Has anybody done anything with the Galapagos?

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Has anybody done anything with the Galapagos?

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In canon, there's the robot from SA2, but I'm not seeing any further development. Am I missing anything in canon?

Has anybody developed them in fanon?
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Underwater?
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Nope.
The human presence there in the here-and-now is barely subsistence and dependent on tourism. During the Golden Age, I'd see the emphasis on preserving the biodiversity of the islands; that might come with some effort to make the human settlements there more self-contained and non-polluting, like super-solar collectors(no nukes).
So I don't see anything really sprouting up there in way of civilization.
Unless you want to run a Ley line/nexus Into it, or have d-bees settle there. The most likely outside force to find it would probably be Lemurian scouts, or might establish an outpost.

If this were After the Bomb, on the other hand, you could have fun with super-intelligent mutant tortoises, mutant finches, marine iguanas, and crabs.
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given how high the seas rose, odds are there isn't too much of the islands above water anymore.
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glitterboy2098 wrote:given how high the seas rose, odds are there isn't too much of the islands above water anymore.


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The maps from Underseas show that there's some influence from agents of the Lord of the Deep and Cetaceans along the coast of Ecuador. Similarly, the Galapagos is rather close to Tritonia's general area, and Lemuria's increased activity in the Vampire Kingdoms could benefit from use of the waters beneath the Galapagos as a possible staging area. The relative proximity to the northern reaches of the Empire of the Sun, itself separated by the Arkhons from its compatriots, suggest a possible interest in the region. This could be accentuated by incorporating the apocryphal 15th century accounts of the Topa Inca Yupanqui Pacific Expedition, which were alleged to have visited islands ranging from the Galapagos all the way to Rapa Nui.
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thorr-kan wrote:In canon, there's the robot from SA2, but I'm not seeing any further development. Am I missing anything in canon?

Has anybody developed them in fanon?

Not that I am aware of. The GATV-5 Galapagos Robot (WB9 pg177-9) is from part of the word I don't think we've really used.

taalismn wrote:If this were After the Bomb, on the other hand, you could have fun with super-intelligent mutant tortoises, mutant finches, marine iguanas, and crabs.

This is Rifts, we can do that stuff to depending on the angle one is looking for:
-mutant animals in SA (in both SA 1 and 2) and Underseas (Tritonia) and North America
-they could also be D-Bees or D-Bee mutants (from AtB or HU) that are related
-Gene Splicer experiment site
-Ley Line Mutations
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Thanks for the opinions, folks. Keep them coming.

I'm toying with a microsetting that requires isolation and a fragmented landmass. The Galapagos fit the latter, but not so much the former. They're really close to South America; closer than I remembered before reading up on them.

I, too, thought about rising sea levels. But Easter Island actually got bigger according to Rifts Lemuria. Since the Galapagos are over a triple-plate-boundary and a magma hotspot, I can see the same thing happening there. A little rough on the current residents and biodiversity, but thems the breaks in the apocalypse.
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thorr-kan wrote:Thanks for the opinions, folks. Keep them coming.

I'm toying with a microsetting that requires isolation and a fragmented landmass.


Pick a place that used to be a non-fragmented landmass, but that became fragmented when the ocean levels rose.
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Killer Cyborg wrote:
thorr-kan wrote:Thanks for the opinions, folks. Keep them coming.

I'm toying with a microsetting that requires isolation and a fragmented landmass.


Pick a place that used to be a non-fragmented landmass, but that became fragmented when the ocean levels rose.

Galapagos fit for a number of thematic reasons, including bio-diversity, physical layout, and proximity to existing ley lines and nexuses. But they might be *too* close to existing powers.
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Thanks everybody who contributed.
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