Alternate History Two Settings that just click. Crossover Edition.

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I mean that's very much intentional. SS13 cribs its aesthetic hard from the sci-fi action thriller genre. I mean for fuck's sake it has xenomorphs lifted entirely into the game.

That said yeah, which settings SS13 fits in depends on the server you're talking about. I could see your Aurorastations, for instance, fitting in well with the Alien franchise, while something closer to the Paradox-Tgstation end of the axis does (or did, in tg's case, its' fallen far over the years) would be closer to a show like red dwarf.

Baystation needs a character driven docuseries to crossover because nothing ever happens on Baystation.
 

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Wonder how well Farscape would fit... being on the other side of the galaxy and Sebaceans and other basic Humans on the other side of the galaxy apparently being descendent from Humans and all that jazz. It could be ported into a lot of settings, especially with a Humans taken from Earth a long time ago theme that other settings also have.
 

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Could you expand on this? Not too familiar with Killzone.
For the games themselves, a colony founded on the Planet Helghan invades the older colony Vekta. The Helghan used to own Vekta until a trade tarif dispute resulted in the first Helghan War which resulted in the displacement of the Helghast and the recolonization of Vekta. The Helghast reenarmed and launched an invasion. That's where the first game starts.
Part 2 is about the counter-invasion of Helghan, which ends with the assassination of their leader. Which is bad because the leadership of Vekta wanted to capture him alive. Part 3 deals with the fallout of the assassination. Around the middle of the story in Part 3, the leadership of Vekta surrenders, with the player characters refusing to aknowledge these orders. The game ends with the protagonists accidentally detonating a bomb over Helghan that destroys all organic life on the planet.

There's a fourth game called Killzone: Shadow Fall, where Vekta concessed half of their planet to the Helghast as part of their peace treaty. You play as a black ops agent, trying to stop a genocide that your superior engineered.

There's a lot more details to the games, the backstory is fairly expansive, but this is as short as I can explain it.
 

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Well a variation of the 40K "Crusade" concept of going out and reuniting lost colonies could be fun. Because there's apparently a lot of them

- Stargate: Where the Goa'uld took and tossed about Humans everywhere for the past ten thousand years. Plus the Ancients were around on Earth several million years before that having emigrated from the Alteran/Ori Home Galaxy (a separate evolution of Humanity). Plus the deportation of more Humans/Ancients to other galaxies like Pegasus. And the original movie where they were shipped to the Triangulum galaxy by Ra.

- Firefly: Pretty self explanatory.

- Independence War/Colony Wars/Wing Commander etc: Lots of storylines of Humans on the outer rims of civilization having independence movements.

- Starcraft: Shipping prisoners to the Koprulu Sector!

- Gears of War: Did it ever explain the whole Sera origin story? AFAIK it's simply the homeworld of Humanity in that series and they somehow missed the whole Locust thing underneath it all.

- Farscape: Sebaceans being genetically modified Humans existed on the other side of the galaxy.

- nBattlestar Galactica: Humanity apparently evolved on Kobol 4000 years prior to the 'Fall of the Twelve Colonies' lore and this preceded them find our Earth some untold number (probably thousands of years prior) to our backhistory. But could be adapted to being something less stupid. :LOL:

But there are a lot of settings with murky planet origin stories and yet have Humans on the planet. Like even Final Fantasy VII had a storyline of Humans (and Ancients) descending from space travellers.
 

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Wonder how well Farscape would fit... being on the other side of the galaxy and Sebaceans and other basic Humans on the other side of the galaxy apparently being descendent from Humans and all that jazz. It could be ported into a lot of settings, especially with a Humans taken from Earth a long time ago theme that other settings also have.

Stargate in Particular. Infact Stargate is absolutely perfect setting for Farscape. Galaxy is a big place after all.
 

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But there are a lot of settings with murky planet origin stories and yet have Humans on the planet. Like even Final Fantasy VII had a storyline of Humans (and Ancients) descending from space travellers.

The Cetra being the Ancients version of Tree Hugging Hippies. There is a lot of their backstory compatible with Stargate.

nBattlestar Galactica: Humanity apparently evolved on Kobol 4000 years prior to the 'Fall of the Twelve Colonies' lore and this preceded them find our Earth some untold number (probably thousands of years prior) to our backhistory. But could be adapted to being something less stupid. :LOL:

NBSG and Stargate are very compatible.
 

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Could you expand on this? Not too familiar with Killzone.


WW3 happens and the various nations and coroporations still standing band togeather to send out colonization fleets. A number of these are lost (some in suspicious circumstances) with no further contact recieved in some cases but some succeed. 1 of the lost ones could easily be the 12 colonies

Approx 256 years later the events of KZ1,2 & 3 take place where the only 2 habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system go to war for various reasons.

Looking at the wider verse Earth has the only proper fleet. They take a very much hands off approach to their colonies. As long as they provide the materials Earth needs to survive they pretty much self govern. Earth is never really expanded on much but its supposed to be way above everyone else in tech and military power.

All the other colonies (Vekta being the richest) having only orbital defense stations if they can afford to build them. Helghans fleet in KZ1 was repurposed colony ships and in the further games the new ships ( around 250-300 metres) are primarily for transport (troops, tanks etc )and close air& ortilary fire support. From KZ2 on Vekta's ships (built only for the counter invasion in KZ2 and around 700+ metres long) ) were impressive in that they built so many in 1 year but even in verse were acknowledged as knocked togeather. They like the Helghan ships of KZ2 are troop transports and fire support ships but they do massively out range Helghan ships due to their Snow missles.
Theres no widespread use of fighters in space combat (mostly because thirs no need I presume) The only space fighters we see also double as you guessed it transports. I think they hold about 10 troops IIRC.

Weapons wise they use mostly conventional firearms and missles etc with some exceptions. The Vektan cruiser main engine doubles as a massive nuclear laser, the Helghast stole a Vektan neutron bomb, and spec ops especially in the later games have accesss to variable power rail guns. Whilst the Helghast have Petrusite (crazy space magic mineral native to their planet). The .ore exotic weapons are fitted to ships and massive mechs mainly.

Defence wise cloaks are standatd on snipers and high end troops. Ships can have shields and energy absorbant armour.

FTL (warp jump) is around 108 ly per hour and they have real time comms accross the system.
 

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Stargate in Particular. Infact Stargate is absolutely perfect setting for Farscape. Galaxy is a big place after all.
Peacekeepers finally arrive at Earth to put the primitives in their place only to run into 2016 Stargate humanity who did disclosure last year and have a fleet of 2 salvaged and then refited Auroras, 30 captured and then refited Ha'taks and 20 BC304s
 
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System Shock can segue into Firefly pretty well. Note: Massive spoilers for System Shock 2 ahead, unmarked.








After SHODAN attained godhood at the end of SS2, she wound up returning to Earth and wrecking the place as she usually does. That's why it's Earth that Was now. They don't use FTL and the secret to it was buried reallllllly freakin' deep after it turned SHODAN into a goddess. The Reapers happened because some idiot thought they could work with SHODAN's mutation experiments. River Tam is the result of somebody playing with her psionic research. Very fortunately nobody's been stupid enough to open the literal can of worms that are SHODAN's annelids... yet.

As for SHODAN herself she died on Earth after both inflicting and taking enough damage to destroy a planet... right? There's not yet another horrifying backup of her Primary Data Loop she stashed somewhere obscure waiting for an unfortunate hacker to open it so she can start ruining mankind's everything again, right?

Right?
 

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Stargate and A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones -someone dumped humans on a distant world and the Others were a scientific experiment designed to test humans gone horribly wrong.

Maybe that would work with Babylon 5 and the First Ones leaving shit around but not nearly as well. I don't know if there are many B5 crossovers TBH...
 

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Stargate and A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones -someone dumped humans on a distant world and the Others were a scientific experiment designed to test humans gone horribly wrong.

Maybe that would work with Babylon 5 and the First Ones leaving shit around but not nearly as well. I don't know if there are many B5 crossovers TBH...

*Nods*

Could work.
 

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The Cetra being the Ancients version of Tree Hugging Hippies. There is a lot of their backstory compatible with Stargate.

Plus with Mako and Materia being 'contained' on that planet would make it easier to port to other settings since it only requires a magic system consistent with that specific planet instead of having to apply said magic system to the universe at large.
 

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Plus with Mako and Materia being 'contained' on that planet would make it easier to port to other settings since it only requires a magic system consistent with that specific planet instead of having to apply said magic system to the universe at large.

The Materia magic system is absolutely amazing. I'm inclined to believe that it can function anywhere in any setting and not take away from established magical settings and rules. Or quickly establish one if there isn't one, for settings like Stargate.
 

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Anyone got any suggestions on settings that would be compatible with the insanity of Warhammer 40k? :p
 

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Resistance: Fall of man with wolfenstein, the Nazi coming into power would butterflied away, but the secret Jewish sect with somewhat advanced tech(though how much would be left after the Chimera blitzkrieg is up in the air) is still around, as well as blaskowitz and co.
Resistance FoM and Mass effect, it could simply be the usual Alternate Humanity, or something like a council expedition getting lost and crash landing on Earth, perhaps between the fall of Europe and the invasion of Britain.

As a Matter of fact, I am just sad there are so few Resistance fic, I quite like the setting, even if a lot of stuff need to be changed to make it really good story wise.
 

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Anyone got any suggestions on settings that would be compatible with the insanity of Warhammer 40k? :p
Exalted. The warp and the Wyld are a pretty good match for each other, and it sets up a nice rock-paper-scissors where Exalted beat warp pushittery, which defeats mortals with more dakka, which defeat exalts. Though that last one can be by pretty slim margins.
 

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nBSG and Freespace game series.
The Shivans are the ultimate form of berserkers that continue the cycle and for those manage to escape comes up with a universal term: 'All this has happened before, and all this will happen again'. Earth Fell, and the remnants of humanity escaped to Kobol.
 

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