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  1. Potato and Chip

    Thank you for the suggestions. I know there are all sorts of places to find stories but...

    Thank you for the suggestions. I know there are all sorts of places to find stories but sometimes it feels like that pool is getting increasingly small. Maybe I’m losing my ability to search for stories, maybe as time goes on my tastes have become more selective, but increasingly I’m coming to...
  2. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    cliffc999 I hope you don't take this the wrong way, you write what you want to write and all that, but this felt like a... not so great turn to me. I'm not saying to re-write this or anything, I'm just getting my thoughts out there. I just have some reservations about this update. Like the...
  3. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I don't think I really understand the size dimensions of the empire from the description. I'm going to assume its 120 parsecs wide and 250 parsecs long. Which would make it around 391.4 light years wide and 815.4 light years long. It sounds to me like Terra having access to HPGs and the KF...
  4. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I can’t remember, and I’m hoping someone else does, but does the studying of Kearny-Fuchida physics require someone who is slightly touched in the head or drive normal mathematicians and physicians kind of loopy the more they understand it? I can’t remember if that’s just fanon people add to...
  5. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    To minimize the amount of research you need to do, and to keep this story from becoming a purely Battletech/Traveler crossover, maybe Sophia could focus on the highlights of the techbase. Aka the jumpdrive and FTL communications, and then offload the development of the rest of the techbase onto...
  6. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    cliffc999 I forgot, but apparently there are smaller HPG's. Mobile HPGs are 12 ton mobile communication trucks that are HPG capable. They aren't just a mobile HPG, they're an entire command station and its staff. Granted Battletech lightweight magic materials are probably part of the reason...
  7. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Its because they do produce more power then fusion would permit. Battletech fusion reactors draw part of their energy from hyperspace. This discovery was what lead to the invention of the K-F drive. It’s why Battletech fusion reactors are so good, they’re literally just primers for drawing...
  8. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I'm rather unaware of the setting, but I have to assume the reason why the Vilani don't seem to have a constant stream of geniuses is because they have a caste system. Their accessible pool of geniuses is only as big as their scientist caste. Then you have to shrink said pool down further; how...
  9. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I'm hoping she still has the knowledge of how to build something like what she just destroyed because... well... call me optimistic, but from what she described I didn't really see a bio-super-weapon so much as possibly the greatest medical discovery in the history of humanity. A cure for...
  10. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I think that might be authorial knowledge leaking in by accident. I looked up a bit on the setting and apparently the Terran Confederation canonically managed to "conquer" the Imperium. The Terran Confederation was dissolved and a new empire was formed with Terra at its head and large numbers...
  11. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    cliffc999 I wanted to say that I wasn't trying to say that ceph nanomachines can't be used like your standard sci-fi nanites, I just wanted to point out an odd quirk in how they are presented in the crysis games and the possible implications of that if you choose to go down that route. Watching...
  12. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Really? Huh. That would mean the introduction of Star Wars blasters, 40k lasguns, or fallout laser muskets would be a game changer. How powerful are these laser guns? I know Battletech human sized laser guns also need an external battery, with the smallest being the size of a canteen and...
  13. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Oh I know, it’s just that ceph nanomachines seem uniquely biologically focused (ceph nanomachines can enhance biology, modify biology, act as the intermediary between biological and mechanical systems, modify environments, act like a biological plague and so on) and pretty much every single game...
  14. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    While one of most visible examples of ceph nanotechnology was always the nanosuits that doesn’t seem like it’s relevant to Sophia right now. Which makes me wonder if she’s going to figure out the ceph main usage for nano machines: terraforming. Considering that the ceph were actively changing...
  15. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    My reaction wasn't because of the loss of control due to claustrophobia itself but rather the fact that he repeated lied about it (because they don't ask about things that might impede your ability to do a task just once) on his records and then likely had his friends cover for him to continue...
  16. Potato and Chip

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I get mental problems and stress are a thing, but so is being a responsible human being. I don’t see how revealing he was claustrophobic would have changed anything in trial, at best I assume the response to such a reveal would have been, “Does that mean whenever you’re highly stressed you just...
  17. Potato and Chip

    Rise of the Phoenix King (Shadowrun/Exalted)

    Goddamn it… I hope this is just defeatism and not Loftwyr and others planning on hiding away while the horrors devour the world, or even worse trying to work with them.
  18. Potato and Chip

    Rise of the Phoenix King (Shadowrun/Exalted)

    The fact that this baby Solar didn't have even a single angry dragon drop from the sky along with every single one of their military assets to kill him tells me two things. Either they approve of the Solar or (and I think this is more likely) they don't actually know how Solars work. Because...
  19. Potato and Chip

    Rise of the Phoenix King (Shadowrun/Exalted)

    I can't imagine any surviving dragons are from the days of Creation, so I have to guess the other Greater Dragons are hesitant to approach a solar because while their souls tell them that solars are the rulers of the earth and everything upon it their minds have accumulated enough experience...
  20. Potato and Chip

    An Expansive Forge (Celestial Forge V3/The Expanse.)

    You could make it exponential? 2 thousand, 4 thousand, 8 thousand. That sort of thing. That way you don't have to change your story plans every couple updates or so because your character just gained a new useful superpower that replaces or renders an old one as inferior. Other then that...
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