Posted by: symon
« on: June 10, 2010, 03:09:13 PM »Thanks UnLimiTeD and StratPlayer.
To answer the 'why on Earth' question first, at first I thought to redo my old Starfire Campaign with the Naerans, Federation, Organism and Medusans. The current difficulty in rolling up habitable worlds to order made me rethink this after over 500 'rolls' didn't get me anything close to the Naeran homeworld. So I decided to go with either just the Naerans or the Organism. I was still having difficulty getting starting systems that suited, so decided to go with the Organism, use the Sol system, but file all the serial numbers off and rename all the planets.
Then is struck me, why not use Sol and do something different. Conquer the Humans! We have a lot of 'Terran Empire' starts. Steve has notably done many excellent ones, so I decided to do it different.
Of course it's a trope of bad Hollywood movies that aliens show up with superior technology, conquer everything in sight, but are then defeated by the young male hero (who gets the girl) with a few allies using only pluck and determination.
This is of course silly, if appealing to the 'ideal of the common man'. Courage and determination are great force multipliers, but you have to have force to multiply. Despite valiant efforts from decapitated armed forces, Humanity just didn't have enough of a chance.
Sadly, Humanity is gone for good, a few Incept names is about the only remaining sign as a few useful gene sequences were 'pilfered'. Now if we'd continued to expand into space with the same rapidity as we had done in the sixties ... but we didn't. Wanted to spend money on other things instead, mobile phones or something.
I do intend to try to intersperse an account of events with 'dramatic interludes' by the Organism protagonists. Hope the 'odd' way they speak, such as no pronouns or the way they don't think they are being passionate, even when they are; manages to convey an alien feel.
To answer the 'why on Earth' question first, at first I thought to redo my old Starfire Campaign with the Naerans, Federation, Organism and Medusans. The current difficulty in rolling up habitable worlds to order made me rethink this after over 500 'rolls' didn't get me anything close to the Naeran homeworld. So I decided to go with either just the Naerans or the Organism. I was still having difficulty getting starting systems that suited, so decided to go with the Organism, use the Sol system, but file all the serial numbers off and rename all the planets.
Then is struck me, why not use Sol and do something different. Conquer the Humans! We have a lot of 'Terran Empire' starts. Steve has notably done many excellent ones, so I decided to do it different.
Of course it's a trope of bad Hollywood movies that aliens show up with superior technology, conquer everything in sight, but are then defeated by the young male hero (who gets the girl) with a few allies using only pluck and determination.
This is of course silly, if appealing to the 'ideal of the common man'. Courage and determination are great force multipliers, but you have to have force to multiply. Despite valiant efforts from decapitated armed forces, Humanity just didn't have enough of a chance.
Sadly, Humanity is gone for good, a few Incept names is about the only remaining sign as a few useful gene sequences were 'pilfered'. Now if we'd continued to expand into space with the same rapidity as we had done in the sixties ... but we didn't. Wanted to spend money on other things instead, mobile phones or something.
I do intend to try to intersperse an account of events with 'dramatic interludes' by the Organism protagonists. Hope the 'odd' way they speak, such as no pronouns or the way they don't think they are being passionate, even when they are; manages to convey an alien feel.