thread: 2008-12-31 : Dunesque Mechaton Campaign
On 2009-01-05, Robert Bohl wrote:
I'm not going to be as cool as Joshua here. Just don't have it in me at the moment. However:
1. Introduce your side;
The Kalik Federation, a technocratic union ruled by advanced electronic and genetic engineers who secretly delve into areas of study banned under the 10,000-year-old Ha-yal Compact. The Compact forbids the creation of life from nothingness. While creation of new living material and artificial intelligences are banned, mucking around with the genes in existing life is ok. You just can't craft DNA from scratch and make a new animal. Of course, that's a fine point that results in lots of war. Most of what Kalik does is shrouded in secrecy, and its technology is highly-sought-after by the same powers that would see them punished for what they create. They make themselves invaluable to the powerful on all sides of a conflict.
Their technology and style is quite monstrous and inhuman: lots of scuttly things that move way too fast. Theoretically, their society is a meritocracy.
They seek deeper and deeper Smoke trances in order to see how the ancient thinking machines and Chimerae were constructed. Kalik theoriticians refer to Smoke trances as thought experiements.
2. Say which planet is your home planet, and what's its real name;
Ostensibly, we don't have a planet. We're seeded throughout society. In fact, we "secretly" do, however, and it's O4. Its name is Gahmet and its presence is hidden because of the Dyson sphere that the Kaliks have encapsulated their sun within. The world itself is a cold rock with artificial living spaces seeded throughout its craggy upper crust.
Who controls the August Solar Throne?
Who controls the flow of Smoke?
Who holds absolute moral authority?
2, 2, 1 for me.
