RPG Brainstorming: Nu Sinistra

Working on fresh Humanspace Empires RPG stuff in-between a few other projects led us to another old post from the Netherwerks blog that didn't make the transition cleanly. Speculating about the space opera pre-history of Prof. M. A. R. Barker's brainchild Tekumel is all well and good (and quite a lot of fun!)...but what happens if...when...the Lords of Humanspace begin to reconnect with those 770 or so worlds that got 'lost'?

Now that could form the basis of a really intense Space Opera/Sword & Planet mash-up RPG that we'd really like to see...

Reconciliation and Apocalypse during the End of All Known History as powerful interstellar forces reconnect, reconnoiter and forcibly recover hundreds of lost worlds severed from the main universe during a cosmic disaster that plunged them all into their own pocket domains for millennia.  Not all those worlds that have been lost want to be rediscovered or recovered.  One in particular is fighting back and they have gods on their side...

(...With 700+ possible worlds to go muck around with, you don't even have to screw-up Tekumel. Neat.)