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I'm assuming all in-system travel involves acceleration to midpoint, and deceleration to the destination.  This great chart is from Classic Traveller.
 

Well since some folks seemed interested, I will be starting a Space Campaign, upon the completion of the current, Saturday morning Pathfinder game. I thought I would give the GM a break. I presented three options , and the one that got the most strong positive reaction was the high concept of, “Kind of like the Expanse, no FTL, no Aliens, takes place in the Solar system.”  (The other ones were, a Flintlocks and Magic FH game of Continental exploration, and Colonization, and  Pulp 1920’s taking place in the Far East).  
 
What I am hoping to build is a plausible extrapolation of future trends, based on an old Analog article about historical cycles (measured against the Idea of Asimov’s Psychohistory). And a little bit of Strauss & Howe’s “Generations”. The Background is a Solar System in the middle of a “Gold Rush”, where folks are looking to make their claim, and new large corporations mine the Jovian moons and larger asteroids for elements to be fabricated in orbital facility, Where the first O’Niel cyphers have just been completed, and are being set up as farms, to feed a hungry Solar System, where Robots are as smart as a Dog, but have been made to perform many many tasks. The singularity has not occurred yet, but Genetic engineering is common. 
 
The downside is that Earth is as fragmented as much as it is now, if not more so. The U.S. and China had a war, and the first meteoriodal weapons were used. There is no world government, and even the US has fragmented following the war, and the only reason the follow states are a factor, is because of the Space billionaires, and a generous legal and financial climate. Space itself is lawless, and enforcement of rules only to as far as Station Security can shoot. Most stations have a closed intranet, because of early war cyber hacking killed lots of peoples. 
 
Most people subscribe to the saying, “Keep your politics on Earth (or Mars, or any other moon)”, but people will be people, especially the ones who have an axe to grind. The Earth is Disunited, Mars, it it’s own  country, and those moons without sizable populations are property of some company or other. Even small asteroids, smaller than the ship that claimed it, can be property, to be resold, or melted and reformed into some utopian commune, avoided by people that prefer to interact with others that shower. Said communes, micro colonies, company stations, lonely research outpost, and independent homesteads on Mars, are all out there, pursuing their own interest, as do the shadows of various Earthside organizations, looking to raise funds, influence alliances, or attack opponents in this lawless frontier. 
 
If if this sounds interesting, I could use a bit of help from folks here, as I am math-tarred, and am not as up to speed on the mechanics and physics as I used to be. I would gladly listen to interesting ideas for NPCs, Small Organizations, and neat science ideas to exploit. The tone of the campaign is gritty, but somewhat optimistic, if you aren’t on Earth, and the power lever is Heroic. Hit locations will be used, and there is a possibility of character death or even TPK. In system travel uses the Rosenstein Drive, using Helium 3 scraped off the surface on The Moon, so gas may be cheap, but a trip from Earth to Pluto will still take months. To begin with ship travel will be by commercial carrier. Otherwise, this will be an open sandbox game. 
 
Thoughts?

Did Schrödinger's cat have 18 half-lives?

In the "things you can use in your game" department....
 
Unopened black granite sarcophagus found in Egypt
 
Of course, nothing bad could ever come from this.

some 1960s iron man
 

"Don't get me wrong; I'm glad you finally got a job. But in a funeral home?"
 
"That's okay, Mom. If anything should happen to you, I know what I'll do."
 
"DON'T TOUCH ME!!!!!"

I hate to disappoint you, but I really do have a banana in my pocket!

Q: Why was Heisenberg such a terrible lover?

I thought of a new diet. It's called the "Hospital Food Diet." I nixed the idea; the dieters are supposed to become slim, not suicidal.

Ewoks, oh, wrong thread. 

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series on Hulu.
 
The Emperor's New Groove on Netflix.
 

The Australian Open is underway, so I'm watching a lot of the matches.

The Thin Man: Nick Charles (William Powell) drinks his way through a missing persons case around Christmas with the help of his wife, Nora (Myrna Loy), and their dog, Asta. (DVD)
 
After the Thin Man: Nick continues drinking his way through a murder investigation involving Nora's relatives after arriving back in San Francisco by train at New Year's. (DVD)
 
Both are a lot of fun, and I'll be working my way through the rest of the movie series.

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats." From Richard Bach, Illusions
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary says that is the highlight of the book.

Wait, did you just say "Steam-powered spaceship"?

Autocorrect can go to he'll.

have you ever thought of a post for the'genre crossover nighmares ' thread or the " aphorisms' thread and by the time you got there you forgot what it was? THAT is annoying

Another reimagining of an Arc character:

 
Septimus of the Seven Eyes, Lord of Chaos
 
 
Major Tom 2009 

... never understood why anyone could possibly think poker on TV was interesting...

Caesar became so holey he was deified.

Not really. The Last Alliance of Men and Elves at the end of the Second Age is called that for a reason. Peter Jackson may think he knows how to write the story of The Lord of the Rings better than Tolkien did, but I simply don't agree. It reminds me of a letter that Tolkien wrote to Forrest Ackerman (#210) about a fan who seemed to think he was more of an expert on Middle-Earth lore than Tolkien himself: "...[he] may think he knows more about Balrogs than I do, but he cannot expect me to agree with him."

quite nice Lucius

I wrote some rules for a Highlander game years ago, but I didn't write out the Prize. My reason was that winning it would likely end the campaign. However, I detailed some other powers, mainly from the first movie and the TV series. You can download the rules from this link if you're interested.
 
https://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/88426-highlander-hero-redux/

6th level spells are done! Going to bed.