Recent content by Mage Ash

I don't know where to put this so I'm putting this here. By Mongoose Publishing getting hands on Traveler does that mean GURPS lost its ability to write Traveler books. Because I'll be honest and say I really liked their books - more in terms of setting than actual rules. I like the change they...

Your entirely right, but rangers are not supposed to draw attention to themselves. A Human Ranger with telepathic abilities is like a beacon that draws the PsiCorps in, when it existed. This is not want they do, they go to an area and then disappear without anyone being the wiser. Having...

Yeah, both those not a member of the corps were considered 'rogues' and could never go in to human space. Rangers need to be able to go anywhere and having a restriction on one of the largest space empires does not make a ranger that good of a ranger. Nobody knew Ivanova was a telepath.

I figured that telepaths had not been allowed, or really wanted, inside the Rangers for a number of reasons. o Human telepaths were part of the PsiCorps, which causes loyalty issues. o Centauri telepaths are owned by the Houses and act like slaves, again, loyalty issues. o The other race...

Yrtalien, Anything and everything. In Babylon 5 organic technology is the be all and end all of technological progression. This means that a little piece of it can do anything you want. Do remember that Techno-Mages become Techno-Mages by being implanted with strands of organic tech.

But think about it, what about the techno-mages and the power they wield isn't scary as hell. They can destroy entire ships or worlds with but one use of their power. Them having access to memetic viruses makes a lot of sense when one considers all the other powers and technologies that the...

Yeah, definitely. I have always felt that there is much more to the ISA than just the Rangers, whose a major part, but not the whole. That is why I wish a book existed to cover the more political and economic aspects of it. Plus the ISA will exist for hundreds or thousands of years. I agree...

What's interesting is that while Earth itself becomes a primitive world nothing like that happens to the rest of the EA. This means that humanity is still amongst the stars - Mars and its extra-solar colonies still exist and are still functional. It also means that Humanity is still advancing in...

Personally I feel that the main reason we do not have intelligent machines is that in Babylon 5 organic technology is the be-all and end-all of technology. To be sufficiently advanced - to be anywhere near First One-ish - then you must utilize organic tech. Even humanity a million years hence...

A memetic virus and a nanovirus are two completely separate things. Your completely right that a Technomage nanovirus might be less than a Shadow version. But a memetic virus is a thought virus, it is a insidious method of causing a person and a society to fixate on one particular thing. It...

I would love this and would definitely purchase it. I think that we need to know more about the ISA and its various branches. Speaking of books, I wonder if they ever plan on giving us a book with future plot ideas. You know, to take B5 into the far far future. :)

In the Drakh book there is a section on page 52 about the Memetic Virus created by the Shadows and now in Drakh hands. And while, personally, I beleive that the Techno-Mages should have access to it officially (I've already given it to them unofficially), the fact that rules exist to cover it is...

Since this is directly related to the pre-orders, I would like to end my involvement in the situation by saying that I have received The Rim.

I would just like to note that I have received The Rim, the problems are over.

Good, this means that the problem will be cleared up and made better. That way I do not have the problem of not getting what I paid for being like a cloud whenever I consider buying from Mongoose.