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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Marine" data-source="post: 3591565" data-attributes="member: 14720">One thing I liked about Transhuman Space was that, despite its title, the basic nature of humanity remained unchanged. What the technology of the setting had done was provide hundreds of new means of expression for humanity. The tech won't make a person (or people as a whole) evil, it will amplify whatever evil or good is there. We see that with the internet today. There's a lot of creepy, messed-up stuff and there's a lot of really good stuff too.On the other hand, "Trans-Mythos Space" is an awesome idea. Wasn't there a GURPS Cthulhupunk book? Cyberpunk meets Mythos.One possible scenario: In the modern day or near-future, the PC's all volunteer for an experiment on brain scanning/mind uploading. Fast-forward 150 years or so, and the PC's original mind-uploads from modern times are found and downloaded into whatever bodies are available. The agency responsible(an AI? other investigators? dunno yet) has done this because the PC's are the closest things to "innocents" it can find, and it needs them to fight off the forces of corruption running rampant in that time; everything else is too tainted by the Mythos to do the job properly. Future versions of the PC's (who have lived for a hundred+ years and become nicely evil) could be the main antagonists of the story.Didn't the creation of an Elder Sign require the blood of an innocent? What if there aren't any left in the future because everyone is touched by the Mythos in some way? What if the only way to create an Elder Sign and fight off the minions of the Old Ones is to retrieve and sacrifice some early mind-recording from before the stars became right?</blockquote>

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