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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9879265" data-attributes="member: 4937">What part of vacuum dwelling spider monsters with blades for legs screamed realism to you? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I do think that since I'm running a Bounty Hunter campaign it tends toward gritty in a way that much mainstream Star Wars aside from Andor does not.  And I do think it's fair to say that I'm running something not too far from Traveller in the Star Wars universe.But I also think that Star Wars is all about drawing on science fiction strokes for aesthetics, and just as I love Tatooine having two suns and two moons (a perfectly reasonable thing) and Yavin being a habitable moon of a gas giant, and the opening shot of Rogue One featuring a ringed planet, so I too draw upon space as a source of scenery.  So I have dust clouds around white dwarf stars, asteroid mining, and a planet whose "moon" was actually a distant red dwarf in a binary system, and planets where the plants are covered in metal foil to shade themselves from the fierceness of their sun, a tundra covered world where the hidden cities are built under the massive glacial ice caps, a mining world turn continent sized city, and a planet where the now flightless humanoid avian species is so mad for repulsor technology that they build cities of skyscrapers without roads trying to regain their lost joy of flight.</blockquote>

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