(restarting from this post because it was mad long and getting away from the original topic) @ironclawallosaur THANK YOU FOR SO MUCH IN-DEPTH ANALYSES OMG
it does make me a little bit aaaa that you’ve pulled most of your data from the wikidot page though because there’s parts of that are MAD out of date and the whole thing is getting deleted as soon as I finish transferring everything over to my website asfdfsgt (the only reason I linked the Teleost article there is because it hasn’t been moved over yet oops), so some of your questions etc. might have been partially answered there already <___<;;
In regards to “just how weird is the March Earth Cataclysm in the wider scope of the universe”, the answer is pretty weird. Getting into the overarching multiverse stuff on my worldbuilds makes me feel like a pretentious jerk but basically the “force of existence” is known as Em and its counterpart is Void. When those two get out of whack the result is usually Void undoing the universe (which is what is happening in Black Razor) and when there’s a Lore Cascade worlds just turn into crazy fantasy lands like EBAMTAR but more so. The Infraflux Cataclysm had some unique events at its beginning (that I’m still working out) involving Cold Ones actually being active and doing things, which basically never happens, which is why the Angels and co. were like [MGS alert sound] and started investigating and basically making things worse while trying to figure out what their Dim counterparts were doing in that universe.
Now about SPAEC. You’ve actually got me wondering just how far the Cataclysm reaches outside of Earth, hmm... I think all the intense shit is localised to the planet, but since the Lore Cascade’s maximum scope was basically “the extent of human imagination” it’s very likely to have included the entire solar system to some degree. I don’t think it could have gone beyond that because idk the energy source has a limited range or whatever, but it’s fascinating to think that there might be Mars native “little green men” or something that spon-gen’d up there and might still be there doing their own thing. I agree that extraterrestrial locations are likely to be much more chill than Earth, comparatively. I love the idea of somebody fucking off to the moon to get a moment’s peace lol
and yeah... TURVYLAND. It has a slightly longer, edited entry on the website. Literally as I was typing it out I was like... this would be a great way to get to space. I bet they send things into space there. I’m willing to bet there’s small-scale launch stuff which I bet I could totally elaborate on in the future, but there’s a few problems with that that would need to be dealt with such as 1.) the weather there is all confused and fucked up, 2.) there’s secondary gravity anomalies all around it that make things inconvenient, and 3.) it’s not part of Infraflux, it’s owned by the Trade Union, who have basically turned it into a famous natural landmark and source of ~rare fashionable items~. I’ll definitely have to play more with the gravity-assisted launch stuff in future though because yeah, why would you not use the great big jump boost pad.
As for “tinted” (i.e.: unable to exist without Shine or Dim or Lore stuff) people going into space: They would carry that with them! All of those things are omnipresent in a balanced universe. An individual has a “self” that extends into Shine and Dim planes outside of the Material Plane and moves with them. Lore is just existence (Em) in a particular structure, which is also everywhere and is part of the thing it’s built with. This pic is OLD but I haven’t written about the planes/energies stuff yet so take it instead lol
