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* EvilPoacher: Sunburst poachers are among the most loathed people on a planet with pirates, terrorists, and [=GenDiver=]. Most are heavily armed to defend themselves from angry natives, the Native Patrol, the Wardens, Incorporate security teams, and an orca ecoterrorist group that exists solely to hunt them down.
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* BilingualDialogue: Interspec was developed to make this possible, because cetaceans can't speak human languages. Sonic trodes and vocal synthesis offer a digital workaround, but [[StarfishLanguage even after 150 years this often turn into word salad]].
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* EvilPoacher: Sunburst poachers are among the most loathed people on a planet with pirates, terrorists, and [=GenDiver=]. Most are heavily armed to defend themselves from angry natives, the Native Patrol, the Wardens, Incorporate security teams, and an orca ecoterrorist group that exists solely to hunt them down.
* ExtraEyes: There's no standard number or layout, but ''everything'' that evolved on Poseidon has more than two eyes. Many animals have stripes of eyespots down the sides of their bodies. [[spoiler:So do children born in some places.]]
* ExtraEyes: There's no standard number or layout, but ''everything'' that evolved on Poseidon has more than two eyes. Many animals have stripes of eyespots down the sides of their bodies. [[spoiler:So do children born in some places.]]
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* ManEatingPlant: The entire order ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Carniflora]]''. The dangerous ones don't have flytraps; eating is a fairly involved process of tangling vines, neurotoxic thorns, and [[BodyHorror invasive roots to digest prey from inside]].
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* TheMafiya: The Gorshkov ("Gorchoff" in earlier editions) Family Organization has its fingers in everything from [[FantasticDrugs pharium]] to interstellar human trafficking. They're currently trying to infiltrate Prosperity Station; the GEO knows this, but is waiting to act until they can connect it to a leader on the surface.
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* TheMafiya: The Gorshkov ("Gorchoff" in earlier editions) Family Organization has its fingers in everything from [[FantasticDrugs [[FantasticDrug pharium]] to interstellar human trafficking. They're currently The GEO knows they're trying to infiltrate Prosperity Station; the GEO knows this, Station, but is waiting to act until they can connect it to a leader on the surface.
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* RemoteBodies: Most robots are designed for this, since artificial intelligence has never been achieved. Cetaceans in particular use remotes to work around being marine mammals with no hands.
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* FantasticSlur: Never say "blackfish" where a 30-ton whale can hear you. The only thing more offensive than being called a fish is being confused with the ''other'' species of 30-ton whale.
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* FictionalCurrency: The GEO doesn't have authority to mint money, but each Incorporate state issues scrip pegged to the company stock value; this has left Poseidon with ''ten'' currencies whose exchange rates fluctuate from day to day.
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* FictionalCurrency: The GEO doesn't have authority to mint money, but each Each Incorporate state issues scrip pegged to the company stock value; this has left Poseidon with ''ten'' currencies whose exchange rates fluctuate from day to day.day. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation The rules don't even try to model it.]]
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Blimps. Eel dragons (''A. volatilis'') are actually amphibians, but certainly look the part.
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* KrakenAndLeviathan: The taxonomical name for Poseidon's leviathans is ''P. ignens'', and the key phrase is "exceeding [[SquareCubeLaw what biologists thought were the physiological limits for a multicellular animal]]." Fortunately for for the rest of Poseidon, they live exclusively on a diet of plankton.
* LivingGasbag: Poseidon's apex jellyfish, blimps (''G. fluitarus'') have bodies up to 40 meters long, filled with hydrogen metabolized out of seawater; in warm or sunny weather this lets them drift over the ocean for hours at a time. Blimps are prone to exploding if bitten, exposed to electricity, or poked with a burning stick, and their tentacles have a paralyzing neurotoxin.
* LivingGasbag: Poseidon's apex jellyfish, blimps (''G. fluitarus'') have bodies up to 40 meters long, filled with hydrogen metabolized out of seawater; in warm or sunny weather this lets them drift over the ocean for hours at a time. Blimps are prone to exploding if bitten, exposed to electricity, or poked with a burning stick, and their tentacles have a paralyzing neurotoxin.
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* TheMafiya: The Gorshkov Family. [[spoiler:They're currently trying to infiltrate Prosperity Station.]]
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* TheMafiya: The Gorshkov Family. [[spoiler:They're ("Gorchoff" in earlier editions) Family Organization has its fingers in everything from [[FantasticDrugs pharium]] to interstellar human trafficking. They're currently trying to infiltrate Prosperity Station.]]Station; the GEO knows this, but is waiting to act until they can connect it to a leader on the surface.
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* RemoteBodies: Most robots are designed for this, since artificial intelligence has never been achieved. Cetaceans in particular use remotes to work around being marine mammals with no hands.
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* WretchedHive: Nomad, a [[MobileCity historic native fleet-village]] and collapsed BoomTown. Poseidon's underworld elements use it as a market and neutral ground, and the GEO would rather keep tabs on them than fight them to clean up the place.
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* BenevolentPrecursors: [[spoiler:The nereids call them the Creators; they appear to have seeded life on Poseidon and created the wormhole.]]
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* OrganicTechnology: A ubiquitous part of the setting. In the 23rd century, most plastics are grown coral-style by bioengineered bacteria, and desktop-sized computers use DNA-based memory storage that requires a life-support system. [[spoiler:The Creators used it heavily, including creating nereids also qualify, left behind by [[BenevolentPrecursors the nereids.Creators]] in Poseidon's distant past.]]
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* FesteringFungus: Many species of fungus can get into exposed wounds, leading to fevers, organ inflammation, and brain damage within days. They're collectively called fast fungus, because they also get into the organic parts of equipment (like the ubiquitous bioplastic), which they can ruin in ''hours.''
* LivingGasbag: Poseidon's apex jellyfish, blimps (''G. fluitarus'') have bodies up to 40 meters long, filled with hydrogen metabolized out of seawater; in warm or sunny weather this lets them drift over the ocean for hours at a time. Blimps are prone to exploding if bitten, exposed to electricity, or poked with a burning stick, and their tentacles have a paralyzing neurotoxin.
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* TentacledTerror: Female polypods are territorial and known to reach 30 meters long. A signature hunting strategy is to wait underneath a sargassum raft; when they feel something moving overhead they [[AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage punch their tentacles through the sargassum, grab it, and pull it under]].
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* TentacledTerror: Female polypods Polypods (''M. magnus'') are territorial and known to reach 30 meters long. A signature hunting strategy is to wait underneath a sargassum raft; when they feel something moving overhead they [[AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage punch their tentacles through the sargassum, grab it, and pull it under]].
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* CrapsackWorld: Earth is pretty thoroughly there. Literally half the world's population died in the Blight, and large parts of the world are still lawless "free zones".
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* CrapsackWorld: Earth is pretty thoroughly there. Literally half the world's population died in the Blight, and large parts of the world are still lawless "free zones".Free Zones. In 2199, Earth is importing grasses from the Moon and food from ''Mars''.
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* PerpetualStorm: No landmass on Poseidon is big enough to stop a hurricane outright. Every few years this results in a Force 6 cyclonic storm strong enough to survive until the next year; they're colloquially called [[TheGreatFlood Noahs]].
* PopulationControl: GEO regulations limit families to two children.
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* TentacledTerror: Female polypods are territorial and known to reach 30 meters long. A signature hunting strategy is to wait underneath a sargassum raft; when they feel something moving overhead they [[AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage punch their tentacles through the sargassum, grab it, and pull it under]].
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Hybrids are mostly human with animal DNA added in as a primitive attempt to create {{Super Soldier}}s.
* HandyFeet: Spacer genies have prehensile feet that can grip things. They can walk on them under gravity, but don't like to.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Hybrids are mostly The first attempts at human with animal DNA added genetic redesign, created in 2065 by America, Germany, and Biogene as a primitive attempt military black project. The entire project collapsed in a PR disaster, but several varieties were [[TrueBreedingHybrid able to create {{Super Soldier}}s.
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* LoopholeAbuse: The Blight is gone, so the need for the GEO is nominally gone as well. However, the GEO can only be shut down by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the UN at the time of its creation...and over a third of the original members no longer exist.
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* IntroducedSpeciesCalamity: A mild example with Galapagos marine iguanas, brought for meat and eggs by the Athena Project. Their algae-based diet stops them from becoming too destructive, but Poseidon has lots of algae, and the iguanas have fewer predators than humans.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: The taxonomical name for Poseidon's leviathans is ''P. ignens'', and the key phrase is "exceeding [[SquareCubeLaw what biologists thought were the physiological limits for a multicellular animal]]." Fortunately for for the rest of Poseidon, they live exclusively on a diet of plankton.
* LoopholeAbuse: The Blight is gone, so the need for the GEO is nominally gone as well. However, the GEO can only be shut down by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the UN at the time of its creation... and over a third of the original members no longer exist.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: The taxonomical name for Poseidon's leviathans is ''P. ignens'', and the key phrase is "exceeding [[SquareCubeLaw what biologists thought were the physiological limits for a multicellular animal]]." Fortunately for for the rest of Poseidon, they live exclusively on a diet of plankton.
* LoopholeAbuse: The Blight is gone, so the need for the GEO is nominally gone as well. However, the GEO can only be shut down by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the UN at the time of its creation... and over a third of the original members no longer exist.
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* TrueBreedingHybrid: Both Silvas and Cats can breed true, and have done so.
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On Poseidon, when the resupply missions failed to arrive, the colonists learned how to live in a lower-tech way, aided by their genetic augmentations that made working in water easier. They also encountered a ray-like species that seemed intelligent, naming them 'nereids'.
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A colony ship, the ''UNSS Cousteau'', was sent in 2086, carrying genetically modified colonists designed to thrive on a water world: humans with either gills or collapsible respiratory systems (like marine mammals), along with [[SapientCetaceans uplifted dolphins and orcas.orcas]]. More ships were planned to follow; however, in 2090, a genetically modified plant virus called the Blight escaped into the wild and devastated Earth's food supplies.
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On Poseidon, when the resupply missions failed to arrive, the colonists learned how to live in a lower-tech way, aided by their genetic augmentations that made working in water easier. They also encountered a ray-like species that seemed intelligent, naming them 'Aborigines'.
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* BenevolentPrecursors: [[spoiler:The aborigines call them the Creators; they appear to have seeded life on Poseidon and created the wormhole.]]
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* BenevolentPrecursors: [[spoiler:The aborigines nereids call them the Creators; they appear to have seeded life on Poseidon and created the wormhole.]]
* CompanyTown: Simushir, run by [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld the Nippon Industrial State]]. Residents sign on for a five-year work contract, with an implanted microchip deducting every expense from the final payout; it's entirely possible to end your work contract owing the NIS money, which automatically signs you on for another five years...
* CorporateWarfare: All of the Incorporate powers are capable of it. [=GenDiver=]'s currently the worst offender on Poseidon; in addition to a one-sided (and very secret) campaign against Atlas Materials, they're waging a very publicized war against natives in the Sierra Nueva Cluster. [[spoiler:Their current plans for that war may or may not involve targeted bioweapons.]]
* CorporateWarfare: All of the Incorporate powers are capable of it. [=GenDiver=]'s currently the worst offender on Poseidon; in addition to a one-sided (and very secret) campaign against Atlas Materials, they're waging a very publicized war against natives in the Sierra Nueva Cluster. [[spoiler:Their current plans for that war may or may not involve targeted bioweapons.]]
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* OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler:The Creators used it heavily, including creating the aborigines.nereids.]]
* PenalColony: Westscape's Böse Strand. Hanover Industries [[PrivateProfitPrison runs the place]] ([[HellholePrison at least on paper]]), but it's never managed to pay for itself. [[spoiler:It's not supposed to; Böse Strand is a pretext for Hanover to build up a planetside military.]]
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: [=MacLeod=] Enforcement began as a "security consultancy" with an office in Edinburgh, before Biogene hired them to train the world's first Incorporate military. Nowadays it's a security consultancy with a capital city in Mombasa, a net worth of six hundred billion scrip, and so many connections the GEO can't confront them directly.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: [=MacLeod=] Enforcement began as a "security consultancy" with an office in Edinburgh, before Biogene hired them to train the world's first Incorporate military. Nowadays it's a security consultancy with a capital city in Mombasa, a net worth of six hundred billion scrip, and so many connections the GEO can't confront them directly.
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* SpaceStation: Prosperity Station (pop. 20,000), successor to GEO-1. The overwhelming majority of newcomers to Poseidon pass through Prosperity, and the Shock Troopers stationed there can touch down anywhere on the planet within fifteen minutes. [[spoiler:It's also home to the GEO's strategic missile command.]]
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* SpaceStation: Prosperity Station (pop. 20,000), successor to GEO-1. The overwhelming majority of newcomers to Poseidon pass through Prosperity, and the Shock Troopers stationed there can touch down anywhere on the planet within fifteen minutes. [[spoiler:It's also home to the GEO's strategic [[spoiler:It may or may not have nuclear missile command.silos.]]
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* EcoTerrorist: Some of the more radical natives, such as the residents of the Sierra Nueva cluster, definitely fall into this category.
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* EcoTerrorist: Some Too many to list. The Blue Water Circle, the Children of the more radical natives, such as Widow, Free Poseidon!, shiny/soft/swimmer/hunter/killer... and that's not counting the residents ones from Earth, like Zero Nation. Many of them provide material support for the natives in the Sierra Nueva cluster, definitely fall into this category.Cluster.
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* SpaceElevator: Earth has one in Ecuador. An {{EcoTerrorist}} attack blew it up during the Blight, and it took decades to repair.
* SpacePeople: Spacer genies have metabolism boosts, double-jointed legs, and prehensile feet with an opposable grip.
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* SpaceElevator: Earth has one in Ecuador. An {{EcoTerrorist}} ecoterrorist attack blew it up during the Blight, and it took decades to repair.
* SpacePeople: Spacer genies have metabolism boosts, double-jointed legs, and [[HandyFeet prehensile feet with an opposablegrip.grip]].
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* FantasticSlur: Never say "blackfish" where a 30-ton whale can hear you. The only thing more offensive than being called a fish is being confused with the ''other'' species of 30-ton whale.
* FictionalSport: Hydroshot, played with three six-person teams on an aquatic field; goals against another team earn ''them'' a point, and the team with the lowest score at the end wins. Part of the fun is watching the constantly shifting betrayals.
* TheMafiya: The Gorshkov Family. [[spoiler:They're currently trying to infiltrate Prosperity Station.]]
* MobileCity: Lavender Organics's [[CityOnTheWater Dyfedd]], built on hexagonal rafts 20 meters thick, a kilometer across, and [[UnderwaterCity deeper than they are tall]]. Under full power and with a fleet of tugs it can reach speeds as high as 3 kph.
* SpaceElevator: Earth has one in Ecuador. An {{EcoTerrorist}} attack blew it up during the Blight, and it took decades to repair.
* SpaceStation: Prosperity Station (pop. 20,000), successor to GEO-1. The overwhelming majority of newcomers to Poseidon pass through Prosperity, and the Shock Troopers stationed there can touch down anywhere on the planet within fifteen minutes. [[spoiler:It's also home to the GEO's strategic missile command.]]
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* UnderwaterCity: Several, given the setting, generally in domes.setting. Dyfedd's Down Town is the biggest: a sprawling and sometimes-rearranged maze of airlocks, moon pools, submarine hangars, and air domes for cetaceans. Below those are the windowless "Morlock layers," where the city overhead blots out too much sunlight to see.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Hybrids are mostly human with animal DNA added in as a primitive attempt to create {{Super Soldier}}s. Silvas have ape characteristics, and Cats have cat characteristics.
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* SapientCetaceans: All the species that survived, thanks to uplifting programs. The number of species has climbed over the editions.
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* UpliftedAnimal: Dolphins and orcas have been uplifted and are full partners on Poseidon.
* USMarshal: The GEO Marshals are the highest level of GEO law enforcement, acting similarly to the historical US Marshals. There are 12 of them on Poseidon, and each one of them is a certified badass.
* USMarshal: The GEO Marshals are the highest level of GEO law enforcement, acting similarly to the historical US Marshals. There are 12 of them on Poseidon, and each one of them is a certified badass.
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* UpliftedAnimal: Dolphins Bottlenose dolphins and orcas have been were uplifted in time to join the colonization of Poseidon. Common dolphins, belugas, and are full partners on Poseidon.
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* USMarshal: The GEO Marshals are the highest level of GEO law enforcement, acting similarly to the historical US Marshals. There are12 24 of them on Poseidon, and each one of them is a certified badass.
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* AlternativeCalendar: Poseidon has a 30-hour day, a 330-day year measured Since Planetfall, and no weeks or months.
* FictionalCurrency: The GEO doesn't have authority to mint money, but each Incorporate state issues scrip pegged to the company stock value; this has left Poseidon with ''ten'' currencies whose exchange rates fluctuate from day to day.
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* OurWormholesAreDifferent: There's exactly one known wormhole, with one terminus out past the orbit of Pluto and the other in the Lambda Serpentis. Travel time between the two ends is nearly instantaneous despite the almost 40 light-years that separate them. The wormhole is believed to have been created by some previous Precursor species, because it is extremely unlikely to have formed spontaneously.
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->It’s that first moment I'll never forget. I’m no poet, but by God, I'll tell you, sliding into that water felt like coming home. No lie. It was as real as I'm sitting here talking to you. A kind of dreamy, half deja-vu. It lasted for maybe five minutes, maybe more, while that crystal blue water worked its way into every pore. I just hung there about two meters under, grinning like an idiot (you've probably seen that clip, too).
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-->-- Nathanial Lesear, describing the first time a human entered the waters of Poseidon
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* TabletopGame/GURPS Blue Planet (2002), published by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. One paperback book, published under license.
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* TabletopGame/GURPS TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Blue Planet (2002), published by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. One paperback book, published under license.
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* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: The Lesear Effect, described in the page quote, is an in-universe version. On first entering the seas of Poseidon, aquaforms get a blissful sensation that feels like the planet itself is welcoming them.
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* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: The Lesear Effect, described in the page quote, is an in-universe version. On first entering the seas of Poseidon, aquaforms get a blissful sensation that feels like the planet itself is welcoming them.them, causing them to just hang in the water for a few minutes.
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No longer to be used as a trope. Use it's sub-tropes.
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* USMarshal: The GEO Marshals are the highest level of GEO law enforcement, acting similarly to the historical US Marshals. There are 12 of them on Poseidon, and each one of them is a certified {{Badass}}.badass.
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* HandyFeet: Spacer genies have prehensile feet that can grip things. They can walk on them under gravity, but don't like to.
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* {{Transhuman}}: Alphas are also specifically called Transhumans, but all types of 'genies' are genetically redesigned humans. Aquaforms are engineered for life in and around water, alphas are improved across the board, spacers are optimized for life in space, and hybrids were an attempt at making supersoldiers.
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''Blue Planet'' is a science-fiction tabletop RoleplayingGame by Biohazard Games.
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''Blue Planet'' is a science-fiction tabletop RoleplayingGame TabletopRPG by Biohazard Games.
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''Blue Planet'' is a science-fiction tabletop RoleplayingGame by Biohazard Games.
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* EcoTerrorist: Some of the more radical natives, such as the residents of the Sierra Nueva cluster, definitely fall into this category.
* TheFamine: The Blight, an engineered virus that was accidentally released and devastated all of Earth's crops. By the time it was done, Earth's population was less than half of what it was before it started.
* TheFamine: The Blight, an engineered virus that was accidentally released and devastated all of Earth's crops. By the time it was done, Earth's population was less than half of what it was before it started.
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* MegaCorp: The Incorporate states generally all qualify.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: The Incorporate states are all corporate-run governments, originally city-states where the corporation maintained stability during the Blight.
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* OneNationUnderCopyright: The Incorporate states are all corporate-run governments, originally city-states where the corporation maintained stability during the Blight.
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->It’s that first moment I'll never forget. I’m no poet, but by God, I'll tell you, sliding into that water felt like coming home. No lie. It was as real as I'm sitting here talking to you. A kind of dreamy, half deja-vu. It lasted for maybe five minutes, maybe more, while that crystal blue water worked its way into every pore. I just hung there about two meters under, grinning like an idiot (you've probably seen that clip, too).
--> - Nathanial Lesear, describing the first time a human entered the waters of Poseidon
''Blue Planet'' is a tabletop RoleplayingGame by Biohazard Games.
The year is 2199. Over a hundred years ago, astronomers found an unusual object beyond the orbit of Pluto. It turned out to be a stable wormhole leading to the Lambda Serpentis system, about 40 light-years away. The second planet in the system was a water world, teeming with life, which was named Poseidon.
A colony ship, the ''UNSS Cousteau'', was sent in 2086, carrying genetically modified colonists: humans with either collapsible respiratory systems like marine mammals or gills, and uplifted dolphins and orcas. More ships were planned to follow; however, in 2090, a genetically modified plant virus called the Blight escaped into the wild and devastated Earth's food supplies.
As the Blight worsened, international governmental authority was placed in the hands of the Global Ecology Organization, an arm of the United Nations empowered to enforce mandates worldwide; eventually, the UN itself ceded control to the GEO. As national governments fell, corporations took control of the cities they were based in, creating city-states referred to as Incorporate states.
Eventually, the Blight was conquered after almost thirty years, having cut Earth's population by more than half. As governments began to recover, they found that there was actually no way to rescind the GEO's authority; that could only be done by a two-thirds vote of the original United Nations members who authorized it...and over a third of those member states no longer existed. The recreated United Nations, the Independent nations who never accepted the GEO's authority, and the Incorporate states are all attempting to challenge the GEO, which refuses to yield the authority it has been given.
On Poseidon, when the resupply missions failed to arrive, the colonists learned how to live in a lower-tech way, aided by their genetic augmentations that made working in water easier. They also encountered a ray-like species that seemed intelligent, naming them 'Aborigines'.
In 2169, the ''UNSS Admiral Robert Perry'' recontacted the colonists of Poseidon, leading to regular resupply and contact runs through the wormhole. There was some interest by the GEO and the Incorporate states, but no major efforts at added colonization until the 2185 discovery of xenosilicates, a material that allows much easier modifications of biochemistry than ever believed possible. One of the first applications found was a retrovirus that stops the aging process, leading to a new name for xenosilicates: Longevity Ore, or Long John for short. A gold rush followed as miners flocked to Poseidon, looking for a big Long John score that would make them rich. The population of Poseidon, only 40,000 people when the ''Perry'' arrived, has reached two million, over 95% of them Earth-born arrivals from after Recontact.
The GEO is trying desperately to maintain some sort of control. The Incorporate and wildcat miners see fabulous wealth awaiting them. Some natives are choosing to resist the newcomers, sometimes violently. And it seems that Poseidon itself might be on their side...
There have been four editions of Blue Planet in total, with a fifth upcoming:
* First Edition (1997), published by Biohazard Games, one paperback book plus a few supplements.
* Second Edition (2000), published by Creator/FantasyFlightGames. Two hardcover books, plus several hardcover supplements.
* TabletopGame/GURPS Blue Planet (2002), published by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. One paperback book, published under license.
* Second Edition Revised (2012), published by FASA Games. Two hardcover books with several hardcover supplements.
* Blue Planet: Recontact (2022), published by Gallant Knight Games and Biohazard Games. Successfully Kickstarted in April-May 2021; a quick-start guide is available now, with full publication planned for October 2022.
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!! Tropes found in Blue Planet include:
* AlienSky: Poseidon has two moons, Proteus and Nereus. Proteus has its own life-forms, but Nereus is barren.
* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: Downplayed. The "aquaform" natives have genetic augmentations that either provide them with the ability to dive deeply like marine mammals, or to live underwater like fish.
* ArtisticLicensePolitics: The UN Security Council unanimously voted to pass governmental power to the GEO; the United States and China immediately refused to recognize the GEO's authority. In reality, the United States and China are both permanent members of the Security Council and have veto authority over any votes taken.
* BenevolentPrecursors: [[spoiler:The aborigines call them the Creators; they appear to have seeded life on Poseidon and created the wormhole.]]
* BioAugmentation: Very common on Poseidon; the aquaform colonists were augmented with diving reflexes or gills. Long John makes it even easier and more effective.
* BoomTown: Any major city on Poseidon is a boom town right now, although Haven (the original landing site) is more so than the rest.
* CatFolk: Cat hybrids were created as primitive {{Super Soldier}}s.
* {{Cyborg}}: Cybernetic augmentation is popular, but not as much as BioAugmentation. However, there are some things BioAugmentation can't do, like implanted radios and neural jacks.
* DesignerBabies: The 'Transhuman' alpha genies are basically better than normal humans across the board.
* FutureSlang: Quite a bit. The two subgroups of aquaforms are "divers" and "squid", dolphins are "fins", genetically-upgraded humans of all sorts are "genies".
* HalfHumanHybrid: Hybrids are mostly human with animal DNA added in as a primitive attempt to create {{Super Soldier}}s. Silvas have ape characteristics, and Cats have cat characteristics.
* HotSubOnSubAction: By the nature of the setting, this is not an uncommon form of warfare, especially when attacking (or defending) underwater facilities.
* OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler:The Creators used it heavily, including creating the aborigines.]]
* PopulationControl: GEO regulations limit families to two children.
* SapientCetaceans: Thanks to uplifting, there are intelligent dolphins and orcas.
* SingleBiomePlanet: Poseidon is a water world, with land making up only 3% of its surface.
* SleeperShip: While the transit time to Poseidon is measured in months, not years, passengers are put in cryosleep to lower the life support requirements.
* SuperSoldier:
** The hybrids were early attempts at this. Unfortunately, just because you've given somebody super-soldier characteristics, that doesn't mean they necessarily ''want'' to be soldiers...
** GEO Shock Troopers are a newer and much more successful attempt.
* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: The Lesear Effect, described in the page quote, is an in-universe version. On first entering the seas of Poseidon, aquaforms get a blissful sensation that feels like the planet itself is welcoming them.
* TrueBreedingHybrid: Both Silvas and Cats can breed true, and have done so.
* UnderwaterCity: Several, given the setting, generally in domes.
* UpliftedAnimal: Dolphins and orcas have been uplifted and are full partners on Poseidon.
* USMarshal: The GEO Marshals are the highest level of GEO law enforcement, acting similarly to the historical US Marshals. There are 12 of them on Poseidon, and each one of them is a certified {{Badass}}.
* WideOpenSandbox: One criticism of the earlier versions of the game - they provided a fantastic world to play in, but little guidance on how to build a campaign in it.
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--> - Nathanial Lesear, describing the first time a human entered the waters of Poseidon
''Blue Planet'' is a tabletop RoleplayingGame by Biohazard Games.
The year is 2199. Over a hundred years ago, astronomers found an unusual object beyond the orbit of Pluto. It turned out to be a stable wormhole leading to the Lambda Serpentis system, about 40 light-years away. The second planet in the system was a water world, teeming with life, which was named Poseidon.
A colony ship, the ''UNSS Cousteau'', was sent in 2086, carrying genetically modified colonists: humans with either collapsible respiratory systems like marine mammals or gills, and uplifted dolphins and orcas. More ships were planned to follow; however, in 2090, a genetically modified plant virus called the Blight escaped into the wild and devastated Earth's food supplies.
As the Blight worsened, international governmental authority was placed in the hands of the Global Ecology Organization, an arm of the United Nations empowered to enforce mandates worldwide; eventually, the UN itself ceded control to the GEO. As national governments fell, corporations took control of the cities they were based in, creating city-states referred to as Incorporate states.
Eventually, the Blight was conquered after almost thirty years, having cut Earth's population by more than half. As governments began to recover, they found that there was actually no way to rescind the GEO's authority; that could only be done by a two-thirds vote of the original United Nations members who authorized it...and over a third of those member states no longer existed. The recreated United Nations, the Independent nations who never accepted the GEO's authority, and the Incorporate states are all attempting to challenge the GEO, which refuses to yield the authority it has been given.
On Poseidon, when the resupply missions failed to arrive, the colonists learned how to live in a lower-tech way, aided by their genetic augmentations that made working in water easier. They also encountered a ray-like species that seemed intelligent, naming them 'Aborigines'.
In 2169, the ''UNSS Admiral Robert Perry'' recontacted the colonists of Poseidon, leading to regular resupply and contact runs through the wormhole. There was some interest by the GEO and the Incorporate states, but no major efforts at added colonization until the 2185 discovery of xenosilicates, a material that allows much easier modifications of biochemistry than ever believed possible. One of the first applications found was a retrovirus that stops the aging process, leading to a new name for xenosilicates: Longevity Ore, or Long John for short. A gold rush followed as miners flocked to Poseidon, looking for a big Long John score that would make them rich. The population of Poseidon, only 40,000 people when the ''Perry'' arrived, has reached two million, over 95% of them Earth-born arrivals from after Recontact.
The GEO is trying desperately to maintain some sort of control. The Incorporate and wildcat miners see fabulous wealth awaiting them. Some natives are choosing to resist the newcomers, sometimes violently. And it seems that Poseidon itself might be on their side...
There have been four editions of Blue Planet in total, with a fifth upcoming:
* First Edition (1997), published by Biohazard Games, one paperback book plus a few supplements.
* Second Edition (2000), published by Creator/FantasyFlightGames. Two hardcover books, plus several hardcover supplements.
* TabletopGame/GURPS Blue Planet (2002), published by Creator/SteveJacksonGames. One paperback book, published under license.
* Second Edition Revised (2012), published by FASA Games. Two hardcover books with several hardcover supplements.
* Blue Planet: Recontact (2022), published by Gallant Knight Games and Biohazard Games. Successfully Kickstarted in April-May 2021; a quick-start guide is available now, with full publication planned for October 2022.
----
!! Tropes found in Blue Planet include:
* AlienSky: Poseidon has two moons, Proteus and Nereus. Proteus has its own life-forms, but Nereus is barren.
* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: Downplayed. The "aquaform" natives have genetic augmentations that either provide them with the ability to dive deeply like marine mammals, or to live underwater like fish.
* ArtisticLicensePolitics: The UN Security Council unanimously voted to pass governmental power to the GEO; the United States and China immediately refused to recognize the GEO's authority. In reality, the United States and China are both permanent members of the Security Council and have veto authority over any votes taken.
* BenevolentPrecursors: [[spoiler:The aborigines call them the Creators; they appear to have seeded life on Poseidon and created the wormhole.]]
* BioAugmentation: Very common on Poseidon; the aquaform colonists were augmented with diving reflexes or gills. Long John makes it even easier and more effective.
* BoomTown: Any major city on Poseidon is a boom town right now, although Haven (the original landing site) is more so than the rest.
* CatFolk: Cat hybrids were created as primitive {{Super Soldier}}s.
* {{Cyborg}}: Cybernetic augmentation is popular, but not as much as BioAugmentation. However, there are some things BioAugmentation can't do, like implanted radios and neural jacks.
* DesignerBabies: The 'Transhuman' alpha genies are basically better than normal humans across the board.
* FutureSlang: Quite a bit. The two subgroups of aquaforms are "divers" and "squid", dolphins are "fins", genetically-upgraded humans of all sorts are "genies".
* HalfHumanHybrid: Hybrids are mostly human with animal DNA added in as a primitive attempt to create {{Super Soldier}}s. Silvas have ape characteristics, and Cats have cat characteristics.
* HotSubOnSubAction: By the nature of the setting, this is not an uncommon form of warfare, especially when attacking (or defending) underwater facilities.
* OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler:The Creators used it heavily, including creating the aborigines.]]
* PopulationControl: GEO regulations limit families to two children.
* SapientCetaceans: Thanks to uplifting, there are intelligent dolphins and orcas.
* SingleBiomePlanet: Poseidon is a water world, with land making up only 3% of its surface.
* SleeperShip: While the transit time to Poseidon is measured in months, not years, passengers are put in cryosleep to lower the life support requirements.
* SuperSoldier:
** The hybrids were early attempts at this. Unfortunately, just because you've given somebody super-soldier characteristics, that doesn't mean they necessarily ''want'' to be soldiers...
** GEO Shock Troopers are a newer and much more successful attempt.
* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: The Lesear Effect, described in the page quote, is an in-universe version. On first entering the seas of Poseidon, aquaforms get a blissful sensation that feels like the planet itself is welcoming them.
* TrueBreedingHybrid: Both Silvas and Cats can breed true, and have done so.
* UnderwaterCity: Several, given the setting, generally in domes.
* UpliftedAnimal: Dolphins and orcas have been uplifted and are full partners on Poseidon.
* USMarshal: The GEO Marshals are the highest level of GEO law enforcement, acting similarly to the historical US Marshals. There are 12 of them on Poseidon, and each one of them is a certified {{Badass}}.
* WideOpenSandbox: One criticism of the earlier versions of the game - they provided a fantastic world to play in, but little guidance on how to build a campaign in it.
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