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Ratfolk Thread: Big Wide World Edition
John Cruz
Aiden Nelson
We need information on the world these rat-teknishins live in.
Let's start by asking some basic worldbuilding questions:
Is their whole world a megafacility?
How intact is it? Is it all overgrown? Are there large parts that are completely pristine?
How do the rats provide for themselves? How do they get the food they need? How difficult is survival?
How varied are the enviroments?
Is the facility abandoned?
Angel Butler
Let's make it a very much upscaled Biosphere 2 with more lab sections.
John Campbell
They started in an abandoned lab (NYHM?), not very big, with extensive wilderness & forests surrounding it. Humans are no longer around the place but they may exist elsewhere. They used to be ordinary lab rats but have grown bigger & smarter as they continue on. (This happens over generations, not with individuals)
The Warren was built in the lower levels & has eletrik flowing through its zapstrings. Nosers are the backbone of society, sniffing out trouble, food sources, & such. Broodmothers nurse, raise & teach the little ones. Teknishins work on the Mysteries & share with the others their findings. They are psuedo-priests who work closely with the Nosers to find new Mysteries.
In the bramblethorn bushes in the New Land, the Nest has become the newest big colony. They are very successful & the forest has plentiful food, but few Mysteries. They are far from the oversight of the Warren & the Ratking (several politician type rats fight to be in charge & get tangled together. They are treated as a single person)
Dominic Scott
>Biosphere 2
Never heard about it until now. That place is wicked cool!
Massive Biospheres all over the shop. Abandoned are not tho?
There is some good ideas in here.
Caleb Evans
>Mice are an underclass when among rats
>Rats are the common class, albeit in smaller numbers compared to the mouse
>Voles live in the wild away from society, some mingle within mouse societies as farmers or merchants selling food
>Larger rodents are steeds/mounts or are sentient and live among themselves. Some say porcupines serve as the best defense against the catfolk, but are seldom seen as of late
Jacob Torres
It would make the most sense if they were abandoned.
Jackson Jenkins
Not going to lie, giant sentinel porcupines seems like an angle that needs to be used.
Isaiah Nelson
Just curious. Do (real) rats and mice occupy different ecological niches or do one species drive the other out when they share the same environment?
Hudson Sullivan
The different sub-facilities vary in size greatly, with the smallest only being the size of a house, and others sprawling over the size of a continent. The entire planet was dedicated to research, experimentation, and production of dangerous and experimental equipment and compounds.
The Teknishins hold a large portion of the Primary Engineering Sections under their banner, where they have ready access to materials, research logs, and ready-access pipelines and paths to other key points of interest. Such as the long-overgrown hydroponics labs and several flooded hydroelectric plants and swamps.
With their food and water needs for the entire tribe being covered by their territory, the Teknishins wonder and research their 'metal mysteries' with all the fervor and mysticism of ancient-earth shamans. This free-time and constant research has led them to being able to produce armor and weapons that they regularly produce and sell to other tribes, and maintain a mercenary army to protect their borders and interests. They jealously guard their secrets and methods and aren't above murder in pursuit of their goals.