How much social pressure is there to start a family in the JR?

>>43642617
Its kind of like everywhere else, space is at a premium, so having kids is seen as a privilege, not a right. There is probably a lot of competition and having children is seen as a status symbol.

What kinds of games have you run that don't focus around Firewall operations?

What does the new family unit of Eclipse Phase look like? Is it mostly famlies made of people that have adopted one another?

>>43643883
Gatekeeper first-in mission gatecrasher team.
Ozma team.

>>43644186
How did you portray Ozma as opposed to Firewall?

>>43644239
Ozma is basically Firewall but with corporate hierarchy, salaries, and benefits. They also care more about the PC/inner system than their anarkiddo counterparts.

>>43644239
OZMA has a different, but often parallel set of goals. They're what SETI became, so understanding alien technology and making contact with the TITANs/ETI/Factors is a much bigger goal for them than firewall. This does come with the caveat that second contact should not make the human face extinct, so they often share similar short term goals. Long term, they want to meet with ASIs/ETIs though, which isn't a goal of firewall.

There's a blurb in Gatecrashing about a possible OZMA team being sent through a gate to meet with a TITAN. At least that particular mere didn't make it.

File: the difference is i make this meme look good.png (65 KB, 1305x892) Image search: [Google]

65 KB, 1305x892

>>43644239
The sample character in Million Year Echo who works for OZMA implies that it's almost exactly like Firewall except they get paid

>>43644852
That's rather boring. I like my Ozma being like this strange deep black entity that works through the corporate world, connections to the many hypercorps of the Consortium. They're always part of some obscure department that's definitely a higher paygrade than your hypercorp job. Think corporate MIB.

>>43644946

That could just be what the Double-Agent sees - the books are incessantly ambiguous about what exactly OZMA is. Even the Firewall book is pretty minimal.

>>43643912
It's only been ten years, so I suppose the new norm might still be forming. A lot of people are still in shock enough that they haven't really done much family-wise yet. I'd expect those that exist are patchworks from a lot of different shattered families, as most people in every family are MIA or dead.

So the corebook goes on about how O'Neil cylinders and toruses aren't really built anymore, and there are only 3 Hamilton cylinders. If this is the case what kinds of settlements are being built in the current age? Tin can habs fit together into clusters?

>>43650231
How many habs are being built in AF10? I think a lot of the infrastructure rush after the fall seems to be ending in AF10.

I'd guess that aerostats are fairly big, and there's probably a lot of cheapo Locus knockoffs going up across the inner system.

File: CaseASTURIAS_andywright.png (311 KB, 560x372) Image search: [Google]

311 KB, 560x372

>>43644239
-More territorial. OZMA is there to ensure Consortium's long-term survival, the rest of humanity is disposable and expendable.
-Different allies. Firewall meshes with CID and anarchist cells, OZMA meshes with Oversight, Stellar Intelligence and other inner system SOCOMs. When operating in Inner System, Firewall usually uses ideology to get local support (barsoomians, fledgling indentures, anarch cells, etc.), but OZMA uses money and threats in Outer System to subvert outsters.
-More hierarchy. Firewall is an ad-hoc network of loosely organized servers. OZMA is a centralized organization with rigid command structure and numerous security protocols. Both structures have pros and cons.
-OZMA is wealthier and stronger. Little to add here - if you work for OZMA, and your mission is considered top priority - sky's the limit in terms of budget, while Firewall often has to make do with insufficient resources. It is explicitly mentioned that Firewall loses more agents to OZMA because OZMA offers them more money than because of assassinations/ego thefts - that should say something. That also means both money, access to infrastructure and expected level of agent's professionalism.
-Ruthless MO. Among Firewall you can occasionally find idealistic agents with some moral restrictions. Not so much with OZMA.
-In my game, I follow the proposed speculation that Prometheans aren't a separate branch of seed AIs, they are TITANs who managed not to get infected. In my version of OZMA, they cooperate with some of those TITANs (in fact, same ones who Firewall knows as Prometheans). Uncorrupted TITANs try to manipulate both groups to at least not bite one another in the ass when humanity's survival is at stake, but human greed, paranoia and stupidity is stronger even than TITAN superintelligence, so both OZMA and Firewall believe that the other is working for the exsurgent-infected seed AIs and therefore do not trust one another.