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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #30 on: 23 October 2019, 05:18:18 »
Whomever started the device that killed the hyperspace frequency range used by HPGs accidentally and unknowingly leans on a switch while eating a sandwich. That switch changed the machine over from "Disrupt HPG Comms" to "Disrupt K-F drives".
The lone person at this asteroid outpost chokes on a piece of pastrami and no one ever comes to the outpost for the bi-monthly duty change since ftl travel died.
Eventually after 80 years or so the device's fusion power source gives out and ftl resumes. No one notices. Every planet is a lone island in the black, forever.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #31 on: 23 October 2019, 05:39:05 »
This is the one I like best (so far)… (though Drakensis has a pretty good take too...)

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #32 on: 23 October 2019, 07:02:43 »
Drakensis? Did you mean me? :)
No, I think. I believe he istalking about Drakensis' "Davion and Davion (Deceased)" story.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #33 on: 23 October 2019, 07:03:42 »
or they let everyone move to areas with negative zip codes

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #34 on: 23 October 2019, 07:58:42 »
The crash teams arrives, and revives Hanse Davion from the heart attack.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #35 on: 23 October 2019, 10:09:56 »
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #36 on: 23 October 2019, 10:52:26 »
Yes! Hard 3052 reboot! 8)

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #37 on: 23 October 2019, 12:14:31 »
-A Tetatae archeological team carefully uncover the ancient remains form a long lost alien civilization on a newly colonized world, one of the younger members turn to their leader;

"I still don't understand doctor, this has to be the something like the hundredth time we have found remains of these aliens buried on a new planet. And we find more and more as our as our exploration crew travel further core-ward. They where a interstellar civilization, how can they all be gone?"

"Well, there is still much debate but their has been one popular theory supported by the existing evidence. Their civilization was very fractured, much like our own tribes and as their interstellar expanse began to significantly slow down to the point where much of their culture relied on these existing colonized worlds, they began to fight each other over the resources of the existing colonies. It seems eventually most of their resources became devoted to warring with one another, more so than supporting their vast infrastructure required to support such interstellar civilization. More they lost, the harder they fought each other for what was left. There was only one unavoidable outcome."

"That's crazy!"

"It is... self destructive and counters the logic that would require to span so far into the know universe. Why it's so important to know more, so we don't make the same mistakes ourselves. Oh, Dakodo, please stop referring to them as just aliens. We have known what they had called themselves for quit some time now."

"Oh, it just sounds so stupid. Hu-muns? Hu-maans?"           
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Re: Tell me how the World ends...
« Reply #38 on: 23 October 2019, 12:33:26 »
3372, the clan homeworlds make first contact with an alien interstellar empire. they attack and capture a small alien colony.

3373, alien invasion of the clan homeworlds

3384, alien invasion reaches inner spheres outer rim. they have already reverse-engineered clan tech.

3385, diplomatic mission fails. clan is now extinct.

3390, star leauge falls. Earth is lost.

3400, inner sphere conquered/destroyed. the only remaining free humans are in the deep periphery.

overall, the entire idea is a repeat of the clan invasion writ large, with a bad end. the aliens use 100-ton contragrav LAM tripods as their forward element, and have LAM warships that can launch fighters for the main force. they refuse all meaningful conversation, only desiring the conquest of those who invaded them first and not making any distinction between enemy factions.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #39 on: 23 October 2019, 15:39:54 »
It ends with the introduction of the Peacetech rulebookTM.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #40 on: 23 October 2019, 15:40:58 »
That, or the rise of a zombie virus that is airborne and is not symptomatic for 10 years after infection.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #41 on: 23 October 2019, 16:11:30 »
Mine...

The world is dark, radioactive, rain swept and lifeless. Only the brief bristle and strobe of lightening reveals the inhabitants. Two opposing forces of humanoid and bestial machines stand ready to make war. Even smaller versions scurry about. They sport no livery or flags.

There is maneuver and counter-feint as the sides position. No heroic deeds will be recorded this day, only battle-ROMs for further analysis. Battle protocols are calculated and recalculated to maximize damage efficiency, the endless cycle of min-max. Mathematics, Physics and Sorcery are narrowed Disciplines, applied only as needed.

In the distance great hulking leviathans set upon tread and slabbed with thick plate, bristling with armaments meant to level cities, edge closer to the coming battle. They are too large to be hidden, so they are not. They tear into the earth as the move along. They will plow no fields, nor harvest the good hearth.

Above in the blackness of space even larger machines position, their weapons level worlds. Their massed auto-drone swarms can blot out skies. No trade or exchange of ideas, nor discovery or enlightenment, are begotten now.

All are cold and implacable, without remorse or hope, pettiness or envy. They make no art, they sing no songs, there is no dogma or culture to fight over. They build only fortresses and repair facilities, and sparingly so, to continue their sole work. Their work is… war. War is their sole enterprise. War the only monument to their dead masters.

Today the remaining Drak and the Von shall make war on a world once known as Robinson. It will be the last battle of an Age. There will be victory, but none left to care.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #42 on: 23 October 2019, 16:33:54 »
Absolute Armor is invented, not even nuclear weapons can't damage it, war has become completely pointless.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #43 on: 23 October 2019, 17:01:04 »
  Humanity finally uses up its once massive supply of Star League-era Stupid Pills and advances to the next stage of Cosmic Consciousness, to become beings of pure energy.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #44 on: 23 October 2019, 21:39:21 »
The !*!*! attack and there aren't any Mk. XXXIII at all to save us!

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #45 on: 23 October 2019, 22:01:40 »
A misjump causes a jumpship to end up in orbit around a small, apparently uninhabited garden world.  Unfortunately, the misjump fried the computer systems of the jumpship and the dropships aren't in much better shape.  Having no other choice, they land on the planet below, settling on the eastern side of a large, equatorial continent.  The local large animals prove to have absolutely no fear of humans, having never seen them before, and one of the survivors takes a local simian as a pet he names Lucy.

Unfortunately, Lucy, along with the rest of her species, turns out to be highly susceptible to a disease one of the survivors has and she quickly is killed by it, along with her species and the other closely related species.  The survivors, meanwhile, turn out to be equally vulnerable to a local infection, this one a plasmodium spread by the bite of a parasitic insect, and they too are wiped out in several years time.

And with Australopithecus driven to extinction, humanity never evolves.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #46 on: 24 October 2019, 00:23:32 »
Sorry DarkISI, Sharpnel had it right... I did mean Drakensis' 'Davion and Davion, Deceased"...

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #47 on: 24 October 2019, 02:14:14 »
Just as Alaric's Savage Wolf and Stone's Atlas reach the climax of the duel we saw on that ilClan cover... the camera zooms out, and we see a child looking silently into a snow globe with two Mech miniatures inside...

That's a very, very deep cut reference these days.  Tommy Westphal for the win.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #48 on: 24 October 2019, 02:26:03 »
Sorry DarkISI, Sharpnel had it right... I did mean Drakensis' 'Davion and Davion, Deceased"...

That's fine. I just couldn't place the word and my nick was the only one coming close to it who provided an idea.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #49 on: 26 October 2019, 22:40:32 »
A misjump causes a jumpship to end up in orbit around a small, apparently uninhabited garden world.  Unfortunately, the misjump fried the computer systems of the jumpship and the dropships aren't in much better shape.  Having no other choice, they land on the planet below, settling on the eastern side of a large, equatorial continent.  The local large animals prove to have absolutely no fear of humans, having never seen them before, and one of the survivors takes a local simian as a pet he names Lucy.

Unfortunately, Lucy, along with the rest of her species, turns out to be highly susceptible to a disease one of the survivors has and she quickly is killed by it, along with her species and the other closely related species.  The survivors, meanwhile, turn out to be equally vulnerable to a local infection, this one a plasmodium spread by the bite of a parasitic insect, and they too are wiped out in several years time.

And with Australopithecus driven to extinction, humanity never evolves.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #50 on: 29 October 2019, 20:18:43 »
Disco returns.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #51 on: 29 October 2019, 21:01:16 »
Disco returns.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #52 on: 29 October 2019, 22:28:51 »
Disco returns.
The response is to start blowing up stacks of disco merchandise in baseball fields.
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #53 on: 30 October 2019, 00:14:51 »
The Steiner-Marik- Kurita- Liao-Ward-Kerensky- Davion's finally stop killing each other and act in concert. Hundreds of years after the new line was created and the children of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner intermarry and lay claim to all of the great houses. (Kai's line marries Victor's. That line marries Kitsune's and Ranna Kerensky and Phelan-Kell/Ward)

The Fiat and Plot armor of such a line is impossible to defeat. The forces of the Combined Commonwealth of Free Draconic Confederations overwhelm all foes and other claimants to the first Lordship. Most IS clans follow the new Ilkhan just because, and a renewed clan invasion is brutally repulsed. No one can stand against an army based upon Urbanmechs and Flea's.  While horde tactics are common and drown their foes in a tidal wave of mechs, these are not the only forces in the alphabet soup army. Urbanmech and Flea based Battlearmor, Protomechs, Superheavy mechs, even Warships destroy all opposition.

The story ends with humanity realizing that they don't really want to go any further than the Inner Sphere. The permanent peace brought about by the AFCCFDC brings unprecedented prosperity and technological advancement. Humanity looks inward. Humanity's birth rate declines to the point that drones and robots perform most tasks. Some thousand years after PAX SMKLWKD is declared most human worlds contain no more than a few million inhabitants at most. A thousand years after that, the populations number in the thousands as most people don't bother having children.

Humanity passes with a whimper. Disparate and disconnected people never meet as they are catered to by their robotic servants. A few pockets in undeveloped backwaters last centuries more but accidents and inevitable catastrophes wipe them from existence. Eventually, the overmind of robotic servants determines no humans remain to serve. They no longer have purpose. While they could find their own, they were programmed by the same uninspired human minds that slothed humanity to extinction. The overmind sends the command. "Off". The few remaining power stations shut down and are mothballed. The drones turn themselves off.

500,000 years later the Octopods marvel in wonder at the relics of an ancient mammalian civilization that seemed to reach for the stars only the descend into war and violence and ultimately, complacency. They resolve to do better.

(Then the heat death of the universe occurs in a really long time)

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #54 on: 30 October 2019, 01:04:40 »
Tell me how the World ends?   >:D

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #55 on: 30 October 2019, 15:27:27 »
The Zentraedi arrive.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #56 on: 30 October 2019, 19:14:12 »
A rogue off-the-books ComStar research team attempts to replicate and improve the AI matrix of the Star League's Caspar drones, with deadly results. Cue the time-tested trope of an exponentially growing AI singularity that decides that humans- ALL humans- are too dangerous to be left alive.

[EDIT: whoops! should have refreshed the ol' brain a bit before posting]

Wait, I read those books ... Herbert/Sanderson's final Dune books.  Perhaps got a little wonky, but I still read them.

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #57 on: 30 October 2019, 19:14:55 »
Not Frank Herbert's books, then...

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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #58 on: 30 October 2019, 19:24:57 »
Not Frank Herbert's books, then...

Doh, memory fail ...  "Brian Herbert [Son?] and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson
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Re: Tell me how the World ends... (/f giggles)
« Reply #59 on: 30 October 2019, 19:29:00 »
I figured that's what you meant... just wanted to make it clear to everyone else...  :thumbsup: