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We suspect that there are raw materials in the solor system. Chemical spectrography says the elements are present. But we have zero /zilch /bubkus /nada /nichts /nil/ no idea how those resources could be obtained. We speculate that it's possible that they could be harvested, but that is solidly...

Let me point out that we are here at somewhere between TL 7.75 and 8.25 and we don't have the foggiest idea of how to colonize another world, build self-sustaining O'Neil cylinders at the Trojan Points or even how to get our asses off Earth in an affordable enough way to make it common. We have...

Let's get a couple things clear here: 1. It's impossible to feed a world of billions by importing food. With Traveller economics, it's simply not doable. 2. We are ignoring using all those rockball worlds and moons in most systems. Using human waste [dung] and ground regolith you can create...

Spam and Velveeta.... Uh, yum?

First there's 'synthesizing' and there's synthesizing... Creating food out of materials with nutrient value while subtracting harmful elements is one thing. Creating food out of nothing but carbon and oxygen is a whole different thing. There is a difference between flavored food paste and...

I've been barked at some commentators on this board about sexuality issues, so I 'soft soaped' it. That, and my wife mentioned that I really need to clean up my language. I'm apparently using the word 'fuck' for punctuation again :D

Several discussions have touched on diseases that might afflict alien species. The recent discussion about the Aslan aisai, or 'dewclaw', gave me another idea. Airukhlakte: A biological infection of the aisai, its sheath, or the tissues of the palm of the hand. There are several diseases that...

This is IMTU's version of it. Your TU will undoubtedly vary. My version is a result of a discussion with a relative who aced Anatomy and Physiology and after I'd shown her the skeletal artwork the CT Aliens: Aslan. Okay at the time I showed her all the skeletal artwork and she really enjoyed it...

So, do we have an approximate time for the October releases, specifically 2300's Invasion II and Novy Kyiv?

Interesting discussion about space elevators with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice. And if Sarcasm is your native tongue [as it is with me] you will LOVE the joke this starts with....

If you're doing the 'shady troubleshooter for hire' thing, and a given job requires interstellar travel, you can always try and negotiate Medium passage back to a travel hub. Unless, of course, you need to strand the PCs on Garda-Vilis for an adventure or two. The nice thing about 'no ship'...

OK, DC would not be DC without the 'madjikal' Empathy stuff. But here is what I want out of Empathy Powers: - I don't want EP to be Jedi tricks that break the game, - OTOH, I don't want them to be 'Men Who Stare At Goats' level useless either, - I want EP to have significant dangers to them, on...

That's the whole point of any horror game. Set it wherever you like, using the game beasties as the source of local myths.

My issue is that troops aboard, be they assigned ship's troops or transported troop contingents, are treated like they're cargo that can be wedged in any old where and housed in barracks with one out-house. I think that any awake sophont aboard ship should be allocated a shared stateroom and...

Let me clarify. There are two kinds of troops transported aboard Navy vessels, ship's troops and, for lack of a better term, 'troop contingents'. - Ship's troops 'belong' to the ship's complement just like the spacehands do. PFC Alpha is assigned to 1010th Marine Regiment and the Regiment is...