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Awhile back I posted a setting on the forums here, since that time I have worked on it so that it is something of another beast. I think it could be a useful setting/alternate dimension, provide interesting antagonists, or at least give you some ideas for your games.

https://sites.google.com/site/instrumentalityofman/

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Simple diagram of Bureaucracy Supreme Leader (Ohm) <CEO-----Security Council(Consisting of Nationalized Industries acting as a Board of Directors)---- | | | | Cabinet/Executive Board Functions | [Military aka Ministry of War (Army, Navy, Spacy and foriegn relations)] | [Police aka Ministry of Securi...

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Security Council Control of the Instrumentality Fascist corporatism was described as a top-down model of state control over the economy, and corporate interest groups controlling and 'representing' facets of society, which perfectly describes megacorp control of their populations, and the Instrument...

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Expendable Shock Troops Kill Hounds At the time of their introduction, the Psi Hounds/Dog Boys represented the future of expendable soldiers. As a result of the genetic modification that enhanced their growth process, the enhanced canines aged at over twice the rate of Human beings. A recent Instrum...

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Powerball While its ostensible purpose is entertainment and to slake bloodlust, the sport was designed to demonstrate the futility of individualism. No better way to show that than with some good old-fashioned violence, where fatalities are a very real possibility every single game, if not the major...

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In the galaxy there is various odd alien fauna and flora, but there are few living alien races comparable in intelligence to humans. However, human archaeologists continue to find the remains of several highly advanced civilizations all the time. More worrying is the fact that they all seemingly bec...

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The Intelligence Agency Officially, the Intelligence Agency ( Intelligence Agency for Fair and Free Markets) was originally an organization meant to maintain as fair and free a market economy as possible in the Instrumentality. In a classic example of mission creep, it's authority and agenda has exp...

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Government Structure On the surface, the Instrumentality presents itself almost as a new type of nation state under a sort of federal structure with a democratic process. Unlike all such previous arrangements, however, the view is that the government is not a political alliance but a commercial ente...

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Notes on OCCs Mind Bleeders Mind Bleeders are an extremely rare result of Psi-Stalker/Human pairing. They inherit their Stalker parent’s looks but are pitch black in color. Scientists are still at a loss to explain why these unusual children are born. Mind Bleeers are different from other children. ...

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Human Breeds (update) The Human species, known also as Humans, Terrans, or Earthlings, comes from the planet Earth. Since the human brain was able to be digitized Humanity is defined as a state of the mind, not the body. Human identity is centered in the mind, called a Soul, which can exist living i...

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Money At the current state of technology individuals can freely manufacture and use almost anything they want, assuming they can acquire the correct templates and raw materials. Manufacturing any of these items requires little more than the machine and a supply of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,...

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International Relations Unificationism is by its nature an international movement that rejects the fostering and nurturing of individual national identities. In the face of otherworldly sentient beings that humanity has no country. The central policy of when dealing with other human nations is that ...

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Notes on the Intelligence Agency The secret agents and cloak and dagger stuff are but one subset of this organization. Other divisions include a full-blown paramilitary division to keep the regular army in check and act as a regime protection force, a political and administrative division, a propaga...

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Oh, also updated some of the information/equipment earlier in the thread.

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The following are used for the various ecological positions in the Altarain Syndicate. Overlord (new style, Has telepathic communication of Invid Regent, but only with other Altarians.) .5% Oracle (new style, Has telepathic communication of Invid brains, but only with other Altarians.) 1% Brain 6% (...

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Altarain Syndicate continued Altarains are haplodiploid (mostly female as in insects), eusocial, asexual, forming superorganisms and through both telepathy and cybernetics are able to communicate their thoughts flawlessly without any fear of misinterpretation leading to the formation of a group mind...

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Sureshot wrote:as much as I like rifts i like this background better and would actually pay to see it in print as an actual book. As is though and without any editing.

Thanks, but I'm certain this does need lots of editing.

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Altarain Syndicate At one point Mars was terraformed, and under a man-made atmosphere, the Martian colonies grew. They were ruled not by traditional nation-states but several huge megacorporations. When the apocalypse on Earth came the Martian colonies had time to prepare. As Mars had several large ...

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Human Breeds The Human species, known also as Humans, Terrans or Earthlings, comes from the planet Earth. Humans have a fairly common body structure. Most Humans are standard Earth stock, but some groups have significantly altered the genes of their children to create variant subspecies. This is mos...

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Psi Stalker Culture Psi Stalkers (T’sendraedi in their native language) were created by the Metztla to invade and occupy Earth. They were created by the Metztla as a warrior race that was meant to subjugate Humanity and Earth for their masters, all while keeping the Metztla’s existence a secret. The...

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Also, here is a Flag for the IoM

http://i43.tinypic.com/efrjwn.gif

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Other Agencies Special Services The "freak show", as it is often described by other intelligence agents, Special Services is the penultimate branch of Instrumentality authority, a black-books agency is assigned to threats of a cosmic and/or metaphysical level. Their field agents are almost...

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Also, post with game mechanics notes has been updated a bit to reflect some of the tech stealing.

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Macross 02 Named because of a famous ship that had saved the humanity of several dimensions. This is the world of Macross II. The instrumentality was actually quite active in this dimension and had over the course of several decades pushed the government closer to that of the outlook of the Instrume...

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The introduction of cross dimensional technology into society had profound economic and political repercussions. The discovery of worlds where human life never developed opened up entire worlds with untouched natural resources; this caused the cost of raw materials to plummet, as did the price of la...

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Setting Outline The sol system is in chaos and it will be for the foreseeable future. The Instrumentality would be tempted to abandon it however there is a large human population there and it is the homeworld. Also having a foothold on the multidimensional hub brings up many opportunities for discov...

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Leadership The inner elite stays to the shadows and believes that they are fundamentally superior to and therefore better than the majority of humanity and that humanity is at its core spiritually superior to any other species or supernatural entity. Membership and upbringing greatly influenced by O...

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Have access to rift creating technology. Their home world is controlled and is bolstered by the massive resources acquired from other worlds, either through outright conquered or simple trade. They believe other worlds should be aiming to follow their example and have a dedicated program of supporti...

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The Instrumentality of Mankind Overview The Instrumentality of Mankind is result of an apocalyptic war which included nuclear and biological weapons, opened windows to extra dimensional entities, and reduced most of the survivors to preindustrial barbarism. Most of humanity was wiped out and the res...

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Hello, just posting a antagonistic organization that I thought might be useful to somebody. Basically it is an alternate world version of the CS that didn't reject education, magic (or technology) and early on discovered ARCHIE 3 with Archie basically using dog boys humans and robots equally to rebu...

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RPG Mechanics Leviathan Notes Reflex Weaponry is considered to be magic weaponry. Can use reflex missiles as found in Robotech 2nd ed. U-rounds can be and are often used in projectile weapons. Damage is the same as the standard rounds (which are explosive rounds). Damage from HtH of any mecha or Lev...

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Economics Socioeconomics The core objective of the Drakeîn Economic policies is the development of a common market between its member states. Increasing trade and commerce means that the respective nations and societies involved increase their exposure to new goods and markets, thus increasing the G...

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Divisions of Government Unity Division .SEBASTOS This position is the Head of State. This office is the highest governmental body in the Drakeîn and is a symbol of the state and unity of the people as well as the ultimate Commander-in-Chief of the military. It is also the highest authority of the st...

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Cosmic Truth Demogorgon is an Ubermensh, living by its own moral code and eventually converting others to its ideals. Luckily, this code was somewhat altruistic or at least that of enlightened self interest. Running a large scientific and military factory Demogorgon was a logistic-maintenance-resear...

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Part III: Drakeîn Civilization Overview The Drakeîn Dominions is not a nation-state encompassing one culture or society, but an economic, political, and defensive confederation which ideally unites and directs all people. Not just the "unity of leadership and purpose" in any government, bu...

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The Leviathan military has formidable discipline. Enlisted personnel are thoroughly trained and stay calm under fire. Leviathan units don't break. Their warriors prefer to use strategy and precision to complete objectives instead of brute force and overkill. Targets will be decimated with ship borne...

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Part II: The Biosphere Worlds Worlds are classified by a variety of means, but mainly by their civilization type and atmosphere. A paradise world is a class of planet characterized by its outstanding natural beauty. Its natural conditions are perfect for human habitation. They have little, if any, i...

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Part I: The Nature of the Universe History The Protogenoi were the one of the first sentient humanoid race to evolve in this universe, about ten million years ago, and progressed to be the first advanced humanoid civilization in the known universe five million years ago. The Protogenoi's space colon...

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A few years ago I started making a space empire for Phase World. After several years of mashing together other concepts that I found neat, and trying to make the whole thing fit together reasonably well, I have a rather and large and self contained setting put together. Not having a use for it for a...

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Do the bounuses only count when your using a sword? The bounuses are kinda a lot still, expecially at earlier levels... not really though if the bounuses from WP sword don't add into it. Seems pretty reasonable if so. Kind of reminds me of a N+SS martial art. Maybe as an addition you could look thro...

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You know I think you could expend it to something of a... well, there must be a bajillion languages in the world of rifts, more than juts the old human ones. I bet they would be able to pick up some obscure ones a lot easier and commuicate nonverbally well.

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With the abundance of magic energy around this arcane structure; http://lostcityexplorers.net/buf19.jpg fulfills its purpose and pulls in an evil alien intelligence

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As far as were critters in NB, I always imagined them as more animal like than human. If they had a faction it would be similar to the warlord faction, a few local 'packs' that are very loosely allied in a gang/tribe. Maybe into organized crime a bit but way more violent than the mob though, perhaps...

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For nega's in rifts I feel that they know about the supernatural, but aren't as.. shocked by it. For example a normal rifts human would be pretty terrified when going up against vampire. Even a cyberknight would be a bit put off when fighting one. Its a _vampire_ , a something that riped the soul ou...

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Can anyone tell me if I'm getting realistic officer-to-crew ratios? Those look good, but if you want to be sure, check the ratios on US Navy vessels. I was trying. Most sites give whole crew numbers without an officer to enlisted breakdown. If you know a good one... That might be harder to dig up. ...

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It’s a multi species bunch, though some groups are more influential than others. The main governmental culture is pretty darn close to Heinlein though. Has some earth humans that are kind of 80s sci fi in culture, stereotypical honorable barbaric warriors, ultra smart space elves, hive minded space ...

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Just wanted to post a setting that I've been kicking around for awhile now. Still in a rough draft stage but any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Trying to make a rather nasty space empire. Not exactly evil, though it can be considered evil in some areas, but more efficient. In many space s...

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No native intelligences offically though I'm sure its possible. Its pretty unikley though since AIs seem to be extremely rare so you might have one per every few dozen planets. Rifts earth just gets a lot because its the nexus of the universe and even then there are only a handful here. Though it re...

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Europe - Eastern Territories. Lots of large citystates in a lose alliance. Old USSR - Wolfen Empire. Cold War-esque set up here. British Isles - Phi and Lopan Norway/Sweeden Northern Hinterlands/Mountains Mount Nimro - West Africa Land of the Darned - South Africa Japan and Korea - Kingdom of Byzant...

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