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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3590213" data-attributes="member: 7177">Truth to be told, so do I - but the future of Transhuman Space won't necessarily a future we will feel very comfortable in.Lovecraft's stories often have a strong sense of xenophobia inside them, and xenophobia literally means "fear of the alien". And the future of Transhuman Space space can seem very alien indeed to someone from our time.Let me quote Lovecraft once again. This is from his story <a href="http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/he.htm" target="_blank">"He"</a>, where the protagonist glimpses a future New York:"For full three seconds I could glimpse that pandemoniac sight, and in those seconds I saw a vista which will ever afterward torment me in dreams. I saw the heavens verminous with strange flying things, and beneath them a hellish black city of giant stone terraces with impious pyramids flung savagely to the moon, and devil-lights burning from unnumbered windows. And swarming loathsomely on aerial galleries I saw the yellow, squint-eyed people of that city, robed horribly in orange and red, and dancing insanely to the pounding of fevered kettle-drums, the clatter of obscene crotala, and the maniacal moaning of muted horns whose ceaseless dirges rose and fell undulantly like the wave of an unhallowed ocean of bitumen.I saw this vista, I say, and heard as with the mind's ear the blasphemous domdaniel of cacophony which companioned it. It was the shrieking fulfilment of all the horror which that corpse-city had ever stirred in my soul, and forgetting every injunction to silence I screamed and screamed and screamed as my nerves gave way and the walls quivered about me. "It is entirely possible that this is simply NYC in 2100, with the air full of floating cybershells, the ground built over a hundredfold with arcologies, and all sorts of truly strange parahumans and bioroids. But if you had explained all these concepts to Lovecraft himself, I have no doubt that his revulsion would not be any less - he is the product of a bygone age.Will we truly fare any better if we live for more than a hundred years, and the world around us changes and turns into something alien? I have my doubts...Doing a genuine crossover is hard to do, especially because of of all that pesky surveillance technology - you will have to ask yourself why all those monsters aren't on the evening news. Sure, a couple of monsters might be explained away or successfully hushed up, but do that too often and suspension of disbelief goes out of the window.To get into the proper mood for a crossover, I suggest using Delta Green and Delta Green: Countdown - CoC variant settings where the Mythos isn't really about the monsters, but about the corruption of the human spirit. I especially recommend the chapter on the Hastur Mythos in Delta Green: Countdown and the short story "Pnomus" in the collection "Delta Green: Alien Intelligence" - which portrays a certain Mythos race as memetic invaders that would fit right into Transhuman Space.</blockquote>

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