Establishing a colony at TL8

Dangerious P. Cats · 12-09-2011, 05:43 PM

The planet will have been surveyed for some time and was chosen for its similarity to earth (there's going to be a B story about how the government was conducting space exploration for years in secrete and may have know about or even caused the invasion of earth). The science is going to be a little soft since beyond there being earth like planets with human civilisation on them (it may shock you to learn that I'm taking a lot of ideas StarGate), though I intend to have any occurrence that can't be explained by modern science as being unexplained and mysterious (particularly why there are human colonies distributed throughout the galaxy).

I like the idea that challenges faced include new pathogens jumping the species barrier to humans and loss of food crops. Much of the focus for the campaign was going to be internal conflict within the colony with brief forays outside for exploration or battling aliens. I envisaged it as being much like battle star in that respect. I don't want the colony to run too well for that reason, if it runs well it removed all the drama, though I don't want the tone to be too grim dark either (grim dark often annoys me as much as utopian fiction does).

12-09-2011, 05:43 PM	#12
Dangerious P. Cats Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Establishing a colony at TL8 The planet will have been surveyed for some time and was chosen for its similarity to earth (there's going to be a B story about how the government was conducting space exploration for years in secrete and may have know about or even caused the invasion of earth). The science is going to be a little soft since beyond there being earth like planets with human civilisation on them (it may shock you to learn that I'm taking a lot of ideas StarGate), though I intend to have any occurrence that can't be explained by modern science as being unexplained and mysterious (particularly why there are human colonies distributed throughout the galaxy). I like the idea that challenges faced include new pathogens jumping the species barrier to humans and loss of food crops. Much of the focus for the campaign was going to be internal conflict within the colony with brief forays outside for exploration or battling aliens. I envisaged it as being much like battle star in that respect. I don't want the colony to run too well for that reason, if it runs well it removed all the drama, though I don't want the tone to be too grim dark either (grim dark often annoys me as much as utopian fiction does). __________________ There is no "i" in team, but there is in Dangerious!