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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 4996558" data-attributes="member: 50821">Depends on your take...  We also know the past. The concept of 'shared past, variable future' is not only a valid perspective and one noted by fans and game designers for years and years but it also relates directly to what you're saying. So yes, it does explain something. If you are correct in the statement that...  ...and I agree that you are, isn't this because each author is showing us their individual interpretation of one possible future? Another author may agree or may say, "Never mind the changes in humanity in a future with bio-engineering nanites. None of that will matter once the technologically superior aliens arrive."  Agreed! However, one person's complexity is another person's variety and options. I've certainly run my share of Sci-Fi RPGs where some elements were more prominent then others but all the various elements of a space faring future are up for grabs plot wise. Star Wars deals with cloning but rarely bio-engineering. Star Trek has Data but how come there are so few other less advanced robots (like simple droids)?* In Firefly we can travel to other star systems and have grav-lift vehicles but guns use bullets and there isn't an alien to be found. Give me the stuff and the option to use it or not but don't produce a genric Sci-Fi/Space Adventure RPG in this day and age that doesn't at least touch on some aspect of the more common SF concepts. ADBarking Alien *Side Rant: This in particular bugs me as a Star Trek fan who is also interested in robots. Its sort of like after years with no automotive carriage to speak of, Ford invented a car that traveled 150 mph and got amazing gas mileage. He didn't. So how come we have no robots of any kind in the UFP in the old show, no robots in the movies and then 'poof' Data? Where are the mass produced lesser models? You can't tell me Scotty couldn't have used an Astromech once in a while.<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" /></blockquote>

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