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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9667764" data-attributes="member: 467">Just for fun, here is my foundation document for the Daggerheart setting i am building for playtest:---------Neo-PangeaOverview of the SettingIn the mid 21st century, a group of international researchers at the High Energy Antarctic Temporal Synchronicity (HEATSync) facility attempted to open a microscopic Closed Timelike Curve (TMC) a few microseconds into the future. The experiment went awry and the time tunnel turned out to be tens of meters in diameter and (it was discovered later through astronomical observation) approximately 150 million years hence.When the tunnel first opened, appearing as a giant circular “window” into another world, a lush landscape that was at once familiar and alien was seen. For years, the tunnel was kept secret while scientists studied it. Finally the decision was made to send a exploratory crew through. While they safely arrived, they could not travel back through. They were stuck. They could communicate visually, however, since the “window” remained open and time moved forward at the same rate on both sides of the tunnel.It turned out that while an alien Earth far in the future, this NeoPangea was perfectly habitable by people. Approximately 15 years after the tunnel was opened, an extensive effort to colonize the future earth began.It did not take long for modern human to encounter strange sentient beings in this new world, as well as even weirder beasts and “monsters.” Although evidence of previous human civilization was scarce, it became apparent that at some point a highly advanced human society had uplifted animals, genetically engineered other “races” and even created artificial beings. But society had collapsed and those descendents of man had evolved on their own for tens of millions of years. Multiple civilizations had risen and fallen, it seemed, but humanity never again took hold of the world.This process of colonization continued for nearly a century. Because no one could return from the future, it was not so much an attempt at empire as it was an attempt at ensuring the future survivability of mankind. The tunnel became a place of intense study and active travel to the future. In the future, a facility was built that could, though optics, transmit as much data as possible. Unfortunately, the fact that the tunnel was singular -- no one had been able to replicate the experiment -- raised international tensions. SMany believed that the inability to travel back through was a lie, and conspiracy theories about resource extraction and hyper advanced technology took hold.Eventually, the worst outcome happened. Early in the 23rd century on Old Earth, a war broke out and the tunnel was obliterated by a nuclear strike. The tunnel was closed. The approximately 500,000 human colonists and their descendents were left without a link to their home world. While there were “modern” cities on NeoPangea, the massive resource extraction and manufacturing facilities were never developed: everything came from Old Earth. With the tunnel closed, that “modern” society on NeoPangea began to degrade and eventually collapse.It is now another century after the link to old Earth was broken. Humanity is just one of a number of sentient species living in this alien world. The remnants of ancient civilizations, advanced technology, and what many believe to be magical epochs suffuses the world.Play as a human descendant of colonists, or as one of the many species that are native to the world. Explore the remnants of millions of years of civilizations and seek out the truth of this so-called “magic” that permeates the world.</blockquote>

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