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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7316266" data-attributes="member: 6925649">That's an idea. Well basically we're dealing with two astronauts in a crashed airship, which was never designed to land so it has no landing gear. Aphrodite knows the world they come from has no magic, it has technology instead, Mars is also a high tech planet, and Aphrodite has had a falling out with her one time boyfriend, who it seems may be bent on conquering the Solar System. The Earth in this parallel universe is technologically backwards, Gaia spends a lot of her time in a deep slumber, as the Earth required very little maintenance, Venus on the other hand, is a constant draw on Aphrodite's power, she has to maintain the constant cloud cover, to keep Venus from becoming a super-hot house due to its closer distance from the Sun, she has had a little energy left over to open up this extra-planar gate, but the one thing her world lacks is a technological base, but she has discovered that the Earth in the Universe next door has such a technological base.After building a base on the Moon, and sending humans to Mars, the Earth has finally gotten around to sending humans to Venus' upper atmosphere, which is the only place on this planet that they can survive. The original mission of the 2 man crew was to investigate meteorological phenomena and to control robots on the ground from an airship, they weren't expecting to get sucked into an extraplanar vortex, once they did, they lost contact with Mission Control, the mothership was left in orbit around the planet, through that they relayed back to Houston what happened, but it will be at least another year before they can mount a rescue mission. The airship was damaged in the crash, and the astronauts lack the means to repair it, at least not without help. Aphrodite basically lets them wander around her prime material home, while remaining invisible so she can observe them, and she feels that maybe these two aren't ready to deal with a goddess just yet, so she holds back for a time. The astronauts eventually climb down from the mountain after they discover some mountaineering equipment in Aphrodite's residence, and they stumble upon a village, and perhaps get themselves in trouble.That is the start, eventually NASA sends another mission to the planet, this time they send a ship designed to land, land on the peak, and set up a base at the crystal palace, chemical analysis determines that its made out of diamond. At this time agents of Ares set their plan into motion, ships from Mars arrive, and troops are deployed, the locals put up a fight and a war begins. Troops arrive from Earth, and a series of battles begin, after all, there are three habitable planets in this Solar System, and the Earth is looking to set up colonies, and Mars is considered a military threat.That is how I envision the campaign developing.</blockquote>

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