Category: Sci-fi
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Basic Spacer Modification in 2500
Basic spacer cybernetics and modification. 1) inner ear modification – for spin grav and free fall orientation, as well as…
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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…
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Found the Legend of Galactic Heroes Audiobook – reflections on hard scifi
it’s really different listening to Legend of Galactic heroes translated novel vs the watching it – It got me thinking…
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The most common ship in IMTU Hex Rockets.
The Advantage of HEX modules. This is a 5m Radius Hex Module with 3m Elevation (Vertical). When the Hex Triangles…
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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…
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Visualizing Hard Scifi Settings – Tethers.
Visualizing a freighter carrying hundreds of tons of material cargo in 2200. It deposits its cargo by having the cargo…
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Daydreaming of TL9 – a game that Spans 2050 to 2200.
Traveller Games in TL9 2050-2099 ike Delta-V where freelance Astronauts of various specializations are getting hired and trained for…
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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…
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TL9 EMU Suit and its PSD File and Stats
both EMU unit and Crew Suit PSD file. TL9 Crew Suit 2200 PSD FILE Changed the Shadows Layer into an…
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Photoshop FIle of the TL9 Crew Vacc Suit.
Photoshop file (gimp compatible) for TL9 Crew Vacc Suit Traced with a lot of liberties from Albin Merle’s 3d Rendering…
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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.…
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Ships and Dimensions. Relearning Blender and some basic flight science.
I was really distracted wanting to know what the layout would be if the ship was blended wing and if…
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Tinkering around with CE SRD Spreadsheets
Having a chance to Sleep on it, it being the Spreadsheet for CE ship building. The great thing about SRDs…
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Scoping / Sketching what a Blender Workflow for Sci-Fi GMs
Expectations going in: GMs learning to use Blender enough to make one’s own ships and scenes. Allowing GMs to Model…
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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…
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Scope of reworking the Ship Creation System
I did some of the calculations and initial research and here’s what I got. Step 1: Hull, Costs and Tons…
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Progress update of Traveller SRD, Character sheet Draft
Draft of the Traveller Character Sheet I made. Its meant to be folded as a Booklet (spine on the left…
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IMTU: Defensive Doctrine Spitballing
Common features in Star Systems that have a built up Defense. This is in settings with no FTL communications and…
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IMTU: Panspermia, Phylogenic Tree, “Democratic Republic”
Bouncing ideas off +Nick de Vera when I learned this term. For lack of imagination I will move the panspermia…
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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. …
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Pantropy in my Traveller
I had a terrible time finding this word: Pantropy and of all the search I did I could always rely…
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Traveller Musings; the world of 2015 as opposed to the 70s.
reading up on traveller got me thinking: 1) a system for preparation and training lacking in the game system is…
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Scifi notes – accessibility and abundance tradeoffs
Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store…
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GURPS SpaceShips: Getting into a TL9 Doctrine
So it can’t go interstellar, and I admit it was painful at first to conceptualize a doctrine without reactionless drives…
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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…
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Getting used to the idea of Hands as feet
So I’m trying to get used to the idea of Hands as feet in a transhuman setting. There is a…
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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…
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Imagining Hard Sci fi Ship Combat
Lately there has been a drove of WW2 inspired Space Ship combat. By WW2, I mean extremely short ranges and…
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My Doctrine Notes
I don’t know if you noticed I’ve published my GURPS sci-fi technology notes. Basically its a writing exercise regarding GURPS…
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Part 3 of Instant Party
Last installment. About 9 characters 5 AIs, and all the page references, notes, and accounting done already with points to…