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The Migou were alien race living on the outskirts of our solar system. Looking like a mix of flies, crustaceans and [[Illithid]], they saw humanity as a threat to their colony on Pluto. They decided to wage war on us, seeking to destroy the human race and acquire the secrets of arcanotech for themselves. To do this they engineered a race in our image called the Nazzadi, who unaware of their artificial nature and roots. Believing they were Earth exiles they fought humanity for 6 years, killing untold numbers of people until their leaders (who knew the truth of things from the beginning) called it quits and made their knowledge of the Migou and their status as cloned lifeforms known to both their soldiers and humanity. Three quarters of the Nazzadi turned on the remainder loyalists and drove the Migou-aligned forces out. They made peace, joined Earth as allies against Migou, were given Haiti and Cuba to form their own nation (and to make them easier to fight if they somehow turned on humanity again) and joined their forces, tactics and mecha with that of humanity.
The Migou were alien race living on the outskirts of our solar system. Looking like a mix of flies, crustaceans and [[Illithid]], they saw humanity as a threat to their colony on Pluto. They decided to wage war on us, seeking to destroy the human race and acquire the secrets of arcanotech for themselves. To do this they engineered a race in our image called the Nazzadi, who unaware of their artificial nature and roots. Believing they were Earth exiles they fought humanity for 6 years, killing untold numbers of people until their leaders (who knew the truth of things from the beginning) called it quits and made their knowledge of the Migou and their status as cloned lifeforms known to both their soldiers and humanity. Three quarters of the Nazzadi turned on the remainder loyalists and drove the Migou-aligned forces out. They made peace, joined Earth as allies against Migou, were given Haiti and Cuba to form their own nation (and to make them easier to fight if they somehow turned on humanity again) and joined their forces, tactics and mecha with that of humanity.
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After the defection of the Nazzadi, the Migou decided to wage their war themselves. Putting all of their race to a
fuck huge
ship, the size of the Moon, they landed on Earth en masse. And so the second Arcanotech War began. The Migou, seeing the threat of the cults, also worked against them.
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After the defection of the Nazzadi, the Migou
throw a hissy fit
decided to wage their war themselves. Putting all of their race to a
fuckhuge
ship, the size of the Moon, they landed on Earth en masse. And so the second Arcanotech War began. The Migou, seeing the threat of the cults, also worked against them.
Meanwhile a less obvious war had been going on. Cultists that had been in the shadows of humanity since the discovery of fire saw the advent of arcanotechnology as a sign that it was a time to revive their dead gods. The Chrysalis Corporation, innocent at first, corrupted afterwards by Nyarlahothep himself, worked to undermine the New Earth Government and other cults worked to corrupt humanity through vice.
Meanwhile a less obvious war had been going on. Cultists that had been in the shadows of humanity since the discovery of fire saw the advent of arcanotechnology as a sign that it was a time to revive their dead gods. The Chrysalis Corporation, innocent at first, corrupted afterwards by Nyarlahothep himself, worked to undermine the New Earth Government and other cults worked to corrupt humanity through vice.
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Now with the cults becoming more and more blatant in their actions and the Migou becoming more aggressive in an effort to stop them, the New Earth Government has realized that the war was evolving into something new and so declared the Arcanotech War to have ended and the Aeon War to have begun.
Now with the cults becoming more and more blatant in their actions and the Migou becoming more aggressive in an effort to stop them, the New Earth Government has realized that the war was evolving into something new and so declared the Arcanotech War to have ended and the Aeon War to have begun.
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TL;DR Human-Nazzadi (Dark Elf expies) Alliance versus the cold, technocratic Migou versus the Cult of Dagon versus The Rapine Storm (think Scourge from [[Warcraft]]) led by Hastur. Yup, everybody is an enemy. Oh and a ''second'' Migou hiveship is on its way.
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TL;DR Human-Nazzadi (Dark Elf expies) Alliance versus the cold, technocratic Migou versus the Cult of Dagon versus The Rapine Storm (think Scourge from [[Warcraft]]) led by Hastur. Yup, everybody is an enemy.
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Oh and a ''second'' Migou hiveship is on its way
.</s> Nevermind, it's not since Human-Nazzadi remnants in Oort Cloud laid down the law on the Migou's Pluto base
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==System==
==System==
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*'''Ancient Enemies''' is the sourcebook for Tagers and the Chrysalis Corporation. It has two new Tagers and metamorphised versions of all ten of them, new Dhohanoids, backgrounds on both the Eldritch Society and the Chrysalis Corporation and rules on how to play a Dhohanoid game alongside rules for them.
*'''Ancient Enemies''' is the sourcebook for Tagers and the Chrysalis Corporation. It has two new Tagers and metamorphised versions of all ten of them, new Dhohanoids, backgrounds on both the Eldritch Society and the Chrysalis Corporation and rules on how to play a Dhohanoid game alongside rules for them.
*'''Unveiled Threats''' is the gear book detailing weapons (now fully illustrated), gear, vehicles and armor. Also includes rules for drugs (coke is now sold over the counter!), new spells of all kinds, magical artifacts that will mess the user up, some background on technology and some weapons and armor for both the EOD and the Migou.
*'''Unveiled Threats''' is the gear book detailing weapons (now fully illustrated), gear, vehicles and armor. Also includes rules for drugs (coke is now sold over the counter!), new spells of all kinds, magical artifacts that will mess the user up, some background on technology and some weapons and armor for both the EOD and the Migou.
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*'''Burning Horizon''' is the metaplot book for the year 2087. The Independent Solar Colonies, a coalition of the survivors of the various NEG colonies, has made it to Earth after kicking the Migou's asses, and deals so much damage that the Second Hive Ship runs back to Pluto. The Migou are sore losers (Being kicked in the shins by your millenia-old slaves and becoming the butt-monkey tends to do that) and unleash the Migou Hemorrhagic Virus, which is pretty much Influenza meets Ebola. The ISC forces have brought along new technology in the form of the Inertial Dampener, an expansion on the D-Engine which pretty much negates any inertia you'd experience in space, allowing a ship to start and stop on a time and turn at speeds that would normally liquify a human. The book contains rules for space combat, new mecha and vehicles for fighting in space and rules for ISC characters who now fight alongside the NEG forces as the Coalition.
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*'''Burning Horizon''' is the metaplot book for the year 2087. The Independent Solar Colonies, a coalition of the survivors of the various NEG colonies, has made it to Earth after kicking the Migou's asses, and deals so much damage that the Second Hive Ship runs back to Pluto. The Migou are sore losers (Being kicked in the shins by your millenia-old slaves and becoming the butt-monkey
of the universe, humans
tends to do that) and unleash the Migou Hemorrhagic Virus, which is pretty much Influenza meets Ebola. The ISC forces have brought along new technology in the form of the Inertial Dampener, an expansion on the D-Engine which pretty much negates any inertia you'd experience in space, allowing a ship to start and stop on a time and turn at speeds that would normally liquify a human. The book contains rules for space combat, new mecha and vehicles for fighting in space and rules for ISC characters who now fight alongside the NEG forces as the Coalition
. The plot is promoted from Grimdark to Nobledark
.
==See Also==
==See Also==