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DocTam

Question on Dustgraves Story

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I'm near the end of GMing the Dustgrave adventure. So in the end there is the reveal that Juan Tismon is some sort of cosmic entity overseeing the events of the adventure. I'm not well versed in Lancer lore, and there does seem to be a lot of it in the book. Can someone give me an idea of who Juan is supposed to be, and what I should focus my reading on? I'm considering continuing the adventures story and need ideas for where to take the Ra/Khepri side of things.

Posted Jun 28, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

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CoalTrain16•

It’s quite obvious that Juan is actually RA, or some sort of avatar of RA. Just look at his name:

Juan = “one”

…combined with…

TIS-MON (change this around a bit)

…put it all together and we get…

MONIST-1

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Macduffle•

Just because you are not welversed in the Lore:

Monist-1 is an artificial intelligence that created itself and made a moon of Mars dissapear. They are the first recognized NHP. They call themselves Ra.

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TheSovereignGrave•

It's not entirely accurate to say that they're an artificial intelligence, at least not in how the term is normally used. Its not like RA's sitting in a computer somewhere.

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DocTamOP•

Thanks for this, I would not have figured this out.

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CoalTrain16•

Honestly, neither would I! Someone else on Pilot NET pointed it out, lol.

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Belisaurius555•

Probably Ra.

Ra is sorta the Big Good of the setting. Sorta. He basically showed up one day out of nothingness on his asteroid, forced Humanity to agree to the First Contact Accords by hacking every single circuit we had more complicated than a flashlight, introduced us all to Paracausality, and then up and vanished.

Ra does stick his head in now and then to interfere when humanity tries to do something Dangerous. Notably, he appeared one day over Ra Shamra to tell off Harrison Armory and then hacked every artillery piece they had to kill HA's leader at the time when he didn't listen. Ra's mandate is preserving humanity as a whole but he won't interfere unless things are really bad.

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Lexac123•

Just to add to this, Ra didn't show up out of nowhere, it was born from a group of linked high end AIs in a top secret facility on Mars whose job is to maintain a simulation of the entire galaxy. And it doesn't ride around on any old asteroid, it stole one of the moons of Mars (pretty sure Deimos specifically) to be it's ride.

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Belisaurius555•

Fair, although it should be noted that Galsim and the Five Voices aren't known to the public.

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