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For a Fistful of Cred-Chips
I love science fiction, and grew up reading some of the classics of the genre.I study history - not for a living, but it's what I have my degree in. Between these two facts, it probably comes as little...
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The World of the Future
It is the year 2139 and Humanity has expanded beyond the cradle of Earth to explore the rest of the Solar System, intrepid young pilots flying rockets powered by clean, efficient atomic energy to see...
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Tour of the Solar System: Mercury
The planet Mercury is closest to the Sun, a small rocky planet that revolves quickly around its orbit. Tidally-locked, one side of Mercury forever faces the Sun, while the other side is trapped in...
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Tour of the Solar System: Venus
The planet Venus, second from the Sun, is a hot, swampy morass, the atmosphere a thick, roiling mass of water vapor. This forms dense clouds that cover the entirety of the planet's surface, and it...
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Tour of the Solar System: Mars
Long known to humanity for its red coloration and association with the God of War, it came as a surprise to many that Mars was a desolate, rusted desert, windswept and icy. A cold and dispassionate...
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Tour of the Solar System: Jupiter
One of the biggest surprises humanity found in the Solar System was that the gas giants of the Outer Rim - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - had solid land beneath their thick, swirling...
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Tour of the Solar System: Io
Io is the innermost of the four "Galilean" satellites of Jupiter, discovered by Galileo in 1610. A volatile sphere, Io is wracked by Jupiter's magnetic field and its own inner fire, turning this moon...
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If You Prick Us, Do We Not...Leak?
In the year 2139, robots handle most hazardous jobs and many minor tasks as well. For example, the Tantalum and Palladium mines of Mercury are "manned" almost entirely by heat-resistant robots,...
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A Ruleset Selected, and Rolling Up a Spaceman
After a lot of deliberation, I've decided on what ruleset I want to run "Showdown at Ganymede Station" (which really needs a better name; I'm open to suggestions) with. My old stand-by, Chaosium's...
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Tour of the Solar System: Europa
Europa, second of the Galilean Moons of Jupiter, is a tiny worldlet, smaller than Earth's moon, and composed of a thick, icy crust. It's a world of perpetual winter, one to which its inhabitants are...
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Tour of the Solar System: Ganymede
Largest moon in the Solar System and the third moon of Jupiter in terms of distance from the planet's surface, Ganymede is a moon of extremes - equatorial jungles teem with savage animals and barbarous...
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Tour of the Solar System: Callisto
Callisto, furthest-out of the Galilean Moons, is a shimmering, iridescent jewel in the sky orbiting Jupiter. Of the worlds Mankind has explored, Callisto has been the least colonized. There is a...
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Tour of the Solar System: Saturn
Glorious, be-ringed Saturn, the most visually-striking planet in the Solar System, is an enormous gas giant, as are its neighbors of Jupiter and Uranus. Like Jupiter, the first human explorers were...
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