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“[…] The third planet of the Runic Sol system, one of the most interesting sights to be seen. A coincidence beyond possible, and in the very heart of the RGT territory […]Though to be the main reason why Runic Galactic Technologies claimed the system as it’s new home and subsequently named Runic Sol, as everything else in RGT space, it possess the Runic adjective before it’s name. It was, however, left untouched after terraforming by RGT, as it developed it’s homeworld Headquarters and Chronos, the third habitable world of their system, leaving Runic Terra as a pristine preserve, just as it’s namesake would eventually be […]”
“[…] Geographically speaking, it’s resemblance to Earth is uncanny at best, impossible at worst, with the only exceptions being several small islands and a few variations in the terrain, such as the Red Sea being a lake and the Great Lakes nor Greenland existing. By far the largest difference is an island, roughly the size of Australia, in the middle of the would be Pacific Ocean, called Mu, in honor of the mythical continent that once existed on said ocean […]
Climate wise however, Runic Terra varies a lot from it’s counterpart, with Africa being a sprawling rainforest, along with Australia, while North America is completely covered in the sands of a desert larger than the Sahara itself. Europe and Asia remain relatively similar to the originals, with temperate climate and the Alps near where they should, just like the Andes down in South America, which remains forested, although with a large lake in it’s heart […]”
“[…] It’s role as a nature preserve ended abruptly, as Earth suffered the greatest calamity since the dawn of civilization, with the great supervolcano of Yellowstone finally erupting, covering the world in ashes and blocking Sol […]
Analysts agree that had RGT not pushed for an exodus of mankind from Earth, with the use of rapid colonization, and incentives for those remaining on Earth to leave it behind for newer lands, the eruption would have killed countless more, as by the time it struck, Earth’s population had been successfully lowered to roughly a hundred million inhabitants, who adamantly refused to leave, putting RGT’s plan to have Earth declared a Galactic Heritage Site on hold. But with this new disaster rapidly ravishing the world, fleets of transports arrived to take all the remaining 50 million survivors out of their dying homeworld, and into their new planet… Runic Terra, the Earth copy […]
Later on would Earth’s chaotic climate and polluted atmosphere be stabilized by RGT terraforming teams, upon which the planet was finally declared a GHS, forbidding it’s inhabitation, only leaving several historical preserves protecting mankind’s greatest works for tourist galaxy-wide to see […]
As for Runic Terra, it rapidly grew to become a bustling world, which took pains to build their cities in the sites of Earth’s most glorious urban centers, and replicating all their landmarks, even if they had been preserved back on Old Earth […]”
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RuneTrantor In reply to Zireael07 [2014-04-25 01:01:26 +0000 UTC]
Thank you!
And thanks for the fav too!
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XelfrepuslaX [2013-04-27 09:36:33 +0000 UTC]
Oh I wonder what planet that looks like. Haha XD. It looks... familiar!
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RuneTrantor In reply to XelfrepuslaX [2013-04-27 17:57:21 +0000 UTC]
That's the point, it's Earth's natural clone. ("Natural" as in they only had to terraform it, not modify existing geography)
It does have variations, Africa had some of the largest so I took the image from that angle.
Wish you could see the actual maps.
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XelfrepuslaX In reply to RuneTrantor [2013-04-28 03:33:09 +0000 UTC]
Ahh I see, it's made to be like Earth, interesting, imagine if you could actually "clone" Earth, so you made like 50 planets all exactly like Earth XD.
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RuneTrantor In reply to XelfrepuslaX [2013-04-29 01:18:57 +0000 UTC]
The interesting thing is that Runic Terra is naturally like that (Minus the water and atmosphere, I mean geographically)
Rune could use nanos to rearrange the crust to look like Earth, but that's hardly as cool as geeting a natural clone.
The reason he has it in his home system is that when future Rune came to save him and give him his mission, he also gave him the nanos that keep him alive, AMI's location, and a crapton of tech data, which later AMI had a fieldtrip with. Along that there was a starmap of the entire galaxy, that's why he had already contacted all races and got them under his rule before mankind had even expanded 100 ly out!
He simply chose the nest system to settle in the best system, with three habitable planets (Well two, the third one needed terraforming but what worth it. )
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XelfrepuslaX In reply to RuneTrantor [2013-04-30 07:04:53 +0000 UTC]
Hmm I see. It would be awesome if you could create your own planet on a computer like system, and then using some advanced machinery, it creates that planet for you o.O.
Ah I see, basically his future self went back to help his older self make things right :d.
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RuneTrantor In reply to XelfrepuslaX [2013-05-01 01:29:04 +0000 UTC]
In Galaxia you can, that's what Rune made the Game Worlds for. Celestia is specially lovely of a concept for a world.
Making thinsg right would implie someone is to blame, I like to call it 'Go and keep ghings from going to Hell, Destiny is sleeping on the job.' XD
But yeah, meag corps did quite the damage to humanity, so by the time Telos came with the Rapture Fleet, it easily swiped humanity away.
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XelfrepuslaX In reply to RuneTrantor [2013-05-03 07:28:49 +0000 UTC]
Oh I see :d.
I guess it does a little. Rather I think of it more like, everything is messed so just put it back in order by making it "right". Destiny is like... meh can't be stuffed calculating the psychohistory XD.
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RuneTrantor In reply to XelfrepuslaX [2013-05-03 17:06:24 +0000 UTC]
The funny thing is that my detsiny tops psychohistory, it MAKES history as it wants, but it was designed to be helped by the user of the GeneSys, but since Gardemis took a 'no help' approach... it's wonky at best, hence it screwing us up.
He keeps his policy, but eventually makes a second copy of his universe and adds a variable, Rune, that keeps the copy universe working.
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XelfrepuslaX In reply to RuneTrantor [2013-05-07 07:24:08 +0000 UTC]
Ah I see, it wasn't really complete then .
Oh I see, so the other one Rune travelled to after was the one without Rune?
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RuneTrantor In reply to XelfrepuslaX [2013-05-08 18:24:43 +0000 UTC]
It IS complete, the generated universe is just like that of all other GeneSys-es but the managing AI was designed as best as possible, but it is not perfect, the user was expected to take a race they liked and help it (or royally screw them, that is valid too) Gardemis´ universe becomes highly famous due to the no help rule, by the time Rune meets him his adventures are a popular tv show in the higher universe, the people VOTED to create the secondary copy with him as a variable.
He is not happy, to say the least...
The Rune variable was first introduced in the original universe, along with AMI and her tech, and then had some people pushed to finding him (Rahnor along with them, as he is an even larger variable, he is in ALL universes, and not even Gardemis knows why) then it was his duty to figure out a way to save the galaxy, upon traveling to the past (He moved to a second GeneSys) his variable was already implanted there, so he saved his past self and gave him the mission and tech. Then returned to his timeline, where he is going to also try to build an RGT esque company with the newly discovered gates, to maybe patch it a bit at least. (It goes well until THANATOS arives...)
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XelfrepuslaX In reply to RuneTrantor [2013-05-13 08:50:54 +0000 UTC]
Oh I see, well I doubt I would be happy in his position xD.
What o.O, in one of the universes didn't he commit suicide?
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RuneTrantor In reply to XelfrepuslaX [2013-05-13 22:58:28 +0000 UTC]
It works for the best in the end, as he is an artificial life, in the sense that he was placed by the user rather than grow from the simulation like everyone else.
And he does manage to capture the GeneSys in his visit thus freeing them from being a toy of Gardemis, and giving Rune power to keep things good. (And then we go to the question, does he finally commit suicide now that he is free, or having the weight lifted from his shoulders, will now live happily? I kind of want to leave unsaid, but I also want to have a post-plot saga of him just continuing expanding RGT and colonizing Andromeda, but with a much happier disposition as he no longer has to worry that the entire galaxy is going to go down under the moment he blinks.)
In both, in the original one, the bad future one, he spends the few millenniums left before THANATOS' arrival (That they are unaware of) making an RGT esque company to improve things but then IT arrives and destroys all, and Rune and Rahnor manage to flee to the other timeline, and stayed in hiding for a long time before the other Rune found them (they were on empty Earth, so no one found them) while the main Rune, which is the CEO of RGT is in fact wishing for death for most of the stories, generally by he putting himself in danger, but he never dies. The nearest I go is what I mention that he is implied to commit suicide after getting the GeneSys to keep things good. But as I mentioned above, I am still debating it.
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XelfrepuslaX In reply to RuneTrantor [2013-06-13 03:56:37 +0000 UTC]
Yeah I agree. I like that kind of ending, open ended in a way but still half defined. It's sad when something actually properly ENDS.
Maybe a few short stories could be written on the colonization of Andromeda if you needed to expand it more.
Ahh okay I see. Then after he commits suicide, thats the end I guess? Of course the genesys would keep on going so I guess it's possible to write a story after his death too then.
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RuneTrantor In reply to XelfrepuslaX [2013-06-13 05:10:12 +0000 UTC]
I personally am not too keen about open ends, leave me feeling I need more, I need closure at least.
I am making a rough plan for the post-THANATOS era, as Andromeda is opened to expansion, as it is completely empty of sentient life as THANATOS just came from there, and some time later, opening Triangulum, which was to be his next stop so it still has life in it, and the problems of meeting a new race for the first time in thousands of years, and for the first time, not having RGT doing the contact and knowing how to deal with them beforehand.
Diplomacy or all out war between Galaxia and Triangulum? That would be the plot mostly.
Also toying with the idea of explorers finding a MASSIVE portal gate in Andromeda, not RGT built, still wondering what exactly would come out of it when activated...
Yes, having giving the order to keep things in prosperity, Rune is free from his mission, but again, still debating his fate. It would depend on how attached readers where to his plight. IF they connect to it, they would see his death as him finally attaining his wish, and be free from destiny's shackles. ON THE OTHER HAND... suicide feels like a cheap ending after so much... (Not to mention I like Rune the most of my characters, so killing him gives me sad feelings)
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