Recent content by Smax

So I decided to go with this idea, more or less. The Transcendent Union have been stepped down to one of a number of different representatives of the Imperial Allied Scientific Exploratory Committee, an underfunded attempt to bridge diplomatic and technological gaps by bringing the expertise of...

I personally like the critical fail/sucess rules mods, but then I tend to like having at least the possibility that anything can go catastrophically wrong - or unexpectedly work out all right. To my mind, you can get around the whole "decapitate yourself shaving" by only requiring rolls for...

Hm, good point about the war. My eagerness to have this be a big honking deal led to me kind of overestimating the force of reaction. Then again, if Solomani fanatics set off a nuclear bomb or similar WMD on Icarus, murdering the peaceful scientific representatives of who knows how many...

A recent Scout expedition at the edges of charted space discovered a blasted but still teeming garden world, with evidence of a human civilization wiped out by a nuclear war thousands of years ago. Not an uncommon sight for the Scouts - for every Ancient seeding project that leads to a stellar...

So I'm kicking together a game, and my PCs are a Generic Space Pirate (complete with robot arm and crippling addiction to anti-aging drugs), an old doctor guy with far, far more ranks in Persuade than in Medic and a ton of money and perks, and a Naval officer who was framed for a crime he didn't...

This seems reasonably clear but I just want to be sure: The sidebar on payment says that the usual payment for a mission should be more than the PCs would make trading, i.e. 1000-2000 creds per ton of cargo space. Is this in addition to the listed rewards for missions? (That is, if the players...

Oh, and one more (Call it 3a): Does he have to qualify for his Draft assignment, or is he just assumed to automatically get in?

Wicked basic points here: My character failed to qualify when switching careers to Navy Pilot (natural 2, canyabelieveit, etc). 1) Does the rule that you can't apply to a career you've left apply if the character was never actually in that career to begin with? (i.e. after spending 4 years...