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Anyone else gonna make characters, or is it just us? Markward, Bunnyboy?

@Sun: The Color I used is the orange I've used on all the other RP chars so far :p I'll pick a different one... Blue-Green. @Unforsaken: Well, a modern AT4 SMAW (Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon) has an armor piercing warhead just shy of four pounds. The real weight is in the propellent...

Well, apart from back-story, my character is done. I would really appreciate some questions and comments, as I've never used BESM before. Sun, I hope you don't mind, but I stole quite a few things from your dude :O Just tell me if anything I snagged is supposed to be unique to your character, and I'...

Bistima Chrysocolla "Garnet" Loroi Mechanic/Technician (Female) {10pts unspent} Since her standard education began, Garnet exhibited exceptional intellect. Upon selection for military service, it became clear that with her abundance of brains and lack of brawn, she'd server better supporting the wa...

Right-o, making a character.

...actually she does not have that authority to grant plenipotentiary status to alex, only his own government could do that... You are quite correct. I knew there was something phunky about the whole thing even when I was reading it the first time through: the idea that a grunt spacer first could b...

I think traditional hijackings would be the way to go for this sort of thing. Smuggle yourself aboard the vessel before it makes it's voyage then capture it from within once underway. It doesn't solve the problem of taking control of the vessel, but it replaces the problem of catching up to and boar...

Reading through BESM, looks fine to me.

PET MONSTER TRAINER? Hell yeah!

Not to mention that in a military environment, especially on an installation/ship, non-encryption is simply not an option. I don't think you'd have to hide the physical medium the porn is on though. We've already got crazy large storage in packages as small as micro-SD. In the future, you should be ...

I'm surprised that nobody's suggested Full Metal Jacket yet. It's got everything; history, politics, war, and ending they're sure to misunderstand.

Mjolnir, Imbrooge: I just went back through the Insider and yeah, "The version taught by the Orgus to humans is substantially different in pronunciation than that used by the Loroi..." I would like to think though, that since the dialects have enough in common for diplomacy then they should share at...

Portable and stand alone devices are likely to have batteries and such and yeah, that would be an great way of getting a voltage reference. "Just measure this battery. Whatever it spits out is what we call 12 volts." Doesn't really work in the case of integrated equipment (say, a terminal computer o...

Being on a critical diplomatic mission, I'm going to assume that any sensitive data on the Bellarmine (including personal "literature") will be encrypted. So it's very unlikely that the Loroi will be able to view anything that Alex doesn't intentionally show them. Well, anything that he can show. E...

I too prefer solid rules, but I've found that in loose games (like forum RPs) they tend to bog things down, as there's quite a bit of back and forth when it's time to bust out the dice. One thing that *might* be worth considering is maybe playing over IRC or something. Meetings would have to be sche...

I was thinking that, but then you get on to questions about how far can this technology go? If you can make a button that's psi-sensitive, you could make a lot of buttons that are psi-sensitive. Enough buttons hooked up to some hydraulics and circuitry and you could control a gun turret or a tank w...

More than likely, such controls have some sort of organic component. Imagine a button that has half of the circuit completed by pressing a button, and the other half completed by a muscle contracting (perhaps bringing two pieces of wire into contact with each other.) Any ol person could press the bu...

yeah, it's the theme for the Mickey Mouse Club.

Extra Credit:

The Loroi have no way of knowing who Mickey Mouse is, so even if they learn English, I don't see how they could regard this missive as anything other than a heartfelt ceremonial recitation. So far, but... Can we skip to the part were Beryl learn English and translate what Alex just said? Yes please...

Ah, Mickey Mouse... Truly the Patron Saint of fallen soldiers. So much better than some of the other suggestions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmILOL55xP0

The mechanics themselves don't matter, so long as the story is good and there's a way to resolve contests. Who ever wants to GM should post a short story proposition, like this and this. Ship stats aren't strictly necessary and should go in a spoiler imo.