AdamLeisemann Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 NOTE: I am not planning on running this as a campaign, I am merely presenting this as something to think about. It is said that every ship has its rats, and it would seem that even starships have this problem. Thijnk in terms of Star Trek, where the ship in question is a combination of explorer vessel and colony ship (at least in ST: TNG). However, not only do we have humans abord, but living within the works are rodents of many different kinds, mostly some form of mouse however. They have even developed their own culture on board the ship, hidden from human eyes. For example, as the ship stops at various planets and crew members are beamed down to explore, the mice even have their own transporter technology adapted from what the humans have. Beyond all that, this is basically Star Trek. How does this idea sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bygoneyrs Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Space Herpies....Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arac-4105 Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Trek meets the Rats of NIMH? It's an interesting premise, as thought-experiments go. How much of Trek tech could the mice use? Do they have tricorders acting as computer mainframes in their burrows? What about phasers? EDIT: My god, what would Klingon mice look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamLeisemann Posted October 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Trek meets the Rats of NIMH? It's an interesting premise' date=' as thought-experiments go. How much of Trek tech could the mice use? Do they have tricorders acting as computer mainframes in their burrows? What about phasers? [/quote'] They probably would purloin some tri-corders or other handheld computers for the purpose, and phasers would probaby be like laser cannons with a stun setting. Of course, an inventive rodent may find some way to make smaller phasers that can fit in the paws of mice. Admittedly, there were some mousey inspirations that got this idea up. Childhood classics like Cinderella (back whenm Disney was really good), Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, and Danger Mouse, and the recently discovered, highly obscure cartoon Capitol Critters all had some influence in conceiving this idea. EDIT: My god, what would Klingon mice look like? Hopefully not like tribbles. ----- EDIT: Though the really tricky part is scaling HERO system to better suit the scale of mice; where one cat is more dangerous than a trio of klingons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamLeisemann Posted October 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Space Herpies....Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! What else is sickbay for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice nah... an idea springs to mind immediately "Pinky and the Brain meet Biker Mice from Mars" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamLeisemann Posted October 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice nah... an idea springs to mind immediately "Pinky and the Brain meet Biker Mice from Mars" Different strokes for different folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Set phasers to neuter!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice But there might be a dark side: http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0179.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Of Men and Monsters by William Tenn features humans living in a world where they are as mice to the gigantic alien invaders. It ends with the human vermin sneaking aboard their ships to go out and colonise the galaxy . There was another story where humans, who have risen to become the most wide-spread and powerful race in the galaxy, only to to discover that they are not descendants of the first great interstellar civilisation as they believe, but descendants of their vermin who had carried a plague that wiped them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice There was another story where humans' date=' who have risen to become the most wide-spread and powerful race in the galaxy, only to to discover that they are not descendants of the first great interstellar civilisation as they believe, but descendants of their vermin who had carried a plague that wiped them out. [/quote'] F. L. Wallace's "Big Ancestor." More here: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/3e203b0e7101782b/443f0a5cab2be2a6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice I just wanna know if you guys are going to commission an even bigger computer to determine the question to life, the universe and everything. More honestly though, the initial thought that I had was that mice get into everything through holes that would normally leak atmosphere... And then they survive on available food-stuffs. You might be able to handwave a lot of that stuff away, but you might want to give some thought to whether or not food and power consumption by your mice is noticible to the larger inhabitants of the ship... With teleporters you don't really have to worry about holes in the bulkheads at least... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice Well, we have the answer. The trick is coming up with a really good question for the talk show circuit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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