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Fallon Kell
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| jmanski wrote: | | (aside from the soundtrack, which was amazing |
"Flash–ohh–savior of the universe!" 
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Zarm R'keeg
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Gads, that score... I never thought anything could convince me that the 80s didn't completely RUIN Flash Gordon, but that song... you just can't get it out of your head... it's and it's so hard to stay mad at any movie with tunes so catchy... 
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That's queen for ya!
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Darth_Hilarious
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| Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody would definitely have to be the song used for when the Death Star destroyed Alderaan. " Send a bolt of lightening, very, very frightening........" |
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DougRed4
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Since you brought this thread back up: to me some things that are NOT Star Wars are:
- Time Travel
- Mirror Universe Counterparts
- Huge moral dilemmas as the main story (like figuring out whether the Prime Directive should allow the protagonists to save an entire civilization or not)
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Zarm R'keeg
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| DougRed4 wrote: | | - Huge moral dilemmas as the main story (like figuring out whether the Prime Directive should allow the protagonists to save an entire civilization or not) |
Oy. To me, that's not Star Trek, either! Every time I watch Pen Pals, Homeward, or any other episode where Picard is a pompous coward that hides behind the letter of the law and claims that extinction is a civilization's 'destiny' and does his level, lazy best to do nothing while a whole people dies...
...Anyhow, that's off-topic. 
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| actually there ARE food replicators in the SW universe, just remember all those Auto Chefs in almost every light freighter flying around. It just doesn't have a 5 star menu, more like school cafeteria food, bland but nutritious. |
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CRMcNeill
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| Darth_Hilarious wrote: | | actually there ARE food replicators in the SW universe, just remember all those Auto Chefs in almost every light freighter flying around. It just doesn't have a 5 star menu, more like school cafeteria food, bland but nutritious. |
Perhaps Trek-grade food replicators are what you find on the high-end luxury accommodations on star yachts. I know the Starships of the Galaxy book hinted at upgrading ships to that level...
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jmanski
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Makes sense. They're probably more expensive, bigger, and require more power.
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Leon The Lion
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When it's all said and done, the only things which are really not Star Wars to me personally, are the things for which I have not yet found a satisfying way of incorporating into my vision.
The universe of my campaigh is more of a kitchen sink setting build on a heavy foundation of Star Wars. It currently includes stuff from Babylon 5, Wing Commander, Star Trek, Dune, 40k, Battlestar Galactica, Transformers, Ninja Highschool, D&D, Avatar, Outlanders, Tenchi Muyo, My Little Pony, and The Moomins, as well as tons of other sources.
And if anyone thinks me and my players are doing it wrong and having Bad-Wrong Fun?
We don't care one bit.
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Your inclusion of My Little Pony intrigues me. Would you mind elaborating what elements you've included?
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Leon The Lion
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| cheshire wrote: | | Your inclusion of My Little Pony intrigues me. Would you mind elaborating what elements you've included? |
Certainly.
In one word: Changelings.
I've used them as a rare, "bad guy" alien species. I took some liberties with their depiction to fit the type of scenario I wanated to create. Most importantly, I made them humanoid, and mostly solitairy rather than hive/herd creatures.
The rest of the idea remained largely the same: Changlings are psychic vampires, feeding on the life force of other sofonts through the medium of emotions. They are also masters of disguise, able to assume any form (though I made their camouflage a psionically-projected illusion instead of magical true shapeshifting). Which is necessary, as their natural appearance is terrifyingly hidious to most other sodfonts - imagine a cross between the Alien xenomorph and a humanoid cocroach - even a Hutt wouldn't eat it.
In the adventure, my PCs found and "rescued" a pair of Changelings, posing as a pair of teenaged human siblings, as castaways on a derelict ship, the rest of the crew dead, apperantly killed by a droid gone mad. The "kids" got found out eventually, and the situation got ugly for a while, but was finally resolved without bloodshed - one of the PCs is a Jedi, and the Changlings themselves, though "bad guys" with unpleasant feeding habits, aren't necessarily Evil.
Maybe I'll post the full writeup for them one day.
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Esoomian
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| Leon The Lion wrote: | | Changlings are psychic vampires, feeding on the life force of other sofonts through the medium of emotions. They are also masters of disguise, able to assume any form (though I made their camouflage a psionically-projected illusion instead of magical true shapeshifting). |
Does that mean droids and security cameras see the changelings for what they really are?
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Leon The Lion
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| Esoomian wrote: | | Does that mean droids and security cameras see the changelings for what they really are? |
Exactly. Their "shapeshifting" ability is basically the Force power Affect Mind which can only be used to change the way other sofonts perceive the Changeling.
Which is why Changelings generally prefer to haunt, maybe not outright primitive, but less advanced planets, colonies and outposts, and places where droids are not widely used or not welcome for one reason or another.
They're also quite adept at stealth and avoiding attention, and prefer to find their "meals" on the fringes of society and/or in out of the way locales. When they travel between planets, they usually stawaway on big freighters or liners.
Changelings are also very adept manipulators - not that hard when you can literally smell and taste emotions.
All this, plus their mostly solitary nature and small numbers, means the existance of Changelings, much less any solid facts about them, are barely known in the galaxy at large (Alien Species roll difficulty about 28 to have ever even heard about them).
"Chrissy" and "Renton", the two Changelings in my adventure, fell upon some desperate times, which forced them to travel openly. And their inability to cheat machines - and hunger - proved their undoing, both on the first ship and later, whith the PCs. That they ware able to remain undetected for two days on the PCs' cramped ship (a Firespray) with two droids onboard is a testament to their resorcefulness - and the droids' politeness.
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Cap'nCodskale
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:46 pm Post subject: The Goop That Eats Like a Meal |
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| Darth_Hilarious wrote: | | [A]ctually there ARE food replicators in the SW universe, just remember all those Auto Chefs in almost every light freighter flying around. |
Trek food replicators always seemed magical, whereas the term autochef to me connotes a whirring, mechanical device that synthesizes available food proteins into something resembling a meal.
The sort found on a light freighter is small and therefore limited, hence the results Darth_Hilarious describes. A larger, more expensive autochef means a greater variety of protein types, as well as greater variety of flavor and texture. However, some large, expensive autochefs are built for high volume, not quality or variety of output (e.g., autochef on a Star Destroyer).
In any case, an autochef doesn't take requests, as does the Trek replicator. You're stuck with the menu available for that model and, further, by proteins on hand.
Not sure if this actually aligns with any existing data from other resources ... Just publicly piecing together longstanding impressions. Maybe autochef makes me think of automat, which also presents a limited menu?
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