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This is actually more than a little bit infuriating. I'm trying to look up one of the old Legacy of Fire forums and this is the first forum I've actually been able to properly get to.

Hopefully this isn't the wrong place to be asking this question, but... Is anyone willing to share which/how some of the above served as inspirations for a specific part of the setting? Notably: The Cycle, and maybe more broadly, the philosophy behind the Solarians?

Y'know, beyond just Star Wars and the Force. 'Cause Jedi are definitely there, but The Cycle feels very different from The Force, and I don't feel like I've got a very good grip on what The Cycle is supposed to be from just what we get in the Starfinder Corebook.

Okay, not to Necro, since it has been two months since this was posted, but if you're still looking for opinions?

I'd say that it looks/works fine. You sound like you just want to port The Worldwound and its surrounding nations straight to Starfinder, and this seems like it does that. GMs are specifically encouraged to create all sorts of new and weird worlds at their leisure to populate the Starfinder Galaxy. For all that the Core Worlds of Starfinder have tons of super interesting plot hooks and nifty setting stuff/ideas, the Core Book dedicates a great deal of its time to setting up that there's a New Frontier of exploration that has been exploding with wayfarers and settlers for the past three centuries.

Now if you wanted something similar but distinct from the Worldwound and nations surrounding it, I'd suggest doing a bit more work. For example it sounds from this like you weren't (aren't?) quite sure exactly what role you want the Moon to mimic/hold.

While I get that the Mammoth Lords border the Worldwound, I'd say that if you want Barbarians with ray-guns, it sounds more like a planetary-scale version of Numeria. I'd suggest that you write it up as having a ring of detritus surrounding it that on inspection is clearly the remains of destroyed spacefaring vessels and other technological monoliths. The ring is probably unstable, having become trapped in orbit around the planet as opposed to being set up, and occasionally rains down in meteor storms on the world below. This both justifies the access and use of advanced technology, and the unstable and 'barbaric' state of the world's inhabitants. If you really wanna flesh it out, you might even take some inspiration from Horizon Zero Dawn, it's just that - instead of there having been a fall from an advanced era of technology - there was a society still in development when some interstellar disaster struck and the world's inhabitants have been forced to deal with it and adapt to it ever since.

What you described Ustalav as... works as a description of Ustalav, but the first thing it made me think of was Eox, and While Eox is basically shaping up to be Starfinder's version of Geb, the fact that Eox specifically operates as a safe haven for and welcomes intelligent undead makes the existence of intelligent Undead elsewhere - in the vein of Ustulav - kind of... weird. There should be something about this planet that both makes it so rife with undead and that keeps them interested in staying (beyond just, 'I was born raised here, and I refuse to leave. It's my planet') the way that the Gallowspire and the Vampiric Courts' deals with the Ustulavic nobility do in Pathfinder. To that end, I'd suggest looking up Zombie Stars and maybe making it so that the planet orbits one of these. Given we're talking about a setting with magic, you can potentially justify any effect from such a star as you'd like. Maybe undead arise more easily under its light, and any corpse that isn't properly cremated arises as a mindless terror to prey upon the living before growing 'naturally' (due to the light of the dead star) into advanced and intelligent versions of its type. Maybe the star's light isn't instantly fatal to Vampires or as harmful to other light-vulnerable undead, affecting them as if they were one step more resistant.

As for the spatial anomaly - the Worldwound is such a grave threat because it's huge. It's an always active slowly growing portal to the Inferno (I think that's the plane in question?) the size of a country on a world where most don't have the technology to flee. The Spatial Anomaly works as a good equivalent... locally. The Worldwound in Pathfinder isn't an everyday worry for those countries that don't immediately border it. But everyone who knows about it occasionally worries because it's a planet buster that in theory could go off whenever

• It's big
• It's scary
• It can't really be dealt with
• Occasionally it spits out raiding parties (of demons, in this case)
• Don't Go There.

Basically, something less 'poised to wipe the setting clean' and more: "Place 's a s!&*hole. *spittoon sound* 'S crap hand for the folks 'as 'live' there - if'n ye can call that livin' - but if you don't go near it won't bother ya' none."

What you want is something that's already like that. Something that - unbeknownst to most - could represent a Galactic Threat on par with the Swarm itself.

Personally? I recommend ripping off wholesale the Eye of Terror from Warhammer 40k.

Sooo... I know this thread appears to have gone dormant, but... consensus?

It sounds like RAW says that you can apply a Fusion to a Solarian Weapon Crystal, but this doesn't clear up the initial question: is it possible to apply a Weapon Fusion directly to a Solarian Weapon?

The Solarian Weapon is considered an Advanced Melee Weapon, and theoretically Fusions can be applied to any weapon. While the fact that the Solarian Weapon technically lacks a level - and therefore the capacity to host Fusions - makes actual application seemingly impossible, I have no doubt there's a loophole somewhere in there.

So: is it possible to apply a Fusion directly to a Solarian Weapon, without the use of Solarian Weapon Crystals?

Ooor is this one of those things that ended up getting covered in the FAQ somewhere and nobody told me?

I'm. . . not actually sure whether or not what I want will fall under this product. . . While I'll probably end up buying it one way or the other, I will be genuinely disappointed if there is not an Archetye, Prestige Class, Template, or at the very least Feat Tree that lets me turn my Occultist into Golarion's very own Harry Dresden (conjure by it at your own risk).