Titanic disasters of Old Earth

[Nyrath]

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/earth.html

 

The Earth has survived many disasters. To keep our tale brief, let us focus on four: the Big Splat about 4.55 billion years ago, the Late Heavy Bombardment about 4 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe roughly 2.5 billion years ago, and the Snowball Earth events about 1 billion years ago.

 

I'm sure an inventive game master can use any of these as a plot seed. Or all at once.

 

My basic technique to turn history into a campaign plot seed is to ask "what if this was not a random historical event, but instead was intentionally caused by someone? Or something?"

 

Special bonus: the last five mass extinctions

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/extinction/

[azato]

Re: Titanic disasters of Old Earth

 

Here is a directory of animated simulations from a link on that site. It freaks me out. Look especially at the last file.

 

 

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~robin/moonimpact/

 

 

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/earth.html

 

The Earth has survived many disasters. To keep our tale brief, let us focus on four: the Big Splat about 4.55 billion years ago, the Late Heavy Bombardment about 4 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe roughly 2.5 billion years ago, and the Snowball Earth events about 1 billion years ago.

 

I'm sure an inventive game master can use any of these as a plot seed. Or all at once.

 

My basic technique to turn history into a campaign plot seed is to ask "what if this was not a random historical event, but instead was intentionally caused by someone? Or something?"

 

Special bonus: the last five mass extinctions

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/extinction/

[Nyrath]

Re: Titanic disasters of Old Earth

 

Ah, a computer simulation of the dreaded Planet-Cracker weapon of the Blortch Empire.

[Nyrath]

Re: Titanic disasters of Old Earth

 

Keeping in mind that meteorite bombardment may have made Earth more habitable:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/icl-mbm060109.php