HOLY FUCK SHIT YES YOU ARE THE BEST MOVIE EVER HHNNNNGGGGGHHHHHHH

Underrated story. Great animation.

Is the setting pre or post-Bob?

I liked this movie

You can't fight the Drej!

They're Pure Energy!

Also, the Mantrin are a fucking awesome race.

What system should we use? Traveller?

Fuck yes. Pure energy aliens.

I hate this movie....had to watch it 17 times over the course of a summer, the camp I went to was too cheap to let us see another movie in theaters...even though pokemon had been released that year.

IT'S MAH TUUUUUUUURN TAH FLYYYYYYYYYY

>>8785275
You shut your whore mouth! Like right fucking now! This is pure fucking gold and I will not have you slander it!

>>8785267
The book expanded on that to account for a lot of what's seen in the movie that "Lol Energy Beings" doesn't really explain.

Drej Drones are made of starlight, collected by fiber optics embedded in the surface of the Mothership and coalesced into drej-shape by the will of the Queen, before being enclosed in synthetic envelopes so they can maintain their shape even when she's not paying attention. They also have individual wills, while maintaining a collective awareness.

>>8785304
WHAT THE FUCK HOLY NIGGER SHIT THERE IS A BOOK?!

WHY DID NO ONE MOTHERFUCKING TELL ME?!

NIGGERCUNTS AND SHITFUCK

"pure energy" is meaningless

>>8785304
>They also have individual wills, while maintaining a collective awareness.
>Energy based geth.
Holy shit this is awesome!

>>8785208
The Grimdark in me says: Just before the events of the movie, with humanity scattered to the stars and the drej making a play at killing some more shit.
The Noblebright says: immediately after the events of the movie, with the players trying to reunite the scattered bits of humanity, and working with Cale and Akima to get the world running.

>>8785248
Which one were they? The monk-bats? Or the gun toting kangaroo lady?

>>8785256
Traveller or Rogue Trader, which system you prefer. Definitely Traveller scale though.

>>8785339
It just means it is 100% energy and 0% mass. What's so meaningless about that?

For some reason it's really unknown. I found my copy in a dollar store years ago and haven't seen another one, ever.

It's by Steven and Dal Perry, although I think those might be pseudonyms.

Three chapters were devoted to the story from the Drej's perspective. They were interestingly portrayed. Very alien.

Orange-blue contrast

>>8785191
But I'm not broken,
in my dream I win,
in here I'm nothing,
a cosmic castaway.

Mantrins are the kangaroo-people. They're described differently in the book than they were animated, being more avian, with a parrot-like beak and an oddly pleasant scent, like cinnamon.

I'd go with your Noblebright instincts on this one, because that just sounds like a way more interesting campaign. I'd leave Akima and Cale in the "Big Picture" though, not as DMPC's or what have you.

Have some Akima, whoring it up for the promo art.

>>8785304
Fuck! There was a novelization of it
>amazon.com/Titan-E-Novelization-Steve-Perry
>Steve Perry
The fucking dude who wrote Shadows of the Empire?!?!?!

Fucking sweet.

>>8785363
>Grimdark
>Noblebright
Holy fuck, I can't choose. Both options are equally awesome.

There is only one option. We create two slightly different settings for either.
>Or the gun toting kangaroo lady?
That one.
>Rogue Trader
Never played it actually. This is just a guess, but doesn't it have a lot of mechanics that pretty much only fit into the 40k universe? Traveller feels a bit more generic and fitting.

That said, BRP does anything and does it better than almost everything, is what I always say.

i would consider savage worlds for this one. i did a Serenity one shot with that once

Ok, so maybe I'm mistaken on the authors, and my region is just depressingly book-poor.

Now I am sad.

Plus, the humans have that migrant fleet thing going on.

Holy shit, I can't believe I forgot about those parallels.

...Now I want to see a Titan AE/Mass Effect crossover. Badly.

>>8785422


She always reminded me of the Sirens from Startopia with those purple bits in her hair.

>>8785402
No, I wouldn't have Akima and Cale running around doing much of anything. In fact, they'd probably be miserable just trying to keep Planet Bob from becoming a giant resource war as everyone and their cousin moves in. The movie seems to portray a lot of aliens as 'space hobos' as well, with habitable worlds (that aren't so alien they kill you straight out) as a super-rarity.

As for system, the only reason I mention RT, is that I like its mechanics more than Traveller, but freely admit that Traveller is the more appropriate system.

>>8785520

...I can't believe someone else played that game.

What are peoples opinions? A more gritty feel of the setting with more lethal combat where getting shot just once is a big deal and might kill you? Or more of a heroic stance a la D&D?

Personally I'd prefer the first.

This movie was the best drawn animated film I ever saw.

I'd prefer gritty realism, just because it fits the setting so much better. Getting shot IS a big deal in T:AE. Medical technology is really good, but if you take a focus-burner shot to the leg, you're going down. If you take one to the torso, you aren't getting back up.

i think it would really be both. Noble bright as you seek new worlds and shit like that. Grim dark when you get there and realise it's just another shit hole

This movie is awesome

I will be the single detractor that says this movie is shit.

>>8785556
Gotta go with the grittier combat, even if we prefer the Noblebright post-bob setting. There's nothing about this setting that gives you an excuse to go charging into a firefight like Micheal Bay and hope to come out without having your limbs burned off.

Also, wake angels.

>>8785520
>>8785537
Holy shit, other people played Startopia?

The animation might have been good if it didn't fucking stutter. Story wasn't too bad though.

>>8785656
Not enough of us... Not enough.
But while we're at it, Startopia might also make for a good setting for a rather lighthearted campaign.

Okay guys, let me throw something completely crazy out there.

Titan AE

PLUS

Mass Effect

+PLUS+

Beyond Good and Evil

DOES THIS EQUAL A THREEWAY MADE IN HEAVEN OR AM I JUST BEING A FAGGOT?!

>>8785653
Could name the planet they eventually settle on "Hiigara".

>>8785708
Keep your peanut butter out of my chocolate.

>>8785702

QUICK! THROW KASVAGORIANS AT THE PROBLEM UNTIL IT GOES AWAY!

I'm confus

>>8785802
Yo dude, it's PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE JELLY TIME

WEEOO
WEEOO

>>8785805

Don't pet the kitty! No! NO! NOOOOOOO!

>>8785708
Mass Effect has spent the last three months boning all the fillies. Replace with Outlaw Star.

Holy damn, I don't even have words.

>>8785859
Oh 'sup.

We're gonna need more Kasvagorians.

FUCK YES OUTLAW STAR.

>>8785708

Beyond Good & Evil? Much as I love Jade (and I do. I very much do) I don't think it matches up with Mass Effect. Too... I dunno... French.

>>8785859
>>8785897

Starship Nostramo wishes to dock for medical treatment at your sick bay! Allow Y / N ?

this thread is now about outlaw star rpgs

>>8785897

KILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILL
ITKILLIT

As much as I love T:AE, Outlaw Star is god-tier.

>>8785907
Yeah sure whatever stop bothering me. I'm busy looking at Mother here.

>>8785864
>Titan AE + Outlaw Star
I can get behind this.

>>8785966

You fool you've doomed us all!

>>8785899
I feel it matches up perfectly with Titan AE though.

As does Mass effect. So Titan AE is kind of the common denominator, and I feel like it might work and be awesome. This is far from a sure thing, but hell if I can't help but feel psyched about it.

>>8785981
Samefag here,

"'Eyyy, it's your ol' pal Arona 'ere, I got a fresh shipment of used grappler ships for you- let me tell you, you don't want to talk economics with a Ctarl-Ctarl without a gun handy. Any way, what're you buyin'?"

Okay, getting back on topic guise.

The players are some of the first folks with a working FTL ship to come "home" to New Earth City, Planet Bob. As such, you've volunteered (yes, volunteered) to work for Cale and Akima to help get humans back together.

We number some 3,431,000~ spread over the stars. Too many humans are slaves, many in the worst imaginable ways. Planet Bob is rich in all sort of resources, but Titan fused them into patterns mimicking natural worlds, so any wealth there is to be had is yet to be exploited, leaving the planet in economic straights not much better than drifting humans face anyway.

As if to imagine things could worsen, slavers, pirates, looters, and criminals on the lam are all too willing to flock to Bob.

Do what it takes, humanity must endure.

>What're you buyin'?


I read that in the voice of the Merchant from RE 4.

>>8786093
What about all the Drifter Colonies we see coming in at the end?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlMOblghiQ

FUCK YEAR.

>>8786169
Option A: Those are the folks that Cale and Akima were able to get in touch with. They basically land those colony ship-piles (one-way) and establish New Earth City from there. Its not much better than living as drifters, but the air isn't recycled and you can grow foods that aren't algae.

Option B: Retcon that shot to be after the events of the tabletop campaign.

>>8785304
Was the ship in the movie the only (known?) one?

>>8786216
My taste in music may be suspect, but yeah, I second this Fuck Year.

>>8786245
The only Titan class Genesis ship? I think so. But there's no reason to think that the humans couldn't have built more.

>>8786245
It's difficult to tell. The Drej have existed for SO LONG that even they don't know where they came from originally, and the Ship is their major population center. It's actually kind of an awesome parallel they have with humanity: Neither has a homeworld to go back to.

It's speculated that they're originally from another galaxy, or even another universe, and got stranded in our region with just one ship.

Side note: They blew up the earth because they were FREAKING OUT that we'd stumbled across Artifact-Technology, physics-breaking stuff that they have, but can't remember how to fix or duplicate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcnF1ioaBr4

FUCK YEAR

with a good deal of humanity as slaves or in the underbelly of galactic life, i can't belive getting the word out (let alone uniting them) would be easy

>>8786216

Fucking fuckity fuck yeah.

Titan AE is the only kind of HUMANITY FUCK YEAR I can get behind. That is, humans are the underdogs and striving to get on equal footing with the rest of the aliens, without being xenophobic "lol keel all ayleens"

>>8786362

>>8786403


Yeah, this is true.

That would be a good point for previous posters actually:
The colony ships at the end of the film could quite believably only be a small proportion of the human race.
Thered be loads of indiviual human trader ships, or just people living on shithole asteroids like the one Cale started on at the beginning of the story. Getting the word out without also letting all the unsavoury aliens know about it would be a challenge.

But an awesome one.

I can get behind this idea of bringing everyone together, yeah.

Also, I like how Humanity is presented as being particularly awesome at mechanics and engineering. That's an awesome position to hold in the universe.

>>8786403
Hence why the PCs are brought on to bring them home.

Suggested mission: An alien mogul keeps a "human town" on his personal space hulk. He'd be happy to sell them to you, or let you expand his asteroid mining operations (by clearing out the current occupants of a large asteroid.) Also, he keeps a number of young humans, born A.E., as his personal "servants" (and you can read that however you like.) They're the only people you ever deal with when looking to speak with the mogul. It'd be a shame to have to leave them in his tentacles, but he won't sell no matter what.

also, why are we assuming cale would be in charge? He's a upstart brat with no leadership experience. I think Bob would start off as a bit of a frontier world

>>8786542

He may well be an upstart brat, but hes also the son of the man who built the Titan and the one who made an entire planet.

Thatd get him something.

Hell, itd probably get him a religion.

>>8786542
Because he fucking built it, landed on it first, named it, and the only known map to it is in his FUCKING HAND. The map to Titan is after all, now the map to Bob. He probably doesn't have a lot of control. I suggested earlier that he probably hates the job of trying to run it. It could have even driven a wedge between him and Akima in the aftermath.

Its certainly a frontier world, but it IS his frontier world. And from a game perspective, it gives a reason to at least hint that he hasn't vanished in a puff of unplayability.

regardless he didn't do anything a really lucky mechanic couldn't have done

He's a greasemonkey with no training in diplomacy or government, but he DID make a planet for everyone.

I see him as more of a figurehead. It's important to get his approval before you run for office, etc.

Bumpan

>>8786612
With a lot of paper pushers and "real" politicians working around him and he being really frustrated because he feels he doesn't really have the power he should?

I'm okay with this.

Fuck you /tg/ now I have to watch it again.

You know you like it.

I really just want a remastered bluray of this sucker.

And for this thread not to die.

>>8786582
Isn't he an atheist? Wouldn't that be like giving Carl Sagan a religion? (Though Sagan and Pagan are just one letter off, man I wish I was a lunatic Christian with a sign) Anyway, the game would take place long before he could be deified by anyone, then again, he did build a fucking planet, no reason he couldn't have some worshipers.

How about the reverse, a group of extremists looking to cause trouble for Bob because they see Cale as the Anti-God for creating a fucking planet. Bombings, assassination attempts, sabotage. But they're still Human. Your move now, old chaps.

It really needs a bit more of a storyline than "Humans make planet you go get humans to live on planet".

Is that crossover idea actually going to happen, or shall I wax poetic about it for no reason?

Fuck yes I am watching this right now

/tg/ I am disapoint. hurry up and get started on this.

>>8786873
That's just one thing you can do.

I am now imagining myself playing this just like the beginning of the movie, just instead of being slave/employees to a large-scale scavenging contractor it's a small ship of freelancers a la firefly.

Shit would be so incredulously cash.

You kind of just described Outlaw Star.

Korso was awesome. Total dick, but awesome.

>>8786889
Holy fuck yes I love the space moles nigger species. They are fucking awesome.

Also if anyone would set up something were we could work on this project I would gladly jump in. Like a google wave or something? OP still here?

OP here indeed! And I can set up a wave! Poast wave address?

Also, big question: Can someone find a pic of the crew of the Valkyrie so we can piece together some of the races from T: AE?

i loved the bad guy: the drej
i hated the comedic alien sidekick in the crew
i liked the setting, with the homeworldless humans

just to clarify, what system would we be using?

>>8787132
Mongoose Traveller methinks

okay let's get this shit started folks post the wave!

>>8787118
Goon was awesome, you shut your mouth!

>>8787196

it was sadly one of the few element that made this film a kid movie

OP here, my wave is my name, so somebody post an address first.

>>8786418

I agree wholeheartedly with this man.

I am all about this thread now, fuck yeah Titan A.E.!

Damn it let's start!

>>8787103
Sign me up at masterfrog@googlewave.com
Also I will be scouring the movie for even the most obscure races if this gets up and running.

At this point I can only encourage other people to get into this. As long as we get a few honestly interested people to work on this it should be no problems.

So if The Drej are pure energy, wouldn't they just automatically conduct into the hull of a ship or any metal object they came in contact with?

Alright, lets get some opinions:

Are there any Drej left? (I'm inclined to say Yes) What do some of them want? What do others want? And are solid projectile weapons of any use against them?

Alien races? There's a lot of them, let's get them pictured so we can stat them.

More information about New Earth City, Planet Bob! I imagine that Titan is still accessible beneath the surface of the planet, since it had the DNA samples of everything (and presumably the artificial wombs for them too.) Is N.E.C a giant rusty slum from all the colony drifters landing there?

>>8787441
They're not LOL-Pure Energy, they're energy beings essentially in encounter suits.

>>8787485
>Are there any Drej left? (I'm inclined to say Yes) What do some of them want? What do others want? And are solid projectile weapons of any use against them?
I don't think there are even solid projectile weapons around anymore. Everyone in the film used an energy based weapon.

>>8787514
Or so we assume. Maybe the books explains it better, but I don't see anything saying anything either way in the movie. Sure, not standard projectile fire as we know, but they might be railguns.

Give me some fucking google wave addresses and I will invite you so we can begin work on this setting.

OR ARE YOU LOT NOT BADASS ENOUGH?

>>8787514
In the book, Korso is specifically noted for favoring an old slug-thrower, primarily because it works better on Drej than frikkin' laser beams.

It also helps explain why, when the gravity is turned off, he flies in the opposite direction as he shoots.

the bad guys reminded me of this show

>>8787590
OP hurr. Poast yur's mate. I has a wave goin.

BE-CAUSE IT'S NOT

QUITE

PARADISE

(it just feels like home)

NOT QUITE

PARADISE

What exactly is this "Wave" business?

Hello?

>>8787065
Korso's ship was a really nice one too; He must have slit a lot of throats to get a ride that sweet.

>>8787744
Google Wave, the new google project made to eventually supersede email. It's great for collaborative works. You don't have an account?

>>8787763
I love the Valkyrie, one of my very favorite ships! Err ... in the movie. Not this abomination.

Gune for best character

I was not aware so many people liked this movie.

Thank you /tg/. I'm no so alone anymore.

>>8787653
I JUST NOSTALGIA'D MY ASS OFF.

OP here, looking for more wave addresses, you could post them elsewhere if this is to be archived and you don't want them sticking around forever. I've got a thread with one other in it.

>>8787766
First I've heard of it, so nope.

So can we still post awesomeness in here?

>>8787924
Absolutely.

Thread has been archived
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8785191/

Will probably start a new thread looking for more interested volunteers tomorrow night if OP doesn't beat me to it. Going to kick the bunk now though.

>>8787949
Right then, idea time.

Just as the Drej Mothership was being absorbed to power the genesis reaction, a mechanism that the Drej had forgotten existed sent out a distress beacon to the main Drej fleet, of which it was in fact only a mid-size vessel. They're coming to investigate now.

Come on guys. This thing should be glued to page 0.

>>8787971
Hmm, in the book, the Drej are just as homeless as the humans, which I think adds a lot to their character. But I definitely still want more drej in the setting. Maybe it didn't contact a fleet ala the Reapers, but instead contact other conclaves of Drej drifters. And not all of them really think that blowing up another race's homeworld was a very good idea at all. But good luck convincing anyone that you're not a genocidal hivemind, and are instead just a communitarian hivemind member with free will.

Someone please for the love of god get this streamed somewhere, /tg/ has now given me such a damn craving to watch this again!!!

>>8788186
OP here,

I only have it on VHS or I would BAWWWW

need a google wave invite

amckaysmith@gmail.com

>>8788272

I'm BAAAWWWWWing that the damn torrent is taking years!!

OP Here, I've got 24 wave invites for interested parties. But this thread is for setting discussion. Please ask for wave invites in the Korso thread.

More plot hooks!

>>8788467
Eh-HEM! More plot hooks!

>>8788467
>>8788676


Playing as the crew of the Valkyrie trying to find Cale before the events of the film perhaps?

>>8788690
Be a fine game, but we're currently looking at a setting that is set after the end of the film, working to populate Planet Bob with the scattered humans. Do you happen to remember if the Valkyrie survived the film?

>>8788786

Yes, you see the remaining crew doing a fly-by at the end

OP here, I'm retiring for the evening, I've got one person in my wave (and two invited) to continue working on this, and will post a follow up thread late tomorrow.

Thanks for a rockin' thread /tg/