02-05-2018, 04:32 PM | #151 |
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Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds
It doesn't generate capital investment to buy new robots either.
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02-05-2018, 06:20 PM | #152 |
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Mist: Strange impenetrable mists have been appearing around the world. Initially in unpopulated areas but that's changed recently.
When the mist dissipates all life but human are gone. No bodies or sign of violence. Just gone. What makes this sci fi rather than horror is the cause. It's interdimensional entities wishing to save earth life from an oncoming planet-killing disaster. But they have decided that humanity is too dangerous, not worth the effort, etc. What happens when mistakes are made and a few humans are taken?
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02-05-2018, 08:18 PM | #153 | |
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Speaking of aliens, though: Shortly after Apollo XIII suffers a fault that contributes 'evidence' to trideskaphobes, the mated craft encounter a large, glowing, saucer-shaped vehicle, which catches them in a tractor beam, and returns them to Cape Kennedy within about an hour. The aliens make no attempts to communicate, nor do they respond to same, and the saucer leaves once the vehicles are safely on the ground. The landing is viewed by far too many people to cover it up.
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02-05-2018, 11:15 PM | #154 |
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Seed: A UN observer team investigating accusations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria (they may be exceeding their purview depending on the story agreement between players and GM) instead discover something far more serious: The gas bombings are instead actually devices forcing people into the Outer Astral Planes (Psionic Powers p27).
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02-06-2018, 12:26 AM | #155 |
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Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds
Why do you need a traditional economy in the proposed post-scarcity-sufficiently-advanced-robots setting?
If the robots can do everything (mine for resource, run power plants, produce robots, luxuries for the robot magnates, bread and circuses for the masses, etc) then can't the masses also be excluded from the robot economy? |
02-06-2018, 12:37 AM | #156 |
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Your ideas have merit. The setting would in some ways have to resemble Robots of Death. Luxury and an air of decadence. Speciall talents like the Captain's or Dask, would be the only way from the crowd to the elites.
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02-06-2018, 02:09 AM | #157 |
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A dystopian future where immortal ducks secretly battle each other in the shadows.
The winners take the loser's heads and a portion of their knowledge and power. This is called... the "quackening". I'll show myself out.... |
02-06-2018, 04:11 AM | #158 | |
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Howard would win, being a master of Quack Fu. :)
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02-06-2018, 05:55 AM | #159 |
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The Ducklander 2 may barely qualify as Sci Fi, but the first one is solidly fantasy.
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02-06-2018, 08:08 AM | #160 | |
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In a way the extreme separate robot economy that excludes them entirely simply makes that point clearer. That could be the case *right now* with a completely robotic economy somewhere failing to put humans out of work because it doesn't ship anything to Earth. An entirely separate economy (robotic or not) located on Earth might want to keep the resources for itself and not share them with humans, but that's an interspecies war setting, not an economic transition one.
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