I am working on a background for a new game for a new group. Creating a sector rimward of the Sol Sector.
Here is the background.
The original denizens were uplifts by one of Grandfather's sons based of homosapiens, but on a larger scale with higher Psi abilities to construct his cities. These homosuperior were sent to different places around Grandfathers domain. During Grandfather’s war, most of their colonies were destroyed completely. They settled in an area a few sectors rimward of Sol Sector, near a Blue Giant star that would go nova as it became a black hole called the Eye of Loss. The nova destroyed their tech, cities, and more than a few of their home planets. They were able to rebuild and reclaim some tech until they regained jump travel. They travelled to the ancestral home, known as Terra Alpha. There, they found a bunch of TL0 homosapiens living a hunter gatherer life.
These travellers started using animal husbandry to ranch the people, to improve the species uplifting them until they were usable intelligent slaves. These people became their ruling gods. These benevolent gods were 50% larger, 10 times stronger and smarter than their large flocks. It was easy to control them by telepathy and their higher technology. Those that displeased them to didn’t measure up were culled as human sacrifices to their gods. They were taught a variety of skills to be able to work for them better.
These superior beings lived very long lives with access to high tech autodocs and healing skills. For fun they used their flocks of humans for war games. When they discovered a superior human, they graced that human by breeding with them usually using their telepathy to modify their experience.
They grouped into different territories such as the Nile valley, the peninsula of Greece, The area of Rome, the islands of Britain, Scandinavia, China, South and Central America, Central Africa, and India. They split off as couples to small families to live better than their neighbors. Everything was going wonderfully for them until one was killed by another causing his wife to angrily create a virus targeting her fellow gods. Those who saw it coming loaded back on their ships with some select followers and went to their old home worlds.
The travellers who were the decedents of the original travellers returned to the home worlds hoping for a welcome home, but instead received scorn, hatred, and violence. The people of the old worlds had stagnated, not advancing as they had no need to. The ones returning with their chosen servants had exercised their skills and abilities, becoming better at everything than those they found existing on the old worlds near the Eye of Loss. The travellers found the old ones almost as easy to subjugate as the humans. They had reason to work on advancing their society and guard their peace. This peace lasted for a few generations, but the game of war called to their need to be stronger than their neighbor. The weak joined together to attack the strong. The strong attacked who they thought of as weak. Humans began to realize that their gods did not care for their welfare, but saw them as sheep to be slaughtered. The humans found that they could eliminate their gods easily instead of going to their deaths. The Homosuperior are now loading up to leave before their own followers kill them. They hope to find security beyond the Eye of Loss as they head out to colonize new worlds.
The players will find this sector near a hungry black hole where vulnerable gods are a recent memory and the slaves of the gods are reaching out on their own as they find new ways to self-govern. It is nowhere near a perfect world with perfect people and the masters of old may return to gather new servants at any time.
Here is the background.
The original denizens were uplifts by one of Grandfather's sons based of homosapiens, but on a larger scale with higher Psi abilities to construct his cities. These homosuperior were sent to different places around Grandfathers domain. During Grandfather’s war, most of their colonies were destroyed completely. They settled in an area a few sectors rimward of Sol Sector, near a Blue Giant star that would go nova as it became a black hole called the Eye of Loss. The nova destroyed their tech, cities, and more than a few of their home planets. They were able to rebuild and reclaim some tech until they regained jump travel. They travelled to the ancestral home, known as Terra Alpha. There, they found a bunch of TL0 homosapiens living a hunter gatherer life.
These travellers started using animal husbandry to ranch the people, to improve the species uplifting them until they were usable intelligent slaves. These people became their ruling gods. These benevolent gods were 50% larger, 10 times stronger and smarter than their large flocks. It was easy to control them by telepathy and their higher technology. Those that displeased them to didn’t measure up were culled as human sacrifices to their gods. They were taught a variety of skills to be able to work for them better.
These superior beings lived very long lives with access to high tech autodocs and healing skills. For fun they used their flocks of humans for war games. When they discovered a superior human, they graced that human by breeding with them usually using their telepathy to modify their experience.
They grouped into different territories such as the Nile valley, the peninsula of Greece, The area of Rome, the islands of Britain, Scandinavia, China, South and Central America, Central Africa, and India. They split off as couples to small families to live better than their neighbors. Everything was going wonderfully for them until one was killed by another causing his wife to angrily create a virus targeting her fellow gods. Those who saw it coming loaded back on their ships with some select followers and went to their old home worlds.
The travellers who were the decedents of the original travellers returned to the home worlds hoping for a welcome home, but instead received scorn, hatred, and violence. The people of the old worlds had stagnated, not advancing as they had no need to. The ones returning with their chosen servants had exercised their skills and abilities, becoming better at everything than those they found existing on the old worlds near the Eye of Loss. The travellers found the old ones almost as easy to subjugate as the humans. They had reason to work on advancing their society and guard their peace. This peace lasted for a few generations, but the game of war called to their need to be stronger than their neighbor. The weak joined together to attack the strong. The strong attacked who they thought of as weak. Humans began to realize that their gods did not care for their welfare, but saw them as sheep to be slaughtered. The humans found that they could eliminate their gods easily instead of going to their deaths. The Homosuperior are now loading up to leave before their own followers kill them. They hope to find security beyond the Eye of Loss as they head out to colonize new worlds.
The players will find this sector near a hungry black hole where vulnerable gods are a recent memory and the slaves of the gods are reaching out on their own as they find new ways to self-govern. It is nowhere near a perfect world with perfect people and the masters of old may return to gather new servants at any time.
