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Ranxerox

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  1. Re: Stops the shrapnel but not the kinetic energy Not exactly, in that the wearer can still take body. If you are wearing this armor and someone shoots you in the chest with a high caliber weapon it feels like you got hit in the chest with a baseball bat, and a baseball bat to the chest can do body - ribs can be cracked and organs can be bruised. Also like be hit by a baseball bat, when you are wearing this armor I would like it if having a nice layer of muscle covering your bones and organs could reduce your risk of serious injury.
  2. I want to build a superior bullet proof uniform that can stop pretty much anything from piercing it but only give the wearer modest protection against the kinetic energy of the the shot. Is there any power in 6th Ed that can be used to turn killing damage into normal damage? If not what would be my best option for getting mimicking cloth that can't be pierced?
  3. Re: Gestalt Space Cruiser I think your best bet is Duplication with the duplicates built on less points than the base form (a lot less points) but with the altered duplication advantage and raid duplication advantages.
  4. Re: Mongol Ninjas! Cool! Any chance of us getting a write-up of a sample Mongolian ninja?
  5. Re: Solar Hero timeline That's a good point about the power source. However, building better batteries is the current holy grail of technological development, and with all the money going into battery research I think we will have one up to the task in less than 70 years. Yes, I'm sticking with the Solar Hero being proceeded by Cyber Hero but I don't see this as a problem. Yes, energy weapons aren't normally a part of the cyberpunk tropes but few cyberpunk stories are set in 2065. Late cyberpunk is a somewhat under explored genre but can include androids, rogue AIs and energy weapons.
  6. Re: Solar Hero timeline I'm not real sure what you mean by first fully learning capable AI and first emotionally aware AI. Currently, there are tons of programs out there that overtime learn to be be better at the specific thing that they are programed to do such as speech recognition, hand writing analysis or challenging players in a game. This is a nifty programming feature but that is all that it is. In order for a program to achieve AI status IMO it would need to look beyond performing some task and actively be trying (with at least some success) to comprehend the world. This is something that IMHO can't happen without self awareness of one self a something that is both part of the world and separate from the other parts. The reason that I did not originally ask about the 1st man portable energy weapon is because my timeline focuses on from 2080 to 2200, and based on the Active Denial System and other breakthroughs in energy weapons I am confident we will have man portable energy weapons prior to 2080.
  7. Re: How does a Megacorp make money? I've read a fair amount of cyperpunk, but I can't recall any megacorps that were presented as being quite as all-powerful as you are describing. I must have been reading the wrong cyperpunk books. However, even if a corporation was a mega as the megacorp you are describing it could work economically. Even though megacorp is paying it's workers peanuts as long as those workers are desperate enough to work for those wages they would still be adding value to the system. In this set-up the megacorp is the de facto government and all the wages that they short changing their employees become in effect a tax. The heads of the megacorp are analogous to the landed nobility in a feudal system with the workers taking the role of peasants. If a duke wants a new castle all he has to do is get his peasants to build him one and so it would be the head of megacorp.
  8. Re: Solar Hero timeline IIRC, centripetal acceleration is pretty straight forward. If you can get there center of gravity equal distances from the the center of the circle and get the circle spinning (don't ask me how you accomplish this feat) they should maintain there separation pretty well. However, if I am under estimating the problem you could find two asteroids of roughly equal mass and tether them together in one giant spinning bolo and get your artificial gravity that way. Well you can't ship them off to Earth orbit very easily if you are starting off in the asteroid belt. Though the question of whether or not it is reasonable to expect the asteroids or any available material for the tether to withstand the forces involved in bearing the strain of such a set-up is something I was wondering. Thanks for introducing me to Bubbleworlds. They are very cool, but they seem post 2200 to me. Of course others might disagree with that assessment.
  9. Re: Solar Hero timeline Is there some reason that a group of small asteroids could not be tethered into a circle and the circle spun for centripetal artificial gravity?
  10. Re: Solar Hero timeline I would like to take a stab at this one. I think that in the next 20 years, fueled by demand from aging boomer, we are going see a lot of research into preventing and reversing Alzheimer's and dementia. The pace of science being what it is the fruit of this research may arrive to late for most boomers but is likely to be enjoyed by us generation x types. This would mainly be in the form of slowing down the some of the effects of aging on the brain. Actual neural regeneration as opposed to just minimizing damage is something I could see showing up around 2060. Even then it might take another 40 years or so to work out more serious side effects. Combine this technology with organ cloning or complete body replacement and possible longevity could go far beyond 130 years, but this is only if you can afford such expensive procedures. Otherwise, 130 years of life might be about as far as a body can carry us without expensive replacement parts.
  11. Re: Solar Hero timeline So, is anybody going to take a stab at guesstimating these events?
  12. Re: Expanded PULP HERO Bibliography Wow, that is a heck of a bibliography. Your research is really impressive. I hope that you enjoyed every minute of it.
  13. Re: Solar Hero timeline Thank you for these suggestions. I will certainly include them in my campaign.
  14. Re: Solar Hero timeline So when do you think that there will be viable human clones that aren't simply for organ harvesting?
  15. Re: Solar Hero timeline I agree that peace in the middle east is probably dependent on the modernizing of Islam. Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa probably rest on the economic prosperity coming to the continent. If $194k is affordable to you, good on ya mate. For me it is still somewhat on the pricey side.
  16. Re: Solar Hero timeline Yes I was referring to full fertility sex changes. True AI around 2030? That soon? That doesn't give me much time to get my Skynet contingency plans in order. I had better get cracking.
  17. Re: Solar Hero timeline Thank you for your replies. Rep forthcoming where I am able. Since Solar Hero is defined by space exploration, I think that I will take dmjalund's advice and make the first man on Mars about the same time as the lunar outpost, and move up the other dates correspondingly. This way I exploration of the solar system can be largely out of the way by invention of the first FTL drive in 2200.
  18. I'm working on putting together a Solar Hero campaign, and am asking for help dating stuff for my timeline. So all best guesses for anything on my list or stuff that should be on my list will be much appreciated. Space Exploration Man returns to moon Establishes lunar outpost Lunar colony 1st man on Mars Martian outpost Martian colony Manned expedition to moons of Jupiter Colony in asteroid belt Affordable commercial travel into outer space Medicine 1st human clone 1st genetically engineered designer baby 1st designer baby utilizing genes not native to the human specie 1st fully biologically functional female to male sex change male to female sex change AIDS cure Prosthetics superior to organ/limb that it replaces Organ cloning General Technology Introduction of affordable flying cars Neural interface computer Realistic holograms True AI Sustained fusion Carbon nanotubes become common in construction Politics Peace in the middle east Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa Thanks in advance for all guesses. I'm following the CU's Solar Hero time frame of 2080 to 2200, so if you don't think something is going to happen in the next 200 years just say beyond 2200.
  19. Re: When, Exactly, Is The Future? In the CU, 2020 to 2080 is the official dates of Cyber Hero age and is considered near future roleplaying. From 2080 to 2200 is the time Solar Hero and could be consider mid-future to far future. Anything past 2200 (Alien Wars, Terran Empire, The Galactic Federation and Galactic Champions) would definitely be considered far future campaigns.
  20. Re: New to Hero System If the neither power can be used independently of the other they can both receive the the linked limitation with GM permission (6E1 pg. 383).
  21. Re: New to Hero System Your calculation on the teleport is good. However, the area of effect explosion on flash is a +1/2 advantage not a -1 limitation. So the flash is 37 active points. If the character has personal immunity to his own flash that is another +1/4 advantage which would bring flash up to 44 active points. The personal immunity not strictly necessary since the character could just always close his eyes. Since the flash emits straight from the character it gets the no range limitation for -1/2. Can the character use the powers separately? If the character can't use one or both of the powers without the other, he can get the linked limitation (pg 383-385 the Character Creation book).
  22. Re: Genetically engineered leaders? Human beings are by nature more social than cats and less social than dogs. That is because we can do the solo hunter thing pretty well but often we can get better results hunting as a pack. This flexibility in survival strategies leaves us with an eternal choice between functioning as part of a group or pursuing our individual interest apart from the group or even at the expense of the group. Since this choice is hardwired into us be evolution (or bestowed into our DNA by God if you prefer), it could probably be if not edited all the way out by genetic engineering or neural surgery at least weighted to give one of the two sides of the choice an advantage in the decision making process. Of course you also accomplish the same results through a a nurture strategy, though then you would have to worry about corruption amongst those in charge of doing the nurturing.
  23. Re: Susano's Song-Based DC NPCs Has Lonesome George from George Thorogood's Who Do You Love been done yet? Sorry, not feeling up to looking through all 18 pages to find out for myself.
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