01-26-2008, 10:14 PM | #1 |
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L5-type Space Colonies as RPG settings.
Just what the title says.
Can anyone suggest a way to use an O'Neill L-5 type colony as a setting for an RPG campaign? Like this kind of space colony: http://www.nss.org/settlement/Coloni...es_chap08.html Probly setting the story 100 to 200 years in our near future. I'd probably use GURPS, but any system could be used. - Ed Charlton
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01-27-2008, 12:09 AM | #2 | |
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Well, you can rent that space to corporations that NEED zero-gee manufacturing facilities... they will also help the Earth "go green"...venting toxic fumes into space isnt going to hurt anyone, or the waste can be more easily collected and recycled or safely blasted into the sun. Plenty of extra space for transit cargos headed out to the jovian moon colonies... supplies / food out, asteroid metals comming back. Lots of room for space sciences like astronomy where thers no atmosphere to interfer with their observations. There's space to rent out for solar energy collection, power cell production, and maybe even a solar system shipyard that can make the special needs ships that can deal with solar winds / asteroid shields. There's plenty of manufacturing that can use Zero-gee to make products without gravity to affect the materials being created. Take artificial crystal growth, or plastic injection molding just to name two. What about metals, the ease of creating them without gravity and the ability to give them a molecular polarity without the interferance of the earths magnetic field... Theres room for agricultural green houses to grow food for the masses back on earth, and even the opportunity to own your own Brubecks or an Astroburger franchise to feed all those hungry technicians, scientists, rocket jockeys, engineers, cargo monkeys and administrative people... Why you have plenty of things an O'Neill L-5 type colony can be used for... it's the things you DON'T want it used for thats the real problem... |
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01-27-2008, 09:14 AM | #3 | |
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01-27-2008, 09:32 AM | #4 |
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Re: L5-type Space Colonies as RPG settings.
I may be in error, but I believe GURPS Mars has a chapter on this subject.
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01-27-2008, 10:13 AM | #5 |
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01-27-2008, 10:39 AM | #6 |
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Re: L5-type Space Colonies as RPG settings.
Is the point to show off the colony itself? That is, you think the O'Neil colony is a cool idea in and of itself, and you want the game to explore it? (Think of "milieu" stories like LOTR or Gulliver's Travels where the point is mainly to wander around and look at interesting things.)
It could of course be used as a setting for any sort of game. You've got some new places to discover a body for a noirish mystery, plus a chase scene down the zero-G axis. |
01-27-2008, 11:39 AM | #7 | |
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When I was much younger (late 70s/early 80s) these sorts of colonies used to get talked about a LOT in magazines that I read back then . (FUTURE LIFE, OMNI, etc...) Technically, the Babylon 5 station was one of these kinds of colnies. What I'm looking for a somewhat optimistic future timeline that leads to where we have 1 or 2 pf hese things in operation....with lots of residents and travelers in frequenting them - in our own solar system. (There are almost too many big "DARK" settings) It could be a great setting (map?) for an RPG campaign. Just curious what others thought. Any more suggestions? - Ed Charlton
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01-27-2008, 01:32 PM | #8 | |
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01-27-2008, 02:51 PM | #10 |
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THS High Frontier has a bunch of L-4 and L-5 stations with adventure ideas.
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