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<blockquote data-quote="Alikar" data-source="post: 4893170" data-attributes="member: 54594">I had a long reply which the site ate. *sigh*Basically if you read the fluff there is a large left lean to it which I'm going to have to correct. The Jovian Republic is the largest case of this, where most of the left's fears about Bush are true in some fantasy land space empire, not to mention that of course the Republic is filled with bigots, fundamentalists, and anti-technologists. I'm going to replace it with an actual American colony, which I think adds a lot more to the fluff then this strange hate piece that sits in the middle of the story.Basically resleaving (changing bodies) is a difficult process. Your character rolls against your characters somatic x3. Somatic is your characters ability to control your body. Most characters have around a 15 to 20 SOM when they start which means a character has to roll under a 45 to 60 to successfully sleave. If they fail they suffer penalties until they succeed. Also once successful they need to make a continuity test, if they fail this they will acquire stress. If you acquire to much stress to quickly your character will suffer from trauma. If your character enters trauma they gain derangement. Do this too many times and your character will literally go insane.Thus switching bodies should be done rather infrequently or with bodies that characters have no issues switching into too. There are traits that allow you to no suffer problems with resleaving and they are dirt cheap to pick up, only 10 points each out of the 1000 you have for character creation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alikar, post: 4893170, member: 54594"] I had a long reply which the site ate. *sigh* Basically if you read the fluff there is a large left lean to it which I'm going to have to correct. The Jovian Republic is the largest case of this, where most of the left's fears about Bush are true in some fantasy land space empire, not to mention that [I]of course[/I] the Republic is filled with bigots, fundamentalists, and anti-technologists. I'm going to replace it with an actual American colony, which I think adds a lot more to the fluff then this strange hate piece that sits in the middle of the story. Basically resleaving (changing bodies) is a difficult process. Your character rolls against your characters somatic x3. Somatic is your characters ability to control your body. Most characters have around a 15 to 20 SOM when they start which means a character has to roll under a 45 to 60 to successfully sleave. If they fail they suffer penalties until they succeed. Also once successful they need to make a continuity test, if they fail this they will acquire stress. If you acquire to much stress to quickly your character will suffer from trauma. If your character enters trauma they gain derangement. Do this too many times and your character will literally go insane. Thus switching bodies should be done rather infrequently or with bodies that characters have no issues switching into too. There are traits that allow you to no suffer problems with resleaving and they are dirt cheap to pick up, only 10 points each out of the 1000 you have for character creation. [/QUOTE]

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