Beejazz's Science Fiction Theater

[beejazz]

So far, this is more or less just a placeholder/teaser for my ultimate sci-fi setting of doom. Later, this'll be a central discussion thread.

It'll be cyberpunk. There'll be psionics. There'll be horrible biological technologies. There'll be spacial anomalies and horrible quasi-real masterminds from other realities. There'll be bat and frog people and mecha. This'll pull from anime and pulp and transrealism alike. And as in anything I make, there'll be a conspiracy to blow your mind.

Inspirations include old Flash Gordon comics, back issues of Heavy Metal Magazine (more or less my inheritance), Starcraft, Halo, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Big O, Ghost in the Shell, and some inspiration by SA.

The campaign is set in the far future. Humanity escaped the explosion of the sun in seed ships in forgotten days. Several of these ships were crashed on the three habitable moons of a gas giant planet. Lifeforms called Titans existed prior to the human migration, but are forgotten and thought to be extinct today. Other intelligent life was evolved or engineered from earthling life (including humans, as well as bats and frogs), and artificial intelligence has also come about in reent times thanks to quantum computers. Technology developed more rapidly here thanks to learning from the Titans and the crash sites, but still hasn't progressed very far past what we today would call "near future."

And on top of all that, I'm actually going to publish it.

Titans

End and Beginning

Strange Sky

Horde

Host

Mutants and Psychics

Player Options

[beejazz]

Also, future book names and concepts.



Flesh and Blood: Mutants, the Horde, and all things bio.
Steel and Circuits: Droids, Mobile Suits, and all things mech.
Sight and Spirit: Psychics, the Host, and all things psi.
Hubris: Crime, politics, and the underground.
Nemesis: Ineffable horrors.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Cool description of the titans.  I would say the first part makes it sound like they can fly through space, but the detailed description sounds like they would need ships.  I assume the later is the case?

What do they want?  How do they feel about mankind?  What do they eat?

[Captain Obvious]

Oooh! me likey!
This looks wicked. About the titans...
they still existed once humans got there right? at first it seemed like they had been wiped out when the humas arrived or something (at least that how it sounded to me), but once i went to see the titan's description, it seemed otherwise.

[beejazz]

Titans have crazy awesome setup where they don't have to breathe, can move by the power of their wills, and can change their bouyancy in a gaseous atmosphere. Hooray for gas bladders. Anyway, they can move about freely on gas giants, ordinary planets (regardless of atmosphere), or in space. In terms of interstellar travel, though... that's a question of technology no matter how you slice it. Human seed ships used cryogenics. Titan technology (whethter it's for storage, travel, weapons, or cooking) is heavy on spacial anomalies and not entirely physical. I'll get into the M-theory mechanics of psychic constructs later, but I think you get the picture. Anyway, I'm pulling another 70 hour workweek, but I'll update when I can.

Oh, and the extinction of the titans proper was post human arrival. A few titan bloodlines do still exist, but I'll be getting to that in my description of the Host.

[beejazz]

Titan Tech is updated... more later on "rapture weapons," infinite energy, and the extinction... after that I may move on to describe the Ancients or the Host. Anyway, enjoy!

[Raven Bloodmoon]

Cool stuff, beejazz.  What was titan culture adn society like?  Did they leave any ruins or traces behind?  If so, what were they?  You mention they can exist in the atmospheres of gas giants; what pressure range can they survive?

[beejazz]

I'll get more on culture and society later, but you can imagine what a society composed of individuals capable of roaming all of the universe on a whim might be like... to say the least, it'd be spread out.

As for ruins and traces, the most basic thing is that they might (emphasis on might) have invented psionics, in the form of very simple psychic constructs available to "lesser" beings.

And for atmospheric pressure ranges, they did colonize a gas giant with three or four earth-sized moons (these moons being the focus of the setting), so I'd say they can survive some pretty damn high pressures.

[beejazz]

Entries to be added which will explain rapture weapons, infinite energy, and why the titans just ain't what they used to be.

Done, and spoilerized for your convenience.

[Xeviat]

I'm liking your use of M-theory as a basis for Titan technology. Consider me hooked. I'll answer any specific inquiries you have, and I'll help however I can (I've read Green's books on M-Theory and Space/Time, so I may be able to help with the physics angles too).

[beejazz]

Kewl... I read stuff a while ago, but I forget things quickly. I'm about down to "There is no matter or energy; only inconcievably wrinkly space." Maybe a bit more than that, but you get the idea.

[beejazz]

Hoo-whee! Got a bit more on titans, for those who are interested. Gonna see if I can add or clean up on my "end and beginning" thread.

[Higgs Boson]

looks very nice, can't wait to see what it looks like when finished, ill probably end up using it in one of my campaigns, more interesting than the regualr sci-fi world, where faster-than-light travel is freely available, empires conquer solar systems on a daily basis, etc.

[beejazz]

Yeah... I was kinda trying to eschew the "bigness" of alot of sci-fi. I'm a big fan of both the near future and the far out, though, and I do try to seek a balance.

[beejazz]

Strange sky is updated.