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The Lonely Earth - Earth ISOT into Magitek fantasy

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Acolyte said:
Time is right for the great asian unification. If there be war let there be pan asian coopertion.
Just want to point out one thing as an indian , that we have millions of practising holy men whi meditate and try to achieve understanding of god, daily. So has china probably, so if the magic is about manipulating inner energies. China and india have a huge advantage over most nations.
Also if the setting has gods india has the advantage of havinging a religion that can accept other god very easily. Also we have a lot more people that work for religious institutes so we would have a lot of paladins.
Oh the indian navy has an air craft carrier as well. And we have one that was de commisioned so that could be re furbished.
My point is india exist. A lot of stories tend to forget that.
Sorry if i seem pushy. Not telling you to change your story.
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India will definitely have a role to play yes.

Revealing more about the magicks of the setting is a bit spoilerish, but religion and spiritualism are definitely very important.
 
Mental Omega said:
India will definitely have a role to play yes.

Revealing more about the magicks of the setting is a bit spoilerish, but religion and spiritualism are definitely very important.
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looks to italy.....papal states when...just kidding that said.

i admit that i was hesiant when first reading this. but i came around when i saw the dolphin.

looking at it so far i am curious to see where you take things.

i just hope that old memes get some new use in this new world
 
Cmmdfugal said:
looks to italy.....papal states when...just kidding that said.

i admit that i was hesiant when first reading this. but i came around when i saw the dolphin.

looking at it so far i am curious to see where you take things.

i just hope that old memes get some new use in this new world
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Even when literally the entire world has been dropped somewhere else, generation Y and Z still wanna die.
 
So, did Earth get unfolded along the International date line then slapped down in a big ocean then? Or is it more like all of Earth's continents got translated onto the new, bigger planet in the same sort of mapping as they were on Earth? It kinda matters, because if Earth was split open like an orange peel than there would still be transatlantic links and telecomm relays through Asia. It'd be awkward and rely on the EU/Russia or whoever to act as middlemen, but Earth nations would still be able to communicate.
 
me.me.here said:
So, did Earth get unfolded along the International date line then slapped down in a big ocean then? Or is it more like all of Earth's continents got translated onto the new, bigger planet in the same sort of mapping as they were on Earth? It kinda matters, because if Earth was split open like an orange peel than there would still be transatlantic links and telecomm relays through Asia. It'd be awkward and rely on the EU/Russia or whoever to act as middlemen, but Earth nations would still be able to communicate.
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Split like this



So yeah, orange peel style.

Not sure how Antarctica is going to work just yet.
 
Flectarn said:
Whats between the peels?

edit? also, how are climate effects going to play out?
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Water mostly. Some islands and minor landmasses that poke out of the abyssal plains that the Earth is occupying.

As for the climate: It's going to be a bit messy but climate in large part is determined more by mystic effects than by standard geography. Some parts of the world will be more affected by their new latitude than others, though Antarctica is uninhabited (important for rather mystical reasons) and is thus going to be most affected by this change in latitude and will start to thaw alarmingly fast.
 
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Water mostly. Some islands and minor landmasses that poke out of the abyssal plains that the Earth is occupying.

As for the climate: It's going to be a bit messy but climate in large part is determined more by mystic effects than by standard geography. Some parts of the world will be more affected by their new latitude than others, though Antarctica is uninhabited (important for rather mystical reasons) and is thus going to be most affected by this change in latitude and will start to thaw alarmingly fast.
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so does this mean RIP penguins?
 
So there's no satellites on the new world, but what's revealed when we launch them (Should happen within days)?
 
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So there's no satellites on the new world, but what's revealed when we launch them (Should happen within days)?
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Well for one thing the planet is in a near constant state of total warfare going on somewhere (not all over the world but there's always at least a few total wars going on) and the climate/topography is very unusual due to easily being influenced as much by design or ambient magical forces as they are conventional geological and climatological forces. The poles are also a hive of activity due to cold immune species being able to thrive there. Even more odd is that many of the night lights come from beneath the ocean and seas too.

You'll get to see it all when I finish the map in Civ V's editor.
 
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So how many scientists are going to start acting like Lovecraft protagonists who've seen too much once they start seeing the images I wonder?
 
Alane1 said:
So how many scientists are going to start acting like Lovecraft protagonists who've seen too much once they start seeing the images I wonder?
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Less than the number that would sell their soul to get a chance to study it. Even odds that if there's a Standard Fantasy Hell here the scientific community will be corrupted within the year.
 
is the world hollow?

wondering how it can be so big and not ultrahigh gravity
 
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Chapter 3: Strakh
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    • With how long the upcoming post is becoming I'm splitting it up into pieces.


    Midway Island, 1 hour after translocation


    "Command this is Blue Raptor approaching bogeys." Jay Lee said as his F-22 approached the site of contact. Set to supercruise, the sleek stealth jet devoured the distance to the bogeys before the unmissable shape of some sort of massive flier began to dominate his view, almost making him forget there were smaller aircraft in his path and flinching as he was buzzed past by one of the midnight and olive aircraft.

    "What the…Command are you getting a visual? Lead bogey seems to be at least eight...nine hundred meters long." He said, banking to get a good look at the vanguard airship and its escort of small screen ships and fighters, all boxing in Hawaii Flight 843. Whoever they were, they wanted to make a show.

    "Negative on visual, satellite uplinks unavailable Blue Raptor." Came in the voice of Pearl Harbour's ground control through the radio.

    "Bogeys are operating some kind of airship fleet. Counting eight airships and at least fifty fighter craft. Escorting a Hotel Alpha Lima civilian aircraft towards Honolulu. No signs of damage on the civilian aircraft." He said, taking a look elsewhere as he caught a glimpse of the massive shape of the Righteous Indignation in the background.

    "...Fuck my ass and call me a bitch they've got an even bigger one command. Repeat; fuck my ass and call me a bitch they've got an even bigger one." He said, not daring to blink as he watched the enormous craft seem to stretch on into infinity as it carried off in a separate direction in a path that would take it straight through to California.

    "Bogey is at least five kilometers long and is on a beeline towards California. Hold up...spotting a second bogey of the same class...more ships...jesus it's a whole fleet. They're escorting some massive arcology ship." He said.

    "Blue Raptor can you confirm?"

    "The arcology ship must be at least twenty kilometers, it's unbelievable!"

    "Command do I have permission to engage or communicate or something?" He said trying to count the formations of escorting fighter craft that kept the arcology ship safe.

    "Negative do not engage. Withhold communications until an ambassador can be contacted to speak."

    "Fight Truck do you see anything?" He asked one of his wing mates who rejoined formation with his raptor. Celeste Mina turned to look at him through her cockpit and shook her head affirmatively before speaking.

    "Do you mean something besides the airship caravan? Sorry, little hard to pay attention to small details when my whole day has been full of impossible shit." She said.

    "Think we could take 'em?"

    "What, us against a whole air force? Yeaaaahh I'm really feeling those odds Raptor." She said with a laugh.

    "Shit I hope we've got something to talk to them with. Cali's gonna flip the fuck out if that fleet passes overhead." She said, shaking her head.

    "Think they can handle it?"

    "Nope."


    White House Situation Room, 1 hour after translocation


    "Alright who've we got on diplomacy duties." Trump said, leaning onto his table and cursing the lack of satellite video feed.

    "God can we get someone to set up skype or whatever it is with them?" He said, banging the table in mild frustration. Talking over the radio? What was he, some grunt? He was the most powerful man on Earth, he had no time for phone calls when he could fire up his top of the line video systems.

    "We're working on some means of establishing a video feed but we need time to change up the systems." An aide said before he silenced him with a wave.

    "Don't care how you do it, just do it!" He said, dismissing them just as quickly.

    "Mr.President, we've got the General Secretary of the U.N on the line." Another aide said, leaning into his ear.

    "They can talk to them after I'm done. I'll cut 'em something great, we'll all benefit and we'll all be happy. Believe me, I've got this all figured out."

    He did not.

    "Sir, United Nations protocol is t-" He didn't let her finish. He didn't even want her to finish. He was going to say what he had to say damn anyone else who wanted to talk out of turn.

    "The United Nations wouldn't be anything without the United States. I'm speaking first and that's final. If they want to talk they can ask for their own feed." He said, clearly irate from losing a significant amount of sleep over the past three...or was it four hours? He shook his head and motioned for a cup of coffee to keep him awake.

    It'd take a little bit for the Caffeine to really kick in, but he'd function well enough for now.

    "Have we got a radio link yet? Come on can't one of you guys get me on the horn?"

    "The Hawaii Airlines Flight they're escorting says they've got radio contact with the unknown fleet, we could ask them for a link with their aircraft." Mike Pompeo said.

    "What I want to know is what they've been doing with that aircraft and how they built those airships." Mike Coats said before Dunford raised his hand to speak.

    "Mr.President the industrial capacity needed to build those airships is unbelievable. I advise that we make every possible opportunity to avoid antagonising the United Councils of Atericil. If they can build flying craft that large they've already made everyone of the fine boys and girls at the Skunkworks look like a gaggle of cavemen. And if they're hostile you had better hope the nukes are ready because I'd be willing to get we don't have enough conventional weapons to take down even ten percent of their air fleet." Dunford said. The old marine general was perhaps the most alarmed at the situation, even if his air force counterpart was absolutely cavalier.

    "If they do make hostile moves against us we have the nuclear capability to turn that arcology ship to slag, I'm absolutely sure of it." Selva said, to Dunford's sighing.

    "I would like to remind this council that America is not mobilised for a war with a peer country that can reach its home soil and the USC has complete local numerical superiority." Dunford said.

    "God willing, we'll be able to see this test of our nation th-" Pompeo said before Dunford shut him down with a withering glare.

    "What's with all the caution General?" Trump said, taken aback by Dunford's stance.

    "I don't like picking fights we'd lose." He said flatly.

    "Mr.President, we're getting something."

    "Put it through, and someone get me the sugar." He said as somehow the TV screen cut on to everyone's shock, almost making him drop his coffee cup and causing him to spill some of the hot liquid on the lap of Pence who tried his best to avoid screaming in pain.

    On the other side of the screen was a woman in armoured uniform with ash blonde hair allowed to simply flow down, pointed ears framed a face that had eyes with irises that glowed with an internal fire and whose almond shaped pupils dilated into a rounder shape as she studied the group. A feathery creature somewhat like some sort of raptor stood next to her, wearing a midnight and olive armoured uniform, joined by a darker skinned man and woman who sat to her right, a hooded figure with a single glowing pink circle in the centre of blackness of their hood, metallic hands clutching at a staff, a small brown scaled reptilian creature that tapped at some manner of tablet before turning to the screen and snapping its jaw shut, and a pointed eared male who wore a peaked cap to go with his outfit of office.

    "You have the Presiding Executive Council of the Coronia. I am First Speaker of the Council, Saernara Elnerste. I understand you would be the President of the United States of America?" The Woman said. All of the other councillors remained silent, as it was her duty to talk for them.

    "Yes, great, hello and welcome on behalf of Earth and the United States! It's great to get to meet one of you. You know my staff here was all saying you'd all look like some kind of TV monster; you got TV right; but look at you, you're fantastic!" He said, Saernara raising an eyebrow while her bright green eyes studied the man.

    "Unsolicited compliments aside, would you mind telling us how a continent came to be in the path of our traditional Etimin?" She said, gloved hands clasping themselves together.

    "Well you see I've got great people at NASA here, the best people actually who can tell you all about the facts on that. Why don't you tell 'em?" He said, pushing Steve Sinclair into the forefront; the thirty something scientist sweating at the realisation that he was staring at an actual honest to god elf.

    "Well uh...hi, c-can you tell us how you got into our feed?"

    "We needed only locate the source of some of your transmissions; saw an available screen and Magos Trenthin was able to provide us access with the appropriate spellcraft." She said, gesturing to the hooded figure.

    "Did you say spells as in...magic?" Steve said.

    "...Yes? How else do you think I can speak with you?" She said, making a face as if he grew two heads.

    "O...okay we'll have time for that later. But you see there were some major...faults shaped like cracks in spacetime over our planet that lead to our region of space breaking until we "fell" onto your planet. After that we're not sure how we didn't all die in the impact." He said, shaking from his nervousness.

    "Xarazanth's worldspirit must have decided to save your world when you fell into our cosmos. I don't think I can explain the cracks however." She said, getting a nod of the head from all the other councillors who were as clueless as she was.

    "Worldspirit?" Trump said.

    "Planets that bear life have worldspirits, To the fae as the gods are to the soulborn, or the archomentals to the elementals, the merdinots to the mentats, the...you have no idea what I am saying do you?" She said, pausing mid sentence as she realised how quickly she was losing them.

    "Worlds have souls of aethyric magic, the same magicks that give the fae their form and those who use nature magic their abilities. To shield itself and to save your people, Xarazanth's worldspirit must have rescued your planet before impact. You're quite lucky." She said, to the vague nodding of the gathered people. The magos was about to speak, but their hand was lowered by the male elf.

    "So hold on, this planet is alive?" Dunford said, seeing the immediate concern of having to deal with a sapient planet as a potential threat.

    "In a sense yes. That worldspirit creates fae, regulates the climate, and ensures the continuation of life on the world. It's not entirely of one mind however. So be careful." She said, Trump already formulating plans for trying to cut a deal with the planet while Pompeo pulled him over. The other councillors whispered to each other in turn.

    "You can't seriously expect to believe all this pagan nonsense coming out of her mouth." He said before Trump nodded.

    "Okay how do we know whether to believe any of this Saernara?" He said. Oof, first name basis with a lady he just met. She didn't seem to care however. The shorter reptile appeared to wince, however.

    "If you wish, you can schedule meetings with our fleet when we cross your territory." She said, all of them nodding in agreement, such was

    "Hold on, we can't just let you over our sovereign airspace with that fleet!" Selva interjected, his face tense with hostility. The black woman almost rose out of her seat as if to say something but was cautioned back down by the short reptile.

    "Diverting our course south would unacceptably delay our journey to the Etimin and has already been rejected by our councils. Going farther North would bring us too close to Strakhul." She said, taking a look at the dark skinned male first and saying something in a language that nobody understood before turning back to the Americans.

    "Excuse me Strakhul?" Pompeo said, immediately curious about the possibility of yet another nation to deal with.

    "Allow me to speak, Strakhul is a Cabal of Necromancers who invaded and occupied the nations of the Peninsula of Delthis on the continent of Yrhas to your north. Together with the Archonate of Ziv, the Enflamed of Karos, the Underclan of Tukuk and other allies they've been waging a campaign of aggression to conquer Yrhas and nearby continents for years." The machine priest Trenthin spoke, their voice being surprisingly warm despite its metalllic tone.

    "Excuse me, what information can you provide us on Strakhul? Are they going to be a threat?" Dunford said, raising his hand to speak.

    "With how close your northern borders are to their southern territories? Yes." The raptor like figure spoke after having a quick nod with the others, as if they needed to confirm whether or not to speak.
     
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    "With how close your northern borders are to their southern territories? Yes." The raptor like figure spoke after having a quick nod with the others, as if they needed to confirm whether or not to speak.
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    *Screams in Canadian*
     
    Strakhul is like a hyperexpansionist Belka if Belka were run by a cabal of Liches, Vampires, and Phantoms convinced that only the midnight aristocracy can truly bring order, peace, and prosperity by putting the chattel in their rightful place. And that the undead can never know peace until the living are properly left too terrified to interfere in their shadow domain. But I mean, the sort of Druzhic magic that goes into creating the undead does funny things to the personality. It means almost nobody wants Undead governed or dominated states to rise up and establish themselves in most cases and that said Undead tend to be extremely bad news for everyone else when clustered in such great numbers.

    So their need to create a "zone of exclusion" is self propagating. And one that is likely to only grow in time as the many needs of Undeath require ever greater territory and resources.
     
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    I'm guessing that the EU and Russia are also threatened by the Strakhul, so poor Canada doesn't have to go it alone.

    Big question is if the shot caller in the US wants to help.
     
    AntiSanity said:
    I'm guessing that the EU and Russia are also threatened by the Strakhul, so poor Canada doesn't have to go it alone.

    Big question is if the shot caller in the US wants to help.
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    Any attack on Canada by Strakhul or its allies in the Convocation of Shadows would activate the NATO alliance as per Article 5 and thus be expected to draw in automatic declarations of war by all other members. Trump is mercurial but the neocons in his administration would probably try to shanghai him into honouring Article 5.
     
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