Recent content by ben51

I agree...with the caveat that Invasion was the best "Humans must fight the implacable alien horde," RPG supplement I've ever read. (Along with the fan rewrite of Operation Overlord...called Operation Herkules which is on the Etranger website.) I think a closer look at merchant and explorer...

That is correct. As are the as yet undiscovered (as of 2300) Klaxun. The Sung are at the outer fringe of the Chinese Arm with the Xiang. The final non-extinct race is located past Kafer space or through a Brown Dwarf just past the American Arm. Benjamin

So is this just the beginning of a long editing / production process or have you done much of that yourself? What I'm asking is when will we see your master piece. I go in for open-heart surgery on Sept. 2nd and will something to read for the next few weeks as I recover. So hustle your butt...

No offense but the above is a hair incorrect. One Arm, the French Arm (dominated by the newly proclaimed French Empire, Great Britain and Germany with a smattering of Azania, Japan and Ukraine) runs into two star faring alien races. The Chinese Arm (Manchuria, Canton, Texas, Mexico, Argentina...

I think this was a hold-over from the low reliance on AI and robotics in general. This occurs in Traveller as well. If one were to add good AI then crews could be reduced substantially. Ironically, Ships of the French Arm had a few robot spaceships (even with a bit of weaponry) but they were...