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  1. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Krogan Inspired Inventor mercenary in Mass Effect. Build yourself up a team of space misfits and explore the galaxy in an era before the reaper threat exists. Or, you could write a human MC and set the story post-reaper war, letting you be instrumental in picking up the pieces of the galaxy...
  2. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    You could do a tech wank fic if you make the right choices while making a Laboratorium build - Weaponize, Puzzle Organs, Fractalline Shadows, Shattered Stone, Planar Laboratory, Void Armoire, Laboratorium-chan whatever else you want to get, you don't even need to be biopunk because flavor is...
  3. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    You know what else controls heat? High tech forging tools you can build.
  4. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I suspect that the problem with Vilani reverse engineering the stuff the MC is going to invent isn't necessarily any kind of "black boxing", but the fact that the Vilani have spent countless generations stifling innovation in the name of stability. Do they even have people anywhere near terra...
  5. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    When it comes to reverse engineering Items, especially tech based Items, I've never seen why it should be impossible for a Jumper or Forgemaster with sufficient reverse engineering skill to copy them. It's a computer that has programming on it, presumably the version produced by Lucy in the film...
  6. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Also, cliff! Kudos on picking up the Black Supercomputer - it's a real handy peace of kit for any Jumper/Forgemaster to have. Now, how much of it is she going to extract for introduction to her peers? Even if she can't perfectly export unlimited storage and unlimited possessing power and...
  7. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Yeah, come to think about it, Battletech heat sinks WOULD be useful in all sorts of space-based industries, not to mention terrestrial industries, wouldn't they? Imagine high end gaming PCs using them.
  8. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I feel like starcraft stuff would be too overwhelming for this story. Like, the only thing that I think might be useful without overwhelming the existing setting would be the "terran buildings can fly" aspect of the terran tech base, but I also don't feel like outside of the starcraft universe...
  9. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    All this argument does is reinforce my opinion that the most powerful perks in jumpchain are the ones that let you more and more easily manage larger and more diverse groups of normal people. Screw Xianxia, give me more organizational, management and logistics perks!
  10. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Tbh, when it comes to Cliff being excessively verbose in his writing, yeah, I agree that it's a problem that I'm not exactly thrilled about because yeah, sometimes my eyes glaze over a bit. But also, I've been reading his work long enough to recognize that the reason he writes like that is...
  11. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    TBH I fell off of Brokton's Celestial Forge when their original discord got overrun with nazis and bots and everyone who wasn't affiliated with them ran off to another discord that I couldn't find an invite for. Is he still doing the thing where he gets a new perk, and he spends enough...
  12. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    IIRC that's not true? Once the Manties figure out how to make better, smaller fusion plants, they also figure out how to mount those weapons on the LACs that become their fighter craft for their status quo shattering carrier dreadnoughts later on in the series that Honor and Hemphill developed...
  13. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I'd have to go back to read On Basilisk Station, but IIRC honor actually talks about why it was placed on a destoryer - it was a proof of concept that people who only saw the navy as numbers in simulations put up, because they figured that the role for a ship like the Fearless would be to sneak...
  14. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Stepping back from a pure military standpoint, I agree that automation and drone tech is really high up there on potential priorities she can be looking into. Especially considering how small Humanity is compared to the rest of the setting at this moment, as well as the fact that it's been...
  15. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Bruuuuuh, you are nit-picking trivial shit. She hasn't had the chance to look at the options for six months because she's been busy and she's not relentlessly hitting F5 to refresh the forge when she isn't ready to buy something new because she has some fucking discipline. You know what I'd...
  16. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    But cliiiiiiiiff, if they don't nit pick you, how will they convince themselves that they're both smarter than you and a better writer than you?
  17. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Man, I feel like someone in command is going to blow a gasket about the MC's reaction to not being able to Science to her heart's content for the Navy being "Okay well I'm just gonna Science in my free time and, like, come up with radical new and superior jump drives, fusion plants and FTL...
  18. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    God knows my internet experience skyrockets in quality when I add names to my ignore list.
  19. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    That's... that's literally grimderp, not tragedy.
  20. Domino

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    At best, and only if I'm being generous, it suggests that you're a huge fan of grimderp suffering for suffering's sake and you don't understand what tragedy-as-catharsis actually is. TL,DR: you're supposed to come away from a tragic story uplifted and with a greater understanding of the world...
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