Paranoia Canon

[Clangador]

Is there an canon as far as where the Alpha Complex is located on Earth? I assume it's on Earth. I guess it could be kind of funny to have the Alpha Complex on the moon.

 

[Mongoose Gar]

Canon is revised on a regular basis. Please note that using depreciated canon material is treasonous, citizen. We have always been at war with Oceania.

 

[Clangador]

Canon is revised on a regular basis. Please note that using depreciated canon material is treasonous, citizen. We have always been at war with Oceania.

Whazzat? :?: :?: :?:

 

[Allen Varney]

Gareth refers to a famous line from George Orwell's novel 1984, a seminal influence on PARANOIA.

 

[Clangador]

Gareth refers to a famous line from George Orwell's novel 1984, a seminal influence on PARANOIA.

I've never read it, bot, of course, I've heard about it. Perhap I should read it, and add it to my collection of SF books.

 

[darth_azabrush]

In fact if you read Das Bot in Flashbacks Alpha Complex has always been at war with Oceania!

 

[PaulB]

For good PARANOIA reading try:

1984 by George Orwell
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

That'll give you a good grounding to work from in expanding your visions of what Alpha Complex might be like.

 

[darth_azabrush]

Add The Trial by Kafka and if you like a laught the John Paul Goddard Movie Alphaville!

 

[Parody]

FWIW: In previous versions, Alpha Complex was built out of San Francisco. I don't believe XP has placed it anywhere.

 

[Clangador]

FWIW: In previous versions, Alpha Complex was built out of San Francisco. I don't believe XP has placed it anywhere.

That's interesting.

I'm thinking abouyt getting my Alpha Complex on the moon. Let the players go outside and it should freak them out to see the Earth up in the sky.

 

[darth_azabrush]

FUN! :lol:

 

[Clangador]

FUN! :lol:

Well, maybe not for the PCs, but they're only clones after all. :twisted:

 

[darth_azabrush]

Alpha complex can be anywhere. I freaked by players out by having them walk out of the complex on to a high wooded ledge on a beautiful spring day. Then Teddybotski turned up with his flame throwers! :twisted:

 

[Techno-Guru]

Is there an canon as far as where the Alpha Complex is located on Earth? I assume it's on Earth. I guess it could be kind of funny to have the Alpha Complex on the moon.

That could work, but I always thought the Alpha Complex was located several miles beneath the surface of good ol' Terra Firma. Then again, I also see no reason why it couldn't be on the ocean floor or the surface of Mars. Now let's see the PCs figure a way out of THAT.

 

[mthomason]

The troubleshooters climb up through miles of forgotten tunnels into a lush, green, paradise. As they wander into the distance, someone walks into the wall of the biodome - the holographic field shudders and dies, and they stare out onto the barren landscape. Luckily one of them brought along the portable meal heater they were testing on this mission which always malfunctions drastically and produces a flame that will cut through anything. As they cut through the side of the dome, the air begins to hiss away...

 

[Clangador]

The troubleshooters climb up through miles of forgotten tunnels into a lush, green, paradise. As they wander into the distance, someone walks into the wall of the biodome - the holographic field shudders and dies, and they stare out onto the barren landscape. Luckily one of them brought along the portable meal heater they were testing on this mission which always malfunctions drastically and produces a flame that will cut through anything. As they cut through the side of the dome, the air begins to hiss away...

And you're talking a wasted Earth or another planet?

 

[MarkIV]

There is no hard and fast rule where Alpha Complex is. Some people picture it as entirely underground (think "A Boy and His Dog"), others picture it as a giant dome (think "Logan's Run").

I've always preferred the irony that "Outside" is really a very nice happy place, utopian even. Much nicer than "inside". The problem is friend Computer is too paranoid to allow it's citizens to go free range.

That said, feel free to do whatever works for your players. Locate it near St. Helens, tell the players a wall in LVA sector is unusually warm, ask them to investigate...

 

[Allen Varney]

A beautifully staged hose job, Matt. Commendation point!

 

[darth_azabrush]

Just as long as theres something big and nasty on the way utopian works well!

 

[Clangador]

There is no hard and fast rule where Alpha Complex is. Some people picture it as entirely underground (think "A Boy and His Dog"), others picture it as a giant dome (think "Logan's Run").

I've always preferred the irony that "Outside" is really a very nice happy place, utopian even. Much nicer than "inside". The problem is friend Computer is too paranoid to allow it's citizens to go free range.

That said, feel free to do whatever works for your players. Locate it near St. Helens, tell the players a wall in LVA sector is unusually warm, ask them to investigate...

That would put the AC right in my area.