The Future of Rifts Earth

[Mack]

My Prediction?

The countless other dimensions will figure out just how screwed up this one is and simply delete it from the directory. Anyone who tries to travel here will be met by a mindless blinking cursor.

[taalismn]

The Coalition states will be larger, but more enlightened...however, the once blantantly racist policies and attitudes of the past will be replaced by showy politics and backroom corrupt politicking....Many of the repressed D-bee racial factions(especially around ancient Tolkeen) raise legal protests demanding compensation for past wrongs....Many open casinos and other franchises in 'duty-free' zones ...Increasingly, the days of old become romanticized in the arts and movies, leading to a counter-cultural movement to 'tell it as it was' with full-sensorium holodramas like 'Saving Cyberknight Sir Thorpe' and 'Chi-Town Reservoir Dogboys'

The LOrd of the Deep becomes the subject of constant-around the clock scrutiny by both high-tech and magical intelligence resources as Pacific Rim nations form a loose alliance to attempt to figure out how to expunge the beast...

Atlantis is a wasteland, wracked and torn by pockets of fighting and dimesnional chaos from still-unsettled dimesnional spells cast during bloody fighting centuries ago. Coalition, German, and Atlantean peacekeepers maintain uneasy watch as new settlements are established. Naruni Corporation establishes a weapons testing range on the island continent, having bribed its way into the good graces of the locals.

Fighting continues in China as human and d-bee communities, freed from Yama King control, seek to establish a pecking order....The Celestial Court debates whether or not to show some divine head-knocking to get the mortals to behave...


Interest in international and interdimensional cuisine prompts the formation of a number of multi-national chain restaurants...Chinese restaurants pop up all over North America again just as American chains like 'McProsek's' ('Good Wholesome Family Cooking!') appears in the GeoFront and other Chinese cities(as well as Center, on Phaseworld)....

A global movement is afoot to unite various nations of the Earth,with the cooperation of the Orbitals, to establish Earth as a formalized interdimensional trading nexus....This would require massive investiture in dimesnional control facilities, warehousing, accommodations, trade control authorities, and space station facilities....To secure the cooperation of the various nations, the Earth Trans-dimensional Trade Authority(ETTA) is busy cutting deals and concessions to create a united trade network(for instance, offering the Orbitals unlimited access to Earth's water supply or new interdimesional mineral finds in return for constructing new trade platforms)....However, smaller localized indie trade organizations threaten to undercut the ETTA's efforts through offering their own 'bootleg wormhole' services.

Vampire groups protest the approval of a Coalition/Orbital trade deal to provide rain to parched Mexico in the form of cometary ice landings, as 'genocide'.....Coalition counters that the 'vamps are dead already, so it can't be genocide...'. Vampire-rights support groups are split on the reaction, holding various late night rallies, shouting slogans like 'Vampirism is a disease, show sympathy! ' and 'Vampires are people too! We just choose a dfifferent lifestyle!', 'Ban Silverware and Chopsticks...Buy Plastics!'

[RoadWarriorFWaNK]

everyone will be exticnt because of the -10 dodge rule. even Nxla and the Lord of the Deep.

[Borast]

Possibly a tad more than 300 years...

North America unified under the banner of an enlightened republic, embracing tech and magic.

The reappearance of the UE in Europe, with the NGR and the New Roman Republic at it's head (and the elimination of the Angel of Death & Mindwerks). The gargs living on the fringes.

The Russian Warlords defeated and the newest incarnation of the Sovietski (a socialist republic, but one knowing that allowing people to grow, and not grinding them under heel works best) ruling over Human & DBee.

China pacified

South America united as a confederated continental nation.

Atlantis cleared of Splugorth forces.

Africa unified as two to three massive countries leaving each other more or less alone.

Pyramids on every Ley Line (esp on the nexi).

Orbitals rejoining "the Human Race."

A system-wide "Parliament of Peoples."

Mars pacified and about 5% terraformed (completed in about another 1000 years or so...).

Any other queations?