So I’m gonna run an Apocalypse World game at Big Bad Con that is about a post-singularity apocalypse with humankind trying to survive as hyper-intellengent machines dismantle the solar system for raw materials. The setting is loosely based on Eclipse Phase and the book Accelerando but where humanity didn’t fair nearly as well.
I need a name for the game. Right now I’ve got “Progress, the Destroyer of Worlds” and “Singularity’s Passing Me By”
Anyone got any other good names?
The stars are but spare parts
In Memory Yet Silicon
Singularity Blues
Nefarularity
A Singular Apocalypse
A Singular Oblivion
The Day They Took (or Stole) Our Sun
Apocalypse: Feed the Machine
Loving all the suggestions! Thanks all
Ended up using one suggested by Nathan Black in another forum I popped this question in: “Dr. Singularity or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Psychic Maelstrom” — so good! I couldn’t not use it!
Here’s the Description I submitted for the game…
Some blame the destruction of the Earth on skirmishes between failing nation states and hypercorps. Others blame the rogue AIs that swept forth in the chaos, crashing networks, releasing war machines and swarms of nanoplagues. And then there’s those crazy Kult of Kurzweil freaks who worship their destroyer/savior Dr. Singularity.
Decades have past since humanity’s downfall. Out in the solar system, a few remaining space colonies scrape by, cowering in fear from the Machines that strip asteroids and even entire moons and planets down to their core for raw material. On Earth, a few pockets of humanity struggle to survive in the few places left that aren’t biological or radioactive hot zones. The survivors look up at night, wary of autonomous war machines and ravenous nanostorms. They tell stories around campfires of what the Moon looked like before the Machines ate it and they wonder how long it’ll be before the creeping wall of blackness shrouds out all the stars.
The Singularity has passed Humankind by but hey you’re still here so you might as well make something of it.