An interesting system that is one answer to how underground races would handle time. Lots of detail and a good use of images.
I saw one sentance that could use another look:
Any Most other subterranean dwarven settlements allwill have at least one geyser that erupts roughly at the same time as the gesyer in the mother halls.
It is an interesting piece, but it really seems too final in its nature to use directly. Its an apoclypse - the final kind it would seem.
When you add the near total destruction plus an _intelligent_ foe, you really have quashed any hope whatsoever of any normalcy, and are left with basically going down fighting - maybe.
An interesting character, well written and detailed. You have already painted a good picture of your world and I look forward to seeing more! Go to Comment
Regarding Scras's comment about the Life After Dwarves comment - and that phrase alone would suggest an excellent article.
Perhaps there is a tendency to fear the dwarves? With their martial and technical skills, how would humans deal with them if there were at the height of their strength?
This has spawned a couple of ideas for me - thank you :) Go to Comment
So basically, we are talking about the Conservation of Souls. Souls can be transformed but never destroyed, and the total sum of souls in the 3 realms never changes...
Essentially the Dark Sun is a fantasy post-apocalyptic scenario, where much of the world is desert due to the destruction vested upon it. Defilers work by drawing life energy from the nearby area - permanently damaging the environment and potentially injuring live creatures nearby. 'Good' spellcasters - preservers if I remember correctly, do the same, but a slower rate that allows for recovery..
This submission does a very good job of setting up your world, and perhaps limitations on magic. They feel a bit like the Defilers of AD&D's Dark Sun - this is _not_ intended as any form of insult :)
This is an excellent submission - new member or not - and gets high marks from me.
I like these. Every Oraki merchantman should have one of these in a hold somewhere for shotgunning pirates.
Is there any particular reason the Oraki would not omit the pilot altogether? Given the very 'simple' environment of space combat, and the relatively low population of the Oraki, I would expect them to deploy drone fighters and save their numbers for command and control functions like the Eye.
This is a great submission, and I love the idea of flying warships.
It funny in that the Cosmic Era, with all its darkness, has an optimistic side to it - more so than our own world. Regardless of its barbarism, public opinion has not managed to move real world governments away from nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
In some ways, a world without nukes feels more fantastic than a world with warp drive.
This reminds me of my pressure washer :) I suppose you could have a mode that sends lots of little squirts over a wide area to deal with fighters and missiles as well. Or a fan-like blast. Being machines, you program all sorts of patterns into the nozzles to deal with the specific threat at hand.
Maybe even to act as a decoy, one of these could set their rockets to maximum diffusion, and fire all of them at once to surround their ship in wildly dispersed, slow-moving plasma, an irresistible beacon for heat seeking weapons, and potentially blinding to IR sensors nearby?
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An interesting system that is one answer to how underground races would handle time. Lots of detail and a good use of images.
I saw one sentance that could use another look:
Go to CommentAnyMost other subterranean dwarven settlementsallwill have at least one geyser that erupts roughly at the same time as the gesyer in the mother halls.