Quote:Second or third, depending on when quirk-free handwavium starts to become available. Since that's the holy grail of wavetech engineering, it'll happen eventually.
Okay. I was thinking that a lot of these groups would be second generation, anyway, after humanity had some time to settle down and put down strange roots. A few of these groups could be done in the "here and now" though.
I'm thinking in particular the Blakes, Cold Shatter, Satanist (have to come up with a better name), maybe the Black Monoliths and Kuiper Brain, though by this point the Brain would have consumed only half an asteroid or comet.
(Speaking of probabilities, once the mundanes come up/obtain quirkless 'wave, I fully expect Earth to go Sheenisov. Which will set certain quarters howling. Moo hoo ha ha ha.)
As for the groups... the Blakes, obviously, in all their fractious glory. Cold Shatter would make for an interesting bad guy once we get over the zwilnik hump. The Monoliths and Kuiper OTOH, I think work better as rumors than actual factions, the sort of stories Belters and browncoats tell while drunk.
Quote:*snort* Okay, this wins.---
Slans: group of fens that tried to get the Slan-gene modifications and mostly succeeded. They have the tendrils, the peak physical conditioning, and even the "telepathy." Unfortunately, the telepathy turned out to be integrated FTL comms in their brains that allow them to "read" the minds of fellow Slans and with any FTL comm-capable computer. Also, supercilious jerks that, to a person, have an over-inflated martyr complex that causes them to whine incessently.
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