speculation about the Golarion system

[FirstChAoS]

I was thinking, how about a post about wild speculation on what might have happened to the Golarion system between the starfinder system and now. Here are my ideas.

THE SUN: Perhaps the most unchanged aspect of the system. It still houses plasma swimming fire elementals and wizards oblivious to Golarions fate.

ABALLON: The likely home of the androids, who may be aballonians evolved to a more humanoid form. I would not be suprised if the AI god was one of "those who become" who passed the starstonetrst.

CASTROVEL: I suspect Castrovel would have faced a disaster that made them even more Venus like. Rampant volcanism has made the world hot and the air toxic. The few islands of vegetation between hardened lava flows is more toxic and carnivorous than ever. To survive the Lashunta developed space travel to survive and reach out to others for help. The few elves left descended into primative savagery/

GOLARION: Golarion is missing and replaced by Absalon station but the gods insist it is ok. The reason is most likely due to Rovagug, and most likely the caterpillar of chaos and destruction did NOT emerge to be a butterfly. He likely tried escaping again leaving the world either badly damaged and in need of repairs, or hidden someplace safer where no one could free Rovagug. Who knows where in the universe or planes golarion could be hidden.

we know that humans survived but what of the other races? I assume their gods taken them to other worlds. I would not be surprised if one race was chosen to stay with Golarion in its new location as guardians.

I would not be surprised if the dragons left the world before it vanished.

Also the lost history, since it is in Golarions future, can reveal all sorts of oddness. Maybe humanity was betrayed by one of its ally races, or a primitive race became civilized and an ally to humanity. Or an advanced culture descended into savagery. History that is future to the fantasy world could lead to turning all sorts of notions on their heads.

I also would not be surprised if the gods moved the star stone, placing it in space somewhere waiting for it to be discovered again.

AKITON: We know the rat folks are from here. But how would it have changed? My wild speculation is the Contemplative of Ashok wanted to stop their numbers from dwindling so abducted the very fertile goblinoids of Golarion to breed with. The end result was a small green big brained race with bulging heads who combine contemplative intellect with goblin agression, contemplative science with goblinoids malicious humor. Little green men who conquered the world by building canals to control the rare water resources.

VERCES: I assume another mostly unchanged world with Vercites a major power in the Golarion system. I would not be surprised if the Vercites are one of the unrevealed PC races.

THE DIASPORA: Likely heavilly mined. If any Dwarves survived expect to find them here,

EOX: I assume that after a major war the few surviving Liches fled. They now lead cults of mystic power based around dark and forgotten lore. As for the original species who have members held as lab experiments, they likely escaped and their inbred and heavilly experimented species repopulated the surface.

TRIAXUS: I suspect that the "game of rip offs" world was knocked from its orbit and now is stuck in a cold cycle for good. The few survivors were the ones who for some reason did not return to warm cycle form. Now this ice world has shaggy humanoids whose once ruling nobels have finally fund peace. I also supect the dragons moved on elsewhere.

LIAVARA: The insane yet enlightened, and whimsical minded dreamer brethedans have been seeing visions of distaster and some are leaving to warn other races. Their odd logic and iffy sanity however turns their warnings into cryptic riddles.

BRETHEDA: I suspect the issue with Bretheda is a sub group of their people got tired of the other races bickering on their differences and much to the dismay of the mainstream brethedans, seek to absorb and share minds with outsiders in a permanent conglomeration so they can overcome their differences. How do they maintain a single mindset> By not unmerging themselves and convincing other like minded brethedans to merge.

APOSTAE: I suspect the warring Illee tribes finally managed to free a few of the sleepers below. One of which was not a collected specimen but one of the original builders freed from stasis. He managed to enter the worldheart and with the help of the grandfather stone move Apostae beyond the Golarion system to its original destination. He organized the tribes into nations, they still war, but have a treaty when it comes to the gates and still send envoys to Golarion system through them. Many now seek the world to see if the original Golarion gate can send them to their home world.

AUCTURN: Aucturn is worse, much much worse. Monsters spring from its flesh at a faster rate, the world itself now has a face and whispers sibilant gibberish that drives people insane faster, They fear that Aucturn will soon gain true sentience and destroy the other worlds.

So anyone else have any wild ideas on how they think the system changed over the years.

[Umbral Reaver]

If I was going to rip something off, I'd be tempted to replace Triaxus with Auriga (Endless Legend). It's a much more fun science fantasy world with an eccentric orbit tending inexorably toward longer and longer winters and an eventual frozen death. :D

[Matthew Shelton]

Starfinder as a future setting should see a lot of megastructures and other feats of superengineering. Examples of things that might have been done:

An Eoxian colony in the Diaspora: several planetoids of the Diaspora have been pulled together artificially and built into a new arcology-world linked by portal to Eox itself. Officially, these were only rocks no one had claimed, but maybe the Eoxians found one rock they really liked, with a nice orbit and mineral content suitable for their use. Only problem: someone already lived there. No one's seen those people since.

Another possibility in the Diaspora is a series of planetoids mashed together like a string of beads, connected internally by metal pylons and spun along the radial axis to generate gravity as a topopolis.

A space elevator ring on Verces: it connects to the planet at the poles and the equator and is 90 degrees offset from the Ring of Nations, cutting across the Fulbright Desert and the Darkside. The land surrounding each Fullbright pillar is filled with arrays of solar collectors hooked up to the Ring itself. The Ring carries the current from the pillars up to space and sends it over the entire planet, although the settlements built around the pillars on the Darkside get first dibs on power for their light and heat.

Ark-cities built underground on Triaxus to service the different Winterborn and Summerborn populations. Over the centuries these two groups have begun to overlap owing to newer technologies that can sustain them both 'out of season'. The planet has become more crowded as a result, and tensions between cold and warm have been worse than ever.

Superhighways cut across all the harsher regions of Akiton, both spurring commerce between settlements and attracting organized crime syndicates seeking to exploit the caravans that travel the wastes between ranch-stations.

Ramscoop airships deployed in the atmospheres of Liavara and Bretheda, with onboard pocket universes attached to air pumps, for collecting H2 and He2 as fuel. Most reputable companies have fitted filters and other safety features to avoid harm to indigenous life. Others take no such precautions and have caused enmity between all harvester companies in general and the native races of these planets.

At the edge of the solar system orbits a superportal, hundreds of feet wide. It is a colossal magic item which can interplanetary teleport entire ships to anywhere within the galaxy where ananother of its kind is known to exist. The operator of the ship must contact the intelligence controlling the superportal telepathically and send the coordinates of the destination superportal.

If the coordinates are wildly inaccurate (no super portal within 10 l.y. of the intended destination), the super portal laughs and does nothing. If the coordinates are off slightly (10 l.y. or less) but near enough to two or more superportals that the ship operator might understandably be confused, the super portal will choose one of the possible destinations at random and send the ship there. Otherwise the ship will be sent to the intended (or speculated) destination superportal.

Both ancient and modern superportals exist. The ancient ones are programmed strictly never to reveal the locations of other ancient superportals, how many others exist, who built them or when, nor any info about who previously used them. However, it is equally impossible to reprogram them to act as anything other than neutral parties in hostilities (an ancient superportal will let anyone through who knows where they're going, no matter who it is). Modern superportals have no such constraints, can be hacked to whitelist or blacklist certain ships or factions, can sometimes be interrogated, and may share some info about other portals voluntarily depending on what it actually knows and is permitted to share (assuming you have security clearance).