead bodies. The lights might be on, but there is nobody home anymore. The Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03586769574725180459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-45785537048447100742022-03-26T12:27:11.059-04:002022-03-26T12:27:11.059-04:00I fucking love reading this shit, this made my mor...I fucking love reading this shit, this made my morning.<br /><br />wtf are Redoubters and their "deep-time social continuity" ?? I need more of whatever that shit is, that's the good shit <br /><br />also I'm pretty sure if you're only "comatose" for a few minutes before dying, that's not a coma, that's just unconsciousness lolCaptain Crowbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11959402382179885595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372693484053299675.post-35680795688977945202022-03-25T22:03:41.163-04:002022-03-25T22:03:41.163-04:00broad-strokes timelines are fun, I like writing th...broad-strokes timelines are fun, I like writing them. I might make others, depending on foppery and whim.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362417308874455noreply@blogger.com