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Re: 7 Sci-Fi Series Ripe for Movie Reboots What's funny with almost all of these shows (except for earth 2) is how everybody in space and time speaks english... Gosh, England has even colonized deep space during the 19th...

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure

Re: What if Earth had rings like Saturn? Are rings so dense? I thnink not; after all, Cassini went right through the ring system of Saturn and didn't get any sever damage. It would of course augment the risk of collisions with small debries (wich already occur around earth even without any ring system), but I don't think a ship would be torn appart. An artificial ring could be made dense enough to prevent any orbiting long term bodies around a planet, though.

Re: Star Goes Rogue in Untimely Collision You sure are right, he he he... On another hand, it seems we just witnessed the first use of a weapon of stellar destruction of some sort... Some alien nation must have bombed this enemy system with a new super weapon in order to stop a long and hard conflict... and ominate it's sector of the galaxy! We're all doomed; how could we compete against such power??? Let's drink, as the end of humanity, as we knew it, is at hand...

Re: Cassini Flyby Shows Enceladus Venting Idem. Great photo. Haa... NASA's picture of the day... A new dream each 24 hours...

Re: Dark galaxy crashing into the Milky Way Humm... So, this is what it feels to live in a colliding galaxy, after all. I had always wondered... I'd doubt it. If a star is to be "resplenished", it would be by gravitational "drain" of another star during a close encounter. This could mean our sun would live longer, but it would probably also mean that the solar system would be entirely disrupted. I don't think earth being projected into interstellar cold void to be such a good thing; we'd have to live like in Space 1999...

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure Isn't there another way to look it around? I read once about this time travel paradox thing and two general possibilities were exposed as what would happen in such a case. The first possibility is the paradox as stated by Nyrath, while the second didn't implied a paradox at all; if this second possibility is true, people moving back in time and destroying their now future possibilities to do so would now live (and act) in a parallel universe, a universe where they will not move back in time to do what they already did. Of course, it may end the paradox, but it would mean that some event in the universe (in this case, the destruction of the ship) could happen without any cause at all, nor past or future. If this is so, we could maybe consider FTL and time travel to be beyond our grasp for ever, as we never discovered any event proved to have no cause att all, wich would demonstrate as far as we know that nobody in the future will ever travel back to us and be his or her own cause. Then, we couldn't have the Terminator at all, as Skynet was it's own cause... Edit: geez... I read back my post and I figured out it wasn't clear at all... Sorry, those are harder subjects to handle when you write in another language...

Re: Castle Base and Followers Hé hé, is it that baron we'll have to meet with the mace on next game? Cause if he has power over gargoyles, I'll have good arguments not to go and meet him!

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure Indeed, but, hey, why not...

Re: Hypothetical Astronomy: The Rings of the Earth But think about it: the rings of Saturn in the sky! Io's electric arc to Jupiter! Titan's orange sky! Europe's underworld ocean! Uranus' aquamarin... heu... everything! The outer solar system is your's to discover! (check out with your travel agent to see our outstanding offers on permanent or semi permanent move to the newest colonies and get the chance to be thrown into Jupiter's liquid metallic hydrogen core when you die FOR FREE!!!!!!!!) Sign now! (as this forum doesn't permit size 2 letters, you'll have to see on our website if you want to read this part of the contract...)

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure An interesting relativist point of view... There, I think there is a little too much relativism... You get a point Gnaskar, when you say people are affected by their own society; it's absolutely true. As a politologist, I always have to keep in mind that my ideas and conceptual background are inherently moderns and eurocentrists; it's not my fault, it's the way it is. Relativism is a necessity to critical thought. But then again, if you only have relativism in your conceptual toolbox, you may end making gross comparisons. I'm pretty, pretty sure I'm better off living in Canada than, say, Birmania. (by the way, Birmania's people don't seem to be very fond of their government since a couple of years...). What I mean is that I don't think Norway is a dictature just because some aspects of its regime seem more authoritarian than other liberal ones (of course, I never even set a foot there, and I know it, but anyway...). When I say I'd go for a democracy, I don't limit myself to the liberal representative and capitalist forms of it; there are a lot more options to explore, I think. Some of them may not evolve in the populist "void" debate we now know in contemporan liberalism... Was it really more stable than liberal regimes? Liberalism dawned in the 1600s and it still exists in its first country: England. It's a 400 years old regime; that is quite stable. Of course, it underwent a lot of crisis and transformation; it's only "evolution", it's normal. A thing that doesn't change, transform, "evolve" is a dead thing, or even a non existent one. To be stable doesn't mean to be monolithic; feodalism transformed itself a lot, to. Wars, successions, anexions, etc. For instance, crusades weren't a permanent state of feodalism; they were a particuliar historical event, set in it their particuliar historical context with their particuliar historical consequences. So a democrtic regime might as well be a stable one, even though it won't ever fix the society like an amber fossil. He he he... There is indeed a great risk to see a serious generation ship type game "degenerate" in a paranoia like one, particularly if too much alcohol is implicated...!

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure Geez... Sorry for that. Indeed again, but that king od law doesn't necessitate an authoritarian regime, though. For instance, there are laws that make mandatory to help people in difficulty as long as your life isn't threatened in Canada. As I live there, I can assure you that Canada's not comparable to North Korea when it comes to authority...

Re: How would you build this? No problem! (actually, it was kinda funny anyway...!)

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure Interesting. The question that arises to me now is, can any social order survive a catastrophe in wich half of the population died, in closed spacship or anywhere else?

Re: Hypothetical Astronomy: The Rings of the Earth I know; i don't remember why it was supposed to be destroyed... Anyway, whith another search, I wasn't able to find the document back, but I found this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#Tidal_evolution_of_the_lunar_orbit I suppose it was all bullock, then.

Re: How would you build this? He he he... Sorry, basically not an english speaking person! (I meant "more far"...).

Re: Hypothetical Astronomy: The Rings of the Earth I read once that the moon, wich is slowly precessing away from earth (3,8 cm a year, if I'm not mistaken) could eventually collapse under gravitational stress and form actually form a ring around the earth (in one or two billion years or so), but I didn't manage to find the document again...

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure Gee, people, do you realize what you really are saying in this thread about democracy? It seems to me that the idea of autocratic government being more efficient than democracy to rule a society had been ruled out a little more than sixty years ago, around 1945... and than again in 1989 in Eastern Europe (and I'm not even mentionning the actual human disasters implied here...). Human beings do not act submissively just because they aren't educated; anger and frustration will inevitably arise even without education, especially because an autocratic society is never, never, an equitable one. Even in USSR (wich proclaimed to be an equalitarian regime), rulers had access to a lot more than the everage person. Worse, lack of education will make chances of such frustrations and angers degenerate into violence much higher... I think a little like Clonus:

Re: How would you build this? he he he hee... Hero System, that is; options, options, options... But hey, that's really part of the fun of it and, it gives us pretexts to chat about it during hours on this forum... Thanks again, everybody; I sens that my understanding of the system is going way farter then in previous scope!

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure Found it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons Edit: Arrg!!! It supposed to be the fastest but its given speed is lower than Voyager 1's! :confused:

Re: Generation starships and their internal society structure 1% speed of light... By the way, what is the highest speed that a human made object ever attained is space (and wich object would it be)? Anybody knows? I know that the Voyager 1 probe is the fartest human made object in the universe ("110.94 AU (16.596 billion km, or 10.312 billion miles") and that it has the highest specific energy, going presently at 17 km/s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1), wich I believe is about 3 AU/year. Anybody knows of something I don't?

Re: How would you build this? Thanks a lot, guys; really interesting. To SirViss: Hey hey, I discover another Montréal Hero adept...! Is it always on if it only goes to work after some action (even though the effect is continuous)?

Hi every body, I had an idea for a character long ago and I never managed to build his power satisfactorily. He's a 1970s rich and sportive play-boy (kinda Tony Curtis' character in 'The Persuaders'). His only power would be that each time he participate in some action, everybody who witnessed the scene would attribuate any success of the ggod guys to his action or participation. He's rich, beautyful, everybody loves him and he just seems to be an heroic 'ubermensch'. So, how can I build this 'everybody think I did it' power? I came with two or three options, but they are cery costly and somewhat overcomplicated and I'm not sure if they are all appropriate... First one using mind control: Mind Control 20d6 (standard effect: 60 points), Area Of Effect Nonselective (One Hex; +1/4), Telepathic (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Indirect ( Any origin, any direction; +3/4), Invisible Power Effects (Fully Invisible; +1), MegaScale (1" = 100 000 km; +1 1/2) (525 Active Points); Independent (-2), No Conscious Control (-2), Mandatory Effect EGO +30 or Greater (Must Always Achieve [Particular Effect]; -1), Set Effect (-1/2), Does Not Provide Mental Awareness (-1/4) 78pts Second one using Mental Illusion: Mental Illusions 20d6 (standard effect: 60 points), Area Of Effect Nonselective (One Hex; +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Indirect ( Any origin, any direction; +3/4), Invisible Power Effects (Fully Invisible; +1), MegaScale (1" = 100 000 km; +1 1/2) (500 Active Points); Independent (-2), No Conscious Control (-2), Mandatory Effect EGO +30 or Greater (-3/4), Conditional Power Power does not work in Common Circumstances (Set effect; -1/2), Does Not Provide Mental Awareness (-1/4) 77pts And the last one using Extra-Dimentionnal Mouvement (to move in a parrallel word where everybody think the character actually did everything all by himself: Extra-Dimensional Movement (Single Dimension), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Invisible Power Effects (Fully Invisible; +1) (50 Active Points); No Conscious Control (-2), Independent (-2), Conditional Power Power does not work in Common Circumstances (-1/2) 9pts The reason I don't like the 78 pts mind power versions is that the character would actually be part of a heroic campaign, with a maximum of 150 character points... I don't want to flush half my character points just for a tweak I think is pretty much harmless. What do you think? *

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Hi Steve, I kept my 200th post just for you...! My question is: Can the focus of a power be a part of one's body? I just went to see Repo: The Genetic Opera movie and the character Blind Mag can project holograms with her cyber eyes. Could this be built as an obvious focus, probably accessible? Thank you very much. P.S.: I used the smiley to represent the flashing eyes more than love...