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Setting up a game so it plays like your favourite sci f... - 3/26/2010 11:58:23 AM

spidergod

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Hello

Just wondering if anyone has any tips on setting up a game to play out like your favourite sci fi novel or film ?

I love neil ashers spatterjay and polity novels but cannot work out the traits to use on setting up the races.

any thoughts?

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RE: Setting up a game so it plays like your favourite s... - 3/26/2010 12:53:29 PM

Erik Rutins

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I'd say describe what you want the galaxy to be like and we can advise, not familiar enough with those books to suggest off the top of my head.

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RE: Setting up a game so it plays like your favourite s... - 3/26/2010 1:01:25 PM

spidergod

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Hello

ok the best way to get all the details are from the wikis :

for the first polity novel :

AI: machine intelligence responsible for planetary management
Runcible: an interstellar teleporter, comparable to the Ramsbotham Jump in Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky
contra-terrene device or CTD: an anti-matter bomb
AGC: antigravity carrier anti-gravity vehicle
Antiphoton Weapon: A proton beam weapon (APW).
Aug: A brain augmentation device, allowing gridlink-like access to local networks.
Proton Gun
Pulse-gun
Golem: sophisticated androids, named in numbered series
Sparkind: elite human(oid) soldiers
Chainglass armor and cutting blades: "A glass formed of silicon chain molecules. Depending on heat treatments and various doping techniques, this glass has a range of properties covering just about every material that has preceded it. Chainglass blades can be as hard as diamond and maintain an edge sharper than that of freshly sheared flint, whilst having a tensile strength somewhere above that of chrome steel. Chainglass also lacks the brittleness of its namesake. The substance was the invention of Algin Tenkian, and it made him filthy rich." -Gridlinked: Asher, pg. 142.

Planets

Earth
Cheyne III, home world of the Separatist movement.
Huma
Minostra
Samarkand II, way station between more important worlds, 173 light years from Viridian. Colony destroyed after Runcible exploded.
Viridian, 173 light years from Samarkand II, in the Mendax planetary system of the Chirat star cluster.

Spaceships

The Hubris - AI controlled Polity Science Vessel. This ship was used to transport a new stage one Runcible to Samarkand.
The Lyric - A smuggling ship that transports Arian Pelter and his crew to the planets Huma and Viridian.

The wiki :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlinked#Detailed_Plot_Summary
2nd novel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line_of_Polity

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