03-31-2023, 07:36 AM | #11 | |
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Re: [Space] Insufficiently Advanced
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At early 2023 levels(today) you do not need really much research skills just few hours of familiarization with the tools and basic understanding of the world so weed out obviously wrong answers and you have correct information for almost anything most of the time. But yes, you still would get some obscure wrong answers and certain specific categories of information are often still wrong, but compared to just few months ago the number of such categories is radically less. Somewhere in 2024-2028 levels you likely do not need that understanding or even familiarity with the tools and vet very high probability right answers as the increase is not linear. |
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03-31-2023, 08:33 AM | #12 |
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Re: [Space] Insufficiently Advanced
Playing "Lower-tech fish out of water" is fun. But I think you can do that with either TL9^ or day-after tomorrow humans.
If you want to play down modern politics, do it. The only reason to keep the modern world in your game is if you actively want it for some reason. So I'd say go ahead and move the date forward a bit.
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03-31-2023, 09:07 AM | #13 |
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Re: [Space] Insufficiently Advanced
I started a campaign that was set to introduce TL6 Earth to an interstellar empire which had TL9^ out at the fringes and even higher at the core. Unfortunately, that was during a period when my game group was in almost constant flux and it didn't survive several sequential changes in the player lineup.
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03-31-2023, 09:12 AM | #14 | |
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03-31-2023, 09:40 AM | #15 |
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You don't even have to change Earth politics too much. You can just say "Back on Earth the politics of Group X is in turmoil and they aren't able to project their potential power very far.". This would work for a large value of "Group X" right now.
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03-31-2023, 10:41 AM | #16 | |
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So this is pretty much why I was thinking of the higher tech level. Putting first contact away from earth means fewer groups particularly if we work with an isolated group of colonies. With that in mind I think that having a TL 9^ humanity butting up against the TL 10^/ 11^ Commonality may be my best option. Last edited by Frost; 03-31-2023 at 04:37 PM. |
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04-01-2023, 06:11 AM | #17 |
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Re: [Space] Insufficiently Advanced
The Great Truths
The Great Truths, also referred to as the Saa meditations, are the fundamental justification for the Commonality and the basis for their laws and customs. Although there are technically a few dozen rules with extensive commentaries grouped under this heading in popular usage the term as applies to the first six 'truths': The purpose of the universe is to breed life. The purpose of life is to produce sapience. To diminish sapience is to commit evil. Diversity strengthens sapience. However diversity breeds chaos and fosters evil. It is the duty of the eldest to protect diversity, prevent chaos and suppress evil. These commandments are almost omnipresent in Commonality society, etched into the monumental stones that celebrate the founding of new colonies (in both local languages and the distinctive Rhee Tul calligraphy, which renders each phrase as a sigil) or painted upon the plaques and banners that adorn most ceremonial gatherings and processions. Last edited by Frost; 04-02-2023 at 10:36 AM. |
04-01-2023, 03:11 PM | #18 | |
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What is your source material?
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Is this supposed to be the bases for law in the Rhee Tull empire? If so I can see it polarizing across human political groups quite readily. |
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04-01-2023, 07:43 PM | #19 |
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This is great. There is some intrinsic tension between #the fourth and fifth greath truth, but that's great, and #6 is just pure status-quo endorsement. Yes, I'm already thinking about them in terms of numbers. And the truths can be argued in so many ways. It also feels like a parody of some modern politics, which is great. Foreign enough to be non-controversial, familiar enough to be intuitive and informative. And its going to splinter like crazy, because diversity strengthens sapience, so as long as the splinter philosophies aren't "diminishing sapience", they'll be allowed to continue on... but who is eldest?
Its a great foundation to build a setting on.
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04-01-2023, 08:27 PM | #20 | |
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There's a minimum level of consensus required to do that. Want to simplify politics off Earth? The GM decides who has and hasn't reached that level of consensus.
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