ottarrus
Emperor Mongoose
So, I've been diving back into CyberPunk 2077 lately and a couple thoughts occur to me.
For different reasons, CP77 REALLY makes me thing of two worlds in Traveller: Strend and Ruie.
- You add a few TL's and the pervasive cyberware is a real dinger for Strend/Menorial. The slow and inevitable dehumanizing transition of Man the Tool-User into Man the Tool ought to strike home.
- Ruie, OTOH, it's all about living conditions and ambience. Ruie is the Canker on the Ass of Regina Subsector. A balkanized, argumentative world that is poisoning itself and beset by high population, widespread poverty, an inability to feed itself, and the manufactured-crisis-of-the-month with bad actors from both on- and off-world, Ruie reads like Night City feels, just without the cybernetics.
For different reasons, CP77 REALLY makes me thing of two worlds in Traveller: Strend and Ruie.
- You add a few TL's and the pervasive cyberware is a real dinger for Strend/Menorial. The slow and inevitable dehumanizing transition of Man the Tool-User into Man the Tool ought to strike home.
- Ruie, OTOH, it's all about living conditions and ambience. Ruie is the Canker on the Ass of Regina Subsector. A balkanized, argumentative world that is poisoning itself and beset by high population, widespread poverty, an inability to feed itself, and the manufactured-crisis-of-the-month with bad actors from both on- and off-world, Ruie reads like Night City feels, just without the cybernetics.