The Starfinder Society Discovers...Earth


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LOL


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"It's a rubbish planet actually. Let's move on."


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Add this into the Starfinder electronic journals - "Mostly Harmless"


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Is it Earth, Earth 2 or Florida?

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The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet Earth.
The Emperor Ming: How peaceful it looks.
(He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it)
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this Earth?
The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while... before annihilation.
laughs evilly

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Raven Moon wrote:
Is it Earth, Earth 2 or Florida?

The first one? I don't know about the others. Probably Earth 2 will be next.


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Planet Bob.

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DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet Earth.
The Emperor Ming: How peaceful it looks.
(He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it)
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this Earth?
The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while... before annihilation.
laughs evilly

I officially call that an indirect plot hook.

Scarab Sages

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"Hey, what's that frozen object the sensors detect near Crystal Lake? Let's retrieve it."

Or

"It's just a model."


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"Let's cast dancing lights and reverse gravity and kidnap a few yokels way out in isolated areas where no one will ever believe their stories!"

"And?"

"And what?"

"Kidnap the yokels and...?"

"Hmm. Did anyone prep Bigby's probing hand today?"

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In my opinion, it would be pretty rad if Starfinder's Earth was a nihilistic, "we've doomed ourselves," planet where humans are no longer the apex species--like Planet of the Apes or a world where Cthulhu awoke and destroyed human civilization.

Aka a Fallout / post-apocalyptic world that no one ever wants to go to.


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It's reasonable to assume "the Gap" also affected Earth and any other Terran colony.

[Is there any way we can talk the PTB into calling it something else? Because I keep thinking of the clothing retailer whenever that name comes up.]

Earth could be a dead world by Starfinder's time, wiped out by a negative energy supernova. Now it is overrun by hordes of undead and restless spirits of billions who died all in one night. The planet might have arcology cities left over but each one of them is a graveyard and haunted like crazy.

Or it could be something like Neuromancer with advanced tech, cyberdecks, and colonies all over the solar system, but no magic on the scale of PF. Maybe they've never invented FTL and the solar system's getting really crowded with its twenty billion humans, androids, and genetically-Awakened SmartPets(tm). No one has ever been able to (or really tried to) research an interplanetary teleport spell before -- or anything else above 6th level -- because magic use is persecuted as demonic, or stigmatized as superstitious nonsense, or several generations have been taught by an Illuminati-influenced public school system to look down on arcane magic as an evolutionary dead-end and a drug that will rot your brain or give you a magical disease. But when a Starfinder party arrives with a whole spellbook of high level magic including ITP, Wish, and so on, it's a complete paradigm shift for the human race.

Or earth was captured by a neutron star flying through the solar system ("A pail of air") and everyone still alive survives underground or underwater (under-ice) in a vast network of deep cities connected by deep railway and submarine. Because tectonic plates are a thing, waypoint towns have also emerged where plate boundaries would make it impossible for adjoining tunnels to stay connected over generations. Air, power, potable water, and food are supplied via direct magic use and magically-researched technologies (meticulous divinations conducted over time by casters working together, like a parallel processing network).

Or machine transference was invented, and over time the population of Earth had been going into robot bodies, whether to avoid fatal disease, to survive accidental death, or just because they wanted immortality. Dissenters realized a social singularity was soon approaching when transference would no longer be optional. Preparations for S-Day were begun. When the new world order decided they had to force everyone else to get transferred for the greater good, an uprising began. The two factions have been fighting ever since. The only thing that has saved the dissenters is cloning, which has allowed them to avoid death by attrition and to allow defectors and double agents to transfer back to biological form. Recently a third faction of cybernetic supermen has emerged to threaten the stalemate that has kept the thirty-year cold war from turning hot.


Matthew Shelton wrote:


Earth could be a dead world by Starfinder's time, wiped out by a negative energy supernova. Now it is overrun by hordes of undead and restless spirits of billions who died all in one night. The planet might have arcology cities left over but each one of them is a graveyard and haunted like crazy.

That is pretty much exactly what I did to Earth (and the Solar System) in one of the PbP games I tried to run, except the negative energy supernova was accidentally caused by the locals trying to harness the energy of Sol in ways they shouldn't have.


It's likely that Earth is in another, but nearby, galaxy -- Golarion astronomers call one the Milk Spiral, and if that's the Milky Way it means that the two galaxies are close enough to see each other with Renaissance-era telescopes, which narrows it down a lot. I'd guess Golarion is in Andromeda.


It could be in the Triangulum Galaxy, one of the Magellanic Clouds, or one of the other satellite galaxies in the Local Group.


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DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet Earth.
The Emperor Ming: How peaceful it looks.
(He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it)
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this Earth?
The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while... before annihilation.
laughs evilly

Relevant...

Flash! AAAHHHHHHHHH!!


Matthew Shelton wrote:
It could be in the Triangulum Galaxy, one of the Magellanic Clouds, or one of the other satellite galaxies in the Local Group.

But it's most appropriate for Rovagug to be (have been) imprisoned in the planet called the Cage in the galaxy of the Chain... :D


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I'm already getting flashback nightmares of Galactica 1980.

Make them stop!


Commander Adama: We gather here as representatives of each ship in our fleet to answer that single question: Where will we go? Our recorded history tells us that we descended from a mother civilization, a race that went out into space to establish colonies. Those of us assembled here now represent the only known surviving colonies, save one. A sister world, far out in the universe, remembered to us only through ancient writings. It is my intention to seek out that remaining colony, that last outpost of humanity in the whole universe.
Serina: Commander Adama? This thirteenth colony, this other world. Where is it and what's it called?
Commander Adama: I wish I could tell you that I know precisely where it is, but I can't. However, I do know that it lies beyond our star system, in a galaxy very much like our own. On a planet called...Earth.

Liberty's Edge

It's mostly harmless.


Matthew Shelton wrote:

It's reasonable to assume "the Gap" also affected Earth and any other Terran colony.

[Is there any way we can talk the PTB into calling it something else? Because I keep thinking of the clothing retailer whenever that name comes up.]

Earth could be a dead world by Starfinder's time, wiped out by a negative energy supernova. Now it is overrun by hordes of undead and restless spirits of billions who died all in one night. The planet might have arcology cities left over but each one of them is a graveyard and haunted like crazy.

Or it could be something like Neuromancer with advanced tech, cyberdecks, and colonies all over the solar system, but no magic on the scale of PF. Maybe they've never invented FTL and the solar system's getting really crowded with its twenty billion humans, androids, and genetically-Awakened SmartPets(tm). No one has ever been able to (or really tried to) research an interplanetary teleport spell before -- or anything else above 6th level -- because magic use is persecuted as demonic, or stigmatized as superstitious nonsense, or several generations have been taught by an Illuminati-influenced public school system to look down on arcane magic as an evolutionary dead-end and a drug that will rot your brain or give you a magical disease. But when a Starfinder party arrives with a whole spellbook of high level magic including ITP, Wish, and so on, it's a complete paradigm shift for the human race.

Or earth was captured by a neutron star flying through the solar system ("A pail of air") and everyone still alive survives underground or underwater (under-ice) in a vast network of deep cities connected by deep railway and submarine. Because tectonic plates are a thing, waypoint towns have also emerged where plate boundaries would make it impossible for adjoining tunnels to stay connected over generations. Air, power, potable water, and food are supplied via direct magic use and magically-researched technologies (meticulous divinations conducted over time by casters working together,...

Or it could be so vastly far away that there is no record of it or contact at all.

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