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Re: Star HERO with... not magic, really, but... Then I suggest that you use some form of "micro-jump" drive. See post 99 above for the basis. I don't know if it was Larry Niven or Poul Anderson who first showed such a thing, but the idea goes back 50 years or so. Star Cruiser and 2300AD used a variant of this. And until you let it go FTL, it does not violate any known physical laws!

Re: Our Super Leaders I cannot suspend my disbelief that much. Certainly it would require a new (or completely revised) constitution. Just cannot see it happening; I could see supers taking over the country, but I cannot believe they would set up things the way you suggest if they did. I can see a significant number of high ranking elected officials being supers, by simply winning elections. And I could see significant numbers of supers being appointed to high positions, if they appear to be the most qualified: for example Reed Richards as head of DARPA.

Re: Our Super Leaders I think that you need to check your math. 6,000 out of 300,000,000 is one per 60,000. But if you want all senior state officials such as governors, state legislators, etc. to be super your number for required supers is low.

Re: Twice the beauty, twice the danger! Aren't their forearms rather overdeveloped?

Re: Back In The Flesh... Do you often kill without extreme prejudice?

Re: Turakian: Indusharan and women - typo / errata? What is your source for the PA law?

Re: Champions Background Information Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Re: Supervillains and Philosophy I'm currently reading the Superheroes one; will get to yours after I finish it.

Re: PS-238 Characters

Re: PS-238 Characters That's when they are in motion, have their back to you, etc. Did you really have a problem when they were standing stationary next to you, and looking at you?

Re: Turakian: Indusharan and women - typo / errata? Well, to some extent you are right; but to another you are completely wrong. The problem with saying what the law is in the US is, unless you are specifically referring to federal law, which prior to WWII was rarely relevant to most peoples lives, is that there were 48 (now 50) different states with different laws, not to count territories with their own laws! Women sat on juries, voted in state and local elections, and were judges as well as mayors and other elected officials in many states and territories in the 19th century; just not all of them. I know that in some states restrictions on women's rights lasted longer, but not in most, and I doubt the more severe restrictions (like the maximum sentence one) were followed for many years before their overturning. For example, there are still laws from the colonial era on the books in many states, that haven't been enforced in over a century.

Re: Modern Military Zeppelins A much smaller blimp would be able to do that.

Re: Modern Military Zeppelins Actually, it looks more like a hybrid blimp. I doubt that it has a rigid airframe.

Re: Modern Military Zeppelins Castle von Fogg!

Re: Clyde Barrow's Sawn-Off BAR We are getting way off the original topic. I will PM you.

Can anyone tell me where the Harbinger's write up is? I have his 4th edition, but for 5ER I have looked through Dark Champions and Hudson City and cannot find it. Did I miss it, or is it in another book? Thank you.

Re: Golden Age Heroes... Quote: Originally Posted by DocSamson Tell us more, in extreme detail including pictures if you have em, about these "haircuts". While I actually don't KNOW the answer, I believe it means there were/are barber shops that were also "massage parlours."

Re: Things You'd See in a World Full of Supers... The mind boggles.

Re: The Ten Things I Love About 6e and the Ten Things I hate about 6e I agree completely.

Re: Turakian: Indusharan and women - typo / errata? Out of curiosity, whatever gave you the idea that women were considered property in the US until 1920? Because it is NOT true.

Re: Clyde Barrow's Sawn-Off BAR Not sure this is the correct forum, but I disagree. First, WWI squads were 8 men, for almost all the participants. WWII squads were also about that size, except for the US. Two, British Commonwealth squads used the BREN gun, which was magazine fed like the BAR, and so was not really a LMG. (Yes, it was easier for an assistant to reload than the BAR, but still not a LMG.) Three, the reason the US squad did not center all its tactics around the automatic weapon was that with the M1 semiautomatic rifle, the US squad had much more firepower. The effective rate of fire with a springfield (bolt action) rifle was about 10 rpm (rounds per minute); with an M1 it was 30. Four, the Germans used squads without LMGs in the units that had the MP44 (first assault rifle, the AK-47 is basically a copy of it).

Re: Miles Vorkosigan RPG

Re: Miles Vorkosigan RPG Assuming you mean IIRC as "If I Recall Correctly" (if not, please define) I don't really recall that. Are you referring to Baz Jesek? He wasn't hiding from "psychological help", he was hiding from everyone and everything. He did that on every world he landed on (he wasn't Betan.) If you are referring to someone else, please specify. I do agree with you on the second point; but there are people like that in every society. Except a utopia I suppose, but I don't know of any actual utopias, either in reality or fiction. There are alleged utopias in fiction, but I don't know of any that don't have either dystopian aspects or are obviously not credible.

Re: Ever need blueprints for the USS Missouri? The four Iowa class (BB61 to BB64) were the last battleships built/launched by the USN. The last two of the Iowa class (BB65 & BB66) were started, but construction was suspended, and the incomplete ships were later scrapped. The USS Montana, BB67 was never started. However, the USS Montana BB51 was started (in 1919 I believe); but due to the Washington Naval treaty she was scrapped. That is probably the one that you are thinking of.

Re: Miles Vorkosigan RPG Me too. But this one incident (and based on Betan law, if Cordelia's mother hadn't agreed, they couldn't have done it) does not a dystopia make.