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  1. Dazhbog: F7 V. 1.2 Billion Years, 2.4231 luminosity, 7.55 snowline 0.04: The Ala Belt. Asteroid Belt -3 RVM 0.21: Svarog. Small (Rock) 757 BB 0 RVM, 0.91 density, 0.78 diameter (6175 miles), 0.71 gravities, 0.3 eccentricity, 0.43 mass, tide locked, 36 degree axial tilt, Heavy Vulcanism, Habitability -1, RVM 0, Affinity -1 0.40: Jarilo. Small (Rock) 548 BB +1 RVM, 1.13 density, 0.54 diameter (4301 miles), 0.61 gravities, Heavy Vulcanism, Moderate Tectonic, Habitability -1, RVM +1, Affinity 0 0.75: Lada. Standard (Greenhouse)400 BB 12, RVM 0, Habitability -3, Affinity -3 1.16: Tiny (Rock) 322 BB 0 RVM, 1.96: Morena 3.3: Small (Rock) 191 BB -1 RVM 6.27: Large (Ice) 139 BB 16 11.28: Tiny (Ice) 103 BB 0 RVM 18.41: Standard (Ice) 81 BB -1 RVM 33.8: Small (Hadean) 13 Morena. Standard (Ocean). 89% Hydrosphere. 290 degrees (Normal 62 Fahrenheit), 248 BB, 0.91 diameter (7243 miles), 0.91 gravity, 0.69 mass, Standard Suffocating Mildly Toxic Atmosphere (1.18 atmospheres), 3 moonlets, 896.46 earth days/years, 0.15 eccentricity, 23.08 hours/day, 31 degree axial tilt. Heavy Vulcanism. Moderate Tectonic Activity, Habitable 0, RVM +2, Affinity 2, TL 10 (Advanced in robotics), CC 72.8, PR 7 (95 million), Technocracy, CR 5, 57% income 37,943 dollars (Struggling), Class IV Spaceport, 4 civilian espionage bases, 1 enemy military espionage base, government research station, Patrol base, Survey Base, Trade Classifications: None. Story Seeds: 1. Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting... Unlike a lot of worlds with tight weapons restrictions, Morana is actually fairly successful at keeping firearms out of the hands of the citizenry. The fact that virtually the entire population is crowded into a single arcology, making it easy to monitor importation, and that the whole megalopolis has sensors that can pick up weapons discharges from home built weapons mean that almost all street crime is carried out using fists, clubs and blades. Training in unarmed self-defense is widespread and Morana has first rate instructors in sport, art and practical hand to hand combat as well as plentiful McDojos. Now one gifted student of the martial arts is misusing his training by using it to take over the sector's organized crime. While he trains his own students and attacks rivals, he tries to eliminate the best martial arts instructors so that their supremacy will go unchallenged. In seeking out some expert hand-to-hand instruction, player characters are drawn into this conflict. 2. The basalt flood plain that Morena City was built on was chosen because at the time of survey it was determined to be the most geologically stable place to build an arcology. But now one of the vulcanologists of the city has determined that a build-up of heat underneath one of the city sectors presages the formation of a new volcano. Ulysses: M4 V 3.2 billion years, 0.0165 luminosity 0.07 Chatterley: Standard (Greenhouse) 377 BB,+1 RVM, -2 Habitability 0.24 Jodelle: Small (Rock) 203 BB -1 RVM, +0 Habitability 0.49 Breckenridge: Large (Ammonia) +0 RVM, -2 Habitability 0.8 New Virginia: Small (Ice) 111 BB 18, 0.67 density, 0.33 diameter (2630 miles), 0.22 gravities, Light Vulcanism, +2 RVM, +0 Habitability, TL 10 (Advanced), PR 5 (300,000) Athenian Democracy (CR 2) 1.24 Portnoy: Standard (Ice) 89 BB 13 2.17 Jadway: Standard (Hadean) 67 BB 0 RVM 3.55 Fanny: Small (Hadean) 53 BB -1 RVM 6.45 The Harrad Belt: Asteroid Belt +1 RVM Founded by followers of a quasi-religious philosophy of sexual revolution, New Virginia (Ulysses IV) is well known in the sector, but not in a good way. The fact that they reject almost all known sexual taboos (including incest), and the fact that they have a legal system which eschews imprisonment in favour of exile when it doesn't use corporal or capital punishment has given them a spreading Reputation as swindlers and perverts and it doesn't help that they are uniformly attractive in the same way so that they are easily mistaken for each other and identified as to their planet of origin. The reputation is of course exaggerated. While technically close familial incest is legal on Ulysses IV there are only a couple of actual examples of it, and contrary to popular myth Ulysses IV does have and enforce laws against rape and child molestation. In fact off-worlders who misinterpret their ideology can easily get in trouble there by touching a local in an unwanted way and not immediately backing off when told to. The local legal system is pretty hair-trigger when it comes to accusations of sexual assault. At the same time they are quite inbred in the cousin marriage sense, having started with a small seed population and getting little off-world immigration. Every New Virginian can fairly easily trace a cousin relationship to every other one. This could have caused problems but New Virginia has a particularly fine reproductive medicine clinic with exceptionally advanced genetic engineering and therapy capabilities. No pregnancy goes to term without any needed genefixing and New Virginians are exceptionally long lived. They have uniformly pale skin, green eyes and brown to red hair. Most of the population of Ulysses don't actually live on the planet but rather in rotating space habitats. The mining domes on New Virginia only play host to about 20,000 people, most of them transients who stay there for no more than six months or so. Story Seeds: 1. Ulysseans are not popular with nearby worlds and if the system was vacated, the mineral deposits there would be up for grabs again. For that reason, there's a scheme to develop a tailored biological agent which could exploit the homogenous and distinctive local genome to ensure nearly universal mortality. Someone on board a incoming starship has the weapon. But who? And how is it being concealed? 2. While the player characters are visiting New Virginia, the colony experiences the first rape-murder they've had since the founding of the colony. The sexually repressed outsiders are the obvious suspects as far as the locals are concerned. 3. The wealthiest and oldest man in Ulysses is Anibal Varesco. He may very well be the oldest human alive, but now, constantly plugged into a mobile life-support unit, he is reaching the end of what modern biological science can do for him, and so has turned to tracking down every rumour and fable of fountains of youth or magic technologies. As a result he has picked up several mysterious artifacts, one of which the PCs are asked to obtain. M2 V, M7 V (4.0 AUs) 0.23: Standard (Ocean) 58% Hydrosphere
  2. Henshaw has a mostly complete list of the inmates of Fort Roz. He always knew that there was at least one actual Kryptonian among the prisoners and probably what she looked like. Even if he didn't know what Astra looked before, he knew what her identical twin sister looked like from her holographic messages to Kara so once he saw Astra, he'd know what she was.
  3. Personally I'd assume a straight perception roll. Auditoriums are designed to make sound carry after all.
  4. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/03/shoot-any-bad-guys-grandfather-tells-girl-five-leaving-her-in-desert-with-gun
  5. As long as you ignore the people you use the Chargers to save.
  6. Actually just the Latin for "Birthday". "Natal" you know. It's just that it's traditionally for girls who share a birthday with you know who. Personally I'd forget meaning and just go with Nikolai.
  7. <bleah> The truth is, the key to keeping a secret identity is the same as it always was. Don't change clothes in front of a witness. That the witness might have a camera phone now to instantly upload it to youtube just makes it harder to shut him up by murdering him and really you shouldn't be doing that anyway. And the truth is it doesn't matter that much if a supervillain or a dodgy government agency knows which rich idiot with no day job or clutzy reporter That Man or Whattaguy is. Superman doesn't maintain a secret identity to protect his friends and family because you don't NEED to know his secret identity to figure out that kidnapping or killing Lois Lane is an excellent way to get his attention. The real reason why he maintains a secret identity is so he can have a part of his life not tainted by being more famous than the Kardashians and nobody knows where to send the summons for the lawsuits after he breaks every window in downtown Metropolis with a sneeze.
  8. Yeah I voted last week. I was pissed off enough at having to listen to his stupid negative campaign ads all year that I voted for the guy he kept running them about. For crying out loud a Canadian election season is supposed to be a month and a half long. That's more than long enough to listen to idiots talk smack about how other idiots are going to destroy Canada. What does he think this is, the States? Well he probably does. He is the Conservative.
  9. To be fair it was a technical problem that could not be solved by a mook engineer. It required a protagonist.
  10. The in-universe justification is that they want to keep the non-engineering crew away from the parts of it that are particularly prone to explosions and bursts of radiation.
  11. That is not of course a stick figure. I assume they used the facial hair as a guide.
  12. There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses
  13. Ahem. What they meant by "overpowered and overgunned" was that if you turned the engines on full power, they would proceed to repel each other and end up tearing the ship in half. Until of course Miles O'Brien managed to do one of those impossible fixes that Star Trek engineers do.
  14. I have commented before that "The Enterprise-D is a ship designed to fulfill all of the functions of a warship, a scout ship, a research laboratory and a cruise liner. Unsurprisingly, it fulfills none of these functions well." As for a specific design flaw outside of trying to excel at everything, obviously they should have done something about the starboard power coupling that failed every time the shields went down, instantly disabling the whole thing.
  15. Starting out captured is totally different from actually losing a fight and getting captured. That being said I have been captured and found it quite amusing since it was brief and effortlessly undone. As I recall, my character, Riptide before going ashore on Doctor Destroyer's island swam around and found the underwater coolant exhaust pipe for the island's power source and messed it up. Then the team went ashore and were defeated by Menton. We woke up in some kind of prison with a power suppressor and Riptide got to rant like an idiot at Destroyer and Menton. "So you've got a master plan do you! You guys always have a master plan! Well I've got a master plan too, and getting captured was all part of it! What do you think of that? Ha-ha! Ha-ha!" Destroyer snorts in contempt and leaves, and the power conveniently fails right after that, letting the strong man rip open the door so I can zip out and do a move-through on Menton before he even knows I'm coming. I run back and tell the other members of the team "OK, now for step four of my master plan." So I was having a great time. I don't think the others minded too much since our immurement was brief.
  16. http://images.ddccdn.com/images/pills/nlm/006033215.jpg
  17. Will Smith now occupies a position in Hollywood that is unrivaled by any other black performer. His films over the last eighteen years have grossed more than $5.3 billion, more than any other actor, with the exception of Johnny Depp (Smith 31). He commands a salary in excess of $20 million per film, which places him in the highest stratum of bankable actors.
  18. If there's a primary reason for ridiculously-high cable TV prices, it's sports content generally, and ESPN specifically. On one hand, sports programming is one of the biggest reasons that people continue to pay for traditional TV.
  19. Rose Quartz + Alexandrite =?
  20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review
  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_walk
  22. http://civilliberty.about.com/od/guncontrol/a/Gun-Rights-Ronald-Reagan.htm
  23. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/richard-cohen-real-scandal-benghazi-probe-article-1.2377441
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