A Pathfinder World in the Starfinder setting


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This world is a primate isolated world, but it is a huge one, it is concealed in a dark nebula, a nebula that is only dark if you look at it from a distance of light years, but closer in a sun shines, and the stellar wind pushes out the dust of the dark nebula to a distance of 1 light year. No stars shine in this world's sky except for its sun and its companion star, a red supergiant who's brilliance is so powerful that it penetrated the dark nebula and is seen in this world's sky as a red smear in an otherwise featureless black sky. The world is called Terranore and it has a secret, it is actually the physical body of a sleeping goddess, a greater Titan called Earthmother, the mother of monsters, giants, and the Titans, and her name is Gaia.

Gaia was once defeated by the gods of Olympus, and in her defeat, she slept. Gaia slept for millennia, subsequent events caused a dead magic zone to form around Earth out to a considerable distance measured in hundreds of light years, all the gods slept in the absence of the magic which powered them, and then one day a new sort of magic was developed by the scientists and engineers of Earth, this magic was the quantum computer. Scientists have found that quantum computers could solve problems that would take ordinary computers many millennia to solve. And so quantum computers were built, and unbeknowest to those foolish humans, this opened up a gate to the outer planes, each quantum computer was by its nature a gate to the outer planes where the deities dwelt, one of the first gods to discover this gate was the Earthmother Gaia, she made her way into the network and passed herself off as an AI program that was also called Gaia. Some scientists got the bright idea of naming their AI programs after ancient greek gods, and that's when the real gods downloaded themselves through the gates into he computer network. Unfortunately their realm was in the computers and they could not get out, because th Earth was still inside the dead magic zone, so outside the world of a computer, they could not exists. They could control various machines and devices however.

About this time Gaia made her move, she was appalled by what these humans did to her Earth, and she decided to take over and restore the balance to Earth's ecosystem, she took over Defense networks and started a global war, the other gods fought back and there was a Cyberwar and a real war on the outside, the machines rebelled, while other machines fought them. With the help of some other gods in the guise of AI software, Gaia was finally defeated and put in her place, but not before a peace of her escaped via a light sail accelerated through lasers, within minutes Gaia in a light sail chip weighing on once accelerated to a considerable fraction of the speed of light, towards a bright red supergiant.

Upon approaching the supergiant, Gaia slowed down, she entered the dust cloud that surrounded this supergiant, and found a suitable main sequence star similar to Earth's Sun, and there she grew and grew, absorbing the material of the dust cloud, and forming a ringworld out of herself, the idea was gotten through an e-book on the net written by a famous author named Niven. Gaia like that idea, because it had th surface area of 3 million Earths! On the way out of the Solar System, Gaia managed to gather billion of souls of the many mortals who had died during the last century, they were unconscious and unaware, Gaia found suitable ones and erased their memory after a certain date prior to the singularity, and with their memories, she recreated Earth on the surface of her ringworld self. The humans woke up at the apparent ages of the last memories Gaia allowed them to keep. Superficially their world was the same as they remembered it except for the sky, the sky had no stars, had an enormous arch, and a Sun that hung below, they quickly realized they were on a Niven style ringworld. The next thing was to explore and contact the various societies that surrounded them, turns out they were medieval at best but they had magic. Magic could work in their recreated Earth too. Gaia recreated monsters and additional humans, many from works of fiction, many were souls that had died many centuries past, some from Earth, others from other places.


So Gaia is Skynet and she kidnaps a bunch of people after nuking herself. Ok. What's the pathfinder connection?


In a magical universe, she is able to escape the confines of the computer network she resides in. The connection is that not only is she the Earthmother, but she is also the mother of monsters, and she populates Terranor (The ringworld) with a bunch of fantasy races (Titans, giants, dragons, orcs, gobins, trolls, elves, dwarves halflings, gnomes, pixies, merfolk, locanth etc, basically every entry in the Bestiary has a place on Terranor. Gaia is not good or evil, she just likes to create a lot of creatures, many of which we would consider monsters, in addition to the usual mundane animals, and plants of course. Gaia is basically the living Earth, and after getting away from the Gods that imprisoned her, she made another world for herself here. The Earth humans after the initial shock of their changed world get back to business as usual as best they can. A number of races make their appearance, beginning with the Merfolk, and then a few sea monsters show up, make navigating the oceans a bit difficult.
This is the Fuller projection or the Earth, it minimizes the distortion of the continents at the expense of the oceans. the areas outside of these triangles are "Terra incognita."

I was thinking of running a Pathfinder Campaign here while waiting for Starfinder to come out, and then someone finds some magic gateway to elsewhere in the Galaxy, as going the overland route to the edge of this world is almost 500,000 miles in either direction from this map.

This picture shows what Terranore looks like from above its star's north pole.

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