They aren't, but it makes for some very interesting games if you assume they are.

"I'm too close to use my big guns, right?"
"Yes"
"Do I have line of sight to the enemy pilot?"
"Yes"
"Stunbolt!"

There's supposedly a few buildings there. That maybe Tairngire's beginning of a kaer.

I keep meaning to sit down and adapt the Battletech lifepath to SR but I never get around to it.

-Siege

Well, cyber-ER PPCs anyone? Or rigged Mechs? Kai Allard Liao eat your heart out!

I issue a batchall to Verjigorm for a Trial of Possession for Terra!

The free birth scum of a Horror will taste the full fury of the might of the Clans!

Yeah, it seems people will have to use large robots who fight with horrors and after that recreate a new world.

Just couldn't resist myself

Mankind's only hope against the Horrors...

Yes. Yes, I do hate myself.

And the fun thing is there is a precident for it in Earthdawn.

The only thing I worry about if FAB being corrupted, kid of like the brilliant idea of using a Metal Elemental (they're tough after all). Also, FAB would do a number on dragons, so I can see were they would take steps to not have the world blanketted with it.

We find pleasure in misery of others
Nah, I guess those robots were about 4-5 meters tall, my guess.
Doesn't make them more effective. And not that mechas could be effective ever.

Probably Horrors can't assimilate wards placed against them so easily. It is directly opposed energy, so they must twist it and then eat. Should be long process.

Yes. Massive FAB clouds would destroy the wards used to protect the safe havens.

As someone who actually watched that series (and two of the endings, the nonsense one and the stuff blows up one), those "robots" are more in the range 50-60 meters tall.

Assuming that in 3000 years metahumanity doesn't develop an FAB specifically attuned to Horrors.

This is from a few pages back and sort of on a tangent, but I read that far and had the urge to reply, so forgive me if this has been said already.

I've been reading a lot of hard sci-fi lately, and that seems like a good explanation for the Feynman Paradox. Basically it states that if life arises so easily, and there are so many places in the galaxy for it to do so, and the galaxy is so old, why haven't any alien civilizations spread this far? Think about it. It would only take one race, just one space-faring species with an eye to exploration, and even at sublight speeds they would be covering the galaxy by now. We should see life everywhere. Where are they?

The recurring scourge could explain this, if it's a universe-wide phenomenon. This may not be the 6th age; it may be the 6 millionth age, but we've only been around long enough to be aware of the last 3 cycles. Of course, with typical human arrogance, we assume that we actually matter in any way to the horrors - that they specifically scourge us, on our planet, because we're special.

Just something that popped into my head.

Unlike the Horrors, which don't need arrogance because they are a million times more powerful than anything that could ever be created anywhere in the multiverse?

It certainly might have slowed down the progress of some civilizations. On the other hand, it might only have speeded up the progress of some.

Thanks, I thought people were joking twhen they suggested 3 meter tall EVAs. Surely, I thought, this is a large enough bastion of nerditude that we've all seen Evangelion, right?

I may have to stop reading these threads. All this talk of giant, bizzare, demigodly invaders popping out of nowhere is giving me evil thoughts about implementing SR rules for Eva piloting.

Go ahead and write them, just be sure to include the "accidental assimilation" aspect.

Because the Horrors have already won.

Get a stronger drink.

Guess I missed that memo...