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====== Science Fiction Gaming ======

Science fiction makes up the majority of my reading
material, however I've never had a huge success with
translating SF settings to roleplaying.

====== Science Fiction Settings ======


===== Mortals =====



A long time ago, I wrote an SF background for GURPS
called 
[[/mortals/index|Mortals]] - .
The premise was a 25th century setting (far enough in
the future that contemporary events could be ignored)
based around the idea of humanity being ruled by
a few powerful organisations led by Immortals -
families of humans who had access to medicines kept
out of the hands of everyone else.



It was a cyberpunk-like setting with hyperspace travel
and a few alien cultures. It died a death pretty soon
afterwards, due to a variety of problems.



Recently, I have started re-working it, possibly this
time ready for use with 
[[/yags/index|Yags]] -  instead of GURPS. This will be a bigger
empire, with hooks for using Full Thrust as well.



===== The One Time =====



Before //Mortals//, there was //The One Time//,
an idea I had after reading up on traversable
wormholes. It was never used, and I switched over to
a more traditional SF setting (i.e. Mortals).
//The One Time// is hard science fiction - no
faster than light travel, reactionless thrusters or
other 'impossibilities'. Just wormholes.



Using relativity and time dilation, the wormholes span
time as well as space, connecting together several
alien empires together into a single frame of
reference - //The One Time//. The idea is currently
being fleshed out a bit more and wakened from its
ten year hibernation.



===== Traveller =====



The problem with 
[[/traveller/index|Traveller]] -  is that I dislike all the Traveller
rule systems other than GURPS, and pretty much everyone
I know hates GURPS. This means that the chance of me
ever running Traveller is zero to none.



Which is a shame, since I think the setting has about
the right mix of fantasy and science to be playable. I
could use an entirely different system (such as Yags),
but if I was going to do that, I'd rather use my own
setting.



===== Full Thrust =====



[[/ft/index|Full Thrust]] -  is a good
space combat wargame with a simple background which I
happen to like, despite feeling that the politics are
slightly improbable.



My problem with it is that there's no set scale (a
feature many see as an advantage), and it doesn't
handle very big ships very well, especially if you
want to use small ships at the same time.



It's also not //Free//, so I may try for a
replacement based on a system I wrote before I found
Full Thrust. No reactionless drives, full vectored
movement for everything, but still had scaling issues.