One of the most difficult challenges of writing a detailed hard sci-fi setting is making sure you get the science right. Not being a scientist, this usually means turning to the internet for research, which is always a risky proposition. A lot of the information you find is incomplete, muddled, or outdated. Take wikipedia, for …
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First Interior Art Piece
This illustration by Davi Blight gets props for being the first completed interior illustration to be turned in. Go Davi! The topic for this piece was reputation systems. In Eclipse Phase, a significant portion of transhumanity has shifted into a post-scarcity economy thanks to ubiquitous access to nanofabrication machines — when anyone can simply make …
End of the Week, End of the World
Since Eclipse Phase is based in a post-apocalyptic setting and a major theme of the game involves existential threats to the existence of transhumanity, we decided that we’d start a feature on this blog where we devote every Friday to something that may just spell the end for humanity. Nothing like a little Doom to …
A self-replicating machine child is born
A few days ago (May 29) was a momentous day for the open source tech movement — the RepRap open source 3-D printer made its first copy of itself. What is RepRap? Printers are a common everyday machine. They use ink and technology to make things in 2 dimensions. Imagine if instead of printing on …
Getting Started
Hello, and welcome to the still-not-public Eclipse Phase blog. Eclipse Phase is a new tabletop roleplaying game of transhuman conspiracy and horror, produced by Posthuman Studios. The game is still in the final writing/editing/playtesting stage, but will release later in 2008. While this website comes together, you can find out some more info on Eclipse …