From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 7:33 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Floating Cities There are such things on Poseidon: there's Dyffed (Daffyd? Dyfedd? I can never spell it right without referring to a rulebook) Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: D.A. Schepers [schepers@mindspring.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 5:59 AM To: Blue Planet List Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Cities on the Sea I just saw an interesting documentary on The Learning Channel called "Cities on the Sea". It explores the new technology of super-cruise ships. There are some good bits about the logistics and the new technologies and production facilities that go into these Leviathans. The real payoff, though, is the mention of two projects for producing literal cities on the sea: cruise-ship condos that take their citizens around the world. The first is called ResidenSea, and seems to be more or less a posh retirement home. The other is simply enormous, and will include stores, schools, etc., as well as a landing strip on the roof; it is called Freedom. I could definitely see an advanced version of one of these on Poseidon. -Alan http://www.residensea.com/ http://freedomship.com/ http://cruises.about.com/travel/cruises/library/weekly/aa102599.htm?REDIR_40 4=yes& *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 8:26 AM To: blue planet list (E-mail) Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - [fwd] Cities on the Sea -----Original Message----- From: D.A. Schepers [mailto:schepers@mindspring.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 12:25 AM To: owner-blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Cities on the Sea I just saw an interesting documentary on The Learning Channel called "Cities on the Sea". It explores the new technology of super-cruise ships. There are some good bits about the logistics and the new technologies and production facilities that go into these Leviathans. The real payoff, though, is the mention of two projects for producing literal cities on the sea: cruise-ship condos that take their citizens around the world. The first is called ResidenSea, and seems to be more or less a posh retirement home. The other is simply enormous, and will include stores, schools, etc., as well as a landing strip on the roof; it is called Freedom. I could definitely see an advanced version of one of these on Poseidon. -Alan http://www.residensea.com/ http://freedomship.com/ http://cruises.about.com/travel/cruises/library/weekly/aa102599.htm?REDIR_40 4=yes& *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 8:26 AM To: blue planet list (E-mail) Subject: [fwd] Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Boston Area BP Holiday Gathering -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:38:51 -0500 To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com From: Kintaro Oe Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Boston Area BP Holiday Gathering >i'm afraid not. i am currently waist deep in finals up here at college. I thought that might be a problem for a lot of people. No reason we can't meet again sometime thoug, huh? - kabael - Kintaro Oe - Derek Guder - "It has never happened if the memory is not there." -Serial Experiments Lain kabael's netbook - http://kabael.8m.com the McGuffin Group - http://members.xoom.com/McGuffins *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Brian_Ferrenz@cmahq.com Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 8:39 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Cities on the Sea ALA the 5th element! OH!OH!OH! I want to make up the annoying Ruby Rhod character!! =B= I just saw an interesting documentary on The Learning Channel called "Cities on the Sea". It explores the new technology of super-cruise ships. There are some good bits about the logistics and the new technologies and production facilities that go into these Leviathans. The real payoff, though, is the mention of two projects for producing literal cities on the sea: cruise-ship condos that take their citizens around the world. The first is called ResidenSea, and seems to be more or less a posh retirement home. The other is simply enormous, and will include stores, schools, etc., as well as a landing strip on the roof; it is called Freedom. I could definitely see an advanced version of one of these on Poseidon. -Alan http://www.residensea.com/ http://freedomship.com/ http://cruises.about.com/travel/cruises/library/weekly/aa102599.htm?REDIR_40 4=yes& *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Brian Betty [bbetty@glad.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 8:58 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Character sheets This is a general inquiry: has anyone had trouble using the BP character sheets? I find I get lost in all those round shapes and the inverse block printing, and the skills listing format is harder for me to use than a standardised format (one that lists ALL the skills). I like to get used to a standard-list sheet because I always know where a skill is located; incomplete lists confuse me. I also have a hard time organising additional information about a character, like racial abilities, into the spaces provided. I'd rather have info on jumping, swimming, throwing, etc. all on the page so I can minimize book-flipping. Does anyone use an alternative format for character sheets? Does everyone use the character sheets? I'm just tinkering around a bit to make the format as user-friendly as I can for my players. - Monkeygod (8-0) "Providence never intended to make the Management of publick Affairs a Mystery, to be comprehended only by a few Persons of sublime Genius, of which there seldom are three born in an Age." - Jonathan Swift, 1726 *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12:57 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Character sheets >This is a general inquiry: has anyone had trouble using the BP character >sheets? >I find I get lost in all those round shapes and the inverse block printing, >and the skills listing format is harder for me to use than a standardised >format (one that lists ALL the skills). I know exactly what you mean. >I like to get used to a >standard-list sheet because I always know where a skill is located; >incomplete lists confuse me. I also have a hard time organising additional >information about a character, like racial abilities, into the spaces >provided. I'd rather have info on jumping, swimming, throwing, etc. all on >the page so I can minimize book-flipping. > >Does anyone use an alternative format for character sheets? Does everyone >use the character sheets? I'm just tinkering around a bit to make the >format as user-friendly as I can for my players. What I do is I've made up a few character sheets which have the skills list from the Generation Sheet instead of the spaces for skills provided on the original sheet. I'd considered having different sheets for different species too (with a typed- out version of racial abilities in the box), but I havn't gotten around to that yet. Perhaps in the hypothetical "2nd Edition" that's being discussed, such things could be made available? Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: D. Baughn [dbaughn@cadence.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 1:11 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Cities on the Sea Another is http://www.luf.org/wiki/view.cgi/GIG/AquariusSummary Marshall Savage surmised in "The Millennial Project" that whole cities based upon OTEC technology could be 'grown' with 'seacrete' in modular steps. The nutrients drawn up from the ocean floor by the OTECs would provide for immense mariculture operations. The Living Universe Foundation (formerly the First Millennial Foundation) works towards the establishment of such colonies. At 06:59 AM 12/16/99 -0500, you wrote: >I just saw an interesting documentary on The Learning Channel called "Cities >on the Sea". It explores the new technology of super-cruise ships. There are >some good bits about the logistics and the new technologies and production >facilities that go into these Leviathans. The real payoff, though, is the >mention of two projects for producing literal cities on the sea: cruise-ship >condos that take their citizens around the world. The first is called >ResidenSea, and seems to be more or less a posh retirement home. The other >is simply enormous, and will include stores, schools, etc., as well as a >landing strip on the roof; it is called Freedom. I could definitely see an >advanced version of one of these on Poseidon. > >-Alan > >http://www.residensea.com/ > >http://freedomship.com/ > >http://cruises.about.com/travel/cruises/library/weekly/aa102599.htm?REDIR_40 >4=yes& > >*************************************************************************** >To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com >with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. > > > *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Brian Betty [bbetty@glad.org] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 1:46 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Character sheets C. Gibbon wrote: "I'd considered having different sheets for different species too (with a typed-out version of racial abilities in the box), but I havn't gotten around to that yet." Well, if I hack one out in Word, I'll let you know! - Monkeygod (8-0) "Providence never intended to make the Management of publick Affairs a Mystery, to be comprehended only by a few Persons of sublime Genius, of which there seldom are three born in an Age." - Jonathan Swift, 1726 *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 2:09 PM To: blue planet list (E-mail) Subject: [fwd] RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Floating Cities -----Original Message----- From: "D.A. Schepers" To: "Blue Planet list" Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Floating Cities Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:35:24 -0500 > There are such things on Poseidon: there's Dyffed True. That slipped my mind... I sorta think of Dyfedd as more or less stationary, though. I am both contradicted and supported somewhat by the rule book: "Dyfedd is usually located to the southeast of Westcape Island...[it] is usually found more than 2000 kilometers from its nearest neighbor." FreedomShip is anything but stationary; it is intended to circumnavigate the globe. It's like a perpetual cruise ship, where Dyfedd strikes me more as a settlement. Also, where Dyfedd is a collection of linked barges, FreedomShip is more like a high-rise. I think that would aid its mobility. Though the stats on http://FreedomShip.com say it can withstand a force 5 hurricane, I am skeptical that it could face up to the storms Poseidon can dish out. Maybe FreedomShip 2199 would dodge the weather, travelling all around the planet. GMs out there should check out the site. There are layouts and diagrams of the vessel at http://freedomship.com/ship/shipindex.html. There are also pictures of what it will look like, inside and out. Kind of a neat source for game materials. -Alan *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 2:26 PM To: 'blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com' Subject: RE: [fwd] RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Floating Cities > -----Original Message----- > From: "D.A. Schepers" > To: "Blue Planet list" > Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Floating Cities > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:35:24 -0500 > > > There are such things on Poseidon: there's Dyffed > > True. That slipped my mind... I sorta think of Dyfedd as more or less > stationary, though. I am both contradicted and supported > somewhat by the rule book: "Dyfedd is usually located to the southeast of Westcape > Island...[it] is usually found more than 2000 kilometers from its nearest > neighbor." > Dyfedd is not actually stationary. It is a set of linked "pontoons" (for lack of a better word - Jeff will probably correct me since he *has* an appropriate word) which are free moving. There are, however, station-keeping motors by which it can control it's course to a limited extent, as well as the tugs which can actually move it. ---- "Dyfedd is actually a fully mobile floating city, making it unique in the known systems (BP 74). Though Dyfedd's small fleet of tugs can tow the city along at the breakneck speed of three kilometers an hour, the city is typically stationed southeast of Westcape Island. The city managers take advantage of local current patterns and oceanic eddies to remain in the vicinity of 37° 48' latitude, 34° 24' longitude." (Arch 106) ---- "Lavender's President, Charles Crandal, was quick to recognize the potential profits of supplying the exploding consumer market for biomods and organic computer technology on Poseidon. The result of his vision was Dyfedd, Lavender's first colonial company town. Named after a region of Wales, Dyfedd was the first modern free-floating settlement on Poseidon. A modest first effort, the town nevertheless marks a milestone in the settling of the waterworld. Dyfedd consists of a collection of interlocking, bioplastic barges that provide enough buoyancy and stability to support the town, but enough flexibility to withstand the formidable Poseidon weather. Each barge has integrated station keeping MHD drives, and a flotilla of powerful tugs can be used to maneuver and relocate the entire settlement as weather forecasts and research objectives dictate." (BP 74) ---- Jim Jim Heivilin Webmaster, Biohazard Games http://www.biohazardgames.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Tun Kai Poh [t_poh@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 8:42 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Character sheets >I find I get lost in all those round shapes and the inverse block printing, >and the skills listing format is harder for me to use than a standardised >format (one that lists ALL the skills). I like to get used to a >standard-list sheet because I always know where a skill is located; >incomplete lists confuse me. I also have a hard time organising additional >information about a character, like racial abilities, into the spaces >provided. I'd rather have info on jumping, swimming, throwing, etc. all on >the page so I can minimize book-flipping. I always prefer to look at the chargen worksheet to look up skill totals. :) But for conformity's sake I stick to the official character sheets, supported by the worksheet for easy skill reference. Kai Poh Malaysian Lagomorph ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.