The world of "Illegal Gods" is in the recovery period of what amounts to a holy war that nobody won. It's a science-fiction genre, and thus allows for some level of exploration: there are plenty of planets where one side or another still holds the pockets of believers in one faith or another... but that's not what you are. You're pirates. You're one step up from space debris: you're deserters and renegades.
Because you transport illegal gods. You smuggle religion under the noses of the Inquisitors, the tall gold-clad forces of the God-Emperor that no one knows if they are men or machines. You worry that your next crew of pilgrims doesn't consist of any Missionaries, the spies of the God-Emperor.
And sometimes you escape by miracles.
I kind of see it really loosely as a cross between In Nomine and Star Wars.
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With C-3PO-like golden minions who say "By your command" in the snotty sarcastic way that the higher class of robots from Battlestar Galactica did? You know, the ones that looked vaguely Egyptian instead of like Boba Fett, and had real faces.
Posted by Rikibeth | July 26, 2003 8:53 PM
Posted on July 26, 2003 20:53