The Mirror Universe

[Condottiere]

Impersonate your mirrored counterpart?

 

[whartung]

The trouble comes from being in an unregistered ship (3I registration is irrelevant) with no money (Credits are just Monopoly^TM money) and absolutely no understanding of the local culture. And obtaining gainful employment with your skills could be severely complicated by the lack of recognized credentials (depending on how close you want to play the "mirror" aspect, they might well seem to be forged documents from institutions that have mirror-universe counterparts).

Well, that IS the game, honestly. Once you manage to "solve" the ship and money problem, it's "easy".

Of course in Star Trek, the characters come from a position of power (Kirk is the Captain, after all), it's just far easier for him to lose that power (i.e. get killed) and he doesn't have the autonomy that he's used too.

Depending on the state of the society, being undocumented may or may not be a problem. Do they land in 1960's Mephis, or 1960's East Berlin -- different problems entirely.

If they can solve the documentation issue, then the rest is, as they say, "just work" unless they keep running up against the authorities. (Imperium with a bit of Paranoia, perhaps?)

 

[Werner]

Well, that IS the game, honestly. Once you manage to "solve" the ship and money problem, it's "easy".

Of course in Star Trek, the characters come from a position of power (Kirk is the Captain, after all), it's just far easier for him to lose that power (i.e. get killed) and he doesn't have the autonomy that he's used too.

Depending on the state of the society, being undocumented may or may not be a problem. Do they land in 1960's Mephis, or 1960's East Berlin -- different problems entirely.

If they can solve the documentation issue, then the rest is, as they say, "just work" unless they keep running up against the authorities. (Imperium with a bit of Paranoia, perhaps?)

The way I had this mirror Universe going, it is like a futuristic 1984, so the mirror Imperium is simply called "The State" it is a socialistic dystopia, because it is over 11,000 worlds and there is no FTL communication, it is not as tightly controlled as many such totalitarian societies are, the level of oppression varies from world to world, there is a slow burning rebellion going on that the State has not been quite able to stamp out, it has done so more successfully in some systems than in others. The General Secretary Stephron is forced to rely on his subordinates to govern each individual system, so he doesn't have as much control over the State as he would like, he has been doing some reseach with long range telepathy without much success.

Rebellions have a tendency to get going, and it takes a matter of weeks for State Security forces to quell the insurrection, and by that time most of the rebels have scattered. The rebels are of course the mirror Universe versions of pirates afflicting the OTU, and they do like to steal things, and it's all for a good cause they say.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

You misunderstand the true nature of the multiverse. If you are looking at it from just a light/dark perspective...,

The OTU:
Deepnight Revelation
The Empress Wave
The Esseray
Rebellion
Virus and The Gods of Thunder
Yaskodray vs No. 6

The Lorenverse aka the ATU:
The Empress Wave is coming (as has been discussed elsewhere) :smirk:
No Rebellion
No Virus


What other horrors does the ATU not have? Is the true nature of the multiverse dark and the mirrors lighter? :xh:

 

[Grav_Moped]

You misunderstand the true nature of the multiverse. If you are looking at it from just a light/dark perspective...,
...
What other horrors does the ATU not have? Is the true nature of the multiverse dark and the mirrors lighter? :xh:

That's kind of where I was coming from in all this.

The OTU is the mirror, and the PCs might just be the bad guys in this episode...

:coffeegulp:

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Let's see, if we REALLY want to invert our history. :coffeegulp: I stole this idea from the Enterprise Mirror-Universe two-parter. :devil:

In the early 22nd Century, the slowly expanding Vilani Confederation of Worlds encounters another "lost" human civilization. The third planet, in the habitable zone, showed a large amount of organized EM transmissions, implying at least a Tech 5 cvilization. The usual First Contact teams were being assembled, protocols would be drawn using centuries of peaceful experience but tailored to this new culture.

Unfortunately for the Vilani ship it exited by the fourth planet, right into the Chinese Restricted Airspace Zone As it flew through the minefield, a 100 megaton "Can Opener Class" mine-missile activated and struck the exploration ship, breaking open the fuel tanks. The J2 ship was normally capable of 4 parsecs but half had been used to get here and the damage left it incapable of return without patching and wilderness refueling. The 5th planet was a gas giant. Repairs would be made en-route.

To be continued....