<![CDATA[Drunkard's Walk Forums - IST 25 Development]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/ Wed, 13 May 2026 08:28:44 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Just Popping In]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6068 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 04:57:00 -0500 Davies]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6068 C. Richard Davies.]]> C. Richard Davies.]]> <![CDATA[Supporting Cast books?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6067 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:46:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6067 Are we going to do characters? Should the books be organized by era, theme, or both? (To the list of PDFs I would buy the hell out of, add a Weird War II supporting cast series on wartime supers.) The Deadly Dozen, the Harvey Banks "Appreciation" Society, the Supertemps All-Stars... the possibilities, as P.R. Honeycomb said, are fructifying.]]> Are we going to do characters? Should the books be organized by era, theme, or both? (To the list of PDFs I would buy the hell out of, add a Weird War II supporting cast series on wartime supers.) The Deadly Dozen, the Harvey Banks "Appreciation" Society, the Supertemps All-Stars... the possibilities, as P.R. Honeycomb said, are fructifying.]]> <![CDATA[Update]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6066 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:53:00 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6066 IST rather than a stand-alone supplement.
More on this as I review and think on the rather large email I got.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.]]> IST rather than a stand-alone supplement.
More on this as I review and think on the rather large email I got.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.]]> <![CDATA[Well...]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6065 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:13:00 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6065 Huh.
I just sent back an email saying that the writer's guidelines say "inquire, and don't bug us to respond", so I inquired and have been waiting patiently and politely. And have heard nothing until Steve's email. 
Hopefully this means I just fell between the cracks and they haven't been ignoring me deliberately...  we might even see some action fast, given that the last time Steve and I talked about this he was hot to have a new IST edition.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.]]> Huh.
I just sent back an email saying that the writer's guidelines say "inquire, and don't bug us to respond", so I inquired and have been waiting patiently and politely. And have heard nothing until Steve's email. 
Hopefully this means I just fell between the cracks and they haven't been ignoring me deliberately...  we might even see some action fast, given that the last time Steve and I talked about this he was hot to have a new IST edition.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.]]> <![CDATA[Submitted for approval: Worldbox]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6064 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:02:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6064
Krypton-1, 2015
     Current Affairs: The UN's International Super Teams battle any threat to world peace.
    Divergence Point: 1924; an unknown event re-activates the dormant genetic basis of superhuman powers.
    Major Civilizations: Western (multipolar), Japanese (unitary), Orthodox (multipolar), Chinese (diffuse, partly subjugated).
    Great Powers: United Nations (global technocracy, CR2), United States (representative democracy, CR3), Union of European States (federation of representative democracies, CR3), Japan (representative democracy, CR4), Russian Republic (oligarchy, CR4).
    TL: 9^ moving into 10^
    Mana Level: low
    Quantum: 6
    Infinity Class: Z1
    Centrum Zone: Red]]>
Krypton-1, 2015
     Current Affairs: The UN's International Super Teams battle any threat to world peace.
    Divergence Point: 1924; an unknown event re-activates the dormant genetic basis of superhuman powers.
    Major Civilizations: Western (multipolar), Japanese (unitary), Orthodox (multipolar), Chinese (diffuse, partly subjugated).
    Great Powers: United Nations (global technocracy, CR2), United States (representative democracy, CR3), Union of European States (federation of representative democracies, CR3), Japan (representative democracy, CR4), Russian Republic (oligarchy, CR4).
    TL: 9^ moving into 10^
    Mana Level: low
    Quantum: 6
    Infinity Class: Z1
    Centrum Zone: Red]]> <![CDATA[pull-quotes]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6063 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:57:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6063
"Ich sah den neuen Menschen, furchtlos und grausam. Ich erschrak vor ihm!" (I saw the New Man, intrepid and cruel. I was terrified of him!)
-- attributed to Adolf Hitler, Gespräche mit Hitler by Hermann Rauschning (first published in English as Hitler Speaks, 1939)

"Superman or Green Lantern ain't got
Nothin' on me"
-- Donovan, "Sunshine Superman" (1966)

"I saw the decade end
When it seemed the world could change in the blink of an eye"
-- Jesus Jones, "Right Here Right Now" (1990)]]>
"Ich sah den neuen Menschen, furchtlos und grausam. Ich erschrak vor ihm!" (I saw the New Man, intrepid and cruel. I was terrified of him!)
-- attributed to Adolf Hitler, Gespräche mit Hitler by Hermann Rauschning (first published in English as Hitler Speaks, 1939)

"Superman or Green Lantern ain't got
Nothin' on me"
-- Donovan, "Sunshine Superman" (1966)

"I saw the decade end
When it seemed the world could change in the blink of an eye"
-- Jesus Jones, "Right Here Right Now" (1990)]]> <![CDATA[xenolinguistics]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6062 Sat, 05 Jul 2014 01:10:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6062
Also, this has been bugging me on and off for over 20 years: which emotion does the ^ diacritical in the name "Nea!son^ma" represent? I assume the shoutpole is the same "familiar comfort" diacritical as in "Kyz!ynoa*", but there are so many candidates for the caret that I can't ever seem to narrow it down.]]>
Also, this has been bugging me on and off for over 20 years: which emotion does the ^ diacritical in the name "Nea!son^ma" represent? I assume the shoutpole is the same "familiar comfort" diacritical as in "Kyz!ynoa*", but there are so many candidates for the caret that I can't ever seem to narrow it down.]]> <![CDATA[vignettes]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6061 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:47:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6061 Mamorien from the Whole Earth Grimoire" thread Wrote:(Speaking of Necron, I've thought for a while that the vignette for the "Magic" chapter should involve him muttering to the effect that he could've started the Mage Age a decade early if those fools at the University had only listened to him...)I've got vague ideas for the other chapter vignettes as well; this is where I throw them open for bouquets, brickbats, better ideas, and other brainstorming -- even for Bob to share his ideas on the matter, since it is after all his sandbox that he's being nice enough to let us frolic in.

The World Today...: I'm picturing a Supertemps reunion. Reverend Chrome touching base with other formerly-teen supers -- Julie Yamashita, Betty Smith, Andrea Northcliff -- I'm thinking The Big Chill meets The Incredibles.
...And Yesterday: Until I sat down to write this post, and even during much of the process, I had serious option paralysis. Even when I decided that I wanted to cover one or all of the 40s, the 60s and the 90s, I had nothing -- until I thought of characters who bridge all those timeframes. Now? John Bull's thoughts, or maybe a speech, at Monique Cluny's funeral. It's so obvious, I'm not surprised it took me so long to think of it.
Playing An IST: Witchwind looking over the latest Academy graduating class and feeling a pang of sympathy for what Dimitra had to deal with.
Characters: The same scene from the viewpoint of one of those graduates, or possibly how said graduate feels in the aftermath.
Extraterrestrials: The idea that leaps out at me most strongly is a glimpse of some recreational politicking on Myrr, specifically with regard to the Confederation insisting on Meeranar cooperation in getting Jhemma vra Xönen extradited from Earth. The Meeranon are willing to cooperate with their new partners, but they're also willing to provide Touchstone with legal aid.
Technology: Earth's gadgeteers are starting to reliably duplicate offworld tech.
Magic: See above.
IST and Infinite Worlds: Something about the WWIII realpolitik option, either from Homeline's side or Krypton-1's. Alternatively, if we end up making room for Kirby-2, somebody at an appropriate Infinity division (Nexus Oversight, Records & Research, Sheldrake Section) studying its relationship to Krypton-1.

Does anyone have any questions? Any answers? Anyone want a snack?
 ]]> Mamorien from the Whole Earth Grimoire" thread Wrote:(Speaking of Necron, I've thought for a while that the vignette for the "Magic" chapter should involve him muttering to the effect that he could've started the Mage Age a decade early if those fools at the University had only listened to him...)I've got vague ideas for the other chapter vignettes as well; this is where I throw them open for bouquets, brickbats, better ideas, and other brainstorming -- even for Bob to share his ideas on the matter, since it is after all his sandbox that he's being nice enough to let us frolic in.

The World Today...: I'm picturing a Supertemps reunion. Reverend Chrome touching base with other formerly-teen supers -- Julie Yamashita, Betty Smith, Andrea Northcliff -- I'm thinking The Big Chill meets The Incredibles.
...And Yesterday: Until I sat down to write this post, and even during much of the process, I had serious option paralysis. Even when I decided that I wanted to cover one or all of the 40s, the 60s and the 90s, I had nothing -- until I thought of characters who bridge all those timeframes. Now? John Bull's thoughts, or maybe a speech, at Monique Cluny's funeral. It's so obvious, I'm not surprised it took me so long to think of it.
Playing An IST: Witchwind looking over the latest Academy graduating class and feeling a pang of sympathy for what Dimitra had to deal with.
Characters: The same scene from the viewpoint of one of those graduates, or possibly how said graduate feels in the aftermath.
Extraterrestrials: The idea that leaps out at me most strongly is a glimpse of some recreational politicking on Myrr, specifically with regard to the Confederation insisting on Meeranar cooperation in getting Jhemma vra Xönen extradited from Earth. The Meeranon are willing to cooperate with their new partners, but they're also willing to provide Touchstone with legal aid.
Technology: Earth's gadgeteers are starting to reliably duplicate offworld tech.
Magic: See above.
IST and Infinite Worlds: Something about the WWIII realpolitik option, either from Homeline's side or Krypton-1's. Alternatively, if we end up making room for Kirby-2, somebody at an appropriate Infinity division (Nexus Oversight, Records & Research, Sheldrake Section) studying its relationship to Krypton-1.

Does anyone have any questions? Any answers? Anyone want a snack?
 ]]> <![CDATA[placement in space: where are the off-world homeworlds?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6060 Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:22:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6060 Supertemps says that "Rynkar is located on the opposite side of the Milky Way from Earth", so we probably don't need to figure out its location more specifically than that. My brain, however, has found itself doing the math on the location of the Confederation home cluster, and in the process, I started trying to figure out where Myrr's primary is.

I actually narrowed the latter down first. P.IST36 says it's "ten light-years from ours, toward the edge of the galaxy." In OTL, there are only five stars at that distance (at least according to Wikipedia), and only one that's on the side of our sky away from the center of the galaxy: e Eridani.

Identifying the Confederation cluster is a little harder; Bob says only that it's "over a thousand light-years away, towards the center of the galaxy" (p.IST35). Getting more specific than that would require knowing how much over a thousand light-years, and whether it's a globular cluster or just an open cluster. (I picked up the terms from the 4e version of GURPS Space, then went to Wikipedia to find out what the known ones are. Then again, I'm assuming it is one of the known ones, if only because I have trouble believing that many stars could hide from our sight.) If it's a globular cluster, the nearest one of those in the right general direction is M4, a "mere" 7200ly away. If it's an open cluster, there are several in the right direction at the right minimum range. (I'm tickled by M23 myself, but that's probably over-egging the beer...)]]> Supertemps says that "Rynkar is located on the opposite side of the Milky Way from Earth", so we probably don't need to figure out its location more specifically than that. My brain, however, has found itself doing the math on the location of the Confederation home cluster, and in the process, I started trying to figure out where Myrr's primary is.

I actually narrowed the latter down first. P.IST36 says it's "ten light-years from ours, toward the edge of the galaxy." In OTL, there are only five stars at that distance (at least according to Wikipedia), and only one that's on the side of our sky away from the center of the galaxy: e Eridani.

Identifying the Confederation cluster is a little harder; Bob says only that it's "over a thousand light-years away, towards the center of the galaxy" (p.IST35). Getting more specific than that would require knowing how much over a thousand light-years, and whether it's a globular cluster or just an open cluster. (I picked up the terms from the 4e version of GURPS Space, then went to Wikipedia to find out what the known ones are. Then again, I'm assuming it is one of the known ones, if only because I have trouble believing that many stars could hide from our sight.) If it's a globular cluster, the nearest one of those in the right general direction is M4, a "mere" 7200ly away. If it's an open cluster, there are several in the right direction at the right minimum range. (I'm tickled by M23 myself, but that's probably over-egging the beer...)]]> <![CDATA[prolegomenon to the updating of IST placements]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6059 Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:26:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6059 Bob Schroeck in the outline Wrote:             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.

 That they have. Taking Wikipedia's 2015 population estimate as a guideline, here are the countries that would have more ISTs than just the one in their capitol:
  • Occupied China: has enough population to support 30 extra teams. Does this mean it's divided into a total of 31 units?
  • India: Delhi + 28 teams (including the ones that were active as of IST1, at what are now known as Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai).
  • USA: DC + 7 teams (one of them new; did Seattle get its own IST?).
  • Indonesia: Jakarta + 6 teams (the three that were already in place as of IST1, the one that opened in '91, and two more).
  • Brazil: Brasilia + 5 teams (one of them new).
  • Pakistan: Islamabad + 4 teams (Karachi, Quetta, and two new ones).
  • Bangladesh: Dhaka + 4 teams (Chittagong, Khulna, and two new ones).
  • Russia: Moscow + 3 teams (chosen from the USSR teams, spaced to provide nationwide coverage; Murmansk has to be one of them for the sake of its role in protecting the northern latitudes)
  • Japan: Tokyo + 2 or 3 teams (Osaka, Sapporo, and possibly a new one, unless the Hiroshima and Nagasaki teams count toward the national allotment).
  • Mexico: Mexico City + 2 or 3 teams (Monterey, Mazatlán and possibly a new one.
  • Philippines: Manila + 2 teams (Davao and one new one).
  • Ethiopia: Addis Ababa + 2 new teams.
  • Vietnam: Hanoi + 2 teams (Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh and one new one).
  • Egypt: Cairo + 2 teams (Aswan and one more).
  • Turkey: Ankara + 2 teams (Malatya and one more).
  • Iran: Tehran (or wherever they set up the provisional capitol) + 2 teams.
  • Germany: Bonn + 2 teams (Berlin and one more).
  • Congo: Kinshasa + 1 or 2 teams.
  • Thailand: Bangkok + 1 or 2 teams (established: Ranong and one more).
  • France: Paris + 1 or 2 teams (established: Marseilles)
  • United Kingdom: London + 1 or 2 teams (established: Edinburgh)
  • Italy: Rome + 1 or 2 teams (Milan)
  • Burma: Yangon + one more.
  • Sudan: Khartoum + one more.
  • Spain: Madrid + one more.
  • Colombia: Bogota + one more.
  • Tanzania: Dar es Salaam + one more.
  • Kenya: Nairobi + one more.
  • Ukraine: Kiev + Odessa
  • Argentina: Buenos Aires + one more.
Nigeria would qualify for a total of five teams, but only if they've rejoined the UN. If a reunited Korea has joined the UN, they'd qualify for two ISTs, presumably in Seoul and Pyongyang. South Africa would be entitled to a total of two if they got their act together, but that's the one regard in which Krypton-1 continues to do worse than OTL.

The floor is open to thoughts on placement.]]> Bob Schroeck in the outline Wrote:             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.

 That they have. Taking Wikipedia's 2015 population estimate as a guideline, here are the countries that would have more ISTs than just the one in their capitol:
  • Occupied China: has enough population to support 30 extra teams. Does this mean it's divided into a total of 31 units?
  • India: Delhi + 28 teams (including the ones that were active as of IST1, at what are now known as Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai).
  • USA: DC + 7 teams (one of them new; did Seattle get its own IST?).
  • Indonesia: Jakarta + 6 teams (the three that were already in place as of IST1, the one that opened in '91, and two more).
  • Brazil: Brasilia + 5 teams (one of them new).
  • Pakistan: Islamabad + 4 teams (Karachi, Quetta, and two new ones).
  • Bangladesh: Dhaka + 4 teams (Chittagong, Khulna, and two new ones).
  • Russia: Moscow + 3 teams (chosen from the USSR teams, spaced to provide nationwide coverage; Murmansk has to be one of them for the sake of its role in protecting the northern latitudes)
  • Japan: Tokyo + 2 or 3 teams (Osaka, Sapporo, and possibly a new one, unless the Hiroshima and Nagasaki teams count toward the national allotment).
  • Mexico: Mexico City + 2 or 3 teams (Monterey, Mazatlán and possibly a new one.
  • Philippines: Manila + 2 teams (Davao and one new one).
  • Ethiopia: Addis Ababa + 2 new teams.
  • Vietnam: Hanoi + 2 teams (Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh and one new one).
  • Egypt: Cairo + 2 teams (Aswan and one more).
  • Turkey: Ankara + 2 teams (Malatya and one more).
  • Iran: Tehran (or wherever they set up the provisional capitol) + 2 teams.
  • Germany: Bonn + 2 teams (Berlin and one more).
  • Congo: Kinshasa + 1 or 2 teams.
  • Thailand: Bangkok + 1 or 2 teams (established: Ranong and one more).
  • France: Paris + 1 or 2 teams (established: Marseilles)
  • United Kingdom: London + 1 or 2 teams (established: Edinburgh)
  • Italy: Rome + 1 or 2 teams (Milan)
  • Burma: Yangon + one more.
  • Sudan: Khartoum + one more.
  • Spain: Madrid + one more.
  • Colombia: Bogota + one more.
  • Tanzania: Dar es Salaam + one more.
  • Kenya: Nairobi + one more.
  • Ukraine: Kiev + Odessa
  • Argentina: Buenos Aires + one more.
Nigeria would qualify for a total of five teams, but only if they've rejoined the UN. If a reunited Korea has joined the UN, they'd qualify for two ISTs, presumably in Seoul and Pyongyang. South Africa would be entitled to a total of two if they got their act together, but that's the one regard in which Krypton-1 continues to do worse than OTL.

The floor is open to thoughts on placement.]]> <![CDATA[Dark Justice?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6058 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:21:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6058 GURPS Robin Hood? Or would having to assign Edwin an official home city be a deal-breaker?]]> GURPS Robin Hood? Or would having to assign Edwin an official home city be a deal-breaker?]]> <![CDATA[Casualties of peace: filling the IST memorial plaza]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6057 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:39:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6057
  • [nom ici], known as Bête Noire (Black Beast), Haiti. [birth date, year] to [death date], 1999. Died repelling Guatemalan invasion of El Salvador.
  • Jean-Louis Hilbert, known as le Fantôme d'Orléans (the Ghost of Orleans), France. [birthday], 1957 to [death day], 1999. Killed in the bombing of the IST New York embassy.
  • [name here], known as Polymatrix, [USA]. [birth date, year] to [death date], 1999. Killed in the bombing of the IST New York embassy.
    • Not to mention any other IST deaths of the 1990s, or the casualties of World War III (and any subsequent troubles). One good use for the group mind is coming up with those names.

    (Speaking of, there's a significant error in IST1 that's so far slipped through the errata. Jaguar's name is given on p.25 as Nyota Mbolo, on p.72 as Penda Mbolo. I think we'll want to reach a final decision.)]]>
  • [nom ici], known as Bête Noire (Black Beast), Haiti. [birth date, year] to [death date], 1999. Died repelling Guatemalan invasion of El Salvador.
  • Jean-Louis Hilbert, known as le Fantôme d'Orléans (the Ghost of Orleans), France. [birthday], 1957 to [death day], 1999. Killed in the bombing of the IST New York embassy.
  • [name here], known as Polymatrix, [USA]. [birth date, year] to [death date], 1999. Killed in the bombing of the IST New York embassy.
    • Not to mention any other IST deaths of the 1990s, or the casualties of World War III (and any subsequent troubles). One good use for the group mind is coming up with those names.

    (Speaking of, there's a significant error in IST1 that's so far slipped through the errata. Jaguar's name is given on p.25 as Nyota Mbolo, on p.72 as Penda Mbolo. I think we'll want to reach a final decision.)]]>         <![CDATA[Hey Kids! Comics!]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6056 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 05:17:00 -0500 Mamorien]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6056
    I don't find anything in the outline about pop culture -- no comics, no movies, no music, no TV; the only mention of the word "media" is in the context of their occasionally bestowing super names. Which is kind of sad, because the history of pop culture in the IST world was one of the bits of sub-creation that really made it feel lived-in.

    (Of course, I'm using the term "sub-creation" not in the Old Philologist's full meaning, that any "creative" act undertaken within the Primary World was merely a reuse of the materials wrought in the only truly Creative Act, but in the more common sense of corroborative detail intended to give verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing Secondary World.)

    Some of this stuff, obviously, is going to be on the timeline; dare I hope other bits would be covered in the history-chapter sections for the time-frames they come out of? (The rise of the Big Five comics companies in the WWII section; M*A*S*H and "Psi in the House" in the late-70s section...)

    Whether or not that's how it ends up working, this would be a good place to brainstorm. I've just signed onto the Release of Rights thread, so any new ideas I come up with are available for the Silverbook. (My brain just spat out that name for it; I have no regrets that I can detect.)]]>
    I don't find anything in the outline about pop culture -- no comics, no movies, no music, no TV; the only mention of the word "media" is in the context of their occasionally bestowing super names. Which is kind of sad, because the history of pop culture in the IST world was one of the bits of sub-creation that really made it feel lived-in.

    (Of course, I'm using the term "sub-creation" not in the Old Philologist's full meaning, that any "creative" act undertaken within the Primary World was merely a reuse of the materials wrought in the only truly Creative Act, but in the more common sense of corroborative detail intended to give verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing Secondary World.)

    Some of this stuff, obviously, is going to be on the timeline; dare I hope other bits would be covered in the history-chapter sections for the time-frames they come out of? (The rise of the Big Five comics companies in the WWII section; M*A*S*H and "Psi in the House" in the late-70s section...)

    Whether or not that's how it ends up working, this would be a good place to brainstorm. I've just signed onto the Release of Rights thread, so any new ideas I come up with are available for the Silverbook. (My brain just spat out that name for it; I have no regrets that I can detect.)]]>         <![CDATA[IST25 Outline, as of 10/22/2013]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6055 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:52:00 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6055
    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

    ((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)]]>
    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

    ((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)]]>         <![CDATA[Progress, in very vague terms]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6054 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:53:00 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6054 on 2015 itself ("The World Today") -- both of which are dependent upon me finally deciding upon most of the broad strokes of the late timeline -- along with some game-mechanical stuff for the Characters page.  I also have to confirm a few bits of data from other books which I've left marked with XXXXXs, and come up with a few new small/fringe organizations for the modern era.
    And then I have to write a 5000-word passage from somewhere in the middle of it all.
    So far, so good.
    -- Bob
    ---------
    Then the horns kicked in...
    ...and my shoes began to squeak.]]>     on 2015 itself ("The World Today") -- both of which are dependent upon me finally deciding upon most of the broad strokes of the late timeline -- along with some game-mechanical stuff for the Characters page.  I also have to confirm a few bits of data from other books which I've left marked with XXXXXs, and come up with a few new small/fringe organizations for the modern era.
    And then I have to write a 5000-word passage from somewhere in the middle of it all.
    So far, so good.
    -- Bob
    ---------
    Then the horns kicked in...
    ...and my shoes began to squeak.]]>