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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2302640" data-attributes="member: 22779">That's exactly the point I was making.&nbsp; So much of SF RPG's is not consistent.&nbsp; If you step your world a couple of hundred years into the future, you're stepping into Sir Arthur's realm of looking a lot like magic.&nbsp; Think about it.&nbsp; Take something like Aliens for example.&nbsp; Great movie, sucky SF.&nbsp; The marines were supposed to be bad arsed right?&nbsp; Then why in heck are they not sporting cybernetic enhancements and all the nifty doo dads that we are developing today?Take something simple.Right now, DARPA is developing a widget that looks a lot like an oversized dragonfly.&nbsp; It has a camera on it.&nbsp; They can be released, fly autonomously to the target and take up an observation position.&nbsp; This isn't SF, this is being tested right now.&nbsp; So, why in heck are the Colonial Marines heading into the buildings without checking things out first?&nbsp; Release a swarm of these things, hooked up to a heuristic AI capable of detecting hostiles and sit back while the machines do the work.&nbsp; Short time later, the computer tells you that the colonists are all bundled up at the reactor core and there's a bunch of big, bad, black aliens waiting down there.&nbsp; Oh, and there's a little girl hiding over there too.&nbsp; If you would like sir, the autonomous UAV's can kill all those aliens with their electrically fired miniguns and would you like cream in your coffee? It's annoying that most SF RPG's become dated before they even hit the newstands.&nbsp; I think I would much prefer alternate history stuff like Space 1889 if I were to go back to the genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 2302640, member: 22779"] That's exactly the point I was making. So much of SF RPG's is not consistent. If you step your world a couple of hundred years into the future, you're stepping into Sir Arthur's realm of looking a lot like magic. Think about it. Take something like Aliens for example. Great movie, sucky SF. The marines were supposed to be bad arsed right? Then why in heck are they not sporting cybernetic enhancements and all the nifty doo dads that we are developing today? Take something simple. Right now, DARPA is developing a widget that looks a lot like an oversized dragonfly. It has a camera on it. They can be released, fly autonomously to the target and take up an observation position. This isn't SF, this is being tested right now. So, why in heck are the Colonial Marines heading into the buildings without checking things out first? Release a swarm of these things, hooked up to a heuristic AI capable of detecting hostiles and sit back while the machines do the work. Short time later, the computer tells you that the colonists are all bundled up at the reactor core and there's a bunch of big, bad, black aliens waiting down there. Oh, and there's a little girl hiding over there too. If you would like sir, the autonomous UAV's can kill all those aliens with their electrically fired miniguns and would you like cream in your coffee? It's annoying that most SF RPG's become dated before they even hit the newstands. I think I would much prefer alternate history stuff like Space 1889 if I were to go back to the genre. [/QUOTE]

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