Gas masks, Eutopia Project and Genetic Symphony!

"Gasmasks are just like... so post apoc. XD"

Heh! I was going to play Sims 2, as I said, but I ended up getting distracted by chatting with Grey. ^^; I just said that while explaining Eutopia Project to him. Woo, my post-apoc dystopian concept! Which I may never turn into a game! But it's yet another one of those concepts I really want to write about in detail on my site.

Actually, Eutopia Project is supposed to be a slice out of the whole sci-fi universe I wanted to create. "Genetic Symphony" is what I've called it all this time, though I am starting to lean towards giving it a different name. The "symphony" part came from the fact that the godlike beings or Celestials communicate by pure wave-forms, which can be interpreted as light... or sound.

There's probably an old Geeklog post where I talk about the different races/beings involved in Genetic Symphony. Actually, there aren't aliens in Genetic Symphony. I decided that in my universe there would only be two types of pure being: Celestials (or was it Celestians) which are stars/gods/omnipresent beings, and humans which are... humans. Every other "race" is created by humans or derived genetically from them (so there's things like cyborgs, which would roughly be equivalent to a PSU CAST, and genorgs, which are the genetic equivalent: genetic organisms, probably like humans bred with beasts and other such oddities. Like PSU Beasts and Newmans.)

The benevolent aliens of the Eutopia Project are the only half-breed cross between a Celestian and a human -- the Ytherians. At the time Eutopia Project occurs, humans have already spread far and wide throughout the known universe. The Ytherians resulted from an intrepid and rather lucky set of space explorers that end up finding their way towards the "center of the universe", and discovering a young Celestian there, just being born. There's some sort of... unintended absorption of human genetic material that happens and then... the Ytherians are born from it. Yeah, rather weird and new age and stuff, but it's supposed to be half spiritual experience, half spontaneous biochemical reaction, and so not really explainable by words.

Anyway, the Ytherians spread throughout the known universe in their own way, and it's one of *their* exploration ships that find its way to the human homeworld only to find that it's been devastated by nuclear war. They become its saviors, and begin the Eutopia Project to "save humans from themselves" because it's believed that humans are genetically disposed towards conflict with one another. Something like that. (I actually originally said the Ytherians were helping in exchange for genetic material, but since there aren't going to be alien races around anyway, I may change that so that they're seeking memories instead... chronicling all that ever was and lived in the universe.)

One day I won't be lazy and write the whole thing out in my wiki. But there's always so much to write. ^^; Ultimately, all of my original ideas come from the same universe but different times. Like, the universe of Genetic Symphony contains the home planet on which Eutopia Project would occur. As well as the world where the whole Anthegenian Cycle happens. And countless other worlds populated by humans and/or human derived beings, with varying degrees of tech depending on the situation by which the planet was populated. I'm figuring most colonization crews actually went out to become fully independent societies so... they'd have to adapt and rebuild technology from what is available on the planet, or in some cases perhaps, decide to eschew high-tech altogether.

Why the "only two types of pure being" though? Mostly because I don't want to end up feeling cheesy about creating bunches of conveniently humanoid aliens like you'd see in Star Trek or Star Wars. Or, otherwise, creating something so esoteric it's not even worth writing about because I have nothing, as a human who's never seen or interacted with an alien, to compare to.

I like the concept of the Celestians though. (Or Celestials. Still forgot which one it was. :P) Takes a little suspension of disbelief to say that stars are actually living, sentient beings of great wisdom, but, that's pretty much what they are. The closest to "god" as a universe created by a skeptic would get, pretty much. The idea of Celestians and humans actually breeding takes even MORE suspension of disbelief, but it's not all that difficult for someone like me, who's played Exalted with plenty of implausible half-breeds involved.

I wouldn't use Exalted for Eutopia Project, though. Dunno what ruleset I'd use, really. Just... not a White Wolf one!