Search: 12/2008

Just an odd side thought... Sex isn't going to go away, but what about reproduction overall? Reproduction is essential for a species to survive as individual death is inevitable and as individuals themselves age younger individuals are needed to do the ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-12-02 02:25 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

I read somewhere that there will psionics in the game. What are the psionic rules like in the game? From what I've read/heard so From what I've read/heard so far, "psionics" is in essence a sophisticated enhancement. So I'm guessing psi is run ...

Forum topic - technoshaman - 2008-12-13 01:41 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Mind you, there's a lot of neat stuff in the Solar System to play with before we all go through the Pandora Gates... but just for curiosity sake what are the extrasolar colonies like? Do the gates that are reliable lead to lifeless worlds, or ones that c ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-12-14 16:05 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

If you guys don't mind, I had a few other questions regarding "Forking", one of the more interesting aspects of EP in my opinion. What exactly is going on when a character re-integrates with a fork? I get the impression that the fork is taking on a bori ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-12-01 23:01 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Another side query on Morphs. Are there any individuals that are born as morphs (perhaps the bodies are offshots of genetically-altered humans), or are there no "Altered Humans" in the game... but people that are born as "flats" and then take on a morph ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-12-03 22:22 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

If you guys have a moment, could you go a little more into these "Hypercorps"? Many a SF game has it's "Mega-Corps"... and though I get the impression that "Hypercorps" are profit-seeking enterprises that's where their connection with the typical company ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-12-06 15:37 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

This year's Edge question -- "What will change everything?" -- has been posted. The answers always make for fascinating reading, and of course with this question many of them involve the various transhumanist technologies we detail in Eclipse Phase ...

Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2008-12-31 21:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In addition to all of the genetically-enhanced human morphs (bodies) in Eclipse Phase, there are a number of robotic morphs into which characters can sleeve, such as the dragonflies shown here, in this illustration by Nathan Geppert . We picked ...

Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2008-12-27 22:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Using nano to control the weather ... and more The failures of voice print biometrics Placebo gene discovered New blast-protection adhesive Sex-chip stimulates pleasure center of brain These and other links ...

Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2008-12-23 22:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Sure, our sun won't go nova for a million years, but what are we going to do if someone or something ignites a fusion reaction inside a gas giant like Saturn or Jupiter, turning it into a giant bomb ? Image: Senor Codo (EotW) ...

Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2008-12-19 03:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments