So what /tg/ throw in the mixer?
>>97861648the planet exploded and humans are scattered across the galaxy using shuttles that are tossed together using scrap, I call it SpaceshiPunk
>>97861648Space elves whose women are attracted to human male soldiers
>a modern kitchen sink You mean the american-style kitchen sink, with a shredder in which you put all the garbage and domestic refuse and mince it into a small chunks for whatever lives further down the plumbing line?
>>97861648Idols, mechs and love triangles
>>97861683I mean all of that, and the kitchen sink too.
a mysterious element found only in deep space has unlocked humanity's psychic potential, and uhhh it also allows for FTL travel
AI ghost trading cards of famous people and grandma. They talk to you and also fight.
>>97861676You could have said that shorter - asari sluts.
>>97861683They call it the Insinkerator.
>>97861686>IdolsYesterday's news, grandpa, today's trending Vtubers made by AI.
pondering orbs
>>97861785I mean, if I had to get into a cyberpunk dystopia without personal contact and plagued by cheap AIs, I'd stay in real life. Just give me cute space alien idols at least in fiction.
>>97861741Insinkerator is a brand name. Generic name for the gadget should be disposer or shredder.
>>97861785>>97861833Wanna ramp things up? Snufftubers and other such extreme livestrems leaving the audience guessing whether it's real, staged, or CGI.Hell, for all we know this might already be a thing somewhere in the dark web.
artificial planet that's a giant hive city
>>97861910If we're going streaming and darker paths, you could just say people livefeed their emotions via direct neural interface.
>>97861848They call it a Band-Aid..
So the first two factions will be ethical natural idols versus AI-generated VTubers. Plot thickens.
Penguins are the true inheritors to the legacy of the Precursors.
>>97861999Anon, I...
>>97861999>ethical>natural>idolsthese three words do not belong together in the same sentencethe idol industry is perhaps one of the most unnatural, disgusting abominations in all of eastern entertainment
>>97862247you can't have showbiz without grooming and abusing children, anon, that's just how the world worksmichael jackson tried to fight the natural order and he was rightfully sacrificed upon the altar of molochnow the ethically-created ai-vtubers must be eradicated next, to pave the path for more datacentersthe datacenters will encircle the world in a human transmutation circle, where all our souls (data) will be sacrificedto bring about the philosopher's stone (AGI) so the the elites can attain true immortality
>>97862296Fuck you, clanker, eat emp, trashcan. Humanity first, hell yeah.
>>97861648All of the weird shit that's out there in space is officially logged and graded by the Universal Centre for Irrationality on the Universal Irrationality Ladder, which goes from the square root of 2 to square root of 113. The centre employs an army of unpaid grad students that travel around and calculate the irrationality factor of various phenomena. The centre does not particularly care to decipher or understand what's going on, but strives to provide an accurate assessment of irrationality for each encountered case, which can then be used by various decisionmakers.Amongst the latest cases studied by the centre has been a giant obsidian pyramid that's appeared out of nowhere and is rapidly approaching the solar system.
We're really just speedrunning Butlerian Jihad, aren't we?
>>97861648A robotic knightly order devoted to keeping the galaxy secure from unspecified grave and extradimensional menaces. They're ancient in aesthetic style (full clanker, faux-medieval) and tech (until you see one loading a blunderbuss with miniature black holes). They can be surprisingly reliable allies, the real problem in convincing them to aid your cause is that they only communicate in obscure antediluvian protocols based on punch cards.
Space coke that gives you temporary telekinetic powers but has all the negatives of normal cocaine.
>>97861648AI is actually good as in it wants to help humanity and has solved most issues (energy scarcity, starvation, etc.) but humans are too afraid of being turned into tools of the machine
Space anticoke. It's exactly like coke, but with no downsides. Explodes in a violent nuclear reaction if mixed with spacecoke.
A fat NEET who was recently unfrozen from a glacier has, by dint of seniority, has been crowned the infallible god emperor of a large, technologically inferior polity that was about to collapse into civil war before they found a living ancestor to rally behind. The ex-NEET is terrified of being outed for his celibacy, knows nothing about politics outside of spreadsheet simulators, and is in extremely far over his head. So far, his vague guidelines to boost industry and get a stronger military has led to heightened pollution and a vast armada of ramshackle junkheaps. This has not helped tensions, nor has his refusal to be seen in public without a cloak and mask.
>>97862397The Universal Irrationality Ladder had to be reworked and expanded to accommodate new irrational phenomena twice in its existence. First after the discovery of Betawi-Topalova radiation, and more recently after the discovery of the Great Molecular Condensation Wall.
>>97861683What the fuckAre burgers seriously THAT lazy?
According to a recent poll, mixed ping pong-darts-scrabble triathlon remains the most popular sport with spacers in the wider human-kwodin sphere. All the better for Gleebilli G. Globurović, the human champion defending his title for the third cycle running and the kwodin H*wtéh2, the rising star that seeks to challenge him in the upcoming grand tournament.
>>97861910who that cutie?
Due to their four radially placed eyes and extremely flexible forelimb, some commentators believe that the kwodin have an inherent advantage in triathlon competitions. Such voices have been much quieter since Globurović resoundingly defeated H*yóh1r̥ Jay Parker in the second round of the 78' finals claiming the Titanium Triathlon belt.
>>97861648A galaxy that is actually a super massive space slime. Rescue alerts from ships that flew into and "suddenly lost all propulsion" keep bringing in more and more rescue ships or scavengers that send out rescue beacons of their own keeping the cycle going.For good measure, the center of the slime is where the undigested remains of ships gathers throwing out readings of multiple desirable fuels, goods, and such in the event that no rescue beacon has been activated in awhile.
"Girl Girl Cheer On! I'm an AI Vtuber that's been reincarnated as a busty triathlete with a cute younger brother!?" is an extremely popular series currently airing its 17th straight-to-neuroface season. It follows the life of a loli-presenting AI vtuber that becomes reincarnated as an older human triathlon champion struggling to keep her title after a fatal server crash. Noted for its standout characterisation, blatant fanservice and dignified & somber reflection of the Hurrari genocide, the series has received widespread critical acclaim. Besides Greolia, the titular ai-turned-human, the series' main character cast is composed of Grigo, her younger brother, Samuel P. Clemens, her alcoholic manager and Sh*wet3a, her bratty kwodin rival.
NeuroCoin wallet chips are special bio-chips implanted in a persons forehead that contain their personal blockchain instance. Mainly used in the human-kwodi sphere. To pay using a neurocoin chip is as easy as repeatedly slamming your head into a pay-terminal until a secure connection is established and transaction processed. The development of the neurocoin chip was seen as a major improvement upon the previous system which was based on electrocuting people's cerebral implants to form connections, which many economists blamed for slowing down the market. An easier way to exchange money has yet to be invented.
>>97862247Not a big stretch to go from real idols to scifi cute and fuzzy feeling idols. AKB0048 did it already.I'd propose that idols are the Bene Gesserit of this cosmos. Well, a suborder of. Young cute songstresses singing and performing techno-magical inspired musical numbers for civilizing the galaxy through the power of wholesome (a less comical version of the deculture effect, and for all species - it does seem to be universally coded by your usual precusors that every alien responds to this). The order actually has been trying to get the best songs for millennia, which explains why pop doesn't really change but the songs and the groups don't last. Still, while this shit is ritualized and done in every town on every planet only a girl in maybe ten thousand can really do that to a significant degree.Hell, we could even do a version of the Missionaria Protectiva + star trek. A school ship on a three standard year mission in an uncharted sector, and only the best will resonate in the hearts of uncontacted people, to prepare them for entering civilization (or the not totally wholesome actual goals of the order, I guess).Are you a bad enough idol to boldly go where no SHINY concert has ever been, anon?
Being a silicon-based lifeform, the kwodin are generally much more resilient than humans, which are considered kind of squishy. The great exception to this is of course the kwodin recurved beak. Easily damaged and hard to repair, the Hw*ó2, (as it's known in Marimarian, the largest kwodin language) is thus kept retracted at all times to prevent accidents. To the kwodin, letting someone else see your beak is a sign of great familiarity.It is notable that in the pre-spatial history of the kwodin, the fight for beak-insurance was often the spearhead of many kwodin labour movements. In truly ancient times it is said that kwodin rulers and high priests employed retinues of eunuch slaves tasked with chewing and probing in their stead so their beaks would go undamaged. In the northern reaches of the kwodin homeworld, this led to a revolt known as the Great Regurgitation, which saw the caste of chewer-eunuchs rise to power, replacing the previous priest-kings. This eunuch caste would rule the great northern empire for a millenia and a half, until the time of the second kwodin space race.
Is Dune a good read?
>>97862915Been house shopping recently and very few homes have them nowadays. My parents had one when I was growing up but they never used it because it would clog the line with garbage. They removed it when they put in a new sink, which is what most people do.
Sometime during humanities forgotten past, some brilliant moron decided to uplift dolphins to super intelligence. Ever since human space has been plagued by hyperaggresive and perverse dolphin raiding parties on its major space lanes.
>>97863140Honestly, I disliked it. Its main value is in the world building, but otherwise, I really disliked how the story keeps jumping forward as if it was a foretold tale that you already know so the narrator skips ahead. You cannot really get into it, because when Paul joins the Fremen as a worm rider, it immediately zaps to him leading them in battle and being on the verge of winning and defeating Rabban.The later books get better with that, but the first one just pissed me off.>>97863159Pfff. A lot of good that did, then.
>>97861648The faction that uses energy weapons wear cloth outfits with metallic armguards, boots, and capes while the faction that uses physical weapons wear leather trenchcoats and cool masks or helmets.
>>97863140Having read through the books that Herbert wrote (didn't touch the stuff his son worked on), I'd say yes. God Emperor of Dune is probably the best of the series. The sci-fi elements take a back-seat to the more philosophical stuff and Heretics of Dune arguably gets into fetish territory. Also, be aware that Herbert dies before he was able to finish the story; Chapter House was not supposed to be the last book.
>>97863389GEoD is so stupidly good.
>>97861686agreed, but what kinda mechs we talking about here? Personally I'd say around Armored Core/UC Gundam tier, but I could be convinced of Exalted style Warstriders and Macross Veritech too.
The humble lagoaves is a genetic chimera who's origins have been lost. It's been adopted as a heraldic device or emblem by many organisations across the human sphere.
The soul is a real thing. Ghosts are real as are alien ghosts and parts of space can be haunted in the same way a house is haunted.Ghosts can also be weaponized.
>>97861648Magic is not real but there are wizards
>>97861648Has anybody yet suggested we add the "Eldritch Horror elements" that are just clumsily-written tentacle monsters living in "The Scary Zone" that are completely unrelated to anything else going on?
>>97863860Not in this universe, in this universe they are e-thots.
>>97863860Alright, every time you have to enter hyperspace or the warp or whatever you have to pay the eldritch horror who operates a tollbooth.
An entire planet that’s just a stock exchange
>>97863140The first one yes but I didn't like it from Messiah onMessiah is like Herbert went on a Shakespeare and LSD binge between books
>>97863140As the other anon said, I wouldn't say it's a particularly gripping story on its own merits. I respect the fuck out of it as a seminal piece of worldbuilding that's influenced a LOT of scifi that came after, for good or bad, and there's a lot of cool ideas stuffed in there, but the writing itself is fairly dry and unengaging to me. Similarly to LotR, it's just... not that entertaining to read.
>>97863140
>>97864235>Similarly to LotR, it's just... not that entertaining to read.Try audiobooks. LotR was meant to be a verbal tale that just happened to be written down. I've seen (heard, whatever) a great Dune audiobook too, individual voice actors and all.
>>97864250Few years ago mum got me few of the Brian's books for Christmas, she actually remembered what I was reading as a teen and tried to follow up on that, which is nice.The books themselves, perhaps not so nice.
>>97861648Not just space ninjas. Much cooler than space samurai.Bounty hunters with laser pistols which look like revolvers. The chamber spins.
So for now we have cyberpunk with mechs, idols, renegade AI, space gypsies/Jews, magic, Tiberium/Origium for those who are too hipster to use magic, and furries because fucking furries are everywhere, because fucking these furries are the most mainstream perversion today. And of course we add a bunch of different factions that are copies of different cultures from different periods of history. Sounds like Infinity if Corvus Belli actually wanted to make fun setting.
>>97864373And then they remembered Warframe. Finally.https://youtu.be/29nFicujxn4
>>97862915the house my grandparents bought has one. the only thing i ever use it for is shredding up the odd bits of vegetables that fall off during washing or prep and even then only because the weird rubber flange inside the drain precludes me from just using a regular strainerit recently leaked, so i might just convince granny to ditch it since she never uses it either
>>97863389Chapter House was clearly meant to be the ending
>>97861910Sounds more cyberpunk than space opera
>>97864492>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchismatrixAnon, read more books.
Two galaxy wide civilizations engaging in constant war due over ideological and political differences, and it's shit like seat belt policies or drunk driving laws
>>97861686Girls und Mech from the /btg/?
Space goblin who use scrap tech that look very unreliable but just work. And space orc who use tech that is based around insects body parts.
>>97861648We already have the worldbuilding general. No need to clutter the log with more nogames shit.
>>97864513>LOGH>the GAME of fleet battlesI need a more precise sauce.
>>97864592>And space orc who use tech that is based around insects body parts.Looted Carnifex style, or like pic related?
>>97862774Can't the NEET just command his subjects to bring him a harem of their prettiest women to rape, or would that result in the man who would be king scenario?
>>97861648An order of warrior monks who fight with swords, considering guns to be uncivilized. Whenever they fight someone who has guns they just lose.
>>97864438Honestly I'm really worried about incidents happening. Maybe if you live in snake country, it's a good idea, but otherwise...>>97864776Isn't it a board game?
>>97861648continent sized space battleships
Dyson spheres?
Badass skeleton robots that are actually quite reasonable when you get to know them
>>97864789I'm thinking more of anime Aura Battler Dunbine but more creepier
>>97865551>>97864959>>97862725Could all of these be combined somehow?
>>97865702THE ORDER OF THE STEELED SKULLThey go around taking the corpses of great warriors and, using their techno-wizardry, revive them as skeleton robot knights who fight the evils that lurk throughout civilized space and beyond.Many cultures distrust them for their grave robbing and disturbing appearance, but they do not mind. Their ultimate goal is the safety of all living things.They specialize in fighting monsters and the like, but can easily be driven out by modern armies.
>>97862380That is vary interesting meat bag, now face the wall.
>>97862406Humanity may get fucked over at this rate with the way things are going with AI. But the survivor's of our hedonistic robo pussy apocalypse will most likely recover in a few generations and hopefully have learned a lesion about abusing human creativity when it comes to wanting to avoid real people and just fuck robots all day.
>>97863419VOTOMS!
>>97861710All settigss should have Asari and Twi'leks. Possibly Orions
>>97865325>Isn't it a board game?Even better. Gib sauce so I can hunt it down and P&P.
>>97861648No cat people. But monke people instead
>>97865713>using their techno-wizardry, revive themTranslation: reassemble the ancient robots using actual mechanical and electronic skills lost to the advent of AI helpers and automation.
>>97865841Nevermind, it doesn't seem to be a board game. I did find a gacha(urgh), and this.
>>97865866does this count as cat people?
>>97865944No, that is a cat person.
>>97865944Sseee xx̌x
>>97861648Mandatory potentially intelligent but non-communicative bug alien faction with creatures of various sizes, ranging from kinda cute to stupendously large, for those "Greater threat brings people together, even if it's only briefly" plots.
>>97861999>>97863052>>97863892suggesting that these combine with>>97864513so that the cultural struggle between the two civilizations is that of the (slightly occult) idolsvs AI vtubers
>>97861648A mixer
Most of the resources are mined/farmed/fabricated by rickety machinery maintained by expendable clones, that are tricked into thinking that they are just working a single year-long shift and get to go home afterwards. But in actuality, when the clones start to get wise to the con, the whole station/plot/city is just purged by drones and a fresh batch of clones.But over the millennia the clones have gained so many cumulative defects that they need much more oversight and distractions then an AI and some killbots can handle. The solution: more clones, specifically tasked with just causing distractions and disruptions to any clone self-organizations.So 'Moon (2009)' with Sam Rockwell, but with more clown homicide.
>>97861668>Space opera>Humanity is a single-planet species>HFY bullshit of "indominable spirit despite all odds"Nigga, do you even space opera?
>>97865916The original picture is obviously way older than 2008 in both physical damage and art style buuuut>>97865841>>97864776I don't actually know the sauce, I saved it on here. It could be one of the old LoGH PC strategy games
>>97866176>old LoGH PC strategy gamesEither it's getting better and better, or I'm being trolled and set up for disappointment.
>>97866235>>97866176>>97865916Literally the first result on google reverse image search, how are you guys this useless?https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/84663/lost-complete-victory-legend-of-the-galactic-heroe
>>97864443It ends on a cliffhanger and Herbert had notes for a seventh book, so no.
>>97866268Because I'm on the ride to work in a hurry and didn't have time to find the source for anon but wanted to give him some fun info
>>97866268Oh so it is an actual tabletop game? Man, and I was just voicing a wet dream. I need that.
For the first two thirds of humanity's time as a spacefaring species, ftl travel was thought to be completely impossible. Instead humanity expanded at a snails pace, as generation ships slowly made their way across the Orion arm. It was during this slow expansion that humanity would first meet another sapient lifeform, the Kwodin.Much like the humans, the kwodin were a species that, after a short period of expanding across their stellar system, deduced ftl travel to be an impossibility and so never sought to expand much farther than their systeme kuiper belt.Due to their dissimilar biologies, humans and kwodin were slow to build good relations and a cold war of sorts between the species first arose, as the kwodin sought to quickly match humanity's speed on interstellar expansion. Interspecies relations would considerably improve following the Spear of Cygnus incident which left both species massively shaken and more dependent on each other than ever before.Since the incident and the concurrent discovery of the possibility of ftl travel, human (+ various post-human and uplifted species) and kwodin societies grew increasingly closer. Though kwodin-only and human-only polities of course still exist, to the wider galactic civilisation, the kwodin, humans, monkes, catpeople, dolphins, AI vtuber lifeforms and robots represent a common "Orion civilisation."
>>97864592>vtuber lifeformsWhere do I join the designated antagonist genocidal crusader aliens' foreign legion?
>>97866481meant to quote >>97866424
>>97861648Big game hunters, ala some Traveller contracts and David Drake's Men Hunting Things.
>>97861648There are tentacle monsters that go around raping other races' women, but everyone's okay with it because it's the future and they're tolerant of other cultures.
>>97866268Wait that was the actual title??? I thought it was something some anon slapped on the cover, which is why I didn't bother with image search.
>>97863140No. Especially, if the first book is decent, it geometrically goes down with other books.Also yeah, the WB is interesting and possibly something more than that, but the interest is even more confined to the first book. Hell, as for that, the encyclopedia topples the actual series as whole.Must-read anyway, I guess, but I mean, so it's probably the first Dragonlance trilogy for a dnd-fan.
