| Tom Kalbfus |
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Here is my little piece of the Starfinder universe, I a using Traveller mps and Traveller codes to express them since I don't hve anything else now.
There are the World codes and Player Map I am using for this setting, it can be converted later to whatever Starfinder is using to express system and world characteristics. I have just gotten started ad created a player's map, a GM map will come later with the complete detail using this World generation system, I have obtained from the old T20 Travller game.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Here is the GM's Map for the Player's Map I posted earlier. I made some changes from the original format by putting "(" ")" around the moon sizes of the main world. This is the basic outline of each system and main world, a system may have other worlds that are also habitable besides the main world. So what do yo think of my map? I've named three systems, which I figure will be important to the campaign, the Demon Star, Terranoir, and Cyrannus. Terranoir is more fully described in my thread I posted of the same name. I also described the Cyrannus System in another similarly named thread. Each of thse systems has something unusual about them which make them stand out. The Demon Star System, may be named as such, not only because it is a big red star that reminds people of "Hell" or some other lower outer plane, it might also be home to some actual demons and perhaps devils as well, though the mainworld in the system is an ocean world, which might prove to be a bit of a problem for those demons.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Here is my latest world in Hex 0110, and also a new format for presenting them. Later on I'll have something additional to say about each one. This world as you can see, is an asteroid belt. What do you think would inhabit the asteroid belts in Starfinder?
| Tom Kalbfus |
Here is the Demon Star World in hex 0206, its primary occupants are demons cast out of the Abyss, the creatures here enjoy the hot climate provided by the red supergiant which is this planet's primary, it reminds them of home.
| Bluenose |
Asteroid belts would have purple worms eating their way through nickel-iron asteroids; dwarf mining crews, building cities inside their hollowed-out asteroids; at least one wretched hive of scum and villainy; strange colonies worshipping stranger gods; secret military and research bases; ice asteroids inhabited by frost beings; and sometimes because the location is right and there's enough development, huge numbers of civilised settlements in an industrial hub, taking advantage of the lack of gravity and atmosphere and easy access to minerals to build an industrial starscape with a billion inhabitants.
| Tom Kalbfus |
The Traveller world codes are just a way of describing a planet and generating it, I don't see why it would not translate the actual game involves character sheets, combat, and spells. What the planets look like is not in question, what lives on and in them is. There might be some additional kinds of planets that don't exist in Traveller. Under my version of this system, a size 1 planet (1,000 miles in diameter) might have a breathable atmosphere, it is unlikely but possible, but if such occurs, I'll just leave it, there could always be a magic force field or a gravity field holding onto the atmosphere. Some asteroids might have an atmosphere, most do not, and a 0 indicates an entire asteroid belt. Size S is a moon 500 miles in diameter or less, that could have an atmosphere as well, some magical circumstance would explain that. Th system generation system here deals with only the usual worlds, the ones that break the rules can be handled individuality. The ringworld I'm doing next is non standard as well. World codes don't adequately describe it.
| avr |
Translating the codes - this is a world the size of Earth's moon, with a breathable atmosphere. It orbits ridiculously close to a type M red dwarf, like the TRAPPIST-1 worlds (note you have 8 other solid planets in the system), is uninhabited, and the climate is unlivably hot over most of the world. The lowlands near the south pole, and possibly the highest peaks might be exceptions (with low G the atmosphere will lose density with height more slowly, which probably means losing temperature more slowly too.) There's a heavier white dwarf which the red dwarf orbits.
It might well be tidally locked in which case the climate's easier to deal with. There would be a band around the world where the sun is near or below the horizon at all times. Super hot on the sun-facing side, freezing cold on the other.
What did you say you wanted to do with this?
| Odraude |
With tidally locked, since it's so close, it could have what's called a lobster ocean at where the sun is hitting it directly. Any closer and it would probably look more like Venus.
| Tom Kalbfus |
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Here is Hex 0207 world Terranoir, it is a ringworld styled after Larry Niven's ringworld, except that unlike Niven's this one isn't a technological artifact, it was created by an ancient Earth goddess, she was defeated by the Olympians, that were in turn defeated by another god, Gaia has kept a low profile on Earth ever since, pretending to be different mortals throughout her immortal life, she picked up a book by a science fiction author that got her attention, and decided to build one herself. The map section shown below the ringworld diagram has a section with continents modeled after Earth continents about 100 times the size of the originals, she has left open some one-way gates from Earth to this place, the most famous of which is in the Bermuda triangle, she has arranged to have a number of ships, boats, and planes disappear from there and end up here. This is also home to a number of her monsterous creations as well as normal Earth based life she imported. This world is the site of a pathfinder campaign, I has recently emerged from a nebulous cloud, and spacefarers are only beginning to explore it, they look for technological artifacts and find none. Some of the Earthlings marooned on its surface have recognized it for what it is, over time they have traveled the breadth of ringworld looking for technological artifacts or signs of the civilization which built it, most people being so marooned being agnostic and unaware of the existence of gods and goddesses, they have given Gaia quite a chuckle. Some of the Earth humans have made in in vain to the wall of the ringworld looking for a starport or something, the scientists among them get very frustrated.
| avr |
Ah - now, that's a setting-breaking or setting-defining world. There will be more people there than in the rest of your setting combined I think. That's an incredible resource. Wars will be fought over it.
If it was made in the 1970's? or later, then the creation of the ringworld was only a handful of generations back for elves. Less for some PF monsters.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Well Starfinder is thousands of years in the future, Gaia is known for creating monsters and other creatures, she can create humans, elves and other things as well, she just abducts a few humans from Earth for fun. The overall technological level of the ringworld is 1, about the same as the standard Pathfinder setting. Most of the creatures and other beings on this world are not aware that the stars in the sky are the suns of distant worlds, they couldn't see very many stars anyway, at night the opposite inner surface of the ringworld (called the "Arch" by many locals) reflects more light than a full moon on Earth, so the sky appears black with only the brightest of stars visible, among those stars is the Demon Star, about 1 parsec away, it is so bright, it is clearly visible even during the day. The Demon Star, by the way is a threat to all the other worlds in the Subsector, except perhaps the ringworld itself, its underside is capable of shielding the inner surface from the radiation of a nearby supernova, and the Demon star is a candidate for going supernova in the near future. The other problem for surrounding stars is the Demon Star's demonic inhabitants, they tend to be evil and they tend to cause trouble, fortunately they can't get off their own planet by themselves because their tech level is 3.
The Earthers on Terranoir have been traveling around a bit and raising the local tech level in some places, they typically encounter all sorts of fantasy races and monsters. Though there are tens of trillions here, there is so much land that these populations are widely scattered, and these population figures don't count the intelligent monsters, such as dragons and the like, mostly humans, halflings, elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, gnolls, lizardmen, merfolk, aquatic elves, and the like. Solitary creatures don't figure, and this is only a rough guide at best, as no one's actually taking a census of the ringworld in any case. As far as players are concerned, there is a lot of empty and no so empty wilderness between settlements. Only the Earthers and other offworlders have an idea about the nature of this world. The Earthers are looking for a way to get back to Earth, unfortunately for them, they were kept in suspended animation for a very long time, and there are people from different eras of Earth ranging from the 1600s, to World War II, to the 21st century and beyond. Gaia has been collecting them for far longer than the Ringworld existed, that was her latest idea, she had something in mind with her collection of "playthings" but until the 1970s, she was not sure what. At best Gaia is neutral with some slightly evil tendencies, there is a reason why the Olympians fought with her and her kind.
Oh by the way, here is Hex World 0228. just a ho hum mercury sized world with a thin atmosphere mostly covered with ice sheets, but it does possess a Naval base, exactly who's navy will be decided later.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Here is an update on Terranoir Hex 0207 I added some Earth scale continents and had to zoom in 100 times the original map to give a visual scale of this thing. the continents at the bottom are scaled 1:1 with Earth continents, Everyplace on Earth has a corresponding location on this map, although this map has islands and continents that don't exist in our world, and its located near the wall. As for the wall itself, maybe I'll go with a magical wall of force that holds in ai but permits passage of solid objects or objects that enclose air, sort of like those Star Wars force fields that keep in air at those hangar bay, allowing spaceships to enter and leave without having to depressurize the whole bay, and allowing people to work in a shirt sleeve environment without spacesuits. The wall exists some 100 miles beyond the walls perimeter, there are clouds and weather continuing out to that invisible barrier. The ground ends in a cliff overlooking space, often with rivers pouring over the side in spectacular waterfalls into the void of space. The crust is about 5 miles thick, so the water continues to fall for five miles before hitting the barrier, boiling off into water vapor and being contained by a wall of force at the bottom. A rock or a person however will fall right through and into the vacuum of space. This cliff would make a great spot to build a starport, although none currently exist at the moment.
| John Napier 698 |
As long as there's a sufficient population of 20th and 21st Century Earth Humans in relatively close proximity, it shouldn't take long to build up their local tech level. If there's relatively abundant deposits of Copper available, you can get continent wide communications ( telegraph ), make large permanent magnets ( cooling alloys in an electromagnetic field ), and continent-scale Power Grids ( wind-driven generators ).
Beyond those first steps, we can get large-scale industrial processes. Relatively pollution free steel, electronics ( Telephone, Radio, Television, Computers, robotics, etc. ) and rocketry ( using electolyzed water as fuel and oxidizer ). There will probably not be any large Hydrocarbon deposits, so synthetic lubricants will be used.
A significant amount of Earth Humans will be College-educated, so after preserving their personal knowledge, they will begin researching the things that they know exist, but never actually learned. If they can keep their laptops powered, they may have their college text PDFs available.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Interestingly this leads to another scenario I had in mind. This ringworld is in our future, the goddess who created it, has been living amongst us without our knowledge for thousands of years. There is another god in the vicinity of the Earth, a jealous god, one that does not like magic, it is a very powerful god, but one that rarely takes any action, and most of the action he does take is against other deity interlopers. So it appears Gaia has kept a low profile, after she emerged from her centuries long slumber, when she noticed that the Olympians that defeated her at the dawn or recorded history were no longer around, the monotheistic god which in her mind does not seem to be paying much attention to the goings on in the world did not seem to notice her presence, but she nevertheless took no chances, Gaia did not want to call attention to herself from whatever deity was out there that apparently drove away all the Olympian gods, the Nordic gods, the Egyptian gods, and who has apparently suppressed magic through out the globe to the point that no one really believes it exists. Gaia has gone a bit under cover, as a human woman named Dr. Terra Prospero, she poses as a research assistant, which is her cover for when she practices her magic. She poses as a graduate assistant helping a research scientist. The two are on a Subway in New York City, and there is a power outage, the passengers and crew make their way out of the subway cars into the tunnel. Gaia opens up a portal to the elemental plane of Earth, where she has prepared a tunnel leading to her ringworld in another galaxy, the passengers wander through, not knowing they've entered another plane of existence, the tunnel goes on for some distance, and ends in a natural cavern in the Island of Mannahatta in Terranoir. The passengers find themselves in a forest of deciduous trees very similar to Central Park except wild and untamed, no paths, a moose scampers off when noticing the human interlopers. One of the passengers spots a bald eagle's nest. After a while, the come to a clearing in the forest, a very familiar river is revealed, yet no buildings, the Sun is at a very unusual angle at 90 degrees from the horizon, that is when they discover the ringworld.
The "Arch" climbs up from the horizon narrowing towards the zenith behind the Sun and then widening as it descends toward the opposite horizon. A number of rectangular shadows move across this strip, and night falls suddenly as a rectangular shadow eclipses the perpetual noon day sun, the sky darkens as the Sun is occluded by a straight shadow, a brief glimps of the Suns corona is glimpsed before the shadow square covers that too. crickets and tree frogs are heard in the distance, the sky is washed out by the brilliance of the opposing surface of the ringworld due to reflected light. A slowly moving checkered pattern is seen proceeding across its face. Gaia pretends to be surprised and shocked along with the rest of them, the portal remains open allowing two-way travel. The passengers find their way back into the tunnel and back to the Manhattan they are familiar with, later on the city government sends some workers into this new tunnel to investigate. The Mayor calls the President and discuss what is fund here. More scientists are sent though, and later that night the President makes a startling announcement. A duplicate of the Earth was somehow found through a sort of wormhole, it appear to be on the surface of a ringworld similar to he one described by Larry Niven in his book. NASA is contacted and a team of astronauts are sent through. Months pass, eventually ordinary citizens wander through to look at an unspoiled and undeveloped New York. A digging machine widens the tunnel, some trees are cut down and a road is paved leading the the shores of the Hudson in the faux Manhattan Island.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Another thing I might mention about Gaia, she is a very lusty deity, in human guise, she appears as a beautiful young woman in her early 20s, she is "hot to trot" and she likes to give birth to various creatures including monsters. Males need to make a will check to resist her advances and seduction attempts, if she can get such a person alone, if she scores she gives birth to some monsters within a day, she finds some secluded spot to do it and the monsters she gives birth to are appropriate to the terrain type she is in. As an example, if she is in a temperate forest, use the Temperate Forest encounter table on page 325 of the Bestiary, for example, the GM rolls a 65 on the table, and that means Gaia gives birth to 2d6 goblins and 1d4 goblin dogs, they are all young adults and they don't come with equipment or clothes, although they have all the skills and language skills that are listed in the Bestiary when they are born. In order to give birth, Gaia has to get into her true form, that of a Thanatotic Titan, she is 70 feet tall as the description indicates, one variation is her alignment is chaotic Neutral rather than Chaotic Evil, the stats are that of her avatar, (Her true form resides in he Elemental Plane of Earth) which she can reform in 1d20 days if it is slain. 10% of the time she will give birth to one demigod instead of a Monster, he or she is of a random alignment. Gaia doesn't have an agenda other than to spread nature and thus increase her power, she feels she needs to add humans to this mix, they are useful in breeding monsters besides.
| Tom Kalbfus |
And here is Hex World 305. A small agricultural colony, food is grown for the local asteroid miners in this system's single planetoid belt. The precious metals are then exported for profit, the miners save money by not importing food from out of system. This is how the local economy functions. The planet has a contaminated atmosphere, basically the amount of carbon dioxide in the to too high for humans to breath, it can be breathed in for a little while without a filter, but after a while headaches build and people eventually die of carbon dioxide poisoning, plants have no problem with this atmosphere, the insects need to be genetically modified to be tolerant of this planet's atmosphere's high carbon dioxide content. the planet is fairly dry, but with irrigation, most places can be farmed, including up to the polar regions.
| avr |
305 (BTW, names!) is going to have issues other than irrigation with widespread farming. Specifically: a world that dry will have wild temperature swings, a star that dim (M9 V) requires the world to be so close it basically has to be tidally locked, and most dim class M stars are flare stars. Fortunately with less than 100K people there you don't need to farm a large area, but they're probably going to need to live underground and release new insects after a flare.
| Tom Kalbfus |
305 (BTW, names!) is going to have issues other than irrigation with widespread farming. Specifically: a world that dry will have wild temperature swings, a star that dim (M9 V) requires the world to be so close it basically has to be tidally locked, and most dim class M stars are flare stars. Fortunately with less than 100K people there you don't need to farm a large area, but they're probably going to need to live underground and release new insects after a flare.
Well as you said, this world is tidally locked, it is in orbit 0 which is the closest standard orbit around a star, but orbit 0 is also a catchall. Orbit 0 is 19 million miles or less, that means somewhere within that radius lies the habitable orbit of that star, I can calculate the exact distance of the habitable zone if given the luminosity of the star in Solar Luminosities. The luminosity of a type M9V star is 0.001 Solar lumen, take the square root of it and that is 0.032 AU, an AU in American units is 93 million miles, so the habitable distance is 2.94 million miles. The period formula is
Period in years = Square root of(Distance in AU cubed/Mass of star in Solar Units(0.215)) = 0.012345 years, this gives us an orbital period of 4.5 days. Every 4.5 days, this planet makes a complete orbit around this dim star. Saturn's moon Iapetus is 3.5 million miles away from Saturn, to give you an idea of how close this is. Since this world is tidally locked, this star appears in a fixed position in this world's sky and it actually appears orange rather than red, though astronomers like to call this a "red dwarf" Since the star appears in a fixed position in the sky, there is little variation between day or night, because depending on one's position on the planet, it is either always day or its always night. this star might flare of course.The farmers could live in holes in the ground, like Bilbo Baggins, the crops can take their chances, unlike Earth, there is no specific growing season, there is no season at all, except for the variations in the star itself! Light takes 16 seconds to go from the surface of this star to the planet, if the flare moves at a more stately 1% of the speed of light, that means farmers have 1600 seconds to get into a shelter before the flare reaches the planet about 26 minutes. Most planets orbit red stars like these. Once good thing is you can work all day in the field an get no sunburn unless there is a flare! Red dwarfs give off very little UV-rays. Lose the crop, plant a new one, grain is stored in silos, fruit and vegetables are stored in freezers or is canned. Farmers stockpile excess food in case of flares, that is standard procedure.
As for the standard orbits themselves, these are the values
Orbit # Distance Miles
0 19 million or less, (max 26 million)
1 37 million (26 million to 45 million)
2 65 million (52 million to 80 million)
3 93 million (80 million to 114 million)
4 149 million (114 million to 183 million)
5 261 million (183 million to 320 million)
6 484 million (320 million to 593 million)
7 932 million (593 million to 1142 million)
8 1865 million (1142 million to 2265 million) etc.
9 3605 million
10 (A) 7147 million
11 (B) 14,296 million
12 (C) 28,589 million
13 (D) 57,178 million
14 (E) 114,978 million
15 (F) 228,713 million
16 (G) 456,805 million
17 (H) 913,611 million
18 (J) 1,827,222 million
19 (K) 3,654,444 million
20 (L) 3,654,445 million or greater
| Tom Kalbfus |
The mainworld of System 0305, or Harvest if the name is accepted, provides food for the belters in the Asteroid Belt. The Belt provides raw ore to a nearby Industrial world. The Industrial world provides machinery to both Harvest and the Asteroid Belt.
Sounds like a great name, I think I'll add it to my map the next chance I get. I am developing these systems inside out, first I lay out the "bare bones" then I put flesh on these "bones" names are part of the "flesh" I also have to decide what races are the primary inhabitants of these worlds. if you like, we can make this a collaborative project, much of it requires some imagination beyond the random die rolls to create these systems.
| John Napier 698 |
John Napier 698 wrote:The mainworld of System 0305, or Harvest if the name is accepted, provides food for the belters in the Asteroid Belt. The Belt provides raw ore to a nearby Industrial world. The Industrial world provides machinery to both Harvest and the Asteroid Belt.Sounds like a great name, I think I'll add it to my map the next chance I get. I am developing these systems inside out, first I lay out the "bare bones" then I put flesh on these "bones" names are part of the "flesh" I also have to decide what races are the primary inhabitants of these worlds. if you like, we can make this a collaborative project, much of it requires some imagination beyond the random die rolls to create these systems.
Given my extensive knowledge of Traveller, I accept. Feel free to PM me for whatever you need. I can also program computers, so I can generate star systems en masse.
| avr |
With solar flares the highest energy particles travel at ~0.25c, but slower moving stuff like a coronal mass ejection can take 3-4 days to reach Earth (thanks Google!). By 2100 AD+ (the tech level listed) anticancer treatments or preventatives are probably pretty advanced enough to handle some higher levels of radiation.
One other thing to note is that there actually will be temperature variations. Sunspots can reduce the luminosity of a red dwarf by up to 40%.
| Odraude |
If you ever get the chance, look up Mindjammer RPG. They have a really cool stellar system creator that I use along side Traveller Book 6: Scouts and this update to TB6:S about gas giants to get some fairly close to realistic systems (if that matters). It includes distances from stars and probable year length in there that I've used in my M-Space game. I have the standalone Mindjammer RPG for FATE, but I believe they recently updated it to Traveller.
| John Napier 698 |
If you ever get the chance, look up Mindjammer RPG. They have a really cool stellar system creator that I use along side Traveller Book 6: Scouts and this update to TB6:S about gas giants to get some fairly close to realistic systems (if that matters). It includes distances from stars and probable year length in there that I've used in my M-Space game. I have the standalone Mindjammer RPG for FATE, but I believe they recently updated it to Traveller.
Your link is broken. It should be "http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/science/gasgiants.html"
Making this the link.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Farmlands have emergency Flare Shelters that are placed so that no point is more than 13 minutes walking, and can shelter hundreds.
People would tend to live underground anyway, as they need a darkroom to sleep in, the sun never sets after all. Farming would tend to be highly automated anyway with agricultural robots in the field, hardened against the effects of solar flares. The planet has an appreciable magnetic field as well, after all it does rotate, just once every 4.5 days, same as its orbital period, and that's quite a rapid rotation compared to Venus for example.
| Tom Kalbfus |
Also, It's acceptable for Orbital Distances to vary by +/- 0 - 5%. So you can get roughly the Black-body temperature you need.
Yep, that is what I assumed. Orbit 0 was a catchall for all orbits 19 million miles and less, just as orbit 20 is a catchall for all orbits greater than 3.65 million million miles from the star. You can have multiple planets in either orbit slot. The Traveller system is geared more towards producing planetary systems orbiting more sun-like stars, but most stars aren't sun-like.
| Tom Kalbfus |
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Tom Kalbfus wrote:Given my extensive knowledge of Traveller, I accept. Feel free to PM me for whatever you need. I can also program computers, so I can generate star systems en masse.John Napier 698 wrote:The mainworld of System 0305, or Harvest if the name is accepted, provides food for the belters in the Asteroid Belt. The Belt provides raw ore to a nearby Industrial world. The Industrial world provides machinery to both Harvest and the Asteroid Belt.Sounds like a great name, I think I'll add it to my map the next chance I get. I am developing these systems inside out, first I lay out the "bare bones" then I put flesh on these "bones" names are part of the "flesh" I also have to decide what races are the primary inhabitants of these worlds. if you like, we can make this a collaborative project, much of it requires some imagination beyond the random die rolls to create these systems.
the hard part is naming them. I hand rolled the mainworlds in this subsector, there are a bunch of multiple star systems here, the mainworld in ach orbits just one of those stars in each system. The maps I produced were created on this website: http://donjon.bin.sh/world/index.cgi
it is a fractal world generator, basically I used the information I rolled and entered the percent water coverage, and I rolled a 10-sided die ten times to supply a truly random random seed that the fractal program san work with. also if the world's climate is Tropical or warmer, the planet has no ice caps At temperate the ice coverage is 10%, colder gets larger ice sheets up to 90% ice coverage for frozen., so the progression goes like this 10%, 30%, 50%, 70%, and 90% for the five climates from temperate to frozen. They can vary in between of course. Even a frozen mainworld is still in the habitable zone. Planets beyond the life zone are all frozen, planets inside the inner limits of the life zone are all torrid. the hardest part is finding names for all of them that don't look silly. At least I find that to be the case.| Tom Kalbfus |
Also, It's acceptable for Orbital Distances to vary by +/- 0 - 5%. So you can get roughly the Black-body temperature you need.
I have an idea, These worlds need aliasing in the Cyrannus System the data in them is obsolete, it is over 150,000 years old and it dates to before the Final War in that system. These worlds need new names, new starports, and new population and social data. The data doesn't include a climate digit, but I think you can assume that the worlds closer to their stars have warmer climates than those further away, for example the World Tauron has a colder climate than the temperate world Caprica, but again these worlds need new names, the present day occupants of these worlds no longer call them that.
Cyrannus 1Cyrannus 2
Cyrannus 3
Cyrannus 4
A little background:
I'm shoehorning the events of the Caprica, and Battlestar Galactica 2003 television series into the background of the Starfinder setting.
During the Battlestar Galactic and Caprica eras, there was not much magic, many people back then did not believe in magic, they worshipped what would today be called the Greek Pantheon, but their worship was perfunctory, not one in those days expected the gods to act, in the days of a much earlier era, on Kobol, things were different, there was magic and the gods interacted with humanity on a routine basis, little did the humans of the 12 Colonies know but the gods they worshipped were defeated, they no longer answered prayers, they were said by the worshippers of another god that they did not exist, that they were false gods.
The people who said this were believers in the "One True God" and were members of a religious group called the "Church of the One True God" it was also referred to derisively as the "Cylon God". the so called "Cylon God" was not content to be the god of only the Cylons, and somehow this conflict escalated into the Final War between the Cylons and the Humans, the "Cylon God", being a believer in Free will, did not interfere in this conflict to save mankind in this system, but it did intervene afterwards and this precipitated the events in the show Battlestar Galactica. Meanwhile in the system of the 12 colonies also called the Cyrannus system, the god of old, also known as the Lord of Kobol made a return, they were weak and spent, but they slowly regained their strength they paid the Earth a visit, and got into conflict with the gods that resided there, also called the Titans.
The oldest god of them all was native to Earth and was at that time called Gaia the Earthmother, she was worshipped for a very long time by primitive tribes that made figurines of pregnant women even before there was writing. Gaia was instrumental in returning the vistors from another star, the Humans and Cylons of the BSG fleet to a stone age existence, and the "Cylon God" waited in the background allowing this to happen, as it was all a part of His plan. The "Cylon God" was largely forgotten by the Earth humans, and civilization restarted with the ancient culture of Sumer and Babylonia. The Lords of Kobol paid a visit during Ancient Greek times, a conflict with the Cylon God and the Titans caused the Destruction of Atlantis. The Titans were defeated by the Olympians. the Cylon God remained in the background and let the Olympians have their victory. Gaia was forced to go into a long slumber, as the head of the defeated Titan faction, an she woke up several thousand years later, the Olympians which defeated her and her kind were gone, she discovered that the worship of the Cylon God or what was called "The One True God" was prevaliant among three major religions on the planet.
Gaia had just woken up and was weak and recovering her strength, so she kept a low profile, sometimes causing ships and planes over the Bermuda Triangle to disappear. She built the ringworld, and now decided to recruit some of its inhabitants to inhabit her creation, to accomplish this she dug some tunnels through the elemental plane of Earth connecting Earth to the worlds in this subsector most notably to from Earth to Terranoir, but there are also some connections to Cyrannus worlds as well Gaia did her best to stock the worlds of the 12 colonies with life from Earth, but she found that other beings had done this before her. The Cylons, and the Lords of Kobol, they and their descendents are still out there in a far away Galaxy known as Starfinder.
| Tom Kalbfus |
This goddess figures prominently in this subsector
Gaia asleep
Gaia awake More powerful than Zeus, only together were the Olympians able to defeat her, but now those Olympians are gone Gaia is alone, she has opened up some gates and corridors between Earth, Terranoir and the Cyrannus planets, it is really an extraplanar dungeon of sorts. Most people don't use the inner planes to navigate through the Galaxy as there really is no way of telling where you will end up, but Gaia has created a corridor through her home plane connecting these worlds together, the most well known is one connecting the subway tunnels of New York city to the corresponding Map of Manhattan on Terranoir, this tunnel leads from Penn Station in Manhattan, and after several years, and subway line was established though this plane ending up at Terranoir. Most humans think this is an artifact of some alien extraterrestrial civilization, and Gaia goes on letting them believe that, she hasn't revealed herself for who she is, for one reason she fears attacting the attention of that God which she believes is responsible for defeating the Olympian gods that defeated her, so for now she pretends to be a human sized researcher named Terra Prospero.
The Earth humans don't realize they have a greater titan in their midst, and if truth be told Gaia is a bit lonely, she misses her fellow Titans, and for now she keeps company with her human companions pretending to be one of them, and occasionally breaking away from them, assuming her true form and doing some godly work away from them. Gaia's official attitude is that humans are part of the food chain, just like all the other animals and monsters she has created, but she has grown fond of some particular individuals, though she rationalizes that this is just part of her act and disguise.