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Re: Lost and Found super-ads Found: One oxygen tank, connected to reinforce transparent kevlar mask. Seriously damaged by re-entry and impact. Has large triangular symbol with letter on it; if you tell me the letter, I'll send it to you. Contact OUTR-MNGLA-34.

Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time For me, the best PA was The World, the Flesh and the Devil, from the 1960s. Of the more modern stuff, I'd have to say Mad Max II:The Road Warrior.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Wouldn't it be good - Nic Kershaw

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) This is very, very hard. They're both excellent, and completely different takes on the name. I think in the end I have to choose David Johnston's take. He came at it from a direction I was utterly unprepared for, and I think I need to reward his originality. Take it away, David. The next choice of name is yours.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Get 9 - Yoko Kanno.

Re: WWYCD: Lost in a world without Supers; 9/11/2001 Terminus would go straight to Washington DC, and walk in to the White House. He would be careful not to hurt anyone too badly, but he would see the man in charge, and tell him exactly what is going to happen. After that, ultimately, he would consider the job done. He can't fly, and has no capacity to stop a plane - he would have to hope that the authorities, forewarned, can deal with it. (As to the "how do you know?" part - he just walked through the White House security cordon without breaking a sweat. If that doesn't make them take him seriously, nothing will.) If it was the team - Terminus would still do as the above, but he'd station Trawler in Boston and Avatar outside Washington Airport first, with Zero keeping the team mindlinked, and Miss Chaos in reserve to get everybody out if things went badly. If the authorities failed to act, Trawler and Avatar would shut down the airports rather than allow the events to proceed.

Re: Interplanetary colonies That was the estimate. I've read some of the same reports. Mind you, they were assuming that microwave beaming of power from satellites through atmosphere was feasible. Looks like it isn't, at least not with our current tech.

Re: Future Sci-Fi Ah, give the new BG a try. It's really well done, no disgrace to the original. I suspect that whatever we DON'T find out there will be the stuff of their Sci-Fi. If we find no aliens, their speculation will be on alien possibilities. If there's no way to cheat Einstein and go ftl, they'll have stories about the possibilities of intersteller travel without using slowboats. There's always something new.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Pretty good so far - I'll give it until wednesday so that anyone else who wants to chime in can.

Re: WWYCD: Your hero needs your help Oh, boy. For this to work with Terminus it would have to be someone who was either from his own universe (such as an exceptional earlier model Terminus Soldier) or someone who had counterparts in both unverses (Ironclad, for instance, exists in both universes, though in Terminus' universe he's a member of the NYPD). That would give him a double push to find the truth - not just to find out what happened to his old hero, but also as a link to his home. Frankly, he'd go for it in a microsecond. And he'd simply ask his friends to help him out - they almost certainly would, unless something else was going on that needed their input.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Wooty! I think I'll go for someone a little less iconic - Blue Devil.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was

Re: Help us name our EPIC super-group! Epic has connotations of distance, continuance, a journey... Continuing on the Greek theme, why not The Odysseans?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Run, Run Away - Slade.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Holy Grail", Hunters and Collectors.

Re: WWYYCD: The Rally Terminus would reply, "I'm a soldier, not a securator (his universe's term for police). Using me for crowd control is like using a using a bulldozer to clean cobwebs - tricky, and all too likely to result in bad consequences." Mind you, he'd probably be present anyway - as his girlfriend the reporter's photographer.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) I think it has been more than a week...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Good taste, I see. PopQuiz: What TV Series used that piece as it's theme? Oh, and right now I'm listening to Together in Electric Dreams, by Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey.

Re: Battletech Mecha First Loves, Favourites, and just plain silly. The original model Battlemaster remains my all time fave; I still condsider it the best 85 tonner, with the latest upgrades. However, I also like the Clan Supernova. Not an Omni, but who cares?

Re: Interplanetary colonies There was something of a disparity in the Australian colonies, ranging from about a 60-40 male-female split on most of the mainland colonies to close to 100% male in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), though the latter was because of it's use as a "punishment colony" (those who were too much trouble on the mainland were shipped out to Van Dieman's Land). However, most of the female criminals were transported for "crimes" that are no longer considered serious. The same is true of the men, of course, but the fact remains that more males than females are incarcerated today. I suspect you'd get a serious imbalance.

Re: superman Readable is nice.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Eberron soundtrack.

Re: Interplanetary colonies Absolutely. But that's going to place some restrictions on your game world. One point: Time distance is also a factor in tourism. If it's dead cheap to get to a colony, but it takes a year, there aren't going to be very many tourists.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "DJ culture" by Pet Shop Boys

Re: Interplanetary colonies The problem is, if you're looking at prison colonies especially, you need to make them economical. Shipping convicts to the 13 states, or later to Australia, worked because the cost of shipping someone was dirt cheap. People will resent spending money on criminals, no matter what the good intentions. Unless your interplanetary/interstellar drive is real cheap, it's more economical to send motivated, strong-willed colonists to set up colonies than a bunch of convicts who, besides being criminals, all have the distinction of not wanting to be there in the first place.