Nyrath Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090609.html Now imagine that the glorious Futurian Empire started in that large galaxy on the right, and spread along the chain to the left. The leftmost would be the frontier galaxies. Then the frontier is assaulted by the dreaded Dark Technomancers of Blortch. Can the Futurian empire survive as the Technomancers gobble up galaxies one by one? More to the point, can your player character group handle the excitement to be found in scenarios set in such a situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies . . . OMG, large-scale Space Opera FTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies The Blortch would have no chance if the Supercluster Defense Research Team can get its death ray aimed properly and then operated at sustained full power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted June 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies The Blortch would have no chance if the Supercluster Defense Research Team can get its death ray aimed properly and then operated at sustained full power. Holy Toledo! That makes E.E."Doc" Smith's "Sunbeam" look like a wet firecracker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies . . . Anyone wanna stat it out, or shall we call it a plot item? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies Tales of the Floating Vagabond had a damage class called "Dont Point that thing at my planet" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090609.html Now imagine that the glorious Futurian Empire started in that large galaxy on the right, and spread along the chain to the left. The leftmost would be the frontier galaxies. Then the frontier is assaulted by the dreaded Dark Technomancers of Blortch. Can the Futurian empire survive as the Technomancers gobble up galaxies one by one? More to the point, can your player character group handle the excitement to be found in scenarios set in such a situation? I played that. It was called Battlelords of the 23rd Century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperPheemy Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies Not the Dark Technomancers of Blortch! They were ultimately defeated eons ago! It's impossible for them to have escaped the Nemesis Dimension! There is only one hope for the Futurian Empire now.. We must summon Space Godzilla! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted June 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies Go to the tropical island planet and get the native girls to start the Space Godzilla chant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies But we must battle through an armada of space pirates before we get there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies Who is this "Markarian" that a chain was forged of galaxies to bind him, and what the nature of his enemies that they had power to link these island universes into a cosmic shackle? Surely a single star to them would be no more than child's marble! Lucius Alexander The palindromedary asks, more seriously, if anyone knows who Markarian really is or was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies Who is this "Markarian" that a chain was forged of galaxies to bind him, and what the nature of his enemies that they had power to link these island universes into a cosmic shackle? Surely a single star to them would be no more than child's marble! Lucius Alexander The palindromedary asks, more seriously, if anyone knows who Markarian really is or was. Benjamin (Benik) Jegischewitsch Markarjan (* 29. November 1913 in Shahumyan, Armenia; † 29. September 1985) was an Armenianastrophysicist. Markarian's chain was named after him, when he discovered it in the mid 1970s. He is also the namesake of a catalog of compact, optically bright galaxies (including both starbursts and AGN) known as Markarian galaxies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 Re: Markarian's Chain of Galaxies . . . But that was only his Earthly shell! In those galaxies far, far away, he was the one who united a billion races in a society that lasted a thousand generations of peace, prosperity and rock'n'roll! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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