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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    In 'Light of the Forge', I'd written that one into the plot from the beginning. In this story, I had nothing particular in mind for why the Celestial Forge is, it just is.
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I'm not a young woman, but I'd like to think the average young woman, however heterosexual, would still notice fairly quickly if their new acquaintance looked like a supermodel... which is about how attractive Mira is. Note that her background check on Mira came up with 'Her mother was a former...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Ugh, minor continuity note - StarLeaper Two was a ship name already in-use in the setting (it was the first exploration vessel to reach Peraspera, as it happens). So I need to go back and name the damned thing something else.
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Note that Sophia just got Transhuman Protocols... and used it to review her recent work. Regardless of what the canon version is or is not, her version will not have unforeseen side effects.
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    GURPS Traveller and OG Traveller mostly, yes.
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I didn't even know that edition of Traveller existed, but I doubt I'll be paying much attention to it.
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)
    Extras: Starmap

    This is the starmap from the GURPS Interstellar Wars sourcebook. Galactic directions are traditionally given in terms of coreward (towards the galactic core), rimward (away from the galactic core), spinward (with the direction of the Milky Way's rotation), and trailward (against the direction...
  8. cliffc999

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    That's in the Astrography section of Notes About The Vilani Imperium. With jump-3 they can not only bypass the Procyon bottleneck, but the stars on the opposite site of Confederation space from the Imperium to trailward become accessible.
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Plus, as I made the Genius Patrol a setting element, I need to establish that they actually find geniuses on occasion. *g*
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 9

    Transhuman Protocols (Generic Cyberpunk) cost me 600cp, but it was worth every point. As the perk description said, "You can take any technology or procedure that you understand and easily figure out the flaws, pitfalls, drawbacks, and unintended or negative consequences, and as long as you put...
  11. cliffc999

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Ugh, yeah, continuity glitch. Fixed.
  12. cliffc999

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    As a reminder, the most advanced jumpdrive currently in the setting is the Vilani jumpdrive... which maxes out at jump-2. Canonically, jump-3 would not be invented by Terra until circa 2240, during the Eighth Interstellar War. (The story is currently in 2169, in the period of time between the...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    She managed to redirect the strategy of an entire planetary terraforming project as the junior intern. At this point they can entirely be forgiven for thinking that she has significant leadership potential. They also think that she has a problem with being unable to communicate effectively...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    All I'm going to say at this juncture is that it's pretty obvious they really hand-picked the agent for this assignment as being not only one of the very best they had available anywhere but who was also highly compatible and with an exceptional IQ and eclectic knowledge base of her own. Which...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    She didn't build an HPG, she built a modified version of the Black Box.
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