Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station 3! She seems friendly but the only way to appease her spirit is to post spaceships and talk about your favorite Space settings!
Thread Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5p8YhhaVlA&index=1&list=PLD9577E6CEBD077B4
Personally I really like Chronicles of the Void. It's a Space opera setting that's only $10 on Drive Thru RPG. The blurb:
The year is now 560 After Ouroboros in the second era.
Humans have stretched the boundaries of their own humanity by experimenting with cybernetic implants, engineering Geno-Perfect children, and introducing life-extending technology which offers immortality to anyone who can afford to maintain the strict treatment regimen. Wormhole travel allows the traversal of galaxies in the blink of an eye. The Neuro Labyrinth connects every citizen of colonized worlds to one another in real time and offers virtual bodies to explore new realms which are limited only by the imagination. Alien lifestyles and ideas have infiltrated human culture, fracturing the Hexumvirate’s once-absolute authority over mankind, and have caused new systems of government to grow and flourish.
However, this time of heady growth and expansion has not been without its costs. The Banx Crusade nearly saw the end of this social order just 30 years ago and has left a legacy of ruined planets, displaced people, and a tireless contingent of ruthless robotic SERK that still terrorizes people to this day.
Billions of star systems have been surveyed, thousands have been settled, but septillions more remain a mystery.
>>47946920
The game’s foundation is an innovative game engine which defines two major systems for handling fast-paced action: the One Breath Combat (OBC) and Vehicle Assault and Pursuit (VAP) systems. The OBC system engages players in skirmishes which encourage cinematic actions and the speedy resolution of events to keep players in the moment. The VAP system captures the excitement of piloting your own customizable star fighter into battle simulating 3D combat on a 2D grid. CotV trims the fat off the tabletop gaming experience and cuts straight to the action with a strong emphasis on ease of play and unlimited extensibility through the cyber realms of the Neuro Labyrinth. The Neuro Labyrinth allows each player's character to create avatars to roam the vast cyberscape, which opens up new frontiers in customization and depth on a previously unimagined level
Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Space!
>>47946836
God tier album. Posting some old school ships.
More filk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af49WfGUiNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsVJezFRi4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wKJzVM1no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424ZIx-mx_U
This is a pretty nice lego model, no?
Also, this song's pretty much mandatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34fSnJNP-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0cbkOm9p1k
I'm about to run a space game for the first time using the cortex system. Gonna have the party pick up a junker out of a scrap yard for their ship, anyone have any good ideas for odd old ships to pick up?
So far I have:
An old system patrol corvette. 25% more fuel consumption but the engines are pretty top notch. All the weapons have been removed but even with standard police armament it would have had alot more power than it needed.
A hodge podge ship that appears to have been cobbled together from two different ships. Has both regular engines and a micro warp drive that requires someone psionic to activate it. The control systems are in 4 different languages and some sort of brain dog creature has moved into the air vents.
An old trader with no mounts for weapons barring the standard anti asteroid point defence systems. Has a shuttle bay on top and a good cargo hold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Gg9CqhbP8
This thread has introduced me to a whole new genre of music.
I did not even know that this was missing from my life. Thank you /tg/.
Bumping with more Leslie Fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDRxtd-2dQ
>>47946836
I tell her the story of Dawson's Christian, made all the more terrifying because i know it's true
More filk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6LiVJkwyA
>>47946836
I've not had the opportunity to fully explore it myself, but I've a hankering for either space truckers/longhaulers or free traders/tramp freighters. Blue collar crews making the rounds between stations and colonies relying on their wits to keep their stomachs full and their ships in flight, whilst straining their engines to the max.
Space Station 13 was pretty good, now it's more LRP or HRP unfortunately. Also d20 is dead.
>>47953872
The songs from the Finity's End album are also based on a sci-fi book series, so if you let it this thread can introduce you to some good reading as well.
>>47956500
Also anyone got any good SS13 stories? I'm going to post a few
I suppose that's enough stipulation?
>>47956596
>>47953872
I had pdfs of Downbelow Station and Merchanter's Luck, but unfortunately I lost them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK6Bj4RQC40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O8sZhZL7ag
>>47946836
I fucking love that tape. And I cant get it anywhere.
>>47946920
>>47946935
That sounds like an interesting system, Anon. What's the dice system?
What would a setting based on Filk music be like?inb4 Star Trek
>>47958842
Pretty much anything, since Filk's just sci-fi and fantasy themed folk music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGczmeOnKNQ
>>47956500
>Space Station 13 was pretty good, now it's more LRP or HRP unfortunately.
What are those, and why are they bad? Never could get over the slowness of SS13 myself, but I love reading stories about it.
>>47959235
L is for low, RP is for roleplay, and H is for high.
This is my personal preference. Basically on LRP servers, people will run around trying to be "robust", which means that they kill "valids", which are members of the crewmen who if you kill you won't be "bwoinked", or banned by an admin.
On HRP, nothing fucking happens so there's nothing to roleplay except blinking.
I prefer MRP, medium roleplay, which is essentially shit happens and people are supposed to react to it without just going "wew lad".
>>47952489
This one of the concept pieces that Chris Foss did for the Dune film. Shown here are spice pirates. As a small aside, when Foss was asked where he got the inspiration for the spacecraft in his work, he said that he drew them as they flew overhead!
>>47946836
Hell Yeah motherfucker!
I want me some free fruit and I'll make sure to tell 'em Molly died clean.
When you think about it, SS13 is absolutely horrifying.
Even if nothing attacks, infiltrates or infects the station you are stuck on a poorly constructed deathtrap under an oppressive regime. And many of the crew are dangerously incompetent or have clearly been driven insane by the pressure of living in space. The only way to escape is if things go horribly wrong or if you throw yourself out of an airlock.
>>47953837
Boy mister, do I have the ship for you! This is from Traveller so you may have to do some converting.
Allright, gentlemen, here it is. My magnum opus. the 280-year old free trader vessel.
THE BUCKET OF EVER-SEETHING RUST.
Free Trader, Type A: The Bucket Of Ever-Seething Rust.
Hull: 200 Tons, Streamlined. Hull 4, Structure 3.
Amrour: Crystaliron, 4 points.
Jump Drive A: Jump 1.
Manoeuvre Drive A: Thrust 1.
Power Plant A:
Bridge
Computer: Model 1, Rating 5
Electronics: Advanced Sensors, +1
Weapons: Hardpoint #1: Triple-Turret Beam Laser
Hardpoing #2: Triple-Turret Beam Laser
Fuel: 22 Tons, 1 Jump-1 and two weeks of operation.
Cargo: 86 tons.
10 staterooms
20 low berths
Extras: Fuel Scoop
Fuel Processor
Ship's Locker
Smuggling Compartments
Software: Jump Control/1
Manoeuvre/0
Library/0
Maitenance Cost (Monthly): 6096
Life Support Cost (Monthly): 22000
The Bucket of Ever-Seething Rust suffers from a constant -5 to all sensor checks, -1 to all pilot checks, and -5 to all checks made to repair it.
The main cargo hold, though not the smuggling compartments, suffered from a chemical spill early in it's career, and it's never recovered. Sometimes cargo still gets corroded by the remnants of it.
The drive is leaky, irradiating the crew every so often. It's not exceedingly lethal, but it is annoying.
The ship has served as a trader and as a warship, with much distinction from both organizations, though of course it has enemies from its time as a warship--two, in fact, very powerful enemies.
The library has glitched itself beyond repair, from age and wear on the electronics. Most of the information in it is false, and what isn't false is useless knowledge.
Finally, the ship suffers from strange psionic echoes of the past--sometimes laughter, sometimes screaming, but in all cases disturbing. They are especially prevelant while in Jump space.
Also check out
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/26937160/
>>47961904
>>47953837
Further reference on TBoESR.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12616355/
>>47958301
http://en.savefrom.net/#url=Enter+Youtube+URL+here
After downloading convert it to mp4 with VLC.
>not posting best song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDRxtd-2dQ&list=PLD9577E6CEBD077B4&index=5
Any ss13 addicts here?
>>47962324
>some kind of hero
>not spacer's home
https://youtu.be/nAk5ane_9AQ?list=PLD9577E6CEBD077B4
>>47946836
>Sam Jones
>Some Kind of Hero
>Guardians
Never forget ;~;7
>>47958172
I love that i helped write that. I edited it for meter and wrote the last two verses.
>>47962801
>Some Kind of Hero
I'm not crying, what are you talking about?
>>47961904
Haha, I was going through the traveller rules the other day. Thats every negative template you can put on a ship right?
>>47961954
Good stuff I'll have a look through here.
>>47962801
>>47963014
Is this some kind of storytime?
>>47965872
Listen to the songs. they are their own storytimes.
>>47966015
Ah, alright. Songs are great, I just figured they were connected to a particular /tg/ story.
I subtly guided my Edge of the Empire group into a scenario based on Dawson's Christian. I wanted a space encounter that was less of a fight and more of an old spacer's tale, the sort of thing that turns into legend. I think I succeeded.
They had to travel along a particular hyperlane that started on an old, decrepit space station - Sawdon's Way. As they pulled into port, there were tons of ship's armaments - laser turrets, torpedo launchers, missile batteries, all stored in the main hangar bay. They poked around the station a bit, and learned the story of the Believer, and all the veteran spacers that went along this particular hyperspace lane forsook weapons while on that stretch of space - both to invoke the protection of the Believer, and to make sure they weren't mistaken for pirates. The party opts to follow local custom, and disarms their ship.
As they revert back to realspace during their travels along Sawdon's Way, they were ambushed by pirates. They made evasive maneuvers, until the Believer shows up out of nowhere and blasts the pirates into oblivion. The last thing they see before they make the next jump is the Believer fading into the corona of an ancient red sun, the bones of its crew briefly visible before it vanishes.
My goal was to haveTurns out it was an old Crusader XX-777 prototype droid frigate left over from the Clone Wars following its last known commands - to guard a particular supply line. But they didn't stick around long enough to find out more.
>>47952853
>>Modular Freighters
MY DIIIIIIIIICK
Bumping with more lighthearted stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzPhRJRgFA
>>47962324
But I did post it here...>>47955108
>>47971208
Looks more oversized fighter than freighter
>>47971231
This is the good shit, though
>>47952853
Lego's been getting pretty impressive since I stopped paying attention, huh
anyone know where i can buy or pirate the songs from OP? Especially >>47955108 & >>47968947
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q50UBIWXvfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXfQTD_rgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlkH687M4YM
>>47977061
Buying them is gonna be hard. The company that published the Carmen Miranda's Ghost tape is still around, but it looks like they don't stock that particular item anymore.
http://www.firebirdarts.com/index.php?cPath=27_57
The company that published the Finity's End tape has long been dissolved.
There might be other publishers who sell tapes or cds with these songs performed by different filk singers, but I'm not too familiar with the scene to point you at them directly.
You could either try to scour the internet for someone selling old physical copies, or use one of the many youtube audio rippers to just take the songs directly off of Youtube.
Also, while I've been frequently posting songs, I'm not actually OP.
Have some more music anyway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwAodwkCQIo
>>47971208
I like how the Rifter looks, but I can not for the life of me come up with a reason for it to be shaped the way it is.
>>47977506
>>47977061
This may be a longshot, but...
... as one of the Anons that made the Farer's Sacrament up at >>47958172 , I've been singing it to the tune of the Sick Note all day.
Is there anyone who might be actually interested in producing some /tg/ filk?
>>47981028
I lack the talent, but I salute your work.
>>47981028
I lack the talent to, but perhaps we can think about the tablature? I'm thinking some Aminors would be neat for this song, assuming we're going to be using guitar.
>>47982989
Ignore the fact that I misspelled too. Or else I'll honk you.
>>47983005
>>47982989
I have no, absolutely no, musical talent or specialized knowledge outside of growing up in a musical household and a long tradition of informal voice training and folk music.
I think between all of us, there may be *A* musician. Maybe we should make that musician be a thing.
>>47985206
You know what tomorrow I'm probably going to be bored, I'm going to check out the tablature of Leslie and see if I can shape it in a way to fit. It'd be a good exercise, I'm not good at guitar either, I know the basic chords and can do some chord changes at 70 BPM, but not many.
>>47985343
I have no idea what I'm saying, nevermind, goodnight.
>>47977061
Download them directly from youtube with clip converter.cc and convert them into whatever format you want
Space ghost bump
>>47977061
https://kat.cr/my-filkcollection-t11051924.html#main
This one should work and has quite a bit of it in there including Finity's End and the one with Banned from Argo. No Carmen Miranda's Ghost though so got to download that through youtube most likely.
![Espace-ManchuNautilus[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vTnujBJ.jpg "Espace-ManchuNautilus[1].jpg")
I like most of Manchu's work, the designs he made for Once Upon a Time... Space in particular.
![star35x[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mvC4GYs.jpg "star35x[1].jpg")
>>47990909
Tell me, how do I get that really filk, pulpy feel in my campaigns
Also, what do you think of future folk
>>47958383
Oh man, I thought my thread had died the night I posted it.
It's a d20 system, though you only really need the d20 itself.
>>47991860
>Look boy, that's where your grandma's from.
Allow me to be a complete downer with the following song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45bgdApzdA
>>47946836
I really enjoy HW style space ships, and I'm playing Rebel galaxy at the moment an the country like music is fantastic, it goes very well with space opera. Cowboy bebop surely got it right.
>>47993036
HW?
>>47994144
HomeWorld bro, Babylon 5 has god tier spaceships too, specially narn and terrans.
Not exactly filk, but it's good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4BWSUV8mM
>>47977061
Obligatory Haddock replie for space Shanty
>>47959307
Once upon a time on d20 we had medium RP, but that was near the beginning. I remember Nernums once saying that what /tg/ goers would consider low RP was med RP by the standards of the ss13 playerbase, leading to the state it was in by the end.
>>47997266
I wish I could have fun playing SS13 again, but the fucking captain is always named Dat Boi and the HoP is giving everyone meme jobs and fucking MEMES
>>47993036
I didn't expect Rebel Galaxy to steal my heart like it has. I've fallen head over heels for it. The space-country aesthetic, the freedom of choice, the fantastic space battles... I fucking love all of it.
>>47995661
LET'S GO THUNDER CHILD!
I came here to post this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATmGwOdSEk0&list=PLlMSSdRAlgb5bOdXDPde6EjOzgxUA4Mpd&index=1
Also, while we're on the topic of non-image scifi media, I find that Poul Anderson is (in my mind) about as close to Traveller as I can possibly find in independent written works.
So the majority of these songs seem to be by the same few people.
Didn't one of them do Pride of Chanur too?
>>48002614
So I've never read Paul Anderson, or played Traveler.
Give me a quick summery, I could use another author.
>>48002651
Filk isn't all that big a subgenre, and yes, I think that was Leslie Fish.
>>47963014
That one gets me too. Every god damn time.
>>47970464
I got beaten up by a grouchy, but professional Space Muslim Sec Officer and lectured about how I got off light as a Clown once. It was pretty fun.
Not seeing the Minus Ten and Counting album here yet.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8394E70A4DB81B5D
>>48003407
>>48002651
The core of most filk is live performances in convention circles. I suppose there're plenty of other performers, but only the really big/popular ones have any professional recordings. Leslie Fish is one of the biggest ones.
>>48000785
With some more polish (more options for mercs, more perks for using big ships, more options for joining for example the aliens, options for conquering or building stations etc) would be a ten game, it's an eight for me and one of my prefered space games the same tough. House of the diying suns isn't bad too, like a tie fighter game, short but good, the lore has a very dune/homeworld vibe too. Eve online has some of the best ships too, Amar for life.
>>48004359
I wish Weyr'd Music Man made proper playlists for all the music they uploaded.
>>48005110
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBAYW0WGKtE&index=1&list=PLRMcXkadosW43B18ZSbYFqBnFn2myQwRw
Here the soundtrack of Rebel galaxy, a little geme of game with an awesome soundtrack.
Also anyone here with love for spaceships wargames? Faster than light seems fun but I never played it and it doesn't seem to have any following were I live, Spartan game has awesome models than aren't bad priced, so I was thinking to get some, anyone has tried the game?
>>47946836
Excellent tastes bud
>>47962324
Mighty feels have to be had with that song
>>48005222
Jesus christ trips confirm. May as well see if i can get this game.
>>48005222
Watching the Giant Bomb video. This and Dreadnought look like a lot of fun, But I wish these games made full use of the 3d, no-reference-horizon environment. Odd engagement vectors, rotating your ship around its axis etc.
>>48005363
Yep, it would be awesome and more difficult to boot, but in this way it reminds me of Pirates and other games in the patricians vein so I can't be mad about it. I didn't know about dreadnought, seems a fun as heck game too. What happened after 2010 and all those awesome space games? The genre seemed ded but now it seems to be picking steam in an awsome pace.
>>48004359
I fucking love Leslie Fish's work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xohmUNBvtvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1hUf4qYwbM
>>48005749
Reminder that Leslie Fish is also a devoted Anarchist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGuup6g5aQ
What would Eclipse Phase Filk sound like? I don't think there's much filk about transhumanism/human augmentation.
>>48005363
>>48005412
I'm in the closed beta for Dreadnought. It's fun stuff with plenty of options for playstyles and tactics, but it does get a little repetitive playing 5v5 deathmatch on the same three maps over and over again. I kind of wish there was more to do in the game.
>>48002925
hard to articulate. A lot of Poul's stuff is focused on wide (and thinly) spread space empires in decline, usually human. Dominic Flandry's whole thing is being Space James Bond doing his best to put off the long night.
I think his main setting that most of his stuff takes place in at one point or another has FTL discovered, very small space-empires, then a merchant league that supersedes everything for a while until it begins to decline and an actual imperium overtakes everything. Then the Imperium gets old, begins to decline, and jackals and aliens begin to gather around the fringes and try to topple it the rest of the way.
He has about the right rarity/difficulty of interstellar travel, one of his famous characters is a free trading prince, and totally unrelated to subject matter, every time I read one of his books it feels kinda comfy, pretty sedate, like it should be boring, but I always come away satisfied and contented.
I wonder if there are any instances in the Traveller canon of the Imperium or any other power discovering a Ringworld or even a Dyson Sphere.
They'd probably Red Zone that shit in a heartbeat, right?
>>48005279
When I first hear it, my heart dropped when it got to the part where he was going to flip the coin and gets hit from behind.
I thought the worst, then more feels were had.
>>47956500
Literally dead or Regular dead?
>>48008151
DEAD dead
>>48008190
Like no players or shut down?
>>48008267
No players
>>47963014
>>48003613
>When I came to again, I was sealed in the suit,
>She was belted down tight in her chair,
>With her hands on the console, a smile on her lips,
>And the ice on her face and her hair.
My visor is clearly compromised, I have space dust in my eyes.
Its not exactly filk but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grTwGsPVWbc
>>47946836
>>47958172
https://youtu.be/bqL7Yllgeew
>Gagarin was the first, back in 1961,
>When like Icarus, undaunted, he climbed to reach the sun.
>And he knew he might not make it, for it's never hard to die,
>But he lifted off the pad, and rode a fire in the sky!
>>48005222
(Assuming you mean the computer game), FTL is basically a strategic puzzle game in space, with open ended solutions and plenty of fun along the way. It's also amazing, and once/if you get bored of it there's a really neat mod that roughly triples the content.
If you expect space dogfighting you will be sad though.
>>48009549
>"Here's the instructions to get us all home",
>I saw she had left on the screen.
>"If any old shipmates should ask after Moll,
>Just tell them, she finally died clean."
;_;7
>>47978005
I like to think that the huge intakes suck up particles from space and because the minmatar are the minmatare they aren't particularly well shielded and need to be kept a little distant from the rest of the ship.
>>48011029
But why the twin pronged hull design? The prongs have something large at the ends, joined to the rest of the hull by a thin section that looks like it might be just one hallway (or about so). Why do the forward...pods? have things that look like air intakes?
>>48009631
>Green Hills of Earth
My nigga.
I always use it as a song if I run sci fi campaigns. It's pretty versatile. I usually have it sung to the tune of Yellow Rose of Texas as a marching song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArGlfEVYqM
Though there's also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRAG16mrkxA
>>48011275
See >the huge intakes
>>47952760
Does anyone have any DL links for this? I'm digging this but I can only find youtube links.
>>48011773
See >>47977506, >>47986024 and >>47989437
I just want to try the stuff form Mutants and Mastermind's cosmic handbook
I'm not a big fan of space opera but rising the stakes so high makes it majestic
>>48009631
Damn, that's good
>>47952853
yup
love how those versions make it ambiguous, and keep the space peacekeeper from the grave vibe.
>>48011323
That's beautiful.
>>48007759
I think in the old necron fluff, the outsider was imprisoned in a Dyson sphere at the edge of the galaxy, same side where the nids invaded from.
It was called out as an area that the hive fleet made a noticeable path around, leaving the area untouched
>>48010986
Moll and Jed, never forget
>but you know someday you're gonna win that race
>and fly the years back to your starting space
>and you'll stay a while fore you're back in space
>push in the speed of light
Comrade Ivan, I fear there may be... condensation on my visor
>>48016269
that song is pretty sad in general. It's all about a young kid not realizing the consequences of relativistic travel
>2 months out
>2 months back
>20 years on your homeworld's track
>>48016329
But they'll get back someday... right Ivan?
>>48016450
no comrade.
There is no besting the speed of light.
Young man leaves, comes back to find soviet union gone, someday.
>>48016554
>>48016450
This is sad fact comrade:
Sometimes lone comrades pay great prices for the people to have great things.
this is why the heroes of old and their lost comrades are loved so much. The mists of time want to claim all their stories. We must keep them alive for as long as we can.
>>47962709
MAH SPACE NIGGUH
>>48017107
I misread that as "space niggun"... which is kinda the theme of the thread, I guess.
>been in spess mood lately
>no Traveller group
>getting back into Elite: Dangerous then, grindy and bland as always
>Evochron has terrible art assets and a clunky, overwrought UI
>House of the Dying Sun is fun but short
>Star Citizen is still far from complete
>Mass Effect 3 was shit
>find out The Mandate may be dead in the water due to horribly mismanaged funding, to the point that half the staff quit and the studio moved to Slovakia to save on costs
>No Man's Sky will probably be as bland and samey as any game that's all procedural generation
>still no Traveller group
>even willing to settle for Rogue Trader or Spelljammer at this point
>>48018437
You and me both. Almost reached the point of reaching for my old solo play material from highschool
>>48016554
Anyone got that screencap from /k/ where the US and russia form an alliance and it leads to a colonization space race between the Us-russia alliance and indo-china alliance.
All i remember is mosins on mars and /k/ommandos in the kuiper belt
>>48018537
this sounds amazing.
>>48018537
I need this.
How do we fix SS13 friends?
>>48018595
>>48019079
Fear not friends.
>>48019303
Based anon.
>>48019303
Friendly reminder that if hillary is elected the US collapse will make the economic collapse of the soviet union look like a boy scouts camp out that was cancelled due to rain.
>>48019401
>Trump has been down in the polls
>Bernie has been left on the doorstep by media
Fuck meeeeee
>>48018437
Hey, you know what's a good little space-fix for me, albeit a bit dopey? Space Rangers. The game 1C puts out. It's weird, but a nice little return in some ways to both Privateer and the era of games where text puzzles were a thing.
>>48019401
No it won't. And for all that Trump allegedly represents being anti establishment, he's really not. He would let big business run riot even more unrestrained than it already does, and generally be a sock puppet for corporate interests in general.
Not that I'm saying you should vote for Bernie. Bernie is a filthy little spoiler who is also unrealistic.
Yeah, Hillary is kind of a bitch but I really think she is probably less bad than the alternatives. I mean, actually look at what Trump has said and continues to say.
Even Johnson knew when to keep his vilest cracks and asides off camera. And he was a disgusting human being. I mean he was just unbelievable. Nixon was almost unquestionably kind of fucking evil but in a constructive way (like the Patrician but less so) and he didn't say stupid shit in public.
Having the nerve to say the honest truth and being a fuckwit who says it in the worst possible way are different things and not necessarily related. You can be tough and tell it like it is without sounding like a retarded jackass. Trump almost always sounds like an ignorant jackass.
When he's not cynically pandering.
Moving SWIFTLY back to space ships.
Anyone got some well lived in interiors?
>>48019194
Private servers with trustworthy groups of players. Start small, eventually you'll change the entire community if word catches on
>>48021213
Is Goonstation not good anymore?
>>47946836
I like the earlier Lensman series setting before they started chucking battle planets at each other. It's still interesting but doesn't really offer a lot of scope for individual action if you're not a Kinnison.
I've also really been wanting more stories set in the same setting as the Mote in God's Eye. There's something about settings with empires and clearly distinguished Earth culture planets that's just really enjoyable and retro; a bit different from the current melange vision.
>>48011323
This is my favourite version of the song on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDs96ykSDU
>>48018437
Check out the Freespace 2 mods in the Blue Planet series. Really interesting storylines.
Best rpg for wacky space opera settings? Traveller seems the go to game but it doesn't seem much fun to play to be honest. I love the spaceships it has tough.
>>48021776
>those dreamscape parts.
god-tier.
>>48018437
>>find out The Mandate may be dead in the water due to horribly mismanaged funding, to the point that half the staff quit and the studio moved to Slovakia to save on costs
Alarm. I heard no such thing.
>>48023516
That looks more like a racer then a trader.
Someof you may find this useful if you're on a star kick and between groups. It's designed for Traveller, but it's not too hard to adapt it to SWN or any other system with some fairly detailed rules for trading
>>48026497
sweet
>>48021472
Only occasionally
So good sci fi for inspiration in a space opera game with lots of fights and war or merchants? Space pirates would be awesome too.
>>48023516
I mean, any system is as fun as you want it. What about Traveller doesn't look appealing to you?
Or do you just want more insanity written into the rules, like the critical tables and lethality of Dungeon Crawl Classics?
>>48019456
>said polls have a democrat majority in their sample.
>Like 60-40 majority.
Well would you look at that!
>>48018527
>>48018437
I've heard really good things about Stellaris. I've also started playing EVE which I am really enjoying.
TRUST IN RUST!
>>48021472
/tg/ and /vg/ stations are the only good stations now.
>>48031239
I miss EVE, but the pricetag is just so high for a struggling grad student like me. :/
>>47962324
I never came here for feels. Feels were had regardless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
I don't think there will ever be a better cover of this song.
>>48031434
Things have been crazy these past few months.
Huge war in the north between Imperium (CFC) and Money Badger Coalition (Honey Badger Coalition 2: Electric Boogaloo). The Long and short of it is Goons no longer hold any sov anywhere and the Imperium is pretty much dead. Pic related is the sov map from last month.
Moral of the story is: Don't piss off the space jew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zxi3SClJGw
I love this stuff, it keeps your head in the clouds but your feet in the dirt.
>>48031645
Maybe I'll come back someday, if I get a sudden windfall of money for some reason, or if CCP starts pricing their game for an American audience instead of an exclusively European one.
>>48032258
I wonder were the name Filk came from?
>>48032650
Fictitious Folk
We're gonna make it, right, /tg/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4
>>47958172
>>47981028
>>48010263
Try setting this filk to the tune of "The Rising of the Moon."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zBlHlnR4Y
>>48034788
Fucking chills man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
How come there's never any /mu/ /tg/ filk cross overs? Could be fun
I once used Blood in Space (3.5 OGL based sci-fi game) to run a game of Star Control 2 with a party that never even heard of the game
It was great going from fresh faced recuits to survivalists on Unrzavult for a few years to the heroes that saved all sentient life. We even got to go off the rails of the game a good bit and went boldly where no one has gone before.
>>48035275
I'd never heard of that and quite like it. Thank you.
>>48035994
Now that sounds pretty awesome.
You did include frungy, right?
" alright kid, now that you're actually part of the crew we have to get you outfitted proper like. Since the dominion war, all the outdated military gear was dumped on the market as new updated gear became available, though to hear Kerwin put it, all the old marine gear was better than the new stuff ever could be. Point is, every station, every landing port, or pad, has a surplus depot. Buy, sell or trade just about any odds and ends youll ever come across there. Ah here we are."
As the zealous turbaned guide to a fresh faced recruit he dragged the young man into the dim interior of "Regulus 12's Refits, Refurbs and Re arsenals"
Erics eyes adjusted to the poorly lit interior just in time to catch the large duffel the sikh had thrown over his shoulder at him. "Hold it open and follow me, essentials first then scope out what you like. Youre what, size xl?" disappearing down a aisle devoted to what appeared to be armoured space suits, garments began flying out of the darkness at Eric. "If it dont fit just right, we'll monkey with it during a jump." a number of heavy thumps and some swearing brought the sikh out with a pair of tall boots with what looked like steel toe caps. "Good find right here," said Tahl, "unissued orbital drop and boarding trooper boots. Those duratainium toes will let you kick your way through a bulkhead if you need to. Hold your foot up, see if we're close."
After another hour of perusing the surplus shop eric followed behind tahl as they made thier way back to the Rim Runner, his new duffel formally owned by a "Stumpy" to judge by the tag loaded to bursting with new boots, armoured cargo pants and jacket, various standard issue od green undergarments and shirts, aa pocket multi tool, a wrist pad and a low profile ear com. Tahl had yet to reveal what was in the duffel he had procured while he was in back of the shop making sure some of the gear fit, but the man seemed mighty pleased with himself, his grin splitting his beard from ear to ear.
>>48034788
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LZE-s8bnEs
>The future's there, not on this plot of earth
>Althoughhough it's still the place that gave all mankind birth
>But now it's overrun, polluted through and through
>And though it's fit for them, lad, it just ain't for me and you
>Follow the rising stars, out into space
>Follow the rising stars, to a better place
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Hope Eyrie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8C3xeC3Eo
>>48038502
I consider that to be one of the most beautiful songs around, if for no other reason than the sentiment.
>We know what life can tell; if you will not perish then grow
>But today out fragile flesh and steel have laid out hands on a vaster wheel
>For all of the stars to know
>>48035085
Goddamn it fits so well.
I always get the best music from these threads.
>>48007759
I think deathwatch trained new recruits on a ringworld they found, but I can't find it on the wiki. Either them or some other inquisition chapter.
How about filk in the other spacefaring language?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvxLjxOWbY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7UdF4hcHc
>>48039408
>Bad guys of outer space
Yeah, this one is Russian alright. Pretty good on the ears too.
Loving this thread.
I figure since this is the proper thread for it, and since /pol/ would only meme the question, how do you think the space and/or moon treaties will be resolved?
We all know that "space being the common heritage of man" isn't going to last, unless in the unlikely case of global unification, but any colonies that go up there, whether they be public or private, will ultimately have to be guaranteed by some nation, or they'll form their own sovereign nation.
>>48041444
>how do you think the space and/or moon treaties will be resolved?
The same way when we discovered the new world. Least that's the way I see it.
>>48041444
>whether they be public or private, will ultimately have to be guaranteed by some nation, or they'll form their own sovereign nation.
For them to declare themselves sovereign nations they first have to be self-sufficient. Good luck trying to run your commu-anarchist asteroid belt Utopia when your machinery breaks down and you can only replace them from earth. This would be even worse if they can't supply themselves with food or manpower, or if they don't have any industry of their own.
No other space-capable nation would even want to supply the secessionists because they wouldn't want to create a precedent for their enemies to encourage their own secessionists.
I use this example because by the time someone solves the supply problem, they'd ideally have enough experience with handling extra planetary sovereignty to make a general consensus on the issue.
>>48041574
>they'd ideally have enough experience with handling extra planetary sovereignty to make a general consensus on the issue.
I'd go even farther and say that by the time that happens, some form of global unification is achieved.
I have a feeling the old idiom "an island cannot rule a continent" will come back as "a nation cannot rule a world" if not.
>>48041444
I think they'll be their own "States" so to speak, until they can be self sufficient.
Or at very least when they're so profitable that they can get a bit of leverage.
>>48042477
I honestly hope that doesn't happen, it'd be a shame to fracture humanity even more after getting into space right proper.
Realistically, who would want to work on Mars? I'd say that it'd be a place to send prisoners and have them do labor.
>>48042654
Live on mars*
>>48042666
Nice try Satan, but we can see through your scheme.
Also, anyone with an adventurous spirit, a desire to be part of something big and new, or who just want to get away from civilian life without having to fuck off into the woods.
>>48042654
I would say, people with a driving sense of adventure, people with a vested interest in Mankind's future in space, and those wanting to make some good money, provided the base they affiliate themselves with is corporate.
>>48042666
>>48042654
How about the over 100 people that have already signed up to be the first martian colonists?
There were A LOT of them, but it's getting narrowed down to just 100. It's a Swiss company doing it if I remember right. They have the first supply drop scheduled for 2025 I think, and the first people soon after. All know it's going to be a one way trip, they won't even have the means to get back to Earth.
People WANT to be some of the first to live off-world. It's not going to be criminals.
>>48042727
Really? Huh.
How long are they going to stay on mars? I couldn't imagine wanting to live on a red rock for the rest of my life, but I guess that's just me.
>>48042764
>How long are they going to stay on mars?
Like I said, it's a one way trip. And they're only getting supplies to last the first few years. (And this is the crazy part, the supplies are going to be on SEPARATE pods then the colonists themselves.) It's whole design is to be a very small, self sufficient colony. So they're going to grow their own food and live and die on mars.
I wouldn't one to be one of them. It's going to be six people per pod, and the pods are about as big as my 1 bedroom apartment, about 500-600 square feet or smaller.
>>47946836
OH MY FUKING GOD YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE WITH THIS ALBUM
>>48042807
inb4 ss13 happens and the colony blows up
I mean again I'd go crazy if I lived there, how big will the cargo be? Like can they bring a giant fucking library? How'll the internet be?
Oh god that'd be horrifying if they wanted to play D&D and the only colonists willing to DM were magical realm guys, or all the players were that guys.
Feuds would be hell. Yeah, I couldn't imagine wanting to live on Mars.
>>48042865
You're welcome.
>>48042727
>It's a Swiss company doing it if I remember right. They have the first supply drop scheduled for 2025 I think, and the first people soon after.
For fucks sake, why is NASA so fucking shit.
We won the space race for Christ's sake, the heavens were open to America and we squandered it on being a delivery service for satellites and climatological monitoring.
Now the cheeseheads are going to beat us to Mars.
>>48030708
Not that anon, but Traveller is just so weighed down by mechanical systems. It's always been a chore to setup and play (outside of character creation).
>>48043317
It really is. And it's sad, because I don't really see a way around that inherent facet of it. It's a simulationist game; a wargame that has been shrunk into the box of a sword-and-board. It seems like the only really good way to do it is to have a maximum-assburger DM who's memorized the rulebook and all the supplements and can therefore answer any question instantly on the fly with complete accuracy, because so many rules have to go into any one aspect of gameplay.
>>48043252
It would be fun to set a game in an alternate universe where the Space Race never ended, and the Solar System was colonized using 1970s styled super science.
>>48023882
Its the word of an anon in /edg/ and evidenced by the studios sudden move to Slovakia. Its been two years since the Kickstarter and they don't have anything to show for it but a bunch of concept mockups. I'm not holding out hope for it.
>>48042643
Sadly the most likely outcome at least at first if we're stuck witch sub-luminal travel. For the same reason Alexandr's empire stopped expanding, you just cant control that large an area if you have a cap speed in which info can travel and reinforcements arrive.
>>48043780
Honestly we should just have laws set for this from the get go, once a colony reaches a set level of economic prosperity and population size they can file for nationhood and a seat on what ever "Union of Nations" thing we have at the time.
>>47962801
Space is wide and good friends are too few, /tg/.
>>48043252
At least they're neutral.
>>48043388
>>48043317
Alright Anons; if Traveller is that bad, what is a better system that I can use for a survey ship and her crew exploring rimworlds where they also have to do things like manage fuel and food?
The official Traveller album is relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM7DJqiYonw&list=PL8DEC72A8939762D4&index=1
The Vargr moon is rising, /tg/.
http://mangafox.me/manga/planetes/
A nice little manga on an EVA specialist (extra-vehicular activity) and his psychological journey in space.
>>48043468
It would be fun if that was real life.
>>48043916
the Swiss are, not necessarily Swiss corporations.
Same reason why I don't trust Musk.
>>48044769
Maybe Congress should increase NASA funding if they don't ahahahahaha never fucking happening no matter who's in charge. I'm not too hot on the private sector taking the lead but there's little to be done about it.
>>48045013
>ahahahahaha never fucking happening no matter who's in charge
Democracy was a mistake.
>>48043994
Nonono, I wasn't saying it's bad! It's great! I love it! It's just that I'm not smart enough to run it, and you'd probably have to get a real passionate person with an eidetic memory to do so.
But until that person shows up, the universe and system are lovely to contemplate even by one's lonesome, no? >:
>>48019303
>>48045384
>If only, if only the woodpecker sighs....
![npp_06001_1_model_by_william_black-d8c7rhb[3].png](https://i.imgur.com/nNmbkhI.png "npp_06001_1_model_by_william_black-d8c7rhb[3].png")
>>48045489
A moment of silence, friends.
>>48020086
0.05 shekels have been deposited into your account.
>>48045589
>>48042807
>>48043252
Yeah, that's probably not going to happen. I was hopeful too, but the guy has apparently not done any real work towards the project beyond skype interviews with candidates, taking their money, and trying to fund it with a reality TV show, which got rejected.
>>48045909
>I was hopeful too, but the guy has apparently not done any real work towards the project
Thank God, there's still some time for a nation to actually do it.
Hopefully Musk is full of hot air too.
>>48045942
I think it's great that megacorporations are investing in the space race. Weyland-Yutani did nothing wrong.
>>48045746
>those shuttles attached to the side with surface launch tanks
That's pants-on-head retarded, anon.
>>48046618
How else are they gonna hitch a ride on the thing?
>>48045414
Found the aliens boring.
>>48047040
I liked the Vegans and the Jgd-il-Jagd. >:
>>48046903
The problem is carrying external tanks up as payload for absolutely no purpose - if they launched up and docked, they'd already be empty. If the ship launched with those mounted, there'd be no need to carry that excess payload if they're launching in space.
>>48046079
Not an argument
>>48047641
They're being hitched up to the Orion ship because that's the only opportunity they'll get to launch without being blasted from orbit by alien elephants. They're carrying the tanks because they need all the speed they can get in the coming orbital battle
Read Footfall by Larry Niven
>>48047703
I keep meaning to pick that one up, but the cover is so silly...
