#post humanity

In particular, I just updated it with more info concerning possible encounters! (Mostly other animals, but you may get jackalweres, undead dogs or werebear/boar/rat/wolf dogs as well)

This homebrew includes:

Overhauled Race/Species system: dogs are classified into 8 "Breed Groups" based on the AKC's classifications (although the Hound group is split into Sight Hounds and Scent Hounds; and non-AKC-recognized breeds are allowed to be used), specific breeds can get their own Traits aside from the Breed Group-wide ones. Foxes, Cats and Wolves are also available to play.

Specific Mixes: allows you to mix up to 4 dog breeds (including wolves) and get any combination of 4 Traits from them

There was little hope for Earth even before Genizix arrived. It was in the middle of a climate crisis, one which had already caused irreversible damage. Humanity would not have survived for much longer.

I mentioned tipping points in another post - here's an excerpt from a Wikipedia article that explains it well. Vivere 44 is fictional, but the possibility of this happening is very real.

As for how common this is throughout the universe, it has definitely happened before to extraterrestrial civilizations. In the Zhagaviit solar system, where the beginning of the story is set, there are strict regulations on climate management. The Wider Galactic Community keeps a close eye on all registered planets in order to prevent disasters.

Unfortunately, no. I imagine that they would have tried at some point, but failed.

Once a human consciousness enters a mass of cyber-particles (note that at least 1 million particles are required to host a mind) it is impossible to separate or extract them. The consciousness is permanently bonded. The particles cannot be replaced, as doing so would mean leaving the ones you were originally in.

The new generations of post humans are already 'born' into their particles. The first generation had to undergo a difficult and lengthy process to inhabit them, but it was still possible, as their minds didn't have hosts.

The Younger World Story, (Humanity) is a combination of:

1.The Timelords's acceptance of the humans jingoistic enemy origin belief, (from the City of the Saved).

2.The obversation that the enemy uses, (perhaps a network of) alt time structures on Earth as bases, (eg: The Mammoth city remains and the Guantlet observation post).

3.The Homo Imago concept, (which they saw as a threat anyway) is the closet thing they have to an explanation/analogous of the enemy's abilities, (eg: The President's Head).

So The Younger World Story is an enemy theory cobbled together from: fears, observations, and attempted matching. It's accepted amongst Timelords unchallenged because it fights both the beliefs and the known facts and no Timelord is creative enough to think of another.

The library is staffed by a single Bearded Vulture, who remains nameless, as part of a religious ceremony.

It contains several as-complete-as-possible archives of the internet, each of which is scanned for Runes. The bearded vulture checks for these runes, and tests them for various effects. Thanks to slang, linguistic drift, mispellings and idioms, as well as the fact that human language is alien to most birds, a lot of these runes are hard to understand, let alone find a use for.

Other things found in the library are several computer programs, books on esoteric and religious ideas, and a hollow, where the vulture sleeps.