Recent content by Arkathan

I can understand a ground side laser stabilized particle accelerator. In atmosphere, a laser can ionize the air along a path and keep the particle beam from travelling like a lightning bolt. A neutron beam is just a space based particle accelerator. An ionized beam in space is going to repel...

A droid brain ship can still carry meat bags. If it does, a living Astrogator does not need to make calculations from a bridge.

Yeah, I wasn't using hyperbole in the slightest.

Unfortunately, no websites post his stock picks, so the common man cannot emulate that success.

Just ask our Nancy Pelosi... Or better, go to the stock advisory websites that track her family's stock moves. Guaranteed way to win in the stock market.

Don't forget that school lunch tax (Children of the March) that was still being collected decades after the war ended.

Wikipedia can be edited by users. Someone should be able to edit the first or second paragraph to show that Mongoose (link) now fully owns the IP.

Firefly was based on Josh Whedon's Traveller campaign.

I'd let them do it.

Just like bad rolls can lead to wasted time, at my table, good rolls cut their travel time. Since they are frequently tracking bounties/bad guys (or "bad guys in their eyes") it gives them a chance to reduce their opponent's lead. Not RAW, but they enjoy the mechanic, so Rule Zero reigns.

That is a question for the High Guard update thread. Let's keep the discussion here on features and whether I can even implement a fraction of what just came out, considering that this has always been based on ships coming out of a shipyard and not cobbled together scrap piles that sometimes...

The difference I was going for was that the short flight, if it offered food, would be premade trays, possibly self heating/cooling, brought on and stored, whereas on a multi-day cruise, there will be cooking going on. Whether that resembles chopping vegetables or shaping grey goo is up to your...

In principle, I agree, but remember that a ship whose life support is based on a 24 hour cycle, as opposed to continuous operation is going to be cheaper. Less food production, less waste recycling. On a six hour flight, you don't expect to have to handle the solid byproducts of each passenger...

For seats only, I fold it into maintenance. You are replacing filters or chem packs in the air recyclers, and dumping bad air into the station/port for good air. Cabins pay full life support. There is no morale function defined for space per person, so cramped quarters is a cultural thing...

No, that is a sign of the nuclear family, and was an indicator of success, along with good work values. Because people raised in such a stable environment were less likely to submit to totalitarian controls, they conspired to destroy that, make people less successful, less intelligent and more...