The Mirror Universe...

[Owen E Oulton]

My version of the Mirror Universe, which ignores the DS9 version.

http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...ror/mirror.htm

[Owen E Oulton]

See the timeline on the page for the differences in the history from that used in DS9. I figure, based on Parallels, that there are also an infinite number or Mirror Universes. Note the Section 31 uniform, worn by political officers. These guys are seriously twisted, a cross between Stalin-era Zampolits and Gestapo. The image of Tiberius I is Kirk from the orbital skydiving sequence cut from the opening of Generations.

[PGoodman13]

Nicely done.

[Mr. Tribble]

Good thinking. I'd always figured that if I wanted to do a Mirror Universe adventure I could pick a parallel MU where the Empire was still kicking (or is the DS9 MU the parallel MU where the Empire fell?), so your thesis meets with my full approval.

[Owen E Oulton]

I agree. While the DS9 episodes were fun and all, playing the Mirror Universe is more fun with the Terran Empire intact.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

I like to think the MU is actually a Lazarus-initiated anomaly which spins out an entity's Jungian shadow into a sort of inverted puppetshow acted out around them.

[Dan Gurden]

I agree. While the DS9 episodes were fun and all, playing the Mirror Universe is more fun with the Terran Empire intact.

I always thought that the point of it all is that BOTH exist... (I will be going with a DS9 led mirror myself, in which Regent Worf was the minor leader to the Pah Wraith Emissary; Emperor Dukat! Which I hope to play as a Star Wars Vader/Palpatine type relationship...)

[Owen E Oulton]

That's the beauty of Parallels! One size need not fit all!

[Jem'hadar]

I have the Mirror Universe supplement by Decipher which includes a lot of material.

I've never GMed or played in a Star Trek Mirror Universe scenario but I think it would be a lot of fun.

But I've always wondered whether in reality soomething like the Terran Empire could ever exist. Sure there are many examples of totalitarian, aggressive, & draconian dictatorships throughout earthh history but the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe takes that to an extreme.

I mean how could you have a society progress & advance if it's OK to assassinate your leaders, assuming you can get away with it? And how can a civilization be stable if every single person is selfish, conniving & violent towards even their friends & allies? You'd have to watch your back all the time.

Regardless of whether it's realistic to have a technologically advanced society w/ the kind of deviousness & treachery in every person like the Mirror Universe, it's certainly fun to watch & read about.

[Doug Taylor]

Agreed, Jem'hadar. So do you have the whole Mirror Universe supplement? Or just the preview (11 pages or whatever it is)?

[The Tatterdemalion King]

It's like that first episode of 'Ripping Yarns.' More excuse for it to be a vast pocket-dimension or externalized schizophrenic episode, a la 'Remember Me.'

[Owen E Oulton]

Doug, I dunno what Jem'Hadar has, but I have the full book in .PDF, all 160+ pages. Even though it's a CODA book, it's refreshingly free of system-specific crunch, and can just as easily be used for ICON.

[Dan Gurden]

I have both the .pdf books both Worlds and Mirror Univrese. But have found it really difficult to read them on the 'puter... I really miss books

[Mr. Tribble]

I have both the .pdf books both Worlds and Mirror Univrese. But have found it really difficult to read them on the 'puter... I really miss books

Actually both of those are pretty system-specific crunch-free...or, in the case of Worlds, the crunch is all self-contained. Good readin'. (And I know what you mean...it still doesn't seem quite natural to me to read a "book" off a screen. But hey, it saves trees...

[Owen E Oulton]

A pictorial history of Mirror Universe uniforms.

http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...oruniforms.pdf