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IST25 Outline, as of 10/22/2013 - Bob Schroeck - 10-22-2013
(Bob, 5/23/2025: The new thread in this area made me go back here and try to clean up the outline. Well. MyBB apparently doesn't handle indented lines well, no matter how you try to do them in-editor. I'm probably going to have to create some custom markup to do it, in my copious free time. In the mean time, at least the line breaks have been fixed.)
Just what it says on the tin -- for comments, suggestions, and "hey, you told me you'd use X but it's not there".
Page counts aren't final -- hell, I haven't even totaled them up yet to see if I'm near a multiple of 16 (although as I expect this to be a PDF, getting the page count to an integer number of signatures is unlikely to be particularly critical).
GURPS International Super Teams - The 25th Anniversary Edition
Outline
Outline
((Cover - suggest Vince Russell? Would like a new one despite how great the original was.))
AA Title Page (1 page)
AA Table of Contents (2 pages)
AA Introduction (1 page)
BB A Brief history of IST
BB About the 25th anniversary
BB About the author
C-BOX About GURPS
AA The World Today... (11 pages)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
C-BOX "SuperTemps", "Super Scum", and other useful books
BB The State of the World in 2015 (1.5 pages)
C-BOX How Realistic is "Realistic"? Fine-tuning the
campaign
D-BOX Combat Realism
C-BOX "Super Names" - Why take a "nom de guerre"? There's
no single reason/justification:
D-BOX Anonymity and intimidation
D-BOX Self-aggrandizement/wish fulfillment
D-BOX Street names and nicknames (history back to the
Old West); sometimes granted by the media rather
than self-taken
D-BOX Political reasons (a la "Malcolm X"); "Post-Human"
names
D-BOX Callsigns
D-BOX Actual military code names; other types of names
can be formalized this way when joining the IST
or other force
BB The Aftermath of World War III - Life in the Second Decade
of the 21st Century (8 pages)
C-BOX Organizations
D-BOX Bonded Telepaths Organization
D-BOX The Post-Human Alliance
C-BOX Warrantless telepathic surveillance: tinfoil hat
territory or serious concern?
D-BOX (Insert oppressive regime here) "Thought
Police"
C-BOX The Blue Demon: Global Scourge
CC China: Post-Communist, Occupied, Balkanized
DD Communist Guerillas and Terrorists
DD Hidden black projects and secret contingency plans
still popping up almost like clockwork all over the
world
C-BOX Organizations (Continued)
D-BOX The People's Revolutionary Insurgency, AKA
"The RGP" (Rénmín Gémìng Pànluàn)
CC United Europe - The Union of European States
DD Born at the dawn of WWIII, The UES is effectively a
single nation, but maintains the fiction of being a
confederation of independent states
DD Still undergoing birth pangs
EE Anti-unification organizations, some terroristic,
all fiercely nationalistic
C-BOX Metahuman Activity Insurance
C-BOX Organizations (Continued)
D-BOX THAMF - True Humans Against Mutants and Freaks
D-BOX The Metahuman People's Research Institute
CC United States - The Fallen Giant Rising Again
C-BOX Organizations (Continued)
D-BOX Team 99 (2015 incarnation)
D-BOX The "First Church of the Supermen"
D-BOX P.O.W.E.R. 2K
D-BOX Illegal NSA team, leftover from the Buchanan
Administration but never deactivated
CC Mideast: Hope for the Future, or Building to A New
Explosion?
C-BOX Organizations (Continued)
D-BOX al-Embarekh (The Blessed)
CC Extraterrestrial
DD Continuing Relationship with the Meeranon
DD First Contact with the Confederation
DD First off-world colonies
BB Where To From Here? Into The Future (1 page)
AA ...and Yesterday (38 pages)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
BB From The Dawn of Time to the 20th Century (0.5 page)
CC The Seeders
CC The Seeder Genes and Stellar Radiation
C-BOX Supers in History
BB 1924-1945 - From Vigilantes to Super-Soldiers (3 pages)
C-BOX The End of TL 6
D-BOX What's the *real* tech level? How super powers
led to anomalous superscience.
CC The 1924 Stellar Event
CC The Stars Were Right - Magic Comes Out Of Hiding
C-BOX Antimetahuman/antimagic pogroms begin in Islamic
states
CC "Mystery Men" and Psis - Crimefighters and spyhunters
CC World War II
DD Germany's Ubermenschen
DD German attempts at powered armor
C-BOX Experimentation in Concentration Camps
DD The Los Angeles Project and Strike Force A
DD British Team
C-BOX Battlefield Casualty Rate for Metahumans
CC Seeds of the United Nations
BB 1946-1963 - "The Golden Age" (5 pages)
C-BOX TL 7 Begins
D-BOX: Tech Anomalies: Invention of the Blaster
CC National, corporate and private super teams
DD First national supergroup in France
DD Other teams of note - including "ethnic" teams
CC Growing numbers of vigilantes, "costumed adventurers"
DD Conversely, also growing numbers of "costumed
extremists" and "metavillains"
DD Doctor Radiation and Cascade
DD "Destructeur" and the first "mutants"
CC Changes To Legal Systems Wrought By Psionics
C-BOX The British Mind Control Scandal of 1952
CC Birth of Parapsychology and Metabiology
CC Accelerating Technology
DD The Roland Power Cell
DD The Blaster
DD Space Exploration
CC Formation of the United Nations
C-BOX NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Iron Curtain
CC The Korean War
DD First practical powered armor
CC Europe and the formation of the EEC
CC United States
DD The House UnAmerican Activities Committee
DD Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
C-BOX Vietnam
CC Latin America
DD Cuba and Castro, and the "Bay of Pigs" Temporary
Liberation
CC South Africa
BB 1964-1975 - You Say You Want A Revolution (5 pages)
C-BOX TL 7 Matures
CC Europe
DD Growth and consolidation of the EEC
C-BOX Diplomatic relations between East and West
Germany
DD First generation EEC superteam
DD "Right to Privacy" movement
C-BOX Rise of International Terrorism
CC United States
DD HUAC: The Next Generation
DD The Nixon Administration
DD Metahuman activist groups: P.O.W.E.R., YIPPI
C-BOX Summer of Love
D-BOX Kent State
DD Vietnam War
DD Watergate
C-BOX The Personal Privacy Act of 1974
CC China
DD First A-bomb and H-bomb
DD Cultural Revolution and the seeds of the future
DD Admission to U.N.
C-BOX What about Taiwan?
CC Middle East
DD Israel and Palestine
DD Six Day War and other Conflicts
DD Founding of the Palestine Government in Exile
DD Iran and Iraq
C-BOX Oil Embargo of 1973
CC Space Race and The Apollo Program
DD Apollo 11
DD Apollos 12-25
DD Lunar Base 1
BB 1975-1981 - The Lull Before The Storm (5 pages)
C-BOX TL 7 Transitions into TL 8
D-BOX First clues to the "how" of superpowers
D-BOX Tech Anomalies: first breakthroughs in bionics
and artificial organs
CC Europe
DD Birth of formalized antinuclear movement
DD Greece joins the EEC; the resulting increase in the
EEC super team makes it the second-largest standing
super-army in the world.
CC Middle East
DD Fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups first come
to world attention
DD Libya and Qadaffi
DD Iranian Hostage Incident
DD Iran-Iraq War of 1980
CC China
DD Death of Mao and subsequent "liberalization"
DD Attempted invasion of Vietnam
DD Beginning of super "breeding program"
DD Chinese space program
CC Soviet Union
DD Invasion of Afghanistan, prompts calls for U.N.
super force
C-BOX Covert U.N. superteam deployed against Soviets
DD Space program
EE (name) Space Station
EE 1979 Lunar landing
CC United States
DD Bicentennial
DD Carter Presidency, relaxation of government
hostility towards supers
DD Supreme Court decision forbidding "mental search
warrants"
CC Latin America
C-BOX Metarchies
DD Doctor Radiation and Guatemala
DD Cuba's Consolidation
BB The Rise of the International Super Teams: 1982-1990
(5 pages)
C-BOX TL8 accelerates dramatically
D-BOX Tech anomalies begin appearing with startling
frequency: cyberlimbs, nanotech, AI and more
D-BOX Discovery of genes for metahuman functions, test
for the same - and the social/philosophical
implications thereof
CC Motivation for the Founding of the IST
CC The Edicts of 1982
C-BOX Political Fallout, in the U.N. and out
C-BOX First Contact - The Meeranar
D-BOX Second First Contact: the F.R.A.N.C. probe
CC Europe
DD Chernobyl
DD Glasnost and the end of the Iron Curtain
DD Soviet space program becomes Russian space program
EE 1987 - First Russian base on moon
DD Laying the groundwork for the European Union
CC United States
DD Election of Ronald Reagan in 1984
DD Election of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1988
C-BOX Strategic Nuclear Disarmament
DD Attempted invasion of Panama
CC Middle East
DD Israel-Lebanon conflict
DD PLO tacnuke attacks on Jerusalem
CC Africa
DD Extended drought prompting the birth of the
International Weather Organization
DD Failed South African Invasion/Coup Attempt
CC China
DD Tiananmen Square
DD Increasing disaffection with the U.N. and the IST
DD Super "Breeding Program" revealed by defector
DD Ends the decade as an outlaw state after defying U.N.
demands for information on supers/military programs
BB The Crazy Years - The 1990s (6 pages)
C-BOX TL 8 Becomes TL 9
D-BOX Tech Anomalies: influx of alien technology
begins making a simple TL assignment moot
CC The Mage-Age Revolution
DD The Unified Theory of Magic released in 1996
C-BOX The Whole Earth Grimoire (1997)
C-BOX The UTM and the Grand Unified Theory
DD Practical and Research Theology, Theurgical Studies
DD American government restricts magical research
dramatically due to Evangelical Christian influence
on the Buchanan administration; only the threat of
foreign magical attack prevents it from being
outlawed entirely.
DD Meeranar interest in magic; having no mages they
seek technological methods to use it.
C-BOX Trade With The Meeranar
D-BOX Meeranon frictions with the Buchanan Administration
lead to changing their primary trading partners
CC Space Initiatives
DD The Bifrost Launch Laser/Mass Driver
DD Orbital habitats and Moon bases
C-BOX Repurposed Metavillain hideouts
D-BOX Moonbase Drax
DD The European Space Agency
EE Orbital Space Station/Drydock
EE The ESS Ulysee Merou
C-BOX JAXA and the Solomon Space Agency
DD Private Space Programs
EE General Nippon Orbital Manufacturing
EE Virgin Galactic
EE Ainomere Industries
C-BOX "Space Pirates" - Coming to an orbit near you!
DD "UNSS Wanderer" - Earth's First Starship
C-BOX The Breaking of the U.N. Fusion Monopoly
D-BOX Singapore Discovery of 1996
D-BOX United States' voluntary disconnect from U.N
fusion in 1998
CC The Iran-Iraq War of 1992-1996
C-BOX Iraqi invastion of Kuwait
DD Chemical and Nuclear exchanges
DD Operation Shield Wall (1993)
DD War ends in mutual nuclear and chemical destruction
of both capitals and the surrounding countrysides,
and the effective collapse of both countries.
C-BOX U.N. Relief Efforts
DD End of war seems to shock the rest of the Middle
East into a more rational/moderate mindset - or at
least shocked the extremists into quiescence -
however temporarily.
CC Israel and Palestine
DD Escalating tensions through the early 1990s
DD Continued conventional and tacnuke attacks on Israel
C-BOX PGIE - The Palestinian Government in Exile
DD 1994 PLO nuke accident allows more moderate voices
to prevail as Israel and U.N. provide relief
DD New negotiations beginning in 1995 (along with
considerable pressure on Israel) lead to ...
DD Palestinian Homeland established 1999
CC Cuba and Guatemala
DD Alliance
DD Collapse of the Cuban Economy
DD Joint invasion of El Salvador in 1998 and IST
operations against it.
DD 1999 U.N. Suicide Bombing Attempt
CC Europe
DD Formal start of the European Union
DD Collapse of Communism, restructuring of former
Soviet economies
CC The United States
DD Acceptance of "New World Order" conspiracy theory in
mainstream Republican thought
DD Growing anti-IST sentiment and xenophobia
C-BOX The "America First" movement
DD King narrowly re-elected in 1992, while Congress
shifts to Republican control
DD Patrick Buchanan elected U.S. President in 1996,
Congress remains controlled by Republicans
PULLQUOTE "Pat's a goddamn Nazi, but you always know
where you stand with him." - Hunter S. Thompson
(attributed)
DD Refusal to pay U.N. dues in 1997, rush to implement
the Singapore discovery and construct U.S.-owned
fusion plants
C-BOX "Freedom Fusion" plants - and their hasty,
shoddy construction
DD Unilateral attack on Cuba, 1998
DD Denial of federal funding to universities with
magical studies programs
DD The "Tech Diaspora"
DD General perception overseas of the US decaying into
a "second-tier" nation
CC People's Republic of China
DD Escalating U.N. Sanctions through the decade
DD Above Ground Nuclear Tests
DD Military "exercises" in the Formosa Strait and
elsewhere
DD Control of Hong Kong not returned to China as a
first attempt at diplomatic pressure
DD 1999 Siege of Hong Kong
CC "The Wall" - the Y2K barrier to precognition
C-BOX The Wall and GURPS Y2K
BB Over the Wall - The 2000s and World War III (8 pages)
C-BOX TL 9 matures
CC The End of the Siege - The Millennium Attack on Hong
Kong and the Start of World War III (NOTE: The
details of WW III are subject to change, although its
start and end points are firm.)
DD WW III runs 2000-2005
C-BOX Meeranar "Neutrality"
DD Land War in Asia; China overruns Bhutan, then
attacks India. North Korea attacks the South
PULLQUOTE "A land war in Asia? Fantastic. Now all
we need is to go up against a Sicilian when death
is on the line." - political figure to be named
later
C-BOX Eurasian ISTs vs. Chinese Super Army: Quality vs.
Quantity?
DD All Is Not Quiet On The Russian Front
EE Annexation of Kazakhstan
C-BOX Unconventional Weapons: The Chinese "Earthquake
Machines" and their role in the war
DD Nepalese Uprising, Occupation
EE Pakistani attack on India during height of
Chinese invasion
DD Expansion into Bangladesh, Myanmar and neighboring
countries
DD Occupation of Senkaku Islands, which leads into...
DD The Invasion of Japan - Draws the U.S. into WW III
EE Polynesian Campaign
DD Battlefield nukes devastate SE Asia and eastern
Russia
DD Arctic Campaign
DD Battle of Magnitogorsk - Turning point of the war,
broke the back of Chinese western forces, both super
and mundane
DD Operation Angel: Three-pronged attack in which UN
forces establish footholds in occupied India,
Kazakhstan, and the east coast of Mainland China
DD Attempted final nuclear strike by Chinese government
as UN forces approach Beijing.
DD Capture of Beijing, New Year’s Eve 2005, end of war
CC Europe
DD EU becomes the Union of European States in response
to the start of WW III, more than a confederation of
allies and a handsbreadth short of a single nation
CC United States
C-BOX Why No 9/11?
D-BOX The United States Without Homeland Security
DD And the Pendulum Swings - the election of Democrat
Aaron Catalano as President in 2000 and the so-
called "Return to Rationality"
DD Return to the U.N. in response to WW III
C-BOX Impact of the War on American Politics
DD American "catch-up" efforts in magical research
DD Re-election of Catalano in 2004
DD Election of Catalano's VP Reuben Cruz in 2008
DD Moderate Republican Kenneth Noble elected in 2012
DD Breakdowns in "Freedom Fusion" power plants - no
catastrophes, just region-wide brownouts across the
country for several years, until they are properly
refurbished, sometimes with UN technology
CC Latin America
DD Death of Doctor Radiation and subsequent Guatemalan
civil war
DD Cuba: Castro is dead, Long live Castro
DD Collapse of the "Latin Axis"
CC Asia
DD Damage from WW III and subsequent recovery
DD Reunification of Korea
CC Extraterrestrial
DD First contact with the Confederation
C-BOX Using GURPS Aliens for the Confederation
C-BOX ... Which Brings Us To Today: advice on using this
history as either background or campaign setting.
AA Playing An IST (19 pages)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
BB The United Nations (1.5 pages)
CC Goals of the U.N.
C-BOX Using the U.N.
C-BOX Non-Intervention
CC Policies of the U.N.
C-BOX Official Languages
BB The IST Parental Power Structure (2 pages)
CC The Security Council
C-BOX The World Court at the Hague
CC The Committee on Permanent Peacekeeping Forces
C-BOX A Brief History of the U.N.
C-BOX But The U.N. Can't DO That! - Differences between
the Real-World U.N. and the I.S.T. World's
DD Covert Operations
CC The Committee for Law Enforcement
C-BOX The IST Agenda
CC IST Command
C-BOX Interservice Relations - How do other militaries
react to and interact with an independent force
composed entirely of *officers*?
CC Major Divisions
DD Embassy/Field Operations
EE Public Relations
C-BOX Marketing and licensing
DD Technical Services
DD Intelligence
C-BOX Covert Operations
BB Induction and Service (2 pages)
CC IST Basic Training
C-BOX Minimum Requirements for Membership
CC Status, Rank and Salaries
C-BOX Standard Tour of Duty
C-BOX Americans and IST Membership - In the real world,
US law says that a U.S. citizen who serves as an
officer in a foreign military loses their
citizenship and may be accused of treason; how do
IST members get around this?
CC Security Clearances
CC Codenames and Secret Identities
CC Costumes
C-BOX Standard IST Insignia
CC IST Courts-Martial
CC Transport, Materiel and Equipment
C-BOX Transportation
BB The IST Academy (1 page)
CC Educational facilities for both young supers and the
children of IST employees, established 1995
DD Supers are trained in use of their powers, but are
not required to serve in the IST upon graduation
C-BOX Academy Headmistress
CC Most classes are integrated, with only power-specific
training not open to "normals"
DD Friction between supers and non-supers
BB The Individual IST (2 pages)
CC Command Structure of the Team
C-BOX Staffing Your IST
DD Team Administrator
C-BOX "Civil Need" and Crimefighting
DD Field Commander
C-BOX Emergency Military Action by ISTs
DD Public Relations Officer
C-BOX Team Assignments
D-BOX IST Placements - Things have changed since
1990; population has grown, countries have
dissolved and new ones formed. The IST has
changed with them.
D-BOX Special Embassies: Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
Kingston
DD Legal Attache
DD Security Officer
CC Powered Infantry
C-BOX International Territory
BB The Typical Embassy (2 pages)
CC Defensive Capabilities
DD Internal Security
DD Support Staff
C-BOX Standard IST Mainframe Software
CC Offensive Capabilities
C-BOX Common Embassy Armaments
CC Detention Facilities
C-BOX Electronarcosis and Deepsleep Cells
D-BOX Objections to Long-term Deepsleep Incarceration
CC Training Facilities
C-BOX Self-Sufficiency
BB Sample Embassy - IST New York (4 pages)
CC Physical Plant
C-BOX Security Systems
CC Unique Features
DD Co-HQ of all IST Forces
DD The Museum of Metahumanity
C-BOX Museum Library and its contents
DD IST Memorial Plaza
C-BOX Memorial listing
C-BOX World War III Memorial
CC P.R. and Local Authorities
CC Complement
C-BOX Team Leaders
D-BOX Commander (Witchwind's Successor)
D-Box Team Administrator
CC History
DD Establishment in 1982
DD 1999 U.N. Suicide Bombing
BB Sample Embassy - IST Tokyo (4 pages)
CC Physical Plant
C-BOX Security Systems
CC Unique Features
DD Underground command bunker from WW III
CC P.R. and Local Authorities
CC Complement
C-BOX Team Leaders
D-BOX Commander
D-Box Team Administrator
CC History
DD Role in World War III - Seat of Asia/Pacific
command
AA Characters (4 pages)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
BB Character Creation (0.25 page)
DD Starting Wealth ($30,000) and TL (9)
BB Alien Races (0.25 page)
BB Character Traits (2 pages)
Includes, at a minimum, the following:
CC IST Membership
CC IST Basic Training
CC Scientific skill for UTM
DD Thaumatology gains mandatory specializations for
individual systems of magic (Hermetic, Enochian,
Voudoun, etc.)
CC Engineering skill for UTM
CC Research Theology/Applied Theology
CC No Bang skills
CC Setting-specific Talents
BB Job Table (1 page)
AA Extraterrestrials (10 pages)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
C-BOX ETs, the Law, and "Human" Rights
BB Kyz (2 pages)
C-BOX Confederation Technology
D-BOX Confederation FTL
BB Meeranar (2 pages)
CC Taboo trait: Magery
C-BOX Myeerrrarr - The Meeranar Tongue
C-BOX The Meeranar "Psi Drug"
C-BOX Meeranar Technology
BB GURPS Aliens (3.5 pages)
CC For the Confederation
C-BOX Rynkarians from "SuperTemps"
BB Sample Alien Characters (2 pages)
CC Touchstone
CC Whyte Tyger II
AA Technology (12 pages)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
BB Mid-TL9 (0.5)
CC Why isn't the TL higher?
DD Tech Level anomalies caused by study of metahumans
CC Off-world trade and the technology level
C-BOX Black Market Ultratech exchanges
BB Power and Energy (1.5 pages)
CC The Roland Power Cell and its competitors
CC The End of the Oil Age
C-BOX Collapse of Mideast Power - and Nations
CC The UN Fusion Monopoly - and Its End
BB Arms and Armaments (1.5 pages)
CC Weaponry
CC Armor and Defenses
BB Computers, Cybernetics and Robotics (2 pages)
CC How the Arpanet became the Tapestry
CC Artificial Intelligence
C-BOX AIs and the Law - When does a program (or a
machine) become a person?
D-BOX 1991 MV-2400 Decision
D-BOX Legal ramifications of the "Awaken Computer" spell
BB Biotechnology (2 pages)
CC Medical
CC Genetic Engineering
BB Housing and Construction (2 pages)
BB Personal and Consumer Goods (2 pages)
C-BOX Fabs and Nanofabs - The Maker Revolution
AA Magic (6 pages)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
BB History of Modern Magic (2 pages)
C-BOX Reactions the world 'round
CC The Unified Theory of Magic
CC The Whole Earth Grimoire
C-BOX Technomancy, including Meeranon Tech Magic
BB Modern "State of the Art" (1.5 page)
CC Magical studies programs
C-BOX US behind the rest of the world in magical
studies due to evangelical Christian influence in
politics during the 1990s
CC Licensing and testing in many jurisdictions
CC Legislative/judicial catch-up as nations race to
outlaw "black" and/or dangerous magics and regulate the
rest
DD Energy corporations lobbying to outlaw direct
energy-conversion spells
DD Necromancy and Felony Abuse of a Corpse
C-BOX The implications of Theurgy and Research
Theology
C-BOX Legal Ramifications of Sapient Undead
D-BOX "Dead is Dead" - Wills and Bequests
D-BOX "Undead is Not Dead" - Life Insurance
D-BOX "Chicago Voter Registration" - Undead and/in
Politics
BB "Catalogue" (2 pages)
CC Which spells are commonly available, which are
"cutting edge" research, which are mythical, and which
may be real but are unavailable at any price.
C-BOX Wild magical talents
CC The first fruits of the Meeranon technological
approach to magic - minor, almost trivial devices, but
usable by anyone in all but no-mana zones, even
without magery.
AA IST and Infinite Worlds (4 pages)
(expanding on the IST-IW pdf)
BB Vignette (0.5 page)
BB Discovering "Krypton" (1 page)
CC The "Pocket Multiverse"
C-BOX Worldline Data Box for "Krypton"
BB Reality Quakes (0.5 pages)
C-BOX "The Wall" from Homeline's Perspective
BB Homeline Politics vis-a-vis Krypton's U.N. (1 page)
CC Protecting the Secret Against Worldjumpers and Supers
C-BOX Infinity Unlimited and Krypton's WWIII - A
Realpolitik Option: Starting a world war to protect
the Secret (and whether it worked)
BB Alternate ISTs - Parallel Timelines Within (and Outside of)
Krypton's "Pocket Multiverse" (1 page)
CC Krypton-2: The "Evil IST" world (Current year 2015)
CC Krypton-3: Conqueror's World (aka "Super Rebels").
Centrum has agents here, but the World Government knows
about them and is trying to use them to get to Centrum
and other timelines. (Current year 2015)
CC Krypton-4: "Super Wars": Krypton-3 without Conqueror:
a balkanized collection of warring city-states ruled by
supers who range from the benevolent to the despotic.
(Current year 2003)
CC Krypton-5: "Swamp Castle": four failed attempts at a
UN superforce between 1946 and 1976; the fifth attempt
in 1982 was finally successful. (Current year 1989)
CC Krypton-6: Headstart: Stellar Event in 1796, supers
since the early 1800s, steampunk TL5+2, "gentleman
adventurers' leagues". (Current year 1888)
CC Krypton-7: Latestart: Stellar Event in 1975, supers
since the 1990s, relatively low power, comparable to
Krypton-1's WWII era. (Current year 2027)
AA Sample Characters (24 pages)
4th Edition versions of selected characters important to IST
history and current events, along with new players on the
international stage. Will include the following:
BB Members, Allies and Neutrals (12 pages)
CC Witchwind, Commander of the IST
CC Black Pearl, her heir apparent
CC Leader(s) of al-Embarekh
BB Foes (12 pages)
CC The Blue Demon
CC The late Doctor Radiation
CC Leader(s) of The People's Revolutionary Insurgency
AA Timeline (10 pages)
BB 60,000,000 BCE to 2015 CE
AA Bibliography (1 page)
AA Glossary (2 pages)
AA Index (2 pages)
- robkelk - 10-22-2013
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Just what it says on the tin -- for comments, suggestions, and "hey, you told me you'd use X but it's not there".I count 147 pages. Add 1 for the e23 ad, and that's 9.25 signatures.
Page counts aren't final -- hell, I haven't even totalled them up yet to see if I'm near a multiple of 16 (although as I expect this to be a PDF, getting the page count to an integer number of signatures is unlikely to be particularly critical).
If it's important to hit an integer, I'd add a few items rather than taking any away. One could possibly fill 4 of those 12 pages with an overview of IST Kingston (assuming Modern Myth Publishing is willing to allow that)...
Bob Schroeck Wrote:C-BOX JAXA and the Solomon Space Agency--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 10-22-2013
Quote:robkelk wrote:Like I said, given that this is almost certainly going to be a PDF, I probably don't have to hit an integer signature count. But I'll be checking before I submit.
I count 147 pages. Add 1 for the e23 ad, and that's 9.25 signatures.
If it's important to hit an integer, I'd add a few items rather than taking any away. One could possibly fill 4 of those 12 pages with an overview of IST Kingston (assuming Modern Myth Publishing is willing to allow that)...
Quote:You like that, do you? Look three or four lines above and below that. There are three more jokes there, one of them incredibly obscure.Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:
C-BOX JAXA and the Solomon Space Agency
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Mark Skarr - 10-22-2013
Very cool.
- robkelk - 10-23-2013
Quote:Well, "General Nippon Orbital Manufacturing" was in the original IST.Quote:You like that, do you? Look three or four lines above and below that. There are three more jokes there, one of them incredibly obscure.Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:C-BOX JAXA and the Solomon Space Agency
"Moonbase Drax"... Do you need a Shuttle to reach it?
As for "Ulysee Merou", I don't expect anything to be blown up.
Did I miss any?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 10-23-2013
Nope. Most folks wouldn't catch the third, though.
-- Bob
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- robkelk - 11-01-2013
Bob, if you were going to submit this any time soon, you might want to hold off for a few days. Austin got hit by flash floods yesterday - SJGames and Steve himself are okay, but Steve's house was totalled. He has other things to think about right now.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 11-01-2013
I know, I've been following the news from SJG. Even if the outline were done, I would have to write the text sample yet. And I'm nowhere near that.
-- Bob
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- Foxboy - 11-06-2013
Let us know if you'd like any new supers to include. I'm sure I can come up with _something_, gratis.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Bob Schroeck - 11-06-2013
Will do, thanks. There are a whole bunch already in 4th Ed writeup here that I'll be mining, though.
-- Bob
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- robkelk - 11-27-2013
Bob, before you go much farther, you should read posts #13-17 in this thread. Your page count might be far too high, and the submission process has changed...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 11-27-2013
Thanks for the heads-up.
-- Bob
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- Bob Schroeck - 12-03-2013
I've got a first draft of the inquiry letter written; I'll let it sit overnight, review/revise it tomorrow, then probably send it off. I'll let you all know when to wish me luck.
Since the 25th anniversary of IST is in 2016, I might still have enough lead time to manage that part. But even if I don't, IST 2E is still a good thing to try for.
-- Bob
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- Foxboy - 12-04-2013
Viel glück, mein Freund!
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Bob Schroeck - 12-04-2013
Thanks! I'll be sending the letter off in a couple minutes, in fact.
-- Bob
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- Mark Skarr - 12-05-2013
Very cool and very good news.
Sorry I haven't been around much--life gets in the way sometimes.
- Bob Schroeck - 12-06-2013
Trust me, I know how that goes. Life in the way is one reason this wasn't done months ago.
-- Bob
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- Mark Skarr - 12-06-2013
The majority of issues has passed . . .. I'm going to make an effort to be around more.
Got anything you need from me?
Any books I need to send you?
- Bob Schroeck - 12-06-2013
Nope, I'm cool for the moment. Right now it's a waiting game.
-- Bob
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- Foxboy - 12-09-2013
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Mamorien - 06-30-2014
Bob Schroeck Wrote:AA, Sample Characters (24 pages)
4th Edition versions of selected characters important to IST
history and current events, along with new players on the
international stage.
BB Members and Allies (12 pages)
BB Foes (12 pages)
How many characters are you planning to cover, and in how much depth? Bear in mind that the Fourth Edition Basic Set gave each of its iconic characters a two-page spread, two-and-a-half in the case of C31R07. On the other hand, each of the characters in GURPS Fantasy's "Roma Arcana" setting gets a column or two of a three-column page. If those be the upper and lower limits, which end of the spectrum would we tend towards for whom?
- Bob Schroeck - 06-30-2014
I was planning 1 page per character, so 24 characters in low-to-moderate depth.
-- Bob
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- Mamorien - 07-01-2014
I hope it works out.
Also, any thoughts on the identity of Witchwind's successor as supreme commander? Because I've had an idea that's so wrong it might be perfect: Brigid "Pouka" Dunsmuir. O
- Bob Schroeck - 07-01-2014
Ha! I wonder what she got up to in the last 25 years to make her the right candidate, in that case.
-- Bob
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- Mamorien - 07-01-2014
Possibly just still being around, and being relatively young. (By the latter criterion, it was either her or La Triomphe -- Farah was actually my first pick, until I read over her stats and noticed her Combat Paralysis.) But still, it's been 25 years; she's had time to mellow, and to buy up her self-control numbers.