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I've actually got a copy of said TTRPG, but haven't ever run it, sadly. There was also a second Terran Trade Authority TTRPG book done for the Savage Worlds ruleset covering the Proxima Wars in the backstory; that's available from DrivethruRPG here.

Great Space Battles (1979) is the second volume in Stewart Cowley’s Terran Trade Authority series, and the only one to feature a co-author in Charles Herridge. This books uses art produce by artists from two different agencies — Young Artists and the Sarah Brown Agency. You can start to feel the patchwork quality in illustrations in this book but it is still remarkable how consistent the works are overall.

Where the first book is an exercise in cataloging fictional spacecraft, this one is more concerned with fleshing out the details of the universe through war stories. The primary narrative concerns the Laguna Wars, which pit humanity against the city-ships of an alien foe. Secondary narratives involve humanity’s space civil war, various colonial border conflicts and some good old space pirates. For real, I would be shocked if no one ran a TTA campaign with Traveller at some point (I’ve never gotten my hands on it, but worth noting that there is a TTA RPG that came out in 2006).

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Happy Amok Time Day, friendly reminder that Theodore Sturgeon, the writer of the episode, is credited with the first positive portrayal of homosexuality in science fiction with his short story The World Well Lost (1953), 14 years before Amok Time aired. Which could mean nothing.

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Happy 3rd Korrasami Anniversary! 💖💜💙

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rb to give the person you reblogged this from a glass of water

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Map's not entirely accurate, by the by: Oregon does have self-service pumps by law as of a couple years ago, and most places do allow for self-service if it's after a station's business hours.

Parts of the country where self-service gas pumping is illegal.

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The reality is that you don't gravitate away from fandoms. You pick up a few more, you pick up hobbies you never thought you'd be in, and generally become more eccentric overall.

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ALIEN: ROMULUS

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I figure that, for the most part, the older vampires opt to move to cities with strict light pollution laws. They're donors for the cause of limiting light pollution and other beautification and environmental causes, all in the name of preserving some semblance of the world that once was.

It's a study in contrasts, usually, with more recently turned urban vampires, who thrive in the glowing neon, that hemisphere of light that covers most bright spots in modern civilization. Most don't understand what their elders are on about, until those elders drag them out to see the sky at night, the actual sky, untainted by light.

There's a sense of wonder in that sky.

Do you think vampires mourn the stars?

They remember the time before electric lights. They made their transition from people of the day to creatures of the night - but the change was not so stark, because the night was still bright with the glitter of a galaxy. When they looked up, it was not a single sun that hung in the sky but hundreds. Thousands. Pinpricks of light that travelled lifetimes to shine above the Earth.

Then the humans poured their artificial light into the atmosphere, and the stars were gone. Smothered by a blanket of orange-grey muck.

Vampires have to live where humans are, and humans mean light pollution. To find the stars again would require hunger. Starvation.

They choose to be well fed. They choose to grieve the night sky they used to know

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That's what we do.

I just accidentally made un-tea?????

I made green tea, but I forgot there was an old bag of chai in the kettle, so I mixed chai water with decaf green tea, then I mixed in like a half table spoon or something of that honey from the dollar store that they aren't legally allowed to call honey because there's too much corn syrup in it and some almond milk and a single drop of coffee creamer because we ran out and???? It tastes like??? Nothing????

It has LESS flavor than my tap water! HOW do you EVEN-

I think I made a flavor that's only perceptible to shrimp, that's the only explanation

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YouTube Algorithm: <Recommends the 28 Years Later trailer>

Me: Guys, really? At this point, it's really like 28 Years Too Late, zombies have been over so long...

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Going through my archives of ‘Star Trek: The Magazine’ I found all this great early concept art for Deep Space Nine. I love the eclectic, warn look of the station. It reminds me of the setting for my favorite Robert Heinlein novel, ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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Annual psa