Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20171102142934/@comment-25890179-20171124010009

I suppose your curious why I asked about the human thing, so here's my idea.

So in Sporeverse, the Great Lakes on Earth are different than in real life. The coasts are wracked by extremely harsh storms, and any ships that brave them come under attack by vicious pirates. The constant freezing rain and giant waves have battered deep caverns into the rocky coastline, and these are inhabited by demon-worshiping cannibals. Highwaymen, mob lords, and petty tribes rule the southern areas, and in the north, tundramen war with wildfolk. This being a much, much harsher area than in real life, whatever human empire that runs North America never bothered to pacify it, and the whole thing is sort of quarantined.

Now, on the islands, traders, merchants, exiled warriors, and former soldiers have formed private lordships of their own, building wooden ships, trading with the mainlands, and occasionally making war on one another. On one island lives a gloomy fellow who hates the North American empire, whatever it may be. He longs to escape and live away from their influence, or better yet, destroy them. Through a process which I won't describe here, he unites the entire area into the Great Lakes Kingdom and fights a bloody battle to seize spaceships, which he does. He and his empire flee from Earth, knowing they can't return without sufficient force to back them up.

He eventually hits Mirus, where he encounters Scythe ships retreating from Fenric's defeat. He recruits them to his cause, and from there deals with the Lagorthenes, Pseudopath, Machrochaera, and many other groups, hoping to forge a giant army and retake the parts of Earth he wants. I might think of some more driving motivations for him later.