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Humans were not the only species to evolve into intelligent humnoids. Spiders have also evolved. Now there is a war between Us and the Spider people. Humans control Europe and Asia while the spiders control North and South America neither side haveing any great technological advantage over the other. However The spiders breed much faster and in greater numbers than humans but Humans are able to adapt better to there enviorment.

Ah but do the spiders feed on humanity? Or are they still on a fly diet?

Uh big six foot spider hmmm what does it feed on. Oh yea Human





I am just messin with you Ara yeah they eat people.

Maybe those same spiders could be a delicacy to us humans. You know like king crabs.

ok that is just nasty i mean damn dude spider legs.

An explosion in the population of certain kinds of mutated vermin renders the mainlands uninhabitable by Man...human populations are forced into an existance on, or under, the oceans, while attempting to take back the continents....

shiiv-a wrote:LOL .....

i TOLD you it was a bad one ....

a very silly one .. but maybe in bad taste

OH my god...It's an invasion by M.U.S.C.L.E.....

Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere!...

(Basically a smnall plastic trash can of flesh-colored plastic bizarro-pro-wrestling style figurenes sold in the general stores..
The Japanese made an anime based on some of them, but I always thought some of them would make GREAT Rifts inspirations...)

Thanks, Shiiv-a. I hadn't thought of those little buggers in a long time!

It was a great one she suggested!

How about a world were all of the water is starting to disappear. Could be freezing or just drying up.

Trees are the true intelligence on Earth, part of a vast interconnected green network across the cosmos..
And their relatives have come to visit...They're big, they're green, and they're PISSED...

ahh .. yer welcome there taalismn ...

it just hit me outta the blue was all ... think of all those plastic soldiers we had while growing up ... about them suddenly coming to life and trying to kill us off for ... the ... uhh ... wanton destruction we did to them when we were younger? ...

*is guilty of some of htat ... sadly*

These last few alternate universe ideas are cool! And sort of sad without human beings.

How about a universe where mankind actually watches out for the earth. You know, no pollution. None of mankinds abuses. The cities are kept from growing too big. Careful cultivation of the planets resources. No living part of the biomass being driven extinct by mankind.

Women run the world men have no rights at all, men are not allowed to work, or vote, or do anything outside of the house. When people use the term homemaker they are talking about men.

Good one!

Atlantis appears in the mid-Atlantic during our current day, disrupting the Gulf Stream and shipping lanes..>It comes complete with appropriate animal and plant life, including dinosaurs, and Atlanteans...though these are not the urbane sophisticates of True Atlantia, but socially primitive(the most advanced of them try offering virgin sacrifices to the survey aircraft buzzing overhead...)

Some people want to set Atlantis aside as a preserve and tourist attraction, others want to divide it up, others want to set it aside as the new home base of a rejuvenated United Nations, while still others want it to be a new homeland(for themselves or undesireables forcibly deported from their own countries...). And the scientists worry about what it all portends for the nature of reality...

The second one is the one I would expect from most people today. They'd try to turn it into something it wasn't meant to be.

..>Or...Atlantis rises to introduce Earth to the Megaverse..and ATlantis is already covered with stripmalls, fast food joints, used vehicle lots, and boutiques, all run by wheeler-dealer True Atlanteans eager to make a fast buck off the gullible Terrans(the 'lesser' Humans)...

During the comeing of the rifts only a small percentage of the world is destroyed. Most of the super powers like America and China and Russia are still intact. All invadeing demons and monsters are met as they come out of the rifts by forces set to guard the Big Permanet rifts like Calgary.

Ouch! That would be a nasty world to live in!

Imagine every power in the Rifts universe being able to talk before they open fire. Even the CS using Diplomacy before they start wars.

Earth is designated a 'spoilage zone' for the dumping of alien garbage by a consortium of alien races, threatening to turn the Earth into a copy of the Garbage Dimension from Megaversal Builder....as piles of alien rubbish begin to accumulate, Humanity must struggle to try to save the Earth's ecosystem, attempt to reverse engineer some sort of defense from the cast-offs found in the garbage, and find resources such as food in the gathering alien garbage, all the whole avoiding being poisoned, crushed, or done in by exotic alien substances...

now the kicker is if we discover irrefutable evidence that we are all the result of inadvertant seeding by messy alien astronauts....
Thus setting off religious wars against archeobiology and the entire scientific establishment....

The interal combustion engine was never developed and the world therefore doesnt use oil as a fuel source.

I guess that means we'd have a lot less forest then.


What about discovering atomic theory before oil is actually utilized. Therefore the primative reactors on in place and used in oil's place.

well .. lets see ...

we'ld get about by ... some alient snail/slug beast .. thats faster that a horse and can last for about 4 hours at top speed before needing to rest and chow down on .. goop.

their color is determined by WHAT it eats ...

the only parts i can add to this last bit

What if we never had any sort of darkages. That we always took two steps forward and never any back during research. (And this is from the beginning. imagine how much more advanced we could be.)

Coal is declared a substance 'of the devil' and the ban sticks in Medieval England....Thus, the Industrial Revolution, fuelled by coal, either never happens, or is greatly delayed, allowing other countries to get the jump on industry, leaving Britain in the dust(and likely deforested by a wood-fuelled economy)...

Then we might be speaking another language here in the US. Who knows maybe Spanish!

..For one day...
Our dreams come true...

(great shades of 'Forbidden Planet')

That is an interesting connection.

One day...
Every drop of beer mysteriousy vanishes from Earth....

I live in a state which would panic if that happened!

The next day every drop of coffee(and every coffee plant) disappears...

I know a lot of people who might commit murder if that ever happened! I'm not one of those. I don't rely on coffee ever.

Cola's the third day...

*waits to hear what vanishes on the fourth day ... *

Yeah, I'm waiting for the other foot of the centipede to drop too!


Shiiv-a, about that title you mention in your quote area. What is the story about it?

Insects from the Pre-historic age have come through a rift to modern day only the crossing has made them grow to the size of Dinosaurs.

Talk about neding a bigger fly swatter!

shiiv-a wrote:*waits to hear what vanishes on the fourth day ... *

Tea...

And, after that, chocolate....

MrMom wrote:Insects from the Pre-historic age have come through a rift to modern day only the crossing has made them grow to the size of Dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs emerge from a time-gate, only they're shrunk to the size of small dogs...

I can see an alternate world where pet stores sell true exotic creature. Like dog sized dinosuars, dog sized insects, and mythological creatures.

they had a movie or two about mini dino's ... *can't recall it just now*

i think it would be interesting to see a world similar to 'dinotopia' ...

[think that's how its spelt

I see a world were wars are fought by nations champions not by armys. The loseing side surrenders completely without question. The only time armys are brought together is when the lose side refuses to comply with the laws of war.

Alternate After the Bomb setting....one of the plagues that swept the Earth turned humans into zombies....Mutant animals are unaffected by it(or so they hope) so some animals say 'good riddance' to Humanity, while what would have become the Empire of Humanity, instead turns to the animal community to preserve themselves from the millions of zombies stalking the Earth....Of course, once the zombies turn to the mutants for fresh protein, sensing the 'human smell', it's every biped together to fight the undead in 'World War Z Meets AtB'....

I see a world were it is illegal not to carry a weapon if you are an adult.

Life on earth has evolved to fit the atmosphere which is posion to all life forms that are not from earth to begin with.

Those are some cool ideas! That one with the Champions fighting each her. Too bad that couldn't have happened here instead of WW2. Just have Hitler and Stalin face each other while the world watches.

hmm ... the common language .. gan'sta

*god .. why did i just say that? .. must be the movie in the background that made me ... 'malibu's most wanted'

Rifts/Beyond the Supernatural/Nightspawn spillover....A demon lord decides to invade a 20th century Earth, unleashing his minions on America's military bases, wiping out most of our heavy military forces withing hours, then proceeds to attack the cities, starting with the largest, and using the chaotic panic of refugees fleeing , to spread further chaos, and causing problems fo the regrouping defenders in other smaller cities before the the demons can move on them....The weakened state of America also serves as an opportunity for the country's enemies to strike with relative impunity...so the demon-lord plans....

Except....the same D-gate activity that allows the demons to assault cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, also allows unique bands of champions to come through....New York City finds itself being defended by a mixed band of Madhaven Mutants and Mystic Knights...Washington D.C. by either Republicans or Shemarrians...Chicago by Coalition soldiers or some other group...L.A. by..what?


AND/OR....The large cities start coming alive.....as if some mass-spirit were driving them...and the cities start defending themselves in ways unique to their identities....Los Angeles tangles its demonic invaders in a twisting labyrinth of moving roadways and highways, then choking them in smog....New York City purges itself of its demonic vermin by crushing them under moving skyscrapers and a towering Statue of Liberty....folks, use your imaginations...

Due to a science expermint gone wrong cow have become more intellingant and developed a taste for human flesh.