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<blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 7859044" data-attributes="member: 4881"><p>For anyone that cares.....</p><p></p><p>The original "origin story" of the Cyberpapacy....</p><p></p><p>In an alternate dimension the Earth equivalent planet's "Pope" gets control (or controlled by) of an evil artifact that lets him take over and convert other dimensions in a sort of inquisitional invasion. The world of this pope is a late Middle Ages one, but in which magic is real and also practiced by heretics that need to be destroyed. The popes religion preaches keeping things low tech and keeping the people stupid and following the church's lead in things.</p><p></p><p>In the first few minutes this pope invades OUR (as in you the reader) Earth there is a hero from a third dimension (On in which cyberware is common) who attempts to kill him. The attempt fails but does affect the invading "reality" by altering it to incorporate cyberware into the middle ages inquisition motif.</p><p></p><p>Now the pope is the Cyberpope and his church keeps the cyberware to themselves to establish a pretty violent theocratic police state dedicated to hunting down heretics and expanding their foothold on our Earth (in France). Those that fight against the pope use stolen and bootleg cyberware to keep up. There is also a "virtual reality" level to everything called the GodNet with 90s style virtual hacking.</p><p></p><p>This was all the 90s version, I haven't read into the new one to see how things were updated.</p><p></p><p>TLDR: The Cyberpapacy is a mash up of the genres of 90s virtual reality and cyberware AND the Inquisition. The movie Equilibrium is a pretty good feel for the setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JiffyPopTart, post: 7859044, member: 4881"] For anyone that cares..... The original "origin story" of the Cyberpapacy.... In an alternate dimension the Earth equivalent planet's "Pope" gets control (or controlled by) of an evil artifact that lets him take over and convert other dimensions in a sort of inquisitional invasion. The world of this pope is a late Middle Ages one, but in which magic is real and also practiced by heretics that need to be destroyed. The popes religion preaches keeping things low tech and keeping the people stupid and following the church's lead in things. In the first few minutes this pope invades OUR (as in you the reader) Earth there is a hero from a third dimension (On in which cyberware is common) who attempts to kill him. The attempt fails but does affect the invading "reality" by altering it to incorporate cyberware into the middle ages inquisition motif. Now the pope is the Cyberpope and his church keeps the cyberware to themselves to establish a pretty violent theocratic police state dedicated to hunting down heretics and expanding their foothold on our Earth (in France). Those that fight against the pope use stolen and bootleg cyberware to keep up. There is also a "virtual reality" level to everything called the GodNet with 90s style virtual hacking. This was all the 90s version, I haven't read into the new one to see how things were updated. TLDR: The Cyberpapacy is a mash up of the genres of 90s virtual reality and cyberware AND the Inquisition. The movie Equilibrium is a pretty good feel for the setting. [/QUOTE]
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