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mellonbread
Dec 20, 2017
The Titanian Commonwealth in Eclipse Phase is a nice place to live because the Fall basically skipped them, not because of any virtues of their political system.

Rimward, Page 93 posted:

The second wave of infugee uploads to reach Titan through the relays, about 3.5 million egos, were infected with the virulent Höðr virus. Höðr was a destructive, polymorphic virus designed by the TITANs themselves to erase data and sew chaos.

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The Battle of Iapetus comprised little more than several skirmishes with TITAN killsats followed by surface bombing raids. The TITANs never counterattacked in any substantial way, and by the time Commonwealth marines made planetfall, the TITANs had mysteriously abandoned their matrioshka brain project. The only other major military engagement during the Fall was Operation Jotunhammar, Fleet’s operation to secure heavy metal supply lines from the Main Belt. Most of the fighting during Jotunhammar was against Jovian ships trying to jump claims rather than the TITANs.
While everyone else was fighting for their lives and figuring out how to rehouse/resleeve millions of people, the Titanians were not only left alone, but actively seized the opportunity to steal resources from other factions.

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mellonbread
Dec 20, 2017
Golarion is my favorite generic fantasy setting. You've got your paladin country and your demon country and your not!Europe continent and your not!Asia continent, sure. Then you've got a "country" of barbarian tribes that fight with laser pistols and power armor looted from a crashed alien megaship. You've got a planet in the outer solar system infested with the undead servitors of a hyper-advanced civilization that destroyed itself in a necromantic singularity. The God of Law has a vault of universal forms that will be used to recreate the universe if it's ever destroyed - which it will be, when the moon Groetus ever descends over Pharasma's boneyard. And that's not even getting into how Rasputin and the Russian Revolution are technically part of the Pathfinder canon, because they appear in a module along side Baba Yaga.

Even the generic "adventurer's guild" organization has more flavor than I expected. The Pathfinder Society masquerades as disinterested archaeologists and treasure hunters, while effectively operating as a mercenary army and counterintelligence agency dedicated to advancing its own power and influence across the planet.

mellonbread
Dec 20, 2017
Nice. I'll come back to this if I need reading recs.

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