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- Trade-03 is indeed the same wolfen language as in PF, slightly streamlined to reduce the guttural and growling elements common to the "classical" Wolfen language, but is otherwise identical. [So either Motherhome is the world Palladium's Wolfen were extracted from or the world is simply...

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I believe there're from one of the Nightspawn books....Between the Shadows, I think....There's also some expansion in one of the Rifters. And frankly there's not a lot of hardcore information on them...sorta like alchemists in PFRPG. They're essentially high-power spells that acquired sentience and...

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Pardon the ignorance, but where can one find info on Living Spells?

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Hey, from humble beginnings..... Well, he did happen to become one of the more notorious though rarely seen of the "Devil Princes of the Federation of Magic" (as some of Alistaire's many, many children in our version of continuity have come to be collectively known). :twisted: So, it MIGH...

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taalismn wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:09 pm Hey, from humble beginnings.....

Well, he did happen to become one of the more notorious though rarely seen of the "Devil Princes of the Federation of Magic" (as some of Alistaire's many, many children in our version of continuity have come to be collectively known).

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Incidentally a group of emigrees from Japan to North America in my table made their new town in what is probably Shemarrian territory nowadays. Your 'table'? Have I missed something I can refer to? Remind or enlighten me! I have a sub-tribe of Shemarrians in the Japanese Island...wasn't aware there...

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Fun little tidbit...in the second NGR book, under the chapter on world beers, 'Bastard's Brew' is mentioned as originating somewhere in North America, in a region recently claimed by the Shemarrians. Can you imagine canon Hagan sending a regular expedition out to pick him up some crates, or issuing...

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Yep, that's a good summary of it. Except WZT is ''WZTechYards', and is actually a consortium of smaller aerospace firms that combined forces and shared IPOs and marketing to better compete with the massive galactic corps. They also provide(d) a safety net for declining and at-risk companies that mi...

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What are the Ships use by the United Systems Alliance? For reference, "PS" stands for " Paladin Steel ", a corporation that originated on Rifts Earth but went transdimensional, growing considerably through its symbiotic relationship with a then budding United System Alliance and...

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I ask myself how the Golgies and WZT might feel about that big order - well, supposing that rumor is even true and not viral propaganda of its time - in the current context of how Republik x United Systems Alliance relations have turned of late.... Well, true or not, at least no Death Moths swarm f...

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SirLitimus wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:36 am Outside of DB05, has anyone produced any details of either races? Homeworlds, government composition, military, notable figures, etc?

Or am I about to begin a failed Rifter project of my own?

So SirLitimus, how doth your plans for Knive-ears & Shorties of the UWW be going so far?

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The PS/LSI-CGC-12 has caught on with various tourism agencies and organizations, due to its wide field of view, and the vehicle is often paired with the GAAARCG-01 in touring regions. Though not recommended as a combat vehicle, it can be equiped with light weaponry, and has been used as a security ...

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The Death Moth’s real draw is its low cost; WZTechYards typically prices its ships to move, endearing them to small-time military and police organizations that can’t buy from the larger intersteallar corporations or don’t want to get entangled dealing with the likes of Naruni Enterprises. Thus, the...

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No new entries yet, but at least i finally managed to take the time to read, give some thought and try to form an image out of the tidbits on "Czechoslovakia". Feeling like i'm rusty and will need some time to get back on gear, but it's a start. The "euro-Naruni" bits were a baff...

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Interesting design and though quite different in description it reminds me a lot of the "citadels in space" colony domes from Macross 7 & Frontier, that would cover a number of clear and not so clear administrative, logistical & diplomatic functions as "urban centers/home port...

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Most interesting beings indeed - it beggars the question of what might happen if a group of Chugganath spatial mages putting their minds together ever manages to cobble up or tinker some form of workaround their people's issues with superluminal flight. The realization that some groups of "wetr...

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taalismn wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:45 pm Good news is I've signed up with a new provider, but it will be a week or so before my new software shows up in the mail and I see if it works on my old machine...
On the other hand, I'm catching up on my sleep.

Good news and even better news then.

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Okay, looks like Earthlink, my longtime service provider, finally pulled the plug on the local dial-up service which is my only personal connection to the internet, so I've having to look around for a new local provider willing to support dial-up nodes. Means I won't be posting as regularly as I ha...

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Mephites (Converted/Modified AtB Mutant Mutant Skunks) (aka ‘Musties’) I wonder if there's a body mod that can turn a human into a skunk man? Where there are sapients with magic-scientific know-how, there will be someone looking for some kind of practical or utterly impractical mod as the way to ma...

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As this year nears its end, hopefully we'll have a better time getting this thread back on its threads in the near future.

Wish a happy new year of post-apocalyptic exploration and transdimensional adventures for everybody.

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Golgan Argosy Bindas Mine Warfare Variant (aka ‘Mine-Hives’, ‘Galnars’ ) A number of older Bindas transport-cruiser conversions were pulled from government- and corporate cargo-fleets and converted back into warships as mine warfare vessels to deal with the massive number of mines necessary to secu...

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i just figuered that the region would be forested again since the population is a lot smaller, so less agricultural clearance happening, and it has had 300 years for the forests to regrow. given that you can see a lot of regrowth in only a few decades (re: Mt St helens aftermath, studies of new vol...

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The coming of Atlantis raised sea levels. Raised sea levels means more rain. More rain means fewer/ smaller areas of desert. Of course, quite a few areas all over the world would be under water, due to the rise in sea levels. The matter of rise of sea levels with the coming of Rifts and Atlantis is...

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some interesting stuff in this video for Ethiopia. church forests, some details about what the landscaped looked like before modern agriculture, some neat cultural details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fGe-CPWZlE Can definitely see something akin to the millenium druid communities forming aroun...

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Meanwhile in mayan lands...
"We end the birds so they don't end us first."
"second age, never again."

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Apologies, I didn't mean warcraft but WARLOCK, must have misspelled or had spellcheck eat it. It happens, and honestly not a problem at all - i fully intend to make "Warcraft Fleet" into an actual battlegroup of the Warlock Navy, maybe guarding the Azeroth, Lordaeron, Northrend & Kali...

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So, just to put in the expected other Sourcebooks. Fleets of the Three Galaxies (Dimension Book 13) have a writeup of the Warcraft fleet, including Naval Ranks. While its focused upon the Warcraft as a whole, there's some detail about the different kinds of ships that the Dwarves and the Elves cons...

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Well, at least they'd have a decent dearth of helpful colonials to play native guide on showing some of the ropes as long as its mutually beneficial. Makes for a stunning change on the most common model of colonial expansion, doesn't it? Which is usually 'we exploit the natives for the betterment o...

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taalismn wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:02 am I was thinking seahorse...prehensile tail...wings... hydroplanes on wingtips and tail, but can go true flight...on land, it humps along on wing-knuckles like a bat, with the tail forming a tripod walker stance.

Sounds like an interesting design concept to go with.

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Indeed. If the other powers don't pay a lot of attention the USAns could end up absorbing a good chunk of the Golgan satrapies or border territories as the Republik meets its second fall before anyone else can react. And that would really cause waves in the 3 Galaxies status quo. Yeah, it would be ...

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Could i interest you in seahorse-style warmounts, with possibly water-pumping functions for hunting and patroling alongside the rivers, lakes & coasts of Mexico and other vampire-infested lands? As an aside, is there mention of any boat-people or "river gypsies" communities in the Vam...

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Considering how far Paladin Steel has gone - and still goes - by revisiting many of the old standbys of one too many dying businesses and updating these ‘also-rans’ with more modern public domain technology or bits from each other, it's a damn shame the Golgan Republik and United Systems Alliance h...

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Because of my own biases, if Africa was revisited, I'd love to see a "New Axum" in the Ethiopia area fighting the Phoenix empire. I haven't done anything in that area; I believe that Ethiopia is inside the Phoenix Empire's borders, so portraying it as a rebellious province or secret/hidde...

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I still have my eye on 200 Warmounts as a goal... Could i interest you in seahorse-style warmounts, with possibly water-pumping functions for hunting and patroling alongside the rivers, lakes & coasts of Mexico and other vampire-infested lands? As an aside, is there mention of any boat-people o...

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Considering how far Paladin Steel has gone - and still goes - by revisiting many of the old standbys of one too many dying businesses and updating these ‘also-rans’ with more modern public domain technology or bits from each other, it's a damn shame the Golgan Republik and United Systems Alliance ha...

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I think The Burbs is supposed to be mostly temporary structures and such. Tents, trailers, cargo-units... yurts...? Not sure what all that would include. But I've always played it as having actual BUILDINGS be pretty rare in the Burbs. In my mind the Burbs were always the bombed out SDC structures ...

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All this talk of Shemarrian Nation turning the tables on Archie-3 and Titan Robotics to turn into a full-fledged AI civilization of sorts brings back memories of a character i once played, a much older rogue creation of Archie - one of the "avatars" in his old Ar-chee-pheenix uplift projec...

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First, humans have a knack for being EVERYWHERE. Seriously, the megaverse is rotten with them. Why would a chunk of land on their home planet be any different? People who escaped danger on land and took to the sea from Europe, Africa, and the Americas would eventually run into this land mass. So, t...

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[ Sounds like a good place for the Ceklestrani or one of their 'space lighthouses', in operation or lost, to make an appearance. Or maybe some much more contemporary group that has been repurposing a few of them. Ewww ....If the CCC really isn't up to any good, trying to sneak a base in under the n...

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Abzubagonc is home to the Zolann, a variant Human sept, distinguished by having faceted eyes and almost albino-pale skin shot through with patterns of thin purple streaks. They are sometimes confused with the Kellestans. The Zolann of Abzubagonc applied to join the United Systems Alliance out of fe...

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The Alliance seems to have really lucked out with this one. (Also expecting the locals to reverse the system name to either Garva, Krava-dov or GarvaKrava-dov - anything culturally relevant and without "Anthlykrth" in it, anytime soon) The native population might be somewhat wary of offwor...

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Toninis Delphus The Toninis is an upgrade/variant of the Delphus Tibura, inspired by the South American myth of Toninas, dolphins that can turn into humans with other magical abilities. The Lost Eclipse developed and deployed the Toninis around South America to test the waters, spying on the groups...

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OK sorry but I had issues posting here. The people who actually host and administrate the forums keep flagging my small locally run ISP as shady, and I have to go thru a process to get it unlocked. Sorry to hear, i kind of know how that kind of longstanding headache with some system that just never...

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I gotta return to Yoncatech some day.....I still have a few unfinished designs of theirs to launch...so many old threads/ideas worth revisiting.... How about a place for Yoncatech to have shipyards or a depot/transfer center to coordinate deliveries across the 3 Galaxies? Maybe Nhobsi, native plane...

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Armaments-wise, Nosan came up short; they attempted to get Dorian Photonic, AddisonTechmar’s laser supplier, to provide them with the same high-performance pulse laser cannon as they did for AT. Nosan figured that Dorian, smarting from the disaster at Dynobi, would be desperate for business, and wo...

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And there come the golgans again with another "blaze of old glories" expansionist grab to waste their reserves of resources, instead of investing on updating and consolidating their techbase, industry and economy to better withstand the pressures of any such conflicts. Different galaxy but...

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That's kind of like "planet of hats schtick, for machines" in sci-fi, mostly alongside abducting people to be their new users/masters or some conundrum that leads into a sort of god-like ur machine merging with organics or acquiring qualities from them, find some way to "transcend be...

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Yeah, the Three Galaxies seem much the opposite of Gregory Benford's Galactic Center series, where the trend is that virtually all organic life is self-destructive, leaving as their legacy self-replicating machines that eventually develop intelligence and join a hierarchy of machine intelligences r...

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Unrelated, but i keep thinking of the Kuron in their ancient pre-independence forms as something akin to Opa-Opa, Sega's mascot in their old games, what probably speaks more of my age than the Kuron proper....

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[ On an aside, I can definitely see a potential venue for this sort of business in Splugorth kingdoms or other polities with similar attitudes and mindset. I'm now picturing the sort of operation a Splugorth would run if they discovered enough profitability to selling 'dream-slaves' to a niche mark...

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