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Just read the second part of the BlueAlien interview, and wanted to give my hearty congrats and thumbs-up to the devs for their outlook regarding religion in the Transhumanist future. Too many rpgs seem to assume that religion (inevitably existing monoth ...

Forum topic - Colin Chapman - 2008-09-16 12:01 - 133 comments - 0 attachments

Just on a curious whim... Was there any attempt (or evidence of attempt) by some nation or hypercorp or other party to leave the Solar System via STL travel and attempt to establish an extrasolar colony? It looks like there was certainly a lot of deve ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-10-29 23:06 - 23 comments - 0 attachments

Given the technologies described so far, the ability to digitally store oneself in particular... how long does your average transhuman (assume what amounts to a "quiet normal life") live? Are there individuals that remember the Earth when you could still ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-08-20 22:04 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

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

What's up with the blue planet? In the rpgnet - summary it`s called a toxic hellhole. Does that mean unhabitable at all or just destructed ecology ... do we talk "Do androids dream ...", "Ergo Proxy" or "your average barren planet alike the Moon" here? ...

Forum topic - Imago - 2008-08-18 09:45 - 11 comments - 0 attachments

While transhumans in this setting will be able to use biotech to create new bodies, or augment the ones they currently occupy, does the setting have any sort of uplifting procedure? Uplifting is the process of 'raising' animal's to human levels of intell ...

Forum topic - Feldion - 2008-08-17 13:31 - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Are there spacecraft equipped with near sentience or full self-awareness? Seems like the technology exists (AI, Infomorph, Uplifted critter mind, etc.), but given what happened with the TITANS the notion of giving a large mobile machine self-awareness ma ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-11-13 23:40 - 10 comments - 0 attachments

From what I've read so far these gates are like teleport stations(think Stargate?) on the ground and lead to other star systems. Is this correct? If yes, does transhumanity make frequent use of these gates, possibly to colonise or conquer other planets o ...

Forum topic - Imago - 2008-08-18 09:50 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Gray goo are nanobots that do nothing but eat and multiply, and are considered by some to an end of the world scenario. However, the idea that nanobots could go around eating the world un-impeded is ridiculous. First off, nanobots are incredibly tiny, he ...

Forum topic - Feldion - 2008-08-17 13:37 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

So what is the overall status of these "Firewall" folks that work so hard to keep transhumanity safe and sound? Is this a recognized group that has been created by (but largely kept operating out of the controls of) various factions to keep doomsday at b ...

Forum topic - GregH - 2008-08-17 23:11 - 5 comments - 0 attachments