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Post subject: SciFi and Time  Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:34 pm |
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:58 pm |
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(IMNSHO) Hands down one of the best "near future" sci-fi settings I've run across so far is Steve Jackson Game's "Transhuman Space" setting:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/transhuman/
Set circa the mid 23rd century it has memetic warfare, nano technology, gentic engineering, strong AI and fairly realistic space travel.
To me it's what Traveller would/could have been if it had been designed in the 1990s rather than the 1970s.
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:31 pm |
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:28 pm |
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| Quote (Heresiarch @ 16 April 2006 (18:58)) | (IMNSHO) Hands down one of the best "near future" sci-fi settings I've run across so far is Steve Jackson Game's "Transhuman Space" setting:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/transhuman/
Set circa the mid 23rd century it has memetic warfare, nano technology, gentic engineering, strong AI and fairly realistic space travel.
To me it's what Traveller would/could have been if it had been designed in the 1990s rather than the 1970s. |
Absolutely.
Other settings don't even come close as being realistic projections of the future (unless they assume some sort of technological apocalypse).
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:47 am |
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I hadnt heard of Transhuman Space before, I'll have to check it out.
L4 - what we like are the stries and penmanship in Slammers. The stories could be set in almost any universe and we would like them IMHO, because of the authenticity of the author
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:06 am |
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That's true Tas ... but I do like the "fluff", if you know what I mean ... I can see myself commanding a Company of skimmer mounted infantry or M9 Cbt Cars ! Not in the IG or SMs ... in a world that includes touches of Nazis, Commies, Medieval Europe, Ancient Rome, etc. !  The Slammers are a much more "believable" version of the future, IMO ... 
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:27 am |
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I'll send you ortillery support as necessary! 
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:28 am |
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I'll be calling as soon as I make contact !
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:32 am |
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Oh come on L4, we all know the Slammers do not need ortillery Support. 
Serious though, Ortillery Support is one of the areas that seem to be missing from most SciFi games or if it is included it is so useless, players do not seem to use it.
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:39 am |
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| Quote (vanvlak @ 16 April 2006 (07:34)) | | Pity I won't be around to collect..... ? |
You never know, with the right break throughs.....
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:43 am |
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| Quote (Heresiarch @ 16 April 2006 (11:58)) | (IMNSHO) Hands down one of the best "near future" sci-fi settings I've run across so far is Steve Jackson Game's "Transhuman Space" setting:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/transhuman/ |
That does look quite interesting. Too bad it is GURPS. I just can not get into GURPS.
I will have to find out if someone in the local area has it and would let me read it.
Thanks
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:47 am |
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:20 am |
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Post subject: SciFi and Time Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:51 pm |
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I like DS9 the best of all the Star Trek series ! Like the Slammers, it's grittier, harder, more "realistic" (if I can say that !) ... 