[Torg] the lands below

[Kansas Jim]

Crabshtick wrote:

>           in relation to the idea of a tharkold land below with an AI 
> and robots. didnt i read of an AI highlord in the godnet or something? 

That'd be Pulse, described in Infiniverse Update #3. Pulse is not
actually in the GodNet, its cosm is apparently connected to the
GodNet like the Cyberpapacy and Kadandra. Pulse is described as
"pure information personified" but it's never actually stated that
it is a computer intelligence.

> couldnt i just have something equivelant appear in the tharkold land 
> below and start messing with the local laws etc? or would this mess with 
> the entire land below?
>         ich brings me to the question of a high lord in the land below 
> would he have to mess with each domed world separatly or would an axiom 
> shift affect them all? not sure myself as the world laws for each domed 
> world seem to be separate.

The Land Below is such a mess reality-wise. From just what is in the
supplement I would say that it was never intended for each domed world
to have different WLs, but someone at WEG must have thought it would
be more fun to mix things up. And as with so many other things they did
after the first couple years, they didn't care if it would actually fit
into the game's existing framework or not, they just ran with the idea
of same axioms with different WLs.

Personally I would say that each domed world is its own fringe reality,
the tunnels are just a thematic element connecting these domed worlds
with the caverns under the surface of Core Earth. So changing an axiom
in one domed world would not have an effect on any other domed world.
(Going with this interpretation I'd also allow that domed worlds could
have different axioms instead of insisting that they're all the same.)

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