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Anthony · 11-07-2017, 04:22 PM

Note that dumb ideas can still make for interesting campaigns. One campaign I considered (though never actually ran) a time-forward version of THS called Posthuman Stars. Basic idea is that people using the Shezbeth black hole came up with a way to generate one way wormholes (no return trip unless you found your own black hole at the destination and built a station, though they did verify via radio that it worked), and a bunch of people decided that colonizing the stars was the right thing to do.

Queue warfare and loss of records in the Solar System, and then rebuilding and improving the tech to allow recall. Some of the extrasolar colonies did eventually phone home. Others didn't. Clearly some adventurous types need to go out there and find out what happened.

11-07-2017, 04:22 PM	#59
Anthony Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Berkeley, CA	Re: If interstellar Colonies become possible, who goes first? Note that dumb ideas can still make for interesting campaigns. One campaign I considered (though never actually ran) a time-forward version of THS called Posthuman Stars. Basic idea is that people using the Shezbeth black hole came up with a way to generate one way wormholes (no return trip unless you found your own black hole at the destination and built a station, though they did verify via radio that it worked), and a bunch of people decided that colonizing the stars was the right thing to do. Queue warfare and loss of records in the Solar System, and then rebuilding and improving the tech to allow recall. Some of the extrasolar colonies did eventually phone home. Others didn't. Clearly some adventurous types need to go out there and find out what happened. __________________ My GURPS site and Blog.