GM's Notes.

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Since I've been thinking about this new setting idea I've had, I've contemplated writing a set of GM's notes so I'll have my reasoning written down if I end up revisiting the idea some time in the future. Since they are GM's notes, they're fairly secret, but I liked the first few sentences enough that I thought I would share them:

It could have been worse; a poor epitaph for the uncounted trillions of lives that were lost in the Cataclysm, but its the best they would get. The survivors were far too busy surviving to take time to mourn the dead and missing.

In the end, it had been a very close thing; the results balanced on a knife's edge. Had conditions been just slightly more favorable, the Cataclysm might not have happened at all. On the other hand, had they been just the slightest bit worse, no one would have survived at all, anywhere. As it was, those who weren't destroyed immediately had to contend with a universe in which the laws of physics had been reduced to mere guidelines and time and space were subject to change on a moment's notice.

Very few races had been advanced enough and looking in the right places to see the oncoming disaster, and most of those had been in no position to do anything about it. So, they had done what any rational species would do when faced with unavoidable devastation: they had panicked.