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SR FutureRun?
Aria:
I’m planning an Eclipse Phase / Altered Carbon esque run that is meant to be an evolution of one possible future of the SR world. I’m trying to put together a rough timeline to take us from 2100 to the return of the Horrors/Terrors/Elder Gods but would appreciate any gems of ideas that might help to infill some key events in the intervening years (one current elf PC is likely to have lived through much of it).
So, projecting forward from current SR metaplots, what might happen in the next few hundred years??? What will the dragons do (I am leaning towards disappearing without trace). The corps will move in to space. National governments will become even more irrelevant… what will the Awakened do? I will allow habitats that are sufficiently large to generate their own mana field so magic won’t disappear altogether.
This is what I have so far, broken down by quarter century...
2100
2125
Gregarin base is retaken following the departure of the Monads, additional corporate colonies spring up on the surface
2136 Halley’s Comet returns with a swathe of associated weirdness
2150
CFD nanites are finally reverse engineered to provide a consistent recording of consciousness that allows for effective immortality for those that can afford it.
2175
Increasing geopolitical upheaval results in more off-world colonies being created, space expansion increases massively over the next fifty years to most parts of the solar system
2200
Terraforming begins on Mars, the SINless starving masses on Earth offer themselves in indentured servitude to serve the corps in space.
2211 Halley’s Comet
2225
2250
2275
A violent corp war breaks out over diminishing natural resources on Earth. In the aftermath, for the first time there is an almost equal number of metahumans on space as on Earth
2286 THE FALL
Coinciding with the return of Halley’s Comet and around 2000 years early the Horrors finally return in force. Humanity respond with a barrage of nuclear, chemical and nanological weapons. The Earth is left a devastated wasteland, a patchwork of radiation hotspots, sterile zones, nanoswarm clourds, roaming war machines and other unknown things among the ruins, and that is before the malignant horrors lay waste to whatever is left.
2300
2325 Proposed time of the FutureRun
2350
2375
2400
2425
2450
2475
2500
4574
Peak of the mana cycle
7137
End of the Sixth World
Any help much appreciated!
Beta:
I notice that the horrors' early return comes just after a vicious corp war. I can't imagine that those things are unrelated. Be it just massive deaths or deliberate use of mass scale blood magic, surely the one helped along the other.
Otherwise, I think somewhere along the line a few things that could happen:
- some fairly mass extinctions
- at some point corps flex their muscle and use orbital bombardment to destroy a government that was getting too above itself, settling for all time that corps run things. (maybe also corp takeover of the few (if any?) government run space assets)
- The development of another strain of fab bacteria that helps create manaspheres in space
- Fairly detailed empirical mapping of the interaction of magic and genetics (and whatever else plays in there)
- Something that accounts for how much genetic optimization is or is not present in your future.
Ajax:
Just gonna ask the same thing I do whenever someone brings up the idea of using Game X to run something like Game Z: Why not just play Eclipse Phase, Transhuman Space, or maybe the Infinity RPG?
Aria:
@Ajax: Principally because this is an ongoing game with recurring NPCs from the Earthdawn period to the future world... I’ve always loved that aspect of SR that it is rooted in past worlds and has the potential for future ones. Secondly as I don’t have the time to learn a new rule set and SR is comprehensive enough to cover most things... and we tend to gloss over rules anyway in favour of RP... if this was going to be an ongoing game I might look at using EP but for now I don’t really need to ;D
Thanks Beta, will definitely take on some of those ideas!
Michael Chandra:
Don't forget the army of Cyberzombies the dragons prepared to fight both mankind and the Terrors. Possibly used at the point where mankind drove Dragons off Earth, and then resurfacing when the Terrors arrive to fight the Terrors, still roaming the world after the Terrors have been partially fought off.
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