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Re: Music to Kill Zombies By

Re: Palladum to Hero Conversion thread I'm not trying to scare anyone or make trouble, I hope people see, I was just amazed to see this and wondered if KS had changed or if THF had decided to call when he threatened a lawsuit.

Re: Music to Kill Zombies By I looked up triffids on wiki. Wow, sure were different than the old movie. I wonder why no one's done a rpg product with them? As to snipers, I still think vasily zeitsev might be the best.

Re: Submitted for your approval: 10 too human aliens. Well, I OP'ed this as I thought it fit the star hero genre well enough and was good for a laugh. I notice they didn't mention the TOS klingons, or Martians from "My favorite martian" in the original list. Still, the thread could be useful for people looking for alien ideas.

http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/06/human-like-aliens/1#c31984754 Now anyone want to do a comment on the most alien aliens? Ones that didn't look like humans with at best minor alterations? My #1 vote goes to "the thetan" (not the scientology version) from the original 'outer limits' episode "architects of fear. It was so inhuman and scary (By 1960's standards, of course) that some stations wouldn't show it for fear of causing a panic. See for yourself... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4XbwWAXimI&list=SL

Re: Music to Kill Zombies By Never heard of the triffid gun. Did they expand on the day of the triffids storyline? Also never heard of simo hayah. What story is he from? BTW, for a real sniper, try Vasily Zeitsez, from stalingrad during ww2.

Re: Quick question about oxygen! Don't you need some level of CO2 to maintain some sort of breathing reflex? I seem to have read once that someone tried a pure O2 mix but it needed some CO2 to maintain the breathing reflex. Could be wrong but I swear I remember that. I read so much sometimes I'll recall a passage but not the book.

Re: Music to Kill Zombies By Hmm, Ok, if we went with "real world stuff" It might be something like this: Weapon: As long as it came with a backpack full of ammo, a P-90 with laser site. Light, accurate, easy to hold and has a huge clip and is more powerful than most SMGs. Music: Theme to the original battlestar galactica. Companion: Rush Limbaugh, who I would immediately shoot in the leg and use as a stalking horse for the zombies. I'd I pull back, focus on the zombies coming after me then began picking off he ones piling on limbaugh's ample corpse.

Re: Stealth in Space No, in 'the soft weapon' nessus the puppeteer kicked chuft-captain, the kzin leader.

Re: Stealth in Space No, the warriors is the first contact between humans and kzinti where the unarmed human vessel destroys the kzin warship with it's photon drive. The soft weapon is where some kzin "renegades" *KOFF*agents working under the kzin government's secret blessing*KOFF* ambush a ship with a couple of humans and a puppeteer that had a stasis box from the slaver empire onboard, which contained an incredibly advanced weapon that 'morphed' into various things, including a total conversion beam weapon and a sentient computer. It was also the story where the fact a puppeteer could deliver a fairly effective kick attack with his hind leg was revealed.

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Re: Stealth in Space A good possibility. Still, whatever the hydrogen fuses too probably gets ejected as reaction mass, I imagine. So even if it was fused 100% to a higher element you'd still get thrust when you dumped it. Since angle's pencil was using a photon drive it wasn't chucking out reaction mass, maybe they fused the hydrogen up to oxygen and stopped, oxygen being useful on a ship full of live humands who want to stay that way.

Re: STAR HERO Reading List Wow, having to type in a damned verification for every post really gets old fast. This is about as big an overreaction to spammers as those nudescanners and junk gropes are against terrorists. Anyway, to add some titles here, I'd go with some of Allistair reynolds' stuff, especially "the prefect" and "House of suns" for hard SF lovers. For cyberpunk fans, try to find some very early cyberpunk.dark future books by Mike McQuay called "The Matthew Swain series", they were cyberpunk before neuromancer. As to classics, "The voyage of the space beagle" is a golden age gem.

Re: Stealth in Space Re decoys in space: You have a very small, cheap device designed specifically to put out as large a radiant sig as possible,and a large, expensive vessel doing it's damnedest to minimize emissions. The former could easily put out a larger signal than the latter. As to active systems, a carefully designed hull can still mess with things like radar, scattering the return signal. Stealth or counter detection systems in space are not impossible, just expensive, hard and not completely reliable.

Re: Stealth in Space My bet on "incomplete fusion" would be that the humans only fused hydrogen up to helium. Maybe complete fusion would mean fusing hydrogen up to just below iron on the periodic table to get the maximum energy out of it. That's just my guess, iron is the break even point on fusion, so maybe fusing to just below it would be considered complete fusion for power.

Re: Palladum to Hero Conversion thread Um, not that I care, but doesn't KS get really P.O.ed when people do palladium conversions and threaten to sue them if they keep them up on their boards? I mean, has he come down off this or do people here just not care? I'm not going to run and tattle to him, at least I'm not planning to, but I'd heard he threatened lawsuits pver conversions of palladium stuff. Personally I think he's a dick for that, as some people might buy his rifts stuff despite the ghawdawful system just for source material if there were easy, consistent conversion guides.

Re: Mongol Ninjas! Normally when I hear "(Anything) ninjas" my inclination is towards disdain. But at least you made it sound halfway good.

Re: Stealth in Space As to stealth in space, maybe one could minimize ones emissions to a very high degree, but a thought occurs: if true stealth isn't feasible, how about the opposite? Scattering thousands, or millions(!) of fake emitters around a system to randomly create false signatures and overwhelm the defenders ability to react to every possible sighting?

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Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Sounds like s fun topic, mind if I join? Modesitt II: A world populated by retired military/elite agents with genetic /cybernetic enhancements fighting private wars for a better world. Reynolds: Incredibly high tech cybernetic transhumans living in a state of democratic anarchy where the only law is that democracy must be respected and some of the police are really pigs. (As in genetically uplifted pigs.) Weber: A world of extremely capable female agents and military personnel, where all liberals are stupid, selfish or completely evil.