Let's say a setting contained a world like ours. Due to unfortunate circumstances, a large portal to hell opened up in the middle of the planet. Numerous demons spilled out into our reality, overthrowing governments and killing billions of people. These demon hordes were led by devil archons, who settled in various countries and ruled with an iron fist. These nations were essesenti ally turned into torture camps, where humans were enslaved and murdered for the amusement of their overlords.
The only surviving nation would be a powerful theocracy that managed to hold out against the demonic …
I was going to ask on the sandbox but figured I'd ask here first.
@JoeBloggs Cosmic strings are another option. The main problem is finding suitably gravitational massive enough objects to do the tidal ripping apart.
@HDE226868 While black holes are obvious, neutron stars might be another possibility. Perhaps, preferably more than one. getting the orbital configuration right could be tricky.
@Pete A wall of tethered zombies could be an effective barrier and defence against free range zombies. Also, if the constrained zombies get hungry they might tend to devour any incoming wild zombies.
@Shardmartin It's always good to ask for opinions on chat. However your post can easily get "lost" in a discussion. It would be good if you could also put it in the Sandbox. To the feedback: I am not sure about this is a good question for WorldBuilding. Discussing how governments came to be is nearly always too broad. And your setting looks like "You are the author, you decide" is the best answer. Billions dead and one magical society? I see nothing wrong with your logic under these circumstances
But please put the question in the Sandbox so that Meta-Users, who are not in the chat frequently can still see your question and give feedback
@Shardmartin I agree with @Secespitus - this question at the moment feels very opinion based. If you want it to decline into authoritarianism it can. If you don't then it doesn't. Both are plausible enough that so long as you write it well you'll be fine but it doesn't really leave much scope for people to write answers.
A better way to ask the question might be to decide the society/etc that you want and then ask what's the simplest/most plausible way to get there from your starting position
@Pete You call that an extreme sport of zombie racing! What about the extreme sport of being chased by high speed zombies around a caged track? Caged, of course, to protect the onlookers. Other uses of zombies: use constrained zombies as 'sniffer and tracking critters' to find non-zombified humans.
@Pete It could be a series of "Zombie Extreme Sports". But you would need a specific question with each. Like "What protections do I need for my audience if I were to organize a zombie-chase on a running track?"
Or for my zombie sled race: "How fast could a sled be if I were to use 6 average zombies instead of dogs in a sled race?"
If you did a "Using constrained zombies" series and took a4android's version: "What precautions do I need in order to train my zombies as 'sniffer and tracking critters' to not get bitten?"
Just asking for use-cases for constrained zombies will likely be too broad. One way may be to limit the amount and state where you are, like "I am in castle and I got 5 constrained zombies (wanted to catch 3 and lost 2 men). What would be the most efficient usage for my 5 zombies to get more zombies / survive longer / organize a sport event ...".
... Reading it again that will likely be too opinion-based with the "most efficient"... Well, I am looking forward to your question ;)
I guess you could ask "I have invented a version of chariot racing, using captive zombies as the 'horses'. How can my characters steer them and incentivise them to run faster?"
I would like to create a theocracy with elements of a democratic system. Let's say a setting contained a world like ours. Due to unfortunate circumstances, a large portal to hell opened up in the middle of the planet. Numerous demons spilled out into our reality, overthrowing governments and kill...
We have a desk here at work where we put biscuits/cakes/treats to share among the team. I also have a few dog kibbles in my pocket and a rising, despicable urge...
@Pete I would probably give the dog kibbles a go, if they were on the table at work (currently occupied by Girl Scout cookies), and if they smelled like meat
@James I liked working with VX, but it's been some time. I used to teach teenagers at my school a bit of programming after school together with a friend of mine. We had different "levels". Some wanted to learn drag-and-drop-like with the RPG Maker, some wanted programming with C++.
the part that worries me is what the differences really are. Like, if I stopped eating all vegetables and replaced them with mushrooms, would that be bad?
and if it's not bad, could I do the same thing using mushrooms to replace meat?
I think I can fill it up with questions about the universe
like, are there infinite galaxies? I thought there wasn't, but now I'm not so sure
there seems to be confusion about the universe and the observable universe
and then, from that, I'm wondering about the speed of light shortly after the Big Bang
if everything at the start was infinitely close to each other, shouldn't we be able to see all of it? Or was the speed of light slower back then?
and back to the observable universe, does it cover more mass as time goes on and light has more time to reach us? Or is that somehow counteracted by the expansion of the universe?
I'm trying to swim through Physics SE but there's a lot of information I'm missing
hmm, and now I'm considering asking a WB question about if an interstellar empire would have to consider travel time increases due to the expansion of the universe
@kingledion that's what I was thinking, but it seems like I'm pretty much done with the fire area now, and I haven't found any
there are definitely pathways that I can't use because they are too hot, so I assume there's some way to nullify fire damage, but it has not yet been revealed to me
and I don't want to look it up in the wiki, that feels like it'd be cheating
@DaaaahWhoosh If the universe is infinite, then by the cosmological principle, yes there should be. But you'd have to prove that the universe is infinite, and we don't know that that's true.
@DaaaahWhoosh I think you're using the assumption that the Big Bang happened at a point - which isn't true. Varying speed of light theories have been postulated, by the way, but have yet to gain much acceptance.
@DaaaahWhoosh I'm working on it (busy finding links).
Never mind; that deleted message is true but irrelevant.
@HDE226868 as I understood that answer, the Big Bang happened in an infinite space that was infinitely small: "The total size of the universe is then 0×∞"
@James Well, I can't say anything about MV, but VX was a lot of fun. So why not just buy it and see for yourself of that version fits you? BTW: How much is it on the Steam sale?
my vision involves a fully loaded hazmat railcar getting dumped through the wall of the greathall (thanks a lot, whoever was screwing around with brake valves) followed by me walking in through the new hole in the wall in hi-vis and a hard hat going "EVACUATE! EVERYBODY OUT! GO GO GO!" flight attendant style...
...no, just some random railroader trying to save folks' bacon after some train-wrecking moron thought it'd be funny to close a bunch of brake valves on a train that was about to go down a long grade...
because that car's full of sodium chlorate -- think like saltpetre, just a bit nastier. and with that pool fire, if it blows...there just won't be all that much left here.
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