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Two things: First, there is no such thing as a circle of life without conflict and therefore death. Therefore the no natural predators thing I don't buy unless they managed to kill them all. My own work on them was to basically change them from always high hippies to psionics using predators who onl...

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Actually this is within the given lore - look at Psi-Nullifiers in Psyscape. The Coalition States, spearheaded by the powers at Chi-Town (and in the past, Free Quebec), recognize the invaluable power and defenses a Nullifier provides and has developed an experimental (and some say inhumane) regime o...

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I commented in Depth at DA. good stuff Elf.

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I added a new MOS to my Psychic Trooper - the Psychic Healer. I combined the Mind Melter and powers from the Mind Bleeder and created a power set equal to that of a Healer. Empathic healing is simply Healing Leech reversed and modified. Basically the idea is that the CS uses their intensive training...

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Rise thread, rise! I missed your reply mobuttu - absolutely yes you can. Game's hopping now, the crew is finally leaving the base and heading to Vicston after raucous time in Baton Rouge on leave. Karaoke, formal officer dinners, fight night at one of the casinos, and a visit to the free market were...

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Hey I'll probably STILL paint them. I customize my Mechwarrior and D&D minis all the time, in addition to stuff like my Space Marines, High Elves, Tomb Kings, and 40K Orks. Adding in custom paint jobs is half the fun, though I won't have a problem not having to put them together.

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So have you played Rifts recently? (2-4 weeks) I personally run an online play by post Rifts game (see my Sig - Brown Water Blues), and I play in many more. I'm not counting, but it probably totals close to a dozen when you count Robotech in the mix (one of the Big ones is the OTHER one in my Sig)....

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The Zent ships would be their interstellar shippers, provided by the UEEF and maintained at heavy cost at UEEF shipyards - basically a very expensive lease option. And with the added thing of being able to impress the ships and crews into service if there is a Sector emergency. I like the idea of fr...

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Dogpacks use radios for the same reason police do. You may outrun one cop, but you aren't going to outrun Motorola (or the Rifts equivalent). The reason why the CS is so dangerous in the areas they control is they coordinate for anything major. They don't squawk over the radio for anything major, bu...

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So I'm working on my next colony. I need to rework Shawn's as well, but that's relatively easy. What I need now is a hard core mining colony - basically a colony set up on a dwarf planet in an asteroid ring. Plenty of ice for water, but completely reliant on food shipments because every square inch ...

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Thanks for all the input guys. Special thanks to Jedi078 who lent me his already done timeline to work from. I had to remove a few aspects I'm not bothering to use, and add stuff as it relates to my campaign. here's the basic start of this sector as it relates to the UEEF. May 2031 The Third Robotec...

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The obvious rebuttal to that is that he could simply mean Tirol and possibly the Sentinels worlds, and perhaps the Factories. Unfortunately this is one of those issues that can be debated to death (as was done in this thread already ) circling back and forth around the same lack of facts and interpr...

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The tricky thing about Victor Lazlo is the very idea of multiple universes inherent in the Megaverse concept. It is definitely A Victor Lazlo that fought in Africa and now in Munich, but is it "the" Victor Lazlo? We don't have a sure fire way of knowing. Kevin has both confirmed and denied...

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I also had a question on the timeline When does the Edward's breakout from Tirol happen? I know it's a year later that he's defeated over Optera, but I can't find any hard numbers on when it was from the Prelude Comics. I imagine it's in the Art of the Shadow Chronicles book, but I don't have that. ...

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Figured we should probably get together a list of the actual adventures. There are more in the Rifters, but this is all I found in the actual books: GM Shield Insert -Slavers, Xiticix, & the Green Death -Arsenal of Terror (the Adventure that field tests the CWC gear) Sourcebook 1 -The Fa...

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Mostly because the base assumption in Star Trek is that a good majority of alien species can breed together. That's never been the case in Robotech (the Zentraedi, Tirolians and Humans are all essentially the same race). I mean it's plausible that the Regis could have made them that way, but likely?...

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Any ideas on a good source for locations of Praxis, Optera, Karbarra, and the rest?

Once I've got all of this on the map and my sector mapped, I'll post the map and program file.

edit: Here's what I have, map wise. Added it to the first post too.

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff24 ... chmap1.jpg

Four Corners System Map http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff24 ... System.jpg

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So I downloaded the trial version of AstroSynthesis - nifty program. I placed Valivarre, and made the system. Only information I had to go with was on the site below. Figured if I can place Tirol, placing the other systems becomes easier. If you are someone who likes little minutia and a fairly intu...

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And yet again a simple question devolves into a debate for the sake of debate over wording and what book that wording is located in. Good job guys. I know I'm using the Splicers clarification - although I really wish Palladium would SERIOUSLY put effort into revising a single concise set of rules an...

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I posted the Four Corners write up in the second post of the thread. Working on the others. If you see any obvious grammatical or logical errors, please let me know.

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He could be built rather easily with the addition of HU and N&SS. There's a chemical enhanced super soldier option in one of the power unlimited books (2 I think) that would combine well with a bunch of spy skill programs and some agent style of martial arts (Assassin makes the most sense, but I...

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The closest thing to a Rune Master OCC is in the description of the Asgardian Dwarves in CB2 and the Dwarves in Anvil Galaxy. In both cases they are considered sub-par adventuring classes simply because the creation of rune items takes so much time that adventuring in the traditional sense is just n...

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If you're asking me to define the look of Rifts, I'd say Long, Breaux, and Perez. You ask for my favorites and I'll include Mumah, Walton, and Johnson. Burles is not my favorite, but I'd hardly call him a least favorite (though probably close, just not my cup of tea). Amy Ashbaugh is not my favorite...

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Yup, exactly my point.

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Quite simply take the diabolist from Palladium Fantasy, conform the skill set to something resembling what the Picts might use and instead of the symbols and runes from Palladium Fantasy, they have the their own pictograms. Functionally there is no change, just in the set dressing.

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My Rifts group on EU (in my Sig) actually has a Snow Lion APC we got from a NPC for bringing his grandson to him. He was about to use it to start up as a wandering operator/TW, but never got to it and with the arrival of his grandson, he decided that staying in Lazlo would be a better idea. So he le...

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Thanks for your contribution, Mike l . Let's not fixate on London though. What other ideas have you got? In the Scottish highlands a tribe of ancient Picts has emerged from a rift and is causing all kinds of havoc amongst both humans and fomorians. They use a primitive form of temporary tattoo magi...

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As someone who plays a psi-nullifier, I can say that indeed, telekinesis is completely possible. I personally think that Psi-Stalker Psi-Nullfiers should be anything but rare. It should be one of their major evolutionary paths, but that's just me.

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One of the neat things about how little overall information that was actually in Rifts England, there's actually a lot you can do with it. For instance: You want a huge over-populated slum. Do that! London Where other parts of the British isles have seemingly regressed several hundred years, London ...

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Blindscout wrote:Dang it. My printer is out of ink. Going to have to go buy more so I can print out this slice of awesomeness and add it to my GM binder.

Darn Fine work, KC!

That's what CutePdf writer is for

Works like a printer, prints to a PDF. Then print to paper later.

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Nice, Mike l ! Fixed that for ya. And thanks! Glad you liked. The Battle Rifle is my big favorite of that bunch. It's on my DeviantArt page, one of the few pieces that's all mine, aside from using PimpMyGun to create it. The FN2000 is such a cool looking weapon, and using a round like that makes se...

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Hey KC. First, glad to see great minds think alike on some of the stuff. Still its a very expansive list of really good stuff. Some of this I include as options the military has, but doesn't use very often. I also introduced, for my own games a new manufacturer that also gets some of the military co...

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Oh some of them are, and there's a bunch who'd be just as screwed as anyone else, but once you're out of the cities and into the smaller towns, yeah, you've got folks with more guns than sense, who've been using them since they were old enough to hold one, and know how to fix and repair what they ha...

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When we play, most of our orders aren't any more evil than any other soldiers' orders, so our alignments usually run from selfish to good. Hence my confusion. Ditto. You should REALLY reread the sections on roleplaying CS soldiers. Their leadership is evil, not the line soldiers. My guys don't get ...

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Its a JJ Abrams show, it's not meant to make sense!

It's meant to be enjoyed and to utterly confound its viewership, or do I need to bring up Lost?

And yeah, you're right, I got those two backwards, fixing it.

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I'm also going to remind folks that with some forewarning, the CS can put those same bursters in old style or Smiling Jack SAMAS and let them do their thing with greater mobility. Not saying I agree or disagree with their deployment, nor will I comment on how many there are or are not, but it's how ...

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I believe you're thinking of either OSM or perhaps Macross II. I would not have them micronize. Shawn's description included an ample food source, especially combined with their ship's stores and military discipline to ensure long term survival. And micronizing a few commandos or auxiliary specialis...

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Actually Frag Farm make sense as a quick name. Frag Prison Farm being the more proper term.

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Aside from some folks who have worked with JJ Abrams in the past, most of the cast are relative nonbodies or alumni of the tween crowd shows. And definitely no Firefly alumni. From: m Sebastian 'Bass' Monroe - David Lyons - Played in The Cape, ER (Dr. Brenner), and some show called S...

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First of all, in regards to moving product to market, look at CS Navy, pages 7-12 - there's a lot there. I'm not quoting it all. Short version, it's worth your time to read. As for means of moving food to market. The CS actually has at the very least good paths, if not at least graded dirt roads tha...

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This idea popped into my head last night and thought it might be useful for your game. Man is it! Yeah, I'll coopt that! Thanks for the assist. And one of the nice things about bringing a whole city full of residents used to how things were - free enterprise is alive and well. Of course the contrac...

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If I may? Seto, you're not convincing anyone who thinks that Colonization is possible that it is not. Your best argument boils down to "It's not explicitly stated, therefore cannot be true." In the same vein, the best argument against your position is "it's not explicitly stated, and ...

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There are also examples... Serenity comes to mind... of people who are willing to take onto themselves a darkness and do evil deeds with the goal of creating something great and knowing full well that they themselves would never be allowed to enjoy that which they have created. Yeah, and that examp...

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Oranges burn just fine The juicing plants in Florida (and trust me, there are a lot more than you'd think) would incinerate the peels which meant that all the surrounding neighborhoods had this sickly orange smell to them when they ran that furnace. And I've seen orange groves burn too. As for how t...

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Kyaneos - I like it! Hmm, the industrial name (What you'd see in ingredient lists) is Kyane Wheat/Flour/Bread. Shorthand for it is Kyane, and the scientific name is neatriticum kyaneos.

The beer is called Blue Beer, the grain alcohol is called "Old Blue Fire."

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Yeah, I like the show personally. And there is nothing natural about how the no-electricity thing works. It may as well be magic, because that is how they are suggesting it. The fact they are so clean is pretty much the only real complaint I have about the show, and even that I am just accepting tha...

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Are you going to post the stats for the Urban Pursuit Hovercycle? I would like to see them. To be honest, I never made them, I'll get some up in the next few days. I also added a new company up top: Lone Star Automotive : Lone Star Automotive is a newer company specializing in hover vehicles and of...

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I also would allow Vanguard to join CS special operatives if operating away from the CS. I could also see the CS one day in the extreme future allowing Vanguard style mages to join the military one day. We're talking Joseph the 2nd's grandkids at this point, but I see it as an eventuality, not an im...

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Well Robotech Master and Karbarran weaponry is still the most common in the sector, despite the influx of new weapons from the human colonies. The Karbarran weapons have a good reputation in squad based weapons, as well as support rifles (Heavy rifles for the massive ursine aliens), and the elegance...

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They'll have other products, but none as lucrative as the bluete (I really need a new name for it). I think one of the colonies will have a weapon manufacturer (probably New Canaan) that makes conventional and energy sidearms and longarms (ASC and UEDF designs mostly, some UEEF military ones though)...

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