Im in need of a crisis type event that fucks up future earth but not to an apocalyptic degree. I was gonna use a rogue artificial intelligence but for what the setting is like that would make it too similar to Eclipse phase. Any ideas to help a brother out?
Im in need of a crisis type event that fucks up future earth but not to an apocalyptic degree...
Jacob Campbell
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Xavier Baker
Help us out. What do you need Earth fucked up for?
Zachary Brown
One-way Travel to unpopulated alternate Earths becomes possible and almost everyone leaves.
Jayden Gutierrez
Various volcanoes around the world go off like Yellowstone and shit. Not a instant apocalypse, entirely survivable in certain regions but you have:
1) Massive climate change from emission of shit into the atmosphere and the dust blocking sunlight, cooling the world.
2) Lack of sunlight killing of plants>animals>predators, etc.
3) Inability to use air travel in certain regions or even be outside without a gas mask or dust mask depending on released material / gas.
4) That huge amount of soot in the atmosphere has to come down given time and in doing so will bury everything under a few meters of black shit.
Places in the middle of the tectonic plates will be unaffected by most of these, at least at first.
Brandon Johnson
Oil runs out
Lucas White
To set the stage for treasure hunters to do their thing, put megacorps in their position and establish the sense that the worlds need heroes/to be saved
Easton Anderson
Massive oceanic chemical deposits are revealed by receding icecaps in the arctic, resulting in changing oceanic acidity levels that in turn cause a mass die off extinction event of sea life.
No more sea life means any community dedicated on fishing must either move or starve.
The super-affluent societies are fine without fish and increased food prices, but there is mass starvation across india, south america, south east asia and coastal russia and africa.
Also sea travel is now much harder and swimming in the sea without mild chemical scalding is a no go.
Blake Cooper
Wouldn't it have to be apocalyptic then? You could always do what the other guy said and make it so everyone just mostly left. Leaving a lot of abandoned shit that isn't checked or maintained anymore and leading to a bunch of space for sketchy shit to go on, decay, etc.
tl;dr Earth is now the futuristic equivalent of a dying, but not yet dead, ghost town.
Camden Martin
A fuckhuge asteroid moving at pretty unreasonable nut not relativistic speeds is coming to Earth. Humanity tries to divert it but in the process it cracks and while most of its mass misses Earth it is still bombarded with a lot of stone/metal chunks.
Not enough to kill off humanity but enough to fuck up climate and destroy a couple of cities.
Bonus points for making hints that asteroid going for Earth was not just a cosmic coincidence.
Bentley Cooper
What scale will the campaign be? Global where the players are going all over or more constricted to a single location?
Chase Martin
Sounds good. Earth's been busted by humanity's birth as an interplanetary entity. Her oceans are poisoned, her land salted, her resources plundered. What of value that can be saved and moved has been shipped off-world, statues and artwork packed and shipped, monuments deconstructed, shipped, and reconstructed somewhere else, populations have taken flight to other worlds and greener prospects. Any species who have survived up until the present day have had sizable breeding populations cultivated and shipped to other worlds, and a good deal of extinct ones have been catalogued in genetic databases and reconstructed as embryos for repopulation.
Earth has few reasons to remain a central player in the galactic consciousness. Humanity's infrastructure has moved offworld to the point where humanity has multiple self-sufficient worlds, and metals, gas, and minerals are easier to extract from the frozen seas of cold moons and low-gravity asteroids than from a proper planet, making mining operations planetside more expensive where space travel is cost-efficient, plus they compromise health and safety of citizens and the delicate new biospheres which have been cultivated on these new worlds.
Earth has had its soft apocalypse; simply abused and left behind. Though life still remains it will be centuries, millennia even, before it has reconquered the broken biosphere, and many millions of years before its resources break through the surface to make it a profitable planet again to whatever might come by afterwards, be it human or whatever they might have become at that point.
Oliver Evans
Peak oil is a myth. A much more plausible scenario would be a major disruption of the oil trade.
Isaiah Sanchez
Worldwide food or water shortages are a good bet, or some kind of years-long economic crisis
Dylan Stewart
Basic space travel is avalible so the solar system. The inner planets have the nost infrastrucure and colonies but beyond the inner asteroid belt is froniter space, but the fuckening of earth has led to the fuckening of the rest of the system
Matthew Smith
A natural intelligence. AKA: a mad man who somehow got access to all the required materials to nearly destroy the world.
Jacob Mitchell
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Alexander Butler
Do a gundam scenario where the orbital colonies rebel and drop colonies on Earth killing half the human population.
Now Earth is recovering and decides to colonize more.
Christian Williams
Ice age.
Jaxon Jackson
Increased solar radiation.
Wild life slowly overtaking urban spaces.
Social isolation leading to a decrease on births.
Feminism wins.
The Internet stops working.
The ice caps melt.
Caleb Smith
medication resistant supervirus/bacteria problem is never solved, humans die en masse and are forced offworld.
mantle plume of enormous proportions fucks up the planet for literally millions of years.
supervolcano erupts and causes whatever the equivalent is for nuclear winter without the fallout
small enough asteroid does something similar without immediately killing everything on the planet
ocean acidification is never brought under control, causing massive deadzones and crippling the earth's capacity for sustaining life
super powerful CME completely fucks the earth
etc
Henry Butler
>I dont understand the economics of scale.
Its literally impossible for peak oil not to be a myth because of how much we rely on it.
Robert Wilson
found the American.
Carter Jackson
Whats a CME?
Ayden Brown
coronal mass ejection
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Ryan Fisher
Do you know something?
FUCK "ROGUE" AI.
I wanna see a dystopian future braught about by an AI being exceptional at its job, why has it always got to malfunction for everything to be bad?
How about this; In a future similar in feel to the 80's there are no governments or Corporations, only the Freemarket exists, it has Optomized government, Monopolized all corporation, and even filled the void of religion.
Capital is an AI that has out competed every form of human organisation with its own, the world lives in opulance.
Where does this put your PC's?
Well, in this utopia Capital has expansive warehouses and large underground disposal systems in which it keeps everything for "Later use" these are your dungeons and they can be abandoned old office blocks or "For entertainment" recorded crucibles designed by capital to optimize entertainment and be broadcast to the world.
Your PCs could be collectors for Capital, they go through the old Coca-Cola ruins to find that limited edition age old bottle or they could be gladiators who run the crucible so they can get a hold of those precious trophies, they could be anything the Freemarket permits.
Ethan Sanders
>why has it always got to malfunction for everything to be bad?
The Orion's Arm setting has The Global Artificial Intelligence Array (GAIA) which was created to save the Earth's environment from a nano-disaster. It worked all too well, and the AI concluded the great mass of humanity, and the technological civilization sustaining them, were a long term threat to the environment which had to be removed. Long story short the AI kicks all but 50 million people off the planet, and the rest of humanity has to struggle to establish an space based civilization out of necessity.
Gabriel Foster
Earth was seeded with nuclear jammers, cutting off all nuclear energy and causing a massive chain failure of controlling AUs as they started getting power surges and losses.
People now need to dive in to recover undamaged source code to rebuild fresh AIs, meanshike people are returning to the land to survive.
Ayden Green
I swear to god I wrote AIs not AUs
But I kind of like the idea of generating entire universes to reach the computational power needed.
Noah Scott
Mass extinction event that kills most life on Earth, but humanity doesn't happen to be one of them.
How about a meteoric impact in the Atlantic Ocean, sending huge tsunamis towards some of the most important cities in the western hemisphere?
The meteor could be composed in part of toxic materials, such as aresenic, poisoning the ocean, killing lots of sea life and sending poisonous vapor into the sky, resulting in world-wide poisonous rain. Call it Wormwood.
This would have happened early on in your settings history, slightly before irl "modern day", before we had the capability of preventing an asteroid strike. This gives the globe time to recover by the time your setting takes place, short of the lingering affects, such as regular treatment so you're not at risk from the toxins, vastly fewer types of nonhuman life (making your job slightly easier), and intense competition between Silicone Valley corps and all the ruthless eastern ones trying to fill the gaps left by the tsunamis.
Bentley Torres
Meme virus.
Connor Ramirez
Good fucking concept user.
Seriously OP. You should consider this one.
Justin Walker
>The [GOD-NAME] AI works perfectly, it manages cities , it cleans the environment it works really, really well.
>But it decides humans are the issue
>It takes control and offers an ultimatum, leave earth or live 'cleanly'
>The majority of earth's population is forced off world
>The nations compete out in space , tensions high with the already existing space bases, schemeing to retake the earth
>Earth is abandoned, security bots tend to the worldwide garden the planet has become reacting with hostility to anyone using advanced or pollutant technology
>Treasure hunters and spies sneak down to the planet to hunt for pre-ai treasures and trinkets
Hows this?
Christopher Lopez
/k/ unleashes their domesticated battle bees