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Old 01-26-2019, 11:25 AM   #26
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Default Re: Antarctic Space Nazis Across the Multiverse

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Originally Posted by lwcamp View Post
I'm sorry, I'm having trouble parsing this. Did you just use the term plausible in a discussion of magic using, multiverse-spanning Antarctic space Nazis?
It's an inverse magical realism homage kind of thing. I thought I covered that already. :-)

Seriously, though, the PCs might encounter them in the Dreamlands and it's obviously most sensible for them to conclude that as with the yeti that look like Star Wars wampas and the White Riders on blood-sucking ice spiders, these are simply pop culture artifacts in the mind of the dreamer.

However, I want there to be viable answers to every question the PCs might ask about the origins and background of these Antarctic Space Nazis, enough to cause pkayers to wonder whether they are entirely imaginary...

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Okay, maybe I can also offer some helpful comments instead of just snark. You can get an idea of what a relatively isolated nuclear enterprise needs by looking at the Hanford project, the part of the Manhattan project that built functioning nuclear reactors in a formerly mostly uninhabited* region of the northwest United States. By 1944, an and arid and empty region of scrub-steppe had grown into a boom town of 50,000 people - so this is likely a minimum of what you need to build a functioning reactor.
https://www.atomicheritage.org/tour-site/life-hanford
This is a minimum, because you still need to import steel pipes, rebar, portland cement, copper wire, winches, jeeps, trucks, diesel fuel, cranes, and so forth. It also gets you a nuclear reactor in a large concrete building. To miniaturize the reactor enough that an airship can lift it will require even more work (although not necessarily more people).
So you could buy several hundred senior SS, leading scientists and selected settlers, along with several thousand stormtroopers (who conveniently don't even require food) quickly building up a slave settlement of fifty thousand or more and managing to build reactors to power zeppelins in 40-50 years?

By which time the slaves would be pushing a million and the free citizens would probably be around 50,000.
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