08-08-2019, 12:36 PM | #51 |
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Riffing off Lost in Space and adding extra touches. The idea of setting up an "American Small Town" in Spaaaaaace! would be period appropriate. Either sincerely or satirically (Topeka in the film is a bitterly snarky take on this trope).
The business of getting a populace together and setting them up could make an epic and deeply snarky campaign. Note: Once done other nations could emulate what America did. So even if the USA achieved Mayberry in space ( with a slice of Medfield), some one else's small town might be more like the village.
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08-08-2019, 10:54 PM | #52 |
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Re: Azoth-8
Belter Lowdah? (/The Expanse)
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08-09-2019, 12:30 AM | #53 |
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Never having had a chance to grab even an episode of that show, I end up missing your point and joke. Please fill me in.
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08-09-2019, 11:03 AM | #54 |
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In period, the late 1960's, Scandinavia had a reputation for intellectual sophistication and sophisticated gloom. Part of this came from Bergman films and part of this came from Gloomy Philosophers. Not fair or accurate, but it could be used in story nicely.
Watch the film Hour of the Wolf (named for the hour of the night when people were supposed to be in the greatest danger of dying). Next reimagine Baron von Merkens (the lead "demon" from the "castle") as an experiment in psionics that has invited a group of Psions to his castle on the isle of Baltrum. The Baron is proposing to use a form of Psychodrama to aid Psions in breaking through their barriers to new levels of understanding and power. What the PCs don't know is the Baron means to use the Psions as a bridge so that he and his allies can breakthrough to new levels of insight and power. If the Psions live or die, stay sane, go mad, lose there powers, or their souls, the Baron could care less.
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08-09-2019, 01:30 PM | #55 | |
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It's Belter ("Belta") creole, and it means "the Belters'" <whatever> -- ideas or resources the Belters consider their own, exclusively. Anybody who tries to claim or control something of the "Beltalowda," it means they're stealing from the Belter society, as a whole.
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08-09-2019, 04:07 PM | #56 | |
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08-09-2019, 06:01 PM | #57 |
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Being in the Belt it isn't in anyone's territory and is equally far from everyone. So I'd expect a very international mix from all nations that have space programs. Like a gold rush but even more so.
Now I'm think of James Garner in Support Your Local Sheriff where he takes the sheriff job but warns them it is only temporary since he is on his way to Australia where the real frontier is. |
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08-10-2019, 11:58 AM | #59 |
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The Moons of Jupiter would be an actual frontier in this setting. Technology to exploit the Moons beyond Io(which is way to deadly as of yet) is coming on line. A scramble to find and claim the resources between nations could make a good adventure game.
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08-11-2019, 03:16 PM | #60 | |
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@tshiggins: Thanks for clarifying my reference!
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