Post by malika on Dec 30, 2008 15:21:07 GMT -5
For example: if humans launch a rocket into space it gets shot down, as would anything else trying to get into space. The humans can not do anything to the AG as it is in orbit, and the AG is literally letting humans do their own thing. Humans can not get to the AG.
But if that is the case, wouldn't it be possible that this is only going on on a single or a couple of worlds?
In a horror sense, the idea of something getting around this immense power is pretty worrying, and the demons and such is where the fun starts - as even this all powerful machine can not protect humans from everything. The idea that the AG is also confining humans to their demonic fate is also an element in horror, but once a super-psionic being (deity) blasts the AG out of the sky I'm sure most humans are not going to be overjoyed at being 'liberated'
Sounds to be that humans are potentially a threat to the AG (psionics), so the AG would probably think what would be more beneficial, a risk of being destroyed by some super-psionic being or keep on studying psionic powers. Why keep the humans then? If it's because the machine is interested in psionics, wouldn't it be wiser if it kept those humans with that power in isolation for study? Perhaps it's only a smaller percentage of humans who have these powers (random anomaly) meaning that the machines actually "grow" humans so they could harvest those with the psionics for study.
But as I say, everything is possible, but I will try to put it in context to the framework. So yes you can have machines, android etc but they may not be doing things or working for what most the in game characters think.
The allegiance thing I suggested might be purely for game mechanics, so to determine what kind of equipment/support/units the player can have access to. This doesn't mean that the player immediately has to be fighting for that same cause. That's where the whole potential double/triple agent vibe comes in.
Aliens may not have to invade, they may simply come into being and on the surface of the world before the AG knows what has happened.
This could be used to explain away almost anything, even 'orcs' could be the result of a psionic manifestation event, and then they reproduce and grow.
This could be used to explain away almost anything, even 'orcs' could be the result of a psionic manifestation event, and then they reproduce and grow.
So they become into being (how exactly) because humans with psionic powers think so or something along those lines? I wouldn't mind seeing aliens who themselves are as powerful as AG's (or at least give it quite a punch). Now this doesn't mean "liberation" for humans as you say. I assume those aliens fear humanity's potential of causing daemons and deities to manifest themselves so they set out to exterminate humanity (sort of like how the Cabal in Legion believe that the extermination of mankind can actually save the universe) to prevent this from happening. The AG wages war against the alien.