[Space] Of Freefall and Vacuum: adventures set away from planets?

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

THS has no TL^ gravity generators, has vacuum as a serious concern, but is so information-oriented that 95% of the adventure is about tracing packets and making backroom deals, while the matters of cold weightless void are left in the real world

Doesn't have to be that way. The first THS campaign I played was set among the Vacuum Cleaners of cislunar space. There was a lot of orbital operations, spacewalking and some actual combat. I was always very aware of the vacuum out there, and that we were apes in a can, outside our natural environment. All the players were old enough to remember Apollo, Skylab, and so on, and that shaped our ideas of how things worked.