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Post by Disparagingtheboot on Aug 13, 2016 19:21:37 GMT -5
So, has anyone done anything relating to outer space in a Demon or GMC context, Infinite Macabre or otherwise? If you're interested, I'd strongly advise checking out BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei. I mean, I'd advise reading it in general, but especially for this idea. My personal GMC/DtD inspiration folder has a lot of spacey stuff, and I've always assumed that the GM has plenty of extraplanetary and extradimensional assets. I even wrote up a thread about Mobile Infrastructure to explain UFOs in relation to the God Machine.
Some ideas for extraplanetary constructs:
- A ring of defensive outposts around the Kuiper Belt, all loaded with advanced weaponry pointing outward. - Aerostats floating over Venus and gathering gases for various purposes. - A massive complex of laboratories and installations on the dark side of the moon, including a "prison" wing with several captured Idigam held in stasis. - An invisible space elevator that reaches from earth to space, accessible through a hidden door in one of the restaurants in Disney World. - An entire space colony of humans snatched up by the God-Machine over the course of history and deposited in a domed city on another planet as an experiment. - The Deva Corporation's secret headquarters. - A hollowed out asteroid with a city of machine-worshipping cyborg vampires and human cattle living inside. - An angel that flies around earth orbit, catching and modifying satellites for an unknown purpose.
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Post by Disparagingtheboot on Nov 17, 2016 15:35:26 GMT -5
Here's an idea for a setting expansion/hook: the Machine uses a network of satellites in orbit around the earth to create a curtain that causes any sensors to read a false image of the cosmos. This hides the fact that it has factories and holdings all over the solar system.
Each planet as well as many asteroids and space stations has some sort of Machine presence. At least one is a sunless city inside an asteroid ruled by Machine-worshipping vampires. Several of these have entire communities, which the Machine has varying degrees of control over.
The Machine devotes a large amount of resources to keeping them secret from earth, and preventing anything from traveling to or from them except when it wants something to move. Of course, this just means that those in the know will pay exorbitant prices to break through the orbital blockade.
Returning to this, because it means you can essentially recreate the setting of BLAME! in ChroD. I love the idea that there's a vast, dimension-warping warren, incredibly dangerous of knotted Infrastructure that not even the Machine has full control over, inhabited by scattered tribes and towns of clones, abducted humans, and unfortunate people who have ended up there over the years. The Cyberdungeon, as the Unchained call it, even has backdoors to universe shards and time splinters.
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