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At any rate you appear to be setting drive speed to match habitable density. I would have done it the other way around. 100 LY is the number I got from Gurps Space 1e and I regard anything smaller as improbably optimistic. Lesser density is certainly possible. As a note settign the inhabited world density extremely low means that each world has a vast number of uninhabited systems in its' "sphere of influence" and nobody would ever fight over mundane resources. Also, at 3000LY or farther the "galaxy" beoems functionally quite small. A tourist could very well decide to visti every world in the galaxy where he could breathe unaided. At 25 worlds to the galaxy there are fewer worlds than there are US states and memorizing the names and capitols of all of them becomes a literally child-like task. This has implications for Skills. Look at Area Knowledge Skill in Basic. The lowest densities shrink Area Knowledge(Galaxy) down to AK(Interplametary State). I vote 300 LY. I don't want the Galaxy to be too small.
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This is my choice. But make the distribution high irregular. Some areas should be crowded others empty.
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OK, people just don't seem to be that interested or opinionated about humanity's status among the powers. I'm going to take Vicky's suggestion: we aren't minor, but we're not leading the pack either. How do nations, cultures and species relate? one vote People who talk with Aliens are traitors or nutballs Your Species is Your nation and culture, whether you live there or not. Cultures and Nations are formed by species, but others join them on occasion. Some Nations and Cultures have multiple species, but the number blended is low or based on one species assimilating the others. Nations have one or more species that form their core, but no one is really out of place. Species only matters when you need to reproduce. note: It should not be construed that statements like "you species is your nation" means that humanity is necessarily united. It means you can't be a citizen of a non-human nation How Many Kinds of Aliens? There are three questions: how many dominant aliens, how many total species, and how many "starfish" aliens. please place one vote in each. 2 3-4, 4-8, 8-16, lots This is not in the universe, but in the effective setting. We'll get to refine this more later on. I vote that your species is your nation. dominant(3-4) starfish(4-8) total (lots)
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How many starfish aliens: 2 Total: not a huge number more (4-8) , at least not among the starfaring races. There's plenty of room for lots of lower-tech peoples who have never gotten off the ground. They'll only be seen as captives of war, if the heroes crashland somewhere, etc. |
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