Astro Cross: Flashback 1942 (was naming alien ships)

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Sounds nifty, though not really compatible with the Astro Cross universe per se - the system should work fine with it, though. I do have some vague ideas for a second encounter with the Zzard ca. mid to late 50s, Astro Cross: Misspent Cold War Youth, and a title for a 60s expansion, Astro Cross: Black and Blue, but nothing like as detailed as FB42. Of course, the course of history will be very different than OTL with North America still under control of the landing force that put down there and west coast/central Africa home to the major human space infrastructure, but if anything I think those factors would only make the Cold War when both sides are trying to recover/build up their capacity again and the issue of racial equality even more intense. I'd be changing most of the references to Astro Cross in the rules excerpts to 4C-squared, unless they are specific to the setting proper; the same accommodation can be made for Star Pioneer specific information (or whatever you want to call it) if needed.

ETA: For the benefit of discussion, the Probability Control power (or possibly Talent since it's a binary effect rather than something with Mps) would give you a third die to roll, which can give doubles or triples with either of the others, making the average roll 5.5 higher, doubling the chance of a DARA, and giving the possibility of triples that also add and roll again, but also doubling the chance of two ones (a crit fail) and opening the possibility of triple ones, an Epic Fail. Definitely a double edged sword, so I keep waffling between using it or just sticking with Cinematic Points...
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