RPC-840-NC / Discussion

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Re-uploaded

AnomalousDucky 06 Mar 2020 15:30

*Reuploaded due to a massive influx of raider votes*

Big thanks to Jigglybone, Psychotobe, and Big Mark for giving their thoughts.

After 200+ revisions, it is finally complete. Turns out that I had to wait so long for crit because, well, there wasn't really anything to crit. With all that time I got, I decided to expand on this article and make it bigger and better than I ever thought it would be. That being said, I hope you enjoy.

Additional thanks: KaiserXI and DrXOUBLE D for submitting edits prior to this reupload.

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IMAGE CREDIT:

Zdzisław Beksiński's art. - Rest in peace, Zdzisław Beksiński 4 February 1929 – 21 February 2005. He is the man responsible for the phenomenal art pieces showcased in this article. His art is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Black and white filters have been added to some of the images. Besides that, the rest have been untouched.

Volcanos_Of_Venus.jpg

Terraformed Venus.jpg

Kardashev scale footnote - Courtesy of Wikipedia

Great Filter footnote - Courtesy of Wikipedia

AREE footnote - Courtesy of Wikipedia

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EDIT: This article was based off of Zdzisław's art to begin with, and as such, I am finding it incredibly difficult to find replacement images for some of the less-realistic or less-immersive ones featured in the article. (Mainly, RPC-840-4.) If you have any image suggestions (make sure they are NOT copyrighted), please put them in the replies of this post.

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Re: Re-uploaded

Mr Makor 26 Apr 2025 23:04

Great article, but I can't get past its apparent attempt to decanonize multiple aliens in the baseline canon.

Excer 12 Mar 2020 19:35

I really really enjoyed this, definitely a 5 Stars article.

Question though, since the RPC Authority is going on a cannon, is this the official record for the creation of humanity? That we’re created from aliens

AnomalousDucky 13 Mar 2020 00:27

I'm glad you enjoyed the article!

Also, to answer your question, it is purely hypothesized that these Venusian creatures are humans, and is not proven. They could very well be the ancient ancestors or creators of human life, but for now, it's just the scientist at the authority hypothesizing.

Excer 14 Mar 2020 20:33

Oh okie, thanks for answering.

H F Dummie 26 Mar 2020 21:43

Despite this article's lack of refinement, it manages to "force" me to keep reading as I wish to get to the bottom of this.

5 stars, despite it's refinement. Refine this article and you have what I can only describe as a legendary article.

AnomalousDucky 30 Mar 2020 07:38

I am honored to have you enjoy my article! Unfortunately, I barely visit this site anymore or write, so I might not change anything with this article. I will definitely consider it, however.

(account deleted) 17 Apr 2020 01:25

This article's shadow looms over me.

I live in awe and fear of it.

5 stars.

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"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."

Almarduk 08 Mar 2021 15:30

The bizarre and weirdly campy elements of this article are appealing, but there's too much that grinds my gears for me to really like it. While it is a somewhat annoying remark, I still have to mention that the lore implications for this article are way too big for its own good, and the weirdly literal Biblical reinterpretation rubs me the wrong way.

I think this article suffers from too much, too clear exposition. The imagery of an ancient civilization killed by a cosmic evil cathedral is way less appealing when you have it told to you in a completely straightforward manner.

Furthermore, the designations are an absolute mess to keep track of: they're supposed to help keep track of elements in the article, but there's so many of them it just becomes more confusing.

And honestly — the Beksiński art, however beautiful, just doesn't fly as an actual photograph.

+2

Papal_Guard 20 Jan 2022 23:54

This article, or rather the RPC itself as someone previously mentioned, looms over us in a weirdly cosmic horror feel despite the art itself being classified as "dystopian surrealism".It makes us in the context of the article feel hopeless and small if the advanced society of the Venusians had this much of a cataclysmic collapse, how will we fair?

The RPC-840-5 infection spreading over the car in the third picture reminds me of the blood vines the Martians created in the 2005 film WoTW, as did the art remind me so much of Beksiński's art that I rushed to mention it until I read that it literally is his.

5 stars.

Capitano Nox 01 Aug 2023 11:52

Honestly I don't really like how much this article forcefully limits the creation of extraterrestrial anomalies for baseline canon, it's too pretentious for me.

Sorry but 1 star.

ColonelGW 26 Apr 2025 22:52

This article is bhutanese BRIMSTONE

Abbefalkon 27 Apr 2025 09:10

The grandeur of an article in no way justifies horrible presentation. Dig through all the unnecessary bloat and unimaginative interpretation, and all you can see is a bland "origin of life" and yet another unresolved future threat that most authors will ignore anyways.

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Dattop 13 Jul 2025 20:41

I quite enjoyed RPC-840-4 and -5, but I didn't enjoy -8 or -9 as they felt like unnecessary additions to the RPC (or I just didnt understand their inclusion after reading the article in its entirely).

While handled well, I also didn't enjoy the genesis and Venusian connection, humanity originating from Venus just doesn't feel like it fits the tone of RPC as a whole.

The idea of a floating Cathedral that targets and wipes the bio-diversity of any planet exceeding a Type-II civilization is a really cool idea that makes the reader ask alot of questions (Is it eliminating competition, is it sentient, is it random or intentional, etc).

The Venusian-Human connection is just frankly unnecessary and only bloats what would be a 5 star article to a 3 or 4 star article. Since I want this article to survive, however, I will give it a 4.

In my opinion, the article would be best if re-written to focus entirely on the Cathedral and the viral contaminant that it produces. Remove the venus/humanity connection entirely, or at least make it much more vague; leave it up to speculation if it were humanity, an ancestor species, or an entirely separate species entirely.