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Old 01-17-2020, 09:26 AM   #221
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Old 01-17-2020, 09:49 AM   #222
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If I may modify my vote: Dinosaurs or under 3 million. Either one is good, but the stuff in-between is blah.
Anyone can modify their vote until I close it, which I haven't, yet. I'd prefer that the post that your old vote was in be edited, like for example using the strikethrough option ('[ s ] <words> [ / s ]' with the spaces removed, if anyone is wondering), or just editing the vote there to change it.

Currently planning to close the voting tomorrow. Hopefully I won't be too tired, and will be able to count up the votes. It doesn't help when a vote given is unclear.
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Old 01-18-2020, 11:07 AM   #223
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OK, voting is closed. I'm going to do something that I probably should have done yesterday, or possibly even Wednesday, but I only came up with it in the past hour or so.

Dinosaurs and Earliest 'Preserver' Activity questions, revised

OK, here's two questions to resolve the issue (I hope). The answers are in different formats, so I should be able to tell which answer goes to which question. I recommend answering both questions, but if you only care about one, answering only that one is fine.

First question: It's been mentioned that even if the earliest known examples of Preserver activity date from long after the K-T Event, lifeforms closely resembling dinosaurs and other species long extinct on Earth could still be found on other planets due to convergent evolution (or genetic engineering, or both).

That being said, do you want dinosaurs et al, or sufficiently close equivalents thereof, to be alive in this setting?

Please answer with either 'YES' in all caps, or 'NO' in all caps. Answers with both will be ignored, answers that don't use all caps might be missed.


Second question: When did the Preservers or their equivalent begin taking life-forms from Earth and settling them on other worlds?

Please include the number when you vote. I would prefer of you only vote for one option, to avoid confusion.

1. Long before the rise of humanity (significantly more than 3 million years ago.

2. Circa 3 million yeas ago.

3. Circa 70,000 years ago.

4. Circa 10,000 years ago.

5. Circa 5,000 years ago.

6. More recently than 5,000 years ago (please specify).


Hopefully, this will get a result that everyone is reasonably happy with.


EDIT: The consensus is YES to dinosaurs and such, and 3 million years ago for the earliest known Preserver activity.
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Old 01-18-2020, 11:57 AM   #224
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Yes, I would like dinosaurs.

earliest preservers should start moving things around 500,000 years ago, so 2.5 (you really have an uneven gap between 3 million and 70 thousand, its a factor of about x40)
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Old 01-18-2020, 03:53 PM   #225
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A) Dinosaurs!

//B) I don't know. I'm not sure what they're purpose is for the setting. Explain why exterior shots look like California? Explain why everything's Humanoid? Excuse to recycle civilizations (like in Trek)? Explain similar organic chemistry? Depending on the reason, the answer differs.

EDIT B) I'll go with number 2.

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Old 01-18-2020, 05:11 PM   #226
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That being said, do you want dinisaurs et al, or sufficiently close equivalents thereof, to be alive in this setting?.
OH HELLS YES! :) Gotta have the alien dino-riders.

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This was a tough choice, between 3 million and 70 thousand. I'm gonna have to go with 3 million, though.


That said, keep things interesting by having the Precursors continue to grab people up through the 20th Century. That way you can have your Kohms and Yangs still duking it out in the post-nuclear apocalypse world.
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Old 01-19-2020, 07:48 AM   #227
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That being said, do you want dinisaurs et al, or sufficiently close equivalents thereof, to be alive in this setting?
YES

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Second question: When did the Preservers or their equivalent begin taking life-forms from Earth and settling them on other worlds?
I choose option 2. Circa 3 Million Years Ago.

That gives enough time for the life forms to diverge into distinct life forms while still having similar biochemistries.
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Old 01-19-2020, 12:58 PM   #228
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OK, since a lot of people replied pretty quickly, I'm thinking that the vote can be closed tomorrow or Tuesday.

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B) I don't know. I'm not sure what they're purpose is for the setting.
More than one reason, really:

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Explain why exterior shots look like California?
No.

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Explain why everything's Humanoid?
Yes.

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Excuse to recycle civilizations (like in Trek)?
Maybe. I suspect that some players and GMs will want to, if this gets played.

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Explain similar organic chemistry?
Yes.
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Old 01-20-2020, 02:08 PM   #229
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OK, voting is closed, and we have a new question:

Most Recent 'Preserver' Activity

Now that we know when the first wave of Preserver activity relating to Earth took place, we can ask when the last (so far) example happened. Voting for the first option means that you want there to have been only one wave of settlement. If a particular date is associated in some way with a civilization encountered in Star Trek (even if there's an in-story explanation that doesn't require it), I've linked the episode title.

Please include the number when you vote. If you have to vote for more than one option, please make it clear which option you like best; if you don't, I'm likely to decide that the first option you list has priority.

1. Circa 3 million years ago (so, only one wave of settlement).

2. Circa 500,000 years ago.

3. Circa 70,000 years ago.

4. Circa 10,000 years ago.

5. Circa 5,000 years ago (roughly 3000 BCE).

6. Circa the destruction of Thera/Atlantis (between 1642 BCE and 1540 BCE).

7. Circa 117 CE (Bread and Circuses).

8. Circa 800 (the time of Charlemagne).

9. Circa 1492 (focused on the Americas; The Paradise Syndrome).

10. Circa 1816 (the Year Without a Summer).

11. Circa the 1920s (oddly focused on organized crime; A Piece of the Action).

12. Circa 1945 (the atomic bomb worried someone out there; Patterns of Force).

13. Circa the Cold War (The Omega Glory, Miri).

14. Circa the Genetics Wars of the 2050s.


EDIT: 13 (Cold War) wins by one vote.
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14) Last Thursday, to be precise.
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