Step Number 1. GO READ THIS.Bob linked to it in the first post, but you, apparently, didn’t read it. That’s where the majority of my post-1990 information comes from. And it's, pretty much, required reading.
Step Number 2. Go read GURPS Y2K. Specifically chapter 9. The chapter entitled IST-2000. That’s where the rest of it comes from. Ditto for the required reading.
Here’s a spoiler from it:
Once you’ve read all of that, a lot of your points will get their own answers.
I’m only going to bring up three points:
By your logic, every, mentioned NPC in the IST book is stealing something from the PCs. This is history, not the present. If someone wants to go back and play through this time, then, by all means, go right on ahead. But, we’re writing history—someone has to make these discoveries. In order to write the story we have to make decisions. We have to have people do certain things. We have to reveal secrets and decide upon outcomes.
Also, every character I mention was a PC in one of our IST games from over the years. I can't use other people's supers because I don't know them. Working with what I've got. Many of them would be helping, and some of them, like Jillian, have the abilities and would be in position to figure things out.
My sense of scale is fine. I just have a good grasp of what’s happening. You, however, do not. However, it's pretty obvious. Someone is pulling the strings. Someone is making this happen. It’s freaking supers, there’s always a mastermind.
But, put your money where your mouth is. Put out four years of information. Let’s see your first four years.
Step Number 2. Go read GURPS Y2K. Specifically chapter 9. The chapter entitled IST-2000. That’s where the rest of it comes from. Ditto for the required reading.
Here’s a spoiler from it:
GURPS Y2K, pg 106 Wrote:By June of 1999, any psi with a precognitive range of at least a year had run into what had been termed “the Wall”: Sometime during the year 2000—exactly when varied from psi to psi and from try to try—all ability to see the future simply stopped dead.
Once you’ve read all of that, a lot of your points will get their own answers.
I’m only going to bring up three points:
Shepherd Wrote:I'm pretty sure that a single strike of that magnitude is an extinction level event that causes a nuclear winter that kills pretty much everything. Why is America using attacks that are explicitly capable of killing EVERYONE as part of their war on drugs?Sure, if it’s hitting at a significant percentage of the speed of light. But, it isn’t. It’s hitting at about 20mps. A 250m asteroid hitting the Earth is not an extinction-level event. Even a brief internet search can provide you with dozens of calculators to determine this sort of thing. I chose this size specifically because it’s going to be catastrophic for several hundred kilometers, but won’t even make the planet flinch. It’s the equivalent of a big nuke hit.
Shepherd Wrote:Also, regarding DM Fiat, I notice that your NPC seems to have all the answers and that the entire plot for this war hinges upon on her work. That is very anti PC of you. If a grand plan is going to save the world, it should be as a result of PC discoveries and PC actions rather than NPC railroading. You're just hijacking the entire scenario with your pet character.Again, no.
By your logic, every, mentioned NPC in the IST book is stealing something from the PCs. This is history, not the present. If someone wants to go back and play through this time, then, by all means, go right on ahead. But, we’re writing history—someone has to make these discoveries. In order to write the story we have to make decisions. We have to have people do certain things. We have to reveal secrets and decide upon outcomes.
Also, every character I mention was a PC in one of our IST games from over the years. I can't use other people's supers because I don't know them. Working with what I've got. Many of them would be helping, and some of them, like Jillian, have the abilities and would be in position to figure things out.
Shepherd Wrote:Overall, you seem to have a poor grasp of scale and simply have various factions doing things without showing how other factions react to those actions.Even though this is a personal attack, I'll address it as well.
My sense of scale is fine. I just have a good grasp of what’s happening. You, however, do not. However, it's pretty obvious. Someone is pulling the strings. Someone is making this happen. It’s freaking supers, there’s always a mastermind.
But, put your money where your mouth is. Put out four years of information. Let’s see your first four years.