/epg/ - Eclipse Phase General

>You will never NTR an android with her own lower half

THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!

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femto-machine fractal bullshit. This happens to be the sort of bullshit that you can build a civilization on.

Basilisk

Duh

Yoctomachines or something

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>at this point we just invent matter and energy that does what we want
>Ogasmons, Leon's anti-communist super quarks, vorpal planq-dust, etc.
>Death rays that literally shoot rays of death
>Engines that work by generating Motivons, which have the property of making matter spontaneously go
>Morphs shaped like themselves, made out of Morph matter, which itself is made out of Morph matter, and infinitum (a common farctal medium) ad infiitum

>I wonder how earth is doing right now.
In one game I ran that ultimately fizzled out before I could get to it, a big reveal was that a substantial portion of the TITANs didn't actually leave Earth, they just went underground and are slowly transforming it into a Jupiter brain. Iapetus was just a proof of concept.

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What tables would /epg/ like to see in a random habitat generator? This is what I intend to have so far:

>Location
>Type
>Population
>Volume per individual ego
>Economic system
>Faction allegiance
>Degree of surveillance
>Weapon ownership
>Technological restrictions
>Security regime
>Hypercorp presence
>Methods of access
>Areas of note
>Population quirks
>Habitat quirks

What sort of precautions does one need to be a successful criminal on mars?

Know what boundries not to overstep or, at the very least, when it's worth it to do so. If you're an incovience big enough to be noticed then the PC will leverage it's might against you and the Night Cartel and 9 Lives are not going to stick their necks out for you if you fuck up badly enough and may even turn you in themselves if it helps them.

The second is how you work the people around you. Are you friendly and squeeze lightly when needed or do you put the hammer to the nail? Doing both is needed but knowing when is key.

Finally, I'd say never deal with Titan shit but credits is credits.

Being a CEO always helps

Its the difference between being shot by rentacops and re-instantiated a bimbofied slut on mercury and being shot by oversight and give a doll house gift certificate as an apology

Does mercury even have a bimbo slut infrastructure?

it has Hypercorp owned mining towns with humanoid workers, so yes, some of the best in the system

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Do you let your PCs own businesses? I've been thinking about the idea of having PCs who have several such occupations of their (one being a celebrity chef and another being a founding member of a biker racing league on mars)

I mean, Entrepreneur is a trait so I see no real reason NOT to let players be business people. There's also the actual rules to make income though they're a little sketchy. And I believe several homebrew traits to represent just being rich.

So I guess the question becomes "do you have a reason not to let them own a business?"

Very true, I mean, it's no like you have to physically be present to run the business after all. You could have a beta fork do face to face meetings for you and your muse handles your scheduling.

I suppose the difficult part (not really) may be integrating the PCs business into the games. For instance, the idea I had going was my celebrity chef's main resturant being a good meeting spot for the group but it could become a target because I also intend to be a producer of narco algorithyms since their business is about trying to make one's that simulate the taste of food for synths.

Hello fellow Cephalon, how is your Operator treating you?

Looks like an orbital tether mining a gas giant with habitat strips hanging off it to me.

Could otters be candidates for Uplift? There is evidence they were using tools long before chimps were.

Honestly there's no limit to what you can uplift, but past a certain threshold you'll find you're just pasting bits of simulated herring into a perfectly good AGI for "flavor"

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If you transplanted GiTS into EP universe how early in the timeline would the Major be? Were most early morphs essentially pods?

Best girl

If the Major lived to 10 AF she would have done so much messed up shit. She would be on Batachya's level, if she isn't full of psionic madness. What faction would she be with? >Firewall?
>Ultimates?
>OZMA?
>LLA public security?
>some silly Jovaboo nonsense?

The original GitS movie is in 2029, and EP is roughly 2140, so ~50 years before BF 60. Naturally the timelines don't really make sense like that.

well forgiving the misplaced nuclear wars, do you have an opinion on the faction question?

In terms of what she's already doing Oversight is where she'd end up.

After that much time though? My guess would be turning to Gatehopping and getting away from the system for a while.

It seems to me that seeker weapons are the way to go, what's the point of having kinetics or beams?

An even better question, is there even anything useful you can do with unarmed or blades?

Wait, she's a pod? I thought she was a synthmorph with a few systems to host *parts* of a human brain?

Going off of the manga and movie, not that SAC alt universe.

Swiggity swooty I'm coming for that booty.

So how would you guys deal with a TITAN delta that's currently housed in a biomorph? GM's got us assaulting a base where it's being used to develop cryptographic algorithms.

Current plan to destroy it is to incinerate it with something like F2O2 or ClF3, put the ashes in a box, launch the box into the sun.

I think that's about right. Going by the intro to the movie, it looks like she's got a pod that's been grown/built as a single unit rather than having all the different muscles/organs developed separately. Add a cyberbrain and I think that's about it.

Prosthetic bodies in GitS are basically masked synths with brain boxes.

I saw more layering of electroactive polymers or ceramics on composite skeleton.

What said.

I dunno, that seems a lot like a pod to me.

>I'm too stupid to recognize that EAPs exist, are fibrous, and would be most efficiently distributed in human like patern

Are we posting basilisks again?

Nah, just don't keep up with that kind of research. Cool shit.

Basilisks aren't obvious that they are basilisks sometimes.

Resources availability - water, metals, carbon, etc. What types of asteroids hab mines and what it imports.

Grappling. And knifing someone during grapple in armor chinks.

Plus of grapple if your GM is not a retard it should ignore non-powered armor.

Eelware or shock gloves will basically make you the ultimate set-up man vs biomorphs/pods.

And blades/unarmed can also be used as a decent drug delivery vector, which might be slightly more subtle than a bullet.

Was the Vaporwave Aesthetic a Basilisk Hack?

Why are surya so awesome?

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>Going by the intro to the movie
There is a scene in the movie where she sees another woman with the exact same body model.

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So is this thread just an excuse to post robot fetish stuff?

>Marvel's so shit these days they literally have to make comics where their """heroes""" go kill DC's heroes and prove how much "better" they are

It's a sad state of affairs. I blame the Mouse.

looks like partially terraformed Mars, the canyon part.

Is that supposed to be dr strange?

So why arn't there uplifted elephants again?

Elephants are heavy.

On Mars this shouldn't be a problem, besides I would imagine they would be nomadic Rusters although I'm curious what sorts of jobs they would take. That said what do nomadic rusters do anyways?

I mean, they're heavy in the first place. Mass matters to move off the surface - such as in a cataclysm. Also you'd need a large Ego Bridge set up.

If you can sleeve people into fucking whales you can sleeve people into Elephants.

That said, you could always have Indian elephants who are significantly smaller than their African variants

Suryas are made in situ around the sun, and there's only a few dozen actual Neo-Whales alive, not many of whom are actually sleeved as whales.

Also indian elephants only weigh like one ton less than an african elephant on average, that's still like 5.5 more tons to deal with.

So then, with genesculpting and cybernetics being the norm elephants simply can't exist to walk around Mars?

What about dwarf elephants?

>if your GM is not a retard it should ignore non-powered armor.
No, it shouldn't. Medieval plate had mail in the joints. Future armor will probably have heavy kevlar. Way better than nothing.

It doesn't help when someone uses your own limbs as a leverage to break your elbow joint.

Kevlar and mail will stop a knife but they won't stop someone breaking your arms and legs. Neck is a little better because you can have gorjet but most armors drop it in favour of less weight and greater mobility/perception because grapple is a much smaller danger than being shot with automatic weapons.

EP armor can easily be custom fit stuff with some smart materials. Range of motion protection for joints should be pretty easy to include.

That's also as relevant to the protection against knife attacks as protection vs firearms.

Why would pods need nipples?

Practically, they don't, but erogenous zones are a selling point for any morph less focused than a Reaper.

>EP armor can easily be custom fit stuff with some smart materials.
I really like that "smart materials". You can as well use magic.

Direct Action Reapers all have pretty high quality erogenous zones, their own operators refuse to work without them.

In this case smart materials is basically just a more refined version of those silly shoes which can tie themselves.

But which parts?

the actions of their weapons, obviously

Oh that makes sense.

Materials like that already exist

I want to play this game, anyone looking for players?

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The Direct Action logo makes me want to fucking kill myself.

any reason in particular, or is it just one of those classic cognite 'shits-and-giggles' backdoors?

As I recall, they were created, but didn't survive the Fall. Since then nobody's got around to creating more.

Really? Can you point in their direction? I like reading about such stuff, but I've never seen a material that allows a lock in the same direction your arm/hand already moves normally.