#eclipse phase

[vexwerewolf]

Tabletop Roleplaying Systems as DHMIS Stills

Promethean: The Created

Shadowrun

Vampire: The Requiem

Hunter: The Vigil

Shadow of the Demon Lord

Monster of the Week

GURPS

Dungeons & Dragons 5E/D&D One

Starfinder

Call of Cthulhu

Eclipse Phase

Delta Green

Mage: The Awakening

Don't Rest Your Head

Cyberpunk RED

Lancer

FATE Core

Literally Any Warhammer 40K TTRPG

Transformers RPG

Pathfinder

#d&d #dungeons and dragons #cyberpunk red #delta green #fate core #ttrpg #world of darkness #chronicles of darkness #mage the awakening #vampire the requiem #hunter the vigil #promethean the created #tabletop roleplaying #don't hug me i'm scared #lancer #lancer rpg #call of cthulhu #eclipse phase #starfinder #monster of the week #gurps #shadow of the demon lord

[probablybadrpgideas]

Sci-fi game where you play cyborgs heavily engineered to make them better at RPGs then any natural human can imagine!

#rpg #roleplaying games #eclipse phase #sci-fi #character idea

[grayrazor]

Hey guys, I found this weird geometric object floating in space. Should I touch it?

#2001 a space odyssey #oblivion #xeno series #mass effect #dead space #babylon 5 #the sphere #transformers #neon genesis evangelion #star trek #rendezvous with rama #xeelee sequence #the expanse #warhammer 40000 #rogue trader #eclipse phase #spelljammer #homeworld cataclysm #revelation space #the culture #excession #the dark forest #kirby #halo combat evolved #the dig #destiny

[notbeetle]

Eclipse phase is the greatest rpg ever made because it dares to ask the hard questions. Touches on real biting topics like “what if the economy was based on Reddit karma and you could upvote people in real life” or “what if we had an anarchist surveillance state”

#hawk.txt #eclipse phase #tabletop gaming #tabletop roleplaying #sci fi #science fiction #transhumanism

[nameofjones]

#dune part two #dune part 2 #dune #arrakis #eclipse #cinematography #screenshot #screencapture #screengrab #screengrabs #movie screengrabs #movie screenshots #Greig Fraser #solar eclipse #solar eclipse 2024 #eclipse phase #two moons

[cypress-punk]

Thinking about Eclipse Phase, a cyberpunk ttrpg with a focus on transhumanism and one of the ideas it brings up in the form of post humans.

So in the setting "transhuman" refers to three groups of beings. The first is humans, like you and me, but in this world basically everyone has a cyber brain and a genetically engineered body or inhabits some sort of fully synthetic robot body but their mind is that of a human. The second is AGI, artifical general intelligences, which are designed to remain at roughly human levels of intelligence and a are engineered to have human like perspectives because AIs allowed to become too smart nearly wiped out the human race fairly recently in the history of the setting. The third is uplifted animals, apes, cetaceans, corvids, parrots, octopi, and pigs which have been genetically engineered to have human like minds and intelligence along with modified bodies that make them more human in body plan (for the apes at least).

This broad and somewhat contradictory set of beings are what you can play as and make up most of the intelligent beings a player might encounter though there are some rather odd aliens and even a weird race of mantis shrimp murder creatures engineered by the bad AIs I mentioned earlier. There are all sorts of contradictions about the category of "transhuman" that the game positions you to explore and challenge in game. Its a very interesting setting in general and worth looking into though the actual rule set is rough (in the first edition, I haven't played the second edition and only skimmed the rules briefly when I read the book)

Anyway that really long preamble out of the way I want to talk about another category of being that exists in the world: post humans. That is to say, if the majority of intelligent beings in the world have become something more than human as it was once understood, these guys have abandoned it entirely. Post humans come in two major flavors from what I recall, Minds, which are people who engineered themselves into enormous brains with equivalently staggering, though alien, intelligence; and Predators, which have abandoned human nature to become pure hunters, highly versatile killing machines that target transhumans as prey, or in some cases have weird space habitats engineered as massive ecosystems over which they are the Apex predators.

Both of these are presented as the result of sort of egoist/objectivist approaches to evolution. In a world where the technology exists to basically engineer a whole viable organism these people have chosen to become something completely unlike what they were. The Minds can be taken as an attempt an organic super intelligence, a piece of meat that can rival the god like AIs that devastated the earth. The predators strike me as a very fascistic view of nature taken to the extreme, seeking to become machines that kill, bending all that you are toward being a weapon. Its almost in line with some Futurist ideas about the body in an industrial world. They also serve as basically stand in for some classic DND monsters. Minds are a lot like Beholders or Elder Brains, Predators can fill many "monster" roles depending on the type of body they've built for themselves.

Anyway I like the post humans because they express an interesting ethos within the setting. Theyre a believable fringe that adds something to the world and provides an interesting element for the players to interact with. But there is one other being in the setting that strikes me as very post human.

There's a description in one piece of fluff of colonies of "barnacles" on certain space ships or habitats. These are extremely stripped down synthetic bodies that are equipped with the tools to affix themselves securely to the hull of some man made object in space and then point a lens at the void of space. A body built for complete isolation and meditation upon the cosmos. A sort of ultimate asceticism. I like the barnacles a lot conceptually.

#eclipse phase #ttrpg #cyberpunk #transhumanism #tabletop roleplaying

[aurelianpen]

My brain is telling me I need to combine Lancer and Eclipse Phase right now

#lancer #eclipse phase

[thegreateyeofsauron]

imagine a future transhumanist setting where instead of cleanly uploading your mind to a into a fancy, sleek, basically human android body oh shit a piece of black lint landed on me and i thought a black hole to the fucking netherworld opened up on my arm

anyway instead of cleanly uploading your mind to some boring humandriod no-bitches-getting-robo detroit: stay virgin android body they have some german-mine-digging-autoshovel looking machine scoop your brain out and shove it into the body of a 5d robospider, or toss it into a blender (don’t worry it’ll be fine) and then pour the brain smoothie into a bunch of nanomachines one at a time using a tiny microscopic ladle.

basically instead of dealing with the existential dilemma of whether robot!you is actually real!you or just an ai brainwashed into believing it’s you they sidestep the whole question altogether by becoming 300 ft tall giant deathmechs made of jagged spiked metal that are technically cyborgs because there’s a human brain innit

also the robot putting your brain smoothie into the nanobots holds the tiny ladle delicately in its massive earth ripping claws. like a norse giant tying a little pink bow onto his chihuahua puppy.

also if you ask nicely you can have your own preserved skeleton put in the cockpit of your giant mech body and wired up so it looks like it's piloting you.

#transhumanism #eclipse phase #but cool #releasing some drafts to the wild to be hunted for sport

[sistersorrow]

Reading the sourcebooks for Eclipse Phase is lowkey hilarious cause despite the authors being very obviously leftists, the morally bankrupt oligarchal corporate plutocracy masquerading as atthe government of the inner system still provides a better standard of living than any modern 1st world country

#eclipse phase #they're borderline post-scarcity #they have accessible healthcare and shit #they also practice what is slavery in all but name with infugees and hold martian genomes hostage but let's just ignore that

[caeneus-amphigyeeis]

My silly guy for an eclipse phase game set in the project moon universe. His name is Shep, he used to work for L corp, and he never sleeps. He’s now begrudgingly a fixer. He’s the worst <3

Bonus: Employee Shep (Before and after White nights dark days)

#he jingles when he walks because his lab coat is filled with so much stuff #OC: shep #eclipse phase #project moon #project moon oc #digital art #oc #oc art #yada yada dont know how to tag yada yada

[probablybadrpgideas]

Eclipse Phase but the only morphs available are roombas.

Budget cuts, you know?

#rpg #roleplaying games #Eclipse phase #setting #sci-fi

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Group D Round 3

[image ID: the first image is of a person infected with the Chryacid form of the Exsurgent Virus. it's causing spiked, insect-limb-like growths to emerge from the body. upon the person's back is a large furry sack, like the back end of an insect, with another limb or stinger emerging from it. the second image is of Heart, a Thai man with short black hair, wearing a blue shirt. end ID]

The Exsurgent Virus

YES its a character... its complicated. Its an alien computer virus slash hive mind that infects biological matter in the same way it infects computers and manipulates both to achieve the goals of an unknowable alien species. It wiped out life on earth and drove humanity into terrified exile. Sort of. Ok well it subsumed and altered life on earth and reshaped it in its image as hybrid biological-robotic things. Where does the robot end and the biology begin? It doesn't!! Anyway i submitted this delightful existential horror to like four horror brackets. redeem it. It has the memories of every human who lived. They'd appreciate it. [mod note: the Exsurgent Virus has forms besides this one, if you want to see/learn more, poke around here]

Heart

Look, I just got a give a shout out to my special son! He's the first ever deaf love interest in a Thai drama AND he's gay. I love him so much okay and I just want people to see him please

#obscurecharactershowdown #obscure poll #group d round 3 #the exsurgent virus #eclipse phase #heart moonlight chicken #moonlight chicken

[notbeetle]

Do you think like people in like the Jovian Republic make like, those shitty social credit memes that were popular like a year ago but it's about the Autonomist's and Rep

#hawk.txt #eclipse phase #tabletop gaming #trpg #tabletop roleplaying games #tabletop roleplaying

[askelectrochromic]

AU Lore Spotlight: The Horus Rebellion

I've made vague and indirect reference to this event, so I figure as I try to get back into the swing of writing this world, I should do a mini lore-dive into my headcanons surrounding the infamous Horus Rebellion.

First, the canon and canon-adjacent information: The event was first (and only once) teased in canon in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. A GF Marine trooper posits idly in conversation that the Phazon Crisis might be worse than "the Horus Rebellion," which was the last time Admiral Dane had scrambled such an impressive number of fighter vessels. In unused scans, we have the name of a significant battle, "The Battle of Horus IV," but little other information. Notably this cut lore entry also mentions Aurora Unit 313's contribution to this battle (whether alongside or in place of Admiral Dane is unclear), and its penchant for violent behaviour. I think it's interesting that point was cut out, the foreknowledge that 313 had a bit of a mean streak could have added some nice context to its role near the end of Corruption. But I digress.

Now, my take. As mentioned in the first wikitroid article linked above, the "Horus Rebellion" is almost certainly a reference to the Warhammer 40,000 "Horus Heresy", a major event in the 40k canon. Now despite living with some Warhammer nerds and having watched a couple lore videos about the Horus Heresy, I could not tell you the first thing about it. So my take on this event will not be influenced by the obvious reference material. Sorry WH fans, it's just not my thang.

Instead, my version of this is more influenced by my Eclipse Phase experience, as is a lot of Electrochromic's AU lore. In EP, since it's a gritty-ish Cyberpunk setting, corporations rule the world(s) in various capacities. Corpos wield a huge amount of power and control a lot of settlements, including spaceborne habitats. This is the jumping-off point for my version of the Horus Rebellion.

In "Iron and Sulfur" I use the phrase "sovereign-corporate habitat" to describe Kypros. This is exactly what it sounds like; a habitat owned and operated by a corporation, considered a sovereign micro-state unto itself. These habs may be subject to the planetary law of the corporation's homeworld, but generally they exist outside any such government organizations (usually for slightly unscrupulous business reasons) and run under their own internal corporate system of law. Kind of like a "company town" on steroids, and in space. Before the Horus Rebellion, the Galactic Federation was relatively hands-off with regard to sovereign-corporate habs, trusting the local or planetary governments to maintain peace and equity.

Horus Star Corporation was a materials processing and weapons manufacturing corp that had claimed a corner of Federated space for itself. Horus SC was allowed to operate freely, as its business was a boon to the rapidly-developing Federation military at the time. When a newly-formed Federation colony began encroaching on territory that Horus SC claimed was theirs, the corporation went on the offensive and outright attacked the fledgling Federation colony. This of course meant the GF Marine Corps had to intervene.

Being a weapons manufacturing business, the Horus private troops were startlingly well-armed, and the attack on the GF colony was a massacre. However, the GFMC had the advantage of numbers, and the counterattack against the Horus forces was also a slaughter. The amount of military might leveled against Horus was staggering for a conflict of such relatively small scale. By necessity, as the corporate force was well-equipped and tenacious. But the cultural memory of the "Horus Rebellion" remains a dark and bloody one that echoes into the present of the AU's timeline.

This was the root of Samus's concern over accidentally drawing the Federation to Kypros. Since the Horus Rebellion, the Galactic Federation has taken a much tougher stance on sovereign-corporate habs, outlawing them altogether in territories close to Daiban and other centers of power. Company-funded habitats are required to have an (often strict) oversight board or supervisor that reports to the nearest branch of GF government, and all station security equipment is heavily regulated, if security is not provided directly by a GF military base nearby or on-site. Since Kypros is outside Federated space, they are not subject to such harsh scrutiny or regulation. But it would be easy for a sufficiently motivated officer to justify an attempt to "subdue" or shut down such a station if it proved an obstacle to military operations in the area.

Hence why Samus was so afraid of Fuja appearing at Kypros. She wasn't just afraid for her own or Adam's safety, but for the safety of the station as a whole; her old friend Ghor, and Helena and the Twins who she had newly come to know, along with the innocent mining staff who would have no idea why their station was suddenly under attack. Thankfully, as clarified in a previous ask, despite her temper, Fuja knew better than to engage here. Among other confounding factors, another instance of a Federation fleet stomping a corporate hab into paste would not look good. Although Admiral Dane remains a well-respected officer despite his participation, neither side of the Rebellion is remembered kindly by history, so many people - officers, freelancers, and corpos alike - err on the side of caution when faced with the potential for such conflicts.

#electrochromic #metroid #metroid series #electrochromic lore #sable's fic #iron and sulfur #warhammer 40k #eclipse phase

[the-volary]

#eclipse #2024 #eclipse phase #solar eclipse #photography

[self-loving-vampire]

If I am going to have a flesh body then I want to have this as a minimum.

Ideally I don’t want to be made of flesh at all though.

#transhumanism #eclipse phase