 June 24, 2012 - 2:17pm | Hello all, Just found this forum; looks great! Just wondering if anyone has thought about doing, or has actually done, work on a "real" setting -- i.e., one not in "Frontier Space" but one based on the actual solar system & surrounding areas out to, say, 50 light years or so. Thoughts? Thanks, |
 June 24, 2012 - 8:38pm | I have a setting project here that is based in the milkway and andromeda galaxies. It began life as a Star Frontiers campaign but since then has evolved into it's own universe. However, it does use the real Earth and Humans at the center of the story. You can check it out in depth at www.titanrising.webs.com |
 June 24, 2012 - 8:56pm | Back in the late '80s, GDW's 2300AD (aka Traveller:2300) used a 1970's era starmap to makeup its setting. They picked some systems, and put colonies on planets at those suns. It came with a star map, color coded to indicate 3D, covering about 50LY from Earth. One of the limits on the FTL drive in the game was that ships had to stop every 7.7 LY to discharge a radiation build-up from the drives. That limited the number of routes that ships could take, creating "arms" and "fingers" of exploration. It was re-done by Mongoose earlier this year, using the Traveller rules. The planets are much more detailed in this edition, but they kept the old starmap. If they didn't the many brown dwarf stars that we now know about would have wrecked the isolation of the different worlds. |
 June 25, 2012 - 3:17am | Yeah some work done in the Sol Frontiers project Here: http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/5671 I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 25, 2012 - 4:19am | I had dabbled in it back when TSR was still producing product but never really got anywhere with it. |
June 25, 2012 - 6:24am | There is of course the 2001and sequel module, i believe 2001 included stats for a moon buggy. But action wise I'm guessing those modules would be a little dull. I would suggest the novels Semper Mars, and Lunar Marine and whatever the third instalment in the series was. I only read Lunar Marine and it gave away enough that i never felt the need to track down the first in the series bit still it was a pretty decent extrapolation of the real world setting with Chinese playing a big part in it. If you dont like the UN you probably will enjoy these books. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 25, 2012 - 8:57am | There is of course the 2001and sequel module, i believe 2001 included stats for a moon buggy. But action wise I'm guessing those modules would be a little dull. Yeah, I think I had more fun with the prehistoric Man-Ape scenario: Struggle to find food & water, deal with some larger Ape-Men & predators, learn things from the big black rock thingy, build a mighty Man-Ape Empire, bang many Man-Ape-Women... What more can a Man-Ape-Guy like myself ask for? Oog-oog! *scratch* *scratch*  |
June 25, 2012 - 10:10am | There is of course the 2001and sequel module, i believe 2001 included stats for a moon buggy. But action wise I'm guessing those modules would be a little dull. Yeah, I think I had more fun with the prehistoric Man-Ape scenario: Struggle to find food & water, deal with some larger Ape-Men & predators, learn things from the big black rock thingy, build a mighty Man-Ape Empire, bang many Man-Ape-Women... What more can a Man-Ape-Guy like myself ask for? Oog-oog! *scratch* *scratch* Flea dip. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 25, 2012 - 9:36pm | Got a lot of resources etc... including spaceport guides, planetary textures etc... that are all part of a Star Frontiers Orbiter add-on. The package is a solar system (Rho1 55 Cancri) with planets, moons and all that. It features about a dozen missions you can run in the spaceflight simulator that describe how Humans and Dralasites met via a "lost" slowboat that accidentally discovered the Jump Drive. It is all located in "real space", and has a good bit of readable/usable background data and "travel guides" for your eledication, even if you are not interested in the spaceflight simulator.... |
June 26, 2012 - 5:04pm | Thanks all! I'll check out the sources you recommended. |
