Terra and Marc
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kafka47:
Marc/Avery would you consider doing a Planetary Survey (SJG) for the Terran system?
[This message has been edited by kafka47 (edited 15 September 2001).]
All those in favor say: Aye
(edited 15 September 2001).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
There is plans from memory for Jon Zeigler (of GT:Rim of Fire fame) is doing somthing on Terra. He is currently writing on another project at the moment.
Darryl
Marc/Avery would you consider doing a Planetary Survey (SJG) for the Terran system?
[This message has been edited by kafka47 (edited 15 September 2001).]
All those in favor say: Aye
(edited 15 September 2001).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
There is plans from memory for Jon Zeigler (of GT:Rim of Fire fame) is doing somthing on Terra. He is currently writing on another project at the moment.
Darryl
Please, let it have a world image. USA is the dominant culture and will be for millenium to come, but I hated both the DGP/GT version of Terra, Traveller style which ultimately worked like this: 'Europe is one big f**k**g museum and everywhere else is important'. Get it right: no one plays US football in Europe, they play rugby or soccer. Also understand we are not unimportant and will not buy a book about Terra, C.57 if we are ignored and the US us the only mentioned nation. We are not our history (what GT calls 'folkways'), we live today and will live tommorow. By the way, I like the growth of Africa thang in original Traveller!
NB: In this time of need, I have no disrespect for my American friends and allies. We are right behind you.
NB: In this time of need, I have no disrespect for my American friends and allies. We are right behind you.
I have always imagined that Terra would be something fundamentally different than its past, which is why I was disappointed TD13, as well.
My suggestion for Marc/Avery to take up the gauntlet was from the fantastic piece that he did for Dragon on Luna. I just thought some published product around that help rekindle interest.
But, I guess if Marc/Avery would decide to write something on the Terra system, it would blow Transhuman Space out the sky.
I don't know how many fans would also echo this sediment. But, Marc/Avery you really are a really great game designer and would like to see something published under your name. As it has been a long time since MT and past glories like the Ancients trilogy.
My suggestion for Marc/Avery to take up the gauntlet was from the fantastic piece that he did for Dragon on Luna. I just thought some published product around that help rekindle interest.
But, I guess if Marc/Avery would decide to write something on the Terra system, it would blow Transhuman Space out the sky.
I don't know how many fans would also echo this sediment. But, Marc/Avery you really are a really great game designer and would like to see something published under your name. As it has been a long time since MT and past glories like the Ancients trilogy.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Elliot:
...Also understand we are not unimportant and will not buy a book about Terra, C.57 if we are ignored and the US us the only mentioned nation.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I would (if it was otherwise good). Not that I recall the US being mentioned much in the TD13 writeup or Rim of Fire
BTW. Try reading some of Jack Vance's books about the Gaean Reach for a look at a Future Earth. He has some very evocative ideas.
Hans
...Also understand we are not unimportant and will not buy a book about Terra, C.57 if we are ignored and the US us the only mentioned nation.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I would (if it was otherwise good). Not that I recall the US being mentioned much in the TD13 writeup or Rim of Fire
BTW. Try reading some of Jack Vance's books about the Gaean Reach for a look at a Future Earth. He has some very evocative ideas.
Hans
I think this would be great! I am particulary interested because, at least according to GT: Rim of Fire, I am living in the future capital of the planet. Cool enough, but, as I have pointed John Zeigler during that book playtest, most of the City of Rio de Janeiro should be underwater by that time. At least considering the sea levels of that timeframe.
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Malenfant
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Funny, I thought the SolCon had become jack-booted right-wing fascist state (at least in so far as they had the SolSec Thought Police looking over everyone's shoulders, with racial supremacist background). Was this different in CT, or do you just have an odd definition of "Communist"?
Fritz_Brown
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Actually, there is very little different between the two. The political spectrum is more of a circle, with the two freaky, absolutist, nutjob ends coming together on the far side.
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Malenfant
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In practice they're very similar, perhaps. But the reasons they act like that are somewhat different.
Fritz_Brown
Super Moderator
Right you are, Malenfant.
Right on Man.
If the Solomani Party wasn't a certified bunch of Loonies I'd be more inclined to like the Solomani Confederation. One big problem I have with the OTU from T4 to the start of MT is I personally dislike every major insterstellar state*. Just as with an author disliking the major characters in a novel it shows in my GMing.
As is I'm looking forward to GT: Interstellar Wars, set back when Terrans weren't Loony and the Vilani wore grey.
* and this is coming from someone who likes Tekumel and the Hapsburgs so I'm not wanting squeaky clean powers
As is I'm looking forward to GT: Interstellar Wars, set back when Terrans weren't Loony and the Vilani wore grey.
* and this is coming from someone who likes Tekumel and the Hapsburgs so I'm not wanting squeaky clean powers
On that thought please see my new thread I started on Tekumel (link)
"terry sat up
and hugged the army surplus bag
around his skinny waist
it was cold
and the person beside him had faded badly
legs apart his eyes lit up
the sky's gone out-"
- bauhaus, Exquisite Corpse
Straybow
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Yeah, well it is difficult to imagine how a place as diverse as Earth (with hundreds of diverse polities encompassing some 20,000 distinct culture/language groups) becomes so unidimensional in just a couple thousand years.
The whole Fascists In Space thing is clichéed. Nevermind morphing one of the most liberated societies into a police state. I could see it if the Solomani were based on a Chinese hegemony or something.
The whole Fascists In Space thing is clichéed. Nevermind morphing one of the most liberated societies into a police state. I could see it if the Solomani were based on a Chinese hegemony or something.
Who says the Vilani only wore gray? I picture the Vilani vacc suit so colorful & exotic that upon First Contact...the Terran only could surmise that the race they were encountering was bipedal.
Sort of like the encounter with the natives in the Doctor Who episode of 'Castravalva'. But I don't know what Jon has plannned...
In forbidden canon has them dressed a combination of flash gordon getups and long flowing robes. Could you imagine what the Terrans would have thought when they encountered the first "blimp" (the Vilani equilant of dog) but an airborne jellyfish...
Sort of like the encounter with the natives in the Doctor Who episode of 'Castravalva'. But I don't know what Jon has plannned...
In forbidden canon has them dressed a combination of flash gordon getups and long flowing robes. Could you imagine what the Terrans would have thought when they encountered the first "blimp" (the Vilani equilant of dog) but an airborne jellyfish...
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