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SANDBOX
To be added once this is filled out; not wholly necessary for the hub itself to go up.
WIP
Before Modern History
- 700 Mya
- SoI-002-Μ enters the solar system and arrives on Mars. [Reference]
- Martian civilization is destroyed in a war that heavily uses eigenweapons. Survivors form tribal groups, which are aided by SoI-002-Μ. [Reference]
- SoI-002-Λ enters the solar system and attempts to colonize Earth. War breaks out between the Lambda and Mu groups on Mars, and Lambda constructs SCP-4XXX. An undetermined K-Class event occurs and causes the extinction of all life on the planet, including native Martians. [Reference]
- 1 Mya—300,000 BCE
- Fragments of a megastructure are scattered in the Oort Cloud. [Reference]
- Unknown Dates
- The Foundation stops a potent cognitohazardous virus through the activation of the concept spear, in the process reversing much of human technological advancement. [Reference]
20th Century
1980s
1990s
21st Century
2000s
2010s
2020s
- 2021
- June 6 — Semiautonomous Exploration Vessel Messier-002 is sent to investigate SCP-4774, causing major alterations to the anomaly's hypothetical details. [Reference]
- 2022
- SCP-4XXX is activated by the Foundation, temporally resetting the planet to a habitable state. Human colonization of Mars begins. [Reference]
- 2025
- Autonomous Exploration Satellite Yau-009 experiences an unexpected malfunction in its Lang Distortion Drive, launching it out of the Milky Way Galaxy and the Local Group at impossibly high speeds. The probe enters the Local Void and discovers SCP-3230. [Reference]
- 2028
- The first SCP-002-EX instances are discovered in the Oort Cloud. [Reference]
2030s
2040-2069
2070-2099
2100-2140
Year
2040-2050 (2041, 2046, […])
Main Storyline and Events
- after the disaster with SCP-3848 and all that happened in Broken Masquerade, the Foundation opened leeway for stuff like thaumaturgy and paratech to be used more publicly
- All the while the Foundation had been sending out probes with AIs and FTL drives powered with secretive thaumartugic rituals. However, all these engines have a problem: They are very prone to failure, and have on one occasion sent a probe far out of the local group into an intergalactic void (communication is achieved with thaumaturgic Ways, periodically opening one on the probe, sending a signal to a Foundation-run pocket dimension, then relaying it back into reality)
- However, one probe stumbles across what is basically a chunk of sapient thaumaturgic energy. They realize it's part of a dead god. It's also breaking up into further chunks (with less sapience)
- What do they do with it? They use chunks to make a new type of FTL engine
- Their first tests with the new FTL engines find that it only takes like a week to reach near the milky way's core from the solar system, which they still don't wholly understand the exact workings behind but are more than happy to use (note that the exact nature of the engine is hella redacted, since its actual nature is one way to get a lot of unwanted attention)
- Also I do imagine that colonization of the sol system is underway by this point, so some people will start noticing gravitational waves from the new FTL engines at their moon colonies and whatnot and then get the news intrigued
- So the Foundation has to start figuring out how to approach the public with "oh yeah we can travel to other solar systems with ease now"
Side Events
- I was also thinking there could be some side stuff about an anomalous space elevator that ends up forming on Earth that the Foundation begrudgingly leaves alone, since it isn't doing any harm and is aiding in space expansion
- I'm thinking you could probably get some good side stories about anomalous space colonization as well, with like thaumaturges trying to aid in building outposts, and then maybe some stuff with people magically dicking about in space
- It'd be a lot like the wild west where it's really hard to keep the ropes on everything but you can exert limited control
- AWCY? does moon graffiti
- You stare down upon the majesty of Jupiter and then out of the corner of your eye see a middle finger on ganymede
Technical Details
massive post about brain implants: http://sexycontainmentprocedures.tumblr.com/post/174929917047/in-my-broken-masquerade-tales-i-wrote-that-some
- Also, I imagine that all probes are largely run by AIAD-unit type stuff, which can better handle the speeds at which decisions are made in FTL than humans (though humans are sent with these probes to Terzan 2 after some anomaly-induced AI failures)
- Foundation personnel have brain implants (not localized; wired throughout the entire brain) running scripts in ED-K+
- Still no mind-reading/thoughts-reading, only capable of detecting biochemical changes in different parts of the brain (AKA mood and potentially intention)
- Also, the brain implants could lead to great drama with people who want to directly aid the Ortothans in their war effort
- Neptune is the main hub for Foundation FTL travel.
- It's the farthest out gas giant (ignoring the possible planet 9) from the sun so it'd also be the farthest out heavy gravity well for FTL ships to be pulled into. That and it's near the solar system's edge, so not a lot of colonists will be out there.
- Twelve Star's pocket dimension mirrors the spacetime of baseline reality and vice versa
- For example, the gravity well of a star in reality will exist in the pocket dimension but the star won't. It goes both ways, too — a star that exist in the pocket dimension will have its gravity well there and in baseline reality but no star will be present in baseline reality
Drafts
http://kaktuskontainer.wikidot.com/9volt-16
http://kaktuskontainer.wikidot.com/malice-012
http://scpdsandbox.wikidot.com/collab:floppyclem
Useful Links
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/10/19/moon-settlers-cave/#.WyVoRtUvxGM
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus
https://www.cnet.com/news/what-happens-to-the-unprotected-human-body-in-space/
Autonomy
by Cyantreuse
Canonical history: SCP-3848, Broken Masquerade
As the influence and power of the Foundation grows beyond the boundaries of an obligation to protect humanity on Earth and into the realm of interstellar corporate expansion, lines blur and personnel from Earth are affronted by the motives of a Foundation unlike that which they left behind.
This is a tab for any ideas for the canon you may have. List them under your username. Hopefully this means nobody should end up accidentally stealing anything somebody else comes up with.
NatVolt:
ARTICLE PRIORITY LIST:
- A Hole in Mars
- Luna Korea tale
- Ashburn Station mecha SCP (maybe save for later with a shorter tale as a priority?)
- Europan horror SCP
- Mars temporal cannon SCP
- Venus SCP
- The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place: A tale about Earth post-abandonment, focusing on the last humans, SCP-1000 expansion, and researchers finding a 1000-made probe in Earth's orbit.
- Collab with Cyril on Site-19 turned anomalous after abandonment
- Gap: An audio recording made by a researcher that tested the "perfect Ways" that would later be used in FTL travel for long-range transport and communication, who's team uncovered strange horrors within the Ways
- Something about space pirates raiding a Luna Korea military transporter, which catches the attention of the Foundation.
- Something set on Foundation-run dystopian Mars.
- An MC&D doc about the chunks of a sentient asteroid or asteroid-eating organism being sold. Maybe set in the crime-ridden areas around Saturn.
- Two Stars Like Eyes Over the Horizon: Something about memetic entities
- Poem about a spaceship encountering an anomaly or something
- Something about Oneiroi in space
- "what's going to happen to Oneiroi dreamscapes when humanity starts going interplanetary? Can dreamscapes become less accessible as people start moving to locations farther from each other? Do alien created collectives exist? what would those even be like?"
12:24:51 PM <@NineVolt> Okay, think I got a good approach for Foundation mecha idea
12:25:12 PM <mlistmas> do tell
12:28:01 PM <@NineVolt> mlistmas: checking the discord would probably be easier than me just copying it all into here right now, but the current gist I'm set on is this: Foundation unearths the corpse of a humanoid entity, whose musculature and nervous system is sorta intact. This is used as the basis for a prototype mecha system, where pilots directly connect with the nervous system of the mecha to pilot it
12:30:34 PM <@NineVolt> Dunno what the middle bits of the article will be just yet but I'm thinking the ending with involve the Foundation finding that, after one mission, the mechas' nervous systems are now permanently connected to the brains of their pilots. Trying to remove the pilots will kill them, since their brains are now partially in the mechs
12:30:37 PM <@NineVolt> So to make sure these pilots don't freak out they start amnesticizing them after every mission while implanting false memories of lives outside the mechas, serving to give the illusion of normal life while in actuality they are just inside the mechas 24/7
12:31:16 PM <@NineVolt> Of course, the Foundation can't just keep sacrificing pilots for these mechs
12:33:29 PM <@NineVolt> Plans for new models where, instead of putting a pilot into the system, a human brain is just merged into the mech's nervous system and then implanted with cybernetics that allow it to be remotely controlled by pilots. But for those first pilots they are now permanently stuck inside their mechas, with the Foundation content to continually use them because they still prove useful
12:34:31 PM <@NineVolt> That's the rough plot outline for what I'm envisioning
11:27:08 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: A) The UIU does tests with thaumaturges and physics to remotely investigate Mars. They keep finding weird stuff, like shadowy remnants of some dead civilization that flicker in and out of being, which appear more the closer they get to a central point on Mars's surface. The Foundation investigates later and finds a massive temporal "gun" at the location, built but never fired and meant to temporally reset the planet back to when it wasn't arid
11:27:14 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: The Foundation fires it
11:28:22 AM <MaliceAF> that sounds very very cool
11:29:40 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: This opens the planet to colonization by humanity, now with an oxygen atmosphere, life, and a stable magnetic field. A few problems: There's dangerous anomalies that exist on the now uncharted planet, the old civilization they saw exists there again, and there's a second civilization — the threat that caused the planet to turn arid in the first place
11:30:02 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: (said second civilization may or may not be that idea we had regarding the alien sarkics)
11:33:31 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: Idea B) There's a dimensional rift around Venus. This leads into some abandoned heavenly place. The Foundation decides to drag chunks of the dimension into our reality, meant to help colonize the planet. This involves stuff like giant biomechanical whale things with cities built into them, (insert ideas I haven't come up with yet).
11:33:43 AM <MaliceAF> because the timeline is finally catching up to the events that I wrote as "near-future handwavey stuff"
11:33:52 AM <MaliceAF> NineVolt: oooooh
11:33:54 AM <MaliceAF> I like that
11:34:15 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: Thing is, doing this widens the rift. This means Venusian colonists will often see "meteor showers" where dimensional tears spit out loads of junk, unstable dimensional chunks that rain down into the skies and eventually break apart
11:34:45 AM <@NineVolt> Nobody knows why the place is abandoned, too
Ascended to that noosphere afterlife conglomerate thing
Something about SCP-1694 encouraging them to ascend
11:50:33 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: also x 3 one day we need to do the Sarkic mars alien idea, the one that ties in with 2651. which is what I'm imagining is tied to the temporal gun (it was designed by the anti-sarkic 2651 aliens to try to wipe out whatever war happens against the sarkics that fucks Mars)
11:52:02 AM <MaliceAF> Idea: Deimos (mars' smaller, further away moon) is actually an artificial satellite left over from the war
11:52:15 AM <MaliceAF> running on autopilot and full of alien skeletons
11:52:19 AM <@NineVolt> Wait, is that the one with the weird monolith on it
11:52:38 AM <@NineVolt> no that's phobos, nvm
11:52:48 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: I like that
11:53:03 AM <@NineVolt> god this canon is going to have so many different aliens in it, I love it
11:53:08 AM <MaliceAF> since it was the furthest satellite out, it was unaffected by the temporal stuff
11:53:44 AM <MaliceAF> NineVolt: also I've been thinking about the Ceresians, and I've decided I want them to be a sort of semi-hive-mind non-sapient but still very technologically advanced race
11:53:56 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: idea: the phobos monolith was built by the sarkics to teleport into deimos and invade the place
11:54:01 AM <MaliceAF> yes
11:54:43 AM <MaliceAF> they communicate constantly, forming a network of low-intelligence brains that overall create a species capable of constructing gigantic cities and machines
11:55:20 AM <MaliceAF> but they never achieved space-travel because they're naturally pragmatic and species-survival-oriented, and space-travel is too difficult for them to be worth it
11:55:28 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: and attached to deimos / around Mars orbit are biological spaceships the sarkics were using to try to defend themselves (all with Ortothan symbolism on them, since they are still Ortothans — just Ortothans that think using flesh magic is a good way to aid their gods)
11:55:31 AM <MaliceAF> what with them being in oceans encased in ice and rock
11:55:37 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: sounds good
11:56:30 AM <@NineVolt> this photo is just asking to be used in this skip idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith#/media/File:Monolith55103h-crop.jpg
11:56:59 AM <MaliceAF> NineVolt: or, Deimos could itself be a biological/technological hybrid. The stony appearance is just the flesh drying and calcifying to preserve energy during its millennia of inactivity
11:57:07 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: oooh
11:57:11 AM <MaliceAF> NineVolt: oooh
11:57:29 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: Oh yeah, what if we reverse things: deimos is by the alien sarkics, the monolith is by the normal Ortothans who try to invade
11:58:14 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: This ends up being the barely surviving last remnant of the alien sarkics, and one of the last pieces of evidence for the sarkic!ortothan vs. ortothan war
11:58:58 AM <MaliceAF> God I have too many ideas >:I
11:59:10 AM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: saaaaame
11:59:55 AM <@NineVolt> "The origin of Mars's moons is unknown and the hypotheses are controversial." okay yes deimos would be the perfect alien artifact
12:02:59 PM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: also, for the original martians that evolved on the planet before the 2651 aliens came along and messed everything up: I'm thinking they're lanky, tall tripedal creatures, who used to have a civilization but nuked themselves and have been recovering ever since. This gets screwed up when the Ortothan war wrecks their entire planet, but the Foundation's use of the temporal gun brings them back and gives them a second chance
12:04:25 PM <@NineVolt> …only now did I just realize that making them tripedal is very much a war of the worlds thing to do >_>
12:06:21 PM <MaliceAF> reference ahoy ;)
12:07:34 PM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: okay so, I think order of priorities for our collabs: star dragon -> deep sea ecosystem gods -> deimos
12:12:18 PM <MaliceAF> yeet
3:15:32 PM <@NineVolt> random idea: some tale about a mage mining ice in Saturn's rings
3:23:05 PM <@NineVolt> fuck, just had the best tale name idea: "Practical Astrothaumics"
3:23:36 PM <MaliceAF> hehe
3:23:41 PM <MaliceAF> I love it
3:23:48 PM <@NineVolt> fuck I have to write this now
3:24:05 PM <@NineVolt> once I get a bunch of other drafts done, that is
3:25:15 PM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: I've got the perfect mental image of a guy in a spacesuit, holding a mage staff, with occult symbols painted on their suit and a demon perched on their shoulder, floating over a chunk of ice
3:29:21 PM <MaliceAF> my god yes
3:29:35 PM <MaliceAF> because sorcery is all about appearances and rituals
3:29:49 PM <MaliceAF> so they've got a wizard hat tied over their bubble-helmet
3:30:10 PM <@NineVolt> pffft
3:30:20 PM <MaliceAF> or a bat in a tiny pressurised container
3:30:31 PM <@NineVolt> Maybe not a wizard hat but they'd definitely have some form of regalia on their suit
3:30:43 PM <MaliceAF> a gyroscopically stabilised cauldron
3:42:52 PM <@NineVolt> MaliceAF: "Mk.II No-Grav Cauldron Unit"
3:43:30 PM <MaliceAF> yesss
8:54:03 PM <@NineVolt> so here's some thoughts:
8:54:32 PM Cy|out → ~Cyril
8:54:54 PM <@NineVolt> Founadtionverse thaumaturgy largely operates under the principle that anything with a mind can use thaumaturgy. the more "intelligence" the stronger thaumaturge you can be
8:55:31 PM <@NineVolt> something that came up in some discussion regarding Third Law was that this intelligence idea means that an AI can be a thaumaturge
8:55:42 PM <~Cyril> I agree
8:56:09 PM <@NineVolt> make a hyperintelligent AI and you've got one of the strongest mages to ever exist
8:56:48 PM <@NineVolt> and I imagine that one thing that is easy to do in thaumaturgy is create thrust for yourself. flying, running, whatever
8:57:09 PM <@NineVolt> which leads to this idea: using AI mages as an engine system for a spaceship
8:58:40 PM <@NineVolt> you'd need continuous energy to keep them powered and active, but if you get an advanced AI to start generating propulsion I feel like that could be a /really/ good engines system
8:59:18 PM <@NineVolt> with the added bonus being you technically don't need an engine. You just need a good computer. A very good computer
9:00:39 PM <@VaraxiOS> Could they cool themselves?
9:00:43 PM <@VaraxiOS> You jumpstart them
9:00:52 PM <@VaraxiOS> Have them do a cooling magic along with everything else
9:01:14 PM <@NineVolt> The more I think about it the more I imagine that you'd need an AI absurdly advanced to match "conventional" rocketry but that's a possibility that's ticking with me
9:01:50 PM <@NineVolt> (conventional by AAPA standards)
9:02:28 PM <@NineVolt> VaraxiOS: Ooh, yeah, that's something I hadn't considered
9:03:13 PM <@VaraxiOS> Because that would be some very heavy computational requirements which means some very heavy heat output
9:04:11 PM <@NineVolt> The main challenge I think would be having the AI be intelligent enough to get an advantage over conventional engines (which don't need volumetric thought processes of a wizard to operate) and making sure you don't run out of energy
9:05:39 PM <@NineVolt> It's probably harder for a mage to get the magical power needed to accelerate at Saturn V speeds compared to just building a Saturn V, so that problem would likely scale the faster conventional engines get
9:06:32 PM <@NineVolt> So you'd need a really good AI in a really good quantum computer to probably make this idea feasible
9:07:11 PM <@NineVolt> It wouldn't be wildly available, but I'm starting to imagine the Foundation could possibly have one or two experimental space vessels like this
9:07:54 PM <@NineVolt> Real heavy duty stuff
9:08:13 PM <~Cyril> this is wild
9:08:14 PM <~Cyril> I like it
9:09:11 PM <@NineVolt> Just to make sure the idea isn't too insane it wouldn't be good enough to be superluminal, but it could outpace many normal rockets
9:09:17 PM <@NineVolt> better yet, something I just realized
9:09:31 PM <@NineVolt> this would also make an excellent combat ship
9:10:03 PM <@NineVolt> You don't the extra mass of weapons. Your weapons are whatever the AI can think up as thaumic attacks
9:10:30 PM <@NineVolt> And a quantum computer AI could probably think up some absolutely killer weapons
9:11:49 PM <@NineVolt> All that for a spaceship that'd, at its barest, probably boil down to shielding, computer databases, and a fusion reactor power supply
9:13:44 PM <@NineVolt> (and probably some sensory equipment, so the AI isn't blind to everything, but I imagine at a certain point it could just start "seeing" with thaumaturgy)
9:13:49 PM Cyril → ~Cy|bed
9:14:47 PM <@NineVolt> I must write this
9:17:29 PM <@NineVolt> hell, something else you could do is, to get around how difficult propulsion could be, is to first send out a normal spaceship with a Way system on it, then when the spaceship arrives you activate the way and send the AI superweapon ship out of it
Million Hypersigil
byNatVoltaic
Ashburn Alpha is the largest human space habitat to ever be built. Somebody is trying to break it. Nobody can stop them.
⚬ ⚬ ⚬
In 2020 the veil collapses. The sheer buildup of information online, the global rise in anomalous phenomena, and the growth of more paranormal groups than ever before renders the ability for the Foundation to preserve normalcy near impossible. The averted XK-Class scenario that levels North Korea is the breaking point. Maintaining the masquerade could no longer the Foundation's primary goal, and it only became clear that remaining on a planet easily susceptible to K-Class events would inevitably lead to extinction.
LordStonefish
- Bumbling Earth-Nostalgists who get homesick once they leave. Some of them set up New Los Angeles on a mysterious Earth Duplicate that appears in the Oort Cloud. This is a mimic planet. Eventually it mimics Jupiter while the colonists are still on it, with horrible results, before turning into Phobos and drifting away. The Foundation is like "told you so"
Varaxous
- Prequel to 4069
- Alien-esque space Foundation story. Hyperwolves and stuff. Will have more when it's more drafted.
MaliceAforethought
- An outpost deep under Ceres' surface provides a look into the icy abyss beneath its surface. Clings to the bottom of the crust like a limpet, hanging above a dark, cthonic ocean.
- Home to a race of squid-ish creatures that communicate via infrasound and complex bioluminescence. Creatures are not-quite-sapient, and have what is almost a hive mentality (though slightly more individualistic. Technologically advanced, but ruthlessly pragmatic due to their low individual intelligence and focus on species-survival, with little unnecessary culture to speak of and no desire to leave Ceres.
- Manufactures massive quantities of fresh water and edible algae that is shipped to the mining outposts throughout the asteroid belt.
- Artificial gravity generator hanging from the bottom, the malfunction of which is the catalyst for the tale series.
- TL;DR: a warping of space and time occurs, which the Foundation is loathe to rectify as it provides them with sufficient leverage to construct a much larger colony in alien territory. The outpost staff are trapped within, and shit happens.
- On a planet orbiting a dwarf star, composed entirely of welded steel and accessible via a dimensional rift in the gas clouds of Saturn, a group of Researchers with difficult pasts form the Foundation's new Pseudoscience Division. Tinkering away on the edge of the observable universe, they break anomalies down and reassemble them into perpetual motion machines, FTL engines, and all manner of useful paratech. None of it is quite understood, and it is suspected there may be something darker at play.
- Soup rocket!
- The Temporal Anomalies Department is dead, and the Foundation killed it. When their space-stations start unexisting, they're forced to call in a favour to preserve their most cherished advancements. The price isn't cheap, and the Department of Temporal Anomalies is retroactively born.
- Something bigger than we can imagine, born of a collective dream in the minds of the universe, is stealing stars. It is the First Dragon, and it will not be stopped.
- Co-authoring with nines.
- Use the phrase "Eidological Hazard".
- A star is petrified. The world of man is dying; long live the world of stone.
Cyan
- MC&D article: Attachment for Schulman device that allows the user to locate the subject's other instances of their consciousness or body across a certain range of reality constructs
- Aliens native to Red Zeta: translucent balls of elastic tendrils, brain is in the center of the sphere that is their body. They don't talk aloud like most of the species in Red Zeta's hospitable zones, and they don't move much, so most of the sapient guests ignore them and do not expect that they're intelligent. They have been on Red Zeta as long as anyone can remember.
Here's a place for various images, pages, and the like that could give some inspiration for the canon. Label any Creative Commons compliant images with CC!
Aliens
Terrestrial
Aquatic
Aerial
Space
None yet
????
Tech
Landscapes
- CC: Asphalt volcano
- CC: Alien sunset
Spaceships and Satellites
- CC: Kestrel Eye
- CC: DRAGONSat
- CC: Icosohedron
- CC: Misc. category
Planets from a distance
- CC: Titan
Other
- CC: Auroral bands
- CC: Scan tracks
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