Steampunk, Space and Aliens - Page 2

scc · 09-23-2016, 02:35 AM

OK every so often a very weird steampunk/space campaign idea demands some attention from my head.

So the setting is the moons of a Jovian planet, three of which are habitable. Humanity evolved on one and has just enough tech to colonize the other two, which are taking the thematic place of Africa.

Currently I'm thinking that including aliens might be interesting, but as of yet I have very few firms ideas about them, they should be:

Genre appropriate, that is conform to what people from that era thought aliens would be like, or what is likely to appear in modern fiction based upon those ideas
Not be stupid, the campaign is going to be hard science, so no ideas based upon scientific concepts that have since been disputed
A good stand in for Africans, so era views on Africans should apply to them
And potential player characters

09-23-2016, 02:35 AM	#1
scc Join Date: Mar 2013	Steampunk, Space and Aliens OK every so often a very weird steampunk/space campaign idea demands some attention from my head. So the setting is the moons of a Jovian planet, three of which are habitable. Humanity evolved on one and has just enough tech to colonize the other two, which are taking the thematic place of Africa. Currently I'm thinking that including aliens might be interesting, but as of yet I have very few firms ideas about them, they should be: Genre appropriate, that is conform to what people from that era thought aliens would be like, or what is likely to appear in modern fiction based upon those ideas Not be stupid, the campaign is going to be hard science, so no ideas based upon scientific concepts that have since been disputed A good stand in for Africans, so era views on Africans should apply to them And potential player characters