End of the web? Lasers for finding organic alien life Food in pill form Cloaking objects at a distance Ion shield for protecting spacecraft
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End of the Week, End of the World 10-31-08
The Earth is in the midst of it’s sixth mass extinction period: 50% of all species dying out. "The current extinction event is due to human activity, paving the planet, creating pollution, many of the things that we are doing today," Go humans. Rah team. obEP: Researchers send hired scavengers down to a dangerous ruined …
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Five for the Future 10-30-08
Plug-n-play synthetic RNA How amateur efforts may drive space colonization Microwave amnesia beams Optic flow navigational senses for bots The Open Cognition Project for beneficial AI
Tobias Wolter Bio
Real Name: Tobias WolterFirewall Codename: ConcreteEclipse Phase Background Equivalency: Scum Barge VagabondPrevious Experience: Several Shadowrun titles in both English and German About Me: A long time Shadowrun enthusiast, I started freelancing about six years ago, and haven’t gotten that bug out of my system yet. In real life, you could call me a wageslave/indentured hypercorp …
Why Percentile?
There’s a new thread about Eclipse Phase over at rpg.net. Some questions were raised about Eclipse Phase’s percentile system, and I thought it’d be good to repeat/summarize my responses over here. As we’ve noted elsewhere, Eclipse Phase uses a d100 roll-under mechanic, with some tweaks from traditional percentile systems. To some folks, this may seem …