[Torg] Possibilities and the Nexus (Genre and Being Real, 3 of 6)

[Jones Jasyn]

How is Core Earth different?

Core Earth breaks a lot of rules. For one, it creates more Storm Knights than any other cosm yet known. It also empowers these Storm Knights with more Possibility Energy than any other reality. But there’s more.

Core Earth creates Storm Knights not just here, but in other cosms as well. It shapes transcendence and the Moment of Crisis in any cosm attached to Earth, creating more Storm Knights there. It also empowers those Storm Knights: Storm Knights who appear in any of those cosms gain the same bonus of Possibility Energy. Core Earth creates more Storm Knights in other cosms and fills them with more Possibility Energy than usual. But there’s more.

Core Earth is reaching out to cosms other than those currently on Earth. It is reaching out to an unknown number of cosms, and drawing Storm Knights from those cosms to Earth. Core Earth’s influence reaches out across the cosmverse.

All of the above, by the way, are official rules, based on statements from the actual sourcebooks. It isn’t a reinterpretation or reimagining, it’s what the rules actually say.

So how does this apply to my fiction assertion?

Possibility Energy circulates, for example between the living and their reality. Thanks to Core Earth’s Possibility Nexus, Possibility Energy also circulates from Core Earth out to the cosmverse, where it affects Storm Knights, then back, drawing Storm Knights back to Earth. Through its Nexus, Core Earth is connected to other cosms, even cosms far removed from the Wars.

This connection didn’t just appear when the Wars started. It’s always been there. (You can see it coming now, can’t you?)

Core Earth is, and always has been, in the business of exchanging Possibility Energy with other cosms. Possibility Energy from other cosms has always been drawn back to Earth.

And Possibility Energy, even that from other cosms, inspires visions of what might be. The realities of other cosms have inspired the fiction of Core Earth because the Possibility Nexus of Core Earth made it possible. Not just possible, but inevitable.

The fiction of Core Earth (as in, published on Core Earth) mirrors, albeit imperfectly, the realities of other cosms. Core Earth fiction didn’t cause those realities, but the fact that those realities mirror Core Earth genres isn’t some crazy random happenstance. There is a cause and effect, but Core Earth isn’t the cause, it’s the caused. Their realities shaped our genres, we inherited genre tropes from them.

That's the answer. So what does this mean for the game?
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Jasyn Jones
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