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fiat_knoxI've toyed with the idea for a setting for the Traveller SF roleplaying game where the assumptions are a little different to those you've known.
Basic assumptions such as:-
Humans are obsolete.
Homo sapiens is clumsy, and even their most advanced technologies are absurdly primitive compared to other races' toys.
FTL travel still takes a long time to complete.
They may take weeks rather than centuries to make the journeys between the stars, but those journeys still take weeks. A lot of journeys will require entire crews locked down in cold sleep.
My inspirations are twofold here. First, the Babylon 5 setting - the Narn cruisers fighting the Shadows at the Battle of Gorash something, when the Shadow vessels utterly outclassed them; and second, the Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis setting, all those human vessels being built with leftover Asgard and Ancient technology the human crews can barely understand, let alone get to work together in a manner that won't just atomise them and half the solar system.
I've currently got this Legend stuff on the boil, but as soon as I've done that, I'll get right on this setting.
Basic assumptions such as:-
Humans are obsolete.
Homo sapiens is clumsy, and even their most advanced technologies are absurdly primitive compared to other races' toys.
FTL travel still takes a long time to complete.
They may take weeks rather than centuries to make the journeys between the stars, but those journeys still take weeks. A lot of journeys will require entire crews locked down in cold sleep.
My inspirations are twofold here. First, the Babylon 5 setting - the Narn cruisers fighting the Shadows at the Battle of Gorash something, when the Shadow vessels utterly outclassed them; and second, the Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis setting, all those human vessels being built with leftover Asgard and Ancient technology the human crews can barely understand, let alone get to work together in a manner that won't just atomise them and half the solar system.
I've currently got this Legend stuff on the boil, but as soon as I've done that, I'll get right on this setting.
