Black Aeronaut Wrote:*Sighs* I like this, but part of the problem for me is that the only thing I have any real reference for is Nanoha and her crew. Any chance I can get a list of what you're drawing off of here?
IMPORTANT NOTE: I’ll be mentioning several franchises in this. Unless explicitly stated, they are NOT the canon storylines.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: I’m also an inveterate wiki-walker. In many cases wikis are my primary source, so if I get a detail wrong that’s more than likely the reason after my poor human memory.
Mobuis/Zero-Zero: Colin’s home worldline, part of the Inspired cross-rip (how else would Griest contact her alternate doing the EXACT SAME THING?). Quite a few things are based on Infinity from GURPS Infinite Worlds, but it’s not exactly the same. I’ve been focusing on more cyberpunk influences for tech they’ve reinvented, and keeping the mystical influences down (mainly I can’t think of good ones to mix in). I’m mixing and matching based on what seems to be the best use of various bits. I’ll add as I find interesting/useful things.
The biggest influence on Zero-Zero is Mass Effect tech, simply because it’s so useful. There are other things mixed in, particularly stuff from Battletech (armour, energy weapons, POWER). There’s some Halo stuff in there as well, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
The other big thing brought in from the rest of the multiverse is medical tech. Cybernetics is a given (Ghost in the Shell level), along with cloning tech from Shadowrun, and healing devices like from Stargate/Star Trek (though not precisely those).
Thaumotech (lit. miracle technology) is stuff that relies on telluric energies to work. HOW they work is still very much up in the air for a fair chunk of it, but some of it can be replicated.
Eve Mizuhara is the adopted daughter of Professor and Brigadier General Mizuhara. Makoto and Ifurita from El Hazard to you and me. Eve herself is from the Black Cat series (more the anime than the manga).
Maki is an AGI and ship mind for Colin and Eve’s transport. AGI and a chunk of the more advanced nanotech are from the Eclipse Phase RPG. I was good and paid for my copies of the PDFs, but you can get them for free if you want.
The Nanoha Universe is pretty much in the Force series at this point. Things are mostly recognisable for that point in time, but I’ve thrown Time Nazis in there and that’s bound to make a mess.
The Time Nazis: Crosstime capable Nazis with jetpacks and plasma rifles. Now with added Eclipse Virus. I am cribbing from the Infinite Worlds Reich-5 write-up, then adding other Nazi horrors/Hydra type tech.