Eclipse Phase RPG, downloadable PDF Options

[Grinder]

What will be the next releases? Your Website doesn't say much on this...

[Demonseed Elite]

I believe the next major release is Panopticon, Volume One.

SELLING POINTS:

• Details the inner workings of the different types of space habitats in Eclipse Phase—a crucial source of information for bringing the setting to life.

• Provides comprehensive information on surveillance and sousveillance technologies, the impact they have on culture, and the means for by passing them.

• Explores uplifts (animals raised to human-level sapience) and the sociopolitical challenges they face, including essential background information for uplift characters and a selection of new uplift morphs.

[Adam]

What will be the next releases? Your Website doesn't say much on this...

Jay's correct, our next release is Panopticon (formerly called Hotfix).

We don't announce much about upcoming projects, and prefer to keep only a small handful of upcoming projects "known." It's simply much easier for us to manage.

It's unproductive and unprofitable for people to be super-hyped over a book that isn't going to be delivered for 18 months. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Grinder]

Jay's correct, our next release is Panopticon (formerly called Hotfix).

We don't announce much about upcoming projects, and prefer to keep only a small handful of upcoming projects "known." It's simply much easier for us to manage.

It's unproductive and unprofitable for people to be super-hyped over a book that isn't going to be delivered for 18 months. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Totally understandable, but the lack of any information on at least the next upcoming sourcebook is it frustrating (assuming that it won't be 18 months until its release date).

Regarding Panopticon: I love the piece of art - an octopus fighting a monkey in space. With laser swords. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/love.gif)

[Doc Chase]

an octopus fighting a monkey in space. With laser swords. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/love.gif)

Eclipse Phase: Yeah, it's kinda like that.

[nezumi]

Twitter mentioned there's another adventure coming out (which apparently is 'very exciting'). Also, according to the EP forums, Rimward is on its way out.

[Grinder]

Adam?

[Adam]

What? Next print release is Panopticon. When we have street dates for PDFs, we announce them. Our 2010 Year in Review will be up soon, and it talks about the upcoming year.

But in general, time that we could spend talking about upcoming stuff is time we can better spend _making_ upcoming stuff, and time you spend anticipating upcoming stuff is time you should spend _using_ the current stuff.

[Grinder]

*mumbles* Don't tell us what we have to do...*mumbles*
*goes back to reading Gatecrashing*

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[Grinder]

We are also hard at work on Rimward, the companion book to Sunward, for release after Panopticon. I'm fairly sure we've mentioned that elsewhere but if not, there you go, juicy gossip.
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[Grinder]

Does a fork have a cortical stack?

[Yerameyahu]

Like this? http://www.amazon.com/Pedrini-Miro-Clear-D...e/dp/B0000959GP

[Tanegar]

Does a fork have a cortical stack?

If it sleeves into a morph with a cortical stack, then yes. Why wouldn't it?

[Grinder]

D'oh! Brainfart!

[Adam]

Here's our 2010 Year in Review: http://eclipsephase.com/posthuman-2010-year-end-review

[Grinder]

Caution! Possible next brainfart incoming! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

How does opration a Pandora Gate work? If I understood Gatecrashing right, every Pandora Gate does have a build-in library that can be used to open connections to other gates (whose adress is memorized in the Pandora Gates library). These adresses can't be copied to other gates. Now there is the portable gate control unit that has its own library of adresses and is able to copy adresses of Pandora Gates. In short: I don't get the following two paragraphes of Gatecrashing (it's pg. 144).

Unless otherwise modified, anyone with user privileges
on a gate control unit can access the gate’s library of
addresses. In theory, each address corresponds to a
different remote gate. The address for a remote gate in
one gate’s library will not work if copied into another
gate’s library. The libraries are also dynamic, meaning
that new addresses might appear and old ones disappear
(perhaps to reappear later). Gate libraries can
be backed up, but attempts to reintroduce deleted
addresses usually just result in the address being
immediately removed again.
This library is linked to a catalog of known extrasolar
locations built into the gate control unit, making
it easy to correlate between the two. For this catalog
to be kept up to date, it must periodically be synced
with catalogs maintained online. Catalogs kept in
extrasolar and portable gate control units are often
sadly out of date.

[nezumi]

Imagine it like this.

Each gate has the telephone and a list of telephone numbers. Dial the number in the phone and you get a connection to... something.

People have been calling each number and penciling the name of who answers. The list of numbers + the names of who answers = a catalog.

The list of numbers is GIANT, and it's not just a text file you can download, so people are manually going through 'discovering' more and penciling the name of who answers.

Your portable unit has a catalog from gates A, B, C, and D. Each of these catalogs is a list of the phone numbers discovered *at the time your unit was programmed* + the suspected names attached to that number. This information is often discovered to be wrong later.

That make more sense?

[Grinder]

That's very helpful, thanks a lot!

Two questions that came up in tonight's session:

1. Does the Exsurgent Virus infects the cortical stack too?
2. How does a space habitat create microgravity of 0.01 g? And how does such a minor gravity affect the daily life on space habitat? Would it be like living in Zero-G or not?

[Fix-it]

That's very helpful, thanks a lot!

Two questions that came up in tonight's session:

1. Does the Exsurgent Virus infects the cortical stack too?
2. How does a space habitat create microgravity of 0.01 g? And how does such a minor gravity affect the daily life on space habitat? Would it be like living in Zero-G or not?

1: the cortical stack is a mirror image of your mind, so when it is recovered you can flash it into a new body, and continue your life. the exsurgent virus infects your mind, and this is copied into your cortical stack, unless you take steps to prevent this.

2: space habitats next to large masses may provide the necessary G. otherwise, they can take a circular or toroidal habitat and spin it at the required speed for centripidal force to create the desired Gs.
0.01 G is rather small. you might be able to notice it in your inner ear a bit. and the fact that small objects will always head one direction after a while.

[Grinder]

1: the cortical stack is a mirror image of your mind, so when it is recovered you can flash it into a new body, and continue your life. the exsurgent virus infects your mind, and this is copied into your cortical stack, unless you take steps to prevent this.

Say hello to your backup then. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

2: space habitats next to large masses may provide the necessary G. otherwise, they can take a circular or toroidal habitat and spin it at the required speed for centripidal force to create the desired Gs.
0.01 G is rather small. you might be able to notice it in your inner ear a bit. and the fact that small objects will always head one direction after a while.

Is 0.01 g still effectively like 0 g? I mean, is everything floating around and stuff (even if heading in one direction after a while)?

[nezumi]

0.01g is effectively like 0 g (for most purposes). Cups will stay on tables and liquids will stay in cups, but if you hit that cup, the immediate behavior is like zero g. Just imagine what combat would be like if you weighed 2 pounds. You can 'throw' yourself 50 yards, and the recoil from your gun could knock you off your feet if you don't brace yourself properly.

0.01g would probably be because of slight movement or acceleration in the habitat, or its proximity to a larger body or its own large size.

[Fix-it]

low but non-zero levels of gravity have been proposed to be useful for industrial purposes, like growing crystals, and other motion-sensitive chemical processes.

[Grinder]

0.01g is effectively like 0 g (for most purposes).

Ok, so you are floating around, like the people on the ISS.

Cups will stay on tables and liquids will stay in cups, but if you hit that cup, the immediate behavior is like zero g. Just imagine what combat would be like if you weighed 2 pounds. You can 'throw' yourself 50 yards, and the recoil from your gun could knock you off your feet if you don't brace yourself properly.

..well.. or not. I'm confused.

[WyldKnight]

Think of it like this. Everything is much lighter but unless a force acts upon it the gravity isn't an issue. Your cup will stay on the table because no force is pushing it one way or another. The minute something does however the cup and it's liquid will begin floating away.

In combat you'll be fine. That is until the kinetic energy being forced through the front of your gun shoots you backwards if you weren't prepared for it. That is why freefall is so important in zero g combat. That or some magnetic boots.

[nezumi]

Exactly. Things not in motion act like there's gravity. As soon as there's motion, they act like it's zero-g. If left for long enough, they will act like there's gravity again, but in slow motion (thanks mostly to air resistance).

Also worth mentioning, things still have mass, even when they don't have weight. You can "lift" a car, since it has no weight, but it takes a long time (low acceleration) because it has so much mass.