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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3685149" data-attributes="member: 14041">Threshold was a mediocre TV series but had an interesting idea.  Long story short: aliens send a singnal/probe that transforms DNA and rewrites human brains to have them begin the process of terrafroming earth into a world like their own.  For your game picture this - Nazi scientists pick up a fragment of an alien signal and, after a horrific first contact, begin to use it on prisoners with unpredictable results.  Most die but some turn into supermen, others strange autistic geniuses.  With the fall of Germany the recordings of the signal and the notes on the experiments wind up in US hands but in the post war years copies find there way into other hands (legitametly and otherwise.)  Worse yet, several of the experiments survived the last days of the war and set up their own efforts to recreate the signal or otherwise act on it around the globe. Flash forward to the mid-21st century.  In the midst of global conflicts inheritors of the signal are using it to create violent, short lived, supersoldiers; mutate vast tracts of the dying rainforests; build super weapons; and otherwise make things very strange in the shadows of the world.  Cults are forming around the signal, bits and pieces of it are winding up in otherwise inoccuous data, and a dozen theories abound among those who know and those who suspect about what it all means.  Some of the signal inheritors have gained psionic powers and are manipulating world goverments or corporations for their own ends.  Some are following the alien agenda, some are but have it wrong, some know it but are working toward their own ends - and its never clear who is who in all of that.  Worst of all: human technology has finally reached the point it can pick up and record most of the signal (how much of most depends on what you want the consequences to be.)So you have aliens who are not aliens. Body snatchers that dont really snatch bodies.  Genetics/supersoldiers that aren't what it seems.  Intellectual viruses rather than genetic ones.  Lots and lots of strange stuff - and only as cliche as you want to make it.</blockquote>

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