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Belters, Lunies, and Dirtsiders are general social concepts that keep popping up in most spacefaring cultures, whether or not that achieve FTL capabilities.The egenral terms(or their equivalent) have entered general usage amongst the starfaring cultures of the Three Galaxies(and elsewhere) Dirtside...

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For some reason now i'm imagining some Splugorth kind of "replicating" this drone's aesthetic/gimmick by ploping Eyes of Eilor with combat-oriented spell sets on one or more "headless" slave races with a cephalothorax body arrangement of sorts like crustaceans, chelicerata or si...

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For some reason now i'm imagining some Splugorth kind of "replicating" this drone's aesthetic/gimmick by ploping Eyes of Eilor with combat-oriented spell sets on one or more "headless" slave races with a cephalothorax body arrangement of sorts like crustaceans, chelicerata or sim...

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Well, we're Terrans from Terra, more often than being Solarians from Sol. Though give us time to expand as a clade, and maybe that will change. Fair point, but what gets my attention is that, from those fragments i pointed out, one gets the impression of Alhebans as a cultural pole apart of Mazzerh...

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Law Level: Overbearing on Mazzerhine . Laws are somewhat looser in the Bjah habitats, where the Belters there tend to give lipservice to the oligarchs of the Alheb worlds . Popularity: Largely Popular, but there are many who want a fairer distribution of wealth from the oligarchs. There’s always so...

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Kind of curious about how the Grouqan clans would feel about this singularly mutated and dark gods/alien intelligences-worshipping branch of their people - supposing the two groups even see each other as related still, that is - , considering how their degenerative/mutating condition came to be thr...

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Qowoth (Invasive Amphibious Fishmen) Believed to be an offshoot of the Grouqan , the Qowoth are a race of amphibious piscine humanoids who favor deep oceans, but are perfectly able to venture on land to hunt. Possibly at the advice of the dark gods/alien intelligences the Qowoth worship, as a cure ...

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I wish i had any idea of how you guys make up the Datelines, what's the rhyme or reason for the numbers given in each article if any. It's like stardates in TOS; they're nonsensical....(only later did somebody try to create a standardized star date system I follow a general format like modern dates...

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I wish i had any idea of how you guys make up the Datelines, what's the rhyme or reason for the numbers given in each article if any.

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Yeah, well, the ZE/SD let any contractors know that Savgetti was a lite-hellworld, so the groups that went in knew damn well what they might be putting up with. So popularity ain't an issue. The ZE/SD ain't taxing the current crew or demanding a quota of material, so they could be considered pretty...

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“It’s telling how quickly the Chukta adapted to being a slaver culture by how they utterly failed in developing Savgetti. Give the world to a bunch of Belters or plow-pounders, and they’d make a world like Savgee a right nice home, after beating back the strangleweed and the chomp-runners. The Chuk...

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Weird, got a new post warning for this thread even though nothing seems to have been added... Oh well, since i'm already here anyway - So, what do people think about extended exposure to faerie foods increasing the chance of goblins to have cobbler children or cobbler goblins to perhaps evolve into ...

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Ironclad and pre drednaught style ships bristling with weapons. Pt boat style scout ships. Where some feel handmade kin to deusenbergs or bugatis were to ewuipment thst pumped out ww1 style semihandcrafted to ww2 era us/ussr production on massive scale. Care to give a little bit more of detail, so ...

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[ Well, first step is to get a few million people - be it zyganians, Dominian allies or some other 3rd party - in the planet to actually start an effective management of the place, for whatever direction, sympathetic, ruthless or just mundanely pragmatic, one can think of. Preferably with a large p...

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I was thinking in terms of buck rodger more of the comic rather than disco tv show. A gritty film noir great game hardboiled cold war cloak and dagger feel. A clash of the preww1 world mixed with elements of post ww2. Zeerust Space, in the Penny Pulpful verse, so to speak. If you ever consider GMin...

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Now that's a planet you definitely do NOT want a Mindolar infestation to ever happen indeed.... Anyway, even without the discomfort of the eerieness of "zombieland" as a whole, the Zyganian garisson has to deal with the logistics issues with what to amounts to 16% of the numbers of the &q...

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Now that's a planet you definitely do NOT want a Mindolar infestation to ever happen indeed.... Anyway, even without the discomfort of the eerieness of "zombieland" as a whole, the Zyganian garisson has to deal with the logistics issues with what to amounts to 16% of the numbers of the &qu...

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A book about a deminision stuck between steampunk deasil and atomic punk kinda a john carter buxk rogers commando cody mashup. Heavy on pulp ekements with art/fashions from 1860s to 1970 . Where being weird or hardboiled is the key to life. Buck Rogers in particular is kind of complicated as an exa...

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The Coltoff are characterized in being more intelligent than the baseline orc line, and have leathery growths on their faces and heads. Care for a little more detail on those growths? Not really drawing a solid image of the Coltoff here. I picture them as having a lot of leathery facial and forehea...

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The Coltoff are characterized in being more intelligent than the baseline orc line, and have leathery growths on their faces and heads. Care for a little more detail on those growths? Not really drawing a solid image of the Coltoff here. -Asteroid(Lhi)----This metal-rich planetoid is slowly but ste...

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[ Combined with the Chukta's inflated view of their actual potential and capacity for conquest, i'm starting to think that Mazzerhine was the first time the Chukta invaded a world that also had FTL resources (even if the core of those were in communications) and contact with other civilizations to ...

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Was thinking that now might be a good moment to expand a bit on the info previously given on the worlds of Alebia (no one beside the Zyganians actually involved in that hot potato of a planet of broken people?) and Mazzerhine, that seems to have been an important factor in the multiple powers cited...

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Was thinking that now might be a good moment to expand a bit on the info previously given on the worlds of Alebia (no one beside the Zyganians actually involved in that hot potato of a planet of broken people?) and Mazzerhine, that seems to have been an important factor in the multiple powers cited ...

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So obsessed with the prize at the end paying off for all the losses that one forgot long ago that it's all a big gamble those dreams and hopes are hanging on.... ...and that one is creating or facilitating more monstrousness than they are putting down.... The Operative bordered on psychotic self-de...

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Yah...and the Kuznya, though anybody else would regard him as Evil, because he considers himself honorable, actually thinks he's doing good by doing the sorts of things other folk won't, because of fear and moral squeamishness. NECESSARY things. And 'taming' the big bad BlackSteel is an innovative ...

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glitterboy2098 wrote:the SAMAS has been a pre-rifts design the CS copied from literally day one.

Honestly i don't remember that being outright stated in the books before the Bandito Arms knock-off.
Would definitely appreciate seeing such an older reference.

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it is worth noting that "area 51" is just a small subset of the larger Nevada Test and Training Range, which itself is part of the Nellis AFB complex. in fact "area 51" specifically refers to the grid reference for the Groom Lake facility, which is the testing grounds for experi...

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"Hey literally 100s upon 100s of guys in the world's largest air force base-sized base, we're kind of running low on food." "Oh damn, you're right. We should all go out and look for more as one collective whole." "Yeah, but be sure to leave behind those pristine Glitter Boy...

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In the Mecha setting that I'm working on in my head, the creators of the machine people don't just quietly slink away and die after the machine people reject their genocidal orders; they end up going to another dimension and trying again. But trying again what ? The Machinist civilization was alrea...

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I noticed still a few older Titan robots with no corrupted versions, so there's one while waiting for the new book. I have a whole section for Titan Robotics waiting to be filled in on a massive set of charts for kit bashing new robots for Shemarrian Tinkers... Speaking of Shemarrians gone wild, fa...

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As for the topic, I think a planet with converting robots would be cool. I agree this, as well as a lot of other ideas, sound really cool. But, given the state of PB in general and Rifts specifically I think developing dimensions that have been named but not yet detailed would be a much better use ...

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Or Area 51's role between the 2020s to 2090s simply changed along with the formation of NEMA or somemuch? For me it as the "alien evidence stockpile" has always more of OG meme gone wild than anything. To be fair, that's kind of the bread and butter of Rifts though. There's a reason why t...

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One could even go a step further, and suggest that maybe the old United States actually reverse-engineered Uteni/Naruni tech there, leading to the development of the SAMAS, Glitterboy, and maybe even all the "ultra tech" of the pre-Rifts era. Hence why Area 51 has a stockpile of vehicles ...

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As for the topic, I think a planet with converting robots would be cool. I agree this, as well as a lot of other ideas, sound really cool. But, given the state of PB in general and Rifts specifically I think developing dimensions that have been named but not yet detailed would be a much better use ...

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Huh, they do mention that about Bandito Arms. Seems a huge waste of potential just handing it off to an arms manufacturer like that, given all the urban lore and mystique regarding the location. Nevermind that aliens are actually real in the setting. But nope, it's only real claim to fame is a smal...

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I noticed still a few older Titan robots with no corrupted versions, so there's one while waiting for the new book. I have a whole section for Titan Robotics waiting to be filled in on a massive set of charts for kit bashing new robots for Shemarrian Tinkers... Speaking of Shemarrians gone wild, fa...

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Now you can say the dweller created the first emperor before the Dominion was founded, which I do, so the current emperor could be the 5th one. We also know from the description of the Dweller that the current Emperor has only been in place for 20 years, since the last war, and that his predecessor...

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yeah, the DB13 timeline puts the establishment of the TGE at 5000 years prior. and i agree, the TGE and UWW forming around the same time would be interesting. honestly, if i was writing it, i'd probably make the splugorth involved in both stories be the same kingdom.. and the war with the UWW is wh...

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yep. the elves were at war with one of the splugorth kingdoms, and the Kittani were beating them pretty badly, so the Star Elves sent out a distress call for aid and a fleet of 4000 dwarven iron ships came to help them. which turned the tide. it gets mentioned in DB2, DB3, and DB5. sadly there is n...

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While it doesn't outright state it as such, that kind of expectation/hope in the part of the UWW's leadership does seem to imply the core of the FWC is relative close to theirs, if not outright sharing borders. Which would seem to rule out the core FWC worlds being in the Thundercloud, since Rifts ...

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Indeed. It could be sheer distance from any organized FWC territory that's the problem for outside intervention in the Usual situation. Unlike Golgan space, where you have ex-satrapies all around to get support from...of course, that's also part of the problem; not all ex-Golgan worlds like to play...

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the dwarven ironships were all built before the UWW was created, and no others have since been built. and the UWW formed "long before the CCW was even a concept", so at minimum 700-1000 years prior. the lack of any mention on the timeline is annoying, but it is indicated that the UWW form...

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[ Not wanting to rain on that parade, but i remember some bits being a little different. Thanks, I'll pull the post and make some corrections....perhaps the locals have some Wolfen mercs(augmented like Star Marshals?) or resident aliens padding out their ranks? Well, the female wolfen interviewed i...

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Sendeshal (Anvil Galaxy) “Rumors that the Sendelshalans worship an enormous invincible nuclear fire-breathing god-lizard are exactly that; rumors. The Sendelshalans just like nuclear weapons a lot, that’s all. But best to be polite and not make them invoke the wrath of their gods, just in case.” On...

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[ Or attacking a ship in Eugenia only to come out with a conteiner ship full of Moho fruit - that one is a stroke of bad luck that is very hard to live down..... "Hey! The intel I bought said it was a payroll ship!" "Made the ones to blame take a jump to the lazersharks in the edge o...

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"Stolen goods are never sold at a loss." I beg to differ...are you talking about the thief or the fence? Never heard of a "Loss Leader"? Yes, admittedly if you're on the acquisition end of the deal and you lose most of your equipment and personnel with only a few gross of plasti...

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The Millennium Falcon is probably a good example of their last point. It was pretty old even by the time Han Solo got his hands on it, and it had been modified so much as to be unrecognizable to its original design let alone function as a tugboat. Depends on the source i guess - while it's true tha...

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I mean, if there are cultures out there with generational ships (or even just ships created by species with exceptional lifespans) that they created before gaining access to FTL drives, they could be thousands of years old. It's kind of an impossible subject to really address just due to things lik...

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In one of my convention games one of the center pieces / locations is a very old, but still frontline, Hunter Destroyer. I gave the age of this ship at just over a hundred years. Another scenario had a crappy rundown freighter that had half speed and about 30% less MDC that I said was almost 300 ye...

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'Phython' is the Least Old One of Dumb Thuggery and Getting Away With It, and exists to provide a reason for how and why minor outlaws across the megaverse keep finding what they need to ply their trade, be it guns, bullets, parts, food, or ships. In the Three Galaxies, it and its network of agents...

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