10-15-2017, 07:27 PM | #21 |
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Re: Yrth In Spaaacccceee!
I'm less concerned with numbers than descriptions. The Atlas setting has cloning, sapient computers, ships with one gravity acceleration, submarines with fusion power plants, genetically engineered life (including parahumans), antimatter as a weapon.. Everything about it out of the box says mature TL 10.
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10-16-2017, 11:38 PM | #22 |
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Going back to the start of this, if you use Yrth as a campaign origin and magic as the base your tech becomes TL3+3 to TL 3+5 for most things and TL 3+7 for space tech, giving a rather nice Star Wars feel. :)
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10-17-2017, 12:56 AM | #23 |
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Actually Yrth in Space was just the title. It wasn't really what the OP was asking about. So I'm starting a new thread just for that idea.
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10-17-2017, 08:19 AM | #24 |
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One of the things about Yrth is that it has familiar cultures in a fantasy setting using the Banestorm as an excuse. (This is also, admittedly, why some people don't like it.)
If we are doing a parallel setting for Space then we need a way to move familiar Earth cultures out into space as well as having vastly different and strange cultures among humans as well as aliens. A device I would copy (I think I'm stealing it from L.Neil Smith's Libertarian propaganda novels) is an event with an unreliable jump drive that causes a diaspora fleet from Earth to be scattered across space and time and when humankind gets to the stars by more reliable means we discover human cultures already out there. You could use the old TRAVELLER 'Our ancestors were kidnapped by aliens' bit or if you don't want to be too obvious about use Poul Anderson's THE HIGH CRUSADE as a basis.
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10-17-2017, 08:57 AM | #26 |
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It seems to me, when I look at this thread, that I'm seeing a specific image of what "outer space adventure" means, and it's one that involves swordplay. So prototypical outer space heroes would be, say, John Carter, Paul Atreides, and Luke Skywalker (or Obi-Wan Kenobi).
And, you know, that's one way to do it. But it's not the only one. The Lensman novels are classics of (what we now call) space opera, and they had almost no swordplay; when they had melee it was often hand to hand, with at least one notable excursus into battlesuits. I think it might be said that on one hand we have outer space adventure being about knights or musketeers; on the other, about World War II era soldiers and pilots and cops, with perhaps an occasional glance back to old Western gunfighters (the "Wild Bill Williams" sequence). And what I think of as classic outer space adventure is more the latter. But on the third hand, both of those are taking familiar historical (or romanticized historical) scenarios and projecting them into space. And if there is a human future in space, it's at least as likely to involve social forms and images of heroism that haven't even appeared yet.
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10-17-2017, 11:11 AM | #29 |
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Seconded. That's one of the nice things about Yrth.
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10-17-2017, 11:42 AM | #30 |
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That's one option. But I tend to prefer a different option: Having the various fantasy cultures be originals, with elements borrowed from various Earth cultures or mythologies and blended together in new combinations.
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