Re: Still out there?

" Hello?  Is this list still active?  I haven't seen anything from it in
a
while."

I still want to build a Homeworld-like computer game with fantasy ships.
But since Atari owns all the computer game rights to D&D settings,
there's no chance of me making a Spelljammer mass combat game. I have
since decided to create my own fantasy space universe and don't really
do much with Spelljammer anymore. It's a home brew design from the
setting to the rules used. I've even got my own copyright on the
material. :)

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[mailto:SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com] On Behalf Of Danton May
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:28 AM
To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] Still out there?

Hello?  Is this list still active?  I haven't seen anything from it in a
while.  So tell me, where do you think illithids originated?  I was
reading
in the illithiad, and it suggests they came form outside the space-time
continuum.  I'm thinking of renaming them the "Children of Cthulu" in my
spelljamming campaign, and saying they come form an alternate universe
and
are actually several races - mindflayers, korpu, and another one I made
up.
They are all related because they were spawned by Cthulu, which is from
an
indescribable universe or dimension.

The speljammer galaxy I have made was never really touched by the
inhuman
wars, but was torn by a huge war called the Illithid War, so the
illithids
are major players here.  Them and elves.  The elves came into the galaxy
only at the tail end of the Illithid Wars, and luckily for them the gith
revolted a few thousand years after they entered the war and this broke
the
illithid empire.  Now the elves are a major power, but they are
ultra-paranoid and hunt or guard the illithids zealously wherever they
are
known to exist.

There is even a star system with a ruined penumbra in it.  Instead of
the
penumbra being a singular entity, as it was in the illithid adventures,
there were at least three knwon ones existing, and maybe more.  You have
to
understand how huge the illithid empire was.  It didn't just span
galaxies,
it spanned planes of existence, universes, and dimensions.  One of the
penumbras was in my galaxy, draining a star.  When the star was drained,
it
could phase shift to another star system, where it would drain it's star
over several hundred years.  All the penumbras were like this, but it
took
them hundreds of years to drain a star, and they needed the fuel of a
drained star to phase shift to another star system.

Near the end of the illithid war, the elves and dragons united and
attacked
the penumbra in my galaxy, and shattered it, breaking the illithid's
power
and presence in the galaxy.  Chased by the elves, dragons, and the gith,
they fled and only held on in various worlds they had colonized or that
they
crash-landed on.

Well, I just put that all out to start conversation and see if this list
is
still alive.  Let me know what you think.  That AstroSynthesis program
by
NBOS rules, I've been putting my galaxy together with it, and it's
turning
out pretty kewl.  Got the head almost finished, with all the elven and
illithid strongholds in it.  I'm ready for more war!

- Coyote, the Desert Dog

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