Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

Well, I'm finally back to working on this setting.

Now that I've got a pretty solid idea of how FTL works [gravity affected, not simultaneous, limited range, requires refueling/recharge and often multiple jumps to get from one world to another] , I'm moving on to sketch out some of the other aspects of the setting.

Since I don't have gravitics as part of the setting, I think I will include humans adapted to different gravities: light worlders, heavy worlders, and possibly spacers.

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

I'm on to looking at aliens and how to work them in...

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

Not sure how many sapient species there will be, but I am sure that numerous other planets will have native lifeforms. I think I will adopt a panspermia approach, with protean life [or its building blocks] having been transported from world to world by comets or meteors.

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

I used a variant on this approach inspired by At The Mountains of Madness, where life in various forms similar to ours sprung up on worlds where the Elder Things had bases as a result of their biotech experiments and basic dumping of waste. Essentially, life on earth and other worlds came about as a result of extraterrestrial garbage dumps.

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

I've used a varient of this idea also, where life on Earth originated from a disease ancient aliens accidentally left behind.

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

I wonder how humanity would react to the knowledge that life on Earth is ultimately the result of the Elder Things getting careless with their lab sanitation procedures?

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

Knowing humans, they'd find some way to be proud of it.

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

So far, I'm looking at using a couple of species from GURPS Aliens and from Traveller:

Bwaps - retrotech civilization, punch card computers and rocketships.

Memer & Saret- belters, freighters, etc. The Memer/ Saret dislike dealing with other species directly, so they make heavy use of robotic go betweens and audio links.

Pachekki- rivals of the Bwaps.

Re: Space Campaign, revisited
 

I've worked out more material for spaceship and jumpdrives,working with a freind from school. Basically, there's going to be a time-and-range-limited, gravity dependent jump system. Ships slingshot themselves along, taking advantage of large bodies like planets and stars. There's more, but I'll wait to post it til I have it in a a clearly written form. It's just a jumble of notes on paper, right now.