[Blog] n-Body Politics

[kreios]

https://nbodypolitics.gitlab.io/

Finally starting a blog on the setting I had in mind for some time. I will also include corresponding rules, examples, and thoughts on GURPS rules related to sci-fi.

Starting with the first post:

Originally Posted by https://nbodypolitics.gitlab.io/2017/11/17/introduction.html

For quite some time, I have worked on/thought about/written some things down on a setting I have preliminarily called n-Body Politics. Themes and ideas have changed over the last years, but the basics have remained the same - it’s supposed to be a fairly hard science-fiction setting concentrating on themes of politics, humans, and space.

For inspiration, look at Transhuman Space, the Expanse, or 2300 AD - this is not Star War’s slow spaceships and fighters. It’s Newtonian movement (Einsteinian movement will probably not be attained), space combat with kinetics and lasers, and most crucially without energy shields.

But it’s not supposed to be about war (though the technology and military positions shape arguably do shape the world) - it’s about the people living in it. And yes, it’s also about conflicts on a state/nation level.

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