Other Menaces for Infinite Worlds

I was watching Charlie Jade, and it occured to me first of all, that
the polluted Alphaverse would make a good opponent for both Homeline
and Centrum. Then I realised that really it was a lot like one of the
invading cosms from the defunct Torg roleplaying game. You know, with
a bit of fiddling several of the attacking cosms would work. These
aren't faithful versions of the Torg cosms, just what they suggested
to me in the Infinite Worlds context.

1. Marketplace: Marketplace is a world where nations are now
meaningless, and a of large corporations control the world. Their
agenda is to maximise their profit and eliminate anyone who stands in
their way or competes with them, so essentially they're a more extreme
and less restrained version of Homeline.



2. Cyberpapacy: This one's interesting with a little fiddling, a
cyberpunk world dominated by a church who have created a virtual
reality heaven and hell for themselves. When someone dies on good
terms with the church, the recording of their personality on a chip
implanted into them is loaded into the heaven simulation. No need to
ask what happens to executed heretics. Their agenda is to convert
other timelines of course, by persuasion or force as necessary.

I figure I'd drop the miracles of the "real" cyberpapacy. The
cynicism of creating an artificial afterlife suggests a lack of
genuine faith.

3. Orrorsh: Horrifying creatures created to cause fright checks
because every time they succeed in frightening someone, that feeds
their master. Not really a timeline as such, but a force that spreads
across multiple timelines.

4. The Nile Empire: A comic book supervillain who, frustrated in his
attempts to conquer his own world left to conquer other less
resistant ones using a mixture of 1930s vintage conventional military
force, and super-science weaponry.

I don't think Aysle and the Living Land have much to offer, though.
They certainly didn't in the the actual Torg game.