Sci-fi

2021-05-14

Quick Sketch of TL9 Ship with hab ring.

Length is 150meters Diameter of ring 76m 4 x 9,669 m^3 (700 ton each, 2800dton of fuel) Delta-V budget?  Habitat Ring, spinning enclosed in structure. …

2021-03-26

Basic Spacer Modification in 2500

 Basic spacer cybernetics and modification.  1) inner ear modification – for spin grav and free fall orientation, as well as inertia compass.  2) Second heart…

2021-03-10

Updated Scifi Assumptions

1) hard sci-fi combat and problems are typically thinking outside the parameters “box” because someone’s already thought of it and it doesn’t work. Someone has…

2020-11-08

Can Science Storytelling be Engaging?

Near Earth Prospects Doing some TRPG musing – How do I run a 2050-2100 TRPG setting without a lot of prep and with believable world-building? …

2020-09-12

TL9 Exo Skeletons and Spare Part Grades

 So from my background in Construction and manufacturing, as a Safety Officer, and Quality Management officer, as well as inspiration from Seveneves and Delta V…

2020-05-31

Criteria to make my Careers Consistent.

I realize that anyone can tinker with this, and change the “Controlling Stat” depending on the “Culture” of the Entity/Institution. Someone can just change the…

2015-11-18

Sci-fi Musings – Grainy Videos

I have a guess that spaceships sensors and beam attacks would be slugging it out at ranges where we only see as grainy videos. That…

2015-10-26

IMTU: Defensive Doctrine Spitballing

Common features in Star Systems that have a built up Defense. This is in settings with no FTL communications and no “stealth in space“ Underground…

2015-10-21

Scope of a Hard Sci-Fi RPG Setting

One of the things I’ve mused is what I would need, as a non-programmer, to run a hard sci-fi setting.  One big barrier to Sci-fi…

2015-10-16

Pantropy in my Traveller

I had a terrible time finding this word: Pantropy and of all the search I did I could always rely on Atomic Rockets to have…

2014-01-13

My Review of GURPS Spaceships

It deserves its glowing review and ratings. It simplifies a lot of work when creating ships in GURPS. I have one big problem tho, its…

2013-10-14

After Moore’s Law

I tried to model Moore’s Law and computing power over time, and wow those assumptions of data processing are pretty exponential. Note that Moore’s Law…