El Cid wrote:
I agree that the weapons should be more in line with the Shadow type weapons espically after reading the Tecnomage trilogy.
ShadowScout wrote:
Wrong. Their weapons aren't shadow-based. In fact, nothing of their "normal" tech is. Only their implanted "magic tech" is shadow-built. So their ship guns would have been products of Taratimude tech, or any other tech they picked up alon g the way.
And looking at Galen's attacks (red plasma "fireball" or yellow "lightning touch"), a EM-based system does come to mind naturally.
Pretty strong statement ShadowScout. You take one scene from Crusade and extrapolate that the Technomages weapons aren't Shadow Tech. You may be right or you may be wrong IMHO.
ShadowScout wrote:
I once made a personal version, with two basic alterations from AoG's design - for one it had an "Illusion Projector", doing the illusion effects (also because I thought it inconcievable for technomages to have enough personal power to cast those illusions themselves, strong and multi-spectrum enough to fool even ship-mounted sensors), for another a single, but rather versatile weapon system - a "Lightning Caster" capable of firing three light bolts, or a single, more powerful and longer-ranged beam or a area-effect but short-ranged blast.
I do like the idea behind your "Illusion Projector".
I would think the TM ships would have been made by one of the TM groups and would be pretty consistant for most TMs. Of course, some of the more gifted TMs might have added or modified their ships to their tastes and abilities.
Agent One wrote:
Yes, keep in mind, we created the Technomage Pinnace before the technomage trilogy came out. I suspect it would be different now. For one thing, we know from the trilogy that the pinnaces can be made to look like nearly anything...pegasi, unicorns, dragons, etc. Not much effect in a board game like B5 Wars, but in the RPG, it could be very interesting indeed...
Hmmm. Interesting thought.
Sidney