Sky City in AtB

Rali · Unread post by **Rali** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:59 pm

Did anyone catch this on Discovery? It was part of their "Extreme Engineering" series. I only heard about it in passing online and when I took a look at it, all I could think of is what if some of these things still stood in the AtB setting?

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/en ... ctive.html

http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/te ... 63_sky.htm

Actually, I think that the layout/design of the towers would be great for the spokes on Yuro Station (Mutants in Orbit).

Also make me wonder what other "Megastructures" might still be standing around the world...

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:49 pm

Hmmm...a post-Fall/AtB arcology could bring new meaning to the term 'concrete jungle'..especially if mutant humans were the main predators....

Juankis · Unread post by **Juankis** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:48 am

That was the basis for my idea for Mutants of The Sprawl, in the fanbook post. I pictured the towers' control centers as the last bastions of the defenders against the chaos of the Fall.

oni no won · Unread post by **oni no won** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:35 am

That is so cool!

I think I'll use some of the concepts as part of Chi-Town and other Mega Cities.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:33 am

I believe one of the Rifters also features an Aberdeen Arcology in a description of Golden Age Britain....
NO mention of it in Rifts England, so we can assume its hold-out eventually ended...

But, yes, I can see mutant humans uniquely adapted to arcology lfe...like small statured, double-jointed, plastic-boned 'tweenwallers and nible-fingered fearless gargoyle lemur-like ledge-leapers.......

Rali · Unread post by **Rali** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:16 am

taalismn wrote:I can see mutant humans uniquely adapted to arcology lfe...like small statured, double-jointed, plastic-boned 'tweenwallers and nible-fingered fearless gargoyle lemur-like ledge-leapers.......

Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of the inhabitants ending up as a xenophobic culture that has shut itself away from the outside world. Maybe still maintaining a society that reflects that from before the bomb in its use of EEGs for the creation and perpetuation of an oppressed mutant animal slave subclass.

Lord_Dalgard · Unread post by **Lord_Dalgard** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:17 pm

Chello!

Personally, I've always thought of doing Alpha Complex (from the Paranoia RPG) in ATB....or a darker, more serious one in RIFTS.

Tony

abtex · Unread post by **abtex** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:29 pm

Like Skycity. Add London's London's mile-high vertical village to the upward Arcologies.