Nova Wars Baby!

[Petya]

/me is still trying to find his jaws he lost yesterday.

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

Wow.

Just... wow.

You've almost dumped enough stuff here, Ralts, that a lot of folks would have tossed into a PDF, slapped on some art and a few tables, and charged us money for.

I was thinking of doing some d20 Future... your provided crunch is making it become a need.

Your work is impressive and well-thought, and your generosity is impressive.

To make this short... you da man.

All hail Warlord Ralts!

We've only scratched the surface, my friend.

I'm currently preparing all the races for PDF, which will be hosted by our gracious friends at Intrepid Heroes, and will totally OGC.

I have to figure out game mechanics for each of these, since there is a vast array of races, and quite a bit of detail, from original homeworld, to their attittude about Humans, starships and weapons and armor, as well as atmosphere they breathe, gravity they prefer, etc.

Once that it done, I'll go over the novella's and put together a total timeline, and post it here. BUT, my big question...

Should I do it before or after I do the maps of Confederate Space and the disputed zone and the frontier?

But, right now, races first.

BTW-Thanks to Morrus and the staff of ENWorld for letting me put this in here. The thread will eventually be MASSIVE in size, since there are over 200 starships, full conversion cyborg rules, robot rules, vehicle rules, star system details, space station/ship construction rules, etc etc etc that will go in this thread.

I really appreciate the generosity.

--T. Willard

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

Here's the Goblin IV Power Armor picture...

This is the second best power armor in the Nova Wars Universe, packing state of the art electronics and weaponry as well as top notch shielding and armor.

Drawn by Owen Kuhn.

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

And the Frogstar VII power armor, made obselete by the Goblin Series power armor.

Honestly, if I post the stats, they will not match with the Mecha Creation rules in the d20 Future MSRD. If you want them, let me know, and you can just run with it.

Type: Scout Power Armor
Defense: 35
Hit Points: 500
Speed: 240 (48 squares), 500 (1,000 squares) jump/flight
Offensive Systems: Six seperate micromissile launchers, MAW

I'm beat, naptime

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

Last but not least, the picture of the three different head classes of the Stargoyle. The Stargoyle is a fearsome, vacuum dwelling predator to whome oxygen is a caustic vapor, and who feeds upon heavy metals and high energy. The dwell in asteriod fields, often hibernating with thier wings spread out to absorb solar energy. The are drawn by drive emenations and are very tough, fast, strong and hard to kill.

The Stargoyle Concept is C. Baize's, I'm not claiming it.

These too were drawn by Owen Kuhn.

 

[Emiricol]

I'd like to see the maps sort of interspersed with the details on the sections they cover, personally. I am keenly looking forward to seeing some of those races though

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

Here is a scientifically accurate of the brightest stars in a 250 LY radius.

I doubt I'll do a scientifically accurate map, more along the lines of a fun one.

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

This webpage at http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/50lys.html has a map and descriptions of both distance and all sorts of other data on stars.

Now, when looking at these, and looking at the imaginary ones I came up with years ago, I have to answer a simple question...

Scientifically accurate?

Imaginary?

Both?

Imaginary is easier for me, and technically, I have a basis for making up the maps, and declaring "Once the gravitational and temporal warping effects of the singularity induced section of folded space has terminated, astronomy discovered that the existing star-maps were in error."

Which one? Huh? If it's any help, I already have maps for about 200 LY out, but they don't even resemble to the real thing, but they are a lot of fun and have been in use by my gaming group, whenever we played games such as Star Frontiers, Rifts Space, Alternity, etc, since about 1984.

Up to you guys.

 

[Emiricol]

I'm all for nonrealistic maps. A Renaissance of astronomy after mankind got out of the pocket! And more interesting configurations.

As a side note, I gave up days and days ago trying to compile all this when it hit 30 pages in MS Word...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Beautiful artwork 'ralts, keep up the good work!