Modron Revolution

I am still forming my ideas on how but here is what I have so far:

In the pre- or rather untold history or the modrons the great hiearchy was much larger than it is now, and ended not in primus but in two binary lords. The rule then was no modron could ascend so far as to be above all other modrons. There always had to be at least one other modron of as much or more power.

The first primus broke this law, somehow gaining more power than his other binary partner. As I have it now the binary partner goes off to limbo to examine the slaadi in order to protect the multiverse from their chaos, and inorder to keep its purity it shed layers of itself while on the chaotic plane losing them so that its core of being woudl be safe. When it returned the being to become primus feared that it had been tainted, or became tainted itself somehow and instead of giving of itself to the other to restore the balance of the two cast the other off to institute the order of the one, and the prime.

Of coarse after this law was broken the upper escelons of modrons were not pleased and wanted to restore the order. They had more independent capacity for thought and initiative in those days and the modrons we now know as secundi were actually some of the very least of the hiearchical modrons then. Primus destroyed most of the greater hiarchs and instituted a smaller more direct top down system of command in modron society.

However he was not able to destroy all of his binary partner and now it is returning. It has helped to raise the new secundi and is trying to rebuild mechanus back to the binary order it once had.

Another idea is that the reason that modrons are only made aware of the existence of the higher modron rankes as they rise in rank themselves is to hide the error in primus's system. Even the secundi might be working on the assumption that primus is just another level in the hiarchy, assuming that if they ascend to his level then there will be a greater level that they are currently unaware.

Of coarse then again Primus might infact be the right and proper order for modron society and the past put forth above might be the bonebox rattlings of a collection of rogue modrons that somehow found ways to make themselves ascend. Either way could make for a good campaigne.

Don't want to solve too many mysteries w/o leaving more behind don't cha know!

Interesting idea. However I don't see it happening in this particular situation. Remember on the planes war, fighting and conflict are not in themselves evil. If they were Yssguard would have shifted a long time ago. The modron war over the question of if they shall be led by an order constructed by Primus or a binary based order is one which has a point and reason for fighting because what better way is there to prove which system is more suitable to defende order from incursions from other planes?

Also with the shift of the Mechanus would come other changes besides just the allignment of the modrons. The Modron Energy Pool as you said feeds off of pure law, but it also produces affects in line with pure law. If it fed off of pure destruction its effects would shift and my guese is that it would not be as able to replentish the Modron armies.

Don't get me wrong your idea could be a great one to run a game around, but you'd have to answer some of the above questoins with it.

In order to shift planes the pool itself would have to change alignment; well depending on what you view the pool as being. If you see it as the ultimate expression of true law, liquid order if you will, then the pool would not be able to shift unless it became tainted to be the ezpression of something else.

If the energy pool is not so much an expression of the plane of law but a construct of the modrons or artifact of some other creation then it might be able to shift planes with the modrons.

As I see it, the pool is the expression of the Mordrons' feelings or belief in law. Each modron is able to generate a little of the pool on their own and they have gathered all of the little pieces they generate into the pool. As the binary oposition comes into play the binary enclaves begin to pool their rescorces into their own energy pools.

Then agian that might be what the outerplanes are.

It would be interesting.

Lets see you'd have liquid: Good, Evil, Chaos, Law, Neutrality (balance), Neutrality (indescition), even Liquid LG, CG, CE, LE, or the sub alignments.

Though still getting the stuff would be nigh impossable.

Possably, if you survived which I find doubtful.