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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3590200" data-attributes="member: 29746">This is true to some extent, but you really should check out the setting before assuming that things will turn out as you suggest- because there's one very important factor you forgot. Those of us who hate government or authority in any form will have access to these technologies too, and TS doesn't ignore that fact. There are sects of anarchists who live out on the fringes of the Solar System, the more militant of whom spend much of their time harrying government projects wherever they may be. And since there are so many of them, and they're spread throughout the cometary halo, there's simply no tracking them down- they can never be eliminated the way governments like to do with humanity confined here on Earth.But as to the original topic of the thread, I see two potential questions embedded in the posting (though I strongly suspect that the OP meant for the post to ask the latter as I'll list them): first, what potential is there for a Call of Cthulhu/TS crossover, and second, is a TS future a worrisome prospect in and of itself? To the second question, I'll answer "not the least little bit;" I'm with the posters who hope the future turns out something like it (though personally I believe the Singularity won't "recede" the way TS postulates and will instead sweep over our civilization completely). Sure there are dark sides to it, but guess what: there are dark sides to everything. Humanity gaining powers that to us seem godlike isn't any more worrisome than the powers we have already (which as some have pointed out, would be godlike to our ancestors).To the first question, I'll answer "that's brilliant," and call to mind all the recent short stories I've read in various collections (mostly published by Chaosium) that deal with spacefaring humanity confronting horrors of the Mythos. Examples include the starship that follows a signal only to discover Azathoth, and the crew sent as the first humans to the mighty gas giant/brown dwarf Yuggoth on the edge of the Solar System. Those two are all I can think of ATM, but I'm fairly sure there are other stories I'm forgetting. The thing about this potential game setting is, wasn't Chaosium doing something like this themselves, a setting with far-future humanity forced off of Earth by the return of the Old Ones and hiding and fleeing in space? I suppose that could be a "sequel setting" to the TS/CoC hybrid, in that TS is supposed to represent the time when "the stars are right," and thus the Old Ones are presently waking up/coming back but haven't actually done so yet. There's certainly room in the base TS for a vast and ancient conspiracy trying to wake up hostile aliens that have been hidden on Earth for millennia and longer.</blockquote>

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