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Alien Intelligence (Palladium Books)
''Rifts'' is a List of role-playing games by genre#Multi-genre and cross-genre, multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda in August 1990 and published continuously by Palladium Books since then. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, deriving elements from cyberpunk, science fiction, fantasy, Horror fiction, horror, Western (genre), western, mythology and many other genres. ''Rifts'' serves as a cross-over environment for a variety of other Palladium games with different universes connected through "rifts" on Earth that lead to different spaces, times, and realities that Palladium calls the "Rifts Megaverse". ''Rifts'' describes itself as an "advanced" role-playing game and not an introduction for those new to the concept. Palladium continues to publish books for the ''Rifts'' series, with about 80 books published between 1990 and 2011. ''Rifts Ultimate Edition'' was released in August 2005 and designed to update the game with Palladium's incremental changes ...
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Infobox Game
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Bubblegum Crisis
is a 1987-1991 Japanese cyberpunk original video animation (OVA) series produced by Youmex and animated by Anime International Company, AIC and Artmic. The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of Mercenary, mercenaries who don powered exoskeletons and fight numerous problems, most frequently rogue robots. The success of the series spawned #Other entries, several sequel series. Plot The series begins in late 2032, seven years after the Second 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Great Kantō earthquake has split Tokyo geographically and culturally in two. It also forced the United States of America to annexation, annex Japan with the legitimate goal of keeping the peace and preventing it from descending into anarchy. In the first episode, disparities in wealth are shown to be more pronounced than in previous periods in postwar Japan. One of the series' themes is the inability of the department to deal with threats due to political infighting, r ...
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Rifts Chaos Earth
A rift is a geological structure. Rift(s) or The Rift may also refer to: Film and television * ''The Rift'' (1990 film), a film directed by Juan Piquer Simón * ''Rift'' (2017 film), a film directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen * ''Rift'' (2019 film), a 2019 Nigerian film directed by Biodun Stephen * Cardiff Rift or The Rift, a fictional wormhole in the ''Doctor Who'' universe Games * ''Rift'' (video game), a 2011 massively multiplayer online role-playing game * ''Rifts'' (role-playing game), 1990 multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda * '' Rifts: Promise of Power'', a 2005 video game * '' Chasm: The Rift'', a 1997 video game for MS-DOS * ''Far Gate'', development title ''The Rift'', a 2001 computer game Literature * ''The Rift'' (Allan novel), a 2017 novel by Nina Allan * ''The Rift'' (Williams novel), a 1999 novel by Walter Jon Williams * ''The Rift'' (Star Trek), a 1991 novel by Peter David * '' Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift'', a 2014 graphic no ...
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Yellowstone Caldera
The Yellowstone Caldera, also known as the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, is a Quaternary caldera complex and volcanic plateau spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. It is driven by the Yellowstone hotspot and is largely within Yellowstone National Park. The field comprises four overlapping calderas, multiple lava domes, resurgent domes, crater lakes, and numerous bimodal lavas and tuffs of basaltic and rhyolitic composition, originally covering about . Volcanism began 2.15 million years ago and proceeded through three major volcanic cycles. Each cycle involved a large ignimbrite eruption, continental-scale ash-fall, and caldera collapse, preceded and followed by smaller lava flows and tuffs. The first and also the largest cycle was the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption about 2.08 million years ago, which formed the Island Park Caldera. The most recent supereruption, about 0.63 million years ago, produced the Lava Creek Tuff and created the present Yellowsto ...
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar System" and "solar system" structures in theinaming guidelines document. The name is commonly rendered in lower case ('solar system'), as, for example, in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' an''Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary''. is the gravitationally bound Planetary system, system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It Formation and evolution of the Solar System, formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, forming the Sun and a protoplanetary disc. The Sun is a typical star that maintains a hydrostatic equilibrium, balanced equilibrium by the thermonuclear fusion, fusion of hydrogen into helium at its stellar core, core, releasing this energy from its outer photosphere. As ...
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Rifts Chaos Earth
A rift is a geological structure. Rift(s) or The Rift may also refer to: Film and television * ''The Rift'' (1990 film), a film directed by Juan Piquer Simón * ''Rift'' (2017 film), a film directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen * ''Rift'' (2019 film), a 2019 Nigerian film directed by Biodun Stephen * Cardiff Rift or The Rift, a fictional wormhole in the ''Doctor Who'' universe Games * ''Rift'' (video game), a 2011 massively multiplayer online role-playing game * ''Rifts'' (role-playing game), 1990 multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda * '' Rifts: Promise of Power'', a 2005 video game * '' Chasm: The Rift'', a 1997 video game for MS-DOS * ''Far Gate'', development title ''The Rift'', a 2001 computer game Literature * ''The Rift'' (Allan novel), a 2017 novel by Nina Allan * ''The Rift'' (Williams novel), a 1999 novel by Walter Jon Williams * ''The Rift'' (Star Trek), a 1991 novel by Peter David * '' Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift'', a 2014 graphic no ...
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Magic (gaming)
Magic or mana is an attribute assigned to characters within a role-playing or video game that indicates their power to use special magical abilities or "spells". Magic is usually measured in magic points or mana points, shortened as MP. Different abilities will use up different amounts of MP."The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic"
June 17, 2014, Alex Golub, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
When the MP of a character reaches zero, the character will not be able to use special abilities until some of their MP is recovered. Much like
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among contemporary monuments. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within Earthwork (archaeology), earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic British Isles, Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred ''tumuli'' (burial mounds). Stonehenge was constructed in several phases beginning about 3100 BC and continuing until about 1600 B ...
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Giza
Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah, Gizeh, Geeza, Jiza''; , , ' ) is the third-largest city in Egypt by area after Cairo and Alexandria; and fourth-largest city in Africa by population after Kinshasa, Lagos, and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 4,872,448 in the 2017 census. It is located on the west bank of the Nile opposite central Cairo, and is a part of the Greater Cairo metropolis. Giza lies less than north of Memphis (''Men-nefer,'' today the village of Mit Rahina), which was the capital city of the unified Egyptian state during the reign of pharaoh Narmer, roughly 3100 BC. Giza is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau, the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, among which are the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples. Giza has always been a focal point in E ...
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Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly bounded by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Since the mid-20th century, it has been the focus of an urban legend suggesting that many aircraft, ships, and people have disappeared there under mysterious circumstances. However, extensive investigations by reputable sources, including the U.S. government and scientific organizations, have found no evidence of unusual activity, attributing reported incidents to natural phenomena, human error, and misinterpretation. Origins The earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in an article written by Edward Van Winkle Jones of the ''Miami Herald'' that was distributed by the Associated Press and appeared in various American newspapers on 17 September 1950. Two years later, ''Fate'' magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door": a short article, by George X. Sand, that was th ...
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Geographic
Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but also how they have changed and come to be. While geography is specific to Earth, many concepts can be applied more broadly to other celestial bodies in the field of planetary science. Geography has been called "a bridge between natural science and social science disciplines." Origins of many of the concepts in geography can be traced to Greek Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who may have coined the term "geographia" (). The first recorded use of the word γεωγραφία was as the title of a book by Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy (100 – 170 AD). This work created the so-called "Ptolemaic tradition" of geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory ...
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Supernatural
Supernatural phenomena or entities are those beyond the Scientific law, laws of nature. The term is derived from Medieval Latin , from Latin 'above, beyond, outside of' + 'nature'. Although the corollary term "nature" has had multiple meanings since the ancient world, the term "supernatural" emerged in the Middle Ages and did not exist in the ancient world. The supernatural is featured in folklore and religious contexts, but can also feature as an explanation in more secular contexts, as in the cases of superstitions or belief in the paranormal. The term is attributed to non-physical entity, non-physical entities, such as angels, demons, gods and ghost, spirits. It also includes claimed abilities embodied in or provided by such beings, including Magic (supernatural), magic, telekinesis, levitation (paranormal), levitation, precognition and extrasensory perception. The supernatural is hypernymic to religion. Religions are standardized supernaturalist worldviews, or at least m ...
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