07-26-2021, 07:56 AM | #51 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
So glad someone recognizes that phrase ;)
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07-27-2021, 11:02 PM | #52 | |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
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Heck would Cyrano computers even have GUIs? As for these heat-sensitive proteins as a display device, are they like biological OLED screens? |
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07-28-2021, 11:53 AM | #53 | |
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I expect Cyrano computers are primarily voice-activated, with a haptic-holographic backup interface; remember the information about how these things actually work is tightly controlled, so they have to be as idiot-friendly as possible. I'm deep in the weeds speculating about how Cyrano file readers work; if you want them to work like an OLED, sure, why not. |
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07-29-2021, 04:43 AM | #54 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
The Jansenists control the tech for French Outremonde.
But, what is the control of the tech like in the Han Empire? Since it was originally triads who first reverse engineered it, before kicking out the Europeans and then conquering all of Eurasia (including Europe itself), do ever wonder how the Han Empire treats its populations, both native & conquered? Because I notice its government structure is "clan/tribal" (possibly due to the fact its origins lay in the triads?) Last edited by warellis; 09-03-2022 at 10:53 PM. |
07-29-2021, 10:25 AM | #55 | |
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07-29-2021, 01:17 PM | #56 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
Huh. I just noticed the mention of "crystalwave communicators", so there appear to be some sort of wireless communications after all, although how small they can make them and at what bandwidth and range is GM's fiat I'm sure. Smartphones after all.
The Triads are Ming "loyalists" who refused to acknowledge the new Qing dynasty. The Ming will have collapsed on schedule on Cyrano, the replacement dynasty may or may not have been the Qing but whoever it was, the Triads opposed it; and it collapsed 100 years ago. European thuggery prevented a new dynasty from arising and organizing, so that China has been more of an idea than a reality for about a century on Cyrano. The Triads went on their world tour 60 years ago; it looks very much like they destroyed governments and didn't form replacements on any scale. I expect "shouldn't we formally designate a new Imperial family?" would occasionally come up in conferences these days, but not everyone is interested. Conquerors' grandchildren are often very different from conquerors. CR 4-6 suggests to me a wide range between well-run city-states and despotic hellholes, often only a few miles apart and unfriendly to each other now that the Christians are mostly out of reach. But that sort of limits the scale of Triad operations; clever beasties, but they're used to working in small scale and in secret, and even now they don't really work on a scale larger than the city. The selection of a new Emperor for a New Ming Dynasty would be the next shoe dropping on Cyrano, I suspect. And the Voice of the Phantom is probably part of that nonsense. I note that the mana level on Cyrano is low. Do the Triads have sorcerors? I bet they have sorcerors. Last edited by patchwork; 07-29-2021 at 01:22 PM. |
07-29-2021, 01:24 PM | #57 |
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Maybe they have some syncretic Asian voodoo. Whoever kicked off the great expansion certainly sounds like a reincarnation of Hulagu Khan.
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07-29-2021, 04:05 PM | #58 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
Siberia, the Manchu and Korea all have shamanistic groups. So a mixing of those could be interesting.
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07-30-2021, 08:14 AM | #59 | |
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Perhaps there was a great leader who lead the conquest but who no one has managed to equal in control.
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07-30-2021, 09:35 AM | #60 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
We have three names for the great push westwards 60 years ago, Kiang Ho, Prince Tsa and Yue-Liao. If we take the Mongol analogy further, perhaps they divided the realm between them as Russia/Chinese Heartland/Western Europe. I expect they are all dead these days, of course, but perhaps one of them lingers, more machine than man now.
I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of picking them off bit by bit; were I running a prolonged game in Cyrano, I'd want that to look like a high-risk option but perhaps the best one on offer. But I see your point, the Eurasian Han need to seem like a great threat. It seems we really have a blind spot as to what these "Triads" are, since they have to be rather different from the ones in our worldline. I would personally just use it to emphasize that the window of opportunity is rapidly closing; the men who sacked Paris 60 years ago were basically anti-Christian anarchists, but they are dead, and their grandchildren are trying to organize into real nation(s). If they succeed, France Outremonde is doomed. |
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