GURPS Fifth Millennium

[D10]

What about the aliens?!

Its only a question of time before the martian ethereal civilization attacks our dreams.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

But it's a future in which nothing will be different from the game's present.

Which is no more or less than what humanity faced for most of its history

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by ericthered

So what can we do to help?

do you just want to share?
do you want error checking on whats plausible or not?
do you want comments on whats fun in this world?
do you want suggestions on features of the world?

All of the above, please.

[NineDaysDead]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

TL 12 w/ conservative hard SF tech path (see page 9 of UT for guidelines)

• Eugenic upgrades
• Parahumans
• Uplifted animals (low sapient)

What level of Bio-tech is available? Only TL 9 (conservative hard SF)? Full TL12?

[D10]

Thats a very good question, with TL12 Biotech, the solar system would probably be much more hospitable to colonists, with crazy TL12 things terraforming all sorts of envyroments, and by the time the campaign starts, its very possible that several autosuficient colonies would exist in mars and other places.

Reason to get there in the first place could be scarce, but with the help of AIs and the adventurous spirit that humans always had, I doubt it wouldnt happen unless there were something that prevented it from happening.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Michele

Pontifices.

Latin plurals in English are becoming old-fashioned. The plural of "actor" is "actors", not "actores".

Some people still prefer them — I think that they are elegant myself, and gave them up only reluctantly; but it is not necessary to correct someone who uses English grammar in English.

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by D10

What about the aliens?!

Its only a question of time before the martian ethereal civilization attacks our dreams.

Sure, there might be intelligent alien life.

It hasn't showed up yet, so far as anybody knows.:)

It would probably come from beyond the Solar System.

A generation or sleeper ship carrying alien sophonts showing up near Pluto would not break any of my tech assumptions. That doesn't mean I'm going to do it, but it's a good example of a big historical event that would not require a massive paradigm shift in the technology or science on Earth.

[sir_pudding]

For some reason I'm reminded of what Earth was like in Simmon's Illium and Olympos (which is neither conservative nor especially hard).

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by NineDaysDead

What level of Bio-tech is available? Only TL 9 (conservative hard SF)? Full TL12?

The former. Of course I'll need to hash out just which things count as incremental TL improvements and which are new tech appearing at TL 10. there was a bit of discussion over that matter in the other thread.

[D10]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

Sure, there might be intelligent alien life.

It hasn't showed up yet, so far as anybody knows.:)

It would probably come from beyond the Solar System.

A generation or sleeper ship carrying alien sophonts showing up near Pluto would not break any of my tech assumptions. That doesn't mean I'm going to do it, but it's a good example of a big historical event that would not require a massive paradigm shift in the technology or science on Earth.

Could be Aliens AI's as well, since its probably easier to get a super smart computer thro space if its an exploratory mission ...

If a whole sleeper ship appears... these guys want more than simple exploration!