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This German professor repainted his observatory into R2-D2

 
This German professor repainted his observatory into R2-D2

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Search for the "Scott Brown Incident" on YouTube. It was a game session, but it was the reverse of your tale.
 
I would link it, but the video has some profanity, notably the f-bomb. Still, it's worth watching.

On the Moon ... when we on Earth see an eclipse of the Moon, then witnesses on the Moon would see a total eclipse of the Sun.  But the experience would be importantly different.  From our perspective, Moon and Sun are nearly the same angular size: the Moon barely is large enough to cover the whole solar photosphere, which is what lets us see the solar chromosphere and corona so strikingly in a solar eclipse.  Earth as seen from the Moon would be rather larger than the Sun in terms of angular size: Earth would cover the Sun with lots to spare, so the spectacle would be rather diminished, actually.
 
I know that yes, Earth (and its Moon!) does transit the Sun's disk as seen from Mars.  One such event happened in 1984.  There is a Wikipedia article about the phenomenon: link
 
What that article doesn't say is if such an event would be a "naked eye" thing, that is, whether a normal human observer with only "eclipse glasses" to prevent injury from the glare of the Sun (but giving no magnification) would be able to see Earth's disk traverse the Sun from a vantagepoint on Mars, as is true for a human observer on Earth during a transit of Venus (but is NOT true for a human observer on Earth during a transit of Mercury).  The answer to that is ... dicey.  Earth as seen from Mars would have about half the angular size of Venus as seen from Earth, which puts it near the limit of what a normally-sighted human can see.  My guess that such an observer would need a bit of aid to be sure of seeing it, not even as much as pretty standard 7-power binoculars... probably cheap opera glasses would be adequate, aside from the eye-protection issue.

Well, I’m Irish so it was a pool cue and half a stick.
She never came back to my apt. but I’m really, really sure she never went into somebody’s home without calling ahead or knocking again.

Don’t look down on the power of a good stick. 
  Once upon a time when I was working nights and sleeping days I woke up to the sound of someone letting themselves in my front door.  I jumped up and grabbed the business end of a pool cue I kept next to the bed.  I charged down the hall at full speed screaming obscenities at the top of my lungs and smashing the cue against the walls. 
  You never saw a Century 21 lady and two prospective buyers of my apartment building run so fast in your life.....did I mention I was naked?

It's only the second week of my weight loss program, and my clothes already fit better. 

I quit a few groups for that reason.

Mum is now in Kingfisher ward in Mount Gould which means I can walk there.
And house guests made me dinner which was nice

I just thought it was a scream........

pfft. clip art!

... I already knew my faith is weak.  

My favorite YouTube channel.
 
 

A tribute to those who could not be here--
 
 
 

The stick, in Kendo, is the firts, preferred, and most enjoyable resort.

This should be in the fortune cookie thread.

It's only the second week of my weight loss program, and my clothes already fit better. 

Good for you.   When all else fails...hit ‘em with a stick! 

The Government's misdeeds
As you can see, the government is kind of the overarching villain of the setting. They are indeed quite villainous, but it's only a limited, secret branch, and for instance cops aren't as anti-rogues as the rest.
 
Since Rafael's apparition, the government created the ASHRRaD, the Agency for Super Human Regulation, Research a Development. While it was initially thought as an organisation aimed at peacefully regulating superhumans and helping superheroes (and some branches, like the ASCF, the Anti Super-Criminality Force, still do just that) it was quickly turned into a corrupt, power-hungry agency.
 
In 2026, the ASHRRaD planned Excalibur's murder and worked with Vanguard to get him into the Guardians as a replacement. In 2034, the faked Thomas Parn's death. In 2038, they tested a theory and unlocking funds by preying on Gauss's weak sanity and pushing her to the limit by kidnapping all her superhero team. The same year, following the Induction Incident, they kickstarted the Constellation Program, aiming at turning Galaxy Rush's flesh, blood, bone marrow and cerebral fluids into a super-soldier serum. They used it to create the Constellation Squad, a super-secret squad of brainwashed super-soldier boosted with the Constellation serum and used to kidnap rogues and assassinate important targets. They are incredibly quick, extremely agile, insanely strong and have elite trainings. They can also regenerate at insane rates.
 
In 2045, the setting present day, the ASHRRaD is still abducting female soldiers with good combat records (female because the Constellation Serum kills XY chromosome individuals by destroying their DNA) to put them in the Constellation Squad. They recently started investigating on a big group of rogues, the one the players are going to meet.

Hey, I'm the newbee who wondered what a Champions campaign was supposed to look like, and at some point I said I needed some feedback on my setting. I went homebrew because I'm simply better at homebrewing things than at following a pre-made thing, but I wont throw using premade thing like factions out the window either.
 
This setting is very highly inspired by the web-novel "Worm", by Civil War and by the Incredibles. In short, heroes are outlawed unless chaperoned by the government. Rogue heroes are untrusted by the general populace and form a very underground, close knit and street culture. The government secretly kidnaps young rogues to make experiments on superheroes and develop super-soldier serums, weapons and turn them into brainwashed hounds to get more test subjects.
 
Overall History (more info in the World Anvil Timeline here : https://www.worldanvil.com/w/earth-2045-tryskhell/t/global-earth-2045-history-timeline?preview=1 )
It is set in 2045. Up to 2020, our history is identical, but the 19 September 2020, a meteor crashes into a building, killing nearly everyone. A man named Charles Brook touches it and the glassed rock cracks, revealing an orb of light that enters his heart, turning him into the first -and certainly not the last- super-human. He becomes a super-hero with the moniker Rafael and founds the Guardians with four other super-heroes : Galaxy Rush (High-level energy projector/brick), The Mind (basically Iron Man), Heart Overdrive (can control masses of people and emotions) and Escalibur (he gains super-human abilities when he holds his sword. He dies and is replaced with Vanguard, basically Superman).
 
In 2034, he accidentally kills a young boy called Thomas Parn, and the government create the Thomas Part Act, making super-heroes illegal if they don't obey their orders. Rafael and Heart Overdrive disappear, The Mind and Galaxy Rush give themselves in and Vanguard takes over the Guardians, turning it into the Vanguard Corps, a squad of super-heroes under the thumb of the government. Heroes have the choice of declaring their powers to the government and working for them or becoming rogues.
 
In 2038, a young low-level rogue nicknamed Gauss turns crazy and becomes the supe-rvillain Induction. For 10 hours, she lays destruction on a district of New-Manhattan (the fictional city built after the destruction of Manhattan by super-villains). No one seems able to stop her, not even Vanguard. In the end, at around 3 in the morning, the military drops a seismic bomb directly onto her. It is unknown what exactly happened to her, but a 60 meter radius sphere is turned into plasma and explodes, destroying the whole district. Nobody knows where she is, if she is alive, and the whole district has been black-sited by the government. 
This is called the Induction Incident, and made everyone very wary of rogues, since they could all be ticking bombs.

Superpowers
Superpowers initially come from meteors that crash down from space, but they mysteriously cannot be detected until they are too close to be intercepted. In total, there is 4 ways to get superpowers :
- Originals : Touch a meteor. This is how brand new powers enter the pool of possibilities. These powers tend to depend on the circumstances of the crash, what was destroyed, the personality of the one who got the powers and the people who were killed by the crash. In quite a grim fashion, the more people died, the stronger the power.
- Birth Rights : Be the children of a super-human, and you get similar powers. If both parents are super, you might get one, the other, both, or an original combination.
- Legacy : If a super-human gives you an object linked to their powers (if Iron Man were to give you his suit, for instance) and you use it for an extended amount of time, you could end up getting similar powers.
- Exposure : If you are exposed to a super-human's powers, you have a small chance of getting similar powers. The stronger, more violent, and/or more frequent the exposure, the higher the chance you get those powers. For instance, Excalibur was impaled by Mordred (a super-villain who's power is summoning swords and making them levitate) and survived miraculously. After the event, each time he held the sword, he was able to make it fly in various direction for limited amounts of time.
 
Super-powers are classified by the government with a tool called the Frizzell's Scale. It gives a general understanding of their type and power-level. The power level goes from 0 to 2000, 0 being no powers at all (and not even human abilities) and 2000 being Rafael's level. As you can guess, this is the number of character points used in a character's creation. There is also 15 types of powers, Brick, Acrobat, Mystic, Breakout, Husher... I've made the full list on World Anvil, right here : https://www.worldanvil.com/w/earth-2045-tryskhell/a/power-type-list-article?preview=1

Most supers have a score bellow 1000 (a thousand being called the "Godhood threshold"). Officially, Rafael is the most powerful, but there's rumors that Induction's score was above 3000.

I think this thread is the appropriate place to post this PSA considering all the drone videos that are here.
 
 
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.