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Related, I think ... I do not play video games at all, but somehow I was lead to the "mass effect" backstory which is fascinating. I encourage anyone with an

by rsync 11y ago

Related, I think ... I do not play video games at all, but somehow I was lead to the "mass effect" backstory which is fascinating. I encourage anyone with an hour to kill to read: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Reaper http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Reaper http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Sovereign http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Sovereign http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Harbinger http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Harbinger It's quite detailed and entertaining. Yes, I am aware that it is based on some degree on Lovecraft.

Raphmedia 11y ago
I think that you would really enjoy reading Warhammer 40k's lore. It is very, very huge and very complete. I never played the game at all, but spent countless hours reading the lore and it's amazing and deep. http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki An interesting starting point would be the Horus Heresy: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy
- krylon 11y ago
  About 18 years ago, I played Warhammer 40k for a while, and I thought it was the single most awesome sci-fi universe ever. The game ultimately didn't work for me, but the universe and mythology people have tought up is incredible.
- shostack 11y ago
  Seconded. To give a sense of the awesomeness of the universe, here's a great description of warp travel in WH40k[1]: > "Let me take you through the average Warp travel procedure. > The Captain calls down to prep the ship for Warp expedition. At that time, 12000 slaves who have never seen the outside of the work galley begin shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel source they have in storage, like a brutal Mr. Fusion. A field of pure psychic FUCK YOU is generated around the ship and the blinded, mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg begins screaming unendingly as he charts a course through the Warp, which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing. The ship then plows into the miasma of what you could call Hell if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesn't accidentally get you lost, becomes possessed by a Daemon, or just explodes like a mushy human pinata from the mental stress of being around so much pure CANNOT BE. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 year old vessel (which no one actually understands completely how to work), Daemons made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your head to explode. Mission clock says they were only in the Warp for 5 days. It was 17 months for everyone aboard. They also missed their destination by a couple of solar systems and 80% of the crew is dead. > The Captain turns to his bridge staff and pops the cork on a vintage stock of Jherrik Ale and salutes another successful Warp Jump. > Welcome to 40K." Wonderfully worded, and as a big WH40k fan/reader I have to say it is also very accurate. [1]https://np.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3jd583/capital_ships_noping_in_everspace/cuoebwt https://np.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3jd583/capital_ships...
- gknoy 11y ago
  Warhammer 40k lore is AMAZING. I love all of the stories I've read in it. Not only is the backstory cool science fiction, but the "current" period reads like a futuristic mixture of the pre-Enlightenment dark ages, and the Russian military in WW2 (surely not by accident). There are many great novels, but I love the human scale and protagonist in the Ciaphas Cain novels -- he's a cowardly "commissar", and it makes great humorous reading. Also, "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" (gamecube) is almost explicitly Lovecraftian. It's amazing.
wfn 11y ago
Thank you for the trip. Really cool insights there... e.g. (massive Mass Effect spoilers..): "For millions of years, the Reapers existed for the sole purpose of ensuring the ongoing existence of organic life in the galaxy, based on the assumption that all synthetic intelligences will eventually destroy their organic creators. This end result is believed by the Catalyst and the Reapers to be inevitable, a consequence of technological advancement; organics will always create synthetics to improve their own state of existence, and synthetics themselves will evolve by means of surpassing their creators. [...] By harvesting technologically advanced species (both organic and synthetic) and storing these old species within immortal Reaper bodies, room is made for new life to flourish and grow, as was the case for primitive man. The continuity of life in the galaxy is assured through this cycle of extinction, as it ensures that organic life will never be fully exterminated before its time by synthetic life, as was demonstrated by the quarians and the geth."

by rsync 11y ago

Raphmedia 11y ago

I think that you would really enjoy reading Warhammer 40k's lore. It is very, very huge and very complete. I never played the game at all, but spent countless hours reading the lore and it's amazing and deep. http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki An interesting starting point would be the Horus Heresy: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy

krylon 11y ago
About 18 years ago, I played Warhammer 40k for a while, and I thought it was the single most awesome sci-fi universe ever. The game ultimately didn't work for me, but the universe and mythology people have tought up is incredible.
shostack 11y ago
Seconded. To give a sense of the awesomeness of the universe, here's a great description of warp travel in WH40k[1]: > "Let me take you through the average Warp travel procedure. > The Captain calls down to prep the ship for Warp expedition. At that time, 12000 slaves who have never seen the outside of the work galley begin shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel source they have in storage, like a brutal Mr. Fusion. A field of pure psychic FUCK YOU is generated around the ship and the blinded, mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg begins screaming unendingly as he charts a course through the Warp, which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing. The ship then plows into the miasma of what you could call Hell if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesn't accidentally get you lost, becomes possessed by a Daemon, or just explodes like a mushy human pinata from the mental stress of being around so much pure CANNOT BE. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 year old vessel (which no one actually understands completely how to work), Daemons made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your head to explode. Mission clock says they were only in the Warp for 5 days. It was 17 months for everyone aboard. They also missed their destination by a couple of solar systems and 80% of the crew is dead. > The Captain turns to his bridge staff and pops the cork on a vintage stock of Jherrik Ale and salutes another successful Warp Jump. > Welcome to 40K." Wonderfully worded, and as a big WH40k fan/reader I have to say it is also very accurate. [1]https://np.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3jd583/capital_ships_noping_in_everspace/cuoebwt https://np.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3jd583/capital_ships...
gknoy 11y ago
Warhammer 40k lore is AMAZING. I love all of the stories I've read in it. Not only is the backstory cool science fiction, but the "current" period reads like a futuristic mixture of the pre-Enlightenment dark ages, and the Russian military in WW2 (surely not by accident). There are many great novels, but I love the human scale and protagonist in the Ciaphas Cain novels -- he's a cowardly "commissar", and it makes great humorous reading. Also, "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" (gamecube) is almost explicitly Lovecraftian. It's amazing.

wfn 11y ago

Thank you for the trip. Really cool insights there... e.g. (massive Mass Effect spoilers..): "For millions of years, the Reapers existed for the sole purpose of ensuring the ongoing existence of organic life in the galaxy, based on the assumption that all synthetic intelligences will eventually destroy their organic creators. This end result is believed by the Catalyst and the Reapers to be inevitable, a consequence of technological advancement; organics will always create synthetics to improve their own state of existence, and synthetics themselves will evolve by means of surpassing their creators. [...] By harvesting technologically advanced species (both organic and synthetic) and storing these old species within immortal Reaper bodies, room is made for new life to flourish and grow, as was the case for primitive man. The continuity of life in the galaxy is assured through this cycle of extinction, as it ensures that organic life will never be fully exterminated before its time by synthetic life, as was demonstrated by the quarians and the geth."