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Old 03-30-2020, 02:59 PM   #1540
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Default Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

Try these two...

While posting on the Scion broads I suggested this idea.

The idea is a game of politics and manipulation in a Sci Fi setting. A Titan or Primordial of endings and finality has fatally wounded the sun. Lucky for humanity it's at the start of the 22nd century and humanity has space travel ( steal any tech ideas needed from Aeon) as a routine thing. Catch, escape to extrasolar colonies can only work for a limited number of people. Most people are going to be left behind because there isn't anyplace for them to go, it's that simple and brutal. The colonies have grown very well but only so many people can be supported until the colonies grow. And there is no time left.

Pantheons are struggling for the survival of their people and ideals.

If your people aren't part of the exodus to the stars, then your as dead as continental Celtic pantheon. If your people and those they influence aren't in large enough groups to maintain their cultures, it's just as bad.

How is your pantheon standing up for its people and/or itself?


To clarify, in Scion you play the children of the gods (biological or adopted) so a political game involving the gods is logical.

Kyman201 posted this as part of her answer to me...


Thus we expand from a Trolley Problem to a full on Space Opera Shard, where Netjer Heroes sail the cosmos in elaborate golden barges, the Teotl use massive temple-ships that use a ritual diaz in the heart of the ship to revitalize a dying star with one offered heart, and Theoi Scions leap from the hulls of massive ships to do battle with the monsters that lurk among the stars.


Which sounds massively cool.

Note: As this is GURPS, steal your tech ideas from Transhuman Space.
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