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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kramis" data-source="post: 106493" data-attributes="member: 2084">So I had this sort of vague general setting/plot idea for dragonstar. Not really one plot, but something that can give rise to a lot of little adventures, and big ones later.It occured to me that the dragonstar setting is actually a good place for smart powerful undead to gain some serious power.I was thinking of a very high level necormancer Vampire who has turned some moon into a moving base of operations has started becoming a serious threat to the empire.His moon base is hidden, and he is slowly creating a very large army of undead. The nice thing about undead is that all your fallen enemies just add to your army eventually. Also, the dark cold of space is very nice for undead. Space stations seem like great hunting grounds ... no sunlight.So he has his minions make small raids to gather food for him and his other vampires, even keeping a small colony of slave humanoids like cattle.Even the evil dragon emperor himself is scared. Right now the undead army is too small to be a serious threat, but it is growing, always growing, and one day it may be a serious problem. If only he could find the base to destroy it, but the vampire is clever and stays hidden, always on the move.There are small skirmishes, and sometimes entire planets of undead are found and have to be blown up from space with weapons of mass destruction. But things are slowly getting worse and worse.Soldiers are especialy terrified of fighting the undead. The undead fleets have special infiltration ships, or even some of them just fly right out into the dark of space through the hull and board the soldiers ships and try and take them over from the inside. After losing several ships this way, new orders were given. All ships sent into known battle against undead are given self destruct sequences that can only be countermanded within a certain time limit by authorized leaders.Needless to say this wasn't popular with the soliders and lots of living men have been acidentally lost this way, but it has seriously slowed down the growth of the undead armies.-----------Anyway, that's along the lines I was thinking.  I would appreciate any sort of comments or ideas or anything to help flesh this out a bit, including small plot ideas (like the obvious lesser vampire on a remote space station type of mystery) and such.Thanks much.</blockquote>

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