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The other question is whether this is really cost-effective in the first place. Kinetic weapons are great, but do you need to do it on that scale? Even if you've got the resources to accelerate an asteroid to relativistic speeds, would it just be cheaper to turn up with a fleet of warships and...

This is a straw man argument. At no point did I state the use of chemical rockets. It doesn't matter how you generate the thrust, the energy used is still the same (give or take any waste energy coming off as heat) and the delta-V is still the same. You're changing goalposts and assumptions...

That was my point earlier. An actual dinosaur killer size asteroid needs a lot of energy to get enough delta-V to accelerate it out of the Asteroid belt or trojan orbits. Lugging something big enough to do that insystem, and then doing the burn isn't going to be subtle. Even a burn to get it...

The ones in The Expanse were about 1,000km across. The Fsherl-Ganni's gates in Schlock Mercenary are smaller than that but still large enough to fly a capital ship through.

I know this - reaction drives and guidance. It's pretty obvious when you're doing this, as an asteroid big enough to be a dinosaur killer needs a large drive and a naughty word-load of reaction mass to move it in any reasonable length of time. Unless you can accelerate it to velocities in the 1,000's...

A galaxy is a big place, so one could conceal bases in all sorts of remote locations, although any large conspiracy is going to leak (q.v. Star Wars), so you had better be very well hidden and able to bug out to some other location on short notice. See the Eina-Afa arc from Schlock Mercenary...

Assumng that their job is to wander about as knights-errant, righting wrongs and suchlike, then they're going to have a hard time concealing their existence, which will cause folks to reason that they must have a headquarters somewhere. After that, it's only a matter of time before somebody...

They can make background fluff or be the subject of an adventure - maybe the party could go explore an old monastery. You could use religious organisations as factions, antagonists or patrons. If you had a Jedi or Bene Gesserit style order they could be affiliated with some religion. You...

And maybe an elemental plane of flatulence in between that and the elemental plane of air? I'm pretty sure a poo demon makes an appearance in Dogma.

I have a soft spot for A Canticle for Leibowitz (read if if you haven't - it's aged quite well) and have often put old-school Terran religions into 'verses - space Catholicism, space Islam, space Buddhism etc. Actually hanging out in a Catholic country (Italy, Malta, Ireland) puts it in your...

I guess one could say It depends on what you want to do with such a game. Some random thoughts for tropes - Sandboxes If you want a sandbox game, a galaxy-spanning empire with complete freedom of movement is going to be a logistical nightmare to run. Traveller solves this problem by giving...

There have been at least two successful games based on the franchise, although one died for reasons unrelated to the merits of the game. However, it's still an also-ran in comparison to D&D in that everything else is basically an also-ran due to the dominance of the D&D brand in the market...

1. Adam West, of course. Do I really look that old? Christian Bale in the Nolan trilogy was pretty good, though. The others were pretty unmemorable. Tom Hardy's Bane was a pretty good villain - he made a decent fist of the character. I haven't seen Jared Leto, but all the Jokers I have seen...

If you're trying to do a setting where characters' connections are significant then the former is good, as it emphasises the connections. I've done games of this sort, and often make up character backgrounds with a few of this type of connection; more often than not, the DMs really appreciate...

I'm sure Tolkein would be turning in his grave if he saw my gonzo linguistics and wanton abuse of machine translation software.

That reminds me. Once upon a time I had a party acquire a terminator robot in a game. However, they didn't have the supervisor password to reconfigure it. As it turned out It was configured with the 'Sales' personality so every time it completed a mission it would launch into an upbeat sales...

I had a waha character in RQ2 that kept fumbling with a lance, and came to be known as Onastik. Another RQ2 character was a Goldentongue lord of Issaries called Ham. He invented an innovative, distributed reverse-funnel order fulfilment system called Ham's Way. He made a critical Oratory roll...

Well, it takes balls to build better worlds ...

If corporations count, I've put Ono-Hentai and Leyland-Futanari into quite a few sci-fi or cyberpunk games. Or. there's A. Bertram, a major chain of ships outfitters found at most C-class or better starports. Apollo's, a major chain of rather mediocre coffee shops. A friend of mine once...