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Glad I could help. :D

By the way, I find the setting extremely interesting and it's helped me get back on some form of track for my own future-style campaign world which I had started two months ago after a three day bender of watching all of Battlestar Galactica.  Thanks for the push.

Quote from: MBeneGlad I could help. :D

By the way, I find the setting extremely interesting and it's helped me get back on some form of track for my own future-style campaign world which I had started two months ago after a three day bender of watching all of Battlestar Galactica.  Thanks for the push.

:D

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So is the drama going to come from conflicts/competition between the empires you have established?
Are we talking about the whole galaxy as the backdrop?

This sounds a little like the same scale as the venerable Traveller game.  I always thought of the setting as just too vast.  Then then again Star Wars takes place on a galactic scale and Star Trek covers about half? a galaxy or so.

I guess what I'm gettin at here is, if you have an entire galaxy as your playground how many children does it take to make it so that they are fighting each other for turns on the big slide?
 :huh:

Quote from: RedBullBearSo is the drama going to come from conflicts/competition between the empires you have established?
Are we talking about the whole galaxy as the backdrop?

This sounds a little like the same scale as the venerable Traveller game.  I always thought of the setting as just too vast.  Then then again Star Wars takes place on a galactic scale and Star Trek covers about half? a galaxy or so.

I guess what I'm gettin at here is, if you have an entire galaxy as your playground how many children does it take to make it so that they are fighting each other for turns on the big slide?
 :huh:

I haven't quite determined the exact size yet, but I did do some quick figuring. With the fastest engine and unlimited fuel, a ship can traverse the entire galaxy in about 16.5 years. Doable, but not feasible. Although colony ships in a setting like this would be interesting... I must add that to the list.

Right now, I'm betting that the majority of the action would take place somewhere within 1/25 or 1/50th of the galaxy, with the rest being unexplored frontier. That's still a four to sixth month journey at fastest to get across the thing, so it should provide plenty of playground. And if it's not big enough, there's always room outside the fence.

As for where the drama comes from, it's entirely up to the players and the DM. I'm trying to make this as depolarized as possible, so that there are benefits and incentives to play any given side. I can just as easily see the players being soldiers in the Concordium, Mercenaries in the Fringe, raiders in Vacaris, or traders in the Independents, depending on what type of game you want to play.

Do holograms start to die at -1 hp?  Do they regenerate hp naturally?

This point and forward is the discussion for The Next Generation.

Looks great. In the game, I love it so far. Good feel about it. Star Trek had too much law abiding-ness, and Star Wars had too much rebelious-ness. Stargate was pretty good, never seen the rest. It sounds pretty good, and I hope 4e comes soon so we can see more crunch.