Post by vendile on Feb 5, 2007 13:36:38 GMT
i'm sorry, but i really disagree with you - i still feal that it would be better if, as i have mentioned elsewhere, the ghostberg was fired upon by another hive-berg during the civil-war that has been mentioned in the timeline. The action of actually firing at another berg is what prompted the church to step in and stop the civil-war before it became a bloodbath.
i previously suggested the missile to strike the berg had been a biochem that had destroyed all life, but what if it had just been a nuke that had struck surface-side - completly obliterating all buildings above the waterline and giving off enough radioactivity to badly effect the surviving population below decks - where they became stuck, unable to be helped.
The survivors split into fiercly opposed factions, canabalising those of the 'enemy' that they captured or killed in fighting. Eventually it got to just a state that after a couple centuries all that populated the hive were small "tribes" of vicous mutants more resembling animals than their humans ancestry. All hunting and stalking each other to stay alive.
One plot hook that has already poped into my mind from this is:
After being silent for almost four centuries, all of a sudden the legendary Ghost-berg begins broadcasting a distress becon.
After much arguement within the planets high court (or whatever we decide its called), they finally agree to deploy a platoon of the best men from the PDF on a recon mission, firstly to find out what kind of condition the no-longer radioactive hive-berg was in, but also to attempt to locate the source of the becon.
The platoon are never heard from again after their first night on-board.
At this point an Inquisitor, on the planet for other reasons entirely, decides to take an interest in events...
Perhaps it was just a mutant accidentally activated it?
Or maybe a team of techpriests has managed to survive the dangers of the berg long enough to await the radioactivity to be safe enough to venture topside and activate a becon get let them escape?
Is there an inquisitor of dubious interests trapped on the berg after searching for an "item" he thought would be there? Is it in fact there?
Maybe there are surviving techpriests, but they became mentally effected by the radiation of the isolation, and have now decided that they're mutant friends need new prey...
i previously suggested the missile to strike the berg had been a biochem that had destroyed all life, but what if it had just been a nuke that had struck surface-side - completly obliterating all buildings above the waterline and giving off enough radioactivity to badly effect the surviving population below decks - where they became stuck, unable to be helped.
The survivors split into fiercly opposed factions, canabalising those of the 'enemy' that they captured or killed in fighting. Eventually it got to just a state that after a couple centuries all that populated the hive were small "tribes" of vicous mutants more resembling animals than their humans ancestry. All hunting and stalking each other to stay alive.
One plot hook that has already poped into my mind from this is:
After being silent for almost four centuries, all of a sudden the legendary Ghost-berg begins broadcasting a distress becon.
After much arguement within the planets high court (or whatever we decide its called), they finally agree to deploy a platoon of the best men from the PDF on a recon mission, firstly to find out what kind of condition the no-longer radioactive hive-berg was in, but also to attempt to locate the source of the becon.
The platoon are never heard from again after their first night on-board.
At this point an Inquisitor, on the planet for other reasons entirely, decides to take an interest in events...
Perhaps it was just a mutant accidentally activated it?
Or maybe a team of techpriests has managed to survive the dangers of the berg long enough to await the radioactivity to be safe enough to venture topside and activate a becon get let them escape?
Is there an inquisitor of dubious interests trapped on the berg after searching for an "item" he thought would be there? Is it in fact there?
Maybe there are surviving techpriests, but they became mentally effected by the radiation of the isolation, and have now decided that they're mutant friends need new prey...