[Torg] Home Cosms

[Travis James Hall]

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> [mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Steve Crow
> Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 4:04 PM
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> 4) Given #3 is correct, any home cosms covered in pure zones 
> after the five-year period would soon become a detriment to 
> the Darkness Device and abandoned as it and its High Lord 
> move on to repeat the process.

Correction: Any home cosms covered in stelae-bounded pure zones in conflict
with another reality at their borders would become a detriment to the
Darkness Device. Natural pure zones don't cost the Darkness Device any
Possibility Energy to maintain. It's the artificial borders that cost, not
the pure zone itself.

> 5) There's no indication that the five home cosms were ever 
> "transformed" or that stelae were planted to dran the energy 
> of these worlds. There were some tinkering and resculpting of 
> the existing World Laws, but nothing actually transformative 
> tio what was native to the cosm.

That's because generally they weren't. The process used by the Darkness
Devices and the High Lords to drain energy relies on two realities coming
into conflict. They need to take one reality and connect it via Maelstrom
Bridge to another, and the Darkness Device and High Lord need to themselves
be attached to the reality that is "making ground", so to speak. So, they
need a "home base" reality and a reality to invade. They could let
themselves transform to a new cosm's reality before each invasion, I
suppose, but that involves a fair bit of extra work. If you can conquer your
home cosm, why not just use that as "home base"?

> (I'm not sure why less inherent/native 
> possibilities in a cosm = more pure zones.)

Creating a contradiction requires Possibility Energy. Less Possibility
Energy means less contradictions. No contradictions = pure zone.

That's it in a nutshell, though broadly and non-technically put. A lot of
people make the assumption that enforcing a reality requires energy, but
Torg cosmology is the other way around.

And before you say "but Storm Knights can provide the Possibility Energy to
create contradictions, it doesn't have to come from the environment," yes,
they certainly can. They do this using the rules for reality bubbles - pay a
Possibility, and you're allowed to create contradictions for a while.

> With all that, it seems like the five "home base cosms" 
> listed above would be primarily dominant.

Why? Because if they were pure, they would cost the Darkness Device
Possibility Energy to maintain them? No, that's not true, because the home
cosms are not generally covered with stelae and controlled that way, and
certainly don't have another reality pounding on their boundaries.

We have been told that other cosms are poorer in Possibility Energy than
Earth, so (knowing what we do about cosmology) they should generally have
more pure zones than Earth. That doesn't necessarily mean they are
pure-majority, just that they have more pure zones than Earth.

Somewhere it might actually be stated that other cosms are generally
majority-pure, but I don't remember where if it does.

Travis Hall