holy fug o_0
@Cerebrate
I just now realized something involving an RPG world PDF I was skimming through yesterday. Essentially, pertinent to the Frontiers & Pioneers thread if implemented there, it’d do three things;
1.) it’d endow the colony with a special resource found nowhere else naturally in the universe, turning the planet setting into a figurative “goldmine”.
2.) it’d further explain why the aliens/rogue bots put a central-hive-mainframe-thingy over in the ultra-cold north, since one of the many utilities of the natural resource is that, besides as ultra-frigid (
antimatter safe-preserving level) coolant, it can be directly used as a computing substrate. (
it could even explain down to how when Jinx’s character(s) explored the glacier, why the ventilation tunnel entered from was thought to’ve melted in such a bizarre pattern that impeded the spider tank.)
3.)
[ optional bonus ] there’s an “exhuman” antagonist involved in this referred part of the RPG module, who’s essentially a rogue mad-scientist in a mutant/cyborg snowbeast body that infiltrates the RPG sub-setting’s lab/colony-hub for victims to use as test subjects (& spare parts).
Not saying RPing should be jumped back into so soon, but I could send the PDF and the relevant page numbers to eventually take a look at if you’d like.
( on a sidebar, speakin’ of arctic deserts )