There are a number of rules that this world was built on, that are buried pretty far back int he archives by now. I've realized that a lot of people who might be interested in joining up won't have heard of these, so I've put a start on bringing them out where people can look at them... and you're breaking a few of them pretty badly. Specific examples and balace issues follow.
- Every handwaved device you have has to be explicitly handwaved. You need to have a hardtech device of some sort that you then slap handwavium on. Just painting the ship won't do it.
- Your ship doesn't get to *have* a "main weapon". Handwavium doesn't do purpose-built weapons.
- It also doesn't get "defenses". Defense tech is enough of a Cool Thing that you pretty much have to claim it specifically.
- The "Breaker Gate" is tech that breaks a whole *lot* of rules, and does so repeatably. vehicle-shutdown-on-use is not sufficient quirk. There may not *be* sufficient quirk.
- Having your AI be an immense disembodied intelligence that can calculate well enough to See The Future (or equivalent thereof) is a massive Cool Thing, and needs to be balanced.
- Having said AI live in your head is *also* a massive Cool Thing. The fact that it acts in a benevolently dictatorial manner to you is marginally quirky, but since it's acting in your best interests, only marginally so. Talking through your mouth (if it is handled in any way like the originating strip) would also be a Cool Thing, though not as big of one.
- The ability to survive without atmosphere is *also* a major Cool Thing. So far, we have one massive, one major and one small-but-significant Cool Thing on your biomod. What did it cost you?
- Pacifism is a character trait, not a quirk. Not in this universe. Not a balance-worthy quirk, anyway.
- You have no technology. You have only handwavium. People won't be offering you cash in the millions, because the people who *have* millions to spend mostly don't use handwavium, and you don't get to have the sort of tech that would be worth that much to the people who *would* be interested. Remember, We Are Not That Special Here. Everyone who lifts into space has just as much access to handwavium as the PCs.
- Hong Kong Action Theater *does* count as a quality quirk (especially if he requires that someone watch it *with* him) but is not adequate to compensate for all of the Cool Stuff you want.
- Every handwaved device you have has to be explicitly handwaved. You need to have a hardtech device of some sort that you then slap handwavium on. Just painting the ship won't do it.
- Your ship doesn't get to *have* a "main weapon". Handwavium doesn't do purpose-built weapons.
- It also doesn't get "defenses". Defense tech is enough of a Cool Thing that you pretty much have to claim it specifically.
- The "Breaker Gate" is tech that breaks a whole *lot* of rules, and does so repeatably. vehicle-shutdown-on-use is not sufficient quirk. There may not *be* sufficient quirk.
- Having your AI be an immense disembodied intelligence that can calculate well enough to See The Future (or equivalent thereof) is a massive Cool Thing, and needs to be balanced.
- Having said AI live in your head is *also* a massive Cool Thing. The fact that it acts in a benevolently dictatorial manner to you is marginally quirky, but since it's acting in your best interests, only marginally so. Talking through your mouth (if it is handled in any way like the originating strip) would also be a Cool Thing, though not as big of one.
- The ability to survive without atmosphere is *also* a major Cool Thing. So far, we have one massive, one major and one small-but-significant Cool Thing on your biomod. What did it cost you?
- Pacifism is a character trait, not a quirk. Not in this universe. Not a balance-worthy quirk, anyway.
- You have no technology. You have only handwavium. People won't be offering you cash in the millions, because the people who *have* millions to spend mostly don't use handwavium, and you don't get to have the sort of tech that would be worth that much to the people who *would* be interested. Remember, We Are Not That Special Here. Everyone who lifts into space has just as much access to handwavium as the PCs.
- Hong Kong Action Theater *does* count as a quality quirk (especially if he requires that someone watch it *with* him) but is not adequate to compensate for all of the Cool Stuff you want.