Category: Cepheus Engine
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Technology Levels – in Mneme and Cepheus Engine musings – and youtube video rabbit holes
the development of a technology or a paradigm shift doesnt immediately mean its actively being used or changing the industry,…
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Sanity vs Trauma – reviewing CoC7e,
Learning the Sanity mechanics of COC I get to reflect a lot on my own mental quirks. Note: Spectrum of…
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Javascript Appscript for my Stellar System generator
Sword and Cepheus Character Sheet that Links to DISCORD REDDIT. PorterPirate sheet is the biggest progress I’ve had with Javascript…
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Update: Suit and ship mostly finished.
The ship is 50% Finished Needs to be Rigged and Shader optimized The suit as well, 50% the remaining…
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Problem and Opportunity: Why less Efficient and Cheaper Boosters First?
Question: Should Referees require players to calculate how many and how big the Boosters do they need to Escape a…
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Learned the rocket equation. Been sick.
Yesterday I learned the Rocket Equation, instead of simply calculating burn Time and adjusting the mass for every second in…
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Missiles and Scale. Checking the numbers.
Imagine a 400mm diameter missile made up of a ring 8 60mm solid x 3000mm rockets. Inside its core is…
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Hard Scifi – Why would you want to Play with Rockets in a TRPG?
Do you remember the number of rolls you make as you leave the Star-port and Roll for Jump. The Risk…
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Sizing Ships – Part 1
My process is so cumbersome and slow. Here I am comparing visually the scale of a 8:1 cuboid and…
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New Spreadsheet – that would add another month. Probably Dec
This Ship Design System is going to be Complicated, holding more Detail than the current CE ship system BUT because…
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Major Changes – Scope Creep
Scope Creep – why did I add more Scope? because my Assumptions were violated – that I thought I can play…
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Ship Compensation and Roles.
Determine Skills required and SHIFTS > Determine Personnel > then Determine Expenses and Compensation. PAY Cr 1000/mo per level of…
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Preview of On Going work – Maintenance Summary
I dont know if anyone feels terrible when they didn’t see a Rule that was about, lets say, about Maintenance…
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Slowly learning – Simple Rockets and how it relates to Traveller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity Q: If the earth requires 11KMs Escape velocity, when I achieve it at 11.1KMs 𝚫V does that mean I…
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Rockets and pushing my limits
All the tools that go to delta-v to be easier goes to designer notes. Sure write the simple parts down…
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Being that Annoying Pedantic Guy – Role Playing Operations
I dont know how many people need things to be in a System – where relationships and key terms are…
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Its Great, not perfect, but that doesnt stop it from being Great
When I tweak a system typically I do the following: 1) lessen the steps – I map out the…
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Seeing Terrible things inspiring my Games
i did this analysis before in my other Job when I worked with BPOs. I’m doing the profitability analysis of…
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3rd world biz deals, ship operations
One of the things people don’t really explain about Philippine construction is that gov’t tends to expect that after time…
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Some Progress – Ship Analysis
Help people understand how run a ship. Know their costs and how to use the various KPIs. Make that FUN…
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Efficiency Curve – I have to make a Chart on the Efficiency Curves.
So the Thrust to Weight Ratio determines an Efficiency Curve for the Mass Ratio (Fuel to total Mass of the…
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Its all about the Mass, Structure of Ships
Instead of Distributed Hull, I will be changing the terms so that the reader can easily transition to the harder…
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Mass Flow Rate and Specific Impulse Studies
With this, I should be able to guess the Amount of FUEL consumed for a Burn. Knowing how much…
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Today I learned more about Thrust to Weight Ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-to-weight_ratio I had to Study the Basics of Thrust to Weight. Sorry I’m juggling a lot, but DO KNOW…
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Reflecting on Venus and Mars Terraforming: Space Elevators are Yggdrasil and Mirror Swarms its Leaves and Biome.
I prefer the Idea of Cloud Habitats and a few hundred Habitats orbiting in its thermosphere with Tethers and Electromagnetic…
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Space Elevators – how they would come about
Basics First comes the Economic Incentives, the space industry with 100x the investment we currently have in it – because…
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Hard Scifi Heroes: Technical Challenges and Overcoming Hazards
I can feel Chris Hadfields frustration that the public doesn’t appreciate “Heroic Problem Solvers”. That violence is the only narrative…
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TL9.0 to TL9.2 Modularization Manufacturing
Taylorism and Scientific Manufacturing is in TL5 While FORD and his improvements in the Assembly Line is in TL6 Quality…
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My open GDOC notes on Blender -Notes of my work with Nicco for our TRPG writing
200504 GITB Blender Basics These are the notes and tutorials we use as our team is making Game Material. This…
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Hard Scifi – Social Classes from a 3rd Worlder
One of the 3rd World aspects of Character creation is the role of Status. Developing Countries – Generational change of…