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- Five for the Future
Cloak of Silence on the way. Spacesuit of the Future . “Nanopaper” stronger than steel . How to build a quantum eavesdropper . DARPA wants blob bots . These links and others can be found at http://del.ico.u ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 12:40 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Spacecraft in Eclipse Phase
One of the problems any space-faring sci-fi game has to deal with is how to handle space travel and space combat. Both of these can be significant glitches in an RPG setting. Space travel can mean a long delay between action, as the players must boar ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 12:29 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Singularity Special Report
IEEE Spectrum recently published a special report on the singularity . It’s well worth reading, particularly “ The Consciousness Conundrum ” and “ Economics of the Singularity .” (Tech News) ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-30 21:07 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Funny Because It’s True
Wired’s Lore Sjöberg nails the killjoy attitudes unfortunately expressed by so many in the gaming cooking community in online forums. Posted: 12:48 a.m. by Goku1440 I found an awesome loophole! On page 242 it says “Add oregano to taste!” ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-30 21:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 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 and published by Catalyst Game Labs. The game is still in the final wri ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 13:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 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 t ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 13:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 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 shifte ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 12:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 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 somethi ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 12:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Scientists and Sci-Fi
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 ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Five for the Future
Hairy Blobs Discovered in Acidic Lake Could Have Lived on Mars ‘Skin-tenna’ wireless signals creep over human skin Giant telescopes (and igloos) could be built from Moon dust ParanoidLinux Escaping From Doctorow Book ‘L ...
Blog entry - eclipseadmin - 2008-08-10 12:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
