[UA] Rebirth, Pulp Fiction, Cosmology

[Liam Astley]

From: "Dylan Craig" <wytchfynder at hotmail.com>
Subject: [UA] Rebirth, Pulp Fiction, Cosmology


>So, the universe, and its cycle of karmic rebirth, is some kind of
repeating
>machine, set up by force or forces unknown the go through this cycle until
a
>state of pure entropy or pure order is reached. To what end? The characters
will
>never know. Maybe it's God's kid's science project.

in the campaign i was going to run (and still will if i get the chance) i
was running with an idea i nicked out of warren ellis' comic Planetary.
basically each iteration of the universe is just a computation in some
unimaginably vast extradimensional "machine" (which some people would
consider to be god). the makeup of the IC before reboot is the result of
that computation. after a certain number of iterations the machine will have
worked out whatever equation it started out with.
i was playing with the idea of the characters eventually discovering this,
and also finding out that our current world is the final computation. so not
only is the universe about to reboot, but there'll be no new universe
afterwards.


liam


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