[DitV, hack] Suggestions from the author

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Paolo D.:
Quote from: Teataine on November 29, 2009, 02:41:53 AM

So for a BSG game...humans splitting amongst themselves, terrorism, religion, racism, strikes, low morale, paranoia...identify what makes it easier for the Cylons to kill us all and put in in a ladder of "sin". Sin is antagonism, in this case threat to human survival. The survival of the fleet is "faith", everything else is heresy.

Demonic presence is how much have the cylons infiltrated the society.

Symbols of authority...hrm, you should probably switch this to military rank or something.

Does that sound alright?

Ok about "demonic presence = cylon presence", that was the way I intended it. But I have some doubts about "human survival = faith":

(from here, Vincent, stop me if I'm wrong;)

In DitV, the survival of the minority (the believers) is the "goal", in some way: the people and the characters (the Dogs) tries to save the community by the Faith. And when Faith is not enough, the Dogs have to choose (and generally they start shooting each other ^^).

In BSG, the survival of the minority (the survivors of the Cylon attacks) is the "goal", of course: the people and the characters (the Agents of the indipendent court??) tries to save the community by... by what? Culture+democracy+law? In DitV that is the Doctrine (social rules and laws), not the Faith.
In BSG, the only thing I found in which all the community believes (like Faith or God) is: the quest for the Earth.
People believe in Earth, and they can't be sure of the existence (like God). People have to find Earth for salvation (like heaven or hell). And the quest for Earth, together with the situation of emergency in the fleet, legitimate the power of the characters (the Agents of the indipendent court, like the Dogs).

In this way maybe it could work, but I miss one thing: "God talks to you about your stewardship".
In BSG, the quest for Earth and the Cylon presence inspire visions (precognition or madness? How knows... ;) ), but is it enough?

(I'm SURE that in some way I offended the english language with this post... Sorry...)

lumpley:
I think that in BSG, the Faith would be the military, and the civilian government would be the Territorial Authority. The civilian government, civil rule, is much more vulnerable to Cylon infiltration than the military is (at least so says the military).

You know those episodes where marines landed on civilian ships? Like that.

-Vincent

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