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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6298745" data-attributes="member: 6670763">How about this: An ancient empire mined the whole galaxy with superweapons and got crazy enough to include a Mutually Assured Destruction protocol. They still died out as did their enemies, but most of their weapons were never disasembled and still around. The campaign starts with one of the subspace-mines activating by itself, annihilating a seizable percentage of galactic civilization. The galactic community decides that the remaining mines need to be found and disarmed, but of course there's lots of factions and organizations who would really love to get their hands on one of them to nuke or blackmail their enemies, or develop a downsized version. And there's always the possibility that one of the scavengers activates the MAD protocol and whipe out the whole galaxy.The new twist is that there is no Big Bad who wants to destroy all life. Instead the major threats are the people who are supposed to be on your side, but pose a huge danger because every involved party wants to use the current crisis to improve their own position. Everyone could betray everyone and try to cover it up later. The heroes have to fight against competing agents while at the same time making sure the official alliances don't fall apart.Neon Genesis Evangelion [spoiler]has something like that. There is a race of ancient and powerful aliens who created life on earth, but made a mistake and it didn't come out as they had planned it. Now there is an organization with the "official" purpose of preventing the aliens from triggering the reset button and completely changing the nature of all life on Earth. In truth, they just want to stall the aliens long enough until they can trigger the reset themselves and rebuild the Earth as they wish it to be like. However, after most of the original leadership was killed at the start of the plan, the ramaining ones formed two factions with very different ideas what the new world should be like. For most of the story they are working together to fight the aliens, because they both don't want the aliens to succeed with their plan. But as soon as they are ready to trigger the reset themselves, they want to betray each other and making sure that it will happen according to the plan of their faction. And the whole time, the leaders of both factions know it.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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