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In the film department, I'd pick Outland. Sure, the plot is straight up Western - it's consciously a remake of High Noon. But it is an excellent depiction of space as an uncomfortable, dangerous place to work but hey, a guy's got to make a living. I flat out adore Cherryh - meeting her was...

That's it! Thanks, now I have one less thing driving me slowly mad. (I really need to fully read MT. There's lots in it that I would never bring to a table (), but the writing is first class.)

Everyone knows that maroon is a colour but Magenta is a domestic.)

As an aside: I am absolutely convinced that, back in the day - probably MT era - I saw something stating that outside the Grand Old Map sapient life was much less common, but I have never found it again. I suspect it may have been a Digest Group pub but am not at all certain. (It may have been...

Fair enough, but if enough adventures have such mechanics it's not a terrible idea to see if a least squares regression would be appropriate for 3.0, or at least the next Companion.

This leaves it sort of ambiguous whether you want them to make it playable or not...

"I like Brushfires."

"I like Behind the Claw."

Two words I hope will come up in the SotM: .

*Messiahs of the World Ocean* is, no doubt, a new take on a classic adventure (many others have found their way into the modern age, especially if you recognize the plot elements): https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/adventure-9-nomads-of-the-world-ocean-ebook

Reckon the State of the Mongoose is just around the corner?

Well... as long as the new Aliens book bins that embarrassing art for Aslan vehicles and Vargr weapons. (I mean, seriously?)

They probably won't order you to paint the hull during jump. Probably.

Perhaps there's something nasty there and most ihatei would rather chance themselves against the unaligned systems of the Reach. (We never hear of them freebooting in the Deep either, do we?)

Heinlein thought so. He and his wife once spent an entire weekend calculating an orbit - no benefit of computer, all math by hand on large pieces of butcher's block, and each doing the same work to check on each other - so he could get one sentence in one of his novels right. People used to...