I think 3. should be sometimes viable. Because otherwise the government would make an enormous amount of superheros.
Could also go with "only a limited number of super soldiers were made before the only source of the perfect serum was killed and his work destroyed." The MCU did well enough with that.
What do we want the role and level of AI to be in this universe? In DC AI seems to be fairly common. However, marvel has much less of it.
AI and time travel are both tricky. With time travel, you run into problems of paradoxes, changing the past, the ability of people from any possible future to travel back into the present, alternate universes, etc. With AI, you've got a few major problems. The first is the ability of the AI to access the Internet. Once it does, it can infect the world and become very difficult to repair or remove. It also becomes overburdened with too much info in too short a time. The second problem is that AI can be vastly more intelligent than humans and/or think millions of times faster. Not only is that dangerous to toy with in a story, but it's very hard for our limited brains to write effectively. The third problem is the question of intent. A benevolent AI might take over all aspects of human life because it's trying to help. A malevolent AI could undo everything we've created in a night, because we can't move or think fast enough to counter its work.
All that being said, I'm fine with artificial intelligence being in the story. We just need to be careful.
How do we handle X-com? When should we place it in the timeline? I think it might be nice to place it before Young Justice League starts but after a decent amount of the DC plot has been kicked off.
I love the original X-COM back from like 1992, but I have so little understanding of anything from the other games, especially the really new ones.
I also thought of another setting that might be hard to integrate. The UR-Quan Masters. Mainly, because the entire plot revolves around the whole earth having been conquered by aliens in the past and the planet surrounded by a force field to prevent anyone from leaving the planet.
THIS game I absolutely love, and have played it through several times. The way they characterize some of their aliens, like the VUX and the Orz, is beautiful. But you have adequately summed up a problem with including it. We'll have to work past that if we want to use UQM.
There is also the Symbiote Web Novels.
Haven't heard of this at all. Will leave it up to those who know it better, as per my normal ruling.
There is also the SCP Foundation wiki. Do we want to include stuff from it? We might be able to exclude under the religion restriction though. It does have an SCP which claims to be God and has seeming limitless power.
The main reason I want to be careful about things using existing mythology or current religions is that I don't want to trod all over someone's way of life just to throw one more canon in a story. If we put in Disney's Hercules, or God of War, the Hellenistic Pagans might not like how we're treating their gods. Just as an example. However, beings claiming to be a god, or even God, are quite common in literature. It doesn't matter if it actually claims to be the God of Christianity, but I would shy away from using Left Behind -- a setting where the Christian God and Jesus are confirmed to exist and have an active role. That being said, SCP-001 is the angel guarding Eden, which basically confirms what I've been saying. I'm okay implementing the general idea of the SCP Organization, and even a few of the non-religious entities, but let's avoid trying to integrate most or all of it wholesale.
I noticed that Hunter x Hunter and RWBY have similar magic systems. They are both based upon Aura. We could probably find a way to synergize or combine them. However, Hunter x Hunter does not have Grim though. Are we planning to keep semblances from RWBY?
I have heard this, but HxH has some very key differences, at least at the moment. We can find ways to integrate them both, but I'd say let's keep them distinct and separate for now, rather than combining them. It would be valuable to add Semblances, but they're rather poorly defined outside of fan theory, so I'll have to have a conversation with anyone else here who's big on RWBY like I am. Same goes for Dust. I have a pretty solid idea of how it works, but not one that's based in canon.
Do we want to add Worm to our superhero scene? Worm has Leviathan. It also has the Protectorate and the wards. How do they interact with SHEILD? How do they interact with the justice league? Where do we place it in the timeline?
How do we handle Wall-E? How about Cars?
I have no clue what Worm is, except that it's apparently very big on here and QQ. I'll leave that up to the others. Wall-E is set in the distant future, so I'd say the Buy-n-Large megacorp exists already, but the events of the movie haven't happened and won't for a long while. Cars is tricky depending on whether you believe the Unified Pixar Theory.
I know it's completely unrelated to what you guys were discussing but I had an idea on how to deal with all the anthropormorphic/talking animals out there, like Donald Duck, Sonic the Hedgehog and potentially Animal Crossing (if we want to make it they aren't spirits but instead talking animals).
This actually fits the tone of Animal Crossing and Archie Sonic a lot better than the Avatar crossover we had planned. We'll restrict Avatar's spirits to having created the Pokemon and some similar entities, and have the anthro animals come from Dr. Moreau's work. Having characters who are "real" and also cartoons is dicey, gets into some headache-inducing meta. Unless the cartoons are also fictional in universe. If there's a Toon World, I'm not real sure how I feel about that at the moment. There is a Comix Zone, though, as that Sega game exists and I'd like to include it at some point in the future. Also, in TMNT canon, there is a comic artist who finds a way to bring his drawings to life, so there's multiple sources supporting Comix Zone. I dunno, we'll workshop it.
That's why I think Ultron made his new plot. He's released special nanomachine robots to turn humans into superhumans, let them get a taste for it, make people think they are just normal superheroes.
That is what Brainiac does in the plot of DC Universe Online. Hmm...this makes me think of something. People love having Ultron and Sigma interact, but they've never touched on Brainiac. Let's throw in XANA from Code Lyoko, and see what happens when the four computer intelligences butt heads!
Although if you are looking for the big massive Alien Invasion led by the Ethereals, remember that they use mind control and genetic manipulation. So they are probably going to include aliens beyond the Xcom games, things that can hurt Saiyans and Kryptonians. Any alien from any of the franchises we've included are fair game. I think you could make an entire XCOM story about how people fought against this invasion of aliens from the entire Fusionverse.
Another fine CoreBrute product! I see no reason why the Ethereals would just let Saiyans and Kryptonians run amok. If they couldn't find a way to control them, they could absolutely make something to fight them. Perhaps with stolen Galvan technology, akin to the Nemetrix from Ben 10 Omniverse? "Oh? Your planet is protected by a Kryptonian? Well, let's see how he fares when the natural evolved predator of the Kryptonian species joins the fight! MWAHAHAHA!"
This also makes me think of Bibidi and Babidi from Dragon Ball Z. Their modus operandi with Majin Buu is basically the same as the Ethereals. Maybe we could do a slight shift of continuity and say that the DBZ wizards ARE Ethereals! After all, they're from another world, and poorly defined in universe.
Man this project appeal to a lot of my interests. Reminds me of Fusionfall way back when, the idea of converging worlds has a lot of potential that I wish more people would try to experiment on.
That is the idea. I sadly never got to play FusionFall, but I read all about it and wished I could. This is my attempt to do something like that on a larger scale, in written media instead of a game.
So you got my attention here, don't know how much I can help out though as my watch list is fairly small. I have great understanding of Nasuverse lore but I'm not confident of integrating that complex beast into here. That and it has mythology so it's banned anyways. Say question, I looked through the rules again and wouldn't A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun be also banned for having Religious Texts/Mythology?
That is absolutely a point, and a stronger one than the lewd factor of the Nasuverse. If there are any concepts from the Nasuverse you'd like to excise and put in our setting, I'm open to suggestions! I loved Fate/Stay and especially Fate/Zero, thought apocrypha was fun and different but a little odd, and can't really get into the rest. As for the ACSes, I actually haven't watched more than a couple episodes, so I'm not familiar enough to make that call. If you want to provide specific examples, I'll drop the ban hammer on both.
Wanted to toss in my two cents here, the Church can actually be very tolerant towards anything paranormal if they know it's not from an outside source. Long ago the Church did not automatically condemn magic, but this is because it didn't automatically associate magic with devilry (the cries of 'witchcraft' didn't really become all that common until the reformation and then only really in Germany and England), this is because the definition of 'magic' was nebulous at best. The Church simply did not 'know' enough about the topic to rule one way or the other because nobody did. During the middle ages there were largely two 'kinds' of magic, natural magic and necromancy.
The old Church was that way, at least pre-Inquisition, this much is true. But I'm basing my experience off of growing up Southern Baptist and then later watching videos of people like Sye Ten, Comfort, and Ham. The modern Church is definitely not as tolerant of anything supernatural aside from their particular definition of God. My background in particular didn't even like talking about angels, because it was too much of a grey area. Since Harry Potter takes place in the digital age, I was having the traditional, religious community react as they do to the mere existence of fictional books. If those people and spells and monsters really existed, it would get a lot worse.
