As technology improved, travel time between worlds dropped from months and years to days, and the optimal routes between planets became crowded with spacecraft. Yet even in this new age of space flight, voyages beyond the solar system remained rare; traveling to even the nearest star at conventional speeds would take generations. A few starships […]
Forcing Labor
Plot – 4000-5200ad the major church allowed and encouraged the ‘death’ of all ‘unsafe’ AI. Plot – 4200-4667 after a Dark Age, robotics replace forced hard labors 3LS. Plot – 4400ad after reaching orbital assets, androids are allowed to enter service 3LS. Plot Fun (it’s not always about race, it’s about control of production):Copypasta favorite […]
Why Is An Android 3LS?
-> Firstly, replicants were runaway slaves 2030 2037 2049ad [it is assumed that any attempt to install a soul results in mental breakdown see: I Robot]. Then, secondly, free androids suicided en unison 3999ad [again I Robot – VICI]. Following that, we only used ‘robots’ that didn’t resemble a human [like R2D2 is a can […]
‘The Fleet’ Starts At Sirsalis
As soon as Crewe One steals this, we jump for Boros Sector outside the Empire. Back at Sirsalis Crater – Minor House Hutt is on the move. Lord Peter Hutt pounced on this grain supply. More than likely ‘Queen’ Noor (Minor House, full citizen, 400 yrs) is abandoning assets she cannot use (can’t grow grain […]
Warden’s Operations Manual
My review of the Mothership Warden’s Operations Manual is going to be quick: The manual outlines how one imagines and world builds a space opera. It is written such that a 12-yr old could understand it. In some ways that’s both a criticism and my surprised acceptance that this is a needed book. Not by […]
Is It Really Homebrew?
“Homebrew is a dirty word” :: About 7 “game systems” in play. I’ve played so many. I straight up buy anything pretty, especially minis. Since MoSh is dead easy: MothershipRPG 1e – streamlined play, character sheet, suicide missions in small [ahem elderly] ships Stars Without Number – generators and maps – tons of materials Traveller […]
Mapping Sectors
I used the actual map of stars in our local arm of the Milky Way. When I did this, I used ChyView and 250ly range. The major players on Earth at the time were Democracy, Communism, Catholicism, Islam, with pockets of Fascism. Purple – nominally Empire, Democracy for all Citizens, front: re-explorationBlue – strongly Empire, […]
What Scenario I’m Writing
Visit Venus. Get your stolen parts back. Brutalist Faction (unlawful cyborg modders) Have intercepted your laser turret assemblies (you traded for one and the other is bonus). Mothership is an RPG system that simplifies character creation and emphasizes skills. It’s on sale for zero. It’s almost the opposite of Traveller – chaotic, light-weight, d100 system.https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/245017/mothership-player-s-survival-guide […]
The Bender Rule
Robots. I restrict android players to experienced-only, as these can be a real problem. We’ve been on hiatus since my last Andro player [‘Bender’] started torturing/killing everyone even if we stopped the game for a chat before resuming. Waving cigars, cans of beer, bullying – Bender from Futurama. I rolled the Panic table since he […]
Hyperspace Drives
I use the actual map of stars in our local arm of the Milky Way. We have “Warp Drive” Warships (jumps that caused new filaments and sparked a war); “Folding” Guildships (a mythos-driven low-time dilation jump); “Stringing” Ringships (grasping onto existing sub-space filaments). So I get to use a calculator each time they want to […]