To-Do Items

This list is just an unsorted jumble of reminders.

• Need to come up with a name and terminology for the anti-grav tech
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/9
  • “EMAG” — Electromagnetic Anti-Gravity?
  • “EMAG discs”?
• Section on force fields
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/10
  • High power consumption
  • Disruptable
• Section on holography versus AR versus nanotech
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/11
  • Old One computers use holographic displays. Generally can’t be removed from the facilities. It’s non-obvious which physical parts create the projections.
  • Focus overlays use AR
    • Neural interface is heavily implied
      • No one else can hear or see what Aloy sees
      • Shutting down HADES introduces full-sensory override and feedback
  • Some amount of nanotech is implied
    • Biomass conversion (black particle swarm)
    • HADES red swirls?
• Power and Battery tech
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/12
  • I believe in the end scene, when Sobeck is telling the story about her mother, she uses the term “autobattery”. Maybe she’s just saying “auto battery”, as in “battery from a vehicle”?
  • Either way, we need some consistent way of explaining how devices retain charge.
  • We can assume battery tech is amazing, but still has to obey physics.
  • Assume batteries and power cores can be harvested from machines?
  • Maybe the MINERVA towers also act as Tesla-style wireless energy sources?
    • Which could have interesting “you must construct additional pylons” implications.
• Focus network
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/13
  • Sylens had to help rebuild the Focus network, on behalf of HADES
  • But MINERVA towers seem to be distinct from that
  • Maybe Focus tech post-dates the comms built into the FARO robots, which needed to have global reach?
  • Akin to 5G versus Bluetooth and NFC
• Prejudice
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/14
  • Will need a section on this in the Setting Guide.
  • No canon mentions of New World racism (yay!)
  • Some canon mentions of New World sexism (boo!)
    • Should make it clear this should be a choice for players, not an assumption
  • Plenty of canon mentions of tribalism (obv)
• Religion & Spiritualism
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/15
  • /sigh
  • Carja Sundom
  • Eclipse Buried Shadow
  • Banuk “mysticism” (per Sylens)
• Region names
  • Forbidden West
  • Sylens makes some reference to Nora lands as “Savage East” or something like that? Maybe 2/3 through?
  • Utaru
    • One of the face paint styles is “Utaru Plainswalker”
• Healing
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/16
  • Healers
  • Efficacy
    • HoTs vs stims
  • Botanical pharmacology
    • DEMETER
    • Targeted bioengineering
  • Health potions
  • Introduce toxicity as an optional effect? (ugh)
• Magic & Fantasy
  • https://github.com/rickosborne/skyline/issues/17
  • Do we want a section on this?
  • Like “hey, if you want to presume that the Old Ones were in the Shadowrun setting, that would imply Orcs etc in the New World”