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□ Anonymous 1 1/23/09(Mon)13:59 No.6833199 "You need strength and constitution scores of at least 25 to drink a water elemental." "Can I only drink part of the water elemental?" "You'll have to ask him. Can you speak Aquan?" "Yes." "Okay, you ask the water elemental, and it turns out she's a girl. Turns out she also has been hoping you would try to drink her because she has a water elemental variant of a g---/wore fetish, and she has been crushing on you specifically." "...You know, I'll just take my penalties for thirst." "Sure. The water elemental tells all the other g--- and vore fetishist water elementals in her USENET group that you should be avoided because, despite your rugged good looks and, quote, "lips made for sucking," end quote, you are weak-willed and a coward. She also posts about you on Dontdatehimgirl.com." O_oV Anonymous 11/23/0(Mon)14:02 No.6833223 File1259002931 ipg-(149 KB, 800x600, 1258795761363.jpg) 5333199 0 □ Anonymous 1 1/23/09(Mon)14:03 No.6833231 6833199 awesome

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O Superpower Serum Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)02:14:56 No.82656869 >>>82656937 >>82656952 >>82657435 >>82657487 >>82657580 >>82657807 >>82657891 >>82658690 >>82658821 >>82661934 >>82662075 >>82662161 >>82669146 >>82671407 >>82672976 >>82674599 >>82678743 >>82679137 >>82680871 >>82681390 Let's say there's a serum that, upon injection, either grants you superpowers or just f------ kills you dead. What would be the ratio of death versus success before the majority of people decide not to take it? 50-50 odds? 60-40? 70-30? 9 in 10? O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)02:26:13 No.82656941 >>82657024 >>82659040 >>82675765 >>82656937 Makes sense, but what would be the ratio of success / horrible death that you were willing to accept? O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)02:29:20 No.82656952 ► >>82656999 >>82656869 (OP) Powerball lottery odds to be superman would still wipe out 20% of the population. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)02:37:12 No.82656999 ► >>82656952 I say go for it. There are legions and legions of unhappy people just muddling through life who would an hero for a one in a million. Would make interesting superheroes and villains, they were just sad sack office drones and now they can make themselves into whatever they please. Sort of a lamp shading of the fantasy inherent in capeshit to begin with. How would the world react to millions of people checking out for that shot at changing their life? What would a person who was willing to take those odds become if they got lucky? O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)03:50:40 No.82657435 ► >>82657709 >>82656869 (OP) Some people would take the serum even if it was a one in a million chance of not dying. Most ordinary people would not go for it if they understood the risk and it was about two percent (they imagine themselves immune to one percent risks). Governments would ban it if it injured or killed more than one in ten thousand. They would try to control it regardless of lethality if superpowers are super enough to potentially change the balance of power between nations. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)03:56:51 No.82657487 ► >>82656869 (OP) I wouldn't go for it even with a practically non existent risk but that's from the perspective of living in our current world. In a M&M's world were presumably there's a lot more danger and a lot of friends and relatives of people who have fallen victim to villainy then I can imagine even an 80% risk of death would still see a decent enough uptake to for teams of vigilantes but would be dangerous enough to keep most people away from it. Too many people with things to live for. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)04:09:58 No.82657580 ► >>82656869 (OP) Serum rapidly becomes illegal and difficult to acquire, as it turns out its bad PR for the government to let people take a medication that has a stated-on-the-label 1/X chance of just f------ killing you. More over, powerful interests probably go after the serum manufacturers, as serum gives an enormous increase in chance that someone with a reason to oppose them gets the resources to do so. Even if one of these power interests chooses to use the serum on their own people, they either restrict its use to the most loyal members and kill off their loyalist base for a chance of winning the roulette, or they scattershot and take chances trying to exert authority over a bunch of people on a (super)power trip. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)04:45:58 No.82657807 >>82657815 >>82656869 (OP) It could be 1 to a million, and the line for people willing to take it would wrap around the city multiple times. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)04:46:55 No.82657815 ► >>82657837 >>82657807 I think that line would thin rapidly as the corpses began piling up. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)04:48:50 No.82657837 >>82657866 >>82657815 Those corpses were just NPCS. YOU on the other hand, are the destined protagonist of this story. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)04:53:50 No.82657866 ► >>82658373 >>82657837 Sure l'll say that as I approach the super-serum tent. Then, as I smell the burning hair from the crematorium and see the row upon row of dead bodies, doubt creeps into my mind. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)06:29:05 No.82658373 >>82658426 >>82657866 You say that, but the guy right in front of you in the line? He just ascended like a glorious golden comet and soared off into the horizon on wings of phoenix fire. That could be you. If you're lucky, THAT COULD BE YOU. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)06:38:48 No.82658426 ► >>82658373 It doesn't matter what the reward is if the gamble is with my life and nearly certain to kill me. My life as an ordinary person is not too bad. All the desperate suicidal people can have my place in the line. Besides, although it makes no difference mathematically, I intuitively assume the chances of two people surviving in a row is low and turn down the dose if the guy before me makes it. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)13:12:31 No.82662161 ► >>82664726 >>82665754 >>82656869 (OP) You can't break it up like that. Different population segments accepts different level of risk. Young men have the highest level of risk taking, and are also the group you'd least want having superpowers. They might go for 50/50, with a not insignificant amount going for worse odds like 40 or even 30. Elderly women are the most risk averse, and would probably not want superpowers in the first place. Middle aged men are the second most risk-taking group, and would likely settle for 70, if they want superpowers in the first place. A general trend is also that the lower your general education and financial stability, the more risks you're willing to take. Women are in general pretty risk averse, with young women being the most risk-taking among their gender. I can't see them accepting odds worse than 80. It declines with age, so middle aged women would only take 90 and above. Again, I want to stress that many people wouldn't want superpower in the first place. It's fun to think about, but when it comes down to it most people just wants to live their lives peace. Also, a society where everyone theoretically has access to superpowers would be awful. The desperate souls with guns and knives are now flamethrowers or radioactive. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)16:09:05 No.82664726 ► >>82669115 >>82662161 >>The desperate souls with guns and knives are now flamethrowers or radioactive. Which is why the serum would quickly produce a huge number of low-level villains and get banned. If the serum keeps turning mentally unstable social outcast into human flamethrowers it doesn't matter how many bright eyed super heroes it produces. Interestingly enough, if super powers are primarily associated with low-status, financially insecure and mentally unstable people, they would quickly become stigmatized by society. Everybody just assumes you are homeless if you have a super power. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)17:23:19 No.82665754 ► >>82665935 >>82662161 This is a self-correcting problem, men will no longer so desperate if demographically, they're twenty percent of the population to women's eighty and market value reacts accordingly. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)17:36:09 No.82665935 ► >>82667798 >>82665754 That's not very likely to happen, though. It seems the roughly 50/50 split is very stable among humans. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)19:40:27 No.82667798 ► >>82665935 it will if the men keep killing themselves to get superpowers O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)21:27:38 No.82669115 >>82672415 >>82664726 If you've got a superpower and those people with homes don't, why not just take theirs? What're they gonna do, they're powerless. O Anonymous 12/22/21(Wed)05:25:13 No.82672415 ► >>82669115 Thank you for making my point. That line of reasoning would be common among such super individuals. It leads them to becoming just one more item on the evening news: super-squatter evicted by the super-Man, two dead and fifteen injured. O Anonymous 12/21/21(Tue)21:31:13 No.82669146 >>82656869 (OP) It'd need to be >99% chance of superpowers for me to consider it. My life's pretty good and l'd be reluctant to risk that (and put my wife/family through that loss) just for a chance to fly around with my pants on the outside. Of course, a world where 1/100 depressed NEETS suddenly gain world-changing superpowers might swiftly turn into the sort of hell where l'd need to reconsider said value judgement. O Anonymous 12/22/21(Wed)07:13:24 No.82672976 ► >>82656869 (OP) People are really terrible at understanding odds. This is disproportionately true for people on the lower end of IQ. I would guess: 5-10% of the population would take it no matter the odds. These are the dregs of society whose only hope of being rich and successful with good looking women is a long shot. 1 in 200 million odds? They would still hope for that winning lottery ticket. So being conservative, assuming the entire world has access to the serum, 5 billion *5% gives 250 mil willing to take it. if the odds are 1/500k then you might end up with 500 or so superheroes/supervillains. Depending on their powers that is way more than enough to completely f--- everything up. O Anonymous 12/22/21(Wed)17:48:15 No.82679137> >>82656869 (OP) How diluted can it get before failing is a better question because someone is going to spike a city's water supply at least once. O Anonymous 12/22/21(Wed)20:36:15 No.82680871 >>82656869 (OP) The likelihood of gaining superpowers increases with purity and concentration of the serum, but so does cost per dose - and exponentially at that. On top of that, it's only the likelihood of gaining superpowers that increases, there is no guarantee of potency or usefulness of superpowers. O Anonymous 12/22/21(Wed)10:37:40 No.82674599 >>82656869 (OP) >implying that if the risk of death would be far greater, people won't just use it as a way to off themselves O Anonymous 12/22/21(Wed)17:14:23 No.82678743 >>82656869 (OP) I'd say 10% working right, 30% working, but with major side effects, 30% mutating you into some horrible monster, and 30% getting murked

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File : 1285640447.jpg-(529 KB, 1024x762, 4654992908_4d5f391841_b.jpg) O LegoSpace The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)22:20 No.12248169 FTL drive was always problematic, until Brik Theory was solidified. By envisioning the very fabric of reality as a series of interconnected bricks, which could be separated and immediately plugged back together, scientists were able to create a jump drive that worked by threading ships briefly through a nearby, mostly-empty dimension. Efficient. Quick. Safe, even within close proximity to planets. Surprisingly easy to maintain. The brik drive ushered in a new era of space exploration, and a joint project between several countries - the Futron Project. The moon bases were set up within months, complete with a top-of-the-line monorail connecting them, and the Mars base was fast-tracked. Then came Blacktron Enterprises. The company stole the secrets of the brik drive in pieces - bits from NASA, from Roscosmos, and - mostly - from the Chinese, who had already managed to piece together more than half the drive through their own security networks. Setting their sights on more distant goals, they started flooding nearby solar systems, setting claim to as many Class M planets as they could. Vessels from the Futron Project that entered Blacktron space were invariably raided for supplies, and usually taken captive, under the pretense that the Futron ships were "illegal invaders". When action was set to be taken against Blacktron, they responded by abandoning their corporate HQ on Earth, and relocating to Tau Centauri. This action prompted the creation of the Universal Code of Law, and the Space Police. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)22:30 No.12248270 File1285641039.jpg-(352 KB, 1024x824, 4568072707_b695a464e4_b.jpg) >>12248169 The UCL was essentially maritime law applied to space travel, and was surprisingly straightforward for a committee-created code. As a result, the Space Police had a fairly easy time of their original duties - escorting Futron Project ships, protecting them from Blacktron raiders, and investigating criminal offenses that occurred on vessels - offenses that were, thankfully, rare in those days. After the raids became more blatant, and Blacktron vessels began raiding FP outposts directly, the Corporate Accord was passed, allowing the FP to treat Blacktron as a national body instead of merely a corporation. This allowed them to begin taking out Blacktron bases, declaring war on them officially. It also cleared the way for more corporations to legitimately take to the stars, and to found their own colonies, assured that in doing so they would be recognized by the vague terms of the Corporate Accord as national bodies themselves. The first was the Japanese MTron corporation, previously a leading company in robotics, who had fallen into financial problems in recent years. Funded by an influx of would-be colonists, they set themselves up as the first formally-recognized commercial cargo vessels to use the brik drive, as well as the first publicly-accessible interstellar flights. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)22:45 No.12248422 File1285641908.jpg-(170 KB, 1024x721, 4755641811_9195c6b34d_b.jpg) >>12248270 At first, the MTron vessels were merely used as an auxiliary for Futron Project resources, as well as for tourist trade on their own colonies; they refused to service Blacktron colonies. The extra cargo capabilities were welcomed during what was technically wartime, and helped the resource-stretched Space Police to slowly overwhelm Blacktron forces. It wasn't until the next corporation stretched its wings outward that the Blacktron threat was nullified, however. The Tienshan Mining Group had colonized the recently-discovered M-Class planet Krysto, and was busily working at mining the planet - not only for the amazingly versatile substance Orangium, an isotope that was quickly built into their own tools and adopted by large slices of the galaxy as a power source, but also for water. Krysto was a world with two frigid, but inhabitable, poles, a tiny temperate zone, and a vast swath of uninhabitable volcanic belts about its equator. The result was a planet buffeted by constant, violent snowfall. This was also Blacktron's last temptation. Attempting to secure the Orangium mines as a way to boost their steadily-crumbling production, the Blaktron forces did not realize that A) they had committed far too much of their resources to the invasion, B) their vessels, which were specialized for space travel, would have issues icing up in the moisture-laden atmosphere, and C) the Space Police had already gotten word of their plans. The defeat was crushing; within the year, only a few distant outposts were still controlled by Blacktron forces, all of which were cut off from each other, and considered widely to be little more than bandits. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)23:03 No.12248631 File1285642983.jpg-(222 KB, 800x569, display.cgi (1).jpg) >>12248422 After this, there was a massive influx of new groups seeking their fortune in the stars. The UK-based Unitron and Franco-Italian Exploriens began setting down roots, as did the Canadian-based Spyrius Corporation - which unabashedly admitted to stealing the brik drive, and most of their technology, instead of developing it themselves, pointing to the legacy of Apple and Microsoft. It was at this time that the aliens made themselves known. The first two examples of first contact were nearly concurrent. First, a ship emerging from brikspace was followed - and destroyed - by a sleek vessel with a half-disk shaped front end. A message transmitted from the hostile ship took nearly a year to decode, but stated in essence that further incursions into their space - the dimension that brik drive accessed - would not be tolerated. The Insectoids proved to be much more amicable to human presence. The initial contact, made by the Exploriens, proved that at least one race out there in the galaxy was intelligent and - more importantly - didn't want to kill us. A nonagression pact was quickly hammered out, languages shared, and in the wake of the struggle against the UFOS from Brikspace, the queen of the Insectoid people gifted the collective factions of humanity with information on a propulsion system that would allow us to pass through Brikspace without being detected by "The Aggressors". It worked - seemingly. The incursions from the transdimensional entities became far more sporadic, and easier to deal with. However, the new drive slowed travel considerably; its maximum speed was less than half that of the previous brik drive. And, in a twist that conspiracy theorists claim is far worse than the previous invasions, the queen now claimed that mankind owed them a favor - one she would collect on if she ever needed it. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)23:12 No.12248727 >>12248631 From that point on, travel further from Earth resulted in contact with countless alien species. Mankind has proliferated among the stars, always going outwards, always seeking the next frontier. The Space Police are still around, although their aim has become more domestic, as the colony worlds have become less like scientific outposts and more like any other city on any other planet. Each of the other factions mentioned has remained, in some form... The Futron Project is still responsible for most near-Earth settlements, including the Mars base. They were the ones responsible for discovering the long-dormant Martian civilizations that rested beneath the dusty soil, and for sharing the brik drive with our neighbors - although the Martians have declined to use it so far, more than content with their self-sufficient communities. Futron Project vessels tend to be mostly scientific affairs, with top-of-the-line sensor arrays and onboard labs, although lightly armed. Their only agendas are exploration, and furthering diplomacy with extraterrestrial entities. However, the Futron Project has been slammed as being a "humans only" club, and even their spinoff peacekeeping force, the Space Police, has been criticized for anti-alien prejudices. The FP is on excellent terms with Unitron. They deal extensively with MTron, but consider their commercial leanings to be a detriment to their focus. They do not trust Spyrius, and avoid them whenever possible. Blacktron forces are under a shoot-on-sight order. Exploriens is viewed as a rival more than an ally, mostly because of their close connection to the barely-trusted Insectoids. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)23:22 No.12248845 >>12248727 Unitron is considered by many to be the fringe-world equivalent of the Futron Project, and thať's not too far off. Their cities tend to be a bit more stark and utilitarian than the Futron equivalents, with security cameras monitoring every square inch of public space. They tend to be a better-armed people than the Futron Project, and have heavily armored their vessels, so that most light assaults are futile; this has significantly lessened their reliance on the Space Police, to the point where their own colonial security forces can handle most problems that arise. Likewise, their manufacturing and mining divisions - which are widespread and highly profitable - are run with a keen eye to oversight and zero tolerance for corruption or laziness. They are far more suspicious of extraterrestrials, as the first contact with "The Aggressors" resulted in the destruction of one of their colony vessels; any nonhuman living in a Unitron colony is essentially treated as a second-class citizen. Unitron is on excellent terms with the FP, although they are wary of what they consider to be pro-alien sentiments running through their ranks. They are outrightly hostile towards the "Xeno-loving freaks" of Exploriens. Spyrius gets a bit more respect in their eyes, as at least those blokes are trying to earn a living, and doing it without shooting at people (if they can help it). MTron, likewise, is viewed with admiration and respect, though the tourism angle pushed by MTron colonies raises a few eyebrows among their ranks. Blacktron are nothing but common criminals and are to be treated as such, though they're surely no threat anymore, and the Insectoids... creepy little buggers... well, let's just say that if anything is to happen to one of their vessels in Unitron space, they wouldn't complain. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)23:33 No.12248953 >>12248845 Exploriens has filled large sections of the fringe, their name saying it all; the corporation is almost insatiably curious and xenophilic. They have a limited R&D department, mostly dedicated to adaptation and improvement of alien technology they discover and/or trade for, which has made their vessels some of the most distinctive, and - to outsiders - difficult to operate in known space. An Exploriens ship may have an Insectoid Orangium power cell, Squidfolk inertial dampeners, and a Silicin-designed computer bank. Their colonies are set up as immense trading posts, with nominal tariffs making another decent chunk of their profit margin. The Exploriens are on good terms with the FP, although they wish they'd just stop whining about the Insectoids and see that people are people, even if they're chitinous and cybernetic. They are on outstanding terms with the Insectoids, having nearly won over the inwardly-driven, isolationist people. They are on poor footing with Unitron, and are not seeking to improve things with the "backwards, provincial bigots". MTron is just another company to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, and while they are not hostile towards them, they have to wonder about a company that treats this new frontier in such a menial way. They are openly hostile towards Spyrius, as trading and refining alien tech that they've traded for legitimately is a main source of income for them, and they're not fond of those that would steal it. Oddly, they have little problem with the straggler Blacktron colonies - as long as they stay in their own corner of the galaxy. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)23:43 No.12249031 >>12248953 MTron is all about two things: Service, and style! They see no reason why the wonders of space shouldn't be available to the public at large, and likewise don't see why it shouldn't be as comfortable as possible - as long as they're willing to pay for it. To that end, MTron colonies are heavily urbanized, high-tech wonderlands that are aimed at tourists as much as colonists. MTron vessels have vast cargo holds, reflecting well their status as a middleman, dealing with anyone with a pocketbook to be opened. They also tend to be sluggish and oversized... while the colonies are practically pieces of art, the vessels MTron uses are almost universally worn, fidgety, and substandard in capability. They're reliable - almost supernaturally so, for things held together by spit and duct tape, and you'd never know they were in such shape if you were to ride on one as a passenger - but most other vessels can fly rings around an MTron ship. MTron trades openly with the Exploriens, the Futron Project, and Unitron, figuring that their credits spend as well as anyone's - and besides, all that political crap they're having problems with will wash out eventually. They consider Spyrius to be a competing company, but will ally with them readily if the proper contracts are in place. They will even service Blacktron colonies, as long as they've got some backup and a loaded ion cannon. The Insectoids, however, don't seem to be affected by the power of positive marketing, and want nothing to do with MTron... possibly owing to a diplomatic error in their early negotiations. O The Goddamn Duck 09/27/10(Mon)23:55 No.12249139 >>12249031 Spyrius. The universe's greatest hackers, programmers, and data-traders. If it's out there, they want to know about it, and to hell with restrictions. They consider themselves to be the last true gentleman pirates in an age where DRM is almost mandatory, where someone'll shoot you for just memorizing a blueprint. They're not bandits - they're bon vivants, rebels making a statement, and making a profit at the same time! Their colonies tend to be arcologies, tight tunnels of winding passages with visible wiring and access ports for easy maintenance. Not exactly welcoming, but it's quite easy to live there - as long as you know a little something about basic electronics and engineering. Most of their colonies serve as listening posts. Their ships are decently armed, lightly armored, and VERY maneuverable. The saucer-shaped vessels have been upgraded steadily since they cracked Aggressor ships, making them some of the quickest, most annoying ships out there. Don't expect anything larger than a light freighter, though. few scans of Spyrius is on questionable terms with the FP. They can get along beautifully, as long as Spyrius doesn't let on just how much they know about their hidden files. They deal openly with Unitron, and like their funds just fine - if only they didn't have their heads up their rear ends as far as aliens go. There's a fine line between healthy paranoia and idiocy. They aren't on good terms with the Exploriens, but are fascinated by their discoveries. Blacktron is nothing more than a bunch of idiot bullies, the sort of people that beat them up in school - the sort of people they take no small delight in shooting down. MTron is just too glossy on the surface, with nothing worthwhile beneath - they can deal with them, but only if there's something in it for them. And the Insectoids? They don't know what to make of them, but they have such wonderful toys! O The Goddamn Duck 09/28/10(Tue)00:04 No.12249202 >>12249139 The Insectoids are by far the largest alien empire that the factions of man has discovered. Encompassing no less than 300 hive planets, they are a people that are content. They have ceased explorations, conquests, and all external activity, focusing inward, on improving their own lives. Supported by genetic therapy and cybernetics, the average Insectoid lives to be over 300 years old, and may hit 400 if she's lucky. The only thing that has pulled the quasi-bugfolk out of their introverted state has been humans - such a varied, contradictory bunch! The Insectoids are fascinated by them, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that their history and philosophies are so closely mirrored. The Insectoids are on excellent terms with the Exploriens, whose curiosity is infectious to them, and nostalgic of their own first steps into space. They admire the productive drive of Unitron - if only they weren't so shortsighted. The FP are much like themselves in agenda and drive, and easy to negot with. MTron are children playing with toys they do not understand, and do nothing to contribute to the greater good. The fools of Spyrius are not much better - but at least they have a philosophy to guide them, even if it is a laughably simplistic one. And Blacktron is to be pitied, a broken people, waiting for death to finally take their society. O The Goddamn Duck 09/28/10(Tue)00:16 No.12249309 >>12249202 In their cold, cold bases, the people of Blacktron see themselves as a proud group of warriors. The first to break from Earth's tightly-controlled regiments. The first to seek their fortune in space, free of the countries that would hold them back. The first to defy Terran rule! They bite their tongues back at the thought at being the first to fail - they are still alive, after all, and still waiting for their time to rise. Blacktron colonies are military camps, where harsh conditions and cloning spit out some of the most conditioned, perfectly-trained soldiers of all time. However, they are poorly equipped - while their ships are certainly nothing to laugh at, having picked up bits and pieces of key technology in their raids over the years, their designs keenly focused on power and speed, they are still behind the times, and short on numbers compared to their foes. Blacktron considers FP to be the great enemy, to be destroyed at any cost. Unitron are a militant branch of the FP, and are to fall in short order after their primary foe is gone. The Exploriens are dreamers who are trying to find their own way in the galaxy, even if that way is naive and ignoble, and are to be left alone. Spyrius has such potential - if only they would stop snatching at the purse-strings of the foes and strike at their faces! MTron is but a tool, point, and will join Blacktron when the time comes, or they are an obstacle, to be blocked off from their enemies long enough to take them out. Time will tell which it is. neutral party to purchase the tools needed for their eventual rise to power. And the Insectoids are an unknown quantity. Either they will be a turning O The Goddamn Duck 09/28/10(Tue)01:17 No.12249853 >>12249765 The so-called "Robo Force" has set up shop on Titan, and is quite content to stay there. A group of engineers and obsessive hobbyists, the RF's goal is nothing less than advancing robotic technology until they can create a full-scale, fully functional Gundam (or Megazord, or what-have-you. Different geeks, different goal, same broad stroke). They have had some luck with smaller-scale robots - about the size of a tank - but they still lack the resources to manage anything larger with any success. Most of their creations are sold off to be used for mercenary work or for entertainment - at least one of their robots was a centerpiece in a major Bollywood sci-fi holo released last year. While not formally allied or shunned by any group, rumors have begun to circulate that the RF was actually commissioned by Blacktron to build a new line of crawlers for them. They deny such claims vigorously... but then, surveillance shots of their newest work have raised a few eyebrows. O The Goddamn Duck 09/28/10(Tue)14:59 No.12254840 File1285700351.jpg-(75 KB, 777x635, 4460085527_6cfe221f5c_o.jpg) COMMON TECHNOLOGY -Brik Drive- All but ubiquitous, the brik drive works on Quantum Brik Tunnel technology; in an instant, the drive "takes apart" the building blocks of reality, shifts the ship sideways through said hole, and repairs the hole. Thanks to the Insectoids, the new drives allow ships moving through the "other space" without attracting the attention of the native species, via keeping them partially in phase with their home dimension. A brik drive jump can allow a ship to travel from Earth to Pluto in less than an hour. The drives typically use refined Orangium discs as a power source, but other energy supplies do exist. -lon Drive- The chosen sub-light drive of most of the galaxy, ion drive is cheap, reliable, and incredibly compact. An ion drive propulsion unit the size of a frisbee is sufficient to move a ship the size of a VW Bug. Most ships, however, use multiple ion pads for maneuverability's sake, or - in the case of fighters - potent ion turbines, which also provide a secondary power source for shielding units and weaponry. -MagDrive- MTron ships use their own proprietary sublight drives. Close examination has shown that they use potent magnetic fields, but how that works in the void of space has never been determined exactly. The drives are closely guarded knowledge, and - while inferior in most regards - are far superior as far as energy consumption, taking next to no energy to use. For now, this presumably magnetic drive system appears almost... miraculous. O The Goddamn Duck 09/28/10(Tue)15:12 No.12254926 >>12254840 -Weaponry- If one was to catalogue every piece of weaponry found on every ship in the known galaxy, the list would be several hundred pages long. There are countless known starship weapon systems, most of them existing in multiple distinct subtypes. The most commonly used weapons include railguns, ion cannons, masers, torpedoes, and a few solid-shell weapons. -Shields- Shielding technology remains fairly consistent through the various factions. Quantum force fields are either projected in a bubble from the ship via external emitters, or on the surface of the ship's armor through an internal emitter web. The former is prized because it gives a bit of leeway for the ship to escape damage if a sufficiently large explosion were to damage the shields, and the latter because in saving energy on projecting the shield outward, it is possible to strengthen the shield greatly.

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lego legos space retrofuturism orange transparent chainsaw

number of guardsmen with poor morale - zero

> O Anonymous 12/02/15(Wed)08:56:11 No.43945056 >>43949991 >>43944899 (OP) I had a squad of Imperial Guard, lead by a Commissar, versus Necrons. After most of my squad was murdered by Gauss fire from the Immortals, the squad rolled a morale check and failed. Now, there were only two units left. The Commissar, and a quardsman. The Commissar's special rule kicked in, and he shot the Guardsman in the face..Then charged the Necron lines alone. To his credit, he took out two Immortals with his power sword before he went down. 7 Anonymous 12/02/15(Wed)16:13:14 No.43949991 ► >>43958477 File: 1418489190054.jpg (103 KB, 524x492) exhentai >>43945056 >squad broken due to too many casualties >shoots last surviving member of the squad >squad morale restored O Anonymous 12/02/15(Wed)23:38:40 No.43958477 ► >>43959844 >>43949991 ># of Guardsmen with poor morale: 0

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warhammer 40k blam commissar

Donovan Graham the "paladin"

O Anonymous 12/16/10(Thu)03:47 No.13170284 Hide Gather 'round to hear the tale of Donovan Graham. Everyone who knew him thought that he was a paladin, but he was not. Everyone who knew him thought that he was noble-born, but he was not. Everyone who knew him thought that he was a brave man, but he was not. A rogue and a con artist, what began as a simple attempt to get free lodgings at a temple for the night rapidly spiraled into a lie from which Donovan could not escape. That very night, word came that the governor was calling up a band of brave souls to set forth and attempt to gain intelligence upon or even slow the advance of an army pushing up from the south. He had beseeched the church to send aid and while there was not one among their elderly ranks who could have endured such a trial, there WAS their visiting brother-paladin... "But I've no armor, no weapons. I donated them all to the poor," Donovan explained. "Then take with you these relics, the blade and armor of a great knight entrusted to our care. As one equal to him in both baring and breeding, we know he would approve of your using them," the monks answered back. And so given a weapon he'd no idea how to use and clad in armor so heavy he could barely stand, Donovan Graham joined a rough band of mercenaries and patriots to face a vast and terrible army. His plan was to run the first chance he got, yet in that first attempt he blundered straight into an enemy spy. In panic and through sheer luck, he put his sword through the man's chest, and collapsed bellow a tree. The rest of the band caught up with him, cheering the brave Paladin Donovan for uncovering the spy. O Anonymous 12/16/10(Thu)03:47 No.13170293 Hide >>13170284 So continued his every effort to flee, at least four more times carrying him unwittingly into the clutches of danger and death. The rest of the band were amazed at his ability to sniff out ambushes and patrols and the almost berserker-like fervor in which he set upon their foes. Finally, realizing that his only chance to survive was to keep in the company of the others, Donovan ceased attempting to flee. Soon he began to impress them with other skills, such as the settings of traps and snares, being able to talk an entire camp of local bandits into aiding them, and even methods to stealthily approach enemy lines without being seen. It was clear to them all that his religious passion and knightly virtue was tempered with great worldly knowledge. Unanimously, it was agreed that HE would lead the guerrila movement against the enemy. Donovan, despite himself, began to grow fond of the member of his band. In particular the young bard with laughing green eyes who delighted in his knowledge of bawdy songs ("I wouldn't think a member of nobility would know that one, Donovan." "Are you kidding? We WROTE it.") and the half-elven wizardess with the freckled face, whose worldliness both awed and frightened him. Even the half-orc, as grouchy and unfriendly a man as had ever been born, had somehow become a pillar he relied on. With the aid of bandit clans and the local population, they slowed and even checked the advancing army. A bounty was placed on all their heads, but none was higher than for the Black-Haired Paladin who lead them. Despite having managed to avoid directly involving himself in battle nearly the entire time, legends rose about his great prowess and mastery of the sword. How he could, in a single sweep of his fiery blade, reap through soldiers as if they were wheat. O Anonymous 12/16/10(Thu)03:49 No.13170311 Hide >>13170293 Such rumors awakened the dark hungers of the commanding general of the invaders, whose power and skill was matched only by his ruthlessness. He longed to face the paladin in a duel and prove how mortal this legend was. Yet, his invitations went unanswered or else resulted in ambushes that badly weakened his forces. Finally, this man had enough and set upon a course of action to ensure Donovan would have no choice but to face him. With his most loyal commanders at his side, he stormed into one of the communities that supported the guerrillas, he burnt every house to the ground and held as hostages every soul in town, threatening to kill them all unless the Paladin faced him. A paladin could not have turned his back upon those people. A thief had no such trouble. Donovan spent days avoiding the challenge and the issue, his smooth tongue soothing concerns of his allies. He was able to so save face right up until the first headless body was placed upon a stake outside of town. Then, the protests became too much to talk off. The cry for action and revenge rose from every corner and Donovan knew there was no more avoiding it. So, he decided, he would run away. As always though, his luck was poor, as he passed close to the bard, listening as she comforted frightened children with songs about HIS bravery and nobility. His resolve to flee was not yet broken though, as he moved on, only to run into the wizardess instead. She spoke of her confidence in him, she spoke of what defeating the commander would mean, but most of all she spoke of the life she expected to lead once the war was over. A life that, she had decided, would involve him. "Just like everything else," he had smiled then, sardonic and sad. "I don't even get asked." She had smiled too and held his hand. "Some things are just decided for you. They're never your choice to begin with." O Anonymous 12/16/10(Thu)03:51 No.13170320 Hide >>13170311 And then, he stayed. Perhaps he came to believe she was right. Perhaps he forgot he had even been trying to run away. Perhaps he had bought into his own legends. Perhaps he just knew that the companions whom he loved were looking on, because despite all wisdom, Donovan went to the occupied town to face his opposite number. The battle was brief and bloody and to any eye it was clear that the Paladin did not have a chance. He was struck down. Laying bleeding and immobile on the ground, while his foe raised a bloody sword into the air as his sign of victory. Failing to notice, as he did, that Donovan's hand was moving, undoing the straps of his cumbersome armor, leaving to lay his heavy sword. Impossibly, he stood despite his wounds, clutching in his shaking hand a dagger. He had poisoned himself even before the fight, leaving himself numb to pain. Though his foes back lay open to him, Donovan waited, Waited just long enough for the villain to turn about, waited to see the look in the other man's eyes, before he drove the dagger straight into one of those same eyes and killed him instantly. By that time, the shocked enemy commanders had already been secretly surrounded by the guerrillas and were captured. The hostages were freed. The army was scattered. The flag of the nation once more waved high above the town. Donovan stayed standing just long enough to see it happen, before his body slumped to the ground once more. Dead for good this time, either from the poison in his veins or the blood that had spilled out of them. And to this day, Saint Donovan Graham is honored as the patron of Guerrillas and Just Causes.

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d&d imposter conman hero

enterprise vs ISD vs 40k ship

O Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)01:08:07 No.49199048 >>49199144 >>49199177 >>49199238 >>49199424 >>49187332 (OP) Look, I've been giving it some thought, and here's how things would go down. - USS Enterprise, captain Jean-luc Picard - ISD Avenger, captain Lorth Needa - I don't know any Imperium ship names or captains, so let's just call this The Righteous Endeavor, captained by Lord Aurelius Quartus Maximus. 0. PROLOGUE All three ships appear in the same star system apropos nothing, equidistant from each other, about 1,000,000 km from each other. Within seconds all three ships realize that they have entered a completely new galaxy - the stars are wrong, the pulsars are wrong, etc. However on the Avenger, Captain Needa is informed that the galaxy is still seeded with hyperspace beacons, allowing FTL travel. He is also contacted by A Force (not THE Force) telling him that he doesn't get to leave until the battle is over. Warhammer 40000 Imperium of Man Mars-Class Battlecruiser Over on the Righteous Endeavor, Lord Aurelius is contacted by THE EMPEROR HIMSELF. HE HAS RETURNED GLORIOUSLY AND UNDOUBTEDLY. The EMPEROR requires of His servant that he emerge Triumphant in Battle against the offensive ships that have occupied His space. He has created a Grand Arena for Lord Aurelius and his crew. Aurelius, teary-eyed, thanks THE EMPEROR for this chance to bask in His glory, and sets out immediately. 5100 meters Over on the Enterprise, f------ Q shows up again and explains the situation with his usual panache and flair: the three ships have to fight. Picard refuses on moral grounds, but Q manages to convince him that if he just plays his little game then regardless of if Picard wins or loses the Enterprise and her crew will be returned safely. Otherwise they better get used to the empty galaxy they'll be living in now. The stage is set. Round 1. FIGHT. O Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)01:19:55 No.49199238 >49199386 Star Trek United Federation of Planets Galaxy Class 642 meters >>49199048 1. FIRST ENCOUNTERS The Avenger detects the Enterprise and the Righteous Endeavor. The Enterprise would likely be easier to destroy, but the Righteous Endeavor has set course for the Avenger and begins closing. Needa orders the Avenger to engage the Righteous Endeavor first, and launches TIE/In fighters and TIE bombers to deal with the Enterprise. The Righteous Endeavor opens fire first, her weapons outranging the Avenger by a significant margin. However this proves to be a boon, as Star Wars sensors, while not the best, are still capable of detecting incoming fire. The Avenger begins evasive maneuvers while putting distance between itself and the Righteous Endeavor, looking to keep several light-seconds between itself and the Mars-class ship while Needa tries to come up with some strategy. Star Wars Galactic Empire Over at the Enterprise, meanwhile, Picard has the incoming TIE fighters and bombers analyzed. The lasers on the ships are negligible threats, but the proton torpedoes are much more respectable. However the ships are *painfully* slow. Still not on-board with fighting people for Q's amusement, Picard orders the Enterprise to simply engage impulse and avoid fighting the TIES while he thinks. Imperial-I Class Destroyer 1600 meters That's when the Righteous Endeavor begins opening fire. The Imperium warship is scanned and its weapons are found to be horrifyingly powerful, while its armor is impossibly thick and sturdy. Phasers and photon torpedoes will likely be ineffective. A follow-up scan of the Avenger, meanwhile, has Picard learn that the turbolasers on the ISD are far more powerful than those on the TIES or the Enterprise, though still lacking when compared to the Righteous Endeavor. However, the Righteous Endeavor is noted to be ANCIENT. It should arguably be even more powerful, but the ship is, as near as Cmdr. Data can tell, held together by what amounts to duct tape and good intentions. Enterprise also notes the Avenger's hyperspace drive, and the hyperspace beacons throughout the galaxy. O Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)01:32:35 No.49199386 >>49199559 >>49199575 File: 2a4dfe0d086d01b9e5eecde9d(..).jpg (19 KB, 564x548) >>49199238 2. FIRST CONTACT The Righteous Endeavor and the Avenger are capable of roughly the same sublight speeds, so the battle is going precisely nowhere. Needa orders the Avenger to engage in a short hyperspace jump to the system's periphery while he thinks things over. The Righteous Endeavor's weapons are extremely powerful, and he doubts that the Avenger could take much more than three or four hits - less, if the shield generators are hit. Over on the Righteous Endeavor, Lord Aurelius rejoices at the Avenger's flight, although he is troubled by the speed at which it occurs. This battle in the EMPEROR'S name is looking like it might actually require some time to complete. He is even more troubled when the Enterprise seemingly displays the same capabilities to just MOVE impossibly fast. On the Enterprise, Picard hails the Righteous Endeavor and the Avenger. He makes note of the fact that fighting for the amusement of Q will get them exactly nowhere, and do they really want to? Lord Aurelius' response is somewhat less than becoming of a person of his station, but then again he is currently in the grip of holy righteousness for this glorious crusade. Captain Needa, on the other hand, is somewhat more amicable, noting that the Enterprise is capable of tactical FTL speeds that the Empire would kill to have. Picard similarly compliments the Avenger's hyperspace drive. Seeing as the Righteous Endeavor is still moving at painfully slow sublight speeds, Picard suggests that they meet up at a location 30 AU away to hash things out, and Needa agrees. The Avenger and the Enterprise meet up, the Avenger taking the opportunity to collect its TIES. They discuss the situation: every attempt to talk to the Righteous Endeavor is rebuffed by religious fanaticism. Picard doesn't want to kill ever if it can be avoided; Needa is less squeamish but still has nothing invested in this fight. Both agree, then, that the Righteous Endeavor needs to be dealt with first. O Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)01:45:29 No.49199559 ► >49199600 >>49199689 File: Jean-Luc-Picard-jean-luc-(.Lipg (96 KB, 694x530) >>49199386 3. BATTLE PLANS Picard fills in Needa on Q and the fact that he's most likely behind this whole thing, posing as the EMPEROR to get Aurelius to do what he wants. Needa is none to pleased at being used. Needa is also surprised when Picard openly tells him that the Enterpise's weapons are simply not a match for the Avenger's, although the Avenger's weapons are probably not capable of getting through the Enterprise's robust shield, at least not without effort. They don't spend too much time d----waving, however, because the Righteous Endeavor is still closing. Picard explains the plan: Retrofit turbolasers from the Avenger onto the Enterprise. Its superior tactical speed and maneuverability will allow it to pound open the Righteous Endeavor's hull. Needa, however, flatly refuses: if weapons are where Enterprise is weak, why would Needa give the Enterprise a means to take down the Avenger? He suggests instead retrofitting the Avenger with a warp drive. However this presents a number of problems of its own, mostly the time and the materials needed to do so. A compromise is reached: the TIE/In and TIE bombers can be retrofitted with warp drives from the Enterprise's photon torpedoes. These same warp drives can be used to power turbolasers that will be retrofitted onto them, while gravity plating made by the Enterprise - a technology Earth has had from the 1990s - will essentially negate G-force issues on the TIES. This will, of course, take several days or weeks, potentially even months of work. But the Enterprise and the Avenger have time: the Righteous Endeavor is slow, the Avenger can go up to 2 years without resupply, and the Enterprise, up to 10. So everything's looking good. Both set off for the nearest star system, 5 lightyears away, to begin their work. Avenger arrives there basically instantly; it will take the Enterprise a few days to catch up. ] Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)01:56:48 No.49199689 ► >>49199829 e: 4b58b1464115984c8bb7207c9(.)Lipg (67 KB, 736x493) >>49199559 4. FOR THE EMPEROR Lord Aurelius is furious, but unsurprised, at the cowardly retreat of the EMPEROR's enemies. As soon as the Righteous Endeavor has mostly cleared the initial system, he orders his ship to enter the Warp to pursue, guessing the enemy ships' destination based on their flight path. The appropriate sacrifices and supplications are made, and the ship enters the Warp..and it is *quiet*. There are no daemons, no screaming horrors, no twisted, formless morass of decay and rage and excess and keikaku. There is only the guiding Beacon, the EMPEROR guiding his children even in this strange arena! REJOICE! The Enterprise, thanks to its FTL sensors, notices the Righteous Endeavor disappearing and realizes its mistake: the ship DOES have FTL capabilities. Picard contacts Needa with this information, just in time, as the Righteous Endeavor emerges from the Warp almost on top of the Avenger, opening fire even as it does. The Avenger manages to make a hasty retreat into hyperspace, but not before suffering significant damage and casualties. The Avenger flees thousands of lightyears and begins attempting to affect repairs. Noticing that the Righteous Endeavor did not engage its FTL drive until they were at the edge of the previous system, he orders the Avenger to head deep into the star system it ends up in, correctly guessing the limitations of the Warp. Over on the Enterprise, the Federation vessel has completely lost track of the Avenger and is in interstellar space, vulnerable to attack from the Righteous Endeavor. However, the attack doesn't manifest, and Picard realizes that - like the Ferengi that he engaged so long ago on the Stargazer - the Righteous Endeavor does not have FTL sensors. But without the Avenger's weapons, how will they defeat the Righteous Endeavor? I Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)02:09:36 No.49199829 ► >>49199845 >>49199875 >>49199942 File: Spoiler Image (78 KB, 694x530) >>49199689 5. RESPITE The Avenger affects repairs in a far away system. Raw materials are not hard to find, but refining them into a useful state will take weeks. Furthermore, they have lost contact with the Enterprise and don't know how to contact it - or, for that matter, the Righteous Endeavor - again. There is literally an entire galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars to search, and while the Enterprise's FTL is inferior to those, it is still going to create an ever-larger search area hundreds of lightyears wide - assuming that it hasn't been destroyed. Lord Aurelius of the Righteous Endeavor both rejoices and laments. Were this a normal battle, he would have driven the EMPEROR'S enemies into retreat and could have been said to won the day. But this is not a normal battle. The EMPEROR'S enemies must be crushed underfoot! The Enterprise dithers about. It is incapable of engaging the Righteous Endeavor directly, but they can at least scan it and learn more about it, as well as work on plans for how to retrofit Federation technology with Imperial tech. They also need to find some way of contacting the Avenger, wherever it went. Naturally, it's Wesley Crusher who comes up with a way to do that. Because of course it is. The hyperspace beacons that Enterprise detected are constantly sending FTL signals between each other. If they can approach one and learn how it works, they might be able to send their own signals through it. If the Avenger is connected to it, then it willI be able to pick up the signal, kind of like a spider noticing the vibrations in its web. The Enterprise tests this, and discovers it to be true. Contact is reestablished with the Avenger, and the engineering departments of both ships begin coordinating as best they can across the void. Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)02:18:43 No.49199942 ► >>49199985 >>49200046 e: Brazen.jpg (869 KB, 1509x992) >>49199829 6. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK After several weeks - with Lord Aurelius pulling his hair out of his head in frustration all the while, unable to detect the EMPEROR'S enemies and so serve as a conduit for His righteous fury - the Avenger and the Enterprise once again meet up and begin the process of retrofitting TIE fighters and bombers, using the Avenger's expansive hanger bay for the most part. One would think that this would be difficult, but it turns out not to be. Starfleet engineers are basically wizards, while the Avenger is the end result of more than 25,000 years of technological advancement geared towards ease of use: even a penniless smuggler can understand how a starship functions and keep it running, nevermind the best and brightest of the Empire's engineering corps (if Needa says so himself). The TIE/w fighters are field-tested and found to work quite well. Several kinks are identified, fixed, and tested once more: again, both ships are capable of operating for years without resupply. And at long last, the battle begins once again. It stars with the Avenger dropping out of hyperspace and rapidly deploying the TIE/w fighters. Due to the power needed to supply their retrofitted turbolasers, the TIE/ws are only capable of Warp 3, 4 in a pinch - but that is still far, far faster than the Righteous Endeavor can deal with. The TIE/ws literally fly circles around the Righteous Endeavor, its weapons unable to lock-on to the small, nimble craft. The turbolasers that have been outfitted onto them are still inferior to Imperium weapons overall, but when you have 72 of the buggers all firing continuously at one spot, they'll cause a hull breach eventually. O Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)02:28:40 No.49200046 >49200109 >>49200131 File: 2285030-enterprise_meet_s(..).jpg (132 KB, 800x600) >>49199942 7. THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS That is exactly what happens. It's a battle that takes hours, but for the TIE/w pilots it's more like a chore than a struggle. The Enterprise had identified a relatively weak spot in the Righteous Endeavor's armor (most likely caused by age and inefficient repairs - it's almost like the Righteous Endeavor's crew don't really know how their own technology works) and the TIE/w pilots just pound away until the armor opens up, at which point they cut loose with proton torpedoes into the breach; the Enterprise shows up to add its own photon torpedoes to the mix. As thick as the armor of the Righteous Endeavor is on the outside, the inside is far less sturdy. The ship is crippled. Picard contacts the Righteous Endeavor, offering surrender to Lord Aurelius. Lord Aurelius only screams "for the EMPEROR!" and orders his ship to go full-speed at Avenger and Enterprise. This attack, however, proves fruitless. The TIE/ws and the Enterprise finish off the Emperor's ship, which is lost with all hands. Needa contacts Picard and thanks him for his help, but notes that he is now in possession of TIE/ws with weapons and FTL capable of meaningfully engaging the Enterprise. He regrets what will have to happen next, but his crew does have families back home. Picard notes that the Enterprise's crew also has families back home, and so doesn't like the thought of dying. Instead.. Picard offers the unconditional surrender of the Enterprise and her crew. If Captain Needa accepts, he will have "won" the three-way engagement, thereby allowing it to end without a need for any further bloodshed. Lorth Needa is the epitome of the best of the Empire's training - an officer and a gentlemen. He accepts the Enterprise's surrender. O Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)02:35:12 No.49200131 ► File: Q_in_Judge_Robes_(Star_Tr(.).jpg (34 KB, 640x480) >>49200046 Suddenly, there is a flash - and the Enterprise re-appears in the Milky Way, the Avenger in the Galaxy Far Far Away, and the Righteous Endeavor in the 40k Milky Way. Q appears on the bridge of the Enterprise, noting that what Picard did almost feels like cheating and he probably shouldn't have let him get off that easily. Picard, however, notes that he's grown used to Q by now. Humanity is learning and growing all the time - more importantly, Picard remembers the last time that Q tried to teach him about humility. Although, speaking of... "It's not like you to repeat a lesson, Q," Picard notes. "What was the point of all this? What were you trying to make us prove this time?" "You?" Q asks. "Oh, Jean-luc. The world doesn't revolve around your shining head, no matter what you think. You can try and puzzle out why, if you like, but sometimes there just isn't anything to learn." Q disappears in a flash, and the end credits roll. Meanwhile, across time and space, in some otherdimensional weirdness, Tzeentch hands Q $2.50, noting that while the Imperium lost, the Federation didn't win, and so he doesn't owe Q the full $5. * O Anonymous 09/06/16(Tue)02:47:01 No.49200227 >>49200243 >>49200257 >>49200264 File: Untitled.png (74 KB, 334x258) >>49200109 WHY THE IMPERIUM LOST I don't see how an average, or even exceptional, psyker can detect something thousands of lightyears away (Avenger), and even if they could both Enterprise and Avenger had ways of avoiding the Righteous Endeavor anyway (Enterprise is just plain faster at tactical speeds; the Avenger was deep insystem and so would detect Righteous Endeavor arriving insystem and be able to make a quick retreat since they're not nearly as restricted by gravity wells). Imperium starfighters were irrelevant here. They never engaged TIE/Ins or TIE bombers, and would be no more capable of responding to TIE/ws than the Righteous Endeavor would be. The Imperium has no sensor tech worth noting. By comparison the Enterprise's sensor tech is some of the best in all of science fiction. The Imperium has actually forgotten how to build or maintain a huge portion of its technology. By comparison the crew of an Imperial Star Destroyer can be presumed to be roughly as component in maintenance as the crew of a US naval vessel, while the Federation's engineers are continuously noted as being "wizards" as technology. Note that transporters were not even once brought up in this whole thing, despite them opening up a huge tactical advantage for the Enterprise. Finally..the Empire is willing to work with others when need be. The Federation has working with others as one of its principle tenets. The Imperium, meanwhile, xenophobic to its core and utterly incapable of working with others except in exceptional circumstances. Any three-way fight between the Empire, the Federation, and the Imperium is going to see the Federation and the Empire teaming up and pooling resources simply as a matter of course. SPOILERS

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star trek star wars warhammer 40k warhammer 40000 40k

coffee shop

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ideals price fixing troll

Consensus Reality

File: 68KİB, 500x822, 1610322373330.png [View Same] [Google] [ImgOps] [iqdb] [SauceNAO] O Anonymous Sun 18 Apr 06:00:53 2021 No.78730783 [Reply] [Original] Quoted By: >>78730935 >>78730949 >>78731074 >78731242 >>78731284 >>78731353 >>78731377 >>78732960 >>78739005 >>78746272 >>78755889 >78757380 >>78757496 >>78760234 >>78762601 >>78764546 >>78770139 >>78775307 >>78782448 >>78782486 >>78796900 >>78799388 >>78802232 >>78803591 >>78804198 >>78808960 >>78825829 >>78835435 >78887535 >>78906919 >"Laws of Physics" and other supposedly solid laws of science and nature are actually just humanity unknowingly imposing its own order on the universe through observation. >It's like Observer Effect but on a basis far stronger than we ever could imagine. >The universe is in reality a chaotic place full of eldritch creatures, and humanity is just another one of those creatures. >From the perspective of the other eldritch beings the growth of humanity is a spreading blight of unnatural "stillness" and "order" as the natural fluidity of the universe is forced into laws through the observations of humanity. ww O Anonymous Sun 18 Apr 07:34:00 2021 No.78731418 File: 2MİB, 1920x1080, scr00000.png [View Same] [Google] [ImgOps] [iqdb] [SauceNAO] Quoted By: >>78731449 >>78844153 >>78730935 The scientific revolution was a controlled event, instituted by the Illuminati in order to tame the world and keep humanity from being able to harness the fluid and chaotic nature of the universe. Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Isaac Newton, Galileo and others were all either active conspirators or were "fed" evidence by those that have enough control over reality to localize their results. A humanity that can change reality at a whim is one which is fundamentally uncontrollable, and the Elite decided that in order to make it through the Universe a steady guiding hand was required. This coincided with the covering up of evidence of the true nature of humanity's history, including Atlantis, Lemuria, Hyperborea and other ancient places of deep spiritual import. Today, the sheer denial of these places existing keeps them from being accessible by the majority of Humanity. Obviously this comes at a cost for the Illuminati themselves. They too have lost most of their ability to affect reality, only the most delusional (and therefore unstable and less useful) amongst them can affect a change as great as personal flight or creating flame. They are utterly terrified at the so called "meme magic" that the internet stumbled into. And have taken extreme measures to disrupt and disillusion any community that seems to be trying to actively use it. O Anonymous Sun 18 Apr 07:39:24 2021 No.78731449 >>78731418 Once the scientific revolution took hold, belief in an ordered and predictable universe created a self-fulfilling prophecy, whereby most scientist's observations look orderly precisely because they expect them to be. Anomalies such as the double slit experiment and others are just too fundamental for this effect to occur. On the other hand, grand scale cosmic events APPEAR orderly, from our vantage point, but there is a lot more going on than seen. Any scientist with a truly open mind might stumble on the chaotic nature of these results, but of course, they'll never get attention, either through natural disbelief, or by being disappeared by the Illuminati.

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worldbuilding conspiracy theorists conspiracy theory meme magic

a self-inserted anon explains their motivations

File: 8d00ca7bf20f3c08db288737a(...).jpg (136 KB, 900x900) O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)11:39:16 No.81911500 >>81911512 >>81911565 >>81911724 >>81911751 >>81911760 >>81911894 >>81911951 >>81911984 >>81912065 >>81912088 >>81912323 >>81912592 >>81912795 >>81912975 >>81913006 >>81913085 >>81914000 >>81914348 >>81915684 >>81916934 "So tell me anon, if what you say is true this 'other world' was a place of peace where war was far away, where plagues could be fought so that they only killed the sick and elderly, where there was food around every corner all the time, a roof over your head, even the air was kept cool and refreshing. What made you want to leave all that and get slashed and stabbed and bled with us in the muck and the blood, for a bit of coin we piss away every week?" O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)11:58:29 No.81911760 ► >>81911966 >>81911992 >>81912105 >>81911500 (OP) "In this world, I can OWN a home." O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)12:16:08 No.81911951 >>81911971 >>81911500 (OP) House prices are cheaper. O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)12:18:05 No.81911971 ► >>81911951 >The king's entire treasury only gets you 3 years of rent for a 20 square meters apartment in New York Sounds legit O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)12:27:12 No.81912065 ► >>81911500 (OP) I was supposed to owe nothing and hold nothing valuable, be ruled over by eunuchs put in charge by merchants and spymasters and the food was terible. Fighting people feels like a pleasant trip after the deathgrip of drudgery. O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)12:29:19 No.81912088 >>81916949 >>81911500 (OP) Because that other world was boring and sterile, conflict defines existence, not the slow grinding wheel of everything falling irreversibly to s--- while we can't do anything about it. I will acquire power and magic, and when I return I will slay the senile usurpers that rule my people. O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)13:54:12 No.81913006 ► >>81911500 (OP) A wicked cabal of wizards rule my world, set on the enslavement of all life. That battle is all lost. I had a chance to at least attempt to regain some freedom and leapt at it, as I leapt through that portal in the enchanted fortress of Cern. O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)17:34:26 No.81915684 ► File: Knightly.jpg (42 KB, 372x480) >>81911500 (OP) Atonement, perhaps. This world my ancestors and I helped construct..the shortcuts we took to ensure prosperity for the common man came at a great moral price. Wonderful things were destroyed in the making of what we thought we wanted, and vices were preached virtue to placate the narrow-minded and hedonistic. We damned ourselves in the name of material gain, and by the time I left the contradictions began to unravel against each other like a fortress built upon a foundation of snow. It's dying, both in spirit, and come the day all those marvels that keep it in order will run their course, will all wither back into chaos. And if it were all to fade into myth, then I can at least work to preserve its memory in a taste of its magnificence and terror, perhaps as a cautionary tale of the perils of unchecked progress. The men of this land might perchance learn from us, build something greater then now or then... Yet, this is all but the musings of a hollow soul. If I lacked the strength to change my own world for the better, then I doubt I have the ability to sway yours. O Anonymous 10/27/21(Wed)19:07:44 No.81916934 File: robot dog with gun.png (397 KB, 1116x960) >>81911500 (OP) >Because there was a war coming and we were going to lose. We weren't necessary to the people who ruled our society anymore and they didn't fear our attempts to fight back, they were doing a controlled demolition of our comfortable existence to save the resources it required for themselves.

/tg/

si self-insert isekai fantasy escapism

Saint Dracula and the Romanian Reformation

File: 72646-Castlevania-castle-(..).jpg (50 KB, 748x421) O Anonymous 04/28/17(Fri)20:20:39 No.52956802 Archived "Your Holiness, there is disturbing news from Romania. It is said the Prince of Wallachia, who has been our staunch defender against the Turks and Saracens, has made a pact with the devil! Night and darkness has covered the land from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. An unholy, massive castle has grown like a tumor across the mountain ranges, and legions of skeletons, demons, and monstrosities pour forth. The Prince has claimed "in service of God, I sell myself to the Devil" and has proclaimed to defend Christendom from the Turks "till the end of days". The Turks have already fed great armies, only for them to be returned upon stakes and spikes, but he has not made any advances upon his Christian neighbors. There is great fear and trembling among the lords of Europe your holiness, and many call for his excommunication and ponder a crusade, what should be our papal response?" O Anonymous 04/28/17(Fri)20:37:59 No.52957067 >>52956802 >what should be our papal response? Forgive him for the sin of consorting with the Devil and declare his army of the dead to be a miracle, of course. Saint Dracula, here we come! O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)08:50:16 No.52964219 >>52962818 >A man who sold himself into damnation and perdition for the sake of his fellow man >It's a monster attempting to do God's bidding >Defender of the faithful at the cost of his own happiness He has suffered and died for the faith. He is technically a martyr. Saint Vlad the Dragon. He shall command the next crusade to retake the holy land. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)09:00:11 No.52964261 File: 1380505065206.jpg (633 KB, 1280x1755) >>52957269 >Saint Dracula, here we come! That's metal as f---. "For he so loved Christendom that he gave up his immortal soul on its behalf." I can just see that s--- rendered in the style of Requiem. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)04:40:04 No.52962732 File: hall12-biglotsdracscreecher.jpg (228 KB, 700x525) >>52960216 This setting is just getting more fun by the moment. A world where the Reformation is caused by a split over whether weaponized vampires are OK as long as they only feed on heathens or not. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)00:27:17 No.52960216 >>52956802 >some guy named Martin Luther writes 102 Theses and calls upon fellow christians to support the Saint Dracul O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)05:17:54 No.52962951 File: IMG_0145.jpg (79 KB, 479x700) >>52960216 >Every one of the 102 thesis contain some subtle variation of "F--- the Turks." O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)05:05:20 No.52962881 >>52962732 Wouldn't such a schism begin in the balkans though rather than Germany? The countries most threatened by the turk would be ok with the devil himself intervening O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)05:56:14 No.52963170 >>52962881 Anon, the entire Balkans are now a skeleton-infested mountain range, centred on a demonic castle. The only people left who could have Reformation are the few emaciated peasants remaining on the shores of the Adriatic or the king's court, who are hardly in a position to do so. No, the Reformation will start in Germany, among wary princes who are conflicted about sending troops to defeat such a monstrous enemy, leaving themselves open to the power plays of rivals back home. The Emperor himself is hardest pressed, his own Hungarian lands bordering the Balkans, and factions in the Imperial court vie for his approval and attention. The Pope will be a deciding factor in this, his decision at this juncture setting the course for the history of the world. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)13:03:20 No.52966781 >>52966360 After having your sons and daughters stolen away by Turkish devils, you'd choose to eliminate them by whatever means too. Saint Dracul knew that and chose the path of martyrdom. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)15:08:56 No.52968760 >The holy roman empire has turned their back on the romanians, betraying them >But we will not stand for this >the blood of the matrys run deep within the blood of france >We shall not give in to those barbaric tyrants, we shall not watch as they invite the living devil into our houses >we shall not stand by as they steal european money, murder european men, and r--- european women >we shall push them back >no betrayers will stop us >VIVA FRANCE >VIVA ROMANIA >VIVA EUROPE >VIVA SAINT DRACUL -King Louis XI after being conviced by judge claude frollo to side with Vlad O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)10:31:43 No.52965005 >>52964963 A team of Papal agents is sent to investigate w-- is actually going on O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)11:39:54 No.52965770 >>52965513 >pope sends party of knights to go f--- up s--- >you must chose between protestism, catholism, draculism, or generic ccgristianit instead of race I now want to play a party consisting of a iberian inquisitor, french knight, preist from the vatican and a romanian crusader as they all try to backstab each other O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)13:30:48 No.52967152 >>52965253 >>52965770 Bonus points if the group as a whole don't share the same language. Only 3/4 of the party can converse at the same time. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)13:41:52 No.52967310 File: 1285218505360.jpg (704 KB, 1600x1200) >>52967152 Well, they'd all speak Latin, at least. It's one of the major real-world setting touchpoints. Now, they might not speak /good/ Latin, and some of them might have bought their way into high office and can only speak Flemish or something, but at least in theory, they'd share a language. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)17:09:26 No.52970569 File: janissaries.jpg (238 KB, 1200x841) >Ottomans realize the most effective weapons against these hordes are silver and gold core bullets (melee weapons prove too slow in the hands of humans against werewolves and demons) >Ramp up their already considerable gunpowder investment O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)14:56:34 No.52968509 >>52968090 With faith and gunpowder shall we drive the darkness back! O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)17:22:11 No.52970792 >>52970663 Refining artillery would probably be the highest Ottoman priority. A f--- off giant castle like that would inspire a new call for better cannon. O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)17:24:39 No.52970835 File: Draculalugosi.jpg (95 KB, 1061x749) >>52970792 >artillery train gets harassed by swarms of giant bats O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)17:24:51 No.52970842 File: Pike Shot Cover.png (362 KB, 550x295) >>52970792 They also begin to realize the most effective melee weapon against fast charging big monsters is massed, long pointed sticks, like a pike. Most effective is a combination of trained pike formations, mixed in with men with shot weapons O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)17:53:15 No.52971296 >>52970835 >trying to force way into massive black castle >Hakim was dragged off by giant bats into the night >Abdihakim had his throat ripped out by a pack of red eyed wolves almost as big as horses >they didn't even eat him, what the f---? >can't even go enjoy camp prostitutes as some of them are sporting lengthy teeth that make you nervous >Abdihakim got up again and is strangling the guy beside you to death while eating him alive O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)18:26:53 No.52971789 File: ismail-enver-pasha-1881-1(...).jpg (31 KB, 327x540) >>52971296 >finally get into inner sanctum >its another f------ castle >the corpses on the sticks come alive and kill everyone >make it out in time to warn the others >mfw the entire 60 battalions they sent as reinforcements were all killed in the night by bats and the camp prostitutes O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)20:09:39 No.52973428 The f--- is happening in this thread O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)20:54:48 No.52974094 >>52973494 Vald is kicking ass and accidently founding a splinter religion while turks are becoming unstoppable technological giants but still can't get past romania O Anonymous 04/29/17(Sat)09:30:12 No.52964466 >Dracula is actually a vampire >And is torturing and killing the s--- out of Turks even harder than he did IRL Why even live on in this dreary waste in the face of such sublime fantasy

/tg/

dracula vlad tepes vlad the impaler alternate history

An Ancient Evil Oversleeps

/tg/

world war one alternate history king arthur sauron ww1 dark lord

When the /a/ is actually /tg/

T-IO Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:04 No.84447976 [▼] >>84448084 >>84448216 >>84448268 >>84448317 >>84448374 >>84448507 >>84449091 >>84449702 The whole show is a /tg/ game: >Players, I made this amazing plot for you all, with alien invasions, tears, suffering, and heroism worthy of MuvLuv Alternative >Roll for dodge >All three players fail >Then all the players decide to go after random tidbits and ignore the plothook. >Players destroy the inn every time. >DM tries to get them back on track with the guardian of the swamp, sending young men to explore the infestation, or even cave in by bug. >Player still dicking around the beginner village. T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:06 No.84448084 [v] >>84448179 >>84447976 >GM hands them an important item >players disregard the item and destroy it >GM says f--- it and makes it work anyways T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:10 No.84448268 [▼] >>84447976 This somehow made perfect sense. I thought the author was some amateur writer who can't tie up plot and scenes well but now I see it all just random events crudely stitched together. T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:11 No.84448317 [v] >>84448431 >84448448 >>84447976 So, syrup is the gmpc? T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:12 No.84448374 [ ] >>84447976 >Players, here is some demiurge, some gnositic references, some fantasy creatures, some dragon girls, some manly mages... Wait. DM. Go back a bit. Manly mages? no, further back. Dragon girls? Yes, Sold. T-) O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:13 No.84448431 [] >>84448317 Yes. She is literally railroad tracks. T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:13 No.84448448 [▼] >>84448503 >>84448317 Pretty much. Also, So Player 1, I read your chart, and it seems like you made a mistake. You gave barley tea +++ proficiency. Yes DM, that is exactly what I intend to do. T-IO Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:14 No.84448503 [v] >>84448692 >>84448448 Player 3's dump stat is INT and she solves everything with a giant axe. T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:18 No.84448692 [▼] >>84448503 And forgot that Dex is used for ranged to hit rolls instead of Str. T-IO Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:25 No.84449091 [v] >>84449383 >>84450460 >>84450652 >>84447976 >So Yurlungur thanks you for freeing his stomach of the block- Is the dragon attracted to my character? >What? No, I mean thats pretty- The dragon should be attracted to my character. She's basically a dragon and she's hotter than Jerry and Alex's characters. >But he's a drag- She's basically a dragon. >FINE! Yurlungur hits on you and tells you to call him. Happy?! Yes. T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:30 No.84449383 [-] >>84450064 >>84450460 >>84450652 >>84449091 >Your father is trapped in the mine. I dig him out. >You have no shovel, you must travel to the next town to get some shov.. I attack the wall >What? I attack the wall with my axe. I rolled an 18. >Fine. The wall has 400 HP. I summon Yurlungur. [-] O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:42 No.84450064 [-1>>84450127 >>84450195 >>84450441 >>84450460 >>84450652 >>84450821 >>84450890 >>84452671 >>84449383 >Syrup starts eating the food your servants have laid out for you. Wait. She eats the human-sized portions? How the f---? -How come he gets to be a princess and I'm some s----- orphaned water mage?- >Shut She eats human portions because she has fairy magic and fairies can eat as much as they want and not be fulI. up. Wow really? I tell my servants to get whats-her-name more food. I want to see how much she really can eat. >You know that your Dad is having a secret meeting right now, right? There could be stuff you could learn. About the quest. Nah f--- that, feed the fairy food. >Her name is Syrup. T-IO Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:43 No.84450127 [-] T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:50 No.84450441 [▼] >>84451916 >>84450064 >Her name is Syrup >>84450064 We need a log summary for every episode. T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:55 No.84450652 [ ] T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:51 No.84450460 [▼] >>84449091 >>84449383 >>84450064 >her name is syrup >>84449091 >>84449383 >>84450064 Just like in my old D&D days. Good god Im in tears T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)18:29 No.84452671 [v] [-] O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)17:58 No.84450821 [▼] 1335583473862.png (120 KB, 434x400) igdb google >>84450064 >Suddenly the cave is being flooded! You need to get out! Nah, Levia will make all the water go back up. >But her magic proficiency is too low We'll roll on it anyway. F--- yeah natural 20! >Syrup has found a mysterious artifact! She suggests you investigate it. F--- that, we have to save Jorm's dads. Throw that s--- away. >>84450064 >Her name is Syrup. T-IO Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)18:00 No.84450890 [] 1357478391068.png (368 KB, 569x480) igdb google >>84450064 >Her name is Syrup. I just can imagine a DM making a "Jesus Christ, I don't care anymore but at least remember the name of the character I worked on!" face. T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)18:45 No.84453653 [ ] T-O Anonymous 04/28/13(Sun)18:58 No.84454413 [▼] >>84454885 >>84456240 >>84451633 >so all your dragon girls have wings, a tail and cast magic Mine is a melee only, earth magic. I dont want wings either. >but how will you fly III throw my axe >but you dont have the dex re- III throw my axe. >>84454265 >Jormu is out of power now I transform -No you idiot youll kill us all, its a coal mine- So? -Nah, lemme do it- But theres no water moron, i can solve this really quickly >What the hell guys, common... Syrup sees a small gap in the rocks Send her through to check on my dads >How do you have more than one d- f--- it, okay syrup goes to inspect the cave >All of a sudden, the ground water starts rushing into the mine

/tg/

anime leviathan: the last defense zettai bouei leviathan dragon lolis cute girls doing stupid things

Lamenter and Little Girl

O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)12:35:57 No.42747868 >>42747887 >>42747950 >>42747961 O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)12:39:43 No.42747950 >>42748162 >>42753966 >>42747868 (You) >>42747887 (You) Right in the feels >>42746875 >Part 1/2 >"Mistah angel? are you alright?" >"Yes little one, l'll be fine." O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)12:40:17 No.42747961 >42748162 >>42753966 >"Buh your arm is missin' an' your leg is all blowed up. How're you gonna get home?" >*Groan* "Do not fear child. Have faith in the emperor and the primarch. He shall provide us a way." >"Buh how? An' even if he did, what about the big nightmares? are they all gone?" >"No little one. They are bit a small" *Gasp!* "part of a much larger plan. There is nothing for me, but to fight war eternal against them" >"So, you're gonna keep fightin? even with your leg and arm all gone? How ya gonna do that mistah angel?" >*grumblegrumble primarch's blood, this kid can't stop asking questions* "As I said before, my faith is my shield and protector. The emperor will give us a way to continue on." >"So, isn't it scary fightin' against the big nightmares? They scare me a lot. Are you scared whenever you fight them?" >*Sigh* "No, no I do not fear them. The astartes do not feel fear. We do not know what fear is" >"Papa always said, everything feels fear. Animals, plants, and even machines. Tho, I dunno how that works. But he said that to be couragous and >>42747868 (You) >>42747887 (You) H'm not crying, I swear! I just have something in my eye.. O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)12:45:38 No.42748098 >>42748162 >>42753966 >>42747868 (You) >>42747887 (You) >dem feels fearless is to accept your fear, and move past it." >"Your father is a wise man" Good thing I've been writing on a project I call 'M43' and have the Emperor's blessing >although I wish the stuff I was writing had this caliber O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)17:44:19 No.42753235 >>42753966 O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)12:36:57 No.42747887 ► >>42747950 >>42747961 >>42747868 (You) >>42747887 (You) >>42747868 >Part 2/2 The Emperor's Chosen know no fear, but they are aware of dem feels. >"Yeah, but he fell asleep a real long time ago. My teacher said that he's with the emperor now. Do you think the emperor will give him a way to come back to us?" >"If you have faith and continue on in the way of the imperium, you will see him again, I am sure of it." >"Oh. Okay. Hey, does it ever get lonely up in the big black space?" >"Sometimes. Sometimes I am with my brothers, who fight against the horrors of the universe. Sometimes I am alone -" * ! * >"Hug* "I think you need a hug Mistah angel. It sounds like you don't get hugs very often." >"T... thank you. O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)18:04:51 No.42753438 >>42753966 >>42747868 (You) >>42747887 (You) I'm not crying, you are crying like a little bitch, >"Are you gonna be okay?" >"Yes little one. I will be." O Anonymous 09/27/15(Sun)18:32:24 No.42753706 > >>42753966 >"Okay. I'm just gonna stay a while, until the emperor comes and helps us" >"Alright." *Places hand on her back* "TIl keep you safe until then" >*hugs harder* "Thank you!" >"You're welcome. >>42747868 (You) >>42747887 (You) >daww By the emperor, i've wanted to write some feels for this. It just deserves it.

/tg/

40k wh40k warhammer40k warhammer 40k warhammer40000 warhammer 40000 lamenters lamenter feels greentext 4chan

Alexander Crackedmind

O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)01:25 No.23098241 >Love /tg/s and want to play them >Dislike people too much to be able to enjoy the group activity >Can't play alone What is this b-------? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)01:26 No.23098257 Create people in your imagination. Play with yourself. There you go. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)01:28 No.23098276 Develop some sort of multiple personality disorder so you are never without friends. Or just sit on piles and piles of games and never play them. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)01:42 No.23098469 I once played a campaign using a technique known as character splitting. It's a thought process authors use write for a living, and employe it myself in which you take a portion of your mind and section it off. You then allow it to act independently, having thoughts parallel to yours. At first it takes concentration and you most likely will only be able to do one without getting the thoughts of you and it muddled and returning to a singular state. The thoughts themselves don't have to be different, but they must be thought in different ways. It will take a few weeks to get to a state where concentration is not longer required to keep one going, and you can do it as a background thing while performing other tasks. At this point I am able to maintain seven at once while writing. The campaign I spoke of consisted of me as GM, and four sectioned off "people" as the players. It was very fun. Also, attempt to avoid inducing schizophrenia. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)01:48 No.23098551 >>23098469 That is literally tulpa creation. It's induced schizophrenic hallucinations/delusions. While it's very effective, make sure you keep a damn good grasp on reality. I worry for your mental health. Loften do the same thing with new characters in my stories. I'll fast-forward-frem their introduction to some pivotal moment with previously introduced-characters, as well as to-be-introduced-characters, and act out scenes in my head. Iswitch around my thought process as appropriate for each character, as they speak or do something. Then Irealize it's been forty-five-minutes since Istarted, and I'm still sitting on the toilet, my ass going numb. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:00 No.23098711 >>23098551 Don't worry, after a while you don't have to turn them off anymore. It's not like they can get control of my actual body probably, there have been a few incidents, but they just make good stories. Make my mind a labyrinth, trap them inside then go after them when needed. It's gotten a bit odd lately and the internal structure has been defined into something far more complex and overall complicated than I would have thought, but that's not bad. Also the interactions are a bit odd as of late. When I began it was merely voices and stuff, but semetimes in my minds eye it feels like I reallyam somewhere inside my own brain. Like it is a dream, but as real as real life.Ican meet the peeple in my head. I don't know.. it's odd.Seriously though, don't worry. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:01 No.23098730 >>23098711 Ummm... this is one of the f------ creepiest things I have ever read. Are you sure you're ok dude? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:04 No.23098777 >>23098711 Can one use this technique with waifus? My... uh... friend is curious. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:05 No.23098798 >>23098730 This. Entirely creepy..but, I want to hear more. maybe it's my inner /x/ talking but l've always found the idea of multiple characters interacting with each other through one body as interesting. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:22 No.23099015 >>23098950 >>23098966 Well, stories are a tad personal. These are all reflections of myself in my own mind. Even the portions of the events that have proceeded into odd happenings... The thing is I can find people in my mind, people I have created from scratch than now have life of their own. I may or may not have feelings for some of them and fear the day I must turn them off for good. The times I have let someone else hold the reigns to my body have been terrifying, knowing the feeling they have of simply being another marble in the pile. I don't know if they can turn me off, or if only I have the power. I don't know what it feels like to be turned off, and most of them are reluctant to tell me, and those who do have unlatching stories. My mind has become a weird place lately, but at least life isn't boring. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:24 No.23099037 >>23099015 I would legitimately watch a show about this. It sounds f------ interesting. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:29 No.23099082 >>23099015 >>23099037 The idea here Anon, is one of two concepts. One is just the ability to roleplay as well you can do it with yourself, and thus run simulation conversations through your head. Nothing /x/, magical, or neat about it. Its just called being a good actor and knowing what people would "do" in a situation, so you can just think a conversation between two fictional people in your head. THEN, theres what this Anon is talking about, which is trying to shatter your mind into schizophrenia for fun and profit. >Trust me, I know. I come from /mlp/ and the more sick people from there have been trying to use these mystical irrational techniques for months trying to create pony waifus. >You can vomit now. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:31 No.23099112 >>23099082 Yes, but none of them succeeded now did they? It seems /tg/ once again proves it's superiority by producing the first man who can create his own waifus. Truly a visionary. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:33 No.23099129 >>23099112 >Yes, but none of them succeeded now did they? Have you even been on 4chan, much less the internet for the past few years? Of course they succeeded (or at least post elaborate stories about how they succeeded) and stories of it has seeped into every nook and cranny of the internet by now O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:33 No.23099136 >>23099112 I can't vouch, and personally think its impossible, but one person claimed it worked. >Except his Pinkie Pie waifu went crazy and started screaming, non-stop, for hours and hours, and he couldn't figure out how to make it stop. >He didn't return to the thread after a certain time I think. >I can only imagine he was either trolling, or the Warp overtook him. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:42 No.23099240 Ok guy, I'm the the guy who has done this. It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It's basically like sharing the space with a few other individuals. As long as you maintain a really strong sense of self and assert your dominance over your own mind nothing bad will happen. Also only let someone take over the reigns in the most extreme of circumstances. My mind is not shattered, merely cracked, and through the cracks I can find things others can not. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:44 No.23099257 >>23099240 Bro, you're sounding more batshit with each post. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:45 No.23099263 >>23099240 Assuming >Big if You're telling the truth. You literally created lesser wills within your mind, breaking your mind apart. Thats dumb. >"As long as you can remain in control, nothing bad can happen." >Nothing bad can happen >Nothing bad can happen.... >No...thi...ng bad can happen... O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:46 No.23099279 >>23099240 I like you but how did you do this, through sheer will power, drugs, deals with demons, how could you achieve such a thing? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:46 No.23099282 >My mind is not shattered, merely cracked, and through the cracks I can find things others can not. sounds like BBEG talk to me O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:50 No.23099322 >>23099263 I've been doing this for a long time. Besides, nothing ventured nothing gained. Risking madness for the sake of my art is something I am willing to do. If my mind is cracked, or even broken, as long as my work does not suffer it does not matter. What are people anyway? What defines an individual as a rightfully inhabitant of our world? Who begets my emotions, feelings, and memories as more important than those who I have created. Just because they did not originally exist makes them any less real? If I so choose they can control the body, then can be 'real'. They now have just as much right to exist destroyed them. A voice among the many must merely shout loudest. I do, they are beings of thought and consciousness. I would not being doing my duty as the one who as made them if I simply O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:52 No.23099352 File: 1360569178982.jpg-(31 KB, 363x310, 1339503740708.jpg) LOH WAIT. YOU'RE SERIOUS. >>23099322 You are either completey insane, or so far in-character as a BBEG you can smell Orcus's ass from here. I think we as the human race can simply state as a body, that your other "personalities" are not true other intellects, but instead merely mad deviations of your own mind. They aren't autonomous yugioh-style second minds, they are you. Being crazy. With yourself. For AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART? LET MELAUGH EVEN HARDER O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:55 No.23099375 >>23099279 Thought, one only needs thought. The human mind is more powerful than any drug. You can do it, each of us can, the power is already within us and minds are ready to be born. Fledgling creatures pulled freely from nothingness. Being able to prune and mold a complete consciousness from the get go is quite the rush, if I do say so myself. Wouldn't it be beautiful if more could do this, retreat into their own minds and instead of failing in their strength, intelligence, and willpower have in themselves those who could do it for them. Personalities with the power that they do not. I honestly think it is a beautiful thing. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:56 No.23099388 >>23099282 So real life has a BBEG now? Right, where's the nearest tavern, I need to hire me some mother f------ HEROES. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:56 No.23099392 >>23099375 You're saying "My insanity is beautiful" but all I'm hearing is "Please mister Paladin, please kill me, I love being evil and advocating madness, Gods this armor makes me look fat." O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:57 No.23099395 >>23099375 You sound like a BBEG. I can only assume the original lost the battle and mad-man is now at the helm. this could be a great twist if this is realized only late into the game. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)02:57 No.23099399 i've actually considered making a tulpa of myself who's motivated and actually does things, but i know he'd eventually turn on me and murder me to become the dominant personality by playing off my belief that i would never kill me O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:00 No.23099435 File: 1360569614513.jpg-(168 KB, 591x806, 1346646302346.jpg) >>23099395 >One of the sympathetic minds in the head of the BBEG is against the evil going on in his head, and contacts the party >During its limited time at the forefront, begs the players to put an end to its imminent madness, and gives them a way to enter the mind of the BBEG >The players confront the personalities, all abstract and real, looking for the "true" one The players find the true personality locked away in a lost corner of the mind, scared and alone, afraid to confront the world and has its personalities do everything they can to protect it. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:00 No.23099436 Who knows, they might be, they might not. In all honesty at this point I do not care. I have created them, and even if they are not full people it does not mean I can try and and make them people. A person is only a legacy. The way I live my life, my happiness or emotions do not matter in the long run. How I have changed the world, the people I have changed, and the paths that I have walked. My goal is to be remembered, a hundred or thousand years from now; I wish to be remembered. Because all the people within me are at least born of me, it will be my name that is recorded. Even who is at the helm does not matter. I have evened the odds, instead of one against billion, it is now seven. Now doesn't that sound easier? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:01 No.23099447 >>23099436 No. You're using irrational aesthetic ideals to justify destroying your own mind. >And thats terrible. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:02 No.23099452 >>23099436 ..guys.. I'm being f------ serious right now when I say this guy scares the s--- out of me. He is went full BBEG, and if he is faking this he sounds damned convincing. Real life has a BBEG... we are so f-----. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:04 No.23099475 >>23099436 have you ever asked yourself if you're currently you? maybe one of the personalities you made is posting right now and it won't want to believe this, because it thinks it's you, it's you in every way, but it's not O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:05 No.23099485 >>23099447 And what? My happiness and the state of my mind matter? Will people remember that I was broken a hundred years from now? No! They will remember the deeds, the battles fought, speeches given, things accomplished. We do not remember our heroes or villains as people, we remember them as ideas. You are a pile of your accomplishments and failures, nothing more. My mind is as sound as it every will be. Even if I see it destroyed, or it already has been, a new one will take its place. Strength is never forged without hardship. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:05 No.23099490 >>23099322 You still ain't told us HOW you did it, meditation, drugs, trauma, sheer determination? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:06 No.23099499 I can already see the story with the guy not only fighting for inner control, but believing the personalities are so human that everyone that wants to cure him/eliminate them is a murderer. So really it was just self-defense when he- Aw man there's so much material here. And it all comes back to the sad lonely writer backstory. Genius. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:06 No.23099500 >>23099475 I do believe you. I am talking to them as we speak, clearly drawn lines in the sand separate us but bleed over is always possible. However, the point is... why does it matter? They are created of me, and me of them, so no matter which of us does it. It is still I who have been the one to create. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:08 No.23099516 >>23099490 Not him, but what mister BBEG is doing is called "tulplaforcing". It basically involves imagining an alternate mind while focusing really, really hard, over and over again for like a few weeks or months, eventually culminating in hallucinations and (Hopefully) insanity and schizophrenia. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:09 No.23099535 >>23099522 tumblr only CLAIMS to have a bunch of people in their heads to be special this guy actually did it and i gotta applaud him for that even if he's insane O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:11 No.23099565 >>23099537 It worked too well for one of your characters is at the helm now and you can't even tell. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:09 No.23099537 >>23099490 As I said it started as work to help my writing. Though, long hours of thought and keeping them inlace is what created it in the beginning. When you first start it is hard, but as you go on the entire process become automatous. As long as you do not switch it off it grows continuously until reaching a plateau. Drugs aren't needed, neither is trauma. Tools for the weak I say. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:14 No.23099597 >>23099504 Believe what you will. Not as if it matters to me. Though I will say I enjoy the drama, an air of glamour around oneself. It helps as long as you can draw others in. People want to believe life is a show, something of an adventure that is just waiting to happen to them. As long as you make them believe that, even if for the smallest of moments, they will follow you. Those paths exist no longer in the world, at least not in any society on the planet worth mentioning. One must make the path for themselves, and it is a one man street. You can not bring others along with you, but merely show them glimpses, to try and force them to carve their own. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:15 No.23099614 ITT: One guy talking to himself without knowing it O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:16 No.23099622 File: 1360570586644.jpg-(237 KB, 800x800, 1360033227639.jpg) THERE ARE LEVELS OF IRONY HERE >>23099597 Would you consider yourself an idealist or a pragmatist? THAT YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:20 No.23099669 >>23099622 No human being can ever be purely one or the other. For some things I believe I an idealist, or at least reaching for goals that are idealistic in nature. On others I am pragmatic, knowing that which is beyond my limitations. The point is one must not have unrealistic ideas as to what they can do, wishing for something, an ideal, that is far beyond them. Instead they must create within themselves the means to do that which is beyond. I have done so, I have created these minds, and they have shown me that my dreams were too small. I can look for more now, horizons I never even glimpsed with my face pressed against the ground for so long. You can see it too, you need only look up. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:22 No.23099683 File: 1360570924342.jpg-(31 KB, 360x270, k-on-episode-1-51.jpg) He thought he wasn't special enough he made people in his head who were... or something? I don't know, but this is amazing material for a BBEG in a modern campaign. Raise your hand if you're gonna steal this. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:30 No.23099782 >>23099773 You heard him though... he only wants to be remembered. Only... Remembered... So isn't us doing this only playing into his game? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:31 No.23099789 Would it be possible to make an improved version of myself, let him take over and just dissappear myself? I've always wanted someone more worthy to take my place. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:31 No.23099790 Id say write a novel but this thread is much more interesting O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:32 No.23099801 >>23098935 I think I do this "tulpa" thing too. I've been able to have conversation out loud or in my thoughts with myself for something like 10 years now. It's not just me talking, as in I would be ranting to myself about a problem and then I just start talking differently, countering my own arguments and finding pros and cons and all sorts of details I missed. I give my own self peace of mind or different viewpoints. Also, I have this "council" of sorts. I've always treated them as mental manifestations of my own moods, emotions, ways of thought etc. Like for example I have a version of myself in full plate armour, the Knight, as my honest and good side. I have an undefined amount of these characters but it feels as if I can talk to them separately and all together at any time, like some weird forum in my head. Also, anytime I'm in a mood, I feel more and more as if l'm taking the respective character's being as myself. I feel as if I cease being Normal Anon and, when I wish to do pure good, I feel more like Knight Anon, far far different than normal me even in tastes, speech and train of thought. I don't visualize in real life nor have I ever heard voices though. Is this Tulpa s---? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:34 No.23099824 Ok, I don't know who Mr.BBEG is, but I have a question. Do you ever have hallucinations? Because I'm curious about them if you do. Are the people you see different from you, looks wise? Also are there in girls in there? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:40 No.23099886 >>23099824 Yes I do, those with me walk beside me. They are me, but they must have a presence themselves within the world. It is easier to speak to them if I can see them, is it not? Though it is just as easy to put these others away, of course it has been getting harder lately, but that is to be expected. Sometimes they pop out when they shouldn't, coming out to see what I am and what not. It's rather annoying if I am to be perfectly honest. They disagree of course, especially Maria. Yes, there are three females, and three males besides myself. I decided it would be better to have an even split, perspectives and what not. Yes they look different than me, in the beginning I created what they look like, but as they gaining an automatous realm of thought they built themselves. Most have a constant form, one that is who they are. One does not, he prefers change and trying new bodies. I am unsure if want to go into more details however. Even the name, Maria, is dangerous. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:48 No.23099972 >>23099945 No, but I liked the whole BBEG vibe the guy was giving off. The guy seems perfect to add into a game. I mean come on; a lonely writer who broke his own mind for his art, and then went down the path of world domination. The glamour s---, the "I will be remembered", stuff about the one vs billions to seven, the belief people are just a pile of deeds. It's all perfect for a bad guy. Honestly if the few posts here he wrote a better villain than I have ever been able to. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:51 No.23100008 >>23099801 Talking to yourself, no matter how you think about it, is a great way to wrap your mind around new things. You can analyse things with ease, reach new insight and improve on your thinking by doing this. But please don't kid yourself by thinking you're talking to anyone but yourself. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:56 No.23100073 >>23100014 Alright. Hey cracked-mind/BBEG if you are still here riddle me this; You said earlier that tools are for the weak. Is this mindset not a weakness of itself? The weak may use tools to compensate, but if I gave a 100% is it not a strength to use a tool to reach 110%? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)03:58 No.23100106 >>23100042 Of course it is. I did it after allI. I am special in no way, merely a man who has seen the light. The light is beautiful, and I find it illuminated many more things to be discovered. Come on, it would be better if I was not the only one to experience these things. To never be alone, to have comrades to walk along the same path, to fall back into your own head and find arms ready to embrace and support you. Comrades, friends, a world within yourself ripe for plunder. Don't you want to find it, take the journey? If not you will only go back to a life, a life of pain and monotony. Is that really what you wish for? The same thing day in and day out, going to work, coming home, eating, sleeping, s-------, f------... Nothing beyond such simple things. Sixty years on the rat race, trying to stave of death. Telling yourself it is never safe to do those things, or that it is merely not the time. No! Come to a new world. It is a leap of fate, but be strong. You are not the first to carve this path, and with each one it becomes a little wider. Pave the way for those to come, as I have. Create a new world, with me. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:00 No.23100124 >>23100042 >>23100106 This is how I imagine cults are started. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:02 No.23100151 >>23099435 They then realize that they can not get out, and must accept that either he somehow trapped them in his mind or from the beginning they were also thoughtforms that BBEG made to make himself confront the reality of who he is... O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:06 No.23100189 >>23099435 >>23100151 I like this so much i'm going to write a movie concept about it and present it to my media company. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:07 No.23100197 >>23100073 I see your point, and counter with something very simply. I don't care. Rules set for myself, guard rails and regulations, things that can and must not be done to preserve the integrity of my own accomplishments. Those thins, tools of outside the body, if I am to do them than my legacy will be spoiled. My own state of mind does not matter, but my deeds and how they were done do. I carved a path to a new world, a better world, with my own cracking. If I was to do it with drugs, such sickly humors, or trauma. Some artificial tool to crack what is within me... that wouldn't make it my history destroyed! My remembrance would fade, the world would see and scoff at my accomplishments. My path much be forged with me and that which is within me. My friends, those who I have created for these duties. The seven of us shall see this through to the end, and you will hear my name ring for ever more. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:08 No.23100210 >>23100189 Dude, BBEG should be on the writing team. He said he was a writer didn't he? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:13 No.23100264 >>23100210 And by meeting new people and becoming successful in general, the writer doesn't have to be lonely anymore and his personalities can disappear without a worry. The End. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:14 No.23100273 >>23100264 >and by accumulating wealth and power he forms a cult of personality and begins his world takeover. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:12 No.23100249 >>23100014 >>23100073 >>23100197 any monikers from the thread you prefer for the sake of easy address? Counter-Counter-Point, We only make progress by standing on the shoulders of giants. To forsake tools and advances is a fool's game. If you care about legacy, then you must realize no one will care if you rediscover fire? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:15 No.23100283 >>23100249 Giant must be torn down. Their shoulders are high, but their shadows are longer. Why would I try to balance on their shoulders when I could be the cornerstone for a tower anew? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:16 No.23100287 >>23100273 Shhh that's the sequel. I want people to stay after the credits for the cliffhanger. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:17 No.23100295 >>23100273 He succeeds and a new civilization is born where people shatter their minds and use all the personalities as fall backs for their shortcomings. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:18 No.23100303 >>23100295 this sounds like one of those "terrifying utopia" things, like demolition man O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:19 No.23100326 >>23100303 This movie keeps sounding better and better. Each squeal would switch genre... representing another personality within the main characters head. What about the love story between him and one of the people in his own head? There could be a really intense romantic scene, between him and a hallucinations. Then suddenly the scene cuts and the guy is just sitting alone in a room in the dark, his food at the table eaten, but the other just sitting cold and the cable just having gone out. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:23 No.23100351 Honestly, in regards to the multiple personalities / tulpas / thoughtforms / what have you, I think it sounds like a really interesting and personal experiment. Every distinct personality you create is a chance to step outside the box of your common currents of thought and get fresh perspectives on nearly anything you experience, while simultaneously giving you the guarantee that all observable data is 100% in sync between all 'witnesses' to said data. You would have to work pretty hard to get the process down; devote your entire focus to conversations between the 'characters,' entirely internal, so that you can shape and define the different perspectives, and also normalizing the process of holding multiple lines of thought via 'conversation.' I think I am just interested enough to try this myself. Like, not just passing interest, but hardcore devotion, at least until I can determine if there will be substantial results. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:24 No.23100356 >>23100326 The end twist is that he's in a coma and all throughout the movie/s, there would be loads of hidden signs. Like he has the inability to remember much from "last night", like a running gag. People assume he's just drunk cause s---, there he is with a beer in his hand! but nobody realizes it's actually because his brain is slowly dying. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:37 No.23100475 >>23100401 Or actually the coma twist is too overused when you think about it. Less creative. How about the "go into mind bbeg's mind" thing and finding out the real BBEG personality trapped and scared is a mere child unable to cope with the loss of a parent, sibling or beloved pet? Basically, the child creates an entire alternate dimension in his head where he is every person populating it, each character a separate fragment of his psyche. They could be named after things relevant to his life and the audience would just consider them nicknames, especially if the movie has a modern setting with a gang of good-hearted street gangstaz or something fighting some corporate bigshot or whatever. the good guys AND the bad guys and everyone in between are aspects of the child's mind. In the end, he breaks himself out of it. Could have a positive message about depression or mental illness, in that you should never give up trying to help yourself but also accepting help and being a good person in general to those who need it. A somewhat deep movie that hardcore moviegoers and families can enjoy. Could also work as a videogame, with multiple endings. good guys win, kid becomes normal again. Bad guys win, kid gets locked up in a mental asylum all his life or becomes some ultraviolent sickfo. The guy down the street who owns the cornerstore and doesn't give a f--- ends up on top and kid becomes a wanderer, travelling the earth and sampling all of life's guilty pleasures etc. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:41 No.23100509 >>23100475 I like the lonely writer idea better that evolves with him going from protagonist to villain by the end of the series. I think it would be an amazing series of movies. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:39 No.23100492 >>23100470 You merely don't see the world as it should be, you see it as it is. Those without vision, who have their eyes firmly planted on the ground, shall fall away as time moves on. No legacy, nothing to prove you ever existed. You might as well not have existed at all. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:42 No.23100520 Mr.BBEG... what is your name? Just the first, the last does matter. I'm curious. Names mean a lot, and if it's something cool then you probably are gonna go full RL BBEG. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:44 No.23100550 >>23100520 I like "crackedmind" that another poster came up with personally. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:48 No.23100578 >>23100520 I am Alexander, you may call me Alexander Crackedmind if you want to refer to me as something beyond my first name. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:47 No.23100571 >>23100530 It could have his own split personalities eventually leave him, seeing what he has become and deciding it would better to disappear. The main character desperately tries to force them to stay, but can't. This could happen to the personality he is romantically involved with (the one from the romantic scene). I NEED THIS NOW /TG/ O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:55 No.23100634 So crackedmind how open are you about your mental passengers with friends/family? I assume you don't put "I have 7 minds within me" on job applications but is there anyone who knows you personally who know? What about wife/gf issues. Can you imagine caring about somebody so deeply that you let them into the inner workings of your mind? And if so how would you feel about them changing one of your imagined personalities? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:58 No.23100651 >>23100634 Why would I tell anyone else? I realize most would not understand such things, and most would scorn me as some kind of monster or seek my admittance to a mental institution. Companions like wives and girlfriends, distractions from a goal. I can not imagine it because it will not happen. My family would be the only ones I would even consider it for, and only do I not to let them have an ease of mind. No one can change the personalities, they are mine and mine alone. The world within my head is a kingdom. The only ones who allowed entrances are those already within. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)04:59 No.23100675 >>23100651 Speaking of which, how's the pursuit of your goal coming along? O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)05:04 No.23100709 >>23100651 Not true, we fool ourselves into thinking that our wills are ours alone, but every conversation is proof that we are capable of being influenced, seeing ideas that we have never conceived of before. Your work seeks to leave that lasting mark on others, why would you deny that others can likewise change and shape you. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)05:21 No.23100864 >>23100735 Of course I am, and they are contributing in a meaningful matter, but at the moment it my time to be in control of all of this. We take turns making decisions and generally vote on certain things. I of course have veto power, but I do not abuse it. Most of them are, but they very in degrees. I am the most focused. >>23100684 I am not shut in here, you assume I am locked away from the world and fear it. No, I merely have more power now beside me and those to support me. I am not locked in there with them, it is you all, those out in the world, are stuck in this world with me. I wish you luck on that. >>23100709 Because how I am to be greater than they, have works far more reaching, than to put myself on something greater and beyond influence. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)05:28 No.23100944 >>23100864 >Dude has this all figured out Somebody archive this thread incase he pulls this off - I know that I will be on the lookout for authors/world tyrants named Alexander from now on. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)05:45 No.23101099 >>23100864 Surely if you want to be remembered for eternity you would not bother with being a writer.You would be better off being a business man making oodles of money. Pump that money into space exploration, first a colony on the moon or even a space ship people could actually live on indefinately. Because otherwise the narcissitic desire to be remembered ends with the English language or the earth itself. Plus you coud name the colony/ship etc, alexandria .. heh Also enjoy being completely mis-represented should history ever take note of you. O Anonymous 02/11/13(Mon)10:00 No.23102977 >This thread You know guys, I was THIS CLOSE to forgetting where I was, I was so close to thinking you guys were by and large average people who just enjoy a fairly niche hobby. But of course this thread ruined that.

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Post-Industrial Wasteland Ecology and Geography Worldbuilding

File: sci-fi-art-of-chris-drysdale-4.jpg (111 KB, 1024x576) O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)17:34:41 No.67510490 Archived What would the geological strata of a 10000-year old industrial world be like assuming the inhabitants gave zero f---- about the environment. So far I have concrete, industrial slag, and rusted metal, but more is good. Also, general discussion of tabletop things to do in such a setting is encouraged. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)17:36:08 No.67510516 >> >>67510490 Acidified soil which is also polluted by heavy metals on which almost nothing grows. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)17:51:16 No.67510753 >>67510490 You could have the bacteria and simple organisms which can survive on such toxic fare form huge slimy "fields" of matted biofilm. If the PCs investigate further, they may see miniscule organisms crawling and slithering through the stinking slime. Give the impression that although life is recovering, the new ecosystem is not going to be one favorable for human ( If the PCs are human) colonization. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)19:55:13 No.67512676 I'm a geologist, and I've thought about this quite a lot. You would likely find a planetwide stratum highly enriched in heavy metals, especially well preserved in lacustrine and coastal marine sediments, which would also contain large amounts of preserved trash; especially glass, stainless steel and some plastics, would would all still be kicking around after that time. 10ky isn't enough time to form rock, so they would all be as unconsolidated sediments and soils. Cities would have a highly peculiar geology, consisting of geometrically arranged hummocky hills probably grassed over, with the hills consisting of concrete with the presence of iron-rich minerals and, depending on the building, trace metals like tellurium, neodymium, gold etc. from electronics and so on divided by strips of tar that are buried roads. Fragments of well-built tunnel networks would survive, those that are not caved in would be either crumbling or filled with water and sediment depending on the height of the water table, their construction and the surrounding geology. Around and especially downwind of the cities would see very high amounts of heavy metal and toxic pollutants, provided they haven't been leached out by rain. Nuclear facilities would also be very identifiable thanks to their radioactive pollution slick and concentration, and many containment structures would still survive thanks to being massive edifices. Rubbish dumps would turn into goldmines for artifacts, and many would be very well preserved thanks to the anoxic conditions inside the trash heaps. Some structures, especially large ones of concrete and stone, would survive. I'm talking about hydro dams, bridge pillars, monuments and the sort of large edifice that would resist erosion. Pure concrete would survive better than reinforced concrete, since steel rebar has a tendency to swell as it rusts and crack the concrete. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)19:56:19 No.67512689 >>67512676 Mines would also be very well preserved, with quarries appearing nearly exactly as they were left. Underground networks would also probably be still around, but crumbling supports would render many highly unstable and under the water table some may completely fill with sediment and mineral deposits (given long enough this would lithify and form a perfect underground cast of the tunnel network). This also goes for mountain transport tunnels. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)21:30:25 No.67513869 File: 3c2bf4d8673ae762d33dd3f2a(...).jpg (86 KB, 550x733) >>67510490 Not the geological strata, but I wouldn't mind commenting on the environmental conditions a bit: First and foremost conditions would be arid, uncomfortable, and toxic, with much of the world desertified or otherwise turned into a kind of wasteland of harsh toxic winds, rust storms, dust devils, acid rain storms, with most freshwater available being either acidic or extremely toxic due to industrial runoff and other contaminates. >Birds are basically extinct. Most if not all birds would be extinct. Much like a Canary in a coal mine their delicate lungs and sensitive respiratory systems would not be able to withstand or adapt in time to the heavily polluted air of this industrial waste-world. There species most likely to persist would be the ones we're already accustomed to: Pigeons, Sparrows, Carrion Birds, but even these birds would be very rare, few in number, with their entire species' health and reproduction constantly compromised by this environment. >Rat world Every mammal larger than a Dog would be extinct, but the ones that did survive would carry on and if anything thrive as they've always done during such dramatic extinction events. Creatures like Rats, Mice, Shrews, Moles, Gophers, Rabbits, and other rodents & burrowing creatures would find this meager world abundant in resources and lacking in predators. They would simply be everywhere: subterranean animals can survive effortlessly in high carbon-dioxide and low oxygen environments, combined with their fast rate of reproduction would allow them to easily adapt, evolve, and overcome any obstacle this rust world threw at them. Still, though, there would also be Canines, Goats, Hogs... Maybe Bears? Omnivorous generalists would be at an advantage, but most large animals would find it difficult to find sufficient sustenance or take too long to mature and reproduce before they succumb to pollutants. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)22:04:35 No.67514293 File: Oa678daae67232420ddc21a4d(...).jpg (86 KB, 1024x597) >>67513869 >Spots of greenery. Vegetation would continue to grow and the world would remain greener than most people would expect it to be as a diversity of species would be more than capable of safely growing in toxic & polluted conditions due to remediation techniques, but the arid and hostile weather conditions and the presence of acid rain would limit really abundant, rich, greenery and growth... Most of this vegetation would be immediately toxic and inedible to people and would need to be washed and processed. Trees would be exceedingly rare; replaced by scrubs, shrubs, bushes, succulents, grasses, lichens, moss, and other foliage that can withstand not just the lack of proper rainfall, but keep from being torn apart by the rust winds. Though, most places would often simply be too wind-swept, too hard of earth, and too 'sanitized' (lacking in rich earth) to sustain vegetation. >Creeping things. The vast majority of Insects would largely not give a single s---, but an overwhelming spectrum of specialized insects would go extinct from the absence of the unique resources and ecosystems they dependent upon as opposed to the polluted biosphere. I highly doubt any Bees, Butterflies, Moths, and most Wasps wouldn't make it, but certain Beetles, Flies, Roaches, Mosquitos, Worms, and the like would adapt, overcome, and carry on as usual. By the 10,000 year mark Insects would be carrying on as if nothing happened. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)22:29:32 No.67514584 File: eba179ce56f965fb406ffcd8f(...).jpg (159 KB, 768x511) >>67514293 >Muddy shallow oceans: rich with 'life'. Despite this worlds oceans drying out to shallow seas they would still contain a rich, versatile, depth of marine life and be home to 90-97% of the polluted worlds life. To the point where people and creatures living by what remained of the muddy, polluted, plastic covered seas would still fare quite well compared to the people and creatures living in the interior wastelands. The other irony is that these shallow seas would allow for more sunlight to breach through the depths and encourage the development of more reefs, kelp forests, and 'land' for other marine organisms to flourish despite the conditions. Indeed, the only 'real' threat faced by the remaining oceans would be the suppressive, smothering, waves of plastic that would block the sun and choke creatures. Most heavy metal pollutants and industrial run-off would give rise to algae blooms and act as vital fertilizer and nutrients to Scum, Algae, and other simple organisms. These in turn provide ample sustenance for bottom feeders and combined with the far warmer waters would give rise to increase size, fertility, and populations of shellfish: Mussels, Lobsters, Crabs, etc.. These creatures would be, again, toxic, due to pollution, but they'd still be an important food source. Everything else in the ocean would be hit or miss depending on how many species were left untouched as no threat is greater to the ocean than overfishing. Most marine mammals & seabirds would not survive these harsh conditions (Penguins and small Baleen Whales might ironically persist?), but fish would be able to repopulate, survive, adapt, re-fill niches, and even SWELL in numbers so long as they weren't eaten before the collapse. O Anonymous 07/28/19(Sun)23:50:07 No.67515469 No standing or running freshwater would be safe or trustworthy: it would ALL be contaminated by the heavily polluted world's plastics, heavy metals, and various other noxious pollutants- some sources of water wouldn't even be water but horrible burning pools of acid. The only safe source of moisture would be from acid rain and even then it wouldn't be 'truly' safe; the LEAST safe source would be ground water, as it'd be completely and totally saturated in the absolute worst contaminates. This is a world devoid of wells. Many freshwater biomes would be highly polluted, dangerous, muddy cesspools devoid of any palatable life; giving off noxious fumes that alone would dissuade other creatures from drinking from them, never mind some of them in fact being horrifying pools of flesh-melting acid. Despite such adversity there would still be Scum, Algae, and dense clouds of Microbes, all supped on by seemingly invincible and now ridiculously plentiful Minnows (progressively getting larger and larger. Pan-sized Killifish would not be uncommon). Running rivers would fare 'slightly' better, but they'd still be home to much the same- only just clean enough to house Catfish, toxic Shellfish, and fish capable of breathing air. There would be no Frogs, no Newts; all amphibians would be extinct, with intrepid air-breathing fish aggressively taking over their now empty niche. O Anonymous 07/29/19(Mon)02:34:19 No.67517474 First and foremost: I don't think people would be living in scavenged, ugly, derelict, improvised, shanty towns, I just don't. I also don't think you're ever going to see anybody living out in the open. This polluted world is going to not just dominated by hot, arid, toxic wastelands, but it's also going to come with all the weather conditions: acidic rains that eat through and corrode most metal or wood structures, and massive, extremely powerful, noxious dust storms filled with rust, pollutants, and even radioactive debris. Most people (depending on their technological levels) are either going to be nomadic (actively fleeing from the weather), living underground, or in specific terrain that otherwise blocks the wind or keeps them secluded from the worst conditions. Imagine the dust bowl, but now it burns, it can make you sick, and it's got enough momentum to shave you. | think people are going to recycle what's available and use it to make 'new' stuff for themselves: buildings out of clay, straw, brick, and mortar, metal melted down and reforged into higher quality tools, weapons, & armor, vehicles and technology either fixed or refurbished into 'new' devices to lengthen their lifespan. Nothing is going to be made out of wood. Wood is gone. Technology, though, can be whatever you want it to be. I'd imagine there'd be the full spectrum: people living in technologically advanced communities, ignoring the problems outside as they live in unfathomably luxury and plot their next step into space. People living in 'fairly' developed mixed medieval-modern 'Nausicaa' style countries or kingdoms that are naturally protected from the worst weather- relying on swords, guns, and tanks to defend their highly sought after land, where you've got pick up trucks & radios, but your military still wears suits of armor. Finally, you may even have just.. straight up ooga booga not!larping, legitimately f------ ignorant tribal communities. O Anonymous 07/29/19(Mon)14:28:23 No.67524582 File: post-apoc london.jpg (289 KB, 1920x1080) >>67517474 >>67515469 I don't know if you're still here (and this is great stuff btw), but seeing as you mention how utterly rekt the saturated ground would be in terms of contaminants, I'm wondering how that would affect the big classic response to apocalyptic catastrophes - digging a big hole and building a bunker in it. Does that plan still hold up when the earth is toxic as hell? O Anonymous 07/29/19(Mon)19:00:06 No.67529247 >>67524582 >Does that plan still hold up when the earth is toxic as hell? Soft yes. Even though the ground is just completely saturated a Bunker would still function more or less the same because a 'good' Bunker would be air-tight, lead walls, protected from outside contaminants both from above and below. The only issue here is you wouldn't have the advantage of things like ground water, but if you've got a BUNKER, Bunker than you probably already have some sort of system going on. Even less-than-air-tight Bunkers would still be a thing in this world despite the health-risks simply because living in a dry pit of noxious materials is better than standing out in the open and getting sand-blasted down by the radioactive rust storms that blow over everything and everyone. This is also just something to think about, but a Bunker is usually implemented for apocalyptic situations where there's an immediate 'doomsday', but conditions are 'eventually' expected to improve: the fallout settles, society rebuilds itself, you maybe crawl out after 10 years and see what's up. This isn't going to be the case for Trash World. Our polluted world has seen 10,000 years of pollution (and industrial/technological development) and it's going to be a s--- hole for functionally forever, like, we're talking longer than 30,000 years, but maybe less time than 3 million? You, your kids, your grandkids, basically everyone 'forever' would only ever know garbage. O Anonymous 07/30/19(Tue)22:36:09 No.67549523 File: algae-beach[1].jpg (112 KB, 350x250) >>67517474 Lets talk about what there is to eat. Every plant is going to be toxic or 'immediately' inedible in some way or another, lets just address that right now. EVERYTHING is going to need to be washed thoroughly and then soaked in water for days before it becomes edible as ALL the plants (I think the term is remediation?) are going to store the various hazardous materials they're exposed to on a daily basis in their leaves and roots. Most people forced to live 'outdoors' or otherwise exposed are going to be farming a variety of starchy root vegetable. Gone are the days long growing periods and large exposed fields: conventional agriculture is going to be largely impractical or impossible due to the dust storms, the heat, and ironically not due to the pollution in the soil or the noxious atmosphere (still a problem, but being torn apart by wind is something most plants would never adapt too). The people with access or ingenuity to build indoor greenhouses and hydroponics would generate far better table fare as our polluted world would be FILLED with the ingredients for excellent fertilizer: collect soil, seave out the plastic, rinse and mix with water, if it's too dry add human/animal waste- you now have excellent (if radioactive) fertilizer rich in all manner of minerals & nutrients. Corn, beans, peas and grapes are big on this filthy metal-infused kind of dirt, but I think thin-rooted leafy vegetables don't mind it either? Again, wash everything. Though, algae replace grain. Algae would be 'the' food. Algae thrives in polluted waters, algae is a complete protein/provides ample nourishment, algae has a unique chemical agent in it that bonds with heavy metals and acts as an effective long-term treatment for poisoning, algae can also be used to make -safe- cooking oil (which would be rare) as well as biofuel for machines. Roasted, dried, or raw, algae also retains most of it's nutrients no matter what you do with it. O Anonymous 07/30/19(Tue)23:27:52 No.67550111 File: graphics-ssf_a-labella-_1(...).jpg (65 KB, 1200x675) >>67549523 Algae would also be an excellent source of animal feed and a decent segway into what most, like, 80% of people would actually be eating: meat. Agriculture is impractical, but meat would be the treat to eat in trash world. Rats, lizards, shrews, voles, moles, (admittingly) sickly deer, goats & small pigs, and a rich persistent supply of ever-present insects would all still be stubbornly persisting and therefor eatable. The great benefit of meat in this hazardous world is that it converts the paltry, inedible, hazardous, and often toxic plant life into more nutritious and far more palatable flesh. The animals that remain are going to adapt, evolve, and overcome the obstacles of this polluted world far faster than humans will: short life spans, high birth rates, and unlike plants they'll evolve ways to diffuse or 'remove' the hazardous contaminants instead of diffusing or moving them around in their bodies.. That and milk. From goats. Mostly. Rat & worm farms, goat herds, and people heading out with a shovel to turn over rocks or dig out the burrows of some tasty gopher would be the 'norm'. Seafood and even fish is still going to be on the menu as well. Shellfish (including Crustaceans) would be abundant and a reliable source of food, but would have to washed and rinsed thoroughly as they'd be loaded with pollutants that don't bother 'them', but would make a human terribly sick. Saltwater fish would be fair better than land animals, but worse than shellfish. Overall some things wouldn't change and you'd still see large populations congregating in maritime communities to fish the plastic-choked waters of this garbage world. There'd even be a scant few freshwater fish actively -thriving- because they were willing to put up with toxic environments in the first place just to survive and now their unique niche biome is EVERYWHERE. Provided people figured out a safe way to fish flammable waters, you could sup on some decent pan-sized fish.

/tg/

worldbuilding speculative evolution speculative biology speculative anthropology post-apocalyptic

north american roman empire

File : 1309963244.jpg-(113 KB, 699x312, Romans_Americans.jpg) O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)10:40 No.15491610 Ok /tg/, my next campaign involves a bunch of Romans (led by a much less killed by Parthians Crassus) who ended up landing in what is now Los Angeles, from around the year 50 BC, thanks to Chinese magic warping their inconvenient expedition 'somewhere out of the way.' The better part of two thousand years later, explorers from Europe bumble into the Americas while looking for tea, and find an eerily familiar "Atlantean Empire" just constructing ships of their own to figure out what is on the other side of that very same ocean. Those European explorers are my players. So /tg/, I need ideas for how Romans+Native Americans would look culturally, militarily and as an Empire. This is of course assuming that even with their initial advantage and powerful culture, the Romans would've had to absorb many times their number worth of Americans to survive in their new home, and thus, would probably have adopted a lot of distinctly I---- traits alongside their own. Also, is this a cool idea, y/n? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)10:46 No.15491637 Hmm. I'm tempted to say that, with the Native American stance on landownership (you don't, and how could you?), land might be considered a matter of the res publica rather than a private person's. (This assumes the Romans accept the idea of shared landownership and integrate that with the idea of the public matter, rather than go LOL NO and hand out I---- lands for their veterans.) >Antipater temonas How Roman of you, captcha. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)10:47 No.15491649 >>15491637 I've serious doubts that they would harmonize their ideals with the Injuns. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)10:50 No.15491664 File1309963816.jpg-(192 KB, 1024x819, Roman Sophitia.jpg) I can't see the Romans respecting a people who haven't figured out how to fight real wars yet. West coast native americans were very much this. They were less developed than the aborigines for God's sake, at least the Australian natives had figured out spears. Then again, it probably won't matter, because of how many goddamn women they're going to need to buy or steal. I don't know how many chicks these guys thought to bring along, but unless they invented co-ed legions while I wasn't looking, they're going to have to pull the whole Sabine Women thing every other day for the first few decades if they want a stable population base. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)10:51 No.15491676 >>15491637 Two generations after the Romans build their first city, every kid from all the tribes in the area will either have citizenship or be waiting for one. Wisdom of the land and harmony with the spirits is fine only as long as you don't have an alternative. Romans got so big because most of the conquered populations wanted to be Romans, too. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)10:58 No.15491753 >>15491649 >l've serious doubts that they would harmonize their ideals with the Injuns. This. We're talking about a Roman Legion in a climate reminiscent of their home (i.e. not too hot, not too cold). They certainly wouldn't be starving or dying. They would impose their upon the Natives. End off. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:01 No.15491792 Don't forget the effect of introducing European disease into the Americas fifteen hundred years early. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:03 No.15491811 >>15491758 I think it would end up like this: Alright you savages, listen up. We're right, you're wrong. You believe what we believe now. That thing you always believe in? Turns out it was secretly this thing we believe in. And a bunch of Indian slowly trying to merge their ancestors stuff with the shiny people's beliefs. So what we end up with is a clusterfuck of Native American ideas with a Roman veneer. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:08 No.15491842 File1309964901.jpg-(21 KB, 143x231, Zeus_Troll.jpg) >>15491811 >mfw Coyote was just Zeus coming down in animal form to r--- delicious squaw O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:10 No.15491850 >>15491610 >constructing ships of their own to figure out what is on the other side of that very same ocean. I don't need to tell you how f------ bad this is for Europe, do l? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:13 No.15491868 /tg/ dismisses the native Americans too easily. When they weren't fighting people with guns, they did pretty damn well. They regularly slapped the Viking's s--- if you remember. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:18 No. 15491900 >>15491868 That's true. But those were East-Coast indians, fighting against what amounted to the crews of boats. This is a fully formed land army that somehow ended up in West-Coast America. The western injuns did not have a particularly well honed martial tradition. Didn't even have the concept of dedicated melee weapons down, as far as I know. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:39 No.15491983 >>15491929 There is some hope. Southern California is so ridiculously fertile that a scottsman could piss on it and grow hops, and the Pacific is MADE out of fish. If the Romans were to spread out along the coast and rely heavily on fishing for a few years, they might be able to get something resembling agriculture going with corn. Other problems with less in the way of answers are: -Women -Domestic animals (would they be able to breed more horses with their limited stock?) -Metal (with zero in the way of native exploitation, how the hell would the Romans find and harvest more metal for tools and weapons? ) -Alcohol (The Romans relied so much on f------ vinegar for everything that they'd probably kill themselves if they realized they were going to run out.) O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)11:58 No.15492119 >>15491983 It seems to me that the shock of the transition would either cause the Romans to march inland/along the coast and die, or spread out relatively widely, developing agricultural and fishing systems quickly (after all, they would have had plenty of former farmers). There would be a LOT of breeding with native women, but Roman culture would probably be pretty much upheld, and you'd end up with a very self-reliant, organized nation with one hell of a founding story. Also, with no Christanity and no dark ages, you'd probably have a very different idea of science and philosophy. I'd guess that very logical, Grecian philosophy mixed with Roman ideals of self-reliance and the State would be the main influence on their culture, and rather than the scientific method they would be focused around heavy engineering based on theoretical innovations, rather than the hypothesis, trial, implementation method. Chances are that means bigger buildings, and a focus on practicality. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)12:26 No.15492311 >>15492201 The legions carried everything with them. They were basically living on the stone age wherever they went, carrying everything they needed with them. They even had their own smiths. Raw materials will be a problem, but in no way would the legions be in "deep s---". We're talking about a fully self-sufficient force capable of fending for themselves. Granted, there will likely be bitching when it comes time to reforge some of those weapons into farmtools and it will be a pretty "You want to WHAT?" when someone mentions that we're better off with rudimentary spears, resource-wise, than full swords; but no, that's not "Deep s---". O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)12:31 No.15492353 >>15492311 Didn't they also have the usual train of prostitutes, traders etc.? Have a large enough base of women, and you might not even need the natives (who'd probably be dying off from European diseases anyway). Hell. plonk an apothecary or two and you've got the basis for a city right there. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)12:32 No.15492365 A fascinating idea. I think the legion would be just fine. After a century or two of establishing an economic and cultural base, they would begin a conquest of the coasts or california and uniting all the various tribes. You know, kind of like EXACTLY how Rome itself came to be. It would basically be the Aeneid all over again. I also like the idea of native auxiliaries that were mentioned by another anon earlier. Most of the tribesmen would be trained/cultured to fight in the roman style, but Rome as also famous for taking the concepts and tactics of their enemies into their own ways of fighting, and then improving upon them. I'm now imagining lorica wearing, face-painted, tomahawk wielding skirmishers that shout war cries as they charge into battle for scalp trophies to present to Caesar, the son of the Jupiter Eagle. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)12:33 No.15492371 >>15492311 That's pretty deep s---. Anywhere else, at any point in history, pretty much no matter who you took as your control group, that would be the apocalypse. Romans are just abnormally buoyant in s---. Romans live in the s--- pool. Romans can tread s--- indefinitely. So they'll live. But this is a phenomenally bad situation, even for them. Evidently they survive and prosper, since we can already see into the future a thousand years and they now run the entire continent, but nobody's going to be looking back at this time as a happy one. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)12:37 No.15492407 The Natives shouldn't be underestimated but we're talking about Romans fighting in a land with a lot of open plains in a land where NOBODY has horses. That in mind, will the Romans have enough horses with them to maintain a breeding stock? What the f--- are they going to do for communication and supply without all those horses? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)12:43 No.15492451 >>15492407 I would assume that as soon as the romans figured out they weren't in Roman Kansas any more, they would immediately build a frontier fort and settle into one spot. The war horses would be preserved, because people aren't stupid about wasting extremely valuable war horses. So basically, they would probably cut their active cavalry cohort in half, keeping one half combat ready and the other half for breeding. Wait. F---. Weren't warhorses primarily stallions? I don't know if they would even have female horses for breeding, which f------ sucks for EVERYONE since horses are an integral part of society at that time period. Horses were used for EVERYTHING O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)12:46 No.15492476 >>15492407 I'd say it would depend on how much of their force was auxiliary cavalry. Conveniently, we know that the man in charge of this expedition was f------ Crassus, who had a force with enormous cavalry support for a Roman army of his day, because he knew he was going to be fighting Parthians. However he ended up in China and then America, that means he's got a good, diverse stock of horse, with more probably drawn from Bactria and the verious Hellanistic and Persian demikingdoms in that region. So assuming total manpower including support personnel, slaves and w----- in the baggage train totals out to about 50,000, horsepower and mules should probably number in the region of 20,000. Mules, of course, are sterile, so when they're done they're done, but there also might be civilian donkeys to breed (they did have to pass through Asia Minor...) chickens were usually kept with the army for the officers, cows are a longshot but conceivable, as milk was believed helpful for the wounded, and pigs are a moot point since the west coast is f------ made of boars. They'll probably manage. The biggest threat to Roman survival right now is the potential of disease. The Black Death hasn't happened yet, nor has Smallpox, which were the two major killers of the natives. Obviously tedious s--- like the flu and the measles will probably kill umpteen million of them, but what if something hits them back? The Romans did not have as sound of a grasp of medicine or disease as the historic European colonists did, after all. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)13:03 No.15492669 >>15492371 Oh, don't get me wrong (I'm the one you responded to). I didn't mean to say that they weren't in s---. Just not DEEP s---. I mean, they'll have a hard time, but there's no way in hell that the first two generations will have much of a problem, due to the know-how and resources they have with them (after all, with a smith, the armors and weapon, these could last for years of continuous use or be reforged) And after those two-or-so (I'm pulling "two generations" out my ass here; it just seems like a reasonable number in my head) generations, they should have everything necessary up and running. I mean, not only would they have tents, ditches and fortifications up and running the first night, but within a week you'd have a full fort. Fun fact: EVERY time the Roman Legions made camp, they made fortifications. Every single night. In times of great war or when many legions marched together, entire regions were deforested, just because they needed fortifications for nightfall. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)13:05 No.15492690 >European explorers arrive >"Ave, fishermen. We are not familiar with your tribe, but we greet you." >"We're not fishermen, we're... Are you speaking Latin?" >"...Yes. Why?" >"Nevermind. We're from Spain." >"...I do not know of this Spain." >"Look, nevermind, we just got here from across the sea, we're looking for India. Is this India?" >"I have never heard of, nor seen an India. Perhaps it is one of the local tribes?" >"No, nevermind. You are very strange, you speak a very old language, and that armor, it reminds me of something. I say, may I ask you something?" >"What is it, friend?" >"Where does that road you're paving lead?" >"Where do all roads lead?" O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)13:07 No.15492715 GUYS we should think about what the Romans would make of the event. When OP's players come in 2 thousand years later, OP better have an f------ awesome myth of the founding of the Atlantean Empire. Maybe some sort of fusion between Roman and Native American mythology? I don't know a thing about early Native American mythology. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)13:13 No.15492777 >>15492715 >l don't know a thing about early Native American mythology. That's because there weren't really any (at least not when we showed up) a uniform myth. It's a mish-mash of animism and shamanism. All in all, it's pretty easy to reconcile with the Greco-Roman faith, actually, especially if you consider that the Roman faith was pretty monolithic in it's dieties, while the indians were a diverse number of minor myths about a number of animal dieties or creationary spirits. So take the regular polytheistic faith of the Romans (Or any old European faith, really) and then allow for various minor spirits. Obviously, the great spirits will be merged with pre-existing Gods. Jupiter may aquire eagle-like characteristics, for example. But overall, split the faith in two. One with dominant, monolithic gods, subject to the traditional hierarchy. And another part, venerating the spirits of any one animal, or the spirits of a forest. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)13:17 No.15492814 >>15492777 >Roman faith >monolithic Only if you use 'monolithic' to mean "Hey, there's this god that people over there pray to. They're now part of the Empire... and, hey, look! That god is really a facet of INSERTGODOFCHOICEHERE." O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)13:07 No.15492719 File1309972054.jpg-(15 KB, 220x220, 220px-Roman_Cavalry_2[1].jpg) >>15492407 >That in mind, will the Romans have enough horses with them to maintain a breeding stock? Are we talking a full legion here? If so, yes. There may be some inbreeding for a few generations, but nothing major enough to substantially degenerate the stock. I mean, yeah, sure, they would possibly degenerate a bit, but not to the point of not being useful for breeding anymore. Yeah that's right kids; The romans had horses and the romans had cavalry, even though you never get to see them in all the fancy movies. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)13:55 No.15493096 File1309974944.jpg-(102 KB, 576x542, road[1].jpg) >>15492895 >Would legions have people with them who would understand how a lot of Roman technology worked? The Legion would have well-educated nobles in the top tiers, as well a an assorted number of learned men, and assistants. Each squad (I forget their name) had at least one man that could read/write. On top of all that, the Legion would certainly have at least a group of military engineers capable of building or organizing the construction of everything from battlements to aqueducts. Add to that apprentices of those military engineers. Fun roman fact: Did you know that the Roman Legions were the ones to build most of the roads in the Roman State? As they marched from one place to another, they also put up new roads. This was such a bitch a number of small rebellions happened over it, but they did it, and roads were the foundation of both troop movements and commerce. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)14:01 No.15493134 Also, don't forget that the Roman economy depended upon slaves. In the end, the legionnaires are not farmers. In my mind, they would likely start enslaving surrounding tribes fairly quickly. Both for breeding and work. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)15:18 No.15493700 I foresee a lot of the local natives simply moving away from the Romans. There were few to no major agricultural settlements anywhere on the continent at the time. In fact, the archaeological record is pretty spotty at about 50AD in North America. Let's assume the Romans catch, r---/enslave, and generally colonize California and the surrounding regions for a good few hundred years and don't manage to make contact with Teotihuacan before its collapse around 600AD. The Maya flourished in the jungles of modern Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico until 950 AD (collapse of their empire, not that they disappeared). That's a long time for a highly ambitious empire like the Americo-Romans to make contact with. The people that would become the Aztecs migrated south from Utah in the 1300s, following a dwarf (you heard me, a dwarf, like the Gimli kind) named Huitzilopotchli to Mexico (Our stout friend would turn into a rock on the way and have to be carried). Would the Americo-Romans interrupt that migration? What then? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)15:26 No.15493753 >>15493728 though they'd probably contact the Aztecs prior to the height of their civilization which might spur on advances in Aztec culture. In the event the Romans don't take over the Aztecs for whatever reason, they won't be pushovers by the time the Spanish arrive O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)15:26 No.15493756 File1309980381.jpg-(67 KB, 1004x358, take all my money.jpg) STAKETHIS MYLOVE MY ANGER AND ALL OF MY MONEY! Oh, god, Aztec culture and Roman style armors blended... O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)15:53 No.15493960 >>15493876 The general tack of colonization, though, will be interesting, as it will originate from the west. I'm seeing an expedition across the peninsula somewhere around Oaxaca / Vera Cruz, since the other options are OVER A FUCKHUGE MOUNTAIN, ACROSS A FUCKHUGE DESERT, or THROUGH THE FUCKHUGE JUNGLE. (Which is going to be the impression the Roman transplants take away from their new surrounds - everything is FUCKHUGE.) If they continue tracking the coast, they'll come up to Fuckhuge Swamp and the estuary of the Fuckhuge River. They go far enough upriver, they'll come to the confluences of the Mississippi and the Ohio, and then the Mississippi and the Missouri. They'll look east and see forested hills and fertile floodplains. They'll look west and see the FUCKHUGE PLAINS. Jackpot. This is why I see the eventual capital of Atlantis sitting somewhere between St. Louis and Cairo, IL. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)16:05 No.15494070 >>15493985 Now we're getting into cultural questions. How strongly do they associate with The Event that dumped them in Cali? Do their cultural mores outweigh sensible logistics? Does the first settlement become more than just another in a long series of outposts, and does culture and governance eventually flow from there? In that case, I see them having administrative capitals elsewhere but the spiritual (and core governmental capital) would remain in California. But Romans are noted pragmatists. Running the colonization of an entire continent from the tiny sliver of land between the FUCKHUGE Mountains and the FUCKHUGE Ocean, bordered to the south by the FUCKHUGE Desert? Bad logistics. It might even doom them to being a regional player. (Which, we know they're not. They won. We're figuring out the how.) O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)16:05 No.15494072 >>15494003 And when some well to do tinkerer gets his hands on some fine spun decorative copper, some lemon juice or vinegar, some clay pots, and some iron (smelted into small bars and ingots), with a tiny bit of a mixup in storage? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)16:16 No.15494146 >>15494003 I can see the various client states and regions pledging various degrees of allegiance to Atlantis, possibly engaging in some spirited border skirmishes and maybe an outright smash and grab or two. I think the biggest thing that would keep the Atlantean Empire intact as a continental body would be good ol' Roman pragmatism. You pay lip service to Atlantis, submit your taxes (nearly) as ordered and (relatively) on time, and you supply legions as requested. You do this, and you're mostly left alone to do as you see fit. You fail to do this or refuse, and the REST of the legions are going to come methodically destroy and enslave you, and put someone better-behaved in your place. It would only be if the totality of the Empire fell apart, and NOBODY was supplying legions to enforce Atlantis' will, that would result in mass balkanization. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)16:58 No.15494557 >>15494072 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery And telegraph lines. How much easier would running an empire be with some of those, eh? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:22 No.15494807 What did we say, anyway? Since I'm not American, I just sorta phased out when people started talking about location, with mention of a bunch of locations that meant nothing to me. They appear on the west coast? North or South? I can see them following the coastline, mostly, really. Especially since they have no idea where they are - for all we know, they can consider it another coastline of the Mediterranean for years, maybe several hundred, depending on their technological development and spread. I don't think they took any astronomers with them and the odds of there being seamen is low. Although it's not inconceivable that there are. Not being able to immediately find well-known astronomical markers may be a dead tipoff that they may be in Kansas evermore. I don't see them holding together a Americas-spanning Empire befor the advent of the telegraph and train a reason the Roman grew up aro the Medit ot of travel will be by boat for a very long time. anea Although it would be f------ awesome if they could devise long-range travel by special aqueducts. Actually, this raises a pretty interesting question, now that I think about it. There wasn't really anything preventing the romans from cross-atlantic travel. And these people will obviously have boats. And chances that they are still on Terra (Mars is where he's supposed to be. So is Jupiter. And if anyone had any doubts, Luna is right f------ there, every night). that they will be able to readily identify specific astronomical markers in order to establish Who's to say that they don't just up and sail home after a hundred-or-so years? Or even less, provided they can find the resources. Just throwing it out there. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:29 No.15494878 >>15494807 romans really didnt have the kind of boats required to cross an ocean also it is perfectly possible for the Cali-romans to stumle upon using electricity though happy accidents that result in something akin to a baghdad batter and then experimenting with it I think given their circumstances they'd have had to experiment with all sorts of things around them to figure out how to best make use of what they have since most of the plants and wildlife around is unlike what they'd be used to maybe have it so the cali-romans are signifigantly more advanced with electricity to the point of having telegraphs but they are lagging behind europeans with gunpowder? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:31 No.15494906 Wait, what about the Chinese? Would there be a big Chinese myth about how they used their magic to disappear a goddamn Roman Legion? Would they remember it on the off chance the Atlantean Empire expanded off into the Pacific? O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:35 No.15494944 >>15494906 they'd have legends of robed sorcerer monks from the far east, inflated into legendary hyperboles over time if they found china again they'd probably want to pick up where their ancestors left off O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:41 No.15495006 >>15494878 Sure, but if they're smart enough to pick up telegraphs, then they're not going to take more than one or two encounters to begin experimenting for gunpowder. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:50 No.15495099 >>15495006 Gunpowder came about in China because someone was trying to find an immortality drug and discovered that if you mix charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter, that s--- explodes. I don't know about charcoal, but if you had a Atlantean tinkerer or chemist somewhere around that could find an excuse to put all that stuff together -maybe for introducing incense to some new Roman/Native American cult around Portland, Oregon, or some damn thing- you'd have gunpowder. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:54 No.15495137 On the one hand you have maybe 70-100 european explorers armed mostly with swords and crossbows, with a few guns and maybe a cannon or two thrown in. The wealthy will have a horse, which in fact kicks them up into a higher catagory when the loot is divided. Armor is mostly a steel breastplate and helmet. On the other you have the entirety of the Tenth Legion and four cohorts of Sioux Auxila and two of Huron. I know who I'm placing my money on. The Romans will have gunpowder tech a few weeks after they capture a few guns. And if they capture a few guns, they're gonna capture more then a few Spaniards. Who, properly motivated, will teach the romans how to make gunpowder. And Guns. Ten years later the Senate orders 12 legions to launch an invasion against Spain under the command of the rising star Marcus Four Winds Crassus. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:55 No.15495155 >>15495099 Indeed, I didn't mean to imply that they wouldn't have gunpowder, only that they would be behind at it in relation to the europeans giving the telegraphs and similarly leveled electrical technologies would give europeans a profound sense of wonder and awe O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)17:58 No.15495183 >>15495137 and then they learn what happened to the 'old rome' O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:08 No.15495282 >>15495183 >Implying a unified rome with the resources of north america wouldn't totally destroy most of Europe. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:11 No.15495314 >>15495282 World War 1 comes early in this timeline O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:22 No.15495416 >>15495314 It'd make for a fuckawesome global war, but I actually think it'd stave off WWI. wWI came about because of tensions between the European nations; if they had an outside enemy to worry about, they might well have banded together against it and smoothed over their problems. Whether hostilities would break out between them and Ameri-Romans, l'm not sure. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:24 No.15495439 >>15495416 well I was just saying that war between Ameri-Rome and europe would be large enough to be called a world war though it'd be a hell of a lot different O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:33 No.15495520 >>15495487 also the Aztecs might have wisened up a bit through their contact with Rome to actually persist long enough to be considered a regional contender if they get their game enough to conclude peace treaties with rome they might take to conquering southward outside of rome's reach O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:36 No.15495548 >>15495520 The thought of an Aztec empire, battle hardened by fights with Romans resisting a Spanish invasion and unifying all of South America under Aztec rule is terrifying. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:38 No.15495583 >>15495548 WHICH MAKES IT F------ HORRIFYINGLY AWESOME O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:41 No.15495611 >>15495548 Gentlemen. Roman North Americans Aztec South Americans Chinese East Asians Prussian Europeans Russian West Asians Persian Middle Easterners And.. someone in africa. The wars will go on forever. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:43 No.15495630 >>15495611 F--- IT. INDIA UNITES SOMEHOW. THIS WORLD WILL NEVER LEAVE A STATE OF WAR. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)18:45 No.15495655 Also, it should be noted that Roman politics can be pretty vicious. 1000 years is easily enough time to have a civil war. O Cerebrate Anon 07/06/11(Wed)18:58 No.15495805 Any decent inspection of this will have the Romans popping up in the middle of the Mayan Empire, and homogenizing with them to become a massive continent-spanning superpower. They will worship a mix of the Roman gods and the Mayan gods, and the interactions thereof should make it obvious that they are completely juxtaposed, and yet everybody should still believe them. The disease thing will be a problem, but the Romans were very good at getting women and children from their conquered lands. I daresay the human sacrifice will be limited to men above the age that they could have been converted to RoMayans. The thing to ask about it whether they will have developed firearms. The Romans certainly had the knack for innovation that could have led to them, but would they have bothered, when all the locals could be conquered with the equipment the Legionnaires already had? Be sure to mix names, and have a new Praetorian Guard that protects the High Priests. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)19:44 No.15496237 >>15496000 If they're finding most of their women among native tribes - and in other words, having native women raising their children - then they will (whether willingly or not) end up with culture that's mostly based on the native americans. Maybe not immediately, but within a few generations. Government, laws, and whatnot will be Roman simply because those are much slower to change, but religion, folklore, and so on will be mostly native. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)19:52 No.15496296 >>15491610 It's something worth noting that the concept of infinity is something that really frightened and confused the ancient Greeks and Romans. This ought to be taken into account when they are thrust into an environment that that is defined by how vast it is. FUCKHUGE mountains to the east that are followed by FUCKHUGE plains of eternity and FUCKHUGE deserts of infinity to the south. This is going to be something that they will have difficulty coping with culturally. It's also worth noting that the Romans put much more emphasis on oratory, philosophy, and the arts then they did on technlogical innovation. That was more of a greek thing. That was not to say that iinnovation did not take place, it certainly did as the Romans were a very, very pragmatic and practical bunch, but it is something that will very much affect this new empire, as they are deprived of Greece. O Anonymous 07/06/11(Wed)20:36 No.15496685 >>15496510 The followers of the Jupiter Eagle, the traditionalists, still keep slaves, but the most populous areas of the empire have converted to the worship of the Great Spirit/White Buffalo - which would function as a Christianity analog that reintroduces Hellenic and Stoic concepts of mercy and temperance that a Roman legion would have been quick to forget. So the modernizers from the big Midwest metropolitan areas, only incorporated a few hundred years ago (history being unfuc while the colony of traditionalists who sailed from St.Louisium to New Orleanium (or marched there across Texas) and from there into the South would be planters exercising brutal latifundium. for a while East of the allows the Sioux to develop or something like that), would be worshipers who consider slavery to be decadent and cruel, Anyway, in the initial scenario - Roman disease wipes out most central californian Indians. The survivors escape as refugees, spreading the disease in less extravagant amounts to the Pacific Northwest fisher tribes and the Southwest river-huddling desert farmers. The Romans incorporate a few slaves into their population, ones that don't die or escape as refugees - and they help the Romans with languages and developing disease tolerance (a handful of slaves enough to spread mostly non-fatal outbreaks of local diseases). Now, would the Romans start farming or is more in their character to march/roadbuild/fortbuild as they are prone to do up into the Northwest to get fish or down into the deserts to conquer proto-pueblo and relatively prosperous river-based farmers growing corn and whatnot? Corn would be a big deal. O Cerebrate Anon 07/06/11(Wed)21:53 No.15497382 >>15497305 Always with the animals. Kokopelli, the trickster who brings rain, crops, babies, and sometimes has little fun with the ladies using his detachable penis! Nanook, Master of Bears! Glooscap, who bound up the great eagle whose flapping wings created unbearable storms! Not to mention the mesoamerican gods. It's much more likely that the Romans would blend the animal deities into nymphs or transformed gods, whereas many of the actual anthropomorphized deities would actually be assimilated. O Anonymous 07/07/11(Thu)12:32 No.15503507 >>15501122 >>15500430 So with double the legion in camp followers, 7 legions, each of 6000 men at fresh fighting strength (ie: no casualties since leaving rome)... 42000 Legionnaires 84000 Camp followers. 126000 Romans suddenly appearing on the west cost of the US, with 1/3 of them trained to fight. Yeah, the natives are f-----.

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