Humanity has some monsters under the bed.
Humanities history with monsters (mass effect)
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Chapter 1
Humanity has always been plagued by beasts, from the Chochin-Obaki to the Wendigos, however, humanity has long adapted to fight this never-ending threat with their own weapons and monsters.
Monster hunters.
They came in many different forms, samurai warred with the yokai, knights slayed giants and dragons, native American warriors dueled wendigos and skin-walkers and Egyptian priests and pharaohs fought mummies.
Human conflict was rare, as was advancement, humanity was naturally strong and endurable, and disease seldom took hold. Because of this, society only truly started advancing in the last 200 years, with feudal monarchies transforming into democratic states and communicating with each other more and more.
The constant presence of the now strong and well-taught monster hunters allows humanity to flourish, with new inventions almost monthly. The steam engine caused the first industrial revolution, and while some tried to exploit workers, when it became known that the negative feelings generated by abused workers caused even more monsters to appear, it was quickly shut down by the now international monster hunters.
As communication and cooperation became more and more necessary as humanity kept exponentially growing causing an increase in monsters, the international monster defense pact was signed between Ireland and Britain, the first of many, and soon to become the global monster defense pact, or GMDP.
The 2nd industrial revolution came when the cores of monsters were first burnt, while normally impervious, these cores could be burnt at an extremely high temperature and produce immense amounts of electricity, the larger the core the more it produced.
This caused another explosion in the monster hunter population, and subsequent mass deaths when those too young and idealistic to understand the profession properly died during the various tough and often brutal initiations, this, in turn, caused the passing of monster hunting school legislation, requiring each country to have at least one school dedicated to teaching monster hunting in a safe environment.
This only tempered the flow, and those who passed the school would still only have a 1 in 3 chance of making it through initiation into one of the specialized hunting groups, much better than the previous 1 in 10 chances.
The first satellite is launched, followed by the first person in space, followed closely after by the first person on the moon. International cooperation is at an all-time high, and while monsters still claim the lives of many daily most do not have to fear for their lives as they had to 200 years ago, indeed the horrors of the past were just that, past.
And then the Prothean archives on Mars are found, and nothing is quite the same ever again.
Authors note: point out anything that looks weird.
Monster hunters.
They came in many different forms, samurai warred with the yokai, knights slayed giants and dragons, native American warriors dueled wendigos and skin-walkers and Egyptian priests and pharaohs fought mummies.
Human conflict was rare, as was advancement, humanity was naturally strong and endurable, and disease seldom took hold. Because of this, society only truly started advancing in the last 200 years, with feudal monarchies transforming into democratic states and communicating with each other more and more.
The constant presence of the now strong and well-taught monster hunters allows humanity to flourish, with new inventions almost monthly. The steam engine caused the first industrial revolution, and while some tried to exploit workers, when it became known that the negative feelings generated by abused workers caused even more monsters to appear, it was quickly shut down by the now international monster hunters.
As communication and cooperation became more and more necessary as humanity kept exponentially growing causing an increase in monsters, the international monster defense pact was signed between Ireland and Britain, the first of many, and soon to become the global monster defense pact, or GMDP.
The 2nd industrial revolution came when the cores of monsters were first burnt, while normally impervious, these cores could be burnt at an extremely high temperature and produce immense amounts of electricity, the larger the core the more it produced.
This caused another explosion in the monster hunter population, and subsequent mass deaths when those too young and idealistic to understand the profession properly died during the various tough and often brutal initiations, this, in turn, caused the passing of monster hunting school legislation, requiring each country to have at least one school dedicated to teaching monster hunting in a safe environment.
This only tempered the flow, and those who passed the school would still only have a 1 in 3 chance of making it through initiation into one of the specialized hunting groups, much better than the previous 1 in 10 chances.
The first satellite is launched, followed by the first person in space, followed closely after by the first person on the moon. International cooperation is at an all-time high, and while monsters still claim the lives of many daily most do not have to fear for their lives as they had to 200 years ago, indeed the horrors of the past were just that, past.
And then the Prothean archives on Mars are found, and nothing is quite the same ever again.
Authors note: point out anything that looks weird.
*Proof of a Hero fizzles almost immediately*
Monsters and Cryptids in scifi always gets my attention though, so monsters inherently appear in response to humanity? So this is almost like the ork WAAAGH field, the collective psychic might of humanity basically spawns gribbly beasties to battle?
Monsters and Cryptids in scifi always gets my attention though, so monsters inherently appear in response to humanity? So this is almost like the ork WAAAGH field, the collective psychic might of humanity basically spawns gribbly beasties to battle?
Chapter 2
The archive was almost completely desolate, with only some minor pieces of information, and only one message: Relays had been compromised, with a large picture of these relays on the wall, according to the archive there was one in the system.
It took nearly 4 years to decipher the Prothean language to the point of being able to read the archive, and while the archive does talk about the mass effect and the element that produces it, the archives make clear that the Protheans detected none of the element within the solar system.
Despite this, the archives were proof of alien life, and humanity suddenly and abruptly began massively improving their spaceflight capacity, rapidly increasing monster hunts to find larger and larger cores for use in spaceflight, one monster came on top for large and reliable cores, the Jormungandr, a massive snake that appears in the arctic regions of the earth and produces around 20 large dense cores per defeat.
Unfortunately, the monster only forms once every 50 or so years, making its cores incredibly valuable, the first 5 of these cores used in spaceflight tests suddenly collapsed in on themselves.
It took another 2 years to discover why and fix it, these issues plagued the United Spaceflight program, and it only got resolved after it was discovered that without ice around it, Jormungandr cores would simply collapse.
After that was resolved things went significantly smoother, with regular flights now to the moon and Mars, and then the FTL barrier was breached when a Jormungandr core collapsed in space, launching the ship it was on from the moon to Mars in less than one second.
This was jumped on, some trying to create artificial core collapses, henceforth referred to as CCs while others trying to find a way to preserve the core in the process.
The option that prevailed was what is known as the Eredine process, a very delicate process that removes ice from the core room for a split second to cause a collapse and then instantly refills it to stabilize the core, preserving it.
The following 200 years of colonization, expansion, and technological advancement were only pampered by even MORE monsters appearing in response to both new fears and the massive increase in population.
Shanxi is one of the newer colonies, a colony founded to study the relay in the system, it was considered a mere temporary colony, holding only a small garrison of monster hunters and a population of scientists and engineers.
This ended when the relay suddenly activated and a large alien fleet came through, destroyed the 2 science ships scanning the relay, and then bore down on the colony.
Authors note: as always tell me if anything looks weird
It took nearly 4 years to decipher the Prothean language to the point of being able to read the archive, and while the archive does talk about the mass effect and the element that produces it, the archives make clear that the Protheans detected none of the element within the solar system.
Despite this, the archives were proof of alien life, and humanity suddenly and abruptly began massively improving their spaceflight capacity, rapidly increasing monster hunts to find larger and larger cores for use in spaceflight, one monster came on top for large and reliable cores, the Jormungandr, a massive snake that appears in the arctic regions of the earth and produces around 20 large dense cores per defeat.
Unfortunately, the monster only forms once every 50 or so years, making its cores incredibly valuable, the first 5 of these cores used in spaceflight tests suddenly collapsed in on themselves.
It took another 2 years to discover why and fix it, these issues plagued the United Spaceflight program, and it only got resolved after it was discovered that without ice around it, Jormungandr cores would simply collapse.
After that was resolved things went significantly smoother, with regular flights now to the moon and Mars, and then the FTL barrier was breached when a Jormungandr core collapsed in space, launching the ship it was on from the moon to Mars in less than one second.
This was jumped on, some trying to create artificial core collapses, henceforth referred to as CCs while others trying to find a way to preserve the core in the process.
The option that prevailed was what is known as the Eredine process, a very delicate process that removes ice from the core room for a split second to cause a collapse and then instantly refills it to stabilize the core, preserving it.
The following 200 years of colonization, expansion, and technological advancement were only pampered by even MORE monsters appearing in response to both new fears and the massive increase in population.
Shanxi is one of the newer colonies, a colony founded to study the relay in the system, it was considered a mere temporary colony, holding only a small garrison of monster hunters and a population of scientists and engineers.
This ended when the relay suddenly activated and a large alien fleet came through, destroyed the 2 science ships scanning the relay, and then bore down on the colony.
Authors note: as always tell me if anything looks weird
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Term sheet
made this for reference
Jormungandr cores: cores used in spaceflight by humanity, harvested from a Jormungandr, a monster that forms in immense cold. There is a task force specifically dedicsted to hunting jormungandr, death rate even with orbital support is still around 60%
Eredine process: the process wherein a Jormungandr core is collapsed for a split second before being stabilized to reach FTL speeds
Monsters: things that form around human fears, unique to humanity, their cores form the backbone of human civilization
Monster hunters: the elite of humanity and its entire armed forces, usually around 4 times stronger, faster, and with more endurance than the average human. Very few survive the process and training to become one, even fewer retire
United Earth: a coalition of every nation on earth towards common defense and prosperity
Jormungandr cores: cores used in spaceflight by humanity, harvested from a Jormungandr, a monster that forms in immense cold. There is a task force specifically dedicsted to hunting jormungandr, death rate even with orbital support is still around 60%
Eredine process: the process wherein a Jormungandr core is collapsed for a split second before being stabilized to reach FTL speeds
Monsters: things that form around human fears, unique to humanity, their cores form the backbone of human civilization
Monster hunters: the elite of humanity and its entire armed forces, usually around 4 times stronger, faster, and with more endurance than the average human. Very few survive the process and training to become one, even fewer retire
United Earth: a coalition of every nation on earth towards common defense and prosperity
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Sort of, its more the collective emotions and presence of humanity, as humans increase in population so do monsters, and monsters rapidly increase under harsh emotions.
This doesn't connect to the rest of the sentence. I would change it to "the first 5 of these cores used in spaceflight tests suddenly collapsed in on themselves."
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- Clogging a drain
So Humanity in this timeline apparently has its own paraphysical ecosystem that forms in any concentration of their species.
That is going to be fun to try to explain to the Citadel Races. Pillars help the Batarians if they manage to begin kidnapping humans successfully. Griblies emerging from dark alleys is something they are probably not prepared for.
That is going to be fun to try to explain to the Citadel Races. Pillars help the Batarians if they manage to begin kidnapping humans successfully. Griblies emerging from dark alleys is something they are probably not prepared for.
Also means that even a simple space ship would generate some small cryptids. Heaven forbid you keep a large fleet in one place, you could spawn quite a large one if you got 'lucky'.
Since it seems like different regions spawned different types of cryptids, once humanity started to mingle did the cryptids also spread? Wendigos in Europe? Oni in North America?
Since it seems like different regions spawned different types of cryptids, once humanity started to mingle did the cryptids also spread? Wendigos in Europe? Oni in North America?
well, as a side affext of the relative rarity and human cost of gathering jormungandr cores humanity doesnt have that many ships, following a quality over quantity approach.
The ships they do have however...
And yes the cryptids spread as humans did, albeit its not that much of an issue as every city has a garrison of monster hunters.
Most monsters can be easily wiped by 1-2 rookie hunters, such as weaker oni and zombies.
The larger and more mythilogical beasts are far more difficult, often requiring several cities garrisons to contribute should they appear.
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- North America
so this is a HARD question that will definitely define this story for me.
Do monsters only start spawning when on a planet once the human population reaches a certain size?
or
Do monsters always spawn anywhere with humans JUST to spite and kill humans?
They spawn when a group of humans reaches above around 1000, and spawn in response to human fear and emotion
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- North America
oh fuck the hell yes! this invasion is going to be hell for all the right reasons! Forced [] because the literal planet is trying to kill everyone
while yes humanities naval forces are put through specific training to reduce emotions in battle to specifically counter the chances of that. Its considered a virtue amongst humans to be in control of your emotions, but some mental conditioning will not stop monsters from appearing should the requirements be met.
The monsters on ships usually spawn on ships but rarely space monsters do appear.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
What is the minimum range from humans that monsters need to stay within? That is to say, do they go poof if they get too far away from human populations?
Nah they stay even if humans leave, though they will try their best to follow
- Pronouns
- He/Him
So, I now have the image of a troll standing atop a mountain on a planet where some human surveyors stopped by, desperately jumping trying to reach their spaceship. I imagine he is also flapping his arms as he does so.