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This applies to both Rifts Terra, and the HU / AU setting.
Has anyone used the free-floating gravitywell in Saturnian orbit in any of their campiagns as a major plot device?
Reason why I ask is becuase it is THE major plot element right now in mine.
Just wondering how my fellow GM's here in cyberspace may use / have used this concept. :D
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Ninjabunny wrote:I think and don't quote me on it but, It referes to some unknow source of gravity. Its a stab in the dark but thats my guess.

-sigh-
okay...here goes.
In the 'Aliens Unlimmited : Galaxy Guide' there is description under FTL systems (Re: Hypergravitics) of free-floating gravity wells. Gravity fields that have NO physical source, such as a planet, star, asteroid, etc etc etc.
At the begining of AU:GG there is a very brief blurb about one of these gravity wells being in a Lagrange type orbit around Saturn, near Mimas (one of Saturns moons).

I'm not pulling this outa my butt here people..it IS in the book...go find..go!..shoo! :P
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Only reason why the Terran gravity well is unique is becuase it is so close to a planetary body.
Most free-floating gravity wells are situated a number of A/U's disatnt from any orbital body, thus the mystery of why the heck one would be so close to a gas-giant planet.
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Darkmax wrote:ok, i'm a bit confused... may be because ?I am beginning to become quite tired....

probabaly :D
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makes me wish ihad more books to look stuff up in.

anyways .. i think it would a neat concept, could be used as an explantion for why Rifts earth is messed up and inaccessable from space?

could also explain where the sploggies first came from before they figured out how to hook into the leylines that pulled atlantis backl into THIS dimension? ..

could be used to explain a ton of stuff ... not to mention a hook for the ones that need/stumble across a doorway to, say ... phaseworld?

either way, its a cool concept to ponder over ... now if i only had the books to do the reading up on .... *sigh*
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How do you think the "Black Gate" was made operational in my campiagn ;)
Or how the Deamon Star got through :D
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........

*blinks and then tugs at the collar of the ... uhh ... flannel shirt ... and gulps nervously*

aha ... NOW i know what to do ....

to all of you that don't game with this guy, trust me when i suggest that you "RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN AWAY !!!!!!!"

*takes off for the hills ... the warbling cry of terror echoes eeriely back to the rooms everywhere
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Darkmax wrote:oh? As a player I have yet to have a GM out think me, that's why I resorted to just GMing..... ** head expanding ***

It's not a question of smart or not smart.
It's a question of prudence or suicidal "hail-mary" bravado ;)
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Darkmax wrote:oh? As a player I have yet to have a GM out think me, that's why I resorted to just GMing..... ** head expanding ***


C'mon over here to Canada and say that...

heh, heh 8-)
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If that doesn't prompt you to buy it, I don't know what else I can say.
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Braden, GMPhD wrote:
Darkmax wrote:oh? As a player I have yet to have a GM out think me, that's why I resorted to just GMing..... ** head expanding ***


C'mon over here to Canada and say that...

heh, heh 8-)

Ah.. a fellow canukle-head..good good. :D
Can't have enough of us on-deck here. Without us, I swear the place would collapse :P :D :ok:
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still need smarts.

to either act or to react.
and here i am the one and only person that most likely hasn't attended post secondary school stuff and had a kid first and ruined all chances of getting a better chance at life ... *sigh* ... andI'M the one spouting off philosophy ... *shudders*
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no .. then you spend the rest of your life 'justifying your edumacations' ... NOT my style ...
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gadrin wrote:it's whatever con-job fits the moment... :lol:

Hey buddy... need a rune-blade? *flashes obviously fake swords*
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