Fenspace

GURPS Fenspace - everyone with space docks, it's time to stat them

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:09:28 GMT

Yes, GURPS Spaceships 6: Mining and Industrial Spacecraft is out. Yes, it includes rules for asteroid-mining ships, so the Rockhounds folks have a reason to buy this one, too. Yes, it includes rules for spaceports, so I suppose I'm going to have to buy a copy so I can properly stat out Stellvia.

(As for the flying cars, they've been promised for the next supplement...

Outer Space and Moon treaties?

feeds@yuku.com (Jinx999) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:51:20 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty

What happens about them. Are they just superceded? Because they make practically every Fennish activity illegal, and were ratified by Australia.

Right Now Bunny Girls Rule

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:07:25 GMT

So I wrote up a Fenspace "Generic Bunnygirl" template for GURPS 4e, and posted it to the FenWiki.

Even though we only have one named bunny-person in Fenspace so far (Hotel Stellvia manager Kelly Harrison). I think she may be lonely...

The Ethics Of Creating Sentient Robots...

feeds@yuku.com (Shinkaze) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:14:32 GMT

...what are they? or rather, what are the commonly accepted guidelines for when it's appropriate to create them and how they should be treated?

For example, when my character Alex creates Roll, it's because he needed a ship's engineer, but he doesn't just assume she'll do it. He offers her the job but makes it clear that if she doesn't want it, she's free to go, and that he'll help her get set up somewhere else if she wants to. Is this, or...

Characters Mostly Final Draft

feeds@yuku.com (Shinkaze) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:03:54 GMT

Well, despite the fact that I'm still having trouble with Alex and the ship's A.I. ( and I still need to hear from M Fnord on whether I can use the Wayward Son or not), I think I've finally got enough done that I can post a rough final draft of my other characters, to see if there's anything I need to fix, so here they are.

Erik "Rick" Hunter

Age:27
Height:5'11"
Weight:172 lbs.
Hair:Light Brown
Eyes:Hazel
...

Open Character

feeds@yuku.com (Shinkaze) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:31:01 GMT

Last week I was idly thinking about what the teachers at Hogwarts would be like, when an old show came on t.v. and I was inspired to write up this character. This is a rough draft, but I'm sick so I'm not going to be doing a lot of stuff and I wanted to actually get something posted, so here it is.

Valerie Felicity Frizzle

Age: Unknown, appears to be in her mid to late 20s.
...

It's not just planets that have rings around them

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:40:51 GMT

Quirks & Quarks, CBC Radio: Interstellar Boundary Explorer probe discovers ring around the Solar System (podcast, link should be valid for four weeks)

Anyone else want to retcon Fenspace so this is the marker for The Limit?

Lunar Caves?

feeds@yuku.com (Jinx999) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:22:52 GMT

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002173

[Meta] Concept: Fenspace Alternates

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:29:49 GMT

Over the last few days, I've come up with what my illness-addled mind thinks is a wonderful idea for a story arc. But I'm in sufficient command of my faculties to realize my mind is illness-addled, so I've emailed the concept to Mal for sanity-checking. If Mal replies with anything along the lines of "just what kind of anti-cold medication are you on, Rob?", then I'll know it wasn't such a good idea after all and post it as an alternate-universe...

Feeling a little Lost In (Fen)Space

feeds@yuku.com (Shinkaze) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:52:27 GMT

I don't have a lot of time, but I wanted to do this before I leave, so here I go. I've finally redone all the stuff I lost last time and I should actually have time to devote to this for a while, but I'm feeling a little lost. I haven't been keeping up with this forum as much as I'd like and, while I've read most of the threads I missed, it seems like there's some information that's not here or on the wiki. For example, from the conversations I...

[story] Cosmic Party

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:22:24 GMT

OOC: Warning: Work In Progress.

Private Hangar
Old Ring, Stellvia
19:14 GMT 22 March 2014

"Welcome home, Mom and Dad!"

The happy couple gave Kohran a hug. "Don't call me 'mom', please," Leda complained. "I'm only seven years older than you are!"

"I don't care. I've never really had a mother before, unless you count A.C. I like having a...

[short, RFC] Shortcut To Japan

feeds@yuku.com (blackaeronaut) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:50 GMT

This is something that I've wanted to do for a while now, and the particular urge hits me whenever I hear that one song by Gwen Stefani...

Benjamin sighed as they entered LEO. They were inbound to pick up a new recruit for the newly-founded Roughriders - Yet another young lady to fill out their pilot...

[story][spamfic] Chrysanthemum Day

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:11:17 GMT

Narita International Airport
Tokyo, Japan
9 September 2009
17:55 JST (08:55 UTC)

"I'm terribly sorry, sir, but they don't have passports. I understood that there would be some special paperwork in this matter waiting for us when we arrived."

The customs agent sighed. "You decided to visit on Kiku no Sekku. Perhaps the paperwork will arrive tomorrow."

The ship's owner frowned. "That presents a problem. The...

One of us, or just thinks so?

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:05:07 GMT

MSNBC: Japan's next first lady says she rode spaceship

Trouble is, it's "psychic space travel"... but her husband's about to become Premier of Japan, so how would the (stereo)typical Fen treat her?

By Golly, I Think I Got It!

feeds@yuku.com (blackaeronaut) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:10:55 GMT

For a while now, I've been trying to come up with an appropriately fennish way of cracking a problem that has had Gina depressed: the ability for an AI to reproduce, should they so choose. I know, it's an odd-ball problem, but the Fen are odd-ball people.

It was recently that I found an old email, one about Ben and AC hashing out details over Talons and such (can't believe I forgot about that one!) and seeing Gina, AC, and Greenwood's interactions got the train of...

Peeetttttssssss Iiiiinnnnnnn SpAAAAAAAACE!!!!!

feeds@yuku.com (Star Ranger4) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:23:31 GMT

Whereever man has gone in the past, his domesticated animals have usually gone with. Especially those he consideres his companions.

What about space? On the pro side, the proportion of pet owning fen is about the same as the danes.

on the minus, your talking about needing to provide cubage, mass allowance and life supportage for your pet as well as yourself.

on the THIRD hand, we've seen someone with a Pikachu too.

So? lets discuss?

International Rescue

feeds@yuku.com (Star Ranger4) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:19:42 GMT

Ebony wrote:

Quote:
"Thunderbird 4 is go!"

Yes, well, I won't say I had that planned, but now that you've stuck the bug in my ear, there's a possibility that International Rescue, Ltd. could be a legal entity in which the Banzai Institute has invested some capital.

(Moved out of the stories to a...

Charecter Proposal....

feeds@yuku.com (Star Ranger4) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:35:13 GMT

The 'MAD' Scientist....

Not mad in the 'Insane' way, more like he's constantly angry.

Why? because Murphy Murphy is a walking conundrum. If things can go wrong for him, they will; until its time to save the day or otherwise dramatically neccecary! (Think champions here, three levels of Luck and 3 of Unluck!) Handwavium both loves him and hates him... or so he thinks. Why? because whatever he works on JUST DOESNT WORK until the very last second...

Speaking of retconning...

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:09:45 GMT

As occasionally happens over on the SJGames forums, somebody asked abut IST - this time, in relationship to Infinite Worlds. Of course I replied, mentioning Drunkard's Walk, Fenspace, and Legend of Galactic Girls (none of them by name).

But one of the things I wrote there got me thinking: "Worse, when an Infinity agent pretending to be a local interviewed one of...

Duh moment....

feeds@yuku.com (Star Ranger4) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:05:13 GMT

Isnt there a wiki for Fenspace? Where?