Recent content by Daneel Olivaw

Zaphod Beeblebrox!

Not to derail this thread, which is a really good one, BTW, but some artists can even reduce the quality of a piece by messing with it long after the spark with which it was created is gone. I'm talking to you, George Lucas! BTW, Treebore, your daughter's work is really good!

I remember some very nice artwork in some of the LBBs and other CT books. Mercenary Crusier had a great image from within the cockpit of a ship's boat approaching the MC (based on a shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey); The Library Data books had a number of very cool illustrations of ships...

I've never been a big fan of the OTU's capital ship designs, and the OP's comment is one reason why. I would design my own ships with a spinal mount and bay weapons as primary batteries and maybe turret weapons for point defense.

Whoa!

Forgive my advocating for a bit more hard SF purism, but you could make space travel dangerous. This may sound blasphemous, but consider getting rid of stutterwarp for sublight travel. Conventional reaction drives introduce great opportunities for dangerous high-G maneuvers, aerobraking for...

Oh God that would be cool.

I think as many stars as reasonably possible should have planets - not necessarily habitable, but terraformable or otherwise interesting to various parties. This will maximize adventuring possibilities in the game. I agree that closing the American arm is limiting. I know that part of what...

Hi Colin, I'm very glad to hear that you're working on this. I've trolled around here since MGT came out - big fan - and on the COTI boards as well. Regarding the Near Star List: I can appreciate your concern about the Arms, but you don't have to dismiss their significance just because more...

Yes, I remember it well.

Maybe Emperor Trudeau had cloned himself prior to his demise, and now lies in wait to take over the galaxy, eh? [As a Canadian, I'm allowed to make fun of "eh", eh?

It should cost [touches pinky to lip] one MILLION credits!

That's from OpenOffice? It looks amazing! How'd you do that?

"The prefix code?" "It's all we've got."

Maybe most of the water is in oceans below the surface, heated by tidal forces from a parent planet (as in Jupiter's effect on Europa) and "temperate" refers to the subsurface climate.