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| Fantastical Evolutions |
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Posted by: Valles - 10-22-2007, 09:11 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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Who here has come up with bizzare or alien creatures to populate some fantasy or sci-fi world?
*raises hand*
What are some of them like? How did you come up with them? Is there any interest in a general rant/discussion thread on this topic, or should I just stick to giant mecha?
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"Reseeestunce ees fiutil. Yoo weeel bee Useemooletud. Borg Borg Borg."
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
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| Opinions please? |
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 10-22-2007, 07:07 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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I worked up a quick logo for the supergroup to put on its wiki page before I went on vacation; I meant to ask folks what they thought of it before I left but forgot. So I'm asking now. (I also did up headers for most of my characters, in case anyone's interested in looking.)
(In case anyone wants to try their hand but doesn't have the tools or wherewithal to work from scratch, try Flamingtext.com, which is what I used to generate the headers I've used.)-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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| We're Home... |
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 10-21-2007, 05:28 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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...and I'm catching up on net traffic. Please be patient as I slowly get back on track. Thanks!-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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| American Woman |
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Posted by: Shepherd - 10-21-2007, 12:46 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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Has anybody ever suggested "American Woman" as a song? If not, I assume that it is most likely to create some sort of aversion field that repels female U.S. citizens. I'm not sure if it would be a psychic barrier or a force field effect.
American Woman
Artist(Band):The Guess Who
(Bachman-Cummings-Kale-Peterson)
(Prologue)
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman, she gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
Say A,
Say M,
Say E,
Say R,
Say I,
C,
Say A,
N,
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman, stay away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Dont come hangin around my door
I dont wanna see your face no more
I got more important things to do
Than spend my time growin old with you
Now woman, I said stay away,
American woman, listen what I say.
American woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Dont come knockin around my door
Dont wanna see your shadow no more
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone elses eyes
Now woman, I said get away
American woman, listen what I say.
American woman, said get away
American woman, listen what I say
Dont come hangin around my door
Dont wanna see your face no more
I dont need your war machines
I dont need your ghetto scenes
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone elses eyes
Now woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be.
Go, gotta get away, gotta get away
Now go go go
Gonna leave you, woman
Gonna leave you, woman
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Youre no good for me
Im no good for you
Gonna look you right in the eye.
Tell you what Im gonna do
You know Im gonna leave
You know Im gonna go
You know Im gonna leave
You know Im gonna go, woman
Im gonna leave, woman
Goodbye, American woman
Goodbye, American chick
Goodbye, American broad ...
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
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| [Gazetteer/RFC] Mars |
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Posted by: M Fnord - 10-20-2007, 08:36 PM - Forum: Fenspace
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Working on rewriting the Mars stub. Forgive the wiki markup. Still very much a WIP. Suggestions, comments etc. welcome.
{{ gazetteer:places:mars.jpg?285 |Mars, photographed by the Mars Global Surveyor (courtesy NASA)}}
^ Mars ^^
^ Orbit | 227,940,000 km from primary (mean) |
^ Diameter | 6,794.4 km (equatorial) |
^ Surface Gravity | 0.33G |
^ Year | 686.98 days |
^ Day | 24.62 hours |
^ Mean temp. | 210K (-63C) |
^ Atmosphere | .010 atm (CO2 95%, N2 3%, Ar 2%) |
^ Water/Ice Index | 0% |
^ Population (2013) | 250,000 |
^ Political Affiliation | [[gazetteer:government:conventions|Fenspace Convention] |
^ Government | Direct Democracy |
^ Capital | Helium |
^ Phobos ^^
^ Orbit | 9,378 km from parent (mean) |
^ Diameter | 27 x 21.6 x 18.8 km |
^ Surface Gravity | negligible |
^ Year | 7.75 hours |
^ Day | 0 hours |
^ Mean temp. | 40K (-233C) |
^ Atmosphere | none |
^ Water/Ice Index | 0% |
^ Population (2013) | 55,000 |
^ Political Affiliation | [[gazetteer:government:conventions|Fenspace Convention] |
^ Government | Direct Democracy |
^ Capital | Port Phobos |
====== Mars ======
Since our first close-up picture of Mars in 1965, spacecraft voyages to the Red Planet have revealed a world strangely familiar, yet different enough to challenge our perceptions of what makes a planet work. Every time we feel close to understanding Mars, new discoveries send us straight back to the drawing board to revise existing theories.
You'd think Mars would be easier to understand. Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps and clouds in its atmosphere, seasonal weather patterns, volcanoes, canyons and other recognizable features. However, conditions on Mars vary wildly from what we know on our own planet.
Over the past three decades, spacecraft have shown us that Mars is rocky, cold, and sterile beneath its hazy, pink sky. We've discovered that today's Martian wasteland hints at a formerly volatile world where volcanoes once raged, meteors plowed deep craters, and flash floods rushed over the land. And Mars continues to throw out new enticements with each landing or orbital pass made by our spacecraft.
//(Text courtesy NASA's Mars Exploration Program homepage.)//
===== History =====
{{artðŸŽmars-large.gif?x200 |Unofficial Martian flag}}(blah history)
===== Places of Interest =====
As the most thoroughly explored place in Fenspace pre-wave, Mars has a number of native features that attract interest as well as the settled areas. Most people are familiar with the four giant volcanoes of the **Tharsis Mountains** and the rift valley of **Valles Marineris**. Also of interest is the **Cydonia** region, home of the infamous **[[Face on Mars]**.
Fen settlements are scattered all over the planet. The largest settlement on Mars is the **[[Utopia Planitia Shipyard]** facility in **Utopia Planitia**, not far from the //Viking 2// landing site. The shipyard was designed to be permanent, despite the fact that the terraforming project intends for Utopia to be underwater once the underground aquifers melt. How the [[gazetteer:factions:united federation of planets|Trekkies] intend to deal with this problem is as yet unknown.
The [[gazetteer:factions:pulpers|Pulper] city of **[[Helium]**, also the second-largest city on Mars, is located on the northern rim of Marineris near **Ophir Labes**. Helium is the most cosmopolitan of the Martian cities, partly because there aren't enough Pulpers to fill an entire city and partly because the Barsoomian subfaction pulled out all the stops in creating //the// ultimate fantasy Martian experience. Helium is a city composed of soaring towers and inhabited by fen who live the crystals-and-togas lifestyle.
**Airy-0 Crater** is host to the third-largest city on Mars, the unaligned town of **[[Port Robinson]**. Port Robinson is the largest fendane settlement outside of Earth cislunar orbit. Populated mainly by members and supporters of the [[www.marssociety.org/|Mars Society] who began migrating to Mars early, almost beating the Trekkies to the surface. Port Robinson is the center for "Martian unification," endlessly pestering the other settlements on uniting as a faction above and beyond their political origins. The town also happens to be the spiritual center of Fenspace, as the town square is built off of **[[St. Liebowitz's Cathedral]**.
Southeast of Helium in **Argyre Planitia** is the [[gazetteer:factions:galactic republic|Warsie] outpost of **[[Mos Eisley]**. Mos Eisley exists mostly as a way for the Republic to keep an official presence on Mars. However, the town does provide a good stop-off point for scientists working in the southern hemisphere, terraformers and other Martian nomads.
The enigmatic **[[Castle Heterodyne]**, home base for a Pulper splinter group known as the [[gazetteer:factions:Foglios], exists in an undisclosed location somewhere in the southern hemisphere. Most people figure the castle is located in the highlands around **Hellas Planitia**. Others contend that Castle Heterodyne lurks near the polar ice cap. A handful of conspiracy theorists have suggested that the castle is //mobile//, moving randomly from point to point across the surface.
In orbit, most of the action is at **[[Port Phobos]**. Port Phobos began as a freight waystation for material headed to Helium and Port Robinson, but rapidly mutated into the single largest port facility in Fenspace, outstripping //[[ships:Stellvia]// and [[gazetteer:places:venus:Crystal Tokyo] in terms of cargo and passengers moved. This rapid growth has turned Port Phobos into a free-floating version of Manhattan, with almost as high a population density. The internal habitat is slowly hollowing out the entire moon, using the mined material to build ever more elaborate networks of docks and skyscrapers on the outer surface.
The other major station in Martian orbit is **[[ships:Starbase 1]**, the first fen space station (built by te Trekkies in late 2007) and moved to its current location in areosynchronous orbit over Utopia Planitia Yards' meridian when the surface facility was built. Starbase 1 is the heart of the Martian shipbuilding industry and the heart of the Federation Starfleet, meaning that hundreds of ships in various stages of completion are gathered around the station at any given point.
Also in orbit is the headquarters of the [[gazetteer:companies:Mars Terraforming Project], located on Deimos. The terraforming base is much less populated than Port Phobos, but has almost the same inhabitable volume. Most of this volume is used by the terraformers to run test farms, growing plants in Martian soil and mid-terraforming atmospheric conditions.---
Mr. Fnord
http://fnord.sandwich.net/
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