No need to specify "Non-handwavium quirks" - in this setting, handwavium doesn't produce quirks.
(The way I understand it, it also doesn't turn ground vehicles into spacecraft... Maybe the Scrappy Doo Express is an older-model de-milled Navy space launch that he purchased when he mustered out? This stretches believability a bit, but isn't impossible.)
Maybe somebody should post Mal's early notes - the ones he emailed to (at least) me... In most cases, that would be redundant, though - the information's been posted here, or altered and posted here.
But, re-reading the email, I see there are a couple of nuggets that aren't here yet. I'll risk the Wrath of Mod, and copy and comment on them:
(And Mal's notes had Kohran inventing the stutterwarp. I'd prefer she be the leader of the team that invented it - modern scientific research isn't an individual activity, although it's reasonable for her to be the one who had the first flash of inspiration.)
And the bit that is very much open for debate (ECSNorway, Dartz, and I changed the bits about our characters, too):
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(The way I understand it, it also doesn't turn ground vehicles into spacecraft... Maybe the Scrappy Doo Express is an older-model de-milled Navy space launch that he purchased when he mustered out? This stretches believability a bit, but isn't impossible.)
Maybe somebody should post Mal's early notes - the ones he emailed to (at least) me... In most cases, that would be redundant, though - the information's been posted here, or altered and posted here.
But, re-reading the email, I see there are a couple of nuggets that aren't here yet. I'll risk the Wrath of Mod, and copy and comment on them:
Quote:hw engines more restricted than orig fork; can do stupid-fast torchship speeds, but still take at least 3-5 days to cross Earth-Mars at conjunction.Which gives a reason for there to actually be something at the L1 point...
Quote:as of scenario start FTL travel is just becoming the next big thing out of hw tech. greydarkmadsci has developed a drive similar to 2300’s stutterwarp. The main drawbacks are it’s short range (~8 ly) and takes a long damn time to get anywhere (45 days to Proxima). The exploration/colonization of Centauri is the big prestige project for a bunch of danelaw governments.To put things in perspective, a Traveller Jump-1 drive is roughly three times faster than the stutterwarp, but stutterwarp has longer range.
(And Mal's notes had Kohran inventing the stutterwarp. I'd prefer she be the leader of the team that invented it - modern scientific research isn't an individual activity, although it's reasonable for her to be the one who had the first flash of inspiration.)
Quote:THE PROFESSOR: Is a myth. Really.I think we can all get behind this one. As lovely a character he is for original-recipe Fenspace, he doesn't fit extra-techy Fenspace. (Digression: We have to come up with better names than that for the variant.)
And the bit that is very much open for debate (ECSNorway, Dartz, and I changed the bits about our characters, too):
Quote:BENJAMIN RHODES: Early adopter, first person to settle Ceres as anything more than a curiosity. Operates a PMC - Roughriders Unlimited - that operates as local defense for the major asteroids and several space stations in the trans-martian volume. Currently looking into the madsci world for personal reasons; he and his infomorph wife would like kids, but her bioroid morph isn’t designed for pregnancy.--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012