YOU in a fictional universe

Premier · Nov 20th 2003, 8:40am

Let's suppose that tomorrow morning you wake up to find a COTOR in your bedroom who offers you a once-in-a-lifetime deal. You are given the option of being transported into a any fictional universe (with some restrictions) and starting a new life there. If you agree, you must abide by the following terms of the End User Cross-Universe Transfer Agreement:

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- The universe of your choice must have been published in the past as a movie, book, radioplay, computer game, boardgame or anything like that.

- The universe cannot be your own creation, even if it has been published before.

- The universe must be decidedly different from real life 21st century Earth. Star Wars, Middle Earth, or WH40k qualifies, but the world of Tom Clancy novels doesn't.

- You get to select the exact place and time in the universe to be transported to. However, you cannot choose your appearance in such a way that it would interfere with major historical events.

- You will appear in your chosen universe in the same physical and mental state as you are now. You will have no possessions except for a few sets of inconspicuous clothing and enough local currency to provide you with a modest living for three months without work. A few special exceptions to this limitation apply, as described below:

- If you are going with a clear career idea, you will be given whatever you need to get started. For example, if you want to be a merchant, you get enough money to start a small business. If you want to join some sort of armed forces, your physical abilities will be augmented to the level you need in order to be enlisted.

- In places and times which see heavy use of birth certificates, personal IDs, social security etc., you will be given a fake background.

- You will be given enough knowledge about your new home to make you an averagely well-informed citizen. This includes languages, knowledge of politics and matters of the day, a practical understanding of technology in a sci-fi world, etc.

- Any knowledge you bring with you which would be out-of-place will be hypnoticallyy blocked. You will retain the knowledge, but you will be unable to talk or write about it to anyone. For example, if you know how to make gunpowder and you go to a medieval fantasy world, you will still be able to make gunpowder given the proper ingredients, but you won't be able to teach it to anyone or write the method down.

- Oh, and it's a one-way trip. No coming back. And you can't take anyone else with you, either.

The obvious question is: Where and when would you go, and what would you do there?

Rah · Nov 20th 2003, 8:59am

Culture of course.

Dev Null · Nov 20th 2003, 9:09am

WoD I want to see the apocalypse

Captain Orsai · Nov 20th 2003, 9:26am

Probably the Honorverse; join the Mantie navy or Marines.

Timeframe would be most likely around six months before On Basilisk Station.

Tarquinn · Nov 20th 2003, 9:27am

Star Trek Earth, about 5 years after the end of the Dominion War.
No, make that Risa.

And as job... I'll try to become a holodeck-novel tester. Free fun.
Of course with my knowledge of the ST universe, I won't test a new novel without a personal shield generator, a strong communicator, a personal transporter device and a medkit. Oh, and a phaser.

Bishop Gantry · Nov 20th 2003, 9:32am

Fallout verse

TCO · Nov 20th 2003, 9:37am

Star trek, after Dom War.
Risa
With a couple of hundred of those little fertility statues

Eagle One · Nov 20th 2003, 9:46am

I would choose to be in the Buffy/Angel universe. Occupation: Faith's love slave.

Seth · Nov 20th 2003, 10:32am

The Culture of course...it would let me do what I've always wanted to...be in the Culture and bitching about it.

BR48 · Nov 20th 2003, 11:00am

The Culture. Risa is nothing compared to the life of an average Culture citizen.

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The Culture of course...it would let me do what I've always wanted to...be in the Culture and bitching about it.

Just be careful not to talk that way in front of a Mind. It would probably just point out several thousand reasons for you to stop bitching (the first one being "You don't have to stay here").

Bishop Gantry · Nov 20th 2003, 11:50am

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The Culture of course...it would let me do what I've always wanted to...be in the Culture and bitching about it.

effectorized and gridfired all in the same day, must be a new record

Styxx · Nov 20th 2003, 11:58am

Actually, in the Culture you have the right to bitch about it all you want.

***Tron*** · Nov 20th 2003, 12:03pm

Honorverse, as a member of the Nobility, party affiliation would be The Crown Loyalists. I would also probably be a member of the RMN.

Time period, right after War of Honor. I would lead the battle to have the previous coalition government declared traitors and sentenced to death for treason against the crown.

Denix Linelli · Nov 20th 2003, 12:04pm

The Culture.

Like there was any question about it.

Karazor · Nov 20th 2003, 12:25pm

5th Imperium.

Nameless · Nov 20th 2003, 1:20pm

Hmmm the fallout universes is pretty cool though a tad dangerous Could be fun if I could Join the BOS and fight robots in power armor and stuff still The life span is short and the life pretty savage and would get old fast.

So realistically the culture Duh.

Mellian · Nov 20th 2003, 1:29pm

startrek verse, soon after nemesis, as a captain.....of course, only if i can re-negotiate the second last clause

...or on enterprise-d during the first season.

wouldn't Q notice that i not of trek verse? :P

-mellian

Nameless · Nov 20th 2003, 1:33pm

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Originally Posted by Mellian

startrek verse, soon after nemesis, as a captain.....of course, only if i can re-negotiate the second last clause

...or on enterprise-d during the first season.

wouldn't Q notice that i not of trek verse? :P

-mellian

Would he care maybe you would provide some amusement when compared to the stiffs that occupy the place.

Tyrael · Nov 20th 2003, 2:06pm

Vandread, on the Dread team with Meia, the start of the series.

Aiyel · Nov 20th 2003, 2:57pm

The second part of the last clause has got to go. If I go, five other people are coming with me. (My girlfriend and four closest friends.) If it helps, they'd all come willingly. (We've actually promised each other that if something like this were possible, we wouldn't go without bringing the others along.)

And the universe in question would most likely be Star Wars, Slayersverse, or Honorverse.

If in Star Wars, it'd be during the golden age of the Republic, roughly two generations before the events of Episode 1. Occupation would be independent freighter pilot (With my friends being my crew.)

In Slayers, I'd enter three years or so before the Slayers Motion Picture. No interest in interfering with events. Oh, and I'd be a wandering priest or a Shamanist Mage.

In Honorverse, I'd likely be a native of Sphinx ir Gryphon, again, operating an independent light warship which would offer its services to freighters passing through pirate-infested territory (Silesia.) A 'Cat would be cool, but I don't need one.

Shinji · Nov 20th 2003, 3:18pm

Either

Eva-verse - Just take a wild guess.... Come on.... I'm waiting.... Anyone?
Evangelion Pilot, Sometime before Asuka makes her first appearance...

or

40k!

Either a citizen of one of the many worlds under the Ultramar banner... Or (even better) An Ultramarine myself! Dark Age of Technology or Right after EOT campaign, Thank you very much

SilentWasteland · Nov 20th 2003, 3:25pm

Honorverse, Manty BattleCruiser Commander. Shortly after War of Honor. First thing, visit Sphinx and hope I get adopted. If not, head to Grayson, become a Harrington Armsman, and get to see the most prominent 'cats in history. And hopefully meet Nimitz.

Triumviron · Nov 20th 2003, 3:54pm

Apperantly the Culture is the place to be so I choose that.

And if not that, Star Trek after Nemesis. Give me a Holodeck, a replicator and a power supply and I'll be happy.

And if not that, I will become a Technomage, Galen level of course.

Zeronet · Nov 20th 2003, 4:00pm

Some nice Culture Orbital, after the big war, like it was hard to choose that universe.

In theory, the culture have the tech to recreate any other universes for me to enjoy myself in.

Pdixie · Nov 20th 2003, 4:52pm

Star Wars, probably just after the Clone Wars. I'd be a freighter pilot who makes itinerant stops at Zeltros and Ryloth (Twi Lek Homeworld).

Nov 20th 2003, 8:59am	#2
Rah Stranger Here Myself Join Date: 3 Jul 2003 Location: GCU Reasonable Aimless Hobby Posts: 2,778	Culture of course. __________________ Cmdr RayCav: "Oh, you haven't seen crybaby yet fucktard."

Nov 20th 2003, 9:09am	#3
Dev Null Registered Join Date: 25 Aug 2001 Location: Ye Olde Englande Posts: 12,792	WoD I want to see the apocalypse __________________ Dev, you secretly give me an immense, Namibia-sized erection every time I think of your naked, sweaty submissive form. -Lord Squishy I shall violate your ass, you plonker! -Lord Squishy

Nov 20th 2003, 9:26am	#4
Captain Orsai Raven Guard Captain Join Date: 9 Dec 2002 Location: Right Behind You Posts: 11,838	Probably the Honorverse; join the Mantie navy or Marines. Timeframe would be most likely around six months before On Basilisk Station. __________________ "These English are a strange people, and their General a wonderful man. They came here in the morning, looked at the pettah wall, walked over it, killed all the garrison, and returned to breakfast! What can withstand them?" - Goklah, Mahratta chieftain, on the escalade of Ahmednuggur, India, by Gen. the Hon. Arthur Wellesley's army, 8 Aug. 1803 "Show me a general who has made no mistakes and you speak of a general who has seldom waged war." - Marshal Turenne, 1641

Nov 20th 2003, 9:27am	#5
Tarquinn Custom User Title Join Date: 30 Mar 2003 Location: Sol System Posts: 4,121	Star Trek Earth, about 5 years after the end of the Dominion War. No, make that Risa. And as job... I'll try to become a holodeck-novel tester. Free fun. Of course with my knowledge of the ST universe, I won't test a new novel without a personal shield generator, a strong communicator, a personal transporter device and a medkit. Oh, and a phaser. __________________ ~Never underestimate the powers of a Dark Clown

Nov 20th 2003, 9:32am	#6
Bishop Gantry General Edmund Duke Join Date: 18 Dec 2001 Location: Finland Posts: 18,773	Fallout verse __________________ Heavy Metal War Addictive little transformers game Ashworld Addictive little Fallout game !!!Politically Incorrect!!! Waterworld - I know people love to hate this movie, but I dug it like a backhoe -RocketGirl Napalm. Straight up the ass. -RocketGirl

Nov 20th 2003, 9:37am	#7
TCO Fleet Admiral Join Date: 31 Jul 2003 Location: Onboard the USS Celestial Virtue, commanding the 11th Fleet. Posts: 1,100	Star trek, after Dom War. Risa With a couple of hundred of those little fertility statues __________________ Become a commander in my army!

Nov 20th 2003, 9:46am	#8
Eagle One Giggity Commodore Join Date: 25 May 2000 Posts: 11,575	I would choose to be in the Buffy/Angel universe. Occupation: Faith's love slave. __________________ *"A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick."* - Lycurgus

Nov 20th 2003, 10:32am	#9
Seth Ian astaslem Join Date: 7 Aug 2000 Posts: 9,089	The Culture of course...it would let me do what I've always wanted to...be in the Culture and bitching about it. __________________ Spacebattles has finally achieved its long-term goal. It is not like SD.Net, because SD.Net bans its idiots. In conclusion, Spacebattles must be purged. "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -Soren Kierkegaard

Nov 20th 2003, 11:58am	#12
Styxx Hopeful Skeptic Join Date: 12 Mar 2001 Location: República Riograndense Posts: 4,641	Actually, in the Culture you have the right to bitch about it all you want. __________________ In the post-apocalyptic future, spacebattlers will stand around a great field of dirt, scratching their posts into the soil with sticks, noone actually talking to each other. -- Wolfius

Nov 20th 2003, 12:03pm	#13
*Tron* Defender of the Realm Vice Admiral Administratum Join Date: 3 Oct 1999 Location: Between the Candle and the Star Posts: 67,056	Honorverse, as a member of the Nobility, party affiliation would be The Crown Loyalists. I would also probably be a member of the RMN. Time period, right after War of Honor. I would lead the battle to have the previous coalition government declared traitors and sentenced to death for treason against the crown. __________________ Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --WOW -- What A Ride! I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everthing.-G'Kar Spacebattles forum Administrator.(Semi-retired)

Nov 20th 2003, 12:04pm	#14
Denix Linelli Forbidden Anamnesis Join Date: 17 Dec 2000 Location: Edge of Nowhere Posts: 4,550	The Culture. Like there was any question about it. __________________ Anything can be made better by adding some beam cannons.5 char Any sufficiently advanced system of magic is indistinguishable from technology.

Nov 20th 2003, 12:25pm	#15
Karazor The Monkey Underground Join Date: 12 May 2002 Location: The Kingdom of the Blind Posts: 2,937	5th Imperium. __________________ "Since nothing is more irritating than a hero defeating you with basic math skills, all of my personal weapons will be modified to fire one more shot than the standard issue." -Evil Overlord List, # 120 ""A masterpiece of the cowboy/carnivorous worm people genre." -from the FEARnet summary of The Burrowers "And really, being able to shoot bees from your hands, while cool, wouldn't help against an angry sentient lobster." Cpl_Facehugger

Nov 20th 2003, 1:20pm	#16
Nameless Quiet school girl fan Join Date: 5 Jul 2003 Location: Reading in a corner Posts: 5,351	Hmmm the fallout universes is pretty cool though a tad dangerous Could be fun if I could Join the BOS and fight robots in power armor and stuff still The life span is short and the life pretty savage and would get old fast. So realistically the culture Duh.

Nov 20th 2003, 1:29pm	#17
Mellian Registered Goddess Join Date: 21 May 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Posts: 16,403	startrek verse, soon after nemesis, as a captain.....of course, only if i can re-negotiate the second last clause ...or on enterprise-d during the first season. wouldn't Q notice that i not of trek verse? :P -mellian __________________ What is Roller Derby?

Nov 20th 2003, 2:06pm	#19
Tyrael This is fear Join Date: 18 Nov 2003 Location: College Posts: 6,261	Vandread, on the Dread team with Meia, the start of the series.

Nov 20th 2003, 2:57pm	#20
Aiyel Space Communist Join Date: 6 Feb 2002 Location: Nowhere near home Posts: 7,687	The second part of the last clause has got to go. If I go, five other people are coming with me. (My girlfriend and four closest friends.) If it helps, they'd all come willingly. (We've actually promised each other that if something like this were possible, we wouldn't go without bringing the others along.) And the universe in question would most likely be Star Wars, Slayersverse, or Honorverse. If in Star Wars, it'd be during the golden age of the Republic, roughly two generations before the events of Episode 1. Occupation would be independent freighter pilot (With my friends being my crew.) In Slayers, I'd enter three years or so before the Slayers Motion Picture. No interest in interfering with events. Oh, and I'd be a wandering priest or a Shamanist Mage. In Honorverse, I'd likely be a native of Sphinx ir Gryphon, again, operating an independent light warship which would offer its services to freighters passing through pirate-infested territory (Silesia.) A 'Cat would be cool, but I don't need one. __________________ ..because, well, there's this guy. He's piloting the other ship. And he's called the Enemy. You can tell he's the Enemy because he's the one who isn't cooperating with your plan. -Ken Burnside, of Ad Astra Games Team Yuuno.

Nov 20th 2003, 3:18pm	#21
Shinji Spiral WH40K Strike Force member Join Date: 26 Sep 2002 Location: Toronto. Phallus capital of Canada. Posts: 3,179	Either Eva-verse - Just take a wild guess.... Come on.... I'm waiting.... Anyone? Evangelion Pilot, Sometime before Asuka makes her first appearance... or 40k! Either a citizen of one of the many worlds under the Ultramar banner... Or (even better) An Ultramarine myself! Dark Age of Technology or Right after EOT campaign, Thank you very much __________________ Lamenter Captain: Sir! We found a cache of plasma weaponry! Praise the Emperor! Numerous explosions and screams- Lord Azrael I am Shinji Ikari, Pilot of Evangelion Unit-01, FOUNDER of NERVI am Castellan Ikari of the Space Battler Strike Force

Nov 20th 2003, 3:25pm	#22
SilentWasteland Gaming Geek Otaku Join Date: 17 Mar 2002 Location: Southbury, CT Posts: 4,687	Honorverse, Manty BattleCruiser Commander. Shortly after War of Honor. First thing, visit Sphinx and hope I get adopted. If not, head to Grayson, become a Harrington Armsman, and get to see the most prominent 'cats in history. And hopefully meet Nimitz. __________________ "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." - Lord Peter Wimsey "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth." - Alfonse Elric, FullMetal Alchemist

Nov 20th 2003, 3:54pm	#23
Triumviron Aspect of Neutrality Join Date: 21 Aug 2003 Location: Beyond the Rim... Posts: 1,506	Apperantly the Culture is the place to be so I choose that. And if not that, Star Trek after Nemesis. Give me a Holodeck, a replicator and a power supply and I'll be happy. And if not that, I will become a Technomage, Galen level of course. __________________ "MMM mmm! Nothing sure beats the taste of fresh cock" - Shinji You can't just put the dirty clothes in a pile, light a match, and hope that God takes care of the rest. That did not give me clean laundry, that just gave me a courtdate for attempted arson. I am Triumviron - Warlord of the Resisty.

Nov 20th 2003, 4:52pm	#25
Pdixie el presidente Join Date: 30 Mar 2003 Location: hitting the outer rings Posts: 4,266	Star Wars, probably just after the Clone Wars. I'd be a freighter pilot who makes itinerant stops at Zeltros and Ryloth (Twi Lek Homeworld). __________________ I am the Mouth of Pdixie; hear him speak.

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