 December 29, 2013 - 3:25pm | GURPS Space presents the idea of the default adventure: the sort of activity that player characters are expected to do in a game. For instance, the default adventure in Dungeons & Dragons is exploring an underground complex filled with monsters, traps, and treasure. |
 December 27, 2013 - 7:23pm | This is a thread for Retro stuff that might or might not be useful for SF: I am silly crazy about real old Sci-Fi so to get us started is the description of a Space Bouy from a trading card: I wonder what form the future "trading cards" for kids might take, and I did convert to metrics... I wish I could figure out away to upload the image from my computer it looks like it is retro enough for SF. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
December 26, 2013 - 10:51pm |  I found some funny posters on the net... "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
 December 22, 2013 - 9:40pm | During the rise in piracy that led to the First Common Muster many planetary governments had been commissioning Q ships. These ship saw action in the First Common Muster and later during the First Sathar War. Disguised as merchant vessels these paramilitary vessels were tough a tough surprise for pirates but barely stood their ground against the sathar. Of those that survived the First Sathar War, many were decommissioned and became civilian vessels. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
December 22, 2013 - 9:21pm | Inspired by: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10530074/Historic-wreckage-of-German-First-World-War-U-boat-revealed-in-low-tide.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10531084/Secrets-of-Kents-WW1-German-u-boat.html Thank you Andy for posting this at SF_UN yahoo group Archeaologist and experts from the University of Zebulon, Triad Institute of Technology, and the University of Port Loren have certified the discovery of the wreck of a First Common Muster ship at Lossend, Timeon. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
December 22, 2013 - 5:00pm | Has there ever been a Heads Up Display goggles detailed for the game? Some of the battle helmets, I'm sure but what about goggles with or without a link to a body comp. What yazirian explorer wouldn't love to have a heads up display in his sun goggles showing things like time and compass direction, perhaps even a blue tooth connection to the toxyrad gauge? Or what star law officer wouldn't love one with a facial recognition feature? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 December 22, 2013 - 4:29pm | So I was reading a cracked.com list of useless human body parts. Things like your appendix and those glands behind your eyeballs which do nothing. I got my wondering, "Do the other core four races have useless body parts too?" Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 December 18, 2013 - 9:04pm | Re-reading Alpha Dawn, I've been reminded of how underemphasized that bare-handed brawling is. That punching someone deals so little damage, that it would take forever to seriously injure much less kill an opponent. Even with Martial Arts training, a character is just better off purchasing a nightstick to deal more damage, have a better chance of hitting, and still be able to knockout an opponent - all pretty affordably. |
 December 18, 2013 - 1:11am | Everything in the Frontier runs on parabatteries. But how long do they last? We know that each parabattery uses a certain number of SEUs, but what does that even MEAN? For example, let's say that you have an explorer that uses a parabattery. If it is driving across an unexplored planet, how long before it runs out of juice? The book states that all vehicles can travel 1000 km on one parabattery, but how does that translate into time? How long before your robot conks out? How long before that space station experiences a power blackout? |
December 17, 2013 - 9:18pm | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_planet http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/diamond-planet-55-cancri-e_n_1957368.html Interesting location where volcanic erruptions would have brought mountains of diamonds to the surface. If the temperature is below 350K long chain hydrocarbons will have formed- methane and tar- potential for rivers of crude oil. Why visit such a place? The diamonds? liquid or frozen methane? Some other resource? Science station placed there? Crashed ship with surviviors in need of rescue? Sathar listening post? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
