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Game Idea 7-28-2017 Blue Love

Post by jayphailey » Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:10 am

Remember Rule 0!

Game Idea 7-28-2017 Blue Love

Efrosian Scientist Gharlassa has just announced a major break through.
He has a isolated lab way out in the sticks. He just publicly announced
that he has conquered death.

Appended is a stack of data analysts are working on. The PCs are asked
to go examine this, secure Gharlassa and investigate WTF is going on
before something stupid happens.

-*-

Gharlassa was a high energy physicist on Efros. He was successful and
doing very interesting work. He was married to Palliope, a star ship
designer. Palliope was killed when ratty junker starship decided to
fail near her space station. It lost anti-matter containment and
exploded like a bomb, severely damaging the space station and killing a
lot of people.

-*-

About three days later, Gharlassa turned up missing along with millions
of credits of experimental equipment from his university, several looted
science funds and a good chunk of the last transporter his wife used.

Law enforcement searched for him, but their hearts weren't in it.
Property crime seemed less urgent in the wake of the disaster.

-*-

Starfleet reports indicate pirates using a weird cloaking device. It was
very successful right at first and is still an ugly surprise. Worse, it
seems to rely on principles Gharlassa was working on.

-*-

Gharlassa's videos show what he was doing. using experimental equipment
he developed a way to save and stabilize his wife's transporter
pattern. His next goal was to use this to save his wife. Raw material
and energy in, his wife's transporter pattern should equal fresh copy of
wife as she stepped into the Transporter the morning of the accident.

Some of the data includes video of previous tries. Gharlassa sets up
raw material and runs it through the transporter using his wife's
pattern as a filter.

And he gets dead bodies physically identical to his wife. Perfect in
every way, except not being alive.

There's insane math that quantifies atomic and molecular interactions.
Once he's completely broken physics he tries again and gets the same
result. Now he's not sure why anyone is alive coming out of a transporter.

He transports test animals over and over again.

Family and students join him for a while, but they quit, because he's
obsessed far past reason. One who sticks is a young student woman names
Hellassa. She is plainly experiencing a mix of star struck admiration
and infatuation. Gharlassa is oblivious.

-*-

On the last try, Gharlassa tries something desperate and wrong. He sets
up his experimental transporter, and Hellassa steps in.

Palliope walks out. Alive. She looks puzzled. Last thing she knew she
was transporting to an Efrosian Space station on her way to work.

-*-

As the ship arrives, everyone who knows physics and transporter
technology can tell. If you start with a fresh and well preserved
transporter pattern of person X, and if the initial transport is Person
Y, then you can make person X walk out of that transporter.

Normal transporters create their patterns in a sort of virtual memory
made out of energy. It's not stable. It lasts long enough for one
transport and maybe a little more.

Gharlassa stole equipment which experimented with making these sorts of
insanely complex energy patterns more stable.

He has math that talks about the brownian motion of living systems and
other esoteric matters. His math comes close to proving that alive is a
different energy state than being dead.

His experiment bears this out. So if you try to recreate a person using
a transporter filter and raw material, what you get out of it is dead, too.

But if you put something alive in the front end, what you get out is alive.

-*-

When the PCs arrive at Gharlassa's isolated lab and beam down, they can
hear crying and yelling,

Palliope is heart broken and *extremely* angry. In her mind, Gharlassa
murdered Hellassa to recreate her.

Gharlassa is so insane he doesn't care. "I'd have murdered a dozen of
her to get you back!"

Needless to say, this family discussion is not going well.

Now the PCs have to decide.

Did a crime occur? Which one? Is Palliope back from the dead or is it
Hellassa shape changed into a copy of Paliope?

And what should be done with Gharlassa's machines and work?

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