New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by malloyd

Isn't that the *point*? These aliens are supposed to be no more comprehensible to humans than humans are to mice. Something the smartest human who ever lived can understand in a thousand times the usual time on a critical success, is just complex enough they need to roll to avoid a critical failure.

Thank-you. Yes the aliens are supposed to be beyond human comprehension.

[Tyneras]

Wasn't that the plot of 3e Fantasy II Mad Lands? Humans trying to survive in a world run by incomprehensible gods?

Edit: Corrected the name

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Thank-you. Yes the aliens are supposed to be beyond human comprehension.

Even with that, it's not like humans would necessarily be eradicated anymore than we've been able to eradicate mice.

I'm imagining equivalent cheap mouse traps for humans infesting some valuable locale.
Like how some smart mice figure out how to acquire bait without setting off the traps, smart humans could reasonably do similarly.

Build a better human-trap, and the bleepwheeze(screech)(quantum equations) will beat a path to your planet.

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Thank-you. Yes the aliens are supposed to be beyond human comprehension.

At this point, I think the absurdity of this setting qualifies it as a, "Weird Parallel."

[Flyndaran]

Definitely one that would be off limits for every faction. Maybe some odd Cabalists would risk it if there were some magic resource.

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Definitely one that would be off limits for every faction. Maybe some odd Cabalists would risk it if there were some magic resource.

You mean when they are not discussing Rabbinical precedents, ancient Jewish legal disputes and religious mysticism?

[Flyndaran]

Gurps Cabal, not the mundane religious.

[Myrion]

Also "Cabal" not "Kabbalah". :)

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Myrion

Also "Cabal" not "Kabbalah". :)

So it is a book about the inordinate influence in British policy by King Charles II, Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale?

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

So it is a book about the inordinate influence in British policy by King Charles II, Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale?

Come to think of it one can actually take that literally and make them the inheiritors of a conspiracy descended from the Old Ones. Make the Cabal be a Cabal.