Don Durito
Hero
I think 'real science fiction' here probably means no space magic or force powers. Not necessarily no anti-gravity or faster than light travel and life on other planets being completely imcompatible with terrestial life.Er, Star Frontiers is as the softest, fantasy-est end of science fiction. It's much closer to Star Wars than 2001 a Space Odyssey. I think a lot of SF fans would balk at the idea that Star Frontiers was "real science fiction".
And what's so great about D100? It's easy to convert between D100 and D20.
For example there's already a science fiction ruleset for 5e called Esper Genesis, which has space magic of some kind (and a lot of the classes are lazy reskins of D&D classes).
There's also the free 5e Star Wars which is done somewhat better, but again, many of the classes have Force powers.
Traditional space opera rather than hard science fiction.
(Something along these lines was done in the 2e days with the Buck Rogers game).
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