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Media & Mayhem / Re: Mayhem Thread

« on: January 15, 2009, 01:22:01 pm »

Cool Avatar Kedamono 

BZ

Danke, it's one of many iconizers. I tried very hard to get one that looks like me. That's as close to a self-portrait as I can get.

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The Solar Frontier / Re: Updated Hypergate travel times

« on: January 14, 2009, 12:48:19 pm »

Yeah, I agree this could be explained better.  Because of this, it is actually one of the things we touch on in our forthcoming Starship Supplement.

Sounds cool. I've played SF RPGS since Starships and Spacemen which has a similar legacy as Bounty Head Bebop, and having a decent set of ship rules is nice, though only if you plan to have tactical shoot'em ups. And for that, I would recommend Attack Vector Tactical for realistic 3D vector movement.

Hypertubes vs. Wormholes – hmm… ‘Hypertubes’ does have a pretty cool ring to it

Well, if you like it, you have my permission to use it. I'm always willing to share.

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The Solar Frontier / Re: Updated Hypergate travel times

« on: January 13, 2009, 10:12:41 pm »

The reason I lit on 6 "time units" per AU is that the math works out the same and it's easier. 

Earth is 1 AU, or 6 hours from Mercury, thereabouts.
Mars is 1.5 AUs or 9 hours from Mercury. See how they start lining up? Your times from Mercury to all the planets worked out to 6 hours per AU, which is why I revised the table to match that value. I also used the semimajor axis of each planet's orbit to work out the distance.

Also, you may want to rewrite the section on how the first wormholes were stabilized, because I got the impression that the first wormhole had its Sol end moved from Sol to Mars. This is the text that gives that impression:

Using this knowledge, mankind went into space and created a gate around the wormhole above the moon, allowing them to direct its other end to any point in the Solar System. A team of brave (and some say insane) scientists then traveled through - their control ship coming out in orbit above Mars.

So you could see why I thought the wormhole was moved and didn't go through the Sun. And technically, it takes nearly zero time to traverse a wormhole from end to end, they are always next to each other internally no matter how far away the ends are. You also have the problem of time travel, where one end of the wormhole is at a different time than the other end. That happens when you move one end.

So, let's not call it a wormhole, but a hypertube that has a set internal distance when it's first created, but afterwards the internal distance never changes. Yeah, that's a wormhole, but not. 

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The Solar Frontier / Re: Updated Hypergate travel times

« on: January 13, 2009, 01:29:04 pm »

And now I've added Ceres to the table:

	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto
Mercury	0	4	6	9	16	30	55	114	180	234
	Venus	0	2	5	12	26	51	110	176	230
		Earth	0	3	10	24	49	108	174	228
			Mars	0	7	21	46	105	171	225
				Ceres	0	14	39	98	164	218
					Jupiter	0	25	84	150	204
						Saturn	0	59	128	179
							Uranus	0	66	120
								Neptune	0	54
									Pluto	0

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The Solar Frontier / Updated Hypergate travel times

« on: January 13, 2009, 03:20:58 am »

I looked at the current table and I didn't like the fact that it took 255 days to get to Pluto from Neptune, even though they are relatively close together. So I revised the table to take into account the relative distances. I also noted that the travel times noted on the table were roughly 6 days per AU, which helped a lot in correcting the travel times to each world.

	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto
Mercury	0	4	6	9	30	55	114	180	234
Venus	4	0	2	5	26	51	110	176	230
Earth	6	2	0	3	24	49	108	174	228
Mars	9	5	3	0	21	46	105	171	225
Jupiter	30	26	24	21	0	25	84	150	204
Saturn	55	51	49	46	25	0	59	128	179
Uranus	114	110	108	105	84	59	0	66	120
Neptune	180	176	174	171	150	128	66	0	54
Pluto	234	230	228	225	204	179	120	54	0

I had to assume that travel time was in days, based on the statement that it took 1/250th of normal travel time.

So what do you think sirs?

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Bounty Heads / Re: BZ's Cowboy Bebop Write-Ups

« on: December 29, 2008, 08:28:36 pm »

Well, they are an example of what happens when you're past your prime. Still, in the movie the flew airplanes and dosed the city with the antidote. And they play a mean game of cards/checkers/whatever. They would be extras, background characters that you could interact with or not.

They do get around a bit though, don't they? They must have the Bebop version of a senior transit pass. 

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Bounty Heads / Re: BZ's Cowboy Bebop Write-Ups

« on: December 28, 2008, 11:45:57 pm »

Well, there are The Three Old Men, Antonio, Carlos, and Jobim, they are in nearly every show and they were bounty hunters once themselves.

Laughing Bull, he's a couple of shows too.

Electra Ovilo from the movie.

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Bounty Heads / Re: BZ’s Venture Brothers Write-Ups

« on: December 22, 2008, 10:27:48 pm »

Baron Underbite or whatever his name is?

That's Baron Werner Ünderbheit, the one time leader of Ünderland. Now, deposed, he's keeping busy. I think.

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Bounty Heads / Re: BZ’s Venture Brothers Write-Ups

« on: December 18, 2008, 11:14:09 pm »

What other Venture Brothers characters deserve a Write-Up?

BZ

Dr. Girlfriend and her malevolent moppets: Tim-Tom and Kevin

Henchman 21 and Henchman 24

Phantom Limb

And of course, if you dare, David Bowie