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PTTG · 01-26-2018, 08:40 PM

Was going to put this in the "Ordinary Worlds with Valuables" thread, but then I realized none of them were remotely ordinary.

1: Populated by a near-human species of giants (About 10' tall). The world (inevitably named Brobdingnag) has a history unlike OTL. No magical or superscience phenomenon is needed to keep the giants alive and healthy on Homeline, and the TL-2 civilization of the planet has no global organization to speak of, making recruitment headache-free.

The astronomical food costs of the giants (Homo Gigas) is a consideration, of course.

2: Humans from Rustic-5 (or whatever the next available number is) have a cheerfully quiet TL-5+1 civilization. It's not a bad place for vacation, so long as you don't mind horses. However, there's something weird about the people here. Any native-born human retains the rustication effect, freezing artificial electrical flows within a few yards of themselves.

I'm sure more than a few other worlds have the potential to provide interesting human resources...

01-26-2018, 08:40 PM	#680
PTTG Join Date: Feb 2011	Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels Was going to put this in the "Ordinary Worlds with Valuables" thread, but then I realized none of them were remotely ordinary. 1: Populated by a near-human species of giants (About 10' tall). The world (inevitably named Brobdingnag) has a history unlike OTL. No magical or superscience phenomenon is needed to keep the giants alive and healthy on Homeline, and the TL-2 civilization of the planet has no global organization to speak of, making recruitment headache-free. The astronomical food costs of the giants (Homo Gigas) is a consideration, of course. 2: Humans from Rustic-5 (or whatever the next available number is) have a cheerfully quiet TL-5+1 civilization. It's not a bad place for vacation, so long as you don't mind horses. However, there's something weird about the people here. Any native-born human retains the rustication effect, freezing artificial electrical flows within a few yards of themselves. I'm sure more than a few other worlds have the potential to provide interesting human resources... Last edited by PTTG; 01-26-2018 at 10:10 PM.